What I don't like is how people around me seems to overreact when something that happens is somehow "near" to them, and ignore a similar but much worst thing if it happens "far" from them. A single murder happening in my nation is often on people's mouths and on every media for weeks, while a genocide involving thousands or even hundred thousands is often completely ignored by the people around me and has little relevance on the media, if they talk of it at all. Unless it happens in one of those places that the media, and who control them, has decided to draw our attention on. A person is killed by a train while crossing the railroad in a not allowed situation, everybody talk of it. A train derailment happens and 500 people die in a far and forgotten place, who cares? Maybe is just that I feel every human being as near to me.
What I don't like is how people around me seems to overreact when something that happens is somehow "near" to them, and ignore a similar but much worst thing if it happens "far" from them. A single murder happening in my nation is often on people's mouths and on every media for weeks, while a genocide involving thousands or even hundred thousands is often completely ignored by the people around me and has little relevance on the media, if they talk of it at all. Unless it happens in one of those places that the media, and who control them, has decided to draw our attention on. A person is killed by a train while crossing the railroad in a not allowed situation, everybody talk of it. A train derailment happens and 500 people die in a far and forgotten place, who cares? Maybe is just that I feel every human being as near to me.
Across the universe there are an infinite number of intelligent beings dying in terrible accidents at any time. Can you care about all of them too?
No, of course. And also I perfectly understand how someone can care more about relatives. close friends or even people that he knows. What you are suggesting is infinite unlimited knowledge and awareness of what is happening in the universe. And perfect equanimity, without making any distinction and discrimination related to our personal feelings. May be Gautama Buddha had it, I don't, and don't expect it from other people.
I was just talking of over emphasizing and almost ignoring, thing that most of the people I know do, and don't seem to have problems about, and I dislike.
I dislike a looottt of anime with a few exceptions (Record of Lodoss War [D&D: The Anime], the masterpiece that is the Gundam series [1979, Zeta, ZZ, Char's Counterattack, and the rest of the UC series], and some others that I can't think of).
Horror genre, zombie apocalypses and post-apocalyptic settings in general. They can make for great narratives but I just don't care for them at all. I ultimately couldn't get into The Last of Us despite the whole hype surrounding it. I also have yet to find a horror movie which I could enjoy. The Hunger Games was also just meh for me.
I'd really like to read a book where vampires are just displayed as intelligent monsters that feel nothing about their prey but are intelligent enough to integrate into society and not call attention to themselves... Seriously whenever I see a story where a vampire falls in love with a human... it feels like a story where a person falls in love with a broccoli or cauliflower... or even a chicken... We are food to them. Nothing more.
I'd really like to read a book where vampires are just displayed as intelligent monsters that feel nothing about their prey but are intelligent enough to integrate into society and not call attention to themselves... Seriously whenever I see a story where a vampire falls in love with a human... it feels like a story where a person falls in love with a broccoli or cauliflower... or even a chicken... We are food to them. Nothing more.
Vampire$ by John Steakley and Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia both have elements of that. One of Steakley's characters describes them as two-legged ticks, and in MHI, Holly's description of how highly intelligent monsters ensure a constant food supply is particularly disturbing.
It's just a guess, but are those chinese kung fu films ?
It includes more than that, but yeah those are in there. I'm a huge fan of 'em personally, but I'd hardly say everyone likes them lmao
Most people I know don't watch them at all or watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon one time and didn't like it enough to pursue Chinese/Taiwanese/Hong Kong films any further, but a lot of them are really great, and you get a lot out of watching the older ones re: the newer ones that actually make it big on the international market. When I watched Rape of the Sword (which is a weird jarring title but the movie doesn't have any rape so idk why they called it that in English), I noticed that it's basically the exact same plot with almost the exact same characters as CTHD but it was made in 1967, and in a way CTHD is a big love letter to a lot of those old Shaw Bros movies but until watching that I never realized it was a very direct love letter to that movie.
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And a few random things stuck. Like Li'l Sebastian. Although mostly it was Ron that stuck.
Anyway, back onto the subject at hand.
Taking a photograph of one's meal before one eats it.
Not funny, stupid boring, bleh.
Dragon Age: Inquisition (Really any recent Bioware title).
A single murder happening in my nation is often on people's mouths and on every media for weeks, while a genocide involving thousands or even hundred thousands is often completely ignored by the people around me and has little relevance on the media, if they talk of it at all. Unless it happens in one of those places that the media, and who control them, has decided to draw our attention on.
A person is killed by a train while crossing the railroad in a not allowed situation, everybody talk of it.
A train derailment happens and 500 people die in a far and forgotten place, who cares?
Maybe is just that I feel every human being as near to me.
And also I perfectly understand how someone can care more about relatives. close friends or even people that he knows.
What you are suggesting is infinite unlimited knowledge and awareness of what is happening in the universe. And perfect equanimity, without making any distinction and discrimination related to our personal feelings. May be Gautama Buddha had it, I don't, and don't expect it from other people.
I was just talking of over emphasizing and almost ignoring, thing that most of the people I know do, and don't seem to have problems about, and I dislike.
They just look silly on sheerly anyone. Even toddlers are no exception here.
It's sick! Sick, I tell ya'. Just wait until the Society for the Prevention of moral decline hears about this.
Most people I know don't watch them at all or watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon one time and didn't like it enough to pursue Chinese/Taiwanese/Hong Kong films any further, but a lot of them are really great, and you get a lot out of watching the older ones re: the newer ones that actually make it big on the international market. When I watched Rape of the Sword (which is a weird jarring title but the movie doesn't have any rape so idk why they called it that in English), I noticed that it's basically the exact same plot with almost the exact same characters as CTHD but it was made in 1967, and in a way CTHD is a big love letter to a lot of those old Shaw Bros movies but until watching that I never realized it was a very direct love letter to that movie.
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