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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: recursivelyenumerable on January 10, 2013, 10:05:19 AM

Title: Moe: It could happen here (and has?)
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 10, 2013, 10:05:19 AM

http://crookedtimber.org/2013/01/09/krugman-on-2013-vs-1958-macro/

"Monetary policy: When I arrived at Princeton in 2000 there was a group of us—“Japan worriers”. I am the only one still there. Mike Woodford, Lars Svensson, who is now run off to the Riksbank, me, and Ben Bernanke—I wonder what happened to him? All of us were very concerned by what was happening to Japan in the 1990s. Some people looked at it and said: “That just shows how messed up the Japanese are.” Some of us looked at us and said: “Surface differences apart, Japan looks a lot like us: big advanced country, lots of room to maneuver, government officials who might not be the most brilliant but who were not complete idiots, and if they could get trapped in this sort of deflationary stagnation then it could happen to us.” Sure enough, it did."

Modulo some find/replace work this could apply equally well to anime / videogames and popular culture

Title: Re: Moe: It could happen here (and has?)
Post by: tiesto on January 10, 2013, 10:30:33 AM

Aren't the ponies considered "American moe"?

Title: Re: Moe: It could happen here (and has?)
Post by: chronovore on January 11, 2013, 09:02:30 AM

Quote from: tiesto on January 10, 2013, 10:30:33 AM

Aren't the ponies considered "American moe"?

That explains a lot.

Title: Re: Moe: It could happen here (and has?)
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 11, 2013, 05:27:24 PM

my nick name is Moe :fbm

Title: Re: Moe: It could happen here (and has?)
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 11, 2013, 05:41:00 PM

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on January 11, 2013, 05:27:24 PM

my nick name is Moe :fbm

Soitenly, nyuk nyuk!

Title: Re: Moe: It could happen here (and has?)
Post by: bork on January 11, 2013, 05:48:21 PM

Oh man, they started doing something new at work with new employees -sending out Email messages with their photo and a bio- and one dude put that he loves My Little Pony and Bambi all over it.  The photo was just so...40 year old balding man-child....that my team lead saw it and just burst out laughing on a conference call.   :lol :lol :lol

Title: Re: Moe: It could happen here (and has?)
Post by: tiesto on January 12, 2013, 12:27:14 AM

At work today one of the older guys there (a mid 50's software engineer, absolutely brilliant man) was talking about MLP with another lady (whose kids watch it). Like, he even knew the characters names and stuff. Was kinda interesting since the majority of my job is extremely conservative oldskool engineer types, never thought one would be familiar with MLP.

Title: Re: Moe: It could happen here (and has?)
Post by: chronovore on January 12, 2013, 08:00:33 AM

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on January 11, 2013, 05:27:24 PM

my nick name is Moe :fbm

As long as it's not pronounced moh-eh, you're good.

Title: Re: Moe: It could happen here (and has?)
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 12, 2013, 12:48:50 PM

I didn't know what moe was until like three or four years ago. Sure I watched Sailor Moon as a kid and would probably buy it on DVD...but that's as far as I can go   :-\

spoiler (click to show/hide)

I like the art in the ugoo anime (with the girl with wings)  :'(

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Title: Re: Moe: It could happen here (and has?)
Post by: Yeti on January 12, 2013, 07:19:26 PM

I learned what moe was from this message board