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Darth Walrus posted:The govermnent has just realised they're up against highly intelligent shape-shifting maneaters, and that any one of them that goes uncaught could easily rack up hundreds of casualties in minutes. This is a Pretty Huge Deal. Do you really think they'd stop at "Hey, have you murdered anyone with your face-blades?" "No." "Do you even have face-blades?" "No." "Cool, just checking, sorry for the inconvenience. Have a nice day!"? They would surely be aware that there's no way to prove a sufficiently determined parasite's identity without getting hella invasive, and it's reasonable to be hesitant about wanting to subject a fellow student to that. Like seriously, your ideas of how a realistic investigation would go sound like the van and chainsaw scenario I cooked up. Start with the assumption that the government isn't pants on head retarded or incompetent at handling anything and imagine how a reasonable professional scenario would function. EDIT: I am really trying to imagine this government you've come up with which hears from a Highschool girl that oh I saw this student change his face and it reminded me of the shapeshifting face picture thing my brother wrote, he might be an alien, and then based on that goes and violates every right under the sun that potential citizen might have that will probably result in his death. There's intervening steps that they can use that takes into account that the person might be a man-eating alien and also doesn't end up with a random murder. The rights violating can come later, after the person resists inspection or turns out to be an alien. Twiddy fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Nov 28, 2014 |
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TheKingofSprings posted:We've already seen a parasite take a lethal blow from a table leg. They can be killed with the same things as humans; they are, after all, still human from the neck down. Mr. A took the table leg and was still mobile and dangerous. A full Parasite has some extra durability on top of potential regeneration or host transfer. I don't think it would take any fewer bullets than bottles to kill one, at least.
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Twiddy posted:Yes, I believe they will ask that question. With a SWAT Team right behind them and fully prepared for the worst case scenario. And yeah, in actuality they probably have to do some invasive procedures, like bloodtests. That'd root out something not human. I mean this of all weeks in current events is a weird week to make an argument where your central assumption is that a police force will respect the rights of an innocent kid. But that's kind of  Besides, she knows these face-changing aliens kill people, but she doesn't necessarily know that they're all metal-blade-sprouting murder machines. I don't think it's too ridiculous of her to think a concealed weapon is all she'll need if the confrontation goes south.
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Nov 28, 2014 05:52
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For all she knows he is some kind of human. The idea that he is completely inhuman and shares none of her values isn't something she ever considered.
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Abitha Denton posted:I mean this of all weeks in current events is a weird week to make an argument where your central assumption is that a police force will respect the rights of an innocent kid. But that's kind of Serious Frolicking posted:For all she knows he is some kind of human. The idea that he is completely inhuman and shares none of her values isn't something she ever considered. Twiddy fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Nov 28, 2014 |
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Gonna have to side with Twiddy here. Four-eyes is a painfully obvious case of stupidity for the sake of moving the plot along. Really loving terrible writing, even for shounen standards. Never ever play a drinking game using Satomi's "Are you really Shinichi-kun?!" line. It's not going to happen, but please replace her with Kana as the main love interest.
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Sophism posted:It's not going to happen, but please replace her with Migi as the main love interest.
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The man's relationship with his hand was clearly canon before this show even started
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TheKingofSprings posted:The man's relationship with his hand was clearly canon before this show even started His changing personality isn't the influence of parasite biomass in his brain, its just the side effect of several weeks of sexual frustration since he can't do the deed anymore without getting way too self conscious
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Nov 29, 2014 08:19
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No-fap really does give you super powers.
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Nov 29, 2014 16:11
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A thousand percent agreement.
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Nov 29, 2014 18:10
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If Shinichi and Migi end up doing that i want there to be a scene afterwards with him running Migi under the faucet again. Every time theyve done that i have practically guffawed. "Its cold, Shinichi."
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Just caught up on this and oh my god the pacing is really loving good. I'm so hype for the next episode!
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Dec 1, 2014 05:58
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That rock scene. 
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Dec 3, 2014 20:11
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Man that was loving cool. This show is just so consistently awesome.
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http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-12-02/live-action-parasyte-film-tops-brad-pitt-fury-in-japan/.81695 In Other news, Parasyte's live action movie does well.
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It is also nice to see a competent government that knows how to respond to the situation.
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Is this show doing well? The pacing (and specifically the weirdly final endings the mini-arcs seem to have) is making me think they're getting worried about being cut short.
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SALT CURES HAM posted:Is this show doing well? The pacing (and specifically the weirdly final endings the mini-arcs seem to have) is making me think they're getting worried about being cut short. Those endings are straight out of the manga
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I really need to re-read the manga, don't I? My memory of it from 6 or 7 years ago is apparently not great.
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SALT CURES HAM posted:Is this show doing well? The pacing (and specifically the weirdly final endings the mini-arcs seem to have) is making me think they're getting worried about being cut short. Also it's incredibly rare for an anime to get cut short once it's been slotted for a certain number of episodes, even if the ratings are bad. Any anime broadcasts not aimed at kids are pretty much just adverts for the blu-rays at this point, since that's where they make money.
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On the one hand, the girl with the glasses managed to make it out alive against all probability. On the other hand, everything else about that episode.  That may not have been a worst-case scenario, but it was damned close.And while the government's detection idea is an elegant, clever, and sensible extrapolation of parasites' properties (remember the Migitryoshka?), I can't help but wonder how the hell they engineered a fashion for saying hi by plucking the other person's hair out.
