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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #19800 on: October 11, 2014, 02:53:30 pm »

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-10-11/sunrise-partners-with-right-stuf-to-release-gundam-franchise-stateside/.79830
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OMIGOSH OMIHOSH OMIGOSH. I thought the dream was dead after Bandai pulled the plug on its NA anime distribution a few years back. T_T <--tears of joy
That's great news! I think I'd only be more surprised is if it was a similar announcement re: Macross, hah.
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« Reply #19801 on: October 11, 2014, 08:58:54 pm »

Finally got around to watching the new Fate/Stay Night anime. Shirou is definitely better this time around, and I can almost like him as a character instead of just a cardboard cutout (though Rin still comes out far on top for me :P). Also definitely digging the special effects this time around, they are awesome, even compared to most animes you see nowadays.
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« Reply #19802 on: October 11, 2014, 09:36:16 pm »

Yeah I think that was a very good episode, I found it more interesting than I found the original material for the most part.
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« Reply #19804 on: October 13, 2014, 12:13:04 am »

You mean a clipshow?

Kill La Kill pulled that off brilliantly, imo.
24 Minutes worth of recapping the whole season...
Ep14.5 SOA2..
Avoid that Sword Art Online  "movie" then, it basically has over 1 hour of S1 recaps plus just a little new material

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« Reply #19805 on: October 13, 2014, 03:12:21 am »

... and now I'm watching After War X. Ep 6, so far. Can I just say that Federation containment methodology in regards to power generation is farcically terrible? Like damn. I think the only appropriate term for what's being shown is "Cavalcade of Incompetence". Or maybe something outright malicious, I'unno. We've got better safety measures with decades-old technology, and fancy space magic future tech can't even manage something like an auto-shutdown feature. It hurts my suspension of disbelief ;_;

And that's saying something, considering the setting.
Yeah, failsafe failure (as the tvtropes page calls it) is pretty consistently a major problem in all sci-fi, not really fair to blame the show in particular for that.

In their defense though, that kind of thing does happen in real life, and I would imagine that if you have super-advanced tech, the number of things that can go wrong are exponentially higher then they are with our current tech level.
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« Reply #19806 on: October 13, 2014, 03:19:38 am »

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« Reply #19807 on: October 13, 2014, 12:09:32 pm »

Don't watch Cross Ange. Just don't.
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« Reply #19808 on: October 13, 2014, 12:35:31 pm »

^this one speaks wisdom

A show about mechs fighting dragons should not be so horrifying. Yet they managed it.
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« Reply #19809 on: October 13, 2014, 12:41:01 pm »

*Insert generic complaints about allmost of the half-way decent looking anime having to have lame romanticone-true-pairing subtextswrecking balls from the start.*
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« Reply #19810 on: October 13, 2014, 01:45:06 pm »

In their defense though, that kind of thing does happen in real life
It really doesn't. I don't think we've had a single nuclear reactor actually go boom to anything even approaching that extent -- about the worst has been Chernobyl, and even it didn't wipe clean the countryside. Contaminate a junkload of stuff, sure, but the explody bits involved there wasn't that impressive.

In that one episode of AWX, not only do two go critical and explode, they explode in an absolutely massive way. Apparently because some pipes are torn out. Auto-shutoff where?

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and I would imagine that if you have super-advanced tech, the number of things that can go wrong are exponentially higher then they are with our current tech level.
Last I checked, we've actually become successively less likely to experience catastrophic failure as our technology has improved :V Nuclear's safer than coal, etc., etc.

A modern reactor nowadays, insofar as I'm aware, is basically incapable of exploding. Like, you could hit the powerplant with a nuke and it wouldn't cook off. It'd stop working, and there'd probably be quite a bit of radioactive mess, but no successive boom. And beyond that, they're the next best thing to impossible to intentionally wreck. We've gotten really good at making sure the things don't screw up -- most of the problems we have with nuclear is because of human failure, not mechanical. Not upgrading, cutting corners, etc.

... that said, yeah, it is a pretty common sci-fi science failure. S'become bloody jarring for me, though. Portable reactors -- MS powerplants, tanks, whatev' -- I can wave off a bit easier, but an actual powerplant is, like. No. And the thought of the things being left on for over a decade and a half is just... more no. *it-doesn't-work-like-that flailing* No engineer is going to build a reactor that goes for a decade without human interaction without shutting itself off, like. After a month or two at the most. Probably less, because failsafe.

I guess I sorta' can't blame it. The show was made in '96, so there was both less sophisticated methodology and more prevalent misinformation regarding nuclear et al. Still rankles. It's sometimes astounding how hard space magic technology apparently simultaneously hits people with the idiot stick, when it really, really shouldn't. Realize it's more a failure of the writers than anything, but... still.
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #19811 on: October 13, 2014, 02:00:51 pm »

Don't they use fusion reactors in After War X? I don't think they're nuclear.
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« Reply #19812 on: October 13, 2014, 02:44:55 pm »

^this one speaks wisdom

A show about mechs fighting dragons should not be so horrifying. Yet they managed it.
A lovecraftian-horror show about mechs fighting dragons sounds awesome. Yes, I know that's not anywhere close to what you meant by horrifying, but a man can dream.
Failsafe fail.
I meant more on a smaller scale, on the massive fusion scale, there should be good failsafes in place. But despite my defense of them, failsafe fails really bother me too. A special pet peeve of mine is whenever anyone opens a blast door by shooting out the control panel (and to a lesser extent shooting out locks of regular doors, it's actually much harder then it is portrayed in TV). I mean, the entire point of blast doors is to stay closed when people want to open them, why the hell would you make them fairly easily openable by anyone with a gun?
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« Reply #19813 on: October 13, 2014, 03:16:01 pm »

*Insert generic complaints about allmost of the half-way decent looking anime having to have lame romanticone-true-pairing subtextswrecking balls from the start.*

What is funny is that even Harem anime do this. To the extent where I put all Harem Anime into Three categories... and yet Harem Animes where the "One True Love"  is obvious are still the most common.
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« Reply #19814 on: October 13, 2014, 04:39:10 pm »

Don't watch Cross Ange. Just don't.
Now to be fair it did produce this screenshot.
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On the other hand the rest of it does look like rapey trash.
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