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#26 2009-07-04 02:27:07am

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Re: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

I still totally haven't watched more than one episode of this show.  Should I feel bad?  I probably should.

Another testament to my immense sloth is that I seem to have given up on G Gundam as well.  I also stopped re-watching Wing.

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#27 2009-07-06 12:25:11am

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Re: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

In my experience, if you don't feel bad, you should try to keep that up. Although if you were to feel bad enough to watch it, you might enjoy it enough to result in a net positive amount of feelingness. This is the chance you take when partaking of entertainments (except that feeling bad for not doing so isn't the usual number one motivator. It's how I ended up reading Moby Dick though (in addition to having a long time between classes with nothing to do). The result there was not positive feelingness, but I will get that if/when I win an argument with someone who says it's a really great book. Same deal with One Hundred Years of Solitude, although that one's a lot better.)
Oh, and the thing I said about TTGL having all the best explosions; I'm not so sure*.

Paradoxically, a representation of my immense sloth is my horrible job where I have to work hard. There's a benefit though: they give me money.

*Unrelated: This was a test at/named Licorne, which is French for guess what. Now: do those mystic ungulates in the top picture look remarkably undead and/or ghostial? Is it just the setting?

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#28 2009-07-06 12:49:06pm

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Re: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Emohawk wrote:

Paradoxically, a representation of my immense sloth is my horrible job where I have to work hard. There's a benefit though: they give me money.

The proof of my own immense sloth is I am actually doing this at work /nod.

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#29 2009-07-07 11:21:54pm

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Re: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Since my brain is on Transformers right now (as I just got back from watching the second live-action movie), I'm wondering whether they count as "giant robots", being that they are physically exactly that, but you can't ride in em when they actually look like giant robots.

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#30 2009-07-08 10:53:07am

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Re: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

They're Yuusha mechs.

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#31 2009-07-08 05:46:03pm

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Re: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Does that indicate;
-can't ride 'em
-are robots, possibly big
-transforming robots
?

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#32 2009-07-09 08:17:11am

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Re: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Pretty much.

Fun note is that Takara does rights to both Transformers and Yuusha toys in Japan; in fact there's a chunk of Transformers designs that were recycled into bases for robot characters in every series of the Brave franchise except for Fighbird and GaoGaiGar.

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#33 2009-08-24 10:13:19pm

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Re: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

So I finally picked this series up again, and every episode I've seen so far is vastly better than the first one.

Also, weaponized shades are fucking awesome.

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#34 2009-08-25 11:53:21pm

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Re: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Halfway through or so now.

...Dude.  The Anti-Spirals are Ur-Quan.  Their philosophies are practically the same.  Or at least the "control" part.  Not so much the "absolute despair" part.

As Star Control II is pretty awesome, I think that just netted this show more points.

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