On a not really related note, having Asuka or Rei as a waifu is fucking weird as an adult right? They're like 14?
Is it wrong to remember your first time if it happened when you were a kid? Same thing.
is it the 40 year old man crushing on the character or is it the 15 year old boy inside the 40 year old still crushing?
kinda big difference.
Is it though?
it is.
imagine knowing your spouse since you were kids and loving them from when you were both kids. now that you're in your 40s is it wrong to still be attracted to the people you were when you were 30+ years younger?
IMO no. because you care about that person through time.
does that mean you want to fuck kids? fuck no. does that mean you imagine fucking your spouse as a kid? fuck no.
honestly this is a perspective of love I don't think many people give any thought to.
Okay but know you're comparing a spouse and child to A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD ANIME GIRL
EVA came out in 1995. if a 15 year old watched it then, they would be around 30 today.
we attach emotions to fictitious characters that follow us throughout our lives. it's not hard to grasp the concept that I'm trying to explain.
I do agree though. I crushed on Asuka. Do I have any images of her anywhere? no. why? because I'm in my 40s and that's just weird. I was a depressed weeb neet that had zero friends. I grew out of it eventually. now I'm just a depressed weeb with zero friends.
I just don't understand why anyone would attack a person over something so pointless like this though. If it makes them happy to and it's not hurting anyone, go for it. sticker up puff girls afaic. too many fuckheads in the world make life miserable for everyone else and don't realize that happiness can be a stupid little sticker.
Is it the 50 year old teacher/coach/priest touching 15 year old boys, or is it the 15 year old boy inside the 50 year old just exploring his sexuality?
when did having an anime character on your shit become about molesting children?
People like them have always thought that. Being into anime = being a pedo, it doesn't matter that it's now mainstream, these people have thought the same thing for decades.
There's a scene in evangelion where the mc jerks it over an unconscious asuka (the character on the video card in the background) and nuts all over his hand.
He covered his hand in thermal paste as a reference.
It's a (intentionally) creepy scene and extremely off-color for a repair tech to send this to a customer, IMO. Good thing it's probably fake.
With no context whatsoever my first thought was it was one of those "uh oh, if the thermal paste is on my hand, then that must mean I accidentally put the cum on my cpu..."
I will be deleting this shortly I am sorry
Edit: Most upvotes I've gotten on Lemmy. Listen to the guy below. Live your truth, lemmings.
Now that's funny
You made a good joke, dont let thine shame and cowardice control thee.
Welcome to puberty.
You're never piloting the robot version of your mother ever again.
It means that it’s a sexy GPU
It means he wasted 2 or 3 dollars worth of thermal paste. Possibly to make a weird Evangelion reference, based on that other comment.
What DOES it mean??
I believe it’s a recreation of a scene from one of the endings of Evangelion. My hazy guess is the movie “End of Evangelion.” Asuka (on the GPU) lies unconscious in a hospital bed. Shinji (incel protagonist) stands over her. He shuts the door to the hall and breathes heavily for a few seconds, then this shot with white instead of gray.
Hello? Yes, I'd like to have unread what I just read. Yes, I'll hold.
I sort of regret watching it myself and never rewatched
Now I'm curious!!
Btw she was hospitalized after a savage defeat while piloting a mech where the pilot feels all the damage as if it’s happening to them. Her mech was ripped apart and devoured by a pack of hostile umanned mechs.
Edit: it was heavily hinted throughout the series that the mechs also have a consciousness and the source of that consciousness is yet another layer of fucked up
The overall story about why the author did it is interesting, because it is part of his ongoing hatred of how the fans treat the property.
Yeah, I read that and… the author is still a piece of shit.
Oh dear god...I thought you were joking.
Don't do this to me
Lol wtf
If you're wondering what narrative purpose this scene serves, you have to consider the whole series. It's a mirror of a scene in episode one where Shinji also stands on top of a female character with a bodily fluid on his hand, but for a whole other reason: Shinji was told to pilote a giant robot he'd never seen before to fight a giant monster. He refused. The injured girl was brought on a strainer and he was told if he didn't pilote the robot, she'd have to. The ground shook because of the robot, the girl (named Rei) fell from the strainer and Shinji rushed to see if she was okay. He looked at his hand and saw that he had her blood on it (obvious symbolism), then he accepts to pilote the robot.
That scene is what asserts Shinji as a protagonist. It's the first showing him doing something for someone else, and he's putting his life on the line to do so.
So mirroring this scene but having him do something cowardly and shameful, opposite of the bravery and kindness he showed in episode 1 makes him exit this role as a protagonist. And I don't even think it's necessary to understand it for it to work: For most of the movie after that, Shinji isn't the protagonist, you follow other characters as they conclude their respective narrative arcs and without the hospital scene, I think many would feel frustrated and wait for Shinji to do something. Instead, we're more prone to watch the other characters because we don't really want to see Shinji anymore.
Another thing is, there characters have all been through a lot and been repeatedly traumatised. Not that it's an excuse, but the series is also a bit original in the way it rejects the trope that hardship builds character and makes one better, without going in the reverse cliche of it making them a villain either. Trauma makes them mentally ill. Mental illness sometimes cause them to do bad things to other, which they then regret.
well, that is some much needed context, otherwise I would’ve had a much different perspective on the narrative and the characters going on as i’ve never seen the show. I actually find it charming, oddly, that the writers worked this way. thanks!
Don’t worry, the author went on to create the most hated ending for a popular series in modern history. So it balances out.
oh wow thanks, i never made the connection to ep1. it's so obvious in hindsight!
God I don't understand why people love this anime.
I know it's a deconstruction of the super robot. I know that shinji has a plausibly realistic reaction to his situation, especially as an unwilling Eva pilot. That doesn't make me wanna watch the psychological unravelling of a child until he becomes completely insufferable and wanks it over his comatose friend. Why does anyone wanna watch that, no matter how powerful?
The whole movie, even the whole series was pretty fucked up like this.
I would like to return one mental image please
You don't want to know.
It honestly took me a few seconds to get.
I'm ashamed it took me that long
I'm even more ashamed I got it at all
It all returns to nothing
This just makes me sad ,because someone wasted thermal paste and wasted about 30-50 euros for a design on the back and a red color scheme.
If they’re a repair tech, they have thermal paste in bulk. That was maybe $3 worth of paste. Probably much less.
it looks like Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut which is just about the most expensive thermal paste you can get and I don't think you can get it in bulk
it looks like any other grey thermal paste I've ever seen, what exactly made you think it's this specific expensive paste?
This kills the man.
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