The strange world of Japan's PC-98 computer - Strange Comforts
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You've probably wondered where these otherworldly pixel-art images seen across the web are coming from. The answer is the PC-98.
  • Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This author is a serious prude. They have an interesting definition of Otaku and makes it seem as if all doujin were porn.

    • demonsword@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Japan’s culture of hermetic male obsessives…sort of an primordial Incel, if you will

      yeah, s/he does not seem to have any clue at all

      • guyrocket@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        He, apparently:

        Biz Davis is a producer & writer who’s spent 20 years in the world of underground music, events and eventually advertising. His work focuses on obsessives and their obsessions, circular economies and cyberpunk aesthetics.

        • demonsword@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 months ago

          His work focuses on obsessives and their obsessions

          then he should know better than make the false equivalence that otakus are all incels I guess

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I love the art and sound of PC98 games, I just wish they weren’t all so full of porn.

    EDIT: The author of this article is dead to me. They called Hideo Kojima “problematic.”