Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
In case if people are wondering: a follow up to my investigations into this mysterious "right-wingers attacking anime" case.
Apparently, it is pretty much limited to Matt Walsh attacking anime "for being demonic". No other details at the moment, but I suspect that either Matt's being ignorant about the medium and acting upon such ignorance and ruining our good name, or that Matt has something that makes him say that but the media left that part out to ruin our good name.
Either way, I might as well call the case closed as I know the source of these rumors and who is acting stupidly. Never was too big of a fan of Matt and this hiccup does not affect my opinion much nowadays.
Few things are inherently demonic, including most art forms. They can, however, become demon possessed, like Hollywood, for example. But to say that "film" is demonic would be nuts, just because most hollywood and many other films too are demon (evil)O influenced. If it can be used for evil, it can be used for good. The question is, who is using it, and for what purpose.
Not going to lie, if we are going to start slamming stuff as demonic now, we got way too much media here in the States that falls in that category to be throwing stones at anime. Glass houses and all.