Comments on: Art imitates more art, life, the universe, and everything

By: skygrinder

skygrinder — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 02:07:50 +0000

I think I will buy myself a cravat now. Wonder where I would be categorized under in that blogosphere chart eh?

By: OGT

OGT — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:26:41 +0000

I studied both flowcharts linked to intensely, and I’m pretty sure I don’t fit on either of them, in any of the tracks. Or, at least, there’s a point where I might belong, but it’s somewhere in the middle between two other boxes and does not have a box of its own.

I think I should just make a box with vertical text that stretches from the top to the bottom and says “ME”.

By: Pontifus

Pontifus — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:12:04 +0000

Well, the thing is, the flowchart would assume the perspective of the “mainstream” blogger, whatever that might be. Really, it’s just a descending list from greatest to least popularity. I’d actually put academic/analytical bloggers (especially those who cite literary critics) somewhere near the bottom, as there just isn’t much of an audience for us right now.

Ah, you’ve read KNzSS — that makes two of us! The mad theorist in me refuses to believe in dead ends — if I hit a dead end, I blame it on my own limitations, not the limitations of the text in question — though my everyday reader side suspects you may be right.

By: CCY

CCY — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:39:08 +0000

I always thought such a flowchart would read (from the perspective of oneself)

People you idolize
V
You
V
Friends who like same thing you do
V
People you don’t hate
V
Rest of internet

But maybe that’s me just being a bit acidic in tone. Such a flowchart seems fun to make but someone’s going to end up as the butt-joke of it all and I don’t know if they’ll take it lightly.

Also, yay, The World That God Only Knows. It is a really entertaining manga since it both embraces and parodies the visual novel genre I love so dearly; especially with Keima’s ace analogies (“The Emblem That Shows the Quality of a Little Sister BMW”!). Some deeper evaluation into it would be nice, although I fear like Haruka’s Secret, it’s a dead end. Not to say it isn’t still a useful exercise.

By: Pontifus

Pontifus — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:01:11 +0000

I suppose we could. I haven’t been around in the anime blogging community for long, though, so I tend to think I lack the experience to put it together and the clout to back it up.

By: Cuchlann

Cuchlann — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:04:50 +0000

Exactly what is keeping us from creating such a flowchart? : )