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Post by Adkenpachi on Aug 31, 2014 3:26:45 GMT -5
It's because everyone assumes people into anime just watch it for the hentai... So many boobs in the best two animes, initial d and bleach
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Aug 31, 2014 9:30:42 GMT -5
P-38.
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Post by Paimon on Aug 31, 2014 9:48:12 GMT -5
best two animes, initial d and bleach Someone obviously has never seen Attack on Titan or Berserk.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Aug 31, 2014 10:15:36 GMT -5
Or Bleach. There's no nudity in that.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Aug 31, 2014 10:15:55 GMT -5
Yeah, Attack on Titan is amazing... A friend of mine voices Hange Zoe in the English adaptation that Funimation did, which is being aired on Toonami currently. The hentai thing didn't really become "popular" (if that's the right word for it) until the late 90's or possibly in the 2000'a. Back in undergrad (early to mid-90's) in the anime clubs I participated in we ran out a guy who wanted to introduce Cream Lemon into the lineup of shows. No. Just no. He was reminiscent of a certain FKM... And at the few cons I attended back then, everyone with any kind of good sense whatsoever avoided the dealers who were selling that kind of crap. Deployed ironically: (And the file attachment process is all ganked up again.) Attachments:
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Aug 31, 2014 10:20:18 GMT -5
There also the difference between hentai and ecchi, the latter of which occasionally has some good plots. There's just incidental boobage tossed about. There are worse things on daytime tv in some parts of the world.
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Post by Kaikelx on Aug 31, 2014 16:50:42 GMT -5
I just stopped watching anime for a while because I hit a massive streak of anime which was either "1 guy with plenty of girls who lust after him" or "Dark cynical depressing thing about how the world sucks and you should feel bad".
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Aug 31, 2014 17:53:01 GMT -5
Er, is that attempting to support, or deny, my comment that '60s planes were clunky-looking? By that I meant "not sleekly streamlined", which except the Mirages to an extent, these are. Lolwut. The EE Lightning, Mirage III and MiG-21 all have aerodynamic envelopes superior to anything developed until the 5th gen (Rafale/Eurofighter/F-22) series fighters. Your definition of "clunky" is at odds with aerodynamics. Anyway, today, the inch-long scalpel wound on my thumb is healing, and my renegade heavy stubber team looks good. Blood sacrifice is so worth it. Yeah, I don't know how my posting something about awesome mecha named Valkyries, which were named by their designer (who was an aerospace engineer, IIRC) after the XB-70 equals me being obsessed with schoolgirls, RT... But again, I'm OLD so I don't care. Weaabooooooo. I've rather enjoyed a variety of anime over my time, from FMA to Ergo Proxy and some other things, but the moment they deploy any one of the literally innumerable, agonizingly predictable tropes which seem to afflict the genre more so than even western mainstream media, I black out and wake up airborne in the cockpit of a B-29.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Aug 31, 2014 18:15:44 GMT -5
I find this to be a most terrifying turn of events. P.S. I really hate how quoting people is so hard with this version of Proboards.
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Post by jenburdoo on Aug 31, 2014 18:21:33 GMT -5
Yeah, but look at the EE Lightning's wingtips. I'm sure it's streamlined, but it still doesn't LOOK right. The early Migs, like USN WWII aircraft (rotary engines), don't have pointy noses, and the Lightning and Mig-21 have pointy noses sticking out of wide cylindrical intakes. And a lot of planes that are still well-streamlined (like the A-4 and F-4), are still bulgy and bumpy. Clunky isn't the right word for this, I'm sure, but it's the closest I could think of on short notice. Chunky, maybe?
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Aug 31, 2014 18:29:12 GMT -5
*Sighs* Being called a weaboo, when I've stated twice that I don't give a damn because I'm OLD and don't care makes me deploy my palm to my face. I fear for the future of Hugh Manatee...
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Aug 31, 2014 18:44:19 GMT -5
The huge weaboo, you mean.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Aug 31, 2014 18:50:08 GMT -5
The huge weaboo, you mean. Heh. There are more than a few of them... "What an incredible smell you've discovered!"
