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Thricegreat wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2026 11:11 am

But at the same time I think im@s is much more than just a game. Considering all those things at the same time, I think Gakumas is still doing a good job.

I think we're evaluating it from different positions. For me, the core of Idolmaster is that every producer has a different story with their idol. Not just participation, but irreducibly personal experience. You're valuing the overall production quality and storytelling, but it comes at the cost of what made the original irreplaceable.

He was too German. I'm inclined to rather Orthodox than Catholic unlike him. And while I agree with some of his criticism on liberal democracy, I prefer Plato's philosopher king over Schmitt's authoritarian leader.

The Orthodox preference is interesting, do you mean that theologically or politically?

Although I'm not that enthusiastic these days, I have been following Nijigaku since 2018. So I think that you might be misinterpreting Nijigaku here.

Nijigaku was intended to be just a side project. It was never intended to become an anime at first and its start was just some characters in the games. A bit similar to Million, but it was far worse than that. The seiyuus were very surprised when they heard that it becomes an anime becaused of that.

So I think it has never been an orthodox Love Live! series and that's why I love it. I haven't been into the orthodox Love Live!.

On Hasunosora, if I consider the family tree of Love Live!, I think it is on the good side. Though I'm not that fan of the graduation system. Again Nijigasaki is not an orthodox Love Live! series.

I know that Nijigaku was a side project, and I specifically said that the individual focus was the right direction for the franchise. The original Love Live! was about group dynamics, Nijigaku was about individual character arcs. That's what I meant by "step backward into group dynamics."

And I don't think Nijigaku is orthodox either. That's exactly what I like about it.

Graduation system is stupid. If you're really into character development, why would you remove the characters you've grown attached to?

I would reply to only the points with question marks. To avoid this conversation getting too long. This is an introduction thread. If you want to talk more, I think you should make a thread for that.

Hans Sepp wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2026 12:27 pm

The Orthodox preference is interesting, do you mean that theologically or politically?

Both. As the two domains should be unified.

Graduation system is stupid. If you're really into character development, why would you remove the characters you've grown attached to?

Because the concept is that those idols do streams as if they were actual students living in the Northeastern Japan. They want to make fans regard the idols as if they were real life people. Instead of fictional characters.

I think the fact that Sasaki Kotoko was there somewhat shows it. Though as I remember she communicated with other seiyuus like Ishihara Kaori even when she was in Nogizaka. I thought they want to make the project look like a real life idol when I saw it. But if you compare them with real life idols, the situation is far better. Because there are no such things like a graduation by a scandal.

Also VTubers have the graduation system. In fact Hasunosora is what VTubers originally were. Compared to that VTubers nowadays are just YouTubers with avatars. Though I don't necessarily think that is bad.

But I don't understand why they should do it in the first place neither.

Thricegreat wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2026 1:34 pm

I would reply to only the points with question marks. To avoid this conversation getting too long. This is an introduction thread. If you want to talk more, I think you should make a thread for that.

I think I should do that. Thanks for the introduction

hii everyone. i'm introducing myself just to mark my existence here. first time a using site like this so i'm completely illiterate on the formatting and stuff, or the way anything works.

i have always had an indescribable stain in my life. an ugly residue. by these i am referring to a feeling of unsettlement and disgust with the environment around me, bringing with it a sense of isolation. it feels stifling and dead. everything around me feels so common place, so standard - an unpleasant feeling arising, as closely as i can currently put it, from people in my life never branching out and making the most of what existence has to offer. passive, non-meaningful, never deliberate, never experimenting, tinkering, never trying to make things distinct or clarified, never entertaining other cultures, a generally uncultivated atmosphere. i could never bring myself to blame or change them. and so i felt trapped and infected - genuinely shedding tears over the notion that this is all what my life will ever amount to. a certain heavy clenching at the throat. a limited mental horizon.

here i feel at home. for the first time a faint glimmer of hope. i have always tried to search for the weird, unusual, strange (as amlux put it, "the repulsive and uncompromising") - with the twin polarity of classical, antique, and "highly cultivated stuff" to address the above. bullshittery mixed with genuine intellectual passion. here i found it. metempsychosis. a reason to live again. so many varied interest. so many eccentrics. so many cool new things!!!!! so many cool people...

i lurked. i felt nervous. making this post is like reintegrating into society again.
most of all i felt underqualified to post anything.

even an introduction. insecurity about what i currently knew? yes. i think. that i am not cool enough to post anything because i dont know anything - novel things - to a deep extent. that i would be pilloried. but the thought of me never growing overwhelmed even that.

thank you everyone. every single one of your presence here fills me with immense delight. i enjoyed reading the transactions from every single one of the beautiful, individual, private, self contained souls in here.
talk to me and teach me things. random things. i might not be able to reciprocate at an equal level, but i hope my hunger, authenticity, my whole being put forward will make up for it.

