1. She still says she doesn't bleed/menstruate (and that's still Shinji's hallucination, which I don't recall seeing. Was it before he found out she was a clone?)

2. That's the beauty of it. It's such a shitshow and such a bleak universe that you can only go up from there. You laugh along with the fanatic spacenazicatholicbuzlightyearroman dudes or cackle in glee with the Forces of Hell, or any of the rest (and there's individual chapters between those two, Space Marines and Chaos Space Marines respectively, to distinguish yourself. You can make your own chapter too, but don't go looking for medals).
Of course, since it is so hopeless, that makes it better when someone makes something like this (Credit to Brett-Neuford on DeviantArt):

(Random Thoughts: Making a live-action Neon Genesis movie (for American audiences mind, that's the shit that makes money) seems perfectly possible if difficult. Most of the cast would be of Asian descent (save for Asuka and the crew of the Over the Rainbow), and if there is a shortage of Japanese-American actors, we could get ones of other Asian countries and provide an explanation in story (immigrated to Japan and picked a Japanese name after gaining citizenship). The movies would be a trilogy, with part 1 of NGE being the first movie and the second half of NGE the second (the credit song for the first would be A Cruel Angel's Thesis, either in Japanese or English. The second movie would be Fly Me To The Moon preformed by the cast one at a time), with End of Evangelion being the third movie. For EoE, I'll get rid of the masturbation scene (since it would go without saying that's poison for audiences) and replace it with something else (probably Shinji strangling her or shaking her in a fit of anger at her "ignoring" him).
If there's anything I've learnt, it's that converting any animated work to live action just doesn't work.
 
If there's anything I've learnt, it's that converting any animated work to live action just doesn't work.
I bet you Berserk would be perfect live-action movie material. There'd be an audience for it.

BUT! I will admit some works just shouldn't be touched.....so my plan for a Madoka Magica movie would be to pour a huge amount of the budget into advertising, hiring actresses for the roles, have them give interviews on the film, make trailers, put as much advertising on sites and billboards and shit, get the film into as much theatres it realistically can, have the people file in to watch it.....and it will just be the original series recut into 3 movies. And I'll pay to have everyone involved in the campaign to keep their mouths shut until the first film's opening weekend. Millions of normal people will be exposed to anime and at least some of them will like it. It's perfect.
 
I think the Advertising Standards people might have something to say about that...
Such as? I mean you are gonna get a Madoka Magica movie, but not the one you thought. Also I might add a disclaimer before the movie starts. Simple embellishment, I swear. Would I lie :) ?

ALSO, I have an idea for a live-action Girls Und Panzer movie (helps that the original show is far from perfect as it is).

Ok, no more movie ideas. I swear.
 
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Repairman says the logic board on my 7 year old computer is fried, and repair parts are not even made anymore. So I am now in possession of a brand new laptop and I'm working on setting it up, and copying over all of my stuff from the old hard drives. Hopefully I can resume writing in the next day or two. I have the rest of the Christmas special worked out in my head. Unfortunately I cannot finish it because a page or so of work is still to be copied over from the old computer.

Work on the regular update will resume after that. I may or may not make the Christmas special canon if I can figure out how to patch it in.
 
Damn that's rough. Do you use Google Docs? They're on the cloud so you can work on them anywhere, and SV seems pretty lenient on copy and pasting.
 
If you're looking for more features than what google docs can offer, I use git for repository management--diffs, branches to work on scene rewrites, and a history of changes to be able to reproduce the state of the document at any stage. It is a bit more oriented toward source code, though, and would require a good bit of setup.

And in this particular case, you still probably would've been out of luck for the most recent stuff. I only push a new commit once a week, either Tuesday or Wednesday.
 
If you're looking for more features than what google docs can offer, I use git for repository management--diffs, branches to work on scene rewrites, and a history of changes to be able to reproduce the state of the document at any stage. It is a bit more oriented toward source code, though, and would require a good bit of setup.
Do you use Word or something similar? Because the combination of that and git sounds like a nightmare with regard to diffs.
 
Damn that's rough. Do you use Google Docs? They're on the cloud so you can work on them anywhere, and SV seems pretty lenient on copy and pasting.
I think he does, though I'm basing this off of my own memory, so if anyone have evidence of this (mostly a post from Stryp indicating this), that will be helpful. Also, Google Docs is pretty useful since everything is save on the cloud. I know this from personal experience, as many others can attest to.

Also, poor laptop, but at least you got a new one Stryp. Though, if it has Win10, may god have mercy on your soul.
 
2. That's the beauty of it. It's such a shitshow and such a bleak universe that you can only go up from there. You laugh along with the fanatic spacenazicatholicbuzlightyearroman dudes or cackle in glee with the Forces of Hell, or any of the rest (and there's individual chapters between those two, Space Marines and Chaos Space Marines respectively, to distinguish yourself. You can make your own chapter too, but don't go looking for medals).
Of course, since it is so hopeless, that makes it better when someone makes something like this (Credit to Brett-Neuford on DeviantArt):

That's what really draws me into the setting. It shows you exactly how far everyone will go just to keep hanging on for a moment longer, then shows that there are still decent people out there. I'd bring up the story of the Crimson Fists Chapter Master, but that might be too much of a derail.
 
