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Xinder posted:seriously, when i saw Bernie dressed like that this loving wordfilter
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# ? May 25, 2016 09:32 |
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# ? May 28, 2024 15:28 |
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I decided not to edit my post after seeing it.
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# ? May 25, 2016 09:51 |
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:this loving wordfilter
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# ? May 25, 2016 09:52 |
Haha, Char got word filtered now?
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# ? May 25, 2016 15:34 |
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SeanBeansShako posted:Haha, Char got word filtered now? quote this Bernie Trump Clinton
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# ? May 25, 2016 15:41 |
Amusingly, the filter makes them sound a bit like random Gundam pilots as well.
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# ? May 25, 2016 15:42 |
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It's going to make it very confusing if I have to talk about Kyosuke's Trump Card.
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# ? May 25, 2016 15:53 |
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We can just call him burger.
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# ? May 25, 2016 16:08 |
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I'm holding out on a hope that Origin anime gives a tiny nod to the Zudah losing the competition between Zeonic and Zimmad for the first generation MS spot. If we're getting a kit for the Waff it wouldn't be that farfetched.
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# ? May 25, 2016 17:16 |
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PBS Newshour posted:Jerid is my favorite so far. My favorite characters are always arrogant people who repeatedly fail. Fun Zeta drinking game: take a shot whenever Jerid fucks up or gets his rear end kicked
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# ? May 25, 2016 17:25 |
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Kuvo posted:Fun Zeta drinking game: take a shot whenever Jerid fucks up or gets his rear end kicked Sounds like a fun way to die of alcohol poisoning.
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# ? May 25, 2016 20:21 |
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Pureauthor posted:We can just call him burger.
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# ? May 25, 2016 20:55 |
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Xinder posted:I decided not to edit my post after seeing it. I thought it was some sort of inside joke I wasn't getting and that there existed a video out there of Bernad's death set to the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme
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# ? May 25, 2016 20:56 |
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PBS Newshour posted:So just finished Episode 8 of Zeta, my thoughts so far on the series: Out of curiosity, are you watching dub or sub? Kamille is awesome. My favorite Gundam MC. Quattro is my favorite incarnation of Char. MSG Char was just too much of a dick for me to care about.
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# ? May 25, 2016 22:35 |
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I just finished Unicorn and its kind of funny to me how it basically completely loses me IMMEDIATELY as the Neo Zeong appears
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# ? May 25, 2016 23:14 |
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Unicorn doesn't stick the landing, yeah. It's good otherwise, including the Laplace's Box reveal.
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# ? May 25, 2016 23:21 |
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NikkolasKing posted:Out of curiosity, are you watching dub or sub? Dub. What I like about Kamille so far is that he does things with style compare to Amuro. When he gets punch he does like a falling roll backwards instead of just standing their in shock.
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# ? May 26, 2016 00:04 |
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Bear witness to the driving tradition of the middle ages! https://twitter.com/HistoryImg/status/735402708052541440
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# ? May 26, 2016 00:09 |
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muike posted:I just finished Unicorn and its kind of funny to me how it basically completely loses me IMMEDIATELY as the Neo Zeong appears It didnt lose me but as something i was anticipating i was rather let down by the whole thing. Its less a mobile armor than a weird boss monster thingy. Its like, "you were supposed to be cool man" but even by mobile armor standards its silly.
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# ? May 26, 2016 00:34 |
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Motto posted:Bear witness to the driving tradition of the middle ages! This brought the biggest, dumbest smile to my face today.
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# ? May 26, 2016 01:10 |
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DamnGlitch posted:It didnt lose me but as something i was anticipating i was rather let down by the whole thing. Its less a mobile armor than a weird boss monster thingy. Its like, "you were supposed to be cool man" but even by mobile armor standards its silly. I meant the whole thing but yeah the Neo Zeong itself was pretty dull too. The Mobile Suit Body Horror Incoms were really strange.
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# ? May 26, 2016 01:29 |
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Motto posted:Bear witness to the driving tradition of the middle ages! Duker Iq is the best thing to come out of victory
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# ? May 26, 2016 01:33 |
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DamnGlitch posted:It didnt lose me but as something i was anticipating i was rather let down by the whole thing. Its less a mobile armor than a weird boss monster thingy. Its like, "you were supposed to be cool man" but even by mobile armor standards its silly. I haven't seen Unicorn yet, but all I can picture is a couple thousand mechanics watching it launch for the first time going "there it goes, the one and only time that colossal bastard is going to work properly ", and every subsequent fight starting with Full Frontal being told two of the arms don't work or it can't turn left.
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# ? May 26, 2016 01:35 |
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The Neo Zeong is entirely an anime invention because they needed a Final Boss, right?
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# ? May 26, 2016 01:48 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I haven't seen Unicorn yet, but all I can picture is a couple thousand mechanics watching it launch for the first time going "there it goes, the one and only time that colossal bastard is going to work properly ", and every subsequent fight starting with Full Frontal being told two of the arms don't work or it can't turn left. It lasts about a quarter of an episode so at least they don;t have to worry about that part
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# ? May 26, 2016 02:01 |
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Pureauthor posted:The Neo Zeong is entirely an anime invention because they needed a Final Boss, right? On the Gundam wiki it's listed in the mobile weapons roster for the novel too. So it looks like it's actually the book's author who thought they needed a final boss
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# ? May 26, 2016 02:59 |
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I can forgive Full Frontal's magic carpet ride, I can't forgive the pointless fridging.
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# ? May 26, 2016 03:12 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:I can forgive Full Frontal's magic carpet ride, I can't forgive the pointless fridging. as soon as she woke up from the coma she was basically in "time to go pointlessly die to motivate male characters" mode
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# ? May 26, 2016 03:14 |
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Her death really ruins the whole ride for me. I would have enjoyed the anime adaptation a ton more if they changed that.
