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dogg it all totally comes back to fanfiction

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> Ayanami Nurturing Project [a tie-in game for Neon Genesis Evangelion where the player raises Rei, and has little to do with the original series] must adequately share a worldview with Evangelion

Here I am two years later to say there may be a mistranslation here. Japanese culture critics really like their word for "worldview" (世界観) and use it all the time, usually inappropriately and meaning something like "aesthetic genre" (like, "we're a goth band" -> "our band has a gothic 世界観").

I think it should be translated back as "vibe".

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In terms of sectors where productivity isn't increasing, what do you think about a JG that includes sports? College sports seem to be evidence that there are very talented athletes without a stage after graduation (something like 99% of NCAA athletes don't go pro). This could also lend itself to the same kind of ecosystem that you describe in your Levy paper (JG journos writing about it, public venues staffed by JG employees).

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What is tiktok substituted tips for likes and a many to many transactional network emerged with regular people microtipping regular people on ephemeral content w low to no production cost? Would that create a virtuous vaporous production-consumption loop like you envision?

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