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To fellow fans of Gundam: The Witch from Mercury: Bandai Namco Filmworks has made a statement that Suletta and Miorine's relationship is "open to interpretation," despite them being textually married at the end of the show. They also censored a voice actor interview which talked about their marriage.

If you can, please help us let Bandai Namco Filmworks know that this is unacceptable!

Please keep the emails civil and respectful; whoever's working the email inbox is unlikely to have been involved in making this decision. My friend has laid out some tips:

If you send an email, please be very firm but respectful! It will also help a little if you add a greeting line to the effect of, 'I hope you're doing well in the summer heat; please do your best to take care of yourself' (wording is not super important for sending it in English, but following the format helps) before getting into the thick of your feelings on the matter. (Having to compose this kind of message of concern is also a good way to slow your own roll on just being mad about it.)

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“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

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Some rando: You should think about stopping your prescription

Me: My pills make me not want to die tho

They: You shouldn’t want to die, that’s not normal

Me: Yeah that’s why I’m taking my pills

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Folks here talk a lot about how modern audiences have lost patience in storytelling, but personally a behavior that drives me absolutely up the wall isn't so much "want all the answers immediately" as it is "refuses to consider that a story might in fact be good."

To be clear, I'm not talking about people who go "I don't like it so it's bad." I mean the people who act like a story being good is an accident. People who look at plot twists and dismiss them as made-up on the spot regardless of the amount of foreshadowing prior. People who will argue that the curtains being blue is just a coincidence and the writer got lucky that it coincided with the story being told. People who will write pages-long essays on how people making literary analysis of this specific piece of media is wrong and stupid because it couldn't possibly mean anything at all.

As a writer myself, I just find that attitude disheartening. Why are you so hostile to the idea of storytelling bro. Sometimes people put things here on purpose for readers to pick up. That is in fact a pretty significant part of the job of a writer. Why are you interacting in such bad faith bro why are you closing the door so tightly...

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Mazinger Z: Infinity - enemy mechas

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Outage 21 Feb 2023

We have an outage affecting the game and wiki. We'll announce when we're back up.

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Super Robot Taisen MOO

Super Robot Taisen MOO is an online, text based GM-less roleplaying environment with an original combat system designed to evoke the Super Robot Wars games, where the emotions and the drives of the pilots are as important as the fighting robots themselves. Ideologies clash and people are caught in the middle by those who wield those ideologies like weapons.

The game is driven both by plots provided by the staff running the game, but also the ideas and desires of individual players and the player-base as a whole. Players can choose to play characters from the source materials and their own original characters as we build a new story from the settings we have incorporated.

Are you at all interested in shows like Mobile Suit Gundam, Evangelion, Code Geass, Martian Successor Nadesico, Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, Macross or even series with that DNA like Cowboy Bebop or Front Mission? Where games like Beam Saber pull their inspiration?

If this sounds like you, take a look at our wiki at http://srtmoo.net. 

Super Robot Taisen MOO is open, and you can log on at srtmoo.net:8492 via any telnet client, but we recommend BeipMU.

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It is 15 billion BCE. The world ends, and we begin again.

It is 5,000,000 BCE. A species turns its eyes to the stars in hope.

It is 4,975,000 BCE. A species turns its eyes to the stars in fear. The world ends, and we begin again.

It is 500,000 BCE. A species turns its eyes to the stars in hope.

It is 12,500 BCE. A species meets its first enemies among the stars. They become its most stalwart friends. Together, they form "humanity" -- a fragile miracle.

It is 1969 CE. Humanity turns its eyes to the stars in hope.

It is 2206 CE. Humanity turns its eyes to the stars in fear. The new shape of the world begins to form.

It is UC 0001. Humanity chooses to come together, hoping to become more than disparate nations. Together, they form "the Earth Federation" -- a fragile miracle. The world begins again.

It is UC 0058. Humanity meets its first enemies among the stars, the Zentradi. They become its most stalwart friends.

It is UC 0079. Humanity turns its eyes to the stars in fear, as the One Year War begins. A decade passes, never offering more than a brief turn away from warfare. Billions die from crises both natural and manmade. People wonder if this is yet another new shape of the world.

It is UC 0093. Desperation to see the decaying Earth reformed leads to events like the Axis Shock and the Devil Gundam incident. People look to more drastic, more costly measures, seeing doom as inevitable and merely electing to choose its shape. The remnants of these events form a rainbow that cuts through space -- a fragile miracle.

It is UC 0095. Space colonists from PLANT, a breakaway nation, strike at the Earth's power generation facilities. Celestial Being, an organization seeking the cessation of war through war, issues its ultimatum. The Jovian Lizards, invaders from another world, bombard the Earth with unmanned drones. The Britannian Union of Solar Energy tightens its yoke on Area 11, an occupied region of Japan, despite nominally sharing the Earth Federation with it.

It is UC 0096. Is the world ending? Must we begin again?

That’s something you’ll decide. Isn’t it?

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Just read it.

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Hollow rock turns into a router full of survival info when you build a fire beside it

Keepalive is Aram Bartholl’s fake hollow boulder in the woods of Neuenkirchen, Germany. It conceals a thermoelectric generator that powers a router configured to serve documents related to wilderness survival. The router switches on if the rock is sufficiently warmed, say by a blazing campfire adjacent to it.

It’s based on Piratebox, a standalone Internet router project for file-sharing.

It’s not the only art/artificial boulder project, though: Ed Ruscha claims to have made an artificial boulder called “Rocky II” and hidden it somewhere in the Mojave, where it is visually indistinguishable from the surrounding rocks, making it all but impossible to find.

https://boingboing.net/2016/02/01/hollow-rock-turns-into-a-route.html

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listened to Bohemian Rhapsody today… i’m so very sorry

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Monster can have a really good storyline With actual character development and heavy on the lore but Capcom refuses. 4u is acceptable tho. I just wished they did more often rather than go "hey hunter kill this!!!"

You don’t need to know the lore of a hurricane to understand that its approach threatens everything in its path and that if you can fight it, you damn well better.

The entire purpose behind the Hunter’s Guild is to fight the endless storm and protect what iotas of civilization thrive amongst the crags, cliffs, and rocks from monsters so great and powerful that they could wipe the sentient races from existence in a day.

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I can’t wait for Captain Marvel to defeat Thanos in Battle of the Bands!

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Today (22/09/2018) is a Saturday on Earth AND Mars simultaneously.

You won’t be able to reblog this again until 2036!