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Yeah, massed firepower should've worked when the One Year War went down to Earth too. Maybe mobile suits could have advantages in a zero g environment where they have a full range of movement, but they'd be toast having to fight massed armor while they're peeking over ridges and tree lines.
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Helsing posted:I feel like Patlabor would be the logical gateway anime for someone like Dolan The obvious answer is K-ON!
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Yeah, massed firepower should've worked when the One Year War went down to Earth too. Maybe mobile suits could have advantages in a zero g environment where they have a full range of movement, but they'd be toast having to fight massed armor while they're peeking over ridges and tree lines. something something Zakus were effective blitzkrieg Terror weapons something something Odessa was won by mass artillery and armor and kickass hovercraft battle ships
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I'm sure Dolan would get a kick out of the fancy combat robots getting blown out boy a bunch of punks with TOW's in the woods at the beginning of Patlabor 2, and who doesn't appreciate Oshii's dry political and philosophical ramblings? The real answer, of course, is that Dolan should absolutely just jump head first into Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
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Jul 24, 2019 07:39
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Dolan should watch Space Battleship Yamato.
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Jul 24, 2019 15:04
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can yall stop talking about how john dolan would love your favorite animę
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Jul 24, 2019 15:13
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A complete viewing of Hidamari Sketch would not only improve his mental health it would regenerate a majority of the missing cartilage in Dr Dolan’s knee
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John Dolan: spends decades writing about demographics, propaganda, power, and the grinding, relentless, heartless misery of ethnic tribal conflicts, under the theory that essentially all warfare is ethnic tribal conflict either sped up or slowed down. Goons: what does he think about the robot animes?
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Jul 24, 2019 15:24
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He also is a clever observer of human psychology and AFAICT most anime is stunted in that respect. Most of what you could put in the nerd culture bucket is, for that matter.
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pangstrom posted:He also is a clever observer of human psychology and AFAICT most anime is stunted in that respect. Most of what you could put in the nerd culture bucket is, for that matter. I dunno, he correctly identified the angels as the good guys in NGE so who knows what else he'd pick up on.
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anime is bad
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John Dolan pouring over non-canon and supplemental literature, trying to discover why the hell anyone would use shielding and lasguns if the outcome is a thermonuclear explosion
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Jul 24, 2019 18:01
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Come on guys, this thread dedicated to the works of a self described lifelong nerd who has watched Army of Darkness a thousand times and spent hours on his show lovelingly detailing why Gene Wolf and Frank Hebert are better writers than John Updike or David Foster Wallace is clearly no place to talk about military sci fi.
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Jul 24, 2019 21:12
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DrPop posted:anime is bad So was your mother
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Jul 24, 2019 22:42
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John Dolan should play New Vegas, imo
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Jul 24, 2019 22:47
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John Dolan should play Tropico, imo
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Jul 24, 2019 23:12
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The correct answer is EU4 as the Irish.
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Helsing posted:Come on guys, this thread dedicated to the works of a self described lifelong nerd who has watched Army of Darkness a thousand times and spent hours on his show lovelingly detailing why Gene Wolf and Frank Hebert are better writers than John Updike or David Foster Wallace is clearly no place to talk about military sci fi. John Dolan would love Armored Trooper Votoms
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Dolan should watch Grave of the Fireflies so that his eyes can roll so far into his skull they fall down his trachea. And gets in the mood to write his eXile book/movie reviews using the word 'bathos' a lot.
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Jul 25, 2019 01:12
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john dolansan should watch sailor moon and eat pocky ^_^
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THS posted:john dolansan should watch sailor moon and eat pocky ^_^ You should have your hands chopped off
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Jul 25, 2019 01:48
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Dolan might find the politics of Gundam Wing and Gundam 00 interesting considering they're stories of insurgencies against the established order using superior weapons. Gundam Wing is a bit shaky when it comes to coherency but in Gundam 00 they pretty much force the creation of a world government to fight Celestial Being.
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But the Gundam series he'd probably like the most is 008th MS Unit which gives a pretty good portrayal of guerrilla warfare and a self contained slice of the OYW and 0080 which is the story of a boy realizing war sucks.
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Part of growing up is recognizing that 90% of Gundam shows are trash, and the other 10% are all Universal Century OAVs. And Turn A Gundam.
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This is what happens when we're overindulged with an abundance of content. The thread grows decadent in the dry spell.
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This thread is giving me flashbacks to how for the SciFi and fascism ep a bunch of fans on the Facebook page told them that 40k tie in novels are the cutting edge of war fiction
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Don't know if I could handle a new episode. still reeling from weaponized ticks to be honest. we just, like, dropped invasive species of potentially disease-carrying parasites from airplanes onto bird migration paths? just for the gently caress of it?
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Mecha Gojira posted:Don't know if I could handle a new episode. still reeling from weaponized ticks to be honest. wanted to see how far they would travel! turns out far!!!
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Yeah turns out the Lone Star tick can get all the way to Martha's Vineyard, lmao.
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A Russian troll farm posted:John Dolan should play New Vegas, imo Since hes into Vance and Wolfe clearly Dark Souls
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ya know Gihren you sort of remind me of Adolfu Hitlah. anyway here’s all those powers you wanted. don’t go exercising them all on one place now.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:ya know Gihren you sort of remind me of Adolfu Hitlah. anyway here’s all those powers you wanted. don’t go exercising them all on one place now. Gihren: Can you sign this for me, papa? Degwin: Is it for war crimes? Gihren: No, papa... Gihren: Sike! Weaponized a space colony like a boss. Patricide time! 
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man, the episode on pentagon sleaze has some harrowing descriptions of dolan's youth i swear he's the most gen z old person
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https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1158371164206465024?s=20
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Two great tastes
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After the last Pentagon episode I wondered if the Soviets also built turkeys like the US. I know they built seas of tanks that would be utterly useless in any possible war with the US, but did those tanks also melt in rainwater?
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The yak 38 was a piece of poo poo. Also everything made by Myasishchev was a disappointment.
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