Incoming canon fire
Is this an indication that I'm hopelessly unhip, that I don't have the slightest idea who any of the people are, who are referred to in this comic?
I remember seeing the very first Star Wars movie a couple of days after it opened, before it became a Big Thing. It was on the big screen at the West Gate theater here in Beaverton (which no longer exists) and I was a cub engineer working my first full-time job at Tektronix.
When the Death Star exploded, the audience burst into applause. I've never heard anything like that before or since. And after I walked out of the theater, I wasn't at all surprised that it became a phenomenon. But that was nearly 40 years ago.
And now it's an entire canon -- and I don't know anything about it. Oh, well.
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I recognize two of the names, because Timothy Zahn created them; I never had much use for most of the other Expanded Universe novels, except when I was desperate for a read and they were the only things in the grocery store at 3am.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at July 27, 2016 08:10 AM (ZlYZd)
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Disney uncanonicalized the Expanded Universe, so technically you don't need to know who they all are.
However:
Mara Jade was the Emperor's Hand, an assassin, who married Luke. The Yuuzhan Vong were a race that invaded the galaxy 30 years after the end of Return of the Jedi in a 17-book series that massively changed the universe. They were responsible for the deaths of Chewbacca and two of Han and Leia's children. Not sure about the others.
Posted by: RickC at July 27, 2016 08:48 AM (ECH2/)
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The expanded universe was the collection of book, video games, and comic books in the "Star Wars" universe that had some form of official recognition from LucasArts. The most widely known are probably the first four books by Timothy Zahn, which are where we got Mara Jade and Admiral Thrawn, but the total number of books in the EU number in the hundreds by nearly that many authors. They were officially cast aside as no long canon when Episode VII was announced, but it was worded in such a way that many people speculated that some of the characters and events, such as Admiral Thrawn, would make their way over to canon, and now he has.
Of course, the real fun is the stuff that never qualified for Expanded Universe status. For example Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a book written before Episode V and VI came out, which had to be rather rapidly and quietly forgotten once we learned that Luke and Leia were siblings..
Posted by: David at July 27, 2016 01:07 PM (YHSti)
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Congratulations, I think, on becoming a QoTD on Ace's blog tonight.
Posted by: RickC at July 27, 2016 07:54 PM (EsJO/)
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Maetenloch never comments here but he's a regular reader and has linked to me before a few times.
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Technically there always was an expanded universe, just because Star Wars essentially pioneered the modern marketable franchise and had action figures for characters that didn't even have speaking lines in any of the movies.
The best of these, though, are the Timothy Zahn "Heir to the Empire" trilogy, that formed a very well-written story arc, that starts out just after the original trilogy left off, and deals head-on with more issues of "what happens when the rebellion succeeds?" than progressive minds are even capable of comprehending. Despite one annoying Mary Sue (the Mara Jade referenced in the Penny Arcade strip, who I guess can't be all bad because she's by far the most popular character Zahn wrote), all the original cast got their turn to shine, and none were ever strapped to an idiot ball just so Mara Sue could save them (which probably explains her popularity).
Generally when people refer to The Expanded Universe, they're either referring to the Zahn books, or something based on them in the usual fanwanky way.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian at July 27, 2016 08:56 PM (g2A9v)
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The earliest Star Wars "canon" expanded universe was probably the role-playing game. West End created a lot of the things that are "facts" now, like the make and model of the Millennium Falcon, the manufacturers of R2-D2 and C-3PO and most of the other technology, and the first attempt to classify and sort force powers.
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The cartoons by Disney are considered canon, which is why they were excited about Thrawn appearing in Rebels.
Posted by: muon at July 27, 2016 10:18 PM (IUHrD)
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Honestly, although I read and enjoyed the entire Thrawn trilogy, I figured there was no way the series could go anywhere but downhill from there, so I never read any of the inevitable pile of sequels written after that.