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@Mikelus
And those Imperial Guardsmen are the Death Korps of Krieg. They probably have never even seen a flower before.

@Astray Spiral
If that's the case he'd be able to work on the story (unless he was referring to get everything else from his old computer on the new one, in which case, my mistake). And hey, don't knock Windows 10, at least it ain't Windows 8.
 
If you're looking for more features than what google docs can offer, I use git for repository management--diffs, branches to work on scene rewrites, and a history of changes to be able to reproduce the state of the document at any stage. It is a bit more oriented toward source code, though, and would require a good bit of setup.
Might be simpler to just use Dropbox, or rsync and a cheap mini-tower running FreeNAS if you're a FOSS purist.
 
I think he does, though I'm basing this off of my own memory, so if anyone have evidence of this (mostly a post from Stryp indicating this), that will be helpful. Also, Google Docs is pretty useful since everything is save on the cloud. I know this from personal experience, as many others can attest to.

I would shake my fist at you kids and your modern technology, except that I have backed up more than one of my fics to the Cloud.

The operating term being "backed up". I have found it good practice to back up on MULTIPLE formats, from different computers to backup hard drives. And I do have some old fics still on floppy disk. Redundancy is your friend. :D
 
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@Astray Spiral
If that's the case he'd be able to work on the story (unless he was referring to get everything else from his old computer on the new one, in which case, my mistake). And hey, don't knock Windows 10, at least it ain't Windows 8.
But it pales in comparison to Win7, and I'll leave it there.
I would shake my fist at you kids and your modern technology, except that I have backed up more than one of my fics to the Cloud.

The operating term being "backed up". I have found it good practice to back up on MULTIPLE formats, from different computers to backup hard drives. And I do have some old fics still on floppy disk. Redundancy is your friend. :D
True. This is mostly the reason why the stuff that's important to me is stored on flash drives. I also remember floppy disks, but I never had the chance to use one (I might have, but again, I'm basing this on my memory).
 
Most of the cast would be of Asian descent (save for Asuka and the crew of the Over the Rainbow)

For the record, I take no issue with Scarlett Johannsen.

However casting her as the Major for Ghost In the Shell, is a slap in the face to every actress of Asian decent.

if there is a shortage of Japanese-American actors, we could get ones of other Asian countries
Would that really ruffle feathers? Having a Korean play a Japanese?

I'm not trying to dismiss anything. My first thought when I read what @WC-83 wrote was, "Nobody got bent out of shape when an Englishman played a Frenchman on STNG," but that's almost a world away with a totally different set of historical baggage.

I just spent an evening extracting a bunch files from old 3.5" floppies. :)

I don't. I basically use plain text with a custom written perl script to convert to bbcode or fanfiction.net-style html. The plain text is very easy to diff.
Any chance you might be enticed to share such a thing?
 
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I think he does, though I'm basing this off of my own memory, so if anyone have evidence of this (mostly a post from Stryp indicating this), that will be helpful. Also, Google Docs is pretty useful since everything is save on the cloud. I know this from personal experience, as many others can attest to.

Yeah, I can definitely attest to how useful the cloud stuff can be. I don't use Google Docs but I use One Drive for my stuff but I imagine its very much the same. Really handy if I want to work on my fics whilst at work, which I generally do on my lunch breaks.
 
If you're looking for more features than what google docs can offer, I use git for repository management--diffs, branches to work on scene rewrites, and a history of changes to be able to reproduce the state of the document at any stage. It is a bit more oriented toward source code, though, and would require a good bit of setup.

And in this particular case, you still probably would've been out of luck for the most recent stuff. I only push a new commit once a week, either Tuesday or Wednesday.

Ooh! I've been thinking about doing that. What file formats do you use? I was worried that anything with too much Metadata would be trouble with git...
 
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Yeah, I can definitely attest to how useful the cloud stuff can be. I don't use Google Docs but I use One Drive for my stuff but I imagine its very much the same. Really handy if I want to work on my fics whilst at work, which I generally do on my lunch breaks.
It is, I used both. Google Docs and Drive are my mainstay.
...... why is it that I look at this page and find it easier to tally things that are actually on topic?
Not too sure, most of the post since Stryp's update been on tech and the cloud. In which case, we all should be more on topic.
 
Any chance you might be enticed to share such a thing?

Ehh, the script is not something I'd consider maintainable or in good coding style. I'd really rather switch to something that takes care of these details for me. Markdown is close, but I find the lack of support for comments (that don't get translated into html comments, for instance; just for personal reference) to be a no-go. All the alternative flavors of Markdown have obnoxious syntax for comments, if at all.
 
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Though I do wonder what would the cast think of the technology of our 2015 compared to theirs. Think any advancements will be made after the Angel War?
 
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