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# ? May 26, 2016 03:29 |
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Shinjobi posted:Her death really ruins the whole ride for me. I would have enjoyed the anime adaptation a ton more if they changed that. Shoulda killed Banahger.
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# ? May 26, 2016 03:44 |
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muike posted:as soon as she woke up from the coma she was basically in "time to go pointlessly die to motivate male characters" mode It basically obliterates her entire character arc, making it pointless.
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# ? May 26, 2016 03:56 |
Shinjobi posted:Her death really ruins the whole ride for me. I would have enjoyed the anime adaptation a ton more if they changed that. Seriously I back up both utterly loving pointless statements as well. Oh Unicorn, why are you so pretty looking but so very very dumb towards the end.
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# ? May 26, 2016 05:17 |
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SeanBeansShako posted:Seriously I back up both utterly loving pointless statements as well. Following in the tradition of 90s Gundam OVAs. 0080 was 80s, it doesn't count.
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# ? May 26, 2016 08:56 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:It basically obliterates her entire character arc, making it pointless. I don't really agree with this. Her entire character arc was about her coming to terms with her past and realizing that she's her own person and not a robot who needs a master to give her orders, none of which was invalidated by her dying. She went out to help Banagher and the Nahel Argama of her own accord and then she forgave Riddhe of her own accord after she died. It being a sad and abrupt end to her life just as she had begun to actually live it for the first time doesn't mean that her arc didn't happen or was totally pointless. If not for her making those decisions, Riddhe wouldn't have snapped out of his funk and Frontal would have won. Honestly, the drama involving Banagher/Riddhe/Marida/Mineva were the only pretty good parts of the last episode.
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# ? May 26, 2016 09:14 |
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Marida dying sucks because it's fulfilling a cliche but it absolutely makes sense thematically. She is someone who was an object and she ends her story by becoming a person. Riddhe kills her and in killing her realizes what a horrible loving mistake he made (in a direct callback to Lalah's death) while at the same time her actual death has impact on those around her. She dies but she dies as a person instead of living as an object, and her death being as a person and forcing that impact onto Riddhe is fairly central to the themes. In addition it allows the chance for Zimmerman to make a different decision. Zimmerman spent his entire life seeking revenge for the death of his family and it basically destroyed him and reinforced the cycle of violence. Marida's death forces him to re-encounter the position he had before and rather than it breaking him, his interactions with her allow him to make a healthier decision that shatters the cycle of violence and revenge that is a central part of Unicorn's story. Now, this is unarguably for the development of dudes and that does suck, but it isn't thematically inappropriate. SRW reverses it and has *Zimmerman* (appear to) die for Marida which allows them to hit the same thematic point of getting over revenge without making it All About The Dudes. However even there they need the apparent-death to happen because it's really important to the story for it to happen.
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# ? May 26, 2016 16:54 |
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Also, Marida was in a Stellar situation where her various surgeries and modifications meant her days were numbered anyway, so it was really a question of how she would die. A peaceful life with her surrogate dad would probably last a few months or a couple of years at most. Remember that bit in the Nahel Argama's sickbay? It's usually best to assume that if someone's a Cyber-Newtype or alternate-company equivalent, they're a walking corpse that hasn't fallen over yet, and not just because of their near-100% battlefield mortality rate. Turning people into super-soldiers in Gundam fucks them uuup. And then, of course, there's Marida's other career, which didn't greatly help her long-term health either.
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# ? May 26, 2016 17:17 |
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ImpAtom posted:SRW reverses it and has *Zimmerman* (appear to) die for Marida which allows them to hit the same thematic point of getting over revenge without making it All About The Dudes. It would have been a million times more interesting if Zimmerman had gone out in a rusty old Zeon suit and bitten the bullet protecting Marida in the actual OVA.
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# ? May 26, 2016 17:20 |
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Kanos posted:I don't really agree with this. Her entire character arc was about her coming to terms with her past and realizing that she's her own person and not a robot who needs a master to give her orders, none of which was invalidated by her dying. She went out to help Banagher and the Nahel Argama of her own accord and then she forgave Riddhe of her own accord after she died. It being a sad and abrupt end to her life just as she had begun to actually live it for the first time doesn't mean that her arc didn't happen or was totally pointless. If not for her making those decisions, Riddhe wouldn't have snapped out of his funk and Frontal would have won. Really? Really? ... Like, re-read what you wrote. Her learning to become a person and live is rendered wasted time because she dies right afterward, for a dude. Edit: No, you see, it's ok that she gets randomly killed in the stupidest manner possible by the worst character, because she did it as a person. MonsieurChoc fucked around with this message at 17:48 on May 26, 2016 |
# ? May 26, 2016 17:45 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:Really? That is explicit untrue, not in the least because the setting ins explicitly one where she lives on after death and that is a central part of the story, as well as the fact that "they died so everything that happened was meaningless" isn't actually true regardless. MonsieurChoc posted:Edit: No, you see, it's ok that she gets randomly killed in the stupidest manner possible by the worst character, because she did it as a person. Are you just upset because a character you liked got killed by a character you disliked? ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 17:50 on May 26, 2016 |
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ImpAtom posted:That is explicit untrue, not in the least because the setting ins explicitly one where she lives on after death and that is a central part of the story, as well as the fact that "they died so everything that happened was meaningless" isn't actually true regardless. It's explicitly true because she's loving dead. The fact that Newtype heard echoes of her thoughts or whatever for five seconds afterwards doesn't mean poo poo because she's loving dead. It's like if Snake really did kill himself at the end of MGS4.
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# ? May 26, 2016 17:50 |