Ezelek wrote:
Wandering Idiot wrote:
Archivep0wned.
obsessive pedantry
oh WI, could you please use said pedantry to define how "this is bad" = "i hate this". :(
Why, certainly.
Now then, after correcting your egregious lack of capitalization on the 'I', we get:
"this is bad" = "I hate this"
Utilizing the standard ASCII character set, 'this is bad' becomes the binary string:
Code:
0111010001101000011010010111001100100000011010010111001100100000011000100110000101100100
Whereas 'I hate this' is of course:
Code:
0100100100100000011010000110000101110100011001010010000001110100011010000110100101110011
Note the identical 88-bit string length.
This will be important later."Aha!" you then shout, "But adding up all the 1's in the first binary string gives us 36, while the second gives only
35!" Did I *say* I was done? Give me more credit, poopyhead.
Now then, 36 is the atomic number of the element Krypton, whereas 35 is the highest number one can count to on one's finger using base-6 notation (go ahead, try it). Try to keep up on this next part. The last two digits in each of the aforementioned binary strings are opposites. The opposite of "last" is "first", so flipping the
first two digits of the second string to their opposites gives us 10, which when multiplied by the 6 above makes "base-6" into "base-60". And of course the ancient Babylonian number system was base-60, but you already knew that.
Getting back to the first string, Krypton is the traditional birthplace of Superman, also known as Kal-El, the first part of which, "Kal" forms the exact middle of the name of the ancient Sumerian underworld, Irkalla. In Sumerian mythology, that underworld was overtaken by the deity Nergal, whose name you'll notice is only one 'M' away from that of Nermal, the annoying kitten character in the comic strip
Garfield. It's a well-know fact that Jim Davis, its creator, sacrifices 33 kittens daily to the ancient Sumerian god Marduk
* in order to keep his strip a success, despite the fact that it has sucked for roughly the last decade.
* Whose name incidentally
starts with an 'M'. Very funny, Mr. Davis.
The number 33 is
not important in this proof.
Jim Davis was a member of the Theta Xi fraternity in college, whose "patron saint" is Benjamin Franklin, who as you will recall from history class made frequent diplomatic trips to France.
Remember I said that the 88-bit length would be important? Well, get out your pocketbook, because the piper is now
demanding monetary remuneration. Combining the substituted 'M' from before with 88 gives M88, the name of a spiral galaxy discovered by Charles Messier in 1781. And Charles Messier? Was
French.
Marduk was later incorporated into Babylonian mythology. The very same Babylonians who had the
base-60 number system. I think you can see where I'm going with this. The rest should be so obvious I hardly need to spell it out, but I'll do so anyway for the sake of completeness.
Quickly then, we derived base-60 from base 6 originally, and 6 minus 1 ('1' being the last digit in the second binary string) equals 5. The beginning of the 5th octet in the
first string is 001, which reversed is 110 (just to support the connection, Bistro 110 is the name of a popular
French restaurant in Chicago). "But the beginning of the 5th octet in the second string is 011, which reversed is
100, not 110, thereby proving the utter fallacy of your claim!", you are no doubt squealing so hard the spittle flies from your lips. Give me a moment, will you? Because by the Law of Fives, 100 is related to 110 since 110=5*22 and 100=5*20. Multiplying 5 by the first digit in the last number of that equation for 100 gives 5*2, or 10, which added to 100 gives us
110. Now do you comprehend the depths of your folly?
Since 110=110, therefore
Code:
0111010001101000011010010111001100100000011010010111001100100000011000100110000101100100
is clearly equivalent to
Code:
0100100100100000011010000110000101110100011001010010000001110100011010000110100101110011
Thus
proving that "this is bad" is indeed equal to "I hate this"!
Q.E.D.
Or, I could just do it the boring way:
Roget's website wrote:
Main Entry: hate·ful (hāt'fəl)
Part of Speech: adjective
........1. Eliciting or deserving hatred.
Synonyms: [...]bad[...]
But where would be the fun in that? :)
Ezelek wrote:
What I am saying is
Wandering Idiot wrote:
[Bokurano] is basically a deconstruction* of the whole mecha genre, probably the best since Evangelion.
is not true on any level known to mankind. Unless evangelion is the only anime you have ever seen with mechs in it ever.
Given that I clarified I was talking specifically about the show that best takes the piss out of the "super-robot fights succession of giant enemies" genre, I fail to see the problem. But given that my knowledge of anime is hardly encyclopedic, if you have an answer for this question:
Wandering Idiot earlier wrote:
Is there a better recent example I missed of a show that takes a critical look at the genre conventions without being an outright parody?
Then by all means... (I'm not being facetious, I'm honestly curious)
Edible Corpse wrote:
and a great mecha show right now is Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann.
I just watched the first two episodes. Wow, that was pretty random. It's practically the opposite of Bokurano in some ways. I keep getting Dead Leaves vibes from it, and not just because of the whole phallic-drill fixation. Some of the facial expressions, the commercial title cards, and the whole "I'm surprised it's comprehensible at all"-style of action scenes seem similar. I'm guessing they must share some staff who came over from Production I.G.