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How long did this take you wtf
The Navy meanwhile had a Shinji and Kaworu cosplayer making out with each other. Know your audience
It's not gay if it's underway!
What's gay to civilians is brotherhood in the Army. What's gay to the Army is brotherhood in the Navy. What's gay to the Navy is illegal.
Wow that’s horrible. Where was this, exactly, and is it a regular occurrence?
So you can avoid it, right? Because it’s so horrible? Where exactly so you can stay far away.
Yes precisely. It's very important that I never witness such depravity.
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, one of the creative minds behind the original Gundam series felt the need to create the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin manga because too many kids thought the War is Hell story to be War is Cool and felt the need to make it more clear.
Also, stack copyright infringement on top of the other crimes by the US military. Pretty sure Anno and the rest of Gainax wouldn't be happy about this.
There a a saying that it's impossible to make an anti-war movie, because they always end up glorifying war.
It's actually quite easy. Just focus on the victims rather than the killers. Come and see, Grave of the Fireflies, Catch-22, All quiet on the Western Front, …
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You just need to embrace the glorifying war aspect like how Starship Troopers does it, and just be so ridiculously over the top that it's blatantly obvious how over the top it is.
I mean, there's a lot of people who really misread starship troopers.
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blatantly obvious how over the top it is.
I don't know how to break it to you, but Paul Verhoven's satire pieces (e.g. Starship Troopers, Robocop) are a little too good. Far too many people miss the point, even today, with the entire film spoiled and then some.
It would probably be easier if you didn't use soldiers as your main characters.
I went to an airshow a few years ago and the F22 raptor demo team was doing their show, which was amazing and the recruiter was working his pitch into the show the whole time. Between the talking points they would play music and the one that stood out the most was BYOB by System of a Down, which is a complete and total 180 to what they were pitching. It was incredible the cognitive disconnect.
Or the people setting up the show knew exactly what they were doing but their leadership didn't catch it
As a member of the Air Force, I propose a middle ground. They just liked the music or associated it with badassery. They probably didn't think too hard about it.
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If right wingers can like Rage against the Machine and be surprised they are not right wing or apolitical, NGE is way too subtle for them.
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Cool, now do a furry convention! (Great way to find IT for military systems!)
Unless they go undercover to research cat girls with military funds.
You are not immune to propaganda
I'm sorry, is their slogan actually "It's your time"?
Like when death appears and tells you it's your time? It's like they are recruiting for the losing team...
I don't think that's a valid criticism, I don't see death saying that, it'd be more like "Your time has come" - to contrast it further, wouldn't somebody say "It's your time to shine"?
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I have the sudden urge to go and sign up to the US Army
Ymra eht nioj!
All the military branches had giant booths at the last comic con I was at. It was very odd.
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Military intelligence, two words combined that can't make sense.
Military intelligence is basically just about knowing where the enemy is. The actual espionage and counter espionage stuff done by non military experts. It has to be this way because the military doesn't exactly recruit for brains.
You're having a conversation with song lyrics
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I don't anime. What is she from?
Misato from Neon Genesis Evangelion
I've heard of it but not seen it. Thank you.
Just to clarify, Evangelion is basically saying 'don't guilt-trip teens into being soldiers, don't put them under the power of horny adults (however well-meaning), don't bully them or treat them like lab mice, and definitely don't cut them off from civilian society and the chance to form normal human friendships'. Seems some people saw all of that and only remembered the cool mechas.
Just shut up and get in the fucking robot, Shinji
Shut up and get in the middle east shinji!
I came to the comments trying to figure out how it was related to the Torment Nexus. You've clarified it for me. Thank you for your help.
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Anno would be first to tell you: the con is full of fans who understood it less than the army.
What's with all the hot linked reddit posts lately?
I've been seeing a lot of people doing that.
Lack of content on lemmy so we go to reddit to find more. Linking to reddit images is easier than hosting them on lemmy by a few clicks and it let's reddit bear the brunt of the server costs without getting any content, comments, engagement, or other data to mine for their trouble.
Should I not?
Now that you described the benefits of pirate CDN, I'm gonna do it more.
Like an angel with merciless and cruel intent...
...hmm....
What, no Pen Pen?
TBF tho the corrupt insane military officials did manage to delay human extinction for years. Props for that, I guess.
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