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More like YouTube content creators philosophize those movie scenes for clicks ;)

1h of a chick that seems very high criticizing FF8.

I disagree with the battle mechanics critics, FF8 is very fun and honest system imo.

I fully agree with the lore critics: that kinda nails why I still prefer believing Squall is dead theory: this theory at least create some meaning in the story. Otherwise, if we have to consider FF8 lore for its face value, then you will surely notice how poorly it was written

Some philosophy to enlight your nerdy lives

For many years, I had so many questions about Evangelion plot. About angels motivations. About Lilith, Adam. About what was going on with the world.

Im not sure how this guy found those answers, because I never heard before about Adam and Lilith origins, but it was very interesting watch.

Nietzsche "enlighten" nerdy lives? It's more like Nietzsche and his work is the embodiment of nerdy culture.

Whenever an anime/manga/game writer that wants to add more nerdy elements to their work they add Nietzsche to it. Xenosaga even put Nietzsche's "Jenseits von Gut und Böse" in the title just to add a bit more nerdy-ness to the game. Evangelion is also Nietzsche inspired.

Us nerds don't need anymore enlightment from nerdy Nietzsche. He is already everywhere in nerd culture.

Also Panta.....I don't think you understand what nerd really means if you suggest nerdy lives can be enlightened by reading more nerdy stuff, such as philosophy >.>

If you want to be enlightened as a nerd, go outside and talk to 100 people from completely different background and interest, or go travel abroad and experience different things. Read nerdy stuffs like philosophy only make you even more nerd >.>

It is against rules andwering the same quote fwice

The Evangelion story is all kinds of messed up, I love it.

I once saw a 2hr documentary on the lore of Evangelion. It was great.

If you haven't seen the sequel movies, they're.. interesting.

I cheered at the end of 3.0+1.11.

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So, there is nothing saying knowing about philosophy is inherently nerd.

Maybe knowing a little more about how those thinkers blow out of water this perception of knowledge that nerds like you think you have is nothing, it could teach you how pointless is spending that much effort in nerdy duscussions and do something more productive to society

Btw discussing something obsessively is pretty much Alfania

Huh? I have zero problem admitting that I am a game/anime nerd or stock market nerd or something. It is fact that I do participate in such discussions often.

I just find Nietzsche, out of all the nerdy topics in a conversation, being THE nerdiest and most niche of all.

Aka, if you go outside and have a social meeting with strangers, then you start talking about games, about 35% of time people will say "yeah, I play video games too". And about 50%-60% of time when I talked about stock market people will respond "what did you own in your portfolio?" (Other popular conversation topics includes travelling, eating etc. those can be nerdy topics too, depends on how passionate you are.)

Now if you start talking about Nietzsche or philosophy, I can promise you 95% of the time conversation will just end there. Philosophy as a topic is just way more niche than most other topics.



"Philosophy" is basically just a bunch of nerds who has nothing to do so they think too much about the meaning (or the lack of) of life. Then they wrote a bunch of things passionately about the result of their thinking.

This is the very definition of nerd lol.



What kind of nerdy discussion is pointless and unproductive in the society? Give me an example please. I believe most nerdy topics are at least more productive than philosophy.

For me personally, discussing certain issues topics like AI, entertainment, economy helped me "connect the dots" during the discussion. In return it could generate more inspiration and potentially enhance the quality of decision making in life in the related field. I don't see philosophy providing the same value personally. But maybe I am biased because I haven't benefit from reading philosophy in the past, unlike other nerdy topics that I studied.

I don't see nerdy discussions inherently unproductive, it depends on the content and how you use the information. But maybe you have different opinions, so I'd like to hear it.

Top influential JRPGs

Maybe missing Chrono games

Why do we like Anti heroes?

Well, this selection of famous anti heroes shows something interesting. The characters by themselves maybe arent that appealing: they arent trying to be a big deal, they arent people trying to solve a higher order question. No, they are more like a reaction to human dimensions. They per se aren’t interesting. But the it is interesting what they represent.

That said, why generally anti heroes can be more appealing than the hero itself? The answer seems simple: anti hero are carrier of a message. They are there to convey the message, while the “hero” is there to combat that. To silence a message probably none wants you to read.

Looking from this perspective, the hero basically becomes a villain, trying to forcefully silence something probably the society dont want you to know.

Lol this kind of video is inherently going to be very controversial...

The only title that I really agree with is just DQ, Pokemon and FF7. I would probably replace FF4 with FF3, Chrono trigger or FF10, and replace Persona 3 with Shin Megami Tensei.

FF, DQ and Megami Tensei were big 3 jrpg in the early days. SMT is what started the whole monster capture mechanics.

In terms of FF, FF3 is what completes the job system which is used by numerous titles later. And FF10's CTB is still used heavily in gacha games today. Which makes both titles more influential than FF4 IMO.

I love Ys 1, but I always feel it is the Legend of Zelda that inspired top down action rpg type of game, not Ys. Zelda was released a bit before YS afaik.

I don't really agree that Xenoblade Chronicles or Nier Automata being THAT influential. If Xeno series has to be on the list, I would rather see Xenogears. Since that's the title that started Xeno series.

Why no phantasy star IV yo....

And no Grandia whatttt? Grandia's battle system served as a foundation of many other great real time battle system or cancel/delay mechanics years later. It deserves a spot just for the battle system alone imo.

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We like anti-heroes because they helped carry the story much better than your regular hero.

A hero is sort of fixed. Everything about a hero is pretty much predictable. This makes any story with only the hero very much like monster-of-the-week stories. Plain and simple. Mostly for kids. This is because as human,we tend to think ourselves as heroes. So a very generic and regular hero is very easy for us to put ourselves into their shoes.

Villains are the one making the story alive. The more complex the villains, the better the story. However, if the villain is too complicated or too reasonable then you will have a problem the villain is better the the hero. The best villains tend to be people who could have been excellent heroes but choose to be villains.

Of course, this is where anti-heroes came in. People who were forced to be villains but choose not to, no matter what. The key distinction between a very good villain and a hero were their choices.

As Ive been watched a couple of Berserk lore videos, it felt only natural watching something about Hellraiser.

I never watched any Hellraiser movies, but this timeline nicely review the entire saga.

Random story: I didnt actually watched it but watched a review of it.

I thought it was interesting plot

This kinda of surprised me, and the video explained why: the movie version of Lolita isnt anyhing close to the book.

The video explore the lore of the Lolita book, and now I see why it was banned in some countries.