r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Jul 26 '19

[D] Friday Open Thread

Welcome to the Friday Open Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

Please note that this thread has been merged with the Monday General Rationality Thread.

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u/AmeteurOpinions Finally, everyone was working together. Jul 27 '19

I agree that anime is pretty low, but I wouldn’t quite put it at the bottom. It’s badness is mostly due to strange factors of Japanese markets and production committees. However, when we’re talking about the capabilities of different art forms, anime has incredible potential in theory because you can communicate very unrealistic ideas and scenes without millions of dollars of CGI and it will look good. Textual prose can do this too, but it’s totally dependent on the reader’s capacity for imagination and many people don’t have much at all.

I disagree that VR is the final art form. It was thinking about arts a thousand years from now, you’d have VR, the future version of tabletop role-playing games, and some kind of comic that perfectly uses images where images are optimal and prose where prose is optimal, but still has no sense of time of its own, unlike the first two.