Hearing some of the stuff that came later has made me quite happy with that decision. Mara Sue marries Luke Skywalker? Great, he probably got Force Cancer and died tragically young just months after, leaving only his unborn child Mara Enony Raven Way to carry his legacy.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian at July 28, 2016 06:58 PM (g2A9v)
When the line of Star Wars tie in novels was started, the line writers asked for a setting bible to work from. Lucas didn't supply one; instead, they were sent copies of the West End Games RPG, and told to use that.
Posted by: metaphysician at July 30, 2016 08:54 AM (wPtAD)
I doubt this story is true since, many moons ago, I read an interview that was done with Timothy Zahn and he mentioned that when he was finally selected to write for Star Wars (Which required his agent, not Zahn, to submit his previous works to Lucasfilm Licensing.), he received a large story bible for his work, besides consultation with LFL. That seemed have been followed through-out the novel line, though LFL was very flexible about the writers they were willing to accept as long as they will willing to follow guidelines.
The story of West End Games and the Star Wars RPG (Especially the end, which could be witnessed by the world in almost real time, thanks to the Internet.), would be interesting by itself. Something that was nice was the set of sourcebooks which covered the Thrawn Trilogy, complete with pictures of scenes from the books.
Posted by: cxt217 at July 30, 2016 03:20 PM (TuhJ1)
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I actually give more credit to the WEG story; mainly because all reports of any kind of source bible or even rough outlines contributed by Lucas or Lucasfilm have always been proven to be apocryphal. People have been searching for this compendious resources for decades now, and they keep ending up with a handful of notes scribbled on notebook paper. I *do* remember Zahn mentioning that he was directed to the Daley and Smith novels as examples of works Lucas had found acceptable. One gets the feeling that George Lucas wasn't actually all that involved in the process.
Part of the problem with the cheesecake posts is that I've been trying to be
too fancy. Let's keep it simple! If yuri
is good enough for Canada
Oil Sands Community, it's good enough for me!
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If you're talking about 09972, that's Mina and Kouko from Haifuri. Haifuri doesn't have any yuri in it, but that doesn't stop fan artists, and anyway Mina and Kouko do become friends, mostly because they're both fans of grade B Japanese gangster flicks.
That's what "Bakuon!!" means; it's the onomatopoeia in Japanese for
the sound of a motorcycle engine revving.
Pete watched three episodes and gave
up on it. Far be it from me to try to convince him to change his mind (I
always hate it when people try to do that to me) but I did have some comments.
People have made connections between the four main characters of this series
to the "Top Wrench" (was that the name? Probably not...) series about cars and stuff
made in the UK, and looked for other things.
But no one seems to have made the connection to Azumanga Daioh which I think
is blatantly obvious.
AD didn't have a plot. It was the story of the three years of high school of
a small group of girls who were all in the same class, and it simply told the
story of all the things that happened to them which they thought were
noteworthy. The way I imagine it, Azuma attended their ten year anniversary and
got these young ladies together, bought them all beer (including Chiyo, by that
point also an adult) and got them to reminisce about their years together in
high school, and taped it with a hand-held recorder. Then he went back to his
studio and wrote his cartoon.
Of course that isn't true. (Or is it?) But the only overarching story is just
three years of high school.
AD is, in a sense, the iconic "cute girls doing cute things" series, but in most of those they set up the situation and then time freezes and things stop changing. What was most distinctive about AD was that time passed and things changed.
And Bakuon!! is in a sense the same way. It's a joke anime telling stories
about a group of high school girls who love motorcycles, and if it feels
disjointed it's because there isn't any overarching plot. It begins with the
formation of the motorcycle club and the 12 episodes we were given cover about
the first year and a half of it.
It wouldn't be wrong to call it "cute girls doing cute things on motorcycles".
Pete says he watched three episodes. That's an unfortunately place to give up,
because episode 4 is the beginning of the Hokkaido trip, and it also introduces
Kamisama. It also has an onsen scene, where we learn about Rin's Suzuki logo
scar on her butt.
