What they want is sexy, anime babe robots with which they can have sex. The first real, affordable sex robot will sell millions. Porn drove the acceptance of the VCR and the Internet. It will drive VR and robotics. Accept it.
Maybe it exists on the other side of the event horizon, but I thought string theory tells us that things like event horizons shield the universe from singularities and other discontinuities. The information cannot be retreived, therefore, from the point of view of the universe, it has ceased to exist.
What's the difference, really, between destroyed information and irretrievable information?
I heard it was going to be GTA: Spira. You'd play as Paine after she goes insane from snorting tainted megalixer crystals. They said you'd be able to jack chocobos, do jobs for the LeBlanc syndicate and pick up lesbian hooker nuns in Bevelle.
And Spider Jerusalem from Transmetropolitan was going to be a playable character with a +7 bowel disruptor.
Trust me people, I'm willing to fight to get my country back if need be.
Sure you are. (head pat)
I think I speak for the nation when I say I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.
I think it's just inevitable genre similarities, and movie makers borrow all the time. It's no big deal. In fact, there's many anime scenes where I think it would be fun to see someone try to do a live action version.
Someone was asking about the big eyes. It's just a stylistic thing. Some anime creators use it, some don't. One thing I've noticed is that the eye size is inversely proportional to the character's age. Young grils will have big eyes, but older women will have more normal eyes, but this isn't a hard rule.
One a mildly related note, realdoll.com now has an anime doll (named Annie Mae... sheesh...) with pink hair and big blue eyes. I dunno... it just looks creepy to me. I've seen other attempts to do realistic images of big-eyed anime women, and it just gets disturbing. Although the same could be said about a Picasso.:) Some things should stay in the world of art.
...the Wachowski brothers list Serial Experiment Lain as a major influence. TechTV currently has it in their Anime Unleashed rotation. I've see both Ghost and Lain, and I'd have to agree that Lain is the clearer influence.
There's some good anime, and a lot of not so good, just like any media genre. There's a lot of variety as well (it really not all schoolgirls and giant robots). If you've really only seen three or so films, that's hardly a fair sampling.
I'd actually agree with you on Ghost In The Shell. I thought it was visually interesting, had some good ideas, but is a little overrated in my opinion.
If you are really interested, there's about a billion fan sites on the web that can point you toward good films and series. Some may also have some historical stuff.
We're also in a time when there is a lot of anime on US television. For free (if you already have Cartoon Netowrk) try to catch some episodes of Cowboy Bebop. It's a straightforward, semi-realistic near future SF series. Takes place entirely within the Solar System. They have a form of hypersace travel, but it really just cuts interplanetary travel time down to a few hours, and requires an elaborate gate system. There's terraformed worlds. Sections of ships rotate to simulate gravity. The world is gritty. There's terrorists and crime syndicates. The Earth is a complete mess (although I won't give away why). Good stuff.
It's the first anime series I liked enough to go and buy the DVD boxed set. It also made me unable to watch Enterprise because the Enterprise crew seemed like such a pack of whiney pussies compared to the characters on Bebop.:) Enterprise has hand-wringing. Bebop has space stations dedicated entirely to casinos.:-D
I think it's interesting that the media is following the forged photo and completely ignoring the fact that the man claiming now to be pro-military and bragging about his service record has been proven to be one of Hanoi Jane's fellow protesters.
I'm no Kerry fan, but is it possible that was then and this is now? Can a man not change over three decades?
You need to follow it, though. It also allows us to discuss and express opinions on actions in other countries. It's just some geeks bantering about concepts of free expression. I wouldn't worry about it.
And if you think that you really have free speach in the US try having a discussion on paedophilia and see how far you get.
You might want to contact NAMBLA. That's exactly what they do, and yet they continue to freely exist even though a lot of people know about them via stand up comedy and South Park episodes.
but the subject is so highly charged that you risk being pilloried just for mentioning it.
What are you talking about? It's discussed constantly on the TV and radio when a big case erupts (Michael Jackson being the current archtype).
Now, if you're at a party and perhaps express the opinion along the lines that you think its an idea whose time has come, yeah, you might get some less than enthusiastic responses.
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The claim is that the bubbles create temperatures high enough to create fusion.
It's from The Wizard Of Oz film (don't recall if it's in the book).
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What they want is sexy, anime babe robots with which they can have sex. The first real, affordable sex robot will sell millions. Porn drove the acceptance of the VCR and the Internet. It will drive VR and robotics. Accept it.
