Beware those who attack when it’s time to build. There is a time to keep the opposition at bay, but there is also a time to build what comes next.
He may very well be the biggest, highest-level otaku in the Genshiken, but he’s also somehow the most stylish, most sociable, and most conventionally attractive.
When you’re flying around DCS World in the Weebjet 5000, you don’t get to take yourself seriously, no matter how much money you spent on your flight sim setup.
Obviously, otaku pursuits can be life-encompassing endeavours. The 17 Sustainable Otaku Goals serve to help otaku integrate their passion into a healthy lifestyle, thus avoiding burnout and conflicts both inside and outside the subculture.
Social and political movements eventually reach a point where they cease being about helping people and shift focus toward perpetuating the movement itself. In addition to making them more extreme, this causes them to be more insular and less accepting of people who don’t fit the mold of the ideal member of the movement.