as for stuff i'm currently doing -
reading the man without qualities & lolita
digesting what i can of other media to try assimilate and make them my own. i have a tendency to be scatterminded, to overindulge without really 'digesting', so i limited myself to these until i feel like i have fondled around with them to an adequate extent
- nabokov in montreux, 1965 interview
- wittgenstein, a wonderful life
- witch on a holy night
- happy sugar life

if anyone can help me appreciate music more i will love you; to quantify and point out the individual components in a certain piece of music that makes one feel the way they do. be the brain to my eyes. "distinct to the eyes, because it is clear to the intellect."
something like that.

hello everyone!!!!!!!!!!

via wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2026 12:30 pm

reading the man without qualities

Hello! I happened to be named after a character in this novel. The Man without Qualities is kind of like what Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain would be like if it was a good book

via wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2026 12:30 pm

hii everyone. i'm introducing myself just to mark my existence here. first time a using site like this so i'm completely illiterate on the formatting and stuff, or the way anything works.

i have always had an indescribable stain in my life. an ugly residue. by these i am referring to a feeling of unsettlement and disgust with the environment around me, bringing with it a sense of isolation. it feels stifling and dead. everything around me feels so common place, so standard - an unpleasant feeling arising, as closely as i can currently put it, from people in my life never branching out and making the most of what existence has to offer. passive, non-meaningful, never deliberate, never experimenting, tinkering, never trying to make things distinct or clarified, never entertaining other cultures, a generally uncultivated atmosphere. i could never bring myself to blame or change them. and so i felt trapped and infected - genuinely shedding tears over the notion that this is all what my life will ever amount to. a certain heavy clenching at the throat. a limited mental horizon.

here i feel at home. for the first time a faint glimmer of hope. i have always tried to search for the weird, unusual, strange (as amlux put it, "the repulsive and uncompromising") - with the twin polarity of classical, antique, and "highly cultivated stuff" to address the above. bullshittery mixed with genuine intellectual passion. here i found it. metempsychosis. a reason to live again. so many varied interest. so many eccentrics. so many cool new things!!!!! so many cool people...

i lurked. i felt nervous. making this post is like reintegrating into society again.
most of all i felt underqualified to post anything.

even an introduction. insecurity about what i currently knew? yes. i think. that i am not cool enough to post anything because i dont know anything - novel things - to a deep extent. that i would be pilloried. but the thought of me never growing overwhelmed even that.

thank you everyone. every single one of your presence here fills me with immense delight. i enjoyed reading the transactions from every single one of the beautiful, individual, private, self contained souls in here.
talk to me and teach me things. random things. i might not be able to reciprocate at an equal level, but i hope my hunger, authenticity, my whole being put forward will make up for it.

as for stuff i'm currently doing -
reading the man without qualities & lolita
digesting what i can of other media to try assimilate and make them my own. i have a tendency to be scatterminded, to overindulge without really 'digesting', so i limited myself to these until i feel like i have fondled around with them to an adequate extent
- nabokov in montreux, 1965 interview
- wittgenstein, a wonderful life
- witch on a holy night
- happy sugar life

if anyone can help me appreciate music more i will love you; to quantify and point out the individual components in a certain piece of music that makes one feel the way they do. be the brain to my eyes. "distinct to the eyes, because it is clear to the intellect."
something like that.

hello everyone!!!!!!!!!! :D :D

Welcome via. :)

Sorry for me doing this way, but I guess you are Enneagram type 4? Especially 4w5, the same with Amlux. Sorry if I'm wrong. Categorising and summarising are just my habits. I don't judge anything while doing that.

Maybe this is not what I could say because I myself also frequently do this. But I think one does not need to make own life unnecessarily harder than its objective conditions. So feel free and do whatever you want.

I already think that you are an interesting person just by seeing Happy Sugar Life on the list and the fact that you liked the minimalism thread. Happy Sugar Life is one of my favourites too. I really like Satou's cleverness.

About teaching, I think no one here has an intention to teach others. I guess most people here just scream "I like this" and sometimes those were accidentally intellectual. So I think it is far more than enough to scream "I like this" and learn something by saying "This is interesting". I think you don't need to think that heavily.

Anyway, hello via. :)

hi thricegreat!!! i really like your username (´ ∀ ` *)

Thricegreat wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2026 2:36 pm

About teaching, I think no one here has an intention to teach others. I guess most people here just scream "I like this" and sometimes those were accidentally intellectual. So I think it is far more than enough to scream "I like this" and learn something by saying "This is interesting".

for teaching i never meant anything severe. it's more of what you said, though the whole "talk to me and teach me" part may have implied a different a connotation. for example the enneagram and advice you gave me. little bits like that that are 'expansive' more than meets the kind of 'teaching' i was babbling about.