There isn't any series-level plot but there are long-term background stories
going on, most prominent of which is the entire question of what is going on
with Lime-sempai. I've written about her several times so I won't go into it
again now. Kamisama is another one; he keeps showing up, and when he first met
Hane he called her "the chosen one". Did that really mean anything?
In some ways, ep 11 is the most typical episode of the series. It tells three
stories, each of which is self-contained, all of which are unrelated to one
another, and all of which are hilarious. Only the last one contributes to the
series continuity, and only in a small way.
Like AD, the situation does progress. In AD, they advance through the grades,
and things change only because time is passing and people are growing up. And
in Bakuon!! there are changes to the series continuity, like Chisame joining the
club, getting her license, and buying her scooter. But it isn't plot
because this series doesn't have a plot.
IMHO it doesn't need one. But that does make it a bit hard to wrap up at the
end. AD ended with everyone graduating from high school and heading off to
college. Bakuon doesn't run long enough for that, and I thought that the story
they chose to wrap up ep 12 was about the best they could do. I liked it; it
brought tears to my eyes. But Pete never got that far.
He linked to my first post about the series which I titled "Boobs and
Bikes", but I wasn't really totally serious about that. I just liked the
alliteration. It isn't really a fan service series. I mean it has some
(especially the end of ep 5); but the boobs aren't the point of the show. It's
about motorcycles and what it means for high school girls to become bikers. I
really liked it, and I hope they give us another cour.
UPDATE: Oh, dear. I forgot how venerated Azumanga Daioh is in some circles and I seem to have commmitted sacrilege.
Everytime I visit the US Weather Bureau web site I see all kinds of warnings
about hot weather in the midWest and NE.
It sure hasn't happened here; it's felt like late March for the last month or
so: overcast with intermittent rain and highs in the upper 60's. Last couple of
days we finally got into April. (It's supposed to hit 85 today.) The problem is
the jet stream has been south of us:
So while all of you are getting your weather blowing north from Mexico and
the Caribbean, our weather has been coming down from Alaska.
About a month and a half ago we got 3 days of scorching heat. Well,
"scorching" for us anyway; highs in the upper 90's. But then the
weather turned cold and it's been cold ever since. I even had to turn on my
apartment heat one time.
Oh, well; such is life.
I've become addicted to Haifuri. I've watched it something like 5
times now, and it just keeps getting better. The blatant idiocy of the concept
is still evident but the characters are growing on me, and damn it can
get exciting during the combat sequences.
A good sign that a series has gotten under my skin is when I start thinking
"What comes next?" after the show is over, and so:
Harekaze sank in shallow water next to a dock, and obviously they
can't leave it there. It will be refloated, just to get it out of the way if for
no other reason. And I suspect they will move it to a drydock and repair it. The
damage is substantial but it's also localized; there's a huge dent port-side bow from where it collided with Musashi but repairing that takes
steel plate and a lot of welding. Worse damage than that has been repaired many
times. And under the circumstances the feeling will be "Repair it if at all
possible".
It will take a lot of time; this isn't a 2-week job. Probably more like a year.
But Harekaze definitely will return to active duty. And tales of its glory will
be told and retold, and students assigned to it will know what they have to
uphold.
As to the crew, they were originally expecting a routine 2 week training voyage.
It turned into a 4 week shooting war with live ammo. Harekaze's crew performed
superbly considering they were rank rookies when they first boarded the ship. If
the school gives decorations, certainly every member of the crew will get
decorated at least once. (Even the cooks. It isn't a glamorous job but it's a
damned important one.) Captain Misaki, in particular, was awesome and the powers
that be had already recognized that by the time Harekaze took on Hiei, which was
a tremendous achievement in its own right. Add to that rescueing Graf Spee and
then stopping Musashi and saving its crew and that would be an impressive record
of achievement even for a seasoned skipper. For a brand new student on her first
training voyage it's stupendous. Misaki is obviously headed for high rank.
If Misaki was amazing, the 12 year old doctor surpassed even that. She, too,
is headed for great things, and if they're passing out decorations she's
definitely on the list to get one.
