In my occasional perusal of the Anime News Network (ANN) site, I will sometimes against my better judgement dip into the comment sections. Every time I do I am reminded yet again of several things: 1) I am dissimilar in tastes to almost all the usual ANN commentators, and 2) yea gods and little fishes do those motherfuckers hate subtitled anime.
I myself hate dubbed anime.
Should I write another post?
Eh, might as well.
First, in that last post, I should have stated that I was referring to application programers. System programming is a whole other world. I wanted to be a systems programmer, but at the time that meant moving to Mexifornia, and I wanted no part of that.
Anyway.
I’m less and less inclined to put anything up here, as there’s little point in doing so. First, no one reads it, of course. Second, even as a sounding board for my own ideas… what’s the point?
I’m a bit burned out on discussing anime topics. So instead the Mythical Readers will be treated to something else I’m burned out about.
Computers.
It’s not what you think. I’m not tired of the Apple vs. Microsoft vs. Android smartphone wars. I’m not tired of the Nintendo vs. Microsoft vs. Sony game console wars. I’m not tired of…
Actually, come to think of it, I actually AM tired of all that. But that is not what I want to blather on about in this particular post. Because those, you see, are user concerns.
I’m a programmer.
I suppose I should post something this month, if only to give the search engine robots something new to index. So, some short miscellaneous topics for the voracious Mythical Readers to gnaw upon. After the break…
I suppose that if I continued with my tradition of birthday wishes for all of the main characters of the K-On! anime, that this post would be topped with the animated gif of Azusa with the flashing star over her eye, that I’ve done for the others thus far. The rest of the post would be filled with other animated gifs of Azusa.
None of that is going to happen, I’m afraid.
This is a love letter.
To an anime character.
I know, I know… this is why all the Readers here are strictly Mythical. Even if someone did stumble into this dusty dead-end on the internet, the previous two sentences will have made them desperately stab at the back button, if not the off button itself.
That’s all good and fine; I’m well used to talking to myself. Seeing as how no one else listens anyway.
So I shall carry on.
A few days ago, on a completely different site, I put forth an… well, I guess you could call it an ‘artistic effort’. A picture, a piece of writing, a video — whatever. The form doesn’t matter, at least not for what I want to talk about here.
I put it elsewhere because I did want it to be seen, and of course the only Readers here are quite Mythical. Hence, it is elsewhere. I will not identify it here.
But I knew when I put it out, that the odds were large that few would notice it, and fewer would care. Those that did care were far more likely to disapprove of it than to approve. So I expected to at best receive no feedback, and at worst a great deal of negative feedback.
Some of that has occurred.
But one person wrote some feedback, where he indicated that he got what I was going for, and enjoyed it. And….
He thanked me for putting it up.
Perhaps it is a measure of my utter lack of self-regard, but that really fucking mattered to me. I just might make something else like it in the future and put that out there, too. Whereas before, I was quite convinced that what I’d just finished would be the last time I’d do something like that, as it seemed a waste of time.
The point is not that someone liked something I did.
The point is this, oh Mythical Reader — if someone puts out there something that you like, TELL THEM YOU LIKE IT. If all they ever hear is how terrible it is, or how it could have been done better, or that they should be doing something else instead, then they’re likely to go away and not do that thing you liked anymore. That’d be a shame, wouldn’t it?