Thricegreat wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2026 2:36 pm

Sorry for me doing this way, but I guess you are Enneagram type 4? Especially 4w5, the same with Amlux.

like a little child fumbling through life again, it made me really happy to know my disposition is close to a 4w5. a kind of, "yes! that's exactly it!". new concepts! foreign! i looked at the core motive for 4's and 5's and found that though I related to 5's knowledge as protection, 4's more, "feeling-toned complex", of surrounding oneself with 'beauty' and attracting a 'rescuer' (ideas about wanting someone more knowledgeable than me to "complete me" or be my conversation partner to fill in the gaps) felt more relevant to my individuality.

Thricegreat wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2026 2:36 pm

Happy Sugar Life is one of my favourites too. I really like Satou's cleverness.

i like the way satou handles the situations she finds herself in too. i'm a little thrown off by the plot's 'asspulls' - a kind of absurd cosmic alignment of events that just happen to thwart satou's goals/inclinations that she then has to overcome - which i currently believe to be maintaining the safety and stability of her private kingdom. one could argue that the whole premiss of the show is already absurd anyway, so why wouldn't these things be any more likely to happen? or that plausibility isnt the main point of the show but the affective truths... I cannot help how I feel.

i am more than halfway through the series and hope to finish it by this week. more importantly, I also found it valuable because it made me think of things like these: it might come off as a naive surprise, but through the anime i was brought to a greater awareness about the 'fact' that people have things that they hate, and things that they like. people have varying degrees of tolerance for the things they hate. what I noticed (more-so in fiction, i.e depictions of 'psychopaths' in anime [using the term very loosely]... which is just satou in this case [though debatably more of a sociopath?] and the traces of a bunch of other faceless ones lost to memory) is that even 'unfeeling' people operate by these principles. even they have things they hate (what one finds bitter) and like (what one finds sweet), even if it is governed by absurd standards, or take on different appearances. it made psychopathic depictions take on more human light - in the way that most stop at nothing to get or maintain what they like, obliterate the things they dislike, or are willing to endure extreme lengths or commit unethical deeds if it is directed toward a core basic goal.

is this too self indulgent? what is the right balance between tending the ideas of others and producing personal input? are you taking on the brunt of this figure's loneliness? shio doesnt know alot about the world... i hope i dont taste too unpleasant.
that aside;

Thricegreat wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2026 2:36 pm

But I think one does not need to make own life unnecessarily harder than its objective conditions. So feel free and do whatever you want.

i wanna know more of what you mean by life's objective conditions, and the point about not making life unnecessarily harder. this person thinks they get the sentiment but do not believe they understand it in the way that you do. if you are mindful of clogging up the space then further discussion can be taken elsewhere

~~(*¯︶¯*)~~

via wrote: Fri Jun 26, 2026 6:48 am

hi thricegreat!!! i really like your username (´ ∀ ` *)

My username means Hermes Trismegistus. I like Hermeticism.

if you are mindful of clogging up the space then further discussion can be taken elsewhere

I guess that will be better, but more for boosting those threads.

I think making a general thread for personality tests like MBTI, Enneagram, Socionics, &c. would be good. And when you finish watching, please write your opinions on the Anime thread.

By the way I don't think Shio is pure. :)

Thricegreat wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2026 2:36 pm

But I think one does not need to make own life unnecessarily harder than its objective conditions. So feel free and do whatever you want.

i wanna know more of what you mean by life's objective conditions, and the point about not making life unnecessarily harder.

Like this?

Though it doesn't have to be religious and serious. A lightweight version might be this:



But again I don't really have the right to say this.

Hello everyone, my name is dapman.

I came across Amlux’s work like most of you, through his video about the Tractatus.

My interests are philosophy, films, video games, mainly story-focused ones with an emphasis on RPG Maker games.

Currently I am trying to get as much out of my summer as I can. Recently I started reading Philosophical Investigations, Amlux’s video on it is great to have. Besides this I am trying to privacy max. Sometimes, nowadays not so much, I write. Surprisingly enough I am not that deep into anime, but the Eva series and Subahibi are some of my favourite media ever.

Glad to be here with yall!

Greetings,
I'm Shubham from India, currently studying in high-school
I discovered PantsuProphet from his Nagarjuna lecture
A STEM student currently studying for university entrance exams with a very eccentric attitude
Currently I'm broke so I only have a static site on github pages https://rabitt0.neocities.org n rely on enterprises like letterboxd, myanimelist n backloggd for media
I'm new to video games as my mainframe gets fried up with modern games, even tho
I'm very sensitive to bloatware n tend to run a very minimal Arch Linux rice, even tho systemd is bloat I'll switch to Artix later
I'm also a fan of cute 2D girls, I was exposed to the Otaku culture from a very young age n had a huge influence on my personal