Also, it isn't a fan-service show, but they did give us a little.
When I watch some of the battle scenes which involved larger ships, one thing
I noticed is about the ships with 3-gun turrets like Graf Spee and Musashi: when
they fire the guns don't all fire at once; they go bababoom.
Is that historically accurate? I've never seen anything like that before.
I've seen film of American battleships firing at night and it looked to me like
all three barrels fired simultaneously.
Staggered firing would make sense in terms of reducing wear on the turret
bearing. Staggered firing would reduce gunnery accuracy by spreading the shells
out. Which would be considered more important? In this show we see it from Hiei,
Musashi, and Graf Spee, so they're making it both Japanese and German ships
doing that.
UPDATE: Another thing that took me a long time to notice:
Two of these ships are under tow. Hiei and Graf Spee are towing Musashi, and Tenjin is towing Harekaze backwards. The tow line is attached to Harekaze's stern.
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I know that, in a smaller craft, you can pull water out if the travel speed is fast enough and the hole is away from the towing direction. Don't ask me how I know this.
What is interesting for me about this series is, usually, the ideas and the start are good, but the ending is a disappointment. Here, I thought the ending was superb and it seemed to get better as it got closer to the finale.
Posted by: topmaker at July 24, 2016 01:44 PM (6stZH)
I don't think the hull had been holed, quite. At the very end, all the stresses finally paid off and something failed -- and a failure like that often cascades, which is why it started taking water and went down.
As to "pulling water out" that's a straight reading of the Bernoulli principle.
The series started getting better
when Harekaze was no longer suspected of mutiny. A lesser director would have tried to keep that going all the way to the end and it would have sucked. As it was, they
were cleared in the 4th episode and that's when the story started to improve.
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Anyway, I think the reason
they were towing it from the stern is that the damage to the bow was obvious and pulling it there could have caused it to fail.
It would also have been prudent to take the whole crew off before towing began, but of course then we couldn't have had the ending we did. Like a lot of stories it was unrealistic but emotionally satisfying.
When I watch some of the battle scenes which involved larger ships, one thing I noticed is about the ships with 3-gun turrets like Graf Spee and Musashi: when they fire the guns don't all fire at once; they go bababoom.
Is that historically accurate? I've never seen anything like that before.
Yes. For reasons of gunnery and limitations of space, triple and three gun turrets had delay coils which would stagger the firings of different guns in the turret a fraction of a second.
I've seen film of American battleships firing at night and it looked to me like all three barrels fired simultaneously.
The delay coils stagger the firing of the individual guns by a fraction of a second - the practice that eventually evolved in the USN was the outer guns on a triple/three gun turret would fire together, followed by the middle. From an observer's standpoint, you would have to look carefully for the delay in the guns to notice, though seeing the shells in flight would make it obvious.
Staggered firing would make sense in terms of reducing wear on the turret bearing. Staggered firing would reduce gunnery accuracy by spreading the shells out.
The former does not appeared to be much of a concern within the US Navy, and the latter is actually the reverse - staggering the firings would increase gunnery accuracy (By reducing the number of 'shorts,' which could reach as high as 10%.) due to reducing the drag affecting the shells in flight from either the disturbed air caused by shells traveling at slightly different speeds, or the muzzle blast itself. A less common concern was shells from the same salvo actually touching in-flight.
Delay coils were not the only solution but since increasing the distance spread on the guns in a turret would raise weight and size concerns - and the coils weighed nothing next to that - they were the usual choice.
Posted by: cxt217 at July 24, 2016 03:12 PM (n923J)
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It was a pleasant 75F here in Sydney on Friday, before the weather check the calendar and corrected itself.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 24, 2016 09:54 PM (PiXy!)
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I'm looking at a high of 64 today, while 20 miles up the road they're getting 81. Microclimates are wonderful things.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at July 25, 2016 11:23 AM (ZlYZd)
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cxt217: "Delay coils were not the only solution but since increasing the distance
spread on the guns in a turret would raise weight and size concerns -
and the coils weighed nothing next to that - they were the usual choice.
