Originally Posted by Nebularus
Jeez, put things into perspective! Out of a topic that has 76 posts (this is on the other site), comments about this board are brought up only on the second page and perhaps only a total of 3-4 replies actually refer to this board - the rest is all about Shiina/TJ. Way to blow things out of proportion!
Sorry to pop all of your egos, but I really don't think people on other board care about this forum at all.
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I'll be 'pretentious' and declare that the majority of posts in that thread spawned from folks who haven't yet thought to search for a specialized Shiina Ringo or Tokyo Jihen community. And that's a scenario I'm somewhat okay with. What I'm
not okay with, is any of those folks (who didn't spawn the 3-4 posts) getting the idea that maybe they
shouldn't search for a specialized community, in-case they ever got the idea later. I mean, they could search
now,
because of those comments, but if they do so under the pretense of checking out the "Neo Ringo/Jihen hating" claims, it won't take a lot of browsing within Electric Mole for the prospective newbie to 'verify' those claims, then overlook everything else being said here, and make up their mind never to come here again except maybe for news, but wait...
They'd actually have to
dig for news (amidst Ukigumo bashing that they
could Ignore) in order to find it. Awww schucks!
As for my earlier post here, I was referring to more comments than just the ones about Electric Mole, not to blow things out of proportion, but to kind of elude to (and I didn't think I'd ever have to spell this out for anybody) that they can bash Electric Mole's "pro-Hirama-ism" comfortably when
nobody in that thread has stated that they prefer Hirama over Ukigumo. Everyone there is either neutral, or (seemingly more often) pro-Ukigumo.
In fact the guitar discussion is how people were able to branch off into (to very loosely paraphrase) "You'd be surprised that there's this community of folks (many of them at least borderline psycho) who totally disagree with us all", which spawned more semi-ontopic discussion along the lines of "Well I don't know how that could be so, because Ukigumo is obviously the better (or at least more
appropriate) guitarist". The Electric Mole bashing and general Phase 2 loving, connected together (at the later part of the
thread) almost like a checkered* patchwork
quilt.
*:Note that not all checkers (especially on fabric) have to feature opposite colors.