What I want to know is why sushi places all do half price sushi constantly
Was some ancient sushi master a fan of very simple division?
It's a marketing gimmick.
Like have you ever seen a pair of jeans marked 1/2 off but they're still $40? They never actually sell them at $80, they just tell people it's half price so they think they're getting a deal.
I get that, sure. My mom loves to shop at Kohl's and this is their entire business model.
Why so ubiquitous with sushi, though
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The good news is that I've kept my carboys busy. The Dunkelweizen is pouring now and it's not bad. The IPA is now connected for carbonation. The Blonde Ale is 10 days from kegging.
I was expecting to have a reserve, but at this rate I'll be brewing every two weeks just to keep beer available. :P
I've always been curious about this since I've only seen the first movie and stand alone, but being a full on android/cyborg the Major's gender was always murky to me especially in the movie.
From that I got the sense that the major was a man utilizing a female body.
Do the manga touch on this or am I just crazy.
I think it is at least hinted at some point or another, though I think it is intentionally left unclear.
Also, I dunno about in the manga, maybe GitS2? Never read that one.
The second season of the show had a flashback where the Major as a little girl who was involved in an accident. Her ghost was saved but her body was lost. She tried to convince the one-armed crane-folding kid that being a robot isn't so bad.
There was definitely... I think one of the older ghost in the shell titles that at one point hinted that possibly Motoko had maybe possibly been born male, though it was very slim. But pretty much none of the other GitS stuff has ever gone that route at all. Besides for Motoko the issue is less "Am I male or female?" and more "Does me having a gender at all even mean anything?"
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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@cinders do you ever wish that there was an alternate universe in addition to ours where after Deep Cuts the Knife ignored gender identity, income inequality, and increasingly atonal techno and focused solely on melancholy pop songs about being broken hearted
Yeah, sometimes. But at the same time, without that stuff, I feel like it wouldn't be the knife.
Vast redesigns necessary before I fly that deathtrap with a person on it
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A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I've always been curious about this since I've only seen the first movie and stand alone, but being a full on android/cyborg the Major's gender was always murky to me especially in the movie.
From that I got the sense that the major was a man utilizing a female body.
Do the manga touch on this or am I just crazy.
I think it is at least hinted at some point or another, though I think it is intentionally left unclear.
Also, I dunno about in the manga, maybe GitS2? Never read that one.
The second season of the show had a flashback where the Major as a little girl who was involved in an accident. Her ghost was saved but her body was lost. She tried to convince the one-armed crane-folding kid that being a robot isn't so bad.
There was definitely... I think one of the older ghost in the shell titles that at one point hinted that possibly Motoko had maybe possibly been born male, though it was very slim. But pretty much none of the other GitS stuff has ever gone that route at all. Besides for Motoko the issue is less "Am I male or female?" and more "Does me having a gender at all even mean anything?"
You can get reductive and say does having a human form mean anything? Stick the Major's brain in a Tachikoma and let it fight international crime.
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I've always been curious about this since I've only seen the first movie and stand alone, but being a full on android/cyborg the Major's gender was always murky to me especially in the movie.
From that I got the sense that the major was a man utilizing a female body.
Do the manga touch on this or am I just crazy.
To say yes would be an understatement
Edit: that gender as a concept is a thing that is explored not that the major is actually make
Ok this is literally making me feel ill
I thought you asked a completely different question from what you apparently asked? I dunno
But who would you rather have a beer with? God? Or Satan?
I've long held the defects of creation reflection the sins of the creator. The arguments against the problem of evil are exceedingly uncompelling, and appropriately, when considering protagonists who people are not predisposed to give the benefit of the doubt, like Frankenstein, we see that it was his cruelty, his pride, his wickedness that made his "monster" a monster.
Beer with Satan any day, with the caveat that by "beer" I mean whiskey.
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Ok that's enough I am done thinking for tonight head hurts
Also, are you guys upset that the Major isn't asian?
Because the Major is almost entirely robot, she can be whatever race she wants.
While I do not entirely disagree - fictional worldview being a nebulous concept and all - I think this line of argument is uncomfortable at best when it amounts to justifying casting a white woman in a role that could easily have been taken by, as you say, any other race.
I mean, true.
And like, it raises other questions like "is it still going to be set in Japan?"
Because, that's, like, a sort of massive part of GitS.
I am very curious how they will show the Mega-city.
I know you can do it right. Hell we did it in the 80's with Blade Runner.
But I am worried we will get Vancouver being NYC or LA or something like that because again it is safe for Hollywood studios to think that way.
