Re: [Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

[Scienza]

Same with me. Scienza have you seen Stand Alone Complex? It's philosophical without being pretentious.

I've been meaning to. I'm also a cyberpunk nut, so it's been at the top of my list of shows to watch for a while now.

[Scyto Harmony]

My taste in anime tends to range towards the serious philosophical side of the medium, so stuff like Madoka, Evangelion, etc. I'm pretentious as hell, so I get a kick out of deconstructions and philosophical examinations and whatnot. The fact that I still haven't seen Ghost in the Shell is a sin for which I burn every day.

I also love the shit out of more fun anime like Cowboy Bebop and KLK, though.

Have you watched Stein's Gate?

[Stringtheory]

Same with me. Scienza have you seen Stand Alone Complex? It's philosophical without being pretentious.

I've been meaning to. I'm also a cyberpunk nut, so it's been at the top of my list of shows to watch for a while now.

You can find it on Hulu, the first season's free on youtube: link. I'd recommend watching the dub if you can't understand Japanese, since at least for me, subtitles in this show go by too fast to properly comprehend when it drops into 'blunt force philosophy'.

[Stringtheory]

An amazing anime is Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, just the right balance of talking, action, and philosophy from an interesting perspective in a cyberpunk world (It's the only work that I've encountered where tapping an entire country's communications is seen as the right solution).

Oooh, I loved that.
Gosh, I would no anything for complete cyberization...
The hacker speak is fun, too, with just enough real life basis to not be complete rubbish.

I've yet to find a better anime, it's that good in my mind and I will jump into a debate to defend it.
On the one hand going full prosthetic body would be cool, but with the threat of someone hacking your actual brain (everything from false memories to complete control over you) not to mention other...downsides (no genitals). I'd probably give full prosthetices a pass, I'd probably get fully cyberized like Aoi.

[Vinylshadow]

I remember watching Ghost in the Shell when I was a wee lad

Didn't understand any of it

[Stringtheory]

I remember watching Ghost in the Shell when I was a wee lad

Didn't understand any of it

Watch it again, you'll hopefully understand it (more) now. The movies' are...okay, not amazing, that honor is reserved for Stand Alone Complex.

[Scienza]

Have you watched Stein's Gate?

I haven't. Is it good?

Same with me. Scienza have you seen Stand Alone Complex? It's philosophical without being pretentious.

...it can get pretty pretentious at times, but less than the movies and second series.

I'm fine with pretentious. I'm a sucker for pretentious.

[Vinylshadow]

26 episodes, 19 gigs

Eh, I can handle that

Really should get around to finishing .Hack//SIGN while it's downloading...

[Stringtheory]

Same with me. Scienza have you seen Stand Alone Complex? It's philosophical without being pretentious.

...it can get pretty pretentious at times, but less than the movies and second series.

Yeah, I'll admit it occasionally gets a bit pretentious, but at least unlike a lot of other pretentious examples I could mention, the plot still maintains a decent speed.

Have you watched Stein's Gate?

I haven't. Is it good?

If you like time travel then yes. The plot could probably move a bit faster, especially at first, but it does pretty well at building tension.

[Stringtheory]

26 episodes, 19 gigs

Eh, I can handle that

Really should get around to finishing .Hack//SIGN while it's downloading...

If you can, go watch it on youtube: link, all you'll be missing is the occasional translation for background Japanese text.

[Scyto Harmony]

Have you watched Stein's Gate?

I haven't. Is it good?

Personally it's the best anime I've ever watched. A bit slow at first but it's one of those ones that when you get to the end and all the loose ends wrap up and you go "oooooooooooohhhhhhhh, That was awesome!".

Edit: Oh yeah, and conspiracy. Lots and lots of conspiracy.

[Stringtheory]

Have you watched Stein's Gate?

I haven't. Is it good?

Personally it's the best anime I've ever watched. A bit slow at first but it's one of those ones that when you get to the end and all the loose ends wrap up and you go "oooooooooooohhhhhhhh, That was awesome!".

Make sure you watch a fan sub, the official subs (and dub) replace the japanese jokes with out-of-place English/internet ones.

[Vinylshadow]

Pitch did it:

At least the epitaph fits

heh, nothing ever said in the background is important...

[Tytan]

Personally I'd recommend Trigun. It's kinda goofy, and it's age is showing, but it's definitely a classic.

