Unit 01 did not require Shinji to be “unlocked”. Rei or a Dummy Plug with Shinji’s DNA could’ve been used as a pilot/key for Third Impact after the Lance of Longinius was lost—Gendo just ultimately needed/wanted Shinji there because it was the easiest way to keep 01 under NERV’s control.

It’s not, though? Their entire plan, from the get-go, is to have a certain sequence of events occur—broadly—in order for their different versions of Third Impact and Instrumentality to occur. Shinji isn’t really important to that other than, at least for Gendo, he’s easily manipualted.

The worst part is that so many people try to look for reasoning within every facet of Evangelion when Anno himself, paraphrasing, pretty much said at one point the only reason all the religious symbolism is in the series is because “it sounded cool.” Near everyone tries looking for something in the story, when at…

That’s the thing, though. They aren’t the only three children that can save humanity—and that is a huge, huge plot point. The entirety of Shinji’s class are children that could potentially pilot an EVA, and NERV can basically mass produce both pilots (Rei) and Dummy Plugs (AI controlled pilots).

That’s explicit, yeah. It’s the whole “whether or not this is a dream or hallucination that is happening on their deathbed,” part that’s ambiguous.

How, though? Isn’t a large part of the game predicated on dreams manifesting in reality? On the thin line between nightmares and reality? You literally travel into nightmares.

The first trailer for the remakes was a teaser trailer, though. AFAIK. And Nintendo really doesn’t go off in teaser trailers more than what we saw—even the lastest trailer for BoTW2 was, what? Cutscenes and no real evidence that they’re trying to improve the overall hollow—but certainly fun—sandbox gameplay of the…

That’s the thing; I watched the trailer, and thought: “Okay, it’s cool. But it’s not like....the best thing ever? It’s very static and amateurish, but I get what they’re trying to do.”

I grew up with Pokemon, like a lot of thirty-somethings—some of my first and best memories as a gamer were staying up until 5 am battling against my cousin over a link cable lmao—so I get where you’re coming from. The 3D games, and their associated gimmicks, never really stuck with me. The last pokemon game I played…

I know every 20-30-something age fan is going to love this trailer as part of their “Let’s hate Ninty and Pokemon for not giving us exactly what we want,” phase they’re going through, but—

Let’s go through the list that usually pops up when people say this about AoT:

AFAIK Gravure is usually focused on girls that are in their late teens, up to their early twenties or thirties, who are usually of mixed Japanese-European descent, or have undertaken plastic surgery so that they have a certain “look”—typically young-looking, with bigger assets than is the norm in Japan. The books usual…

My dude, Nintendo is legitimately stalking and keeping fucking “black vans on the side of the street,” tabs on modders IRL.

I was going to say something to the effect of “Most well-known literary anything is just retellingo of Beowulf or Gilgamesh,” but y’know what

Dan’s supertaunt from pocket fighter is still the best.

A company that resorts to crowd funding while being valued at 6 billion dollars is absolutely deserving of snark, at the very least.

Cool, glad we’re on the same page!

I played Witcher 2 and found it mostly flat, linear, and not at all worth the hype. So, I also never played W3, and I largely consider that to my benefit because it sounds like it was much of the same.

It doesn’t have anything to do with gender. It has to do with male authors, yes; but my grievance is more with how they write. And since I don’t see their female counterparts writing in a similar way, I was specific in my phrasing because—again—my issue is with how a small subset of writers on this site can never let…

I mean, yeah. I can agree. But it also seems to be standard practice when licensed board games? Without knowing any of the actual details, all we’ve got is basically a scenario where CDPR went to a middle man to make product X for them, and then the middle man went to another middle man to drum up additional capital…