EPTOn November 20 2014 01:40 WaveofShadow wrote:
So...um..... How 'bout that weather eh?
So...um..... How 'bout that weather eh?
We're going to keep talking about anime in Offtopic until you say something about Evangelion.
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
We're going to keep talking about anime in Offtopic until you say something about Evangelion. | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
On November 20 2014 01:40 Frolossus wrote: GGO arc was the high point of the show for me Really? I thought it was absolutely horrible. What did you like about it might I ask? edit: I felt the world was very bland and not something I'd ever want to play. The characters were pretty weak but Miyuki Sawashiro was voicing Sinon so I could look past that. The action was just dumb. I dunno even ALO/SAO had smarter action sequences than GGO imo. The main antagonist was just as bad as the ALO guy. Then the plot armour at the end was soooo bad it was even worse than previous plot armour. There were those big patches of nothing really happening on screen aside from sinon ass shots too. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
On November 20 2014 01:42 Numy wrote: Really? I thought it was absolutely horrible. What did you like about it might I ask? He obviously likes Sinons butt. | ||
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Frolossus
United States4779 Posts
On November 20 2014 01:42 Numy wrote: Really? I thought it was absolutely horrible. What did you like about it might I ask? 1. lightsaber kiriko 2. less asuna screen time than any other arc | ||
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PrinceXizor
United States17713 Posts
On November 20 2014 01:39 TheYango wrote: I didn't say it wasn't trashy, just less trashy than SAO. The most promising part of Mahouka is it's technobabble approach to magic, which actually could make it a decent setting for roleplay. But the characters suck (particularly the primary characters--some of the secondary characters are potentially interesting but not well developed). technobabble approach to magic? like Lost odyssey? or more like Last Remnant? | ||
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Kupon3ss
時の回廊10066 Posts
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On November 20 2014 01:45 Kupon3ss wrote: More bullshit scifi than either. This. | ||
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PrinceXizor
United States17713 Posts
so like a teenager taking the "any sufficiently advanced technology will be seen as magic" line and running with it to create an anime setting? | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
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Frolossus
United States4779 Posts
On November 20 2014 01:42 Numy wrote: Really? I thought it was absolutely horrible. What did you like about it might I ask? edit: I felt the world was very bland and not something I'd ever want to play. The characters were pretty weak but Miyuki Sawashiro was voicing Sinon so I could look past that. The action was just dumb. I dunno even ALO/SAO had smarter action sequences than GGO imo. The main antagonist was just as bad as the ALO guy. Then the plot armour at the end was soooo bad it was even worse than previous plot armour. There were those big patches of nothing really happening on screen aside from sinon ass shots too. it was amazing to me how much more i enjoyed watching the series when it wasn't about catering to the dutchwife. | ||
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MoonBear
Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
On November 19 2014 15:03 WaveofShadow wrote: So, Skullgirls is awesome fun. Everyone should get it/play with us. I am tempted to get a pad because keyboard controls are really hard QQ | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
On November 20 2014 01:48 Frolossus wrote: it was amazing to me how much more i enjoyed watching the series when it wasn't about catering to the dutchwife. Ah that makes sense to me. I also hate Asuna's guts. Well I think calling her Asuna is wrong as Asuna died in the first arc. What we have now is either an imaginary friend kirito has sex with or a robot created to please kirito. On November 20 2014 01:47 PrinceXizor wrote: so like a teenager taking the "any sufficiently advanced technology will be seen as magic" line and running with it to create an anime setting? Yes and no. Basically the magic largely adheres to real world physics but uses inter-dimensional energy through some string theory BS to alter reality. Then you have the MC who throws this all out of the window and does whatever the hell he wants. I think with some work it can be made into a pretty cool setting but it's pretty obvious the author required far more time and editing to get to that point. Feels like most LN suffer from the same thing. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
I mean, Kirito is perfect and does everything right to a bullshit degree. But main character guy in Irregular is WAY worse. They'll spend 15 minutes being like "But magic to make people fly is impossible! The UK's top scientists studied it for 20 years and were unable to make any headway at all!" And the main character in the same episode who is a highschool student will then be like "I designed magic that makes people fly during lunch hour while my sister gave me a blowjob, it was easy!" | ||
