What is amusing is that most people in Congress were alive for that shit and still clutch their pearls at this. As though that word holds nearly the potency it did back then.

Afraid I’ll have to disagree that Instrumentality was cowardly. It was achieving the ultimate empathy across everyone. Gendo messed with it (and everyone else) so he could see his wife.

I’ve stuck with Allison’s work, and although I don’t think Bad Machinery is is best, I’m still enjoying it. I’m also looking forward to the first collection of his new Boom! series, By Night.

I just did a full re-read of Allison’s webcomics, from early Bobbins (which is pretty damn raw) through Bad Machinery and I think it’s a great body of work, especially once it shifts into the fantastical stuff of Scary Go Round. His dialogue is slacker Wodehouse and I can’t really imagine someone else writing his…

Fuck, even an adult would scoff at the idea. “Wouldn’t I need like 50,000 hours in that to be any good at piloting a mech?”

The ending is this sort of odd calm after the cacophony of the belly and tail end of the series. Shit flies wildly off the rails, into a fiery train wreck, but the end is ultimately hopeful and optimistic. It feels like a triumph because of how discordant everything was leading up to it.

To be fair End of Eva’s ending also was up lifting in a way.  As Shinji decided to choose life and existence with all the pain that entailed rather then the numb bliss of instrumentality.  

Its still an amazing series, but let’s face it, everyone: If Evangelion had been done without any of its behind the scenes drama/trauma/insanity, it would had been a much less memorable series.

*Son prevents singularity, realizes he’s worth more than what others and his dad thinks, gets over himself; but is still horrified it took the world ending for him to grow up.

This is exactly my argument. Like, ok tough guy, your dad who abandoned you just shows up one day and says go save humanity in this giant piece of machinery, you’d just do it? Get outta here.

I guess people forget what it’s like to be a teenager.

She always won popularity contests but if you know anything about Japanese archetypes that was bound to happen: soft-spoken and subservient. She was like a stereotypical housewife in a mech. That’s what makes what happens between her and Gendou at the end so delicious.

Im with you as a long time Fallout faithful. People forget about Brotherhood of Steel when calling this the worst fallout game.

I agree that the no human NPCs rule was a bad idea. It takes away a giant storytelling element. Even if there was no vast overarching story line, they would have provided some context and a way for players to “anchor” themselves in the game.

Niedermeyer wasn’t really killed by his own troops. He deserted, assumed a new identity and returned to the US as the Maestro.

D) Syphilis

Oscar Isaac’s weirdly stilted “I declare him...tobeanOUTLAAAAAAAAAAW” is the real legacy of the 2010 Robin Hood. I never saw the film but it was all over the trailers and TV spots for some reason, and it still makes me laugh (Though not as hard as I did when I found out that was Oscar Isaac, which only happened like a…

Type “Spider” instead!

NO! DON'T TAUNT ME WITH IMPOSSIBLE DREAMS

yeessss, more Takeshi Kaneshiro please

I actually really like persona 1. I like the weird POV changes and how foreboding it feels. I really have not been able to find any appeal in the anime simulator that came later. Idk I think it just got too flashy and visually distracting though I get the attraction for most.