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It didn't help that the Iowa's design teams didn't
communicate with each other, and the group that designed the barbettes
to support the turrets sized them to fit the ship, not the standard Mod 6/.50cal
16" guns in triple mounts. The weapons designers had to modify the guns and invent the
Mod 7 in order to fit them in the smaller turret.
"Fully Unclear"
We'll probably never know why he did it. It's a complete mystery, totally inexplicable. There isn't any precedent, I tell you; no pattern, nothing even slightly related or indicative. No hints. No clues.
It's a real head-scratcher.
The gunman in Munich killed 9 people, wounded 16 more, and then shot himself. He was 18 and held citizenships in both Germany and Iran.
Hubertus Andrae told reporters the gunman's motive was "fully unclear"...
Of course it was. We all knew that before you told us!
The Town of Hugo has been warned not to drink, cook or bathe using the local water supply, due to evidence of THC.
Thursday afternoon, Hugo Public Works told the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office about the issue in the town's water supply and investigators are assessing the situation with state authoritiesincluding the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Colorado Bureau of Investigation, Colorado State Patrol and federal authorities.
In other news, local motels and hotels report a flood of reservations being made from Berkeley.
Some of the news reports I've seen about this have pointed out that THC isn't soluble in water to any significant degree. There was only one lab that did testing, and it tested 10 samples and declared six of them positive.
Samples have been sent to other labs and definitive results are supposed to become available tomorrow. I suspect what we're going to discover is that the first lab is full of shit.
Also, there are five wells and only one of them tested positive. It's been taken offline.
A different point: THC is expensive and the amount it would take to contaminate the water supply for an entire town would be titanically expensive. It's difficult to believe anyone would waste their drugs like that. (When they would be getting wasted themselves instead, heh.)
So I think this is going to be a false alarm, and a major embarassment for someone.
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Have to keep in mind that they can now detect things like that at part per trillion levels.
Posted by: Brett Bellmore at July 23, 2016 07:44 AM (l55xw)
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The other tests came back, all negative, and the alert has been cancelled. The report I saw didn't outright state that the first test had been a false positive, but that's certainly the implication.
A nation's flag is important. It represents the nation, it leads men into
battle. Men have died for flags, not just rhetorically, but literally. The raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi is one of the most iconic news photographs of the last century, and it's especially poignant since some of those men didn't live out the day.
A flag should mean something; it should represent the country. The US flag's
meaning is well known: 13 stripes representing the original 13 colonies of the
revolution, and a star in the upper left corner for every state. Which means
that every time we add states, the flag changes, which last happened in 1959
when Alaska and Hawaii became states.
A flag doesn't have to be complex to be meaningful. The flag of Japan is a
simple red circle on a white background, but it represents the rising sun, which
has always been Japan's identity as the Land of the Rising Sun. And it's a noble flag.
I like the Union Jack. It is made up of the Flag of St. George representing
England and Wales, the flag of St. Andrew representing Scotland, and the flag of
St. Patrick representing Ireland. (Which could have become a sick joke in 1921,
but isn't because Northern Ireland is still part of the United Kingdom.)
These are flags with meaning, symbols that are symbolic. I've never felt that
way about a lot of the flags of Europe; too many of them look like they were
stitched out of spare rags from the nearest tailor shop and if they have any
kind of symbolic meaning I never figured out what it was. This has bothered me
my whole life!
So let's try a quiz, shall we: What countries are these flags?
How many millions of men have died for these prosaic rags? And if they do
have any kind of meaning, it's probably something like "Habsburgs
Forever!"
(I've left the nation names as filenames on those pictures.)
Why is it that so many national flags in Europe are just two or three panels
of solid colors, horizontal or vertical? Seems like there's a bunch of
"...well, they're doing it!" going on here, and that's a hell
of a reason for creating a symbol that men will die for. Pfeh.
