Reichu wrote:What do you need to know about imbedding screenshots?
Imbedding was the wrong word for me to use here. I was more talking about getting nice caps off of a DVD copy, hosting of said images, appropriate dimensions... Stuff like that. I can remember reading a thread about screen-capping a while ago; I just need to find it. The hosting thing could be mostly solved by "Right-Click, View"-ing other images to see where others are stashing them.
It's mostly me just needing to learn the "correct/accepted" way of including images with a post.
It's what all the cool kids are doing, isn't it?
Reichu wrote:Oh man, please don't tempt me.
I wish I hadn't tempted myself. Last night, instead of forming some good responses for discussion, I spent most of my time thinking up a rough outline for a little one-shot I now want to write. I was thinking of calling it "The man that cried 'for you' from the bottom of the world"...
Reichu wrote:..."Gendo sticking embryonic Adam into Rei 3's abdomen"...
When you look at it, this scene above most, if not all, others makes Gendo look like a complete idiot.
Doesn't he say something right after to the effect of "...the forbidden fusion...now take me to see my Yui"? How does he hope to accomplish this? By clutching the front of Rei's pelvic bone and flying up with her "Mary Poppins"-style?
The dude could have at least implanted Adam into his chest or something. Would have made the whole merging and flying thing seem more... "realistic". Ugh, I just used "realistic" to describe anime science.
Ornette wrote:Ritsuko mentioned that the "Room of Gauf was empty"... Fuyutsuki said "The Chamber of Guf (Hall of Souls) has been unsealed"... So are these souls filling the chamber of Guf? Meaning that these are the souls that will used for newly born people?
Whenever I try to figure out the Chamber and all of this Metaphysical Biology stuff, I can't help but think that a better familiarity with Japanese, or at the very least Far Eastern, spiritualism would help me a lot.
The best I can come up with now is that 2I, and Adam's opening of the Doors, short-circuited, for lack of a better word now, the Chamber. Maybe souls can leave, hence all children born after 2000, but cannot re-enter, hence the Chamber being empty by the time (if not before) Rei II is created. This may explain the red glow at the South Pole, souls with nowhere to go.
What doesn't jive with this is, are we ever presented younger children in the show at all? The youngest I can recall would be Touji's sister and her classmates. We know she's in elementary school so that should put her birthday in an '04-'08 window, but if the Chamber is empty by '10 (Rei II date pulled from Wikapedia and I think is corroborated by Death), I would expect at least a mention in the show about the fact that no children have been born for the last four or so years.
Hell, even the Evas are without souls at their creation. Could the Camber have been empty earlier, in an '03 and earlier time frame ('03=Eva construction, also taken from Wika. I don't know the source)?
This comes back to the spiritualism thing. How big a deal is reincarnation over there? Could it be that beings born (that is, not created) post-2000 are reincarnations of those that perished during and after 2I?
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Whenever I think I have a flimsy answer I find another, less-flimsy question.
I'll try to push my "FIP" post to completion as soon as I can. Seriously, just trying to sort out the basics and some of the screens I want to use, I came up with 3 more good theories, one of which is kind of intrinsic to the "FIP" and two others which kind of flow together and are really fun to think about.
Not to leave anyone hanging, but I can't put them into intelligible words right now.
Reichu wrote:(1) "What has it got in its pocketses, precious?"...(2) notice anything else about the way this cut starts, versus how it ends?
(1) If you're talking about some "I'm so cool with my hands in my pockets"-Kaji/Kaworu imagery, definitely. That Kaworu is one tricksy Childrens. I thank you here before I do so
here about said connection I had been unable to put my finger on.
(2)I won't discount the possible opportunity to highlight how 've' is, how did you put it, "smooth as a porpoise". I just took the leaning in to be reminiscent of the Rei ghost's "tag-you're-it"-tangification process.
And as far as the barren nature of 'vis' mons pubis region, I want to chalk that up the "genitals=bad" thing the Japanese (government) have.
That, and I don't know if adding a 200+ meter wang to the scene would have added any narrative effect.
Just sayin'.
I'll add anything else about said fancy lad's nature in the afore mentioned thread, but until then: Jabberwok out.
Originally posted on: 06.02.2006, 01:23 PM
Just FYI.)