I've been advocating that for years. Major elections should take place over a whole weekend.
Click if you dare!! Shudder at my exclamation points!!
I still know what you did in the summer of 1986, Lucas!!
C'mon... an erased FAT is hardly the equivalent of an event horizon.
Maybe it exists on the other side of the event horizon, but I thought string theory tells us that things like event horizons shield the universe from singularities and other discontinuities. The information cannot be retreived, therefore, from the point of view of the universe, it has ceased to exist.
What's the difference, really, between destroyed information and irretrievable information?
I heard it was going to be GTA: Spira. You'd play as Paine after she goes insane from snorting tainted megalixer crystals. They said you'd be able to jack chocobos, do jobs for the LeBlanc syndicate and pick up lesbian hooker nuns in Bevelle.
And Spider Jerusalem from Transmetropolitan was going to be a playable character with a +7 bowel disruptor.
Or maybe I just dreamed it all.
Oh well.
It's also easier to focus on squeezing the last drop of performace out of a game engine on a single platform.
I love how every generation thinks it's discovering eternal truths for the first time.
If Calabi and Yau had gotten a copyright on their spaces, where would string theory be today, huh?
Well, the Stanford Research Institute was where it really got going, but who's counting?
Trust me people, I'm willing to fight to get my country back if need be.
Sure you are. (head pat)
I think I speak for the nation when I say I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.
I've seen concrete pillars get shot in movies before there was a Matrix. Not everything is a reference to everything else.
What you should be researching/demanding from the medical community is immortality. Then you'd have all the time you need.
That's when a lot of people watch TV. And as far as modern scientific instrumentality can tell, only the Neilsen families watch Friends.
To put it more succinctly, you're being an elitist prat. No one is impressed by you "I don't even own a TV" people.
I think it's just inevitable genre similarities, and movie makers borrow all the time. It's no big deal. In fact, there's many anime scenes where I think it would be fun to see someone try to do a live action version.
One a mildly related note, realdoll.com now has an anime doll (named Annie Mae... sheesh...) with pink hair and big blue eyes. I dunno... it just looks creepy to me. I've seen other attempts to do realistic images of big-eyed anime women, and it just gets disturbing. Although the same could be said about a Picasso. :) Some things should stay in the world of art.
...the Wachowski brothers list Serial Experiment Lain as a major influence. TechTV currently has it in their Anime Unleashed rotation. I've see both Ghost and Lain, and I'd have to agree that Lain is the clearer influence.
I'd actually agree with you on Ghost In The Shell. I thought it was visually interesting, had some good ideas, but is a little overrated in my opinion.
If you are really interested, there's about a billion fan sites on the web that can point you toward good films and series. Some may also have some historical stuff.
We're also in a time when there is a lot of anime on US television. For free (if you already have Cartoon Netowrk) try to catch some episodes of Cowboy Bebop. It's a straightforward, semi-realistic near future SF series. Takes place entirely within the Solar System. They have a form of hypersace travel, but it really just cuts interplanetary travel time down to a few hours, and requires an elaborate gate system. There's terraformed worlds. Sections of ships rotate to simulate gravity. The world is gritty. There's terrorists and crime syndicates. The Earth is a complete mess (although I won't give away why). Good stuff.
It's the first anime series I liked enough to go and buy the DVD boxed set. It also made me unable to watch Enterprise because the Enterprise crew seemed like such a pack of whiney pussies compared to the characters on Bebop. :) Enterprise has hand-wringing. Bebop has space stations dedicated entirely to casinos. :-D
If the Flash RAM ever has a problem, it has to be remotely debugged by NASA over the Deep Space Network.
I'm no Kerry fan, but is it possible that was then and this is now? Can a man not change over three decades?
Funniest post this week. Mod + many Planck energy levels.
You need to follow it, though. It also allows us to discuss and express opinions on actions in other countries. It's just some geeks bantering about concepts of free expression. I wouldn't worry about it.
And if you think that you really have free speach in the US try having a discussion on paedophilia and see how far you get.
You might want to contact NAMBLA. That's exactly what they do, and yet they continue to freely exist even though a lot of people know about them via stand up comedy and South Park episodes.
but the subject is so highly charged that you risk being pilloried just for mentioning it.
What are you talking about? It's discussed constantly on the TV and radio when a big case erupts (Michael Jackson being the current archtype).
Now, if you're at a party and perhaps express the opinion along the lines that you think its an idea whose time has come, yeah, you might get some less than enthusiastic responses.