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  1. On 19/04/2018 at 6:33 PM, Mr Poltroon said:

    And a happy birthday to @Down, as I need to maintain good relations with my superiors.

     

    On 19/04/2018 at 9:14 PM, Plk_Lesiak said:

    Happy Birthday to @Down!

    I mean, it's always better to be on good terms with global mods, right? :sachi:

    A "superior" or global mod which you almost never see on the forums can't be that frightening uh? =o

    Thanks for the wishes!

  2. 24 minutes ago, Flutterz said:

    Paging @Down because he smurt

    Not my research topic so I'm not an expert, but you're right. The negative mass we're talking about here is an "effective negative mass" which is a result of the numerous strange behaviours that exotic states of matter like Bose-Einstein condensates display. Transposing classical concepts like mass to these purely quantum states of matter where even the notion of a substantial, individual particle breaks down would be misleading, it's quite different from what's involved in the speculative "negative mass" in general relativity.

    But both are still cool. That's why we read sci-fi.

  3. 20 minutes ago, Okarin said:

    Did Kia Asamiya invent harem anime with Nadesico? What do you think? Not enough haremettes? Does the championship go to Love Hina?

    Arguably Rumiko Takahashi was already doing harems in the 80s (Ranma 1/2 for example). And there's always the (fairly probable) possibility that some obscure manga author did it before.

     

    Oh, I forgot FMP! indeed. Fumoffu is funny as hell and Second Raid was awesome. The first series is far from being bad either.

  4. 8 hours ago, solidbatman said:

    GaoGaiGar, I've never heard of that one. 

    It's a super robot show with a late 90s feeling, quite different from Go Nagai stuff. The robots look like actual toys. It's a bit peculiar to get used to, but it's fun. And the end of the main series and the Finale OVAs rival Gurren Lagann in epicness without a doubt. They're pretty unbelievable.

  5. Hm. In no particular order I'd say:

    Evangelion
    Yamato 2199
    Patlabor (everything)
    Gunbuster
    Harlock 78
    Gurren Lagann
    GaoGaiGar
    Planetes
    Rahxephon
    Zeta Gundam
    And worth seeing movies include Macross DYRL, Waga seishun no Arcadia, the two Galaxy Express 999 movies, the three Gundam 0079 movies... I'm probably forgetting stuff.

    Of course you've seen some of those already, but well.
     

  6. Well, this is rather putting into the TOS and enforcing more something that existed already. Video makers have had videos de-monetized before because of their topics, such as the Israel-Palestine conflict or the genocides in Rwanda. That's the kind of content that gets booted out, not actually questionable content like people promoting sexual harassment or w/e.
    But that only follows the tacit rule of the media, which is to never displease the advertisers.

    Which IS concerning for video makers, of course. But that's just one of the consequences of having just two platforms viable for getting exposure when you're a professional video maker, both of which are run by huge privately owned companies. There's no easy solution. Making a video sharing platform involves fairly huge costs, after all, so something run by a non-profit or self-organized seems unlikely to come out in the near future (and I don't believe in the liberal bullshit that concurrency b/w private companies will make things better).

    The solution, which is already emerging anyway, is for video makers to find alternative ways of funding their work, such as patreon. Most people who don't make literally millions of hits on youtube make most of their money through crowdfunding already. And those who make millions of hits are already doing consensual content that pleases advertisers anyway.

  7. 18 minutes ago, john 'mr. customer' smith said:

    I guess Kyoani if they went full Nichijou on it might work too

    I wonder. I don't think Yotsuba fits KyoAni's regular brand of SoL that well (Nichijou being an exception, but quite different from Yotsuba too I think).

    19 minutes ago, john 'mr. customer' smith said:

    Interesting point. Do you think a child actor would work well?

    Well, you lose the skills of a pro, adult seiyuu but on the other hand it'd be more genuine.

    Ghibli always has kids doing the kids roles in their films, and it works. I think it worked fairly well too for Naru in Barakamon (although it sounded odd at the beginning), and she's a rather similar kind of character. There's also Tsumugi in Amaama this season. Overall it tends to sound off to an anime fan because we're so used to pro seiyuu, but on the other hand for a child that young it's a reasonable choice.

  8. 8 minutes ago, Sonicboom2.0 said:

    What studio would you trust for the job in your guy's opinions?

    Dogakobo would be a really good choice. They have the staff and the experience to handle it.

    But really most studios would do as long as they could gather a staff of skilled character animators with a knack for visual humor and silly faces, which isn't the rarest currency in the industry. Another crucial point would be Yotsuba's seiyuu, but I'm not sure if there really is an inherent difficulty in the storytelling.

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