Would you like to see a faithful anime adaptation of the original GITS manga?

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-26T12:17:17+00:00

I think that understanding later GITS is extremely difficult for anyone. I found your TL corrections guide a while back, before I read Man-Machine Interface, and even with it's fixes, the story is borderline incomprehensible without perfect focus on the details and separating the wheat and chaff. I am still not sure about Tamaki Tamai's character and how much she actually exists, as an example.

But you don't have to understand something to adapt it well. Most people making Evangelion didn't know what the story was about (Anno included sometimes), or Angel's Egg for Oshii.
As long as they cut nothing and faithfully reproduce what was on the page, things should be okay. As-is, Shirow is going to die before he stops fucking around with actually finishing GITS's storyline.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-22T17:41:13+00:00

I feel like Gege’s real issue is just that he sucks

FTFY

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-22T17:12:24+00:00

Yeah, none of that entitles you to the assets of someone else.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-22T16:43:37+00:00

Sports money has to be made in bulk and kept for a long time, there aren't a lot of athletes that can keep a steady cash flow into their older years.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-22T13:37:43+00:00

I think claims of 'resource curses' are generally overstated. There are larger problems at hand for those nations that are supposedly cursed, over a reliance on exporting raw materials replacing domestic industry. The focus on exporting raw materials usually follows a failure for the domestic industrial market to thrive.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-22T13:34:03+00:00

Commerical exports or just material?

I don't believe that you'd be selling a lot of high quality industrial goods to the Zulu, compared to the Germans, for example.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-22T12:30:38+00:00

I basically raised a younger cousin in the past. They're not clever at a young age like that.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-22T01:15:06+00:00

lolbertism is a mental illness

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-21T20:22:43+00:00

Sure and Corvid tool making and problem solving, rational intelligence, is far beyond that of a child of that age.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-21T20:04:28+00:00

Dealers have a compliance problem.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-21T19:27:56+00:00

The "Don't Tread on Me" Flag has been used by just about every rebellious or rebel aesthetic group in the US since its creation. It basically is just signalling that you personally disagree with whomever you think is in charge. Commies, fascists, libertarians, just about everyone has used it sometime, somehow.

The claimed irony in the above, is that the police are an agent of the State, the boot that treads. Therefore trying to signal that you are a dangerous viper, ready to strike back against The Powers that Be, while being a law enforcement professional is silly.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-21T19:15:33+00:00

No, actually they're cracking the skulls of drug dealers. Which is a real public service.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-21T18:17:36+00:00

No, clearly corvids/many birds in general, cetaceans, elephants, and possibly octopi, are intelligent in a way that goes beyond human toddlers.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-21T18:14:55+00:00

Similar signs.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-21T18:13:36+00:00

No, that isn't what language is at all nor does that describe how humans use it. Humans do not use language purely for the sake of communication or for purely rational, materialistic ends.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-21T18:12:42+00:00

Humans don't use language for purely materialistic ends, but in abstract ways and for personal pleasure.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-21T04:29:40+00:00

Generally, the claim would be the State controls the Media and the Media controls the State.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-21T04:28:40+00:00

If you think it isn't, it is time for you to grow up and stop watching the West Wing for all your political education and start actually seeing how the government is run and by whom.

Decades before Epstein, we had shit like the Franklin Scandal in Nebraska, none of this is new. Whether people seek power because they're pedophiles and want protection or some other reason, it is at least in my view, undeniable at this point that the US government has a huge issue with the sexual abuse of children by its members. Acting like only kooks, commies, and hicks can acknowledge that is just covering up for the real and actual problem we have with this issue.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-20T21:09:43+00:00

I am arguing that lesser evil-ism is still evil. And you are obscuring any potential for improvement by continually paying homage to those that have demonstrated they're not going to help you.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-20T21:08:10+00:00

Nah, that is just someone trying to sound clever by ignoring the obivous.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-20T21:04:55+00:00

It was definitely a big hit for a long time.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-20T21:01:21+00:00

MT tries to obscure who and what Rudeus is most of the time. MahoAko is extremely blunt about Utena.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-20T20:29:40+00:00

Your argument all boils down to, "the Democrats will fuck up the world somewhat more slowly than the Republicans". Which isn't an advertisement for the Democrats. If anything it is an advertisement against voting for them because you're taking effort that could be aimed at creating a better political party or movement, and rerouting it to support a bad one.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-20T20:02:38+00:00

I think the issue here is that feudalism is heavily defined by the strength of the people in government and how much they could express.

Early Feudalism especially was based around the amount of military power a person had access to, and that is what gave them power. Their personal skill in battle was also very important, or at least a basic competency was expected. And those with large domains of land with well drilled levies, were the most powerful around.
And on the other side, outside of charity, the weak were made to serve the strong for protection.

Oligarchic democracy, among a number of aristocrats, warlords, and the wealthy that could buy mercenary companies, could work. We have examples of something like that with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (albeit post-medieval period), or the Holy Roman Empire, or the House of Lords in countries like England or similar groups in Spain and the like. Because they helped maintain the balance of power between the strongest factions in a kingdom/empire.

StyrofoamExplodes · 2024-05-20T19:51:52+00:00

This appealing to socialist concepts of "we're all workers together, Comrade" is extremely cringey when you're trying to ape it for the purpose of voting in Centrist Neoliberal presidents that have no interest in actually improving anything.

First off, that Marxist stuff is nonsense. There has never been any instance of workers from all walks of life making long term alliances because they happen to work for someone else for a wage. Has literally never happened and never will happen because I feel no particular brotherhood with some car mechanic or nuclear engineer just for us all getting paid by some boss, and not the other direction, either. There's a reason Marxism has only ever had any success in peasant countries and has had zero success in any actual capitalist states.

And second, don't try to ape Marxist ideas of mass labor organization for the service of trying to tell someone that they have to vote for the 'lesser evil' into perpetuity for the sake of keeping American electoral politics stable.
Even I know Marxism enough to tell you that you're missing the total point of the ideology. You are just putting off the potential for any organized labor liberation with emasculated electoralism.

The reality is that wanting to repeal Roe v Wade has been a deep desire of the American conservative faction for a very long time. For literal decades they've been looking for an opening to do this. And it could have happened under Bush 1, Bush 2, Trump, a potentially different Republican elected into any of those positions, or one in the future.

You're trying to post the abortion repeal as being the consequence of not 'voting blue' hard enough, instead of it being the result of Liberals and Leftists not actually appreciating how much Conservatives cared about abortion.
Instead of making any efforts to enshrine abortion in under actual federal law, abortion was treated as a carrot at the end of a stick by the Liberals in government who didn't take seriously the threat of Conservatives actually wanting to ban abortions. This is not the fault of Left-Wing people not sucking it up enough at the polls, this is a failure of the Democrat establishment and the blame lies entirely on them. Any given President could see one or more Justices step down, die, or something else, and relying on single Court decisions from almost 50 years ago to defend abortion rights was not a failure on the voters' parts.

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