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by Blockio
Fri Dec 08, 2023 5:16 pm
Forum: Completely and Utterly Off-Topic
Topic: A New Super Happy Birthday Thread
Replies: 86
Views: 43106

Re: A New Super Happy Birthday Thread

the birthday thread has died and been reborn from the giant underground womb
by Blockio
Fri Dec 08, 2023 5:11 pm
Forum: Everything Else Evangelion
Topic: Evangelion ANIMA (general)
Replies: 1395
Views: 713301

Re: Evangelion ANIMA (general)

I wouldn't mind that in the context of a oneoff 20 minute highlight reel OVA or something; but a full animation project is going to be a massive amount of work, and even assuming that you completely ruin the pacing and jam pack the first two volumes in a feature length movie, you're still not going ...
by Blockio
Fri Dec 08, 2023 8:03 am
Forum: Evangelion General and Chit-Chat
Topic: What fictional character(s) would you like to see pilot an Eva?
Replies: 7
Views: 17789

Re: What fictional character(s) would you like to see pilot an Eva?

(this is an aside - you don't need to preface everything with justifying why you like something that you like. We're all nerds here, if someone gives you grief for enjoying a thing that is not """high art""" or some other drool like that, they will quickly find themselv...
by Blockio
Fri Dec 08, 2023 7:59 am
Forum: Everything Else Evangelion
Topic: Evangelion ANIMA (general)
Replies: 1395
Views: 713301

Re: Evangelion ANIMA (general)

Please the fuck not. Anima does not deserve to bind that amount of money and ressources. Just do an Iconic Field OVA instead, or honestly literally any other project, it's functionally guaranteed to be better
by Blockio
Wed Dec 06, 2023 4:27 pm
Forum: Old Stickies
Topic: A New Official Happy Birthday Thread
Replies: 1961
Views: 510831

Re: A New Official Happy Birthday Thread

Happy birthday, Natalie!
by Blockio
Wed Dec 06, 2023 4:25 pm
Forum: Evangelion TV Series + EoE Discussion
Topic: A very old documentary on Teilhard de Chardin shows an apocalypse that is strikingly similar to the Third Impact
Replies: 11
Views: 16641

Re: A very old documentary on Teilhard de Chardin shows an apocalypse that is strikingly similar to the Third Impact

This is a pretty fascinating find! One would need to see if there is any Japanese language coverage of it; Anno dug rather far and deep for weird esoteric nonsense to include in the theming, but the things that do and don't make it across the cultural barriers are very difficult to predict. Definite...
by Blockio
Sat Dec 02, 2023 3:52 pm
Forum: Evangelion General and Chit-Chat
Topic: Favorite Shinji's Voice?
Replies: 6
Views: 6359

Re: Favorite Shinji's Voice?

The original, as far as I'm concerned. Megumi Ogata is simply the best VA out of those three, and received the best voice direction for their performance; I do not believe there is much competition there.
by Blockio
Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:24 am
Forum: Video Games and Gaming
Topic: Currently Playing 5: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!
Replies: 91
Views: 41963

Re: Currently Playing 5: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!

100%ed Sea of Stars; excellent game, no notes. Incredible time, all that's left is a run of NG+, but that will come later.

To quote the friend who introduced me to it - one of the best completionist experiences of my life. Highly recommend.
by Blockio
Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:35 pm
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: The Script for Rei and Kaworu at the Train Scene
Replies: 32
Views: 16526

Re: The Script for Rei and Kaworu at the Train Scene

Konja7#942499 wrote:It is also not impossible for a professional translator to not understand some expressions.

I'm just going to say this much: That is a remarkably bad foundation to build any sort of argument on, unless you have solid proof that what you're working off of is better.
by Blockio
Tue Nov 28, 2023 9:54 am
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: The Script for Rei and Kaworu at the Train Scene
Replies: 32
Views: 16526

Re: The Script for Rei and Kaworu at the Train Scene

Well, now we're talking about popular reception, rather than authorial intent; as Nuke laid out, the authorial intent is fairly clear as by the scene script, and I will trust the professional translator over any machine tool. Japanese fans often have a more informed perspective than Western fans thr...
by Blockio
Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:27 pm
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: Original Shikinami scene and the 9th Angel contamination scene
Replies: 37
Views: 20213

Re: Original Shikinami scene and the 9th Angel contamination scene

Yeah, that's about the best angle that we currently have on this, I feel. Asuka in the flashback makes an offhand mention to parents if memory serves me; not a concept that any of the Shikis would have a particularily strong connection to, so that suggests that this was said by OriAsu, and that the ...
by Blockio
Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:19 pm
Forum: Completely and Utterly Off-Topic
Topic: [Music] Songs on repeat
Replies: 732
Views: 189192

Re: [Music] Songs on repeat

ooh, Scarecrow is also really good. Although my favorite from the album is probably Another Angel Down
by Blockio
Wed Nov 22, 2023 5:40 pm
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now
Replies: 1467
Views: 332580

Re: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now

Witch S1 was absolutely joyful; I think S2 struggled a bit with itself. It felt to me like there was half an episode missing for every one that actually aired; a lot of obvious setups went unaddressed, many chekov's guns that never fired, while most of the secondary plots ended up kinda going nowher...
by Blockio
Wed Nov 22, 2023 2:52 pm
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: Use of Religious Imagery in Rebuilds
Replies: 12
Views: 14596

Re: Use of Religious Imagery in Rebuilds

Correct me if I am wrong (my memory isnt the best), but I remember reading an interview about the use of christian symbolism in NGE and the reply by Anno being that it was just for the cool factor and that if they knew it was going to be popular in the west they wouldnt use it as much. This reducti...
by Blockio
Tue Nov 21, 2023 6:18 am
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: Who's face was used for EVA Imaginary?
Replies: 5
Views: 6039

Re: Who's face was used for EVA Imaginary?

BernardoCairo#942429 wrote:That movie is two years old and we're already saying things like this... Damn, things are moving fast :bigeyes:

For better or worse, two years makes a lot of difference in the training of LLMs/GANs at current
by Blockio
Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:24 am
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: Who's face was used for EVA Imaginary?
Replies: 5
Views: 6039

Re: Who's face was used for EVA Imaginary?

No, that was definitely handmodeled CGI. Especially back then, there's no GAN capable of making that level or organic detail actually look good
by Blockio
Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:05 pm
Forum: Completely and Utterly Off-Topic
Topic: [Music] Songs on repeat
Replies: 732
Views: 189192

Re: [Music] Songs on repeat

by Blockio
Thu Nov 16, 2023 3:42 pm
Forum: Fanfiction
Topic: Write from beginning to end or write easiest/favorite scenes and then fill in the blanks?
Replies: 5
Views: 11709

Re: Write from beginning to end or write easiest/favorite scenes and then fill in the blanks?

I'm not sure how actually useful that is for advice to an aspiring writer; it's generally hitting all the things listed as good practice, but is also very formulaic and a rather substantial amount of not particularily creative work, so I'd generally advise against following this methodology too clos...
by Blockio
Thu Nov 16, 2023 6:00 am
Forum: Old Stickies
Topic: A New Official Happy Birthday Thread
Replies: 1961
Views: 510831

Re: A New Official Happy Birthday Thread

Happy birthday, Hui!
by Blockio
Mon Nov 13, 2023 1:41 pm
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: The Script for Rei and Kaworu at the Train Scene
Replies: 32
Views: 16526

Re: The Script for Rei and Kaworu at the Train Scene

I've thrown the thread Nuke's way, so we can get an actual, authoritative answer on this instead of secondhand accounts and trying to divine meaning from machine translations

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