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Post by Crazydave on May 15, 2006 21:50:58 GMT
I cannot understand your attendance of those things at all. ;D ;D ;D because standing two steps in front of a speaker system 3 metres high feels good. Dubstep is like the perfect blend of meditation and violence. Almost spiritual
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Post by Emily on May 15, 2006 22:46:02 GMT
...? each to their own.
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Post by stokerino on May 16, 2006 23:32:58 GMT
Good grief, the science in Melancholy is so damn hard to keep up with. It's awesome, but bloody complex at the same time. Obviously part of the problem is that at times they're referring to things that they've presumably explained already in a (chronologically) earlier episode.
Something else that was awesome about this episode: Koizumi (the flouncy haired male lead of the Magical Girl episode) - who is an ESPer - yelled out Full Metal Panic series names when he was doing attacks. First off, some manner of psychic fireball - "Fumoffu!". Next, some yellow whizzy thing - "Second Raid!". Haha!
When I say he was doing attacks, this was of course not on our reality plane. Apparently his powers can manifest when they're in 'Closed Space' - or, in this particular instance, when they're in a digital manifestation of reality created by a malevolent data-based alien creature that crashed on earth millennia ago but lay dormant until there came an appropriate electromagnetic network suitable for it to live in (i.e. the internet). Then, when accidentally triggered by a specific data cache (the jpeg file for the SOS Brigade logo that Haruhi randomly designed, because she just has a tendency to inadvertedly do things like that), it hyperlinked to several thousand locations and copied its own data into the brains of humans who saw the logo, which in turn created pockets of Closed Space, trapping them within so that the life form was able to use their brain tissue to heighten its own probability of existence. It was on that alternative plane, that Koizumi was able to use his ESP attacks.
Yeah, that's just my attempt to follow the science in this episode. I mean come on...
Next, episode 8 - chronological episode 10 - and the sequel to the murder mystery episode! Wooo!
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Post by Ally on May 17, 2006 6:40:09 GMT
I HAVE to see this! Luckily FMP has finished downloading now, so I can start on something else...
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Post by Crazydave on May 20, 2006 16:07:57 GMT
When I say he was doing attacks, this was of course not on our reality plane. Apparently his powers can manifest when they're in 'Closed Space' - or, in this particular instance, when they're in a digital manifestation of reality created by a malevolent data-based alien creature that crashed on earth millennia ago but lay dormant until there came an appropriate electromagnetic network suitable for it to live in (i.e. the internet). Then, when accidentally triggered by a specific data cache (the jpeg file for the SOS Brigade logo that Haruhi randomly designed, because she just has a tendency to inadvertedly do things like that), it hyperlinked to several thousand locations and copied its own data into the brains of humans who saw the logo, which in turn created pockets of Closed Space, trapping them within so that the life form was able to use their brain tissue to heighten its own probability of existence. It was on that alternative plane, that Koizumi was able to use his ESP attacks. Yeah, that's just my attempt to follow the science in this episode. I mean come on... That makes the 'Matrix' plot look like an episode of Biff & Chips. ...and no, the white room which unsuccessfully tried to wow us with its immense confusingness doesn't count.
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Post by Emily on May 20, 2006 19:14:41 GMT
i'm now up to date now, who's telling you which episode is chronologically which?
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Post by stokerino on May 20, 2006 19:20:22 GMT
Haruhi is the one telling you the chronological order. Kyon corrects her and states the order as its being shown. Alternatively you can consult the handy little list over at Anime News Network
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Post by Ally on May 20, 2006 19:30:56 GMT
Goddammit! My Azureus doesn't work any more, and the other Bittorrent client I downloaded is crap and won't do anything. Tim, can you recommend a good Bittorrent client for me?
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Post by stokerino on May 20, 2006 19:34:52 GMT
I haven't used any others. An alternative is that I could just give you Yasha's log in information to Anime-Direct, a pay-by-month website allowing direct downloads to a great many anime episodes including all the new ones. That sound good?
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Post by Ally on May 20, 2006 19:46:50 GMT
If Yasha's OK with that...
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Post by stokerino on May 20, 2006 19:53:02 GMT
Yasha's okay with anyone using it. I use it, Em (could) use it, Mr. Watson uses it, so on and so forth.
I'll send you the details via this board's private messaging system.
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Post by Emily on May 20, 2006 20:19:34 GMT
yeah but i use your accounts instead...
this is probably why I should watch the end credits of things and not just skip them...
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Post by stokerino on May 20, 2006 20:21:37 GMT
The other reason, of course, being that the dance routine that plays intermittantly throughout the Melancholy credits is just that awesome.
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Post by Emily on May 20, 2006 20:29:07 GMT
no it isn't, its totally lame.... you are such a girl...
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Post by stokerino on May 20, 2006 20:37:37 GMT
I'm not sure where you infer 'girl' from this one...being that it's just an animation sequence, about which there is nothing overtly gender-specific. Not least that you, clearly a girl, don't like it.
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Post by Emily on May 20, 2006 20:39:02 GMT
its a choreographed dance routine! not V. manly!
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Post by stokerino on May 20, 2006 20:44:55 GMT
If we start looking at what, in anime, can be designated as 'not very manly viewing' then that's a great big Pandora's Box (literally, hohoho) of problems.
I think it's primarily the fact that they seem to be animating the sequence with more frames than normal that makes it look faster/smoother/cooler.
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Post by Emily on May 20, 2006 20:49:52 GMT
you like the dancing, i bet you'd be up there doing the dance moves along with yash if you didn't think i'd find out about it. ;D
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Post by stokerino on May 20, 2006 21:44:29 GMT
SHE is determined to learn the moves. I'M not.
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Post by Ally on May 20, 2006 22:27:35 GMT
Thanks Tim (and Yasha) !
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