>tfw you genuinely can't get into Zig Forums material anymore because its all too childish
>inb4 some autist throws around that CS Lewis cope quote for the 10000th time
Even animated shows for adults are just retarded. None of it's got any real shit in it, none of it tries to do anything new. Even "good" shows that have generals here every day are just so obnoxiously predictable and trite.
Cartoons really are just for kids, aren't they?
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Just watch anime like a real nigga
Same. I mostly stick to Korean and Chinese comics that you can find on most manga sites because I've read most American media that interested me.
le sigh, I guess this is growing up
Just leave then, dude. I can't possibly imagine why you would stay on the board if you aren't interested in the topic of the board.
Heh
>Cartoons really are just for kids, aren't they?
always has been. watching nostalgia every once in a blue moon is fun though.
Bump. Come on guys. Anyone else? We're we just born at the wrong time?
While I appreciate you said "once in a blue moon", it has to be said:
>wrapping yourself up in nostalgia to protect from a tumultuous present instead of working to develop your tastes while appreciating what you used to enjoy for what it was
I dunno, man. Sounded like the sort of shit 80s kids like Doug Walker did 10 years ago, and look how they ended up.
Nah I agree with you user. You could try watching some older shows to try to spark that interest. Sometimes it's not our age but the cartoons around us now might not be to our taste either. I watched Cow and Chicken last year since I never saw it as a kid and loved it, more than I like any modern cartoon. I don't know if I'm just coping but give that a try.
Guess that's what happens when trannies take over animation.
Name me this magical before time when cartoons weren't for kids.
Dumbass.
Rent free...
Before TV animation came along, animation was more for families than kids. And before that, animation was a novelty for adults to marvel at.
This. I've been listening to 90's death metal and watching Carranger and Jetman all year and even though it's all new to me it scratches the nostalgia itch. Having said that, animation is a ghetto and the only decent Zig Forums material I can think to recommend is in strip/book form.
just watch old cartoons then
>Kids didn't spend all day in theatres to watch animated shorts and Flash Gordon serials
>Adults did, and were there with them.
Bullshit. Old movie theatres were basically the equivalent of a 10-Hour Baby Shark video on Youtube. A cheap babysitter.
Ask any old person, they'll tell you you used to get popcorn, and an apple, and a whatever the fuck else for a nickel. They gave these kids a days worth of food because the little bastards were gonna be in there 5-6 hours if they stayed the whole time. Those things were also walk-in, walk-out, so the concept of a demographic couldn't really exist yet. Read any cinema history book, you fucking moron.
Like, fuck me. It's one thing to know something and to have an opinion based on it, but to have an opinion on an entire art form, its history, and how a minority is affecting it, without even having a single example to pull...
You are shamefully idiotic. Society failed you, and it's the rest of us who should feel bad. You should just kill yourself.
never, but they're definitely more childish than they used to be
flapjack was a show where characters (well mostly k'nuckles) got "drunk" on candy on the regular, even ate it out of beer mugs in case the point wasn't driven home hard enough - something like that seems unthinkable for a kids' cartoon these days
Its kind of depressing how indie animators don't really reach the same heights of uncompromising artistic vision and success that indie game devs do.
...That's not a great benchmark for maturity.
I get your point, of course, but you've gotta see mine. There's nothing stopping an actual maturity or depth of character, it's just rabid sensitive censorship of cosmetic stuff like drinking and sex and shit, which is just good ol' American puritanism and soccer mom fury.
Personally, I think it's a good thing that we've boxed creatives in like that, and forced them to examine what maturity actually means. The crap we're seeing now is, as far as I'm concerned, just them squirming. They've gotta crack sometime.
What exactly do you want out of cartoons then?
Primal is the only TV show I felt genuinely into
No amount of CS Lewis quotes can change the fact that you're an insecure manchild, OP.
>not being into something means you're an insecure manchild
maybe you're projecting.
what cs lewis that quote would that be?
Time to start reading comics
well it is a medium mostly dominated by comedy, not a lot of room for actual mature themes in that
if what you want is something like the sopranos in animation well, i don't think that's happening anytime soon
>I think it's a good thing that we've boxed creatives in like that, and forced them to examine what maturity actually means.
somehow i doubt they're actually doing that
Lewis was a radical Christian. His opinion doesn't count.
>not a lot of room for mature themes in comedy
How many dark comedies are there? How many pitch black comedies? How many articles have been written about kids movies with dark undertones? Come on, now. Surely you can see that there's still potential in the industry for the real thing.
>somehow i doubt they're actually doing that
Oh yeah, same. The evidence points to the exact opposite happening. But that's unsustainable, eventually it'll cause the industry to collapse. Either when that happens or to prevent that from happening, good shows will have to get made.
you could argue that every cartoon now kinda feels the same, or has another show that feels very similar to it, even then every era has shit like that. we just chose what to remember and praise and what to leave behind and forget. i guarantee in the next 10 years people will be posting threads saying "ITT forgotten reboots" and post TTG.
>cartoon really are just for kids, aren't they?
yeah and they always have been. eventually people will realize we can get adult animation that isn't just shitty humor. hell we're seeing that now with PRIMAL. animation has always had complete dog shit with a few sprinkles of gold here and there. just wait for the right people to make the right show user.
All of God's children are radical, dude.
Early days of animation (pre 1950s) when grown well adjusted normies men and women went to watch looney tunes in the Cinemas. It was the Hayes act and the rise of television that ended adults enjoying animation about the same as children.
I bet you feel all mature and manly because nu doom and keep repeating "rip an tear" while jacking off to Mick Gordon same music all the time.
>developing taste
>the process is the opposite of development
i dunno neither
by the way, i don't think it was a girly magazine. it was a GAY magazine
Based.
>for kids
who gives a shit
>opposite of development
Go on, explain.
I'm an adult who didn't grow up with the Timmverse but decided to give it a try, I'm really enjoying it. I think your problem is you've already seen most of the good ones and there are no new good ones being made.