My heart is dying, my soul is crying and I'm so pretentious.
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chaos said:
Says the guy in the pretty China dress.
I never seem to get burned out. I'm completely singleminded in my pursuit - if I watched all the new stuff and it ended up feeling like a job rather than a hobby I imagine burnout would catch up with me quite quickly, so I just enjoy it on my own and ignore the rest of the universe in many respects. This might only work for me, though.
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Charter_Mage
Pokémon Master
Lol, thats what makes it worse!chaos said:
I can understand that too though, i often feel i havn't matured much since school.BlackWolf said:
It is a strange contradiction :? .
Zin5ki
Railgun
Huzzah for cynicism! When I'm alone in a crowded place I sometimes feel it's my only friend.Charter_Mage said:
I don't suffer from burnouts as much as I do from being overly particular with what I wish to watch, and having a fear of watching certain titles in case I become too attached to them to give any concern for my real-life affairs. After too much escapism, one stops caring about the things from which one escaped.
Zin5ki said:
Actually, I'm the same word for word, save for the self-restraint, which I do not practice.
Being a nihilist, without escapism I would find it very hard to motivate myself to do things that require considerable effort and time.
It is sort of like planning and building a life over enabling escapism.
Excuse my spelling of the word, as i can never remember how, but i think you scunnered yourself on anime. If that is confusing to you, it basically means you watched or indulged into much that you get fed up with it. It doesn't mean to say you don't like it, it just means you need to step away from it for a while before you feel the motivation to do so again.
It happened to me as well, ok it was only for the better part of 4-5 months, but it was still a while, i just couldn't get the motivation to watch anything. Tis fine now, i can watched a fair bit now without a problem, but i've set it out so that i don't watch something every day, otherwise it'd happen again. Its like the old saying "everything in moderation" basically.
It happened to me as well, ok it was only for the better part of 4-5 months, but it was still a while, i just couldn't get the motivation to watch anything. Tis fine now, i can watched a fair bit now without a problem, but i've set it out so that i don't watch something every day, otherwise it'd happen again. Its like the old saying "everything in moderation" basically.
Aion
Time-Traveller
The thing is, I haven't really watched that much. There are people younger than me in existence who have watched double the amount I have. And those people seem able to still keep watching.
Even after taking a break from anime and playing games my drive hasn't returned, just like not playing games for months never made me suddenly want to play all of my RPGs. I don't think taking a break will help...not that I've got much choice when I can't be arsed to watch anything.
*shrug* I suppose I should stop thinking about it. If I'm eventually going to dislike everything I liked at one point, I might as well just get on with it. I don't understand but there isn't much I can do.
Even after taking a break from anime and playing games my drive hasn't returned, just like not playing games for months never made me suddenly want to play all of my RPGs. I don't think taking a break will help...not that I've got much choice when I can't be arsed to watch anything.
*shrug* I suppose I should stop thinking about it. If I'm eventually going to dislike everything I liked at one point, I might as well just get on with it. I don't understand but there isn't much I can do.
ayase
State Alchemist
I don't think it's a case of coming to dislike everything you used to like, but I've gone through phases of self-loathing where I've actually come to hate certain things I used to love. Sometimes I'll come back to them, sometimes I won't. Anime is one thing I did go away from for a while then came back to.Aion said:
And as for people being old and bitter before your time... try never being able to remember a time you weren't jaded and cynical. I've been that way since I was about seven or eight.
That sounds like fear of descent into okaku-ism. Probably a healthy attitude, but I think so many people do come to prefer fanasy to real life because there's so little difference these days. Living in a world - and a society - which has been totally shaped and controlled by people other than yourself, where all the laws, economies and social conventions are actually all just completely made up nothing will seem very real! I like to hope I'm in a fairly stable position between the real and fantasy worlds - not a total escapist, but at the same time looking on the real world with a constant wish that it could do to be a bit more fantastic and free. And this, I think, is mine and probably most escapists' problem:Zin5ki said:
Heavy stuff (which I got not through reading The Torture Garden, but off the back of a Manic Street Preachers album) not that I'm not feeling in a particularly heavy mood, just a matter-of-fact one. It sums up everything that's wrong with the real world and to me, what it is that makes people prefer fantasy. And that will do for my existential tract for this month.Octave Mirbeau said:
Aion
Time-Traveller
Thank God an anime as great and long as Hajime no Ippo exists. It's perfect for me right now - straightforward and simple enough not to require rewatching and exciting enough to marathon. I watched 1-13 of the currently airing second series yesterday, and I'd wacched the movie before that!!!
