• 389aaa [it/its]@hexbear.net
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      5 hours ago

      Destruction of rare subcultural artifacts is so based, I agree.

      Future historians will love that their ability to research the culture of this period in depth is compromised because of funny customs protection breaking the bad evil anime game.

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        An “adults only” anime styled VN where all the characters appear to be high school students may be a “rare subcultural artifact” but I am not convinced it’s the type we should be preserving.

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          24 minutes ago

          Okay shut up, every first world country is attempting to enact mass surveillance through digital ID and justifying it through “think of the children” bullshit, now is not the time to act epic cool based about icky yucky hentai

        • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          afaik Tsukihime takes place seven years after the protagonist leaves high school, putting the characters in their 20s. Not that that matters to people who are unthinkingly reactionary about anime.

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            I quite like anime, but when I tried to look this up the characters were described specifically as high school students. There is a HUGE problem with this sort of thing in Japanese culture generally, in anime, and particular in the various adult oriented anime. Noticing that is not “unthinkingly reactionary”.

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        4 hours ago

        the culture of this period

        This isn’t 5000BC where only like a handful of people know how to read and write; there’s no end to the culture of this period, I don’t think a handful of items being permanently lost will forever obscure the culture of this period. It’s hardly the 90%-99% loss of ancient writing like what happened with works from ancient Greece, Persia, etc.

        I think future historians will be able to get over this loss.

        • Orcocracy [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          No, the physical artefacts like this one that got all slashed up are all that will remain after Google/Meta/etc turn off their servers once the old content becomes unprofitable. Future historians will indeed call the early 21st century a dark age, because while books, sculptures, and paintings can last a thousand years, digital media in “the cloud” fucking won’t.