And if they do have any kind of meaning, it's probably something like "Habsburgs Forever!"
In the case of Austria-Hungary, the Habsburg emperors were essentially the only thing keeping the Dual Monarchy together. In fact, the phrase 'For God and Kaiser" was always used in the same way a country's name was used elsewhere.
It is also hard to imagine that until the unification of the German states, it was the post-revolutionary French flag that was guaranteed to bring bad memories when it appeared in other European nations.
Posted by: cxt217 at July 21, 2016 05:14 PM (EvxH9)
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I can't speak for most of the flags, but orange, being rarely used in flags, tends to have a very important meaning. It's odd that the Irish flag despite being the three vertical stripe pattern thus has some recognizable meaning to it.
There are also cases where the people that designed the flag tried to create some fancy symbolic meaning and ended up with something ugly. Take the South African flag, for example.
Posted by: Civilis at July 21, 2016 05:38 PM (KlrGc)
A flag doesn't have to be complicated in order to be worthwhile. The Canadian flag is relatively simple, with only two colors, but it's very memorable and there isn't any confusion at all about what it means and which country it's from.
On the other hand, the flag of Ivory Coast is the same as the flag of Ireland except flipped horizontally. Why?
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The former Soviet Union's was distinctive. It seems the new Russian flag wanted to go the opposite direction.
Posted by: muon at July 21, 2016 11:51 PM (IUHrD)
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I think the reason is that many countries in Europe are traditionally monarchies, so the flags will just be the colours of the royal family. Also I think a lot of them are old enough that they weren't really designed the way more modern flags are. In relatively modern times it would be unthinkable to have a design that doesn't mean something, but this was likely less the case many centuries ago. For instance, Wikipedia says that the origin of the Dutch flag may date back as far as the 9th century, when that region of Charlemagne's empire was associated with cloth in those colours.
Posted by: Jordi Vermeulen at July 22, 2016 01:29 AM (9BWts)
I think prefer a simple design (I admit to not even liking the maple leaf on the Canadian flag.) over complex designs. If every nation in Europe that still had a monarchy adopted the royal house's arms on their flag, it would make the different designs a veritable nightmare of squinting at what is on the flag when there is an international event.
That said, the simple red and white stripe of the Polish flag needs no other complexity. Straight and to the point - and if you ever need to see it on a battlefield, there will be no mistaking for it.
Posted by: cxt217 at July 22, 2016 01:04 PM (EvxH9)
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The current flag of Russian Federation is not in a sense new. It was invented by Peter The Great when he saw that every European nation had a flag, and so he came up with this. Originally it was purely for naval purposes, to be flown from ships. Oddly enough, it was quickly adopted as a general flag of Russian state in all departments, but the Russian Navy somehow migrated to so-called "St. Andrey", which has an X-shaped design. Versions of that are specifically associated with combat or least armed forces. You could see a ton of them in Novorossia flown from vehicles for ForF identification.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at July 22, 2016 02:38 PM (XOPVE)
When I was a kid, I thought there would be some point where a gong would
sound, and a switch would throw, and suddenly I'd be an adult and I'd know it.
I'm 62 and I'm still waiting. Somehow nothing like that ever happened. I've
come to the conclusion that this old saw was actually the truth:
The only difference,
between men and boys
is the size of their lies
and the price of their toys.
The only real change, and I suppose it was a good one, was when I left home
to go to college. After that I could decide to do things without having to ask
permission from my mother. (My dad died a week before I entered college.)
All my life, deep down I had this irrational fear that someone was going to walk up to me someday and
say, Nope, nope, it was all a mistake. We've decided you don't get to be an
adult after all. You have to get back in the cage again and let other people run
your life.
And now I'm facing that as a real possibility. I may have to enter a nursing
home, and the prospect fills me with abject terror. I got two and a half weeks
of that in November 2012 after my stroke when I was in the rehab hospital, and
after one week I was ready to go home, at least mentally. (I sure wasn't
physically, though.)
Fat shaming?
For the love of God, