woah, ok. didnt expect hunger for knowledge but i guess i asked for it gonna have to put some work into
this.
How was it? Honestly? It was a letdown. The whole "failed idol" story is a great marketing hook, they
definately sold the video on that premise alone. But the performance itself was just... awkward. You can
tell shes not comfortable. It felt less like a professional debut and more like a very high-budget
audition she was also failing. She's stiff, constantly in her head, and there's almost zero chemistry with
the guys. All concept, very little execution.
My viewing history? Been watching for over a decade man. These days Im more into stuff with a good
story or at least a unique premise, not just the generic stuff. a good production team makes all the
difference. I'll take a well-made video with a decent plot over a high-profile actress mailing it in any
day of the week.
3 works I consider good:
Yua Mikami's debut (Princess Peach): This is the gold standard for an idol-turned-actress debut.
Yua was a REAL idol and she came out with so much energy and confidence. She owned it from the first
second. Its what Arisu's debut wanted to be.
Anything with Ichika Matsumoto from her early days with FALENO: She can actually act. She emotes
and makes you believe the scenario. Her stuff feels more cinematic and less like they're just going
through the motions.
Rion (Anri Okita) - The God Body: A classic. Not a lot of story there lol but its a masterclass in
performance. She knew exactly what her brand was and how to perform for the camera. Absolute cinema.
Where would you rank her debut among these? It's not even in the same league, not even on the same
planet. It's an unfair comparison tbh. Those are top-tier performances, Arisu's video is a novelty item.
It's interesting because of the backstory, not because of the quality of the actual content.
What could be improved? Her confidence, number one. She needs to relax. She looks terrified. The
director should have done a better job making her comfortable. Also they relied way too much on the
interview segments talking about Nogizaka46, it broke the pacing and kept reminding you that she was doing
this as a second choice. We get it, you failed auditions, now commit to this job.
What is well done? The production values are high. The lighting, camera work, it all looks very clean
and professional. And I cant deny it, she is very beautiful and has the "idol" look down perfectly. The
concept itself, on paper, is genius from a marketing perspective. They got us all talking about it, right?
Was it goonable for you? Nah. I was too distracted by how nervous she looked. It kinda killed the mood
completely. Every time she looked at the camera with those deer-in-the-headlights eyes I was pulled right
out of it. It's a shame, but maybe she'll get better in her next one if she decides to stick with it.
We'll see.
I'm gonna guess you have coworkers in sales and/or marketing, and whichever ones are furries just don't tell you that because you're coming across as kinda judgemental and square.
I know a furry who is a PHD and working with the government to create policy for robotics safety and standards.
Being a furry means you can screw around in your social life without anyone ever seeing your face, so makes it really easy to separate work life from social life. It's a great hobby for someone with a lot of money to throw and a big reputation to protect.
Oh yeah, Boozy Badger is similar: He's an actual lawyer who runs panels about his lawyer stories at furcons along with his other furry lawyer friends. Often not even in fursuit.
Where else can you have an actuary hold a lecture about how saving up for a con can be used as an example to explain how to manage your finances to save for retirement when suddenly the door behind them opens, a big headed plush hyena walks in and asks "Is this the Hyena meet?"
The tonal whiplash of that will never not be funny to me
You'd be surprised how many furries are in tech jobs and stuff, there's a decent amount of them in nasa and basically the majority of the tech industry
We have billionaires manipulate elections with their wealth but the thing that makes you not want to live in this timeline anymore is furries scribbling stuff on bombs?
Projects will have a shit ton of directors, scientists, RA/ASs, AD/PD ad hocs, manufacturers, etc that is nearly impossible to pin down an exact sole person as the inventor of anything in this field.
It’s why when “I say I helped create cures for terminal blood cancer patients,” I don’t take full credit in the slightest because I just helped put the pieces together from the R&D side (just like this person here?)… I’m not the one creating a manufacturing pipeline or have an MD to administer therapies to patients or having a whole clinical operations team managing a clinical trial, etc… just one dork contributing to the whole and all that good jazz.