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Sakurazuka posted:Also it's incredibly rare for an anime to get cut short once it's been slotted for a certain number of episodes, even if the ratings are bad. Any anime broadcasts not aimed at kids are pretty much just adverts for the blu-rays at this point, since that's where they make money. There is a minor case for Buddy Complex which performed so poorly that it had the second half of its season compressed into an OVA. Although in this case, it was intended to be a split season with a six month break so it was easier to reallocate the second half's time slot for another show. I guess Cross Ange is what ended up taking that time slot which could explain why it turned out that way. 
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Darth Walrus posted:On the one hand, the girl with the glasses managed to make it out alive against all probability. On the other hand, everything else about that episode. Basically, give enough half-truth to provide a nice incentive to do so regularly while not providing an outright scare (since even if someone starts freaking out about a new fatal disease, they'll see how uncommon it is after nothing happens when they pluck out the first 50 hairs or so). One thing I really like that the story is handling is the combination of the parasite's exreme focus on logic combined with the protag's natural sensibilities as a human. While Migi does assert that he doesn't care about others of his species due to his logic, it's probably more so because his species is a solitary animal. By contrast, humans are social animals, so socializing and caring about others is built into the core of their being. The way this has shown in Izumi's behavior is that he clearly cares, but his hyper logic has made him immune to meaningless sentimentality. The examples being, he clearly cared about getting revenge for his mother, but post Parasite combination he no longer saw the Parasite-mother and believed it to be similar to his real mother. Next, he clearly cared about the dog's feelings as it was dying, but once it no longer had feelings he didn't feel an obligation toward it. Finally, when he was faced with the very real possibility of Murano's death, he was overcome by shock, but after recovering and verifying that she was still alive he remained calm. He didn't have to worry excessively anymore because she's still alive now and he can do something about keeping her alive. He no longer fears what-ifs, possibilities, and illusions, he fears the actual reality he lives in. This all seems consistent with the behavior of a person who essentially completely overcomes their own psychology and is able to approach problems with strong logic, but is also still a human and thus still cares about those close to him, as comes with being a social animal. It's much more believable than early on where Migi was asserting that the only reason he didn't care about others of his species was because of his logic. Basically, now Izumi just needs to put his logic toward replicating the human social norms that came naturally to him before, otherwise he's going to keep freaking out his girlfriend. Twiddy fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Dec 4, 2014 |
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I have to admit, the fact that plucking a hair is a sure fire way to detect a parasite makes both perfect sense given what we've seen of them so far, and is actually quite clever.
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Guess Shinichi had better be damned careful with his fingernail clippings, then. And yeah, sure, Migi, you don't care about the fact that you're being asked to genocide your own race. Then why even bring it up? "B-baka, it's not like I don't want to exterminate you all or anything..."
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So it's basically The Thing. I still can't help but wonder if Parasytes can come up with a countermeasure. They can send command signals before they detach something, so if they command their hair to stay still before they pull it out, they might be able to get away with it.
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Please do not pluck out my hair that hurts.
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The Devil Tesla posted:Please do not pluck out my hair that hurts. Still, it's a highly effective and non-invasive way tor the Men In Black to screen anyone they arrest, which is when saying 'no' isn't such a concern.
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Phobophilia posted:So it's basically The Thing. That said, there should be nothing stopping the Parasites from incorporating actual hair in their disguise interlaced into the disguised skull, rather than just replicating the hair with its own morphing tissue. It'd probably limit the speed that they can enter attack mode, but it'd get around this inspection system. EDIT: vvvv So more evidence for my conclusion. One thing I'm curious about though, if the entire Parasite mass is a bunch of similar BS neural-muscular tissue, what is the design that makes it difficult for the parasite to transplant its body into different parts or into different hosts. It sounds like the biology of the parasites is incredibly modular, and that should carry over to what body part it's replicating and who its host is. Twiddy fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Dec 4, 2014 |
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Phobophilia posted:So it's basically The Thing. Migi explained that smaller parts don't follow commands anymore, that's how Shinichi got enhanced.
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I was expecting glasses girl to die at worst. Was not expecting a blood bath.
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The pacing was weird that episode dee dee dee on a nice stroll around school BLOOOOOD but I can't way to see how this resolves w.r.t. glasses girl. Will she just rot in PTSD or trust the police/Shinichi?
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AnacondaHL posted:The pacing was weird that episode. Seemed fairly consistent to me, given where last episode's cliffhanger left us, tonally.
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Darth Walrus posted:Still, it's a highly effective and non-invasive way tor the Men In Black to screen anyone they arrest, which is when saying 'no' isn't such a concern. They should just make people stick their head under cold water. If they stoically complain it is cold, open fire. 
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If no one (in the general population) knows what hair still moving after it's pulled out signifies, how does it accomplish anything?
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Shakugan posted:If no one (in the general population) knows what hair still moving after it's pulled out signifies, how does it accomplish anything? The hair will wither and anyone that sees that is going to freak the gently caress out. Still, if its a mutual greeting like thing all it'll do is drive the smarter parasytes underground, since they now what that means.
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Lurking Haro posted:Migi explained that smaller parts don't follow commands anymore, that's how Shinichi got enhanced. Oops, you're right.
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Phobophilia posted:So it's basically The Thing. Well plucking out someone's hair doesn't really mean much if you lose a limb in the process. Mo_Steel posted:They should just make people stick their head under cold water. If they stoically complain it is cold, open fire.
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amuayse posted:Well plucking out someone's hair doesn't really mean much if you lose a limb in the process. Yeah, this plan already seems to be inherently flawed in that way.
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