A lot of people seem to have gotten caught up with the bashing of Neon Genesis Evangelion, and it really doesn't look like they've considered the time which the series comes from.
Before the run of Neon Genesis, the primary icons of Japanese anime (series like Dragon Ball, Gundam, Urusei Yatsura, Astro Boy, Transformers) were based around characters who innately had strong moral groundings from the start of the series and featured little character development over their runs. Instead, most of the focus in previous titles was on growing intensity of situations within the characters' worlds (for example, Goku in Dragon Ball faced progressively stronger opponents in increasingly ridiculous conditions, while as a character he didn't develop his strong sense of justice).
Much like the few highly-acclaimed titles before it (namely Akira), Neon Genesis was entirely different to the current Anime market. Shinji, Asuka, Rei and the supporting cast relied on themselves and each other to tackle physical and emotional obstacles, and oftentimes failed. In addition, Shinji started as a weak, self-pitying individual who was forced to grow and adapt to his situation; he was far more identifiable with the audience than other leads in the previous twenty years of Anime. Contrary to the many righteous characters of previous series, he was spiteful, reserved and perverted - something that was pretty much unique given the time. Graphically, the series isn't stunning but you've gotta appreciate the fact that the series is so introspective and focused on humanity and interaction between typical Japanese characters.
As for people who question the value of an article celebrating 10 years of NGE, I implore you to realise that the series has been extremely influential in Anime for this past decade, in that it set the stage for new series to pay more attention to the concept of 'self' and the development of characters rather than circumstances.
So yeah. If you ran a NERV logo up a flagpole, I'd still salute it these days.
Yeah. Look up the "Little Albert" Experiment some time if you want to see something like that. They conditioned an infant into being deathly afraid of a white lab rat.
Laugh as you might, it does actually make a degree of sense to do this. To place the vets in a mental environment could be considered one of the elements of classical conditioning.
If they did it right, they could pair less traumatic stimuli (for this case, let's say something like fluffy bunnies) with the memories that Full Spectrum Warrior evokes over a period of time. Er, yeah. If you know your Psychology, it does make sense: Classical Conditioning can both induce and remove fears, which is essentially what these psychologists would be working on.
This could be a base for making a PSP more secure
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A while ago a friend of mine practically filled up all the extra spaces inside his laptop with silicon. Working on slightly the same principle, I reckon this guide could be used to create some form of reinforcement for the PSP's case, maybe making it a bit more durable.
If it doesn't get any more durable, it doesn't really seem to matter because the warranty's so particular chances are if you break your PSP, that's it.
"Hello, I'm an electric car. I don't go very fast or very far, and if you drive me, people will think you're gay."
As cool as a fuel-celled motorbike sounds I'd imagine not too many revheads would be keen on the silent, slow vehicles. Isn't that the entire point of owning a motorcycle? I mean, you don't buy one for the safety value.
If I had any base knowledge of the professional ages of consent I might argue with you, but I'll save that.
I was merely asking as it's Australian ISPs judging what's illegal, so I'd imagine they'd be using criteria of what's illegal in Australia, then sending them to Australian Law Enforcement. I've read a few disclaimers of porn sites for the sake of it in the past and while it mentions little about the age of models, I distinctly remember reading that viewers were subject to rules and regulations within their own countries.
As stated by another poster, the legal age of consent in Australia is 16, younger than that of say, the USA, which is 18. By which standards would these people have to judge by; Australia's or USA's?
Personally I'd like to see a definitive criteria of the what the Federal Police will label Child Pornography.
Americans claim their country to be based on freedom, the freedom of speech and expression etc. Just for the record: Playing video games isn't expressing anything except your submission to gaming companies. Thus, the good old US of A can place any kind of ban they so please on you:)
That's a bit extreme, and also a bit off-topic because the robots would be more monitoring the movement of the Earth's plates under the sea and such. It might be a crazy thought, but robots which are designed to sink into the ocean probably aren't meant to detect the pollution in the Earth's atmosphere.
If living to 1000 years of age became possible and even common, then the world's basic economic problem would be brought up: relative scarcity of resources. At the rate we currently use resources we can't possibly expect to sustain a greatly-increasing population as a result of a significantly lowered death count. People would still die, but it'd be of hunger.
While in principle this is a cool concept and I'd be more than happy to be a guinea pig for it, if it does get off the ground we'll be boned anyway.
The Australian parliament has once again failed to take into account that most parents in Australia whose children have access to the internet already know the perils.
And of course with the recent child pornography scandal in Australia parents would be more aware than ever - the coalition's flopped again, filtering would be a much better way to go.
I always thought it was obvious that this service would in some way be attacked - in this case it was the site itself.
Whenever there's a vested interest in a certain thing staying around (suprisingly, spam seems to pay off for someone) then there's going to be attacks on its antithesis. That's how things work, and Lycos was naive to think that they'd just get away with it.
Also, I might add that I initially thought of editing the code of the screen saver to send DDoS attacks to innocent sites, a potentially disasterous use of a cool-sounding program.
Oh, it was fine, but that's because it was a funny movie. I don't have a beef with a movie like Who Framed Roger Rabbit? which was created so people would laugh, but James Cameron doesn't seem like a funny-film director.
