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It's centered around the creation of Section 9, but as I understand it it's not in continuity with either Stand Alone Complex+2nd Gig or the old movie.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
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As compared to the backstory provided in flashbacks in 2nd Gig? Yeah, I think I could qualify a few things as "out of place."sigma999 wrote:I watched 3 Arise OVAs (are they OVAs? Is that a thing any more?) and saw nothing out of place.Kaelik wrote: Have you watched them?
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Arise was sort of the prequel if i understood that correctly.
This movie was, i think, the end of Arise and after this movie would chronologically come the first GITS movie. And after that the normal SAC Series and OVAs and somewhere in there then also the 2nd GITS movie.
And yeah, Arise does not fit together with the poker game stories <.<
This movie was, i think, the end of Arise and after this movie would chronologically come the first GITS movie. And after that the normal SAC Series and OVAs and somewhere in there then also the 2nd GITS movie.
And yeah, Arise does not fit together with the poker game stories <.<
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Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
I didn't watch Arise before seeing this movie, but The Major's backstory accident is different; here it's fetal chemical weapons exposure vs. plane crash as a toddler.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
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Nnot quite, no . .
It was an hommage to it though.
It was an hommage to it though.
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Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Yeah that one ^^
Well, to be fair, they left it quite ambivalent wether or not what he was telling was the truth as well . .
Well, to be fair, they left it quite ambivalent wether or not what he was telling was the truth as well . .
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Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Protip: This is a universal sign of a very bad plan.
Protip: This is a universal sign of a very bad plan.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
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thank you for this one ^^Ancient History wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INtBO30WyQA
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Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
I have some taste, so I didn't get any of the jokes, because why would I ever torture myself by watching that show. There have been honest X shows in the past where I didn't watch the show/movie/played the game and I still appreciated the jokes, that one just wasn't one of them.
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The U.S. isn't a democracy and if you think it is, you are a rube.DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?
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So, new Real Robot series, Gundam Thunderbolt, aka Jazz Gundam, aka "In space, everybody can hear the music you're playing in your cockpit, because fuck physics"
On the other hand, for a change the federation officers actually hand out the latest gundam model to a veteran pilot who proved his worth in the battlefield instead of the first random kid they meet. Quite gritty, enjoyed the first episode.
Also Captain Hook is working for Zeon, which is kinda funny when the Zeon pilot grunts in the same episode have multi-finger hand prosthetics.
On the other hand, for a change the federation officers actually hand out the latest gundam model to a veteran pilot who proved his worth in the battlefield instead of the first random kid they meet. Quite gritty, enjoyed the first episode.
Also Captain Hook is working for Zeon, which is kinda funny when the Zeon pilot grunts in the same episode have multi-finger hand prosthetics.
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GATE is back.
Watching Japanese military propaganda is a weird experience. It's so much more pacifist than everyone else's military propaganda.
Watching Japanese military propaganda is a weird experience. It's so much more pacifist than everyone else's military propaganda.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
That's because the fact that they have a standing military worth a damn is the military propaganda.name_here wrote:GATE is back.
Watching Japanese military propaganda is a weird experience. It's so much more pacifist than everyone else's military propaganda.
Don't know where the loli factors in, though.
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I think that the JSDF went to the producers and were like: "Could you please do something where we aren't utterly ineffectual and embarrassingly outclassed? Please? Just once?"name_here wrote:GATE is back.
Watching Japanese military propaganda is a weird experience. It's so much more pacifist than everyone else's military propaganda.
Anyway, I actually like Gate. Maybe it's because I've grown weary of antiquity fetishists pretending that swords are deadlier than guns, but something about seeing a medieval siege broken with a blackhawk helicopter gives me a happy.
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I was a bit skeptic when I heard "military propaganda", but actually ended up enjoying it quite a bit, in particular since there's axe crazy gothic loli for some variety. Thanks for the recommendation!
Magic has played surprisingly little role.
Although what strains my belief the most is that out of 10 000 SDF (mostly) male soldiers, zero of them tried to get any pussy in the multiple months they've been there. Not even from the local whores. Are they all actually secretly otakus handpicked by the japanese military for that purpose?
Also didn't the not-rome emperor ordered all villages between the gate hill and capital to be burned down and the wells poisoned right away at episode 2? Because nobody seems to have bothered following those orders.
I believe that there's also some law that if there's guns and melee weapons in the same show, you need to have at least one scene where a melee character defeats a bunch of gun wielders while deflecting their bullets.
Luckily the not-rome army never bothered to drill their soldiers in the art of bullet deflecting practised by the local priestesses. Or include mages in their ranks. Or tried to tame a red dragon.
Magic has played surprisingly little role.
Although what strains my belief the most is that out of 10 000 SDF (mostly) male soldiers, zero of them tried to get any pussy in the multiple months they've been there. Not even from the local whores. Are they all actually secretly otakus handpicked by the japanese military for that purpose?
Also didn't the not-rome emperor ordered all villages between the gate hill and capital to be burned down and the wells poisoned right away at episode 2? Because nobody seems to have bothered following those orders.
To be fair, when you have rifles/tanks/gunships and your opponent has roman-era weapons and armor at best, you would need to be pretty incompetent to lose. I see it more as a "guns/explosives beats swords/bows" lesson.Mask_De_H wrote:That's because the fact that they have a standing military worth a damn is the military propaganda.name_here wrote:GATE is back.
Watching Japanese military propaganda is a weird experience. It's so much more pacifist than everyone else's military propaganda.
All animes must have at least one token loli. You'll be accused of national high treason if you don't.Mask_De_H wrote: Don't know where the loli factors in, though.
I believe that there's also some law that if there's guns and melee weapons in the same show, you need to have at least one scene where a melee character defeats a bunch of gun wielders while deflecting their bullets.
Luckily the not-rome army never bothered to drill their soldiers in the art of bullet deflecting practised by the local priestesses. Or include mages in their ranks. Or tried to tame a red dragon.
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We're talking about the military that recruits with ads like this (the comparison with US ads is awesome)name_here wrote:GATE is back.
Watching Japanese military propaganda is a weird experience. It's so much more pacifist than everyone else's military propaganda.