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Is this really the place for studio wars? I can appreciate your desire to praise Kyoto Animation given the circumstances, but perhaps it would be better to phra
by mrob 7y ago
Is this really the place for studio wars? I can appreciate your desire to praise Kyoto Animation given the circumstances, but perhaps it would be better to phrase it "one of the best 2D animation studios".
EDIT: "one of the best" does not preclude Kyoto Animation from being "the best", but it makes it clear that you're not insulting all the other studios.
- meruru 7y agoJust my opinion.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoThere was no "war" until you called attention to it and ostensibly took the other side of it. Your comment creates the exact thing you're supposedly wary of and I'm not sure what else it possibly adds.
- mrob 7y ago"Without a doubt the best 2D animation studio in the world" is logically equivalent to "without a doubt every other 2D animation studio is worse". This is needlessly confrontational, and "without a doubt" does not sound like it's just an opinion.
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- Gigablah 7y agoIs this really the time and place for your pedantry?
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- rowanG077 7y agoWhat? A war. What the actual fuck. How about you just wouldn't be salty about what other people think about cartoon drawings.
- mrob 7y agoThe phrase is analogous to "editor wars", and I am not the first to use it. Imagine for a moment that somebody murdered Richard Stallman. Would it be appropriate to eulogize him as "author of Emacs, which is without a doubt the best editor in the world"? To me that looks a lot like exploiting the tragedy to score points in a comparatively unimportant argument. Nobody can bring up other candidates for best editor without looking insensitive. It's possible to praise a person or organization's accomplishments without putting down others. Kyoto Animation certainly deserves such praise. But there is no need to start ranking studios.
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- rowanG077 7y agoWhat he wrote wasn't anything official like a eulogy. It was a hackernews post. God forbid someone writes an opinion in one those...
- mrob 7y agoHow does "official" status (which is in any case not required for the verb "eulogize") have any relevance to whether it's appropriate to challenge people in a context where they can't respond to that challenge without breaking social obligations? If I say "Emacs is without a doubt the best editor", then I naturally expect Vi fans to defend their favorite editor. There is in fact doubt, and they can surely come up with reasons why Vi could be considered better. But if I make my claim when any defense of Vi would be downvoted for distracting from more important issues then I am not arguing in good faith.
- rowanG077 7y agoHe didn't challenge anyone. If you express your opinion "Emacs is without a doubt the best editor" in some other context related to Emacs then you aren't challenging anyone. You are simply expressing an opinion. Opinions don't have to be challenged. I read hundreds of opinions every day and guess what: some of them I don't agree with. That doesn't mean they are declarations of war or anything of the sort. It also doesn't mean I have to fight that opinion.