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Post by Adkenpachi on Aug 31, 2014 18:54:46 GMT -5
Or Bleach. There's no nudity in that. You see boobs once And I was being sarcastic, there's hardly any love interest let alone nudity in initial d
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Aug 31, 2014 19:30:12 GMT -5
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Post by Paimon on Aug 31, 2014 20:08:40 GMT -5
I just stopped watching anime for a while because I hit a massive streak of anime which was either "1 guy with plenty of girls who lust after him" or "Dark cynical depressing thing about how the world sucks and you should feel bad". Sounds like someone would like Berserk, it's super cheerful, and has a loveable band of heroes saving the world from invading armies and periodically monsters. It's one of the more upbeat anime I've seen.
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Post by Kaikelx on Aug 31, 2014 21:03:40 GMT -5
I actually still have fond memories of Beserk. Probably because I watched it before my uncanny streak of anime that turned out to be harem/grimdark/in one notable case both.
Hrm...On further introspection, perhaps what got me tired is that I never seemed to find an anime that is a comedy WITHOUT a harem.
Funnily enough I get surprised more often by anime than by most western media I've watched recently. Not that I mind tropes, after all there's a trope for nearly anything. Doesn't necessarily mean it's a cliche.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Aug 31, 2014 21:27:17 GMT -5
Gintama was a good comedy anime that had no haremness. It's funnier the more you know about Japanese history and culture, and some pop-culture as well.
Oh, and Lucky Star - the original "four girls slice of life comedy" that is probably one of those tropes by now.
And Minami-ke. Actually watched all of those a few months ago. I could probably go on, but meh. You can find comedies if you look for them.
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Post by Adam Selene on Sept 1, 2014 3:09:25 GMT -5
I hate to get in the middle of a weabooing (weabooaning?) but have any of you seen our latest elysian recruits? They performed a emergency bailout with flying colours. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p6hqMnsLFY
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Sept 1, 2014 4:48:57 GMT -5
Yeah, but look at the EE Lightning's wingtips. I'm sure it's streamlined, but it still doesn't LOOK right. The early Migs, like USN WWII aircraft (rotary engines), don't have pointy noses, and the Lightning and Mig-21 have pointy noses sticking out of wide cylindrical intakes. And a lot of planes that are still well-streamlined (like the A-4 and F-4), are still bulgy and bumpy. Clunky isn't the right word for this, I'm sure, but it's the closest I could think of on short notice. Chunky, maybe? You have a perverse idea of what "looks right". Or, if the A-4 and F-4 series are your definition of "streamlined" (The Phantom making several aerodynamic compromises to achieve high thrust and good radar performance; namely, the solid nose and shoulder mounted intakes).
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Sept 1, 2014 6:05:32 GMT -5
Based on the use of "chunky" and "clunky," I'm pretty sure Jen's talking about the design aesthetic, not the aerodynamic performance of the planes.
And after quick research, they are rather clunky compared to modern design. That's setting aside how those designs performed - I'm sure they performed quite well; we had the means to test and make good designs for jets in the 60's.
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Sept 1, 2014 11:20:13 GMT -5
Based on the use of "chunky" and "clunky," I'm pretty sure Jen's talking about the design aesthetic, not the aerodynamic performance of the planes. And after quick research, they are rather clunky compared to modern design. That's setting aside how those designs performed - I'm sure they performed quite well; we had the means to test and make good designs for jets in the 60's. If you define "modern" as "5th gen", then yes. Anything else, no. Other jet designs (from the F-4 to the F-15, Tornado, MiG-23/29, etc) have to make aerodynamic compromises to achieve higher payloads/range/endurance/electronic warfare capability.
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Post by jenburdoo on Sept 2, 2014 0:15:20 GMT -5
Req's exactly right. The aesthetics of '60s jets seem off to me, regardless of their performance.
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Sept 2, 2014 17:47:15 GMT -5
Today, Patriots are OP, Seoul is the new Stalingrad, and Ivan Konev looks like a super villian. Only two of these things are related to Wargame:Red Dragon's new free campaign DLC.
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Post by Adkenpachi on Sept 2, 2014 18:29:11 GMT -5
Today, reds is my hero and someone lucky is getting a pm
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