I wouldn't mind buying an XBox or PS2 if someone would release/sell Linux games for it.
If your willingness to purchase an XBox or PS2 hinges on the availability of Linux games for the console, you probably need to seriously re-evaluate your motives for playing games. Most people play games to unwind, or to have some fun... not to make some kind of statement about their choice of operating system.
I would also like it to become more mainstream -- it's usually higher in quality than anything produced domestically. Besides the point you mentioned about critics weighing too heavily on the public's bias toward it, anime also has a few other things going against it:
1) The plots can be pretty bizarre sometimes, by American standards. Some things that make absolutely zero sense to Americans make perfect (or better) sense to the Japanese. I'm guessing this is due to a difference of culture and history.
2) Watching many animes, I sometimes find myself scratching my head over characters' thought processes, or the way characters react to an event. We in America have completely different concepts of what types of reactions are "proper" in any given situation. People who are used to anime (myself included) are usually able to let these things slide, but the neophyte can easily say "wtf, that's dumb."
3) A LOT of anime that is, bluntly, bad smut, and it badly tarnishes the reputation of anime as a whole. When the average non-anime fan in America hears the word "anime" (or "Japanese animation," if they're not familiar with the term), the first images that pop into their heads usually involve school girls getting raped, tentacle/robot/gay/underage/bizarre sex, et cetera (or gratuitous "fan service," at the very least).
4) Among those who even know what anime is, it has a reputation as being a favorite interest for "losers." In America, everyone wants to be "cool." It's hard to win people over to something with a loser stigmata attached to it. With the wide acceptance of Pokemon and DBZ among young people, perhaps we'll see an increase in popularity among adults in the future?
As for myself, I like anime, but it's difficult to sift through all the crap to find the gems. Any genre (or "medium," if you prefer) is like that, though.
BTW... I wouldn't install that POS "development suite" if *they* paid *me*.
VS.NET is actually quite nice. Not everything that comes out of Microsoft is crap, you know. I suspect you'd be endlessly singing its praises if it were a product of the OSS movement.
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It's up to three months now, based on advertisements I've seen/heard recently.
If your willingness to purchase an XBox or PS2 hinges on the availability of Linux games for the console, you probably need to seriously re-evaluate your motives for playing games. Most people play games to unwind, or to have some fun... not to make some kind of statement about their choice of operating system.
Ugh, stigmata != stigma. I hope Slashdot doesn't have as many spelling/grammar Nazis as most other communities...
I would also like it to become more mainstream -- it's usually higher in quality than anything produced domestically. Besides the point you mentioned about critics weighing too heavily on the public's bias toward it, anime also has a few other things going against it:
1) The plots can be pretty bizarre sometimes, by American standards. Some things that make absolutely zero sense to Americans make perfect (or better) sense to the Japanese. I'm guessing this is due to a difference of culture and history.
2) Watching many animes, I sometimes find myself scratching my head over characters' thought processes, or the way characters react to an event. We in America have completely different concepts of what types of reactions are "proper" in any given situation. People who are used to anime (myself included) are usually able to let these things slide, but the neophyte can easily say "wtf, that's dumb."
3) A LOT of anime that is, bluntly, bad smut, and it badly tarnishes the reputation of anime as a whole. When the average non-anime fan in America hears the word "anime" (or "Japanese animation," if they're not familiar with the term), the first images that pop into their heads usually involve school girls getting raped, tentacle/robot/gay/underage/bizarre sex, et cetera (or gratuitous "fan service," at the very least).
4) Among those who even know what anime is, it has a reputation as being a favorite interest for "losers." In America, everyone wants to be "cool." It's hard to win people over to something with a loser stigmata attached to it. With the wide acceptance of Pokemon and DBZ among young people, perhaps we'll see an increase in popularity among adults in the future?
As for myself, I like anime, but it's difficult to sift through all the crap to find the gems. Any genre (or "medium," if you prefer) is like that, though.
BTW... I wouldn't install that POS "development suite" if *they* paid *me*.
VS.NET is actually quite nice. Not everything that comes out of Microsoft is crap, you know. I suspect you'd be endlessly singing its praises if it were a product of the OSS movement.