But what I'd recommend for Iron is Pumpkin Scissors. Because it's got a lot of things I'm pretty sure he likes, including:

Post WWI Pre WWII setting.
Takes place in an alternate history Germany.
Has tanks.
Has conspiracies.
Has gratuitous murder.
Has blatant nightmare fuel.
Has a gentle giant that becomes a psychopathic killer at will.
Has a female lead character who has a giant sword thingy that can crush a mans skull through a helmet.
It also has a recurring dick joke.

[Frost]

Yeah, I think I've watched a few episodes of that. I like the flamethrower dude that melted or whatever.

It's been a while.

[Vinylshadow]

You must be fun at parties

Wanna wallflower together?

[OneMoreDaySK]

Rito, what are you doing? I do not believe rebooting the lore to appeal to those who never cared for lore in the first place will make them care any more, and those who do care will be irate. Gameplay and story used to be integrated to a degree, and now you want to have them split? And what's this poor excuse that you call lore now a days? Gutting characters to make them fit. Skarner used to be the last of his kind for a reason, now turned into a gatekeeper monster for Shurelia. And Xerath, a character with a tragic backstory turned into Jafar.
*face-to-pillow-screaming*

[Vinylshadow]

Anime spitting on your childhood again?


Eh, don't feel bad, Swick, you're not the first to want to tie my wings and buck me off a cliff
Life's no fun if you don't have any enemies

It's rather fun, especially if its got lots of sharp rocks you have to avoid on the way down to land on the field of jagged rocks below~♥
I always try for a faceplant, that seems to appease many people who hate me

[Vinylshadow]

Lovely, we have something in common

No doubt he senses your rage and has wisely gone into hiding

*sips tea* he'll show himself when he;s good and ready

[Harmony Ltd.]

You must be fun at parties

Wanna wallflower together?

...I'm really not sure I could stand much more proximity to you than I already do.

That will be a Slam and a Dunk, if I'm not mistaken.

[Frost]

Lovely, we have something in common

No doubt he senses your rage and has wisely gone into hiding

*sips tea* he'll show himself when he;s good and ready

I have to wonder if you're really so dense as to realize almost no one likes you, or if you just are in denial because we're probably the only ones who talk to you.

[Scyto Harmony]

Lovely, we have something in common

No doubt he senses your rage and has wisely gone into hiding

*sips tea* he'll show himself when he;s good and ready

I have to wonder if you're really so dense as to realize almost no one likes you, or if you just are in denial because we're probably the only ones who talk to you.

Or, if a less hostile way of putting it will get through to you; This isn't the place for you dude, move on.

[Vinylshadow]

And people keep telling to go to other sites, meet new people, broaden my horizons...

Yet when I do....people hate me

I CAN'T WIN

[Frost]

Try being less repulsive.

[Frost]

I'd be more sympathetic, but as we discovered a few days ago, sympathy isn't really something that clicks for you

[Vinylshadow]

So people keep telling me

Hiss?:

Ironic, since I'm rather affectionate from time to time

[Guest]

Re: Anime
Granted, I mostly read manga over anime because I control the pace, but occasionaly I watch one here or there.  Not a huge fan of fanservice for the sake of fanservice, and certainly not of love polygons.  A bit uninterested in most shounen manga.  In contrast to that, I enjoy Toriko, One Punch Man, and Kill La Kill.  Fairy Tail to me is around the same level as the big three.  Getting recommendations for Psycho Pass.  Want to eventually watch Nanoha.

Psychopass is pretty good, it's got the occasional plothole, I'm not sure if that's an issue with translation or not. I always watch the dubs when experimenting with anime. Worse case scenario an anime is bad the dub will at least usually be funny. But besides that it's definitely got some pretty interesting ideas in it.

[OneMoreDaySK]

@last
Heard that it is a bit reminiscent of the film Minority Report. Biggest problem with anime for me (aside from the dub/sub argument. I like original dubs (also find it hilarious when there are calls for the RWBY original jp dub) with English subs) is the amount of time needed for each episode. A lot of crime drama shows I can just toss on the background and pretty much visualize what happens on screen (like NCIS or CSI). But there is a lot of humor to be missed if I do not visually and auditorially pay attention.

Also, nice avatar, what is that supposed to be? Kinda looks like (s)he is doing part of Gangnam Style.

[Vinylshadow]

There's always something lost in translation, and then even more is lost in terms of dubs, which is why I tend to go for the original japanese releases as often as I can

[Guest]

Also, nice avatar, what is that supposed to be? Kinda looks like (s)he is doing part of Gangnam Style.

She's my attempt at humanizing your character. And it's just fail posing on my part, accidentally made one leg too long and her arms are supposed to be crossed but it's hard to convey that with circle hands.

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