^ No, but you both are being equally as depressing. Ever wonder why people flock to Evangelion, or a least people who have struggled with social situations or depression? Because Evangelion resonates with them, because we have been there. And the message of hope at EoE or the TV series (regardless o...

Of course we, mere heretics and pagans, copuld never properly interpret your god's work like you do XD https://i.imgur.com/zoAB5Un.jpg Just because we actually try to remain optimistic towards Evangelion doesn't mean we think Anno is a "God". Stop saying we pander to Anno just because we ...

^ KEEP TRYING! That's the thing about hope, it's never ending, and just stewing in your own misery isn't going to help that. Hope is what keeps us going, it's what helps us look for a better tomorrow, even in the little things. Yes, there's a lot of crap in the world, but there's also good in the wo...

I take the most realistic approach, because yes, hope will not lead you to anywhere. Okay, I'm just gonna get this out RIGHT NOW: Grimdark does NOT equal REALITY, nor does it equate to "realism" in the realm of fiction. Realism in fiction is just the acknowledgement of consequences of act...

Retreating into a fantasy of the world, and striving to make a change in the world when you know it's corrupted are two different things, and I think Anno would support the latter. The latter requires you to acknowledge the "reality" of the world, but you strive to make a change, instead o...

Then you better get used to us debating you over this, just as your validations for their toxicity are just as "opinions" to us about their ability to grow and reconcile.

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You know, it IS possible to NOT exploit people and be the better man and HELP others. You can still be as savy as Gendo, but put your saviness to GOOD use and help others.

As for you? Don't worry. Your EoE is apparently still to come, or there's not enough Shinji in you :tongue: Hate to break it to you Borny, but, I already did have a kind of EoE event in my life. A long time ago. But, like Shinji, it made me a stronger more stable person. I wasn't IMMEDIATELY fixed ...

^ That maybe so, but history has shown time and time again that people who use such power are doomed to fall because they don't rely on anyone but themselves. That's the whole problem when everyone is playing the long-game of power, everyone wants the cake for themselves. And the thing about Gendo's...

Gendo is super hardcore and cool! I first watched Eva when I was 9, and I wanted to grow up to be just like him. Gendo is probably the LAST person you want to emulate as a grown up. Sure, he seems "cool", calm, and collected, but that's because he's pretty much cast all pretense of his ow...

I LOVE Nier: Automata thus far. The world is both beautiful and vibrant, the music is so soothing, yet profound, and the characters are so unique and complex. I've only scratched the surface of this game (been more playing Horizon Zero Dawn, which is very similar), but from what I've scratched, it's...

^ Pretty much. You have it cemented in your mind that Asuka is a bad person, no matter the "excuses", and when we try to show you evidence that contradicts your believe, you keep asking the same question in different ways, just so somehow you get an answer that correlates with your belief....

Em..that's the reason why I find it so messed up, its like a happy care free drawing about hanging yourself in vivid detail and I heard the artist who draw it got a lots hatred over it. And the artist didn't expect this to happen? :P Apparently it's 2deep :P Doesn't mean that we should like it or t...

And honestly, how does costent devalue the intamacy of a relationship? If anything, consent, where BOTH parties are willing, enhances the eros of the act of making love, and thus stirs the fires of passion. Like Gob said Ran1, your idea of "consent" leaves me dubious about your future rela...

NO, that's not what we're saying. We're saying that this topic itself, between Shinji and Asuka, has been done to DEATH here.

I personally think that they can make it work because of their experiences, but if you want to believe that they should never see each other again, that's your opinion.

^ Wouldn't it be more like a "Paranoid" egomaniac that's more like Asuka? Because from what I've seen, she's an egomaniac because she has a deep-rooted fear that if she's not the best at EVERYTHING, even by a little, she'll be tossed aside and forgotten like garbage by those around her, wh...

^ Yeah, I'm with Gob. This conversation has been milked to the point of it being so WROUGHT with bacteria, that there's no point in drinking this anymore. You think the world is not worth being in? Fine, that's YOUR problem. As for the rest of us, we're quite content and happy with our existence, so...

^ Again, your argument is pretty flawed in that paragraph alone. "Being human doesn't mean "intelligent" or "highly moral" or anything of that kind; these aren't unique to us.", but then you go and say "and our status as one of the only two animals that torture oth...

^ Again, that's not an objective way of seeing life. That's a computer statistic, looking at the number of bad days vs good days in a person's life. We're not robots nor machines, we're human, and we all place different values on the impact of good and bad days, we don't use a statistic to determine...

Epilogue, that's life. Of course the universe doesn't give two shits about us, that's just the way the universe is. We're a small part of a much bigger picture. But instead of dwelling on the negatives and the meaningless of our existence, how about we give ourselves meaning to our existence to make...