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hello everyone, i made a video about that one visual novel that everyone hyperbolizes about. i think it is actually very cool and has many interesting ides about misogyny, social alienation, ableism, disability, and other interesting topics. enjoy

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Would Uma musume be more peak if it was centaur girls instead of kemonomimi?

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Kama FGO is envious because a goddess of pleasure like herself didn't invent the art of Shibari in the Indian subcontinent and had to witness humanity come up with something that spicy without her.

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What is Konata doin on a cover of a Nietzsche book, why was the creator of lucky star commissioned to do art for a Nietzsche book

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Was super curious as to why this exists, so lets find out!

The obvious answer ofc: the Wikipedia page of Kagami Yoshimizu, the author of Lucky Star, lists him as doing the cover for an edition of Nietzsche's Words for Young People:

Words for Young People (若き人々への言葉, Wakaki Hitobito no Kotoba) (cover illustration, by Friedrich Nietzsche, Kadokawa Shoten, 2011)

Straightforward so far, right? But still, *why* is a real question. Kadokawa does stuff like this all the time actually - Japan's 'collector book culture' is very large, way larger than it is in the US, special cover editions by famed artists is a very common occurrence. And in June of 2011 we have the -

God dammit, and the internet archive isn't any help either due to shenanigans w/ frikkin Flash. Anyway, blogs to the rescue!

This entry details the "Discovery! Kadokawa Bunko 2011" Summer Fair, where you amoung other things win adorable keychains related to cooling down - totally buyable off Yahoo Auctions still if that is your thing.

But in addition to that, 5 'collectors' versions of classic books were released to encourage participation in the festival, featuring art by different manga artists. We have:

Anne of Green Gables" Cover Illustration by Kiyohiko Azuma "Words for Young People" Cover illustration by Kagami Yoshimizu Yi Ling, Shan Tsuki Ki, Disciples, and Biographies of the Great Masters" Cover illustration by Asagi Sakura Greek and Roman Mythology: A Complete Translation" Cover illustration by Mari Yamazaki Night on the Galactic Railroad" Cover Illustration: Kohaku Kuroboshi

Funnily enough the rest of them did art a bit more aligned with the source material. Kiyohiko Azuma, for example, is the author of Azumanga Daioh, but his cover looks like this:

Yoshimizu is just a renowned troll and so just drew Konata in a castle because you aren't the boss of me I do what I want. Which is ofc why this book got tiny amounts of traction in the english-speaking internet, removed from its wider context.

If you want to see a little more of the book btw, there are a few more Konata's on the cover flap and under the obi:

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gonna get knuckle tats to show which side of the great hot-metal typesetting war I'm on

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Us who knows it's Times New Roman that's the best.🤨🤨🤨🤨

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Nah this isn't about that kind of font, it's about ways to make printed type in the pre-computer error. The two major methods were linotype and monotype. Linotype machines worked as an "all in one" system where a whole line is cast as a slug at once (which is the pun in the name: line-o-type) and this happens in the same machine as the operator is typing it out.

This made the machines "small" and quick, but the downside was that MOTEN METAL WAS BEING CAST INSIDE A MACHINE YOU'RE SITTING AT. If anything went wrong and the machine squirted, you had to get up fast and grab the hell bucket, to collect the molten lead that was flowing out of the machine. Reportedly Linotype operators would recognize each other in the street because of their distinctive patches of hairless white skin on their arms, where squirts had given them second degree burns and killed off their hair follicles.

Monotype machines, on the other hand, were built differently:

The keyboard has no lead. Instead it punches coordinates on to a paper tape, which then go into a separate casting machine. The molten lead is only in the casting machine, so it can't squirt (at least, not onto the operator).

So Linotype machines were definitely more popular. They were cheaper, simpler, and smaller. But monotype machines hung around for a long whole because of their customizability: it was easy to put in new fonts and symbols, so they got used for a lot of things like mixed-language books/newspapers and math textbooks.

Anyway I love the Monotype keyboard and someday I'm gonna build one for my PC. You see how big they are? They (like Linotype keyboards) don't have shift keys. Instead, every key is a different symbol that can be printed. They're wonderfully complex, but at the same time, simple: you just press the key that corresponds to the symbol you want printed. There's no translation, no modes. It's just one to one.

Beautiful.