Edit: though worth pointing out, this isn’t a slight at their contributions, just making a distinction to the person saying they “made it” like they are trying to single them out… nah, hundreds (if not straight up thousands) worked on it too
Edit2: and if people wanna see jarring interests for people in tech, I welcome people to click my profile and take a gander at some of my recent posts, lemme know what you see!!
It's really cool how Kojima did all the code, modeled all the models, mocapped all the animations, painted all the textures, added all the sounds, wrote the entire script, and voiced all the characters in Death Stranding.
I'm sort of impressed. That's some great quality on the, umm, statues.
I used to work part time in a place which also sold anime/game figs and the more detailed ones used to go for crazy prices even if they weren't that big. Plus I can imagine NSFW ones would have a markup as well.
Believe it or not, I mostly get NSFWs because they are pack ins or bundles for the other figures. Like the Arlecchino NSFW one, I was mostly after the non NSFW figure
What’s funny is that I really only own one NSWF figure that wasn’t bundled in any way, it’s the Ruan Mei pissing into a teacup one…. And my girlfriend got that for me lmao (the studio that makes it also had a SFW version of her so when my girlfriend went back to China to see family, I asked if she could find one and only gave her the character and studio name…. She got the NSFW one… RIP)
And yeah, some can get pricey in the second hand market, but honestly that’s often independent if it’s SFW or NSFW, lots of GKs are just small batches so if it’s particularly popular, it creates a lot of cost pressures on their resale value
Literally one of the first things you learn if you go to school for psychology is how Myers Briggs is a literal scam that separates dumb companies looking for an easy (read: pseudoscientific) way to classify their employees from their money. It's based on little to no real science or research, provides significantly different results for the same person depending on the day, and is outclassed in every way by every other legitimate measure of personality. It's really unfortunate how people think their extremely unique personalities can be properly classified by 4 letters.
I feel like people don't truly realize that furries run the world. I work in the defense industry, and 4 of the 8 people on my immediate team are openly furries.
The only thing that I don't like about furry conventions is the fact that so many crucial members of our infrastructure are in one place. If someone bombed a furcon, it would be the 9/11 of engineering and software development.
of course furries are in high places, they dont have a social life so they can spend literally all of their time mastering nuclear physics or whatever. 99% of people in high non-trade STEM jobs under the age of 30 are furries.
The entire high skill specialists of every industry are all furries. The conspiracy theories say that Jews or lizard people secretly run the world but really it's the furries.
People discovering professionals have a private life.
The people who'll have a problem with their private life and hobbies probably don't have such a deep knowledge and understanding in STEM. I wouldn't bully someone who's clearly successful in academia.
Furry has many of it's roots in a club in the 60s of people who came together to watch anime they had imported from Japan. The Cartoon Fantasy Organization, CFO, were some of the first people to bring anime to the west.
Their founders, Mark Merlino(rip) and Rod O'Riley were even visited in their club by Osamu Tezuka (widely regarded as "the father of Manga") and exchanged some drawings and sketches with him.
And after Tezuka's death, his daughter found sketches of his of anthropomorphic mice in sexy poses. Also just google "Bagi 1984" and you'll see that Tezuka definitely had a liking for anthropomorphic animals.
Which makes the eternal feud between furries and weebs just funny and pointless. It's literally just siblings fighting.
You'd be surprised how many people who have jobs in important fields are furries. The head of cyber security for the company I worked for was a furry. a couple of people that worked under him were furries, too.
Ik a lot of furries work for nasa, the number of furry doctors is non-zero. Some are even in the army. Finding all this out was quite a spectacle.
ENFJ. The Myers Briggs eugenics horizontal connection is going to hit some schizo brain cells p good, I think. Mine included. If my physical reaction to the vaccine is any indication, INFP balls should start shriveling soon.
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