This is possibly the worst idea for a conversion from anime to mainstream Hollywood that I've ever heard of.
To see James Cameron, who has a good movie record going back to antics like what was used in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" is really pretty sad. For those of you who didn't watch that film, it involves people and the Disney and Loony 'toons working together to stop some evil guy. It was released like, 15 years ago.
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Before the run of Neon Genesis, the primary icons of Japanese anime (series like Dragon Ball, Gundam, Urusei Yatsura, Astro Boy, Transformers) were based around characters who innately had strong moral groundings from the start of the series and featured little character development over their runs. Instead, most of the focus in previous titles was on growing intensity of situations within the characters' worlds (for example, Goku in Dragon Ball faced progressively stronger opponents in increasingly ridiculous conditions, while as a character he didn't develop his strong sense of justice).
Much like the few highly-acclaimed titles before it (namely Akira), Neon Genesis was entirely different to the current Anime market. Shinji, Asuka, Rei and the supporting cast relied on themselves and each other to tackle physical and emotional obstacles, and oftentimes failed. In addition, Shinji started as a weak, self-pitying individual who was forced to grow and adapt to his situation; he was far more identifiable with the audience than other leads in the previous twenty years of Anime. Contrary to the many righteous characters of previous series, he was spiteful, reserved and perverted - something that was pretty much unique given the time. Graphically, the series isn't stunning but you've gotta appreciate the fact that the series is so introspective and focused on humanity and interaction between typical Japanese characters.
As for people who question the value of an article celebrating 10 years of NGE, I implore you to realise that the series has been extremely influential in Anime for this past decade, in that it set the stage for new series to pay more attention to the concept of 'self' and the development of characters rather than circumstances.
So yeah. If you ran a NERV logo up a flagpole, I'd still salute it these days.
Yeah. Look up the "Little Albert" Experiment some time if you want to see something like that. They conditioned an infant into being deathly afraid of a white lab rat.
If they did it right, they could pair less traumatic stimuli (for this case, let's say something like fluffy bunnies) with the memories that Full Spectrum Warrior evokes over a period of time. Er, yeah. If you know your Psychology, it does make sense: Classical Conditioning can both induce and remove fears, which is essentially what these psychologists would be working on.
If it doesn't get any more durable, it doesn't really seem to matter because the warranty's so particular chances are if you break your PSP, that's it.
I can see Microsoft making a Solar Death Star and targeting the Apple HQ from outer space. Perhaps this could be a new era in OS wars?
Agreed. Fuel cell motorbikes can be for the practical nerd :)
The original thing was really funny, but I agree, the ringtone is just fucking annoying.
http://katunk.com/insanity/
That's one of the sites that has it.
As cool as a fuel-celled motorbike sounds I'd imagine not too many revheads would be keen on the silent, slow vehicles. Isn't that the entire point of owning a motorcycle? I mean, you don't buy one for the safety value.
However the XBox's stupid controller design gives you a natural warning not to play it too much.
I'm just glad I've got a modded XBox.
From Australia's casual "Do as you like with your life" policy at the moment.
I was merely asking as it's Australian ISPs judging what's illegal, so I'd imagine they'd be using criteria of what's illegal in Australia, then sending them to Australian Law Enforcement. I've read a few disclaimers of porn sites for the sake of it in the past and while it mentions little about the age of models, I distinctly remember reading that viewers were subject to rules and regulations within their own countries.
It's about as easy as setting a phaser to 'stun'. Oh god, I can't believe I actually made that joke.
Personally I'd like to see a definitive criteria of the what the Federal Police will label Child Pornography.
Americans claim their country to be based on freedom, the freedom of speech and expression etc. Just for the record: Playing video games isn't expressing anything except your submission to gaming companies. Thus, the good old US of A can place any kind of ban they so please on you :)
That's a bit extreme, and also a bit off-topic because the robots would be more monitoring the movement of the Earth's plates under the sea and such. It might be a crazy thought, but robots which are designed to sink into the ocean probably aren't meant to detect the pollution in the Earth's atmosphere.
While in principle this is a cool concept and I'd be more than happy to be a guinea pig for it, if it does get off the ground we'll be boned anyway.
And of course with the recent child pornography scandal in Australia parents would be more aware than ever - the coalition's flopped again, filtering would be a much better way to go.
Whenever there's a vested interest in a certain thing staying around (suprisingly, spam seems to pay off for someone) then there's going to be attacks on its antithesis. That's how things work, and Lycos was naive to think that they'd just get away with it.
Also, I might add that I initially thought of editing the code of the screen saver to send DDoS attacks to innocent sites, a potentially disasterous use of a cool-sounding program.
Hey, that's just what it opened up to.
..You just sent me to the section of that page asking if there's any hentai about it.
Oh, it was fine, but that's because it was a funny movie. I don't have a beef with a movie like Who Framed Roger Rabbit? which was created so people would laugh, but James Cameron doesn't seem like a funny-film director.
To see James Cameron, who has a good movie record going back to antics like what was used in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" is really pretty sad. For those of you who didn't watch that film, it involves people and the Disney and Loony 'toons working together to stop some evil guy. It was released like, 15 years ago.
Yeah. True. Buffy isn't much better than Alias, I must admit. It is indeed funny how geeks work.