If it is set in the US I'm just not going to watch it
And I fucking love scarjo
I dunno, it being completely adapted to an american story would make the casting better imo
casting scarjo and putting it in japan would just make me turn it into a really weird Lost In Translation sequel in my head
If it was set in America the setting would lose so much, though.
Like, that was such a big part of it "here is Future Japan".
Future America would be a totally different place.
iirc we are not the good guys
Like at all.
It's like someone cranked up the Imperialism to 11
tbf one of the big genre twists that GitS stages on cyberpunk is that Motoko Kusanagi isn't one of the good guys either.
Section 11 cleans up government messes, often in questionably legal ways. Japan is still supposed to be a democracy but it's not a particularly liberal one.
America is depicted as pretty willing to be brutal... But not any more than every other government actor in that world.
GitS is cyberpunk where knowledge doesn't want to be free and where plucky young bands of revolutionaries get arrested by people like Motoko.
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A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I've always been curious about this since I've only seen the first movie and stand alone, but being a full on android/cyborg the Major's gender was always murky to me especially in the movie.
From that I got the sense that the major was a man utilizing a female body.
Do the manga touch on this or am I just crazy.
I think it is at least hinted at some point or another, though I think it is intentionally left unclear.
Also, I dunno about in the manga, maybe GitS2? Never read that one.
The second season of the show had a flashback where the Major as a little girl who was involved in an accident. Her ghost was saved but her body was lost. She tried to convince the one-armed crane-folding kid that being a robot isn't so bad.
There was definitely... I think one of the older ghost in the shell titles that at one point hinted that possibly Motoko had maybe possibly been born male, though it was very slim. But pretty much none of the other GitS stuff has ever gone that route at all. Besides for Motoko the issue is less "Am I male or female?" and more "Does me having a gender at all even mean anything?"
You can get reductive and say does having a human form mean anything? Stick the Major's brain in a Tachikoma and let it fight international crime.
That's basically what's already been done to Motoko
Except the robot she lives in is designed to fit into human society
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Also, are you guys upset that the Major isn't asian?
Because the Major is almost entirely robot, she can be whatever race she wants.
While I do not entirely disagree - fictional worldview being a nebulous concept and all - I think this line of argument is uncomfortable at best when it amounts to justifying casting a white woman in a role that could easily have been taken by, as you say, any other race.
I mean, true.
And like, it raises other questions like "is it still going to be set in Japan?"
Because, that's, like, a sort of massive part of GitS.
I am very curious how they will show the Mega-city.
I know you can do it right. Hell we did it in the 80's with Blade Runner.
But I am worried we will get Vancouver being NYC or LA or something like that because again it is safe for Hollywood studios to think that way.
If it is set in the US I'm just not going to watch it
And I fucking love scarjo
I dunno, it being completely adapted to an american story would make the casting better imo
casting scarjo and putting it in japan would just make me turn it into a really weird Lost In Translation sequel in my head
Honestly, GITS can work pretty much everywhere. I think ScarJo is kinda mid tier in terms of casting (though am willing to be convinced otherwise), but a lot of GITS relies on other stuff, IMHO. We need the script writers and director to do a good job to a huge extent.
She's super high profile, hot, already trained for stuntwork, good actress.
Name someone at that profile with that skillset.
Honestly, I would rather casting reflect closer to the original, and I would prefer Japan. But I also want to see the movie get made so I'll allow for this kinda hollywood shit until I see a trailer that proves they have no idea what they're doing with the actual story.
I never watched the cartoon so I will just see the movie then tell nerds how wrong they are based on it.
It's more that like, GitS tends to reflect a Japanese viewpoint of modernizing in a colonial world.
Nobody can really be trusted, everyone is trying to cut up the world into their own spheres, international human rights is respected only in name, and the Japanese government sucks and is probably going to get us into dumb wars but what can you do, there's no better alternative.
GitS's opinion on international affairs doesn't really fit the outlook of an American audience, where even when we recognize the fictitiousness of it we still tend to assume a position of privileged autonomy, innate hopefulness and prosperity and freedom for all.
Most American cyberpunk or other dystopian future-ist stuff still doesn't really pay any attention to international pressures. Things might suck now, maybe if it was produced in the '80s there's a lot more Japanese businessmen around, but the fundamental American-ness of the setting is still unquestioned, if that makes sense. GitS's Japanese cyberpunk future on the other hand is dominated by foreign and class pressures that cannot be ignored.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
Wikipedia says Stand Alone Complex aired in 2005. The show's creators may have taken a not-so-optimistic view of America's place in the world.
