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    Redpanda reacted to Clephas in Weabooism: The experience, its causes (in Westerners), and tempering it with doses of reality   
    No, people are subconsciously isolationist.  It isn't something people other than some Libertarians or one-issue voters/candidates are actively conscious of.  Interventionism is a fear-driven reaction to protect our own lifestyles and make them easier... with a complete disregard for the cost to other states/races/ethnicities.  That very disregard is the prime mark of a modern isolationist.  The same person might be willing to donate that nine cents for the 'orphans of Africa', but they will frequently also support military intervention to destroy threats to their lifestyle... and be rabidly anti-whateveristheenemyofthemoment most of the time.  Before our involvement in WWII, American isolationism took the form of a complete disregard for the circumstances of other nations - even allies - as long as we profited... does that really sound any different from today?  The only difference is that we transformed from passive isolationism to active isolationism.  We realized that if we just sat there doing nothing, someone would raid the gold pile or try to slap our hands off their gold pile, so quite naturally we deployed spies, security guards (garrisons in other nations), etc. to protect the interests we previously thought could be protected through self-interested neutrality.  In exchange for self-interested neutrality, we have self-interested interventionism to keep the dirtiness on other people's lands. 
    The only problem with this - from an American's point of view - is that that same policy of interventionism is supported and justified by the 'world's police' role that America has taken on (though current politics are moving against it, domestically), thus costing us money we really would rather spend elsewhere.  Early on, the interventionist policy paid economic dividends, but it is rapidly becoming a dead weight on the economy.
    Edit: Ah, incidentally I won't be keeping this conversation alive... I hadn't intended to talk politics and human nature in this blog, and it isn't really suitable overall.
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    Redpanda reacted to sanahtlig in Weabooism: The experience, its causes (in Westerners), and tempering it with doses of reality   
    To be fair, "nationalization" can be a euphemism for "theft" in some circumstances.
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    Redpanda reacted to sanahtlig in Weabooism: The experience, its causes (in Westerners), and tempering it with doses of reality   
    I don't think the rest of the world would characterize the US as """isolationist""".  Especially those who don't like the US.
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    Redpanda reacted to sanahtlig in [SPOILER] NITPICKING: Shingeki No Bahamut   
    Huh.  My friend and I saw "anime adaptation of a mobile game" and immediately dismissed this show.  Maybe we should revisit this?  Didn't realize that this was from the makers of Zankyou no Terror, which we liked quite a bit.
    Also, just a tip: in general, you'll attract more attention to posts like this if you include an appropriate image in the header.
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    Redpanda reacted to Shikomizue in [SPOILER] NITPICKING: Shingeki No Bahamut   
    I assume this means me?

    Bravo. I have a feeling you will give more interesting points of view in the anime club.
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    Redpanda reacted to sanahtlig in Ask sanahtlig: Answers to Common Issues and Concerns in the VN community   
    Just think: if you took all the time you spent Internet posting about the inadequacies of the English VN market, you too could be playing VNs in Japanese--10 years later!
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    Redpanda reacted to Mr Poltroon in [Fuwa exclusive][Rant] Promoting VNs in a culture of apathy   
    About your methods and way of life:
    I've talked with you for a while some time ago. I don't know if it got through, but I absolutely love what you do. Promoting VN's, trying to make himself heard.
    Admittedly, this has made me think of you as arrogant on more than one occasion, but that can't really be helped when you're trying to be, as you said, an activist.
    I tend to agree with sound logic, and I believe that most of the time what you say is sound. It's always nice to read what you write, even when occasionally I can already tell "he's gonna get flamed to bits for this" as I read your content.
     
     
     
    About the title of the Reddit "article":
    Expecting people to carefully consider every single word, its denotation, and its context is your first mistake. Miscommunication is the cause of most conflicts. You can interpret your title however you want. If the average person doesn't you can't entirely blame them.
    You will notice that most people believe your title to be clickbait, and that you had to provide paragraphs of justification over the chosen title just so people would even remotely understand its "carefully chosen-ness".
     
    Perhaps because I'm not a non-native, I would have never thought of interpreting "Fans" and "fury" as you did, when there was a much more obvious meaning I could easily reach.
     
    I'll give you a badly made example which likely has nothing to do with this.
    In Portuguese, the word "eventually" means "possibly". Perhaps because of the English language's influence on Europe and education, most youths believe it has the English meaning. This can very easily lead to certain misunderstandings.
    While the one who uses it with the Portuguese meaning is categorically right, the one who misinterprets it can't fairly be held responsible when the misinformation actively spreads among people.
     
    With this I'm trying to say, your interpretation of the title may be the most correct one, but it is not the one most people will arrive at, and your carefully chosen wording is entirely to blame.
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    Redpanda reacted to Darbury in Editors Are Not Proofraeders   
    Yeah, trust me — I desperately wish there were days I could get away with that. But in my line of work, if I screw up, it ends up appearing on TVs, magazines, monitors, and/or billboards across the country. Nothing like a multimillion-dollar cock-up to put a damper on your weekend plans ... and an end to your career.
    Call it a hazard of the profession, but I'm now a firm believer in multi-layered editing and proofing.
    That's awesome! I think I just found the title for my memoirs.


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    Redpanda got a reaction from Darbury in Editors Are Not Proofraeders   
    I'm such a stickler for perfection when it comes to writing some piece of literature or analysis. I would proofread my own stuff daily until I get it all right. And if I do miss something, there is no need to worry as I don't plan to post any of that online for people to read (too embarrassed). 
     
    I believe the term you're looking for is Productive Laziness. Our minds are lazy by nature avoiding unnecessary work but in smart way. It can't be helped, this is our default mind after all. And it's actually one of our biggest strength as sentient beings.
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    Redpanda reacted to Nosebleed in Editors Are Not Proofraeders   
    Oh how I've fallen trap to this so many times when I typeset manga.
    I tell myself "Well, I've typed it out and seen the lines with my own eyes, it can't be wrong, I know my spelling", after which I proceed to upload the work without even reading it over once, only to then be met with comments pointing out 2 or 3 typos in different pages and forcing me to OCD and turn my computer back on at 2AM to photoshop those pages again.
    For shorter things (definitely not applicable to big VNs), when you don't have someone to QC/Proofread (as in, someone qualified for said position), my suggestion is to at the very least read the entire finished product a couple times yourself and show it to one or two people, chances are they'll spot a lot of the basic errors pretty easily. I've found that just having a couple people review my work before I upload it has significantly decreased the amount of typos I make.
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