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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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One step forward, two steps back... Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
As much as I love (for instance) this forum, the recent revelations about government surveillance make me want to smash everything I own that has a network connection. Unlike most of my friends, I have no problem with my phone being out of commission. I'm considering ditching the smartphone at the end of my contract, not that that would make a great big difference.
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In other news' date=' I'm fucking tired of fireworks. They're right up there with ice cream trucks as noise pollutants that make me want to claw my own eardrums out. They trade places; the ice cream trucks keep going till about 9pm, and the fireworks frequently don't stop til about 3am.[/quote'] Thank you, I thought I was the only non-senior citizen to abhor fireworks. Maybe it's the same reason why I'm not a Michael Bay fan, I just can't stay entertained just watching one explosion after another, what's the point? At least they don't drive my dogs crazy, which I know is a problem many pet owners have. I do love it when the fire trucks roll around the neighborhoods during this season though, my dogs erupt into a chorus mimicking the sirens. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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In other news' date=' I'm fucking tired of fireworks. They're right up there with ice cream trucks as noise pollutants that make me want to claw my own eardrums out. They trade places; the ice cream trucks keep going till about 9pm, and the fireworks frequently don't stop til about 3am.[/quote'] I'll be sure to stay off your lawn.
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Thank you, I thought I was the only non-senior citizen to abhor fireworks. Maybe it's the same reason why I'm not a Michael Bay fan, I just can't stay entertained just watching one explosion after another, what's the point? At least they don't drive my dogs crazy, which I know is a problem many pet owners have. I do love it when the fire trucks roll around the neighborhoods during this season though, my dogs erupt into a chorus mimicking the sirens. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
That's hilarious and cute. We have fire trucks and ambulances going by all the time, I'm sure they'd be a source of constant entertainment here... I've never been to the NYC July 4th fireworks extravaganza, no point dealing with all the fucking people, it's almost as bad as going to Times Square for New Year's. "Fireworks" here just means assholes keeping the entire neighborhood awake till all hours.
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Precisely. Their stories just get deeper and more fucked up as the series progresses.
I'm kinda just waiting for the inevitable bonings to start happening since that's usually the kind of thing for which 'disturbing' is shorthand; but I have to admit they're doing a very good job making these characters interesting without having to do that.
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I'm kinda just waiting for the inevitable bonings to start happening since that's usually the kind of thing for which 'disturbing' is shorthand; but I have to admit they're doing a very good job making these characters interesting without having to do that.
There's really not much of that. Kaji is kind of a player, but Shinji is a coward that can't express his desires, and his most intimate relationship is with a male character later in the story. That's not really a spoiler, but you'll see how it adds to his complex. Every time you think you know a character, more is revealed to show that they are nothing like what you had imagined, in a fairly sick way. By the end, I don't know that you'll find a noble character in the bunch, and all of them just meet with crazy amounts of tragedy and madness. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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There's really not much of that. Kaji is kind of a player, but Shinji is a coward that can't express his desires, and his most intimate relationship is with a male character later in the story. That's not really a spoiler, but you'll see how it adds to his complex. Every time you think you know a character, more is revealed to show that they are nothing like what you had imagined, in a fairly sick way. By the end, I don't know that you'll find a noble character in the bunch, and all of them just meet with crazy amounts of tragedy and madness. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
I especially like Misato, Ritsuko and Kaji, all of them come across as likeable and yet no more morally upright than the other so none of them are really justified in trying to hold the ethical high ground. I like that Kaji's not a kind of useless twit or just a Bond archetype but that he's fairly good at hiding what he's really like whilst his 'alternate' personality is reasonably engaging. In particular I thought the scene where he's carrying a drunk Misato home was great since what both of them were saying could well have been true, or false, or motivated by something other than candor - especially with regards to their feelings toward the other. For that matter, I like Misato, she seems to be an excellent example of what a flawed strong female character actually should be like. The show doesn't have to force you to like her, she's a likeable individual but you never lose sight of her shortcomings. I don't like the show's xenophobia though. I swear every non-Japanese character is just based on Commodore Perry. Still, it's better than Code Geass where the world has been taken over by 'the Empire of Britannia'...
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I especially like Misato' date=' Ritsuko and Kaji, all of them come across as likeable and yet no more morally upright than the other so none of them are really justified in trying to hold the ethical high ground. I like that Kaji's not a kind of useless twit or just a Bond archetype but that he's fairly good at hiding what he's really like whilst his 'alternate' personality is reasonably engaging. In particular I thought the scene where he's carrying a drunk Misato home was great since what both of them were saying could well have been true, or false, or motivated by something other than candor - especially with regards to their feelings toward the other. For that matter, I like Misato, she seems to be an excellent example of what a flawed strong female character actually [i']should be like. The show doesn't have to force you to like her, she's a likeable individual but you never lose sight of her shortcomings. I don't like the show's xenophobia though. I swear every non-Japanese character is just based on Commodore Perry. Still, it's better than Code Geass where the world has been taken over by 'the Empire of Britannia'...
All of them have plenty to hide, but are certainly likeable on the surface. Misato probably ends up being the least deplorable character by the end, Kaji is not far off, but his role is minor. As far as the anime stereotypes go, I don't really mind. The animation is well done, and it improves as the battle scenes become more gruesome and the angels more horrifying, especially the battle with Unit 03. Toward the end of the series though, it tapers off and becomes more psychological, the production company was low on funds and focused less on new animation for the last few episodes. The ending 2 part episode is brilliant, but many of the fans didn't like the psychological aspect, so they later released The End of Evangelion as a movie, with is basically episodes 25b and 26b. These show what the physical aspect of the playing out of the human instrumentality project looked like, mirroring the psychological, and it's pretty fucking crazy. I was still a teenager when I got into that show, and I would often not sleep after playing through the later episodes, they were a lot to wrap my head around and were twisted in a way I hadn't seen before. The End of Evangelion kept me up for a few nights, and has stuck with me ever since. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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