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PrinceXizor
United States17713 Posts
On November 20 2014 01:48 Numy wrote: Problem is he tries to make it applicable to real physics instead just creating another layer of rules to the universe so it lands up feeling bullshitty. I'm fine with redefining the rules of your universe and then creating technobabble around those rules but when you try do both it just feels bad. the point of scifi is that you are supposed to design your world to push the limits of our current understanding, so that everything is plausible. which is why much scifi nowadays is more about space and nanotech/AI and subatomic physics. whereas scifi at the turn of the century was about enormous cities and cloning and robots. | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
It was pretty good. I can see why people are crazy superfans over it, though it was a bit kiddy for me in some places, especially the filler episodes. The end was really interesting to me, when + Show Spoiler + they finally stopped beating around the bush and were like "hey this is a kid's show but now we have to deal with things like characters dying and Aang having to kill the Firelord to end the war". Obviously they just gave him a not-death way to do it, but it was an interesting idea and topic for a Nick show to talk about. Dunno if that's really spoilers, didn't Season 3 of that end like 7 years ago or something? Either way, it had pretty clever writing, decent characters (if some a bit shallow), and good dialogue in enough places that I had fun tearing through it. Maybe I'll watch Korra too. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
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AsmodeusXI
United States15536 Posts
On November 20 2014 01:51 Requizen wrote: Speaking of animu, I finished watching Avatar Last Airbender It was pretty good. I can see why people are crazy superfans over it, though it was a bit kiddy for me in some places, especially the filler episodes. The end was really interesting to me, when + Show Spoiler + they finally stopped beating around the bush and were like "hey this is a kid's show but now we have to deal with things like characters dying and Aang having to kill the Firelord to end the war". Obviously they just gave him a not-death way to do it, but it was an interesting idea and topic for a Nick show to talk about. Dunno if that's really spoilers, didn't Season 3 of that end like 7 years ago or something? Either way, it had pretty clever writing, decent characters (if some a bit shallow), and good dialogue in enough places that I had fun tearing through it. Maybe I'll watch Korra too. Korra is pretty good, but had some serious issues, mostly in Season 2. Don't let that discourage you if you get to it, because Season 3 is great and Season 4 is shaping up well. I also will heartily recommend the Avatar graphic novels. They're great and keep the voice of the show incredibly well. | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
On November 20 2014 01:51 PrinceXizor wrote: the point of scifi is that you are supposed to design your world to push the limits of our current understanding, so that everything is plausible. which is why much scifi nowadays is more about space and nanotech/AI and subatomic physics. whereas scifi at the turn of the century was about enormous cities and cloning and robots. I don't think that's the point of all sci-fi, that can be the point of some sci-fi but as a genre it doesn't have to be. A lot of sci-fi at the turn of century was more about philosophy, politics and other potentially controversial topics. They used sci-fi as a medium to go about these topics. These days a lot of sci-fi is far more actiony/casual in nature. Sure there were still aspects about it pushing our current understanding of the world but I don't think that was always a focus. I think Mahouka would actually far more under sci-fi/fantasy than pure sci-fi. It how our current world works as a basis to create a magic system. So while it's not pure fantasy it's also not pure sci-fi which is partly why I feel the system fails a bit. On November 20 2014 01:54 Ketara wrote: Korra isn't as good, but it's still fun to watch. If they made Korra less of a moron it would be so much more enjoyable. | ||
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Tooplark
United States3977 Posts
This is cool: http://www.underhanded-c.org/_p_26.html | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
My big problem with Korra is that, while Avatar had an overarching story that linked it through the seperate "books", the different seasons of Korra have little to nothing to do with each other. I enjoyed the first season and wouldn't have minded it just as a lead in, and when they started the spirit stuff in S2 I was like okay, this is cool, the entire rest of the show will be about the spirit world right? NOPE, DIDNT HAPPEN | ||
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