Do You Know A Fictional Character With Your Name?

Do you know a fictional character with your name?

Yes, my name is English

Yes, my name is not English

Yes, my name cannot be categorized like this

Kind of*, my name is English

Kind of*, my name is not English

Kind of*, my name cannot be categorized like this

No, my name is English

No, my name is not English

No, my name cannot be categorized like this

*for example your name is Carla and the character is named Charlie and you consider that a close enough name

*for example your name is Carla and the character is named Charlie and you consider that a close enough name

I had this! But I had the Atem version, so it was his eyes following you around the screen. xD I remember thinking the rap was stupid but the "one card short" definitely got stuck in my head a few times. I had to hunt it down a few years ago because for the life of me I couldn't figure out WHERE it had come from since it wasn't regular Yugioh stuff.

I found the most cursed most ominous thing on amazon today….. the offsetting sickly yellow, the ghost of him in the background staring into your soul disapprovingly, the unbalanced little guy off to the side, the mcdonalds logo, how off kilter the picture was taken, but worst of all it was just titled “seto kaiba” and that was it. I feel like his soul has been trapped in this disk and I am afraid. 

There's a meow button when you click the cats?! And it puts paw prints all over your screen?! And I got a bunch of notes in my activity (from myself) that just say "Meow"

There’s a reason why literature departments don’t obsess over the question of ‘does this belong in the western canon’ anymore. It’s not because “the sjws” conquered the humanities; it’s because that’s actually a super uninteresting question, and all the questions you can ask about “the canon” you can ask about popular or genre fiction or children’s fiction or interactive fiction or anything else, and still get super interesting answers to.

This is what annoyed me about the whole ‘marvel movies aren’t cinema’ thing. Not the argument that superhero movies aren’t very good–that, AFAICT, is totally correct–but “this isn’t cinema” is structured like pure gatekeeping, and even if that isn’t the intent (and I don’t think it was), it says the least possible useful thing on the subject. Trying to define “true” cinema is dumb. At best, you’re using that as a proxy for a much more specific discussion. Since that discussion is going to be much more informative and useful to begin with, start there, and throw out the unnecessary scuffle with the Wittgensteinian language game that exists only to be provocative.