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27 Mar 2020, 8:11 am

Dear_one wrote:

I'm astounded that anyone can maintain an interest in fictional worlds when the real one is melting, burning, flooding and sickening around them.

Well...you're old

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27 Mar 2020, 12:51 pm

latency wrote:

Dear_one wrote:

I'm astounded that anyone can maintain an interest in fictional worlds when the real one is melting, burning, flooding and sickening around them.

Well...you're old

Is it that you don't see how much it has changed, or you are not old enough to think about your future? Greta Thunberg gets it.

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27 Mar 2020, 2:54 pm

Dear_one wrote:

I'm astounded that anyone can maintain an interest in fictional worlds when the real one is melting, burning, flooding and sickening around them.

Almost like people prefer to distract themselves from existential threats that they can't do anything about. How dare they allow their minds to focus on other interests.

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27 Mar 2020, 2:58 pm

Dear_one wrote:

I'm astounded that anyone can maintain an interest in fictional worlds when the real one is melting, burning, flooding and sickening around them.

Caring about the real world and enjoying fiction are not mutually exclusive. Some amount of escapism is necessary to maintain the emotional composure to address the scale of real problems. If I only focused on the world's problems, I would be too overwhelmed with grief/rage/etc to maintain equilibrium, and emotional equilibrium is necessary for effective activism.

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27 Mar 2020, 3:10 pm

^^ You do sound like a responsible consumer. I guess what worries me is that the only leakage I've seen back to the real world was a Hello Kitty sports car.

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27 Mar 2020, 10:11 pm

latency wrote:

Dear_one wrote:

I'm astounded that anyone can maintain an interest in fictional worlds when the real one is melting, burning, flooding and sickening around them.

Well...you're old

I'm a cartoonist, and creating fictional worlds and characters has occasionally helped me to escape the harshness of real life. Sometimes it's been my only escape.

But it hasn't helped that much lately. I really must be getting old

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28 Mar 2020, 1:33 am

No, they're not my thing. Even mangas I like have anime I dislike.

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28 Mar 2020, 5:23 am

Most Aspies haven’t heard of anime.

I like Pokemon but no longer have any interest in the anime, only Showdown.

Dear_one wrote:

I like comics, but ignore "cute." I wish I could even find a definition of Pokemon. Animal, vegetable, mineral, ephemeral, or all four?

Pokemon are probably best understood as an extra category. There are animals and plants and rocks and ghosts and machines in the Pokemon world, which exist alongside Pokemon. They’re probably closest to animals with super powers, although some of them have forms that are more like plants or machines.

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28 Mar 2020, 5:53 am

The_Walrus wrote:

Most Aspies haven’t heard of anime.

I like Pokemon but no longer have any interest in the anime, only Showdown.

Dear_one wrote:

I like comics, but ignore "cute." I wish I could even find a definition of Pokemon. Animal, vegetable, mineral, ephemeral, or all four?

Thanks. When I was 23, I was reading "A Wizard of Earthsea" about a world with clouds near the wizard's school getting shunted around, etc. The series was the usual hero's journey plot, with magical elements.

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28 Mar 2020, 3:18 pm

Dear_one wrote:

^^ You do sound like a responsible consumer. I guess what worries me is that the only leakage I've seen back to the real world was a Hello Kitty sports car.

Hello Kitty fandom is mostly it's own thing from anime. Sanrio created some cute characters to sell merchandise, Hello Kitty is the best known. That was around '74, the first cartoon show related to these characters didn't air until '87.

A sports car isn't where it ends, EVA Airways, a Taiwanese air airline has several Hello Kitty themed planes:

As for anime characters on cars, that's been around for ages and they're often professional level race cars or drift cars, although it's seen on everything from relatively mundane and mostly unmodified cars, drift missiles (beaters used to practice drifting), show cars and hotrodded cars.