The second series better not end at 25/26. Under half of the 850 released chapters (I thought Naruto was long!) have been covered in the anime so far, so it'd be silly to stop. I'd love to watch Hajime weekly once I hit 18/19 for a lengthy period; like I used to with Bleach and Naruto.
An example of Hajime's greatness:
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The second series better not end at 25/26. Under half of the 850 released chapters (I thought Naruto was long!) have been covered in the anime so far, so it'd be silly to stop. I'd love to watch Hajime weekly once I hit 18/19 for a lengthy period; like I used to with Bleach and Naruto.
An example of Hajime's greatness:
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fabio de lunatico
Claymore
Watching that brought me out in a rash. I'm allergic to cheese
It's good that you found a series worth watching, though. See you back here in a few months when you're all jaded again.
It's good that you found a series worth watching, though. See you back here in a few months when you're all jaded again.
Aion
Time-Traveller
You just don't understand true manliness. Real men shave their chests, take off their tops and beat each other silly.
That scene is something akin to the greatest anime fight sequence ever. Only series with lots of talking (Death Note aside) are your cup of tea.
I'll no doubt be back to square one once I run out of Hajime no Ippo to watch, which will be in another couple of months if the series is destined to end at a lowley 25-26. Most series don't motivate me to sit through 26 episodes, let alone over 100.
That scene is something akin to the greatest anime fight sequence ever. Only series with lots of talking (Death Note aside) are your cup of tea.
I'll no doubt be back to square one once I run out of Hajime no Ippo to watch, which will be in another couple of months if the series is destined to end at a lowley 25-26. Most series don't motivate me to sit through 26 episodes, let alone over 100.
Ninja Boy!
Thousand Master
i was going through the same problems as Aion last year. thats right, for more than one year i practically fell out of watching anime/manga and i went back to my main and first hobby.....video games.
however i too started to feel 'nostalgic' and what not when i started to think back to the anime & manga i used to entertain myself with and that fresh new feeling i'd get when i experienced them.
it was only properly last week i started to get back into anime (not manga yet though lol), and some users may notice that i am back on the forums now.....
despite having said that, i still dont get that sensation of watching anime as i did years back. and i have to agree with many peeps on this one, i think its because i used to watch so much before and also that anime is practically mainstream now its lost its touch......(i think thats how i wanted to word it lol)
lol this is probably one of my longest posts in a while hehe
however i too started to feel 'nostalgic' and what not when i started to think back to the anime & manga i used to entertain myself with and that fresh new feeling i'd get when i experienced them.
it was only properly last week i started to get back into anime (not manga yet though lol), and some users may notice that i am back on the forums now.....
despite having said that, i still dont get that sensation of watching anime as i did years back. and i have to agree with many peeps on this one, i think its because i used to watch so much before and also that anime is practically mainstream now its lost its touch......(i think thats how i wanted to word it lol)
lol this is probably one of my longest posts in a while hehe
I've been the same for a while now. I just couldn't be bothered watching anime any more.
I'd still buy the next volumes of the series i'd been watching, but they would just go on the shelf to gather dust.
For me, I think it was because i'd just watched so much of it that I needed a break. Not to mention the fact that the Japanese seem to be unable to make happy endings and so many depressing endings start to be a litle draining after a while.
Bizzarly though, lately i've been starting to watch anime again, but for somereason, rather than watch any of my unopened stuff, i've been in the mood for watching some of my really old stuff.
I'd still buy the next volumes of the series i'd been watching, but they would just go on the shelf to gather dust.
For me, I think it was because i'd just watched so much of it that I needed a break. Not to mention the fact that the Japanese seem to be unable to make happy endings and so many depressing endings start to be a litle draining after a while.
Bizzarly though, lately i've been starting to watch anime again, but for somereason, rather than watch any of my unopened stuff, i've been in the mood for watching some of my really old stuff.
