This will probably sound weird if you're one of the fans I allegedly have somewhere out there, and par for the course if you've come here via my sporadic log-ins to Agora Road, but despite running a fansite for a VN company I generally don't like nerd/geek culture - and subcultures in general.
This is due to the fact that they often lead people to self-identify off the media they consume (what clothing they wear, what music they listen to etc) instead of more proactive actions or just plain personality traits. I might run a fansite, but I wouldn't consider Type Moon fan or anime or VN or manga fan or nerd to be an important part of my IRL personality. Online I might write alot about this "hobby"(?) of mine to the point it might seem like my personality, but in the real world I'm just another normie really.
I'm not going to get into any theory as to why subcultures are like that - from my memory I did that on Agora - or even dislike of "counterculture" for never really countering the monoculture well at all - I made an incendiary comment on that topic on Agora and then haven't logged in since. This is really just here for me to beg you to believe me that I'm a pretty unnoticable normal guy IRL and that Type Moon or anime and manga in general probably wouldn't come up in conversation if I talked to you.
I'm normal, please believe me.
Also, had a seminar today on libertarianism (the course is on capitalism in general), and was shocked the full-on Leninist we had taking the course didn't shown up to make points against him. Maybe he was busy doing agitprop or something. But suprisingly, while nobody there was a libertarian - except maybe one guy - , people tended to be generally quite positive on Hayek (who we spent most of the seminar on about), even if not so much on Rand or Nozick.
While people disagreed with him, it was maybe slightly more positive than it was about Marx. And I'd generally agree, that while I don't agree with Hayek's views on state intervention in general - I think prices not being optimum or resources not being allocated to peak market effiency is an acceptable trade-off for food-banks, state healthcare, etc - I can agree with him far more on the broadstrokes of having an overall market economy due to the price mechanism than the planned economy that Marx advocated for (at least during the dictatorship of the proletariat).
See, even my political views are middle-of-the-road.
Also decided to watch PMQs today and rememebred why I usually just read the news about Parliament rather than watch it live. Starmer and Badenoch spent the entire time posturing, Starmer kept deflecting to "I have to do all this because of the problems caused by the Tories" whenever he was pressed on why he was commiting to some austerity measurws and he completely ignored the request for an inquiry into the murder of David Amess. And Farage obviously couldn't be bothered to show up. The only party leader who I liked there was Ed Davey who obviously has the post office scandal in his past, so I think the country may be semi-snookered on domestic issues. Although, I have to say I'm shocked as to how Starmer has proved himself a really deft international politican - he's tightened bonds with Europe, avoided some of the harsher US tariffs - although not all - (in fact Trump seems to be head-over-heels for him based on past comments) and has taken a leading role in hopefully leading to a positive rather than negative peace in Ukraine.
So hey, even if the working class, the disabled and the mentally ill get fucked over by austerity and he goes ahead and proves the tabloids right about him being "Two Tier Kier", at least the UK will have good international standing.
I hope the Two Tier stuff doesn't make me look like a right-winger but that whole "have judges show leniancy based of race/cultural background" nonesense is pretty outrageous and I hope it gets reversed. If laws do discriminate against certain groups, then reforming those laws should be the goals, not judicial activism.
I hope my views on current events have also convinced you - the viewer - that I'm just another normie with typical views.
Jokes about how I'm trying to convince you I'm normal aside, I really am just a normie at the end of the day.