The series was based on the original manga, which came out in 1989-1990, and operated in a setting where World War 3 had already taken place and both the Soviets and the United States controlled more territory than in real-life.
I've always been curious about this since I've only seen the first movie and stand alone, but being a full on android/cyborg the Major's gender was always murky to me especially in the movie.
From that I got the sense that the major was a man utilizing a female body.
Do the manga touch on this or am I just crazy.
To say yes would be an understatement
Edit: that gender as a concept is a thing that is explored not that the major is actually make
Ok this is literally making me feel ill
I thought you asked a completely different question from what you apparently asked? I dunno
@Elldren Crap. No I was just curious because iirc in the old movie Batou mentions the major picking a female body. It wasn't ever something I lost sleep over but I had just always wondered.
Like "What's in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction" kind of wondered
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You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
You don't want to stick your brain in a tachikoma because they already have adorable personalities you can't overwrite those!
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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And then Billy Joel stole it and turned it into a song. That animal!
I get that, sure. My mom loves to shop at Kohl's and this is their entire business model.
Why so ubiquitous with sushi, though
That is more beer than I drink in a year, Jesus.
There was definitely... I think one of the older ghost in the shell titles that at one point hinted that possibly Motoko had maybe possibly been born male, though it was very slim. But pretty much none of the other GitS stuff has ever gone that route at all. Besides for Motoko the issue is less "Am I male or female?" and more "Does me having a gender at all even mean anything?"
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
Isn't there already an American live-action adaptation of Fist of the North Star?
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You can get reductive and say does having a human form mean anything? Stick the Major's brain in a Tachikoma and let it fight international crime.
Ok this is literally making me feel ill
I thought you asked a completely different question from what you apparently asked? I dunno
I've long held the defects of creation reflection the sins of the creator. The arguments against the problem of evil are exceedingly uncompelling, and appropriately, when considering protagonists who people are not predisposed to give the benefit of the doubt, like Frankenstein, we see that it was his cruelty, his pride, his wickedness that made his "monster" a monster.
Beer with Satan any day, with the caveat that by "beer" I mean whiskey.
@Trace is it still the same guy that got 18 DWIs over and over, Mr. Dorito/Dorrity or whatever?
tbf one of the big genre twists that GitS stages on cyberpunk is that Motoko Kusanagi isn't one of the good guys either.
Section 11 cleans up government messes, often in questionably legal ways. Japan is still supposed to be a democracy but it's not a particularly liberal one.
America is depicted as pretty willing to be brutal... But not any more than every other government actor in that world.
GitS is cyberpunk where knowledge doesn't want to be free and where plucky young bands of revolutionaries get arrested by people like Motoko.
wheeeeeee
:mad:
Pearls before swine I tell you what
I did not drink all of that English Brown. I think I had a total of 6 pints of it. Maybe 8.
good problem to have.
That's basically what's already been done to Motoko
Except the robot she lives in is designed to fit into human society
http://www.afgsc.af.mil/Library/NametheB-21Bomber/NametheB-21SubmissionForm.aspx
You can name the B-21. May I suggest naming it the LeMay Was Batshit.
my heart starts aching my hands keep shaking and you know, you know, you know
perhaps another espresso will soothe your aching heart.
Wrong Doctor.
Yeah tbh I'm just gonna read the movie wiki
Nobody can really be trusted, everyone is trying to cut up the world into their own spheres, international human rights is respected only in name, and the Japanese government sucks and is probably going to get us into dumb wars but what can you do, there's no better alternative.
GitS's opinion on international affairs doesn't really fit the outlook of an American audience, where even when we recognize the fictitiousness of it we still tend to assume a position of privileged autonomy, innate hopefulness and prosperity and freedom for all.
Most American cyberpunk or other dystopian future-ist stuff still doesn't really pay any attention to international pressures. Things might suck now, maybe if it was produced in the '80s there's a lot more Japanese businessmen around, but the fundamental American-ness of the setting is still unquestioned, if that makes sense. GitS's Japanese cyberpunk future on the other hand is dominated by foreign and class pressures that cannot be ignored.
The series was based on the original manga, which came out in 1989-1990, and operated in a setting where World War 3 had already taken place and both the Soviets and the United States controlled more territory than in real-life.
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@elki faired little better
It sucks
@Elldren
Like "What's in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction" kind of wondered
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
He has just the party part of the mullet none of the business part
Its like a mullet padawan braid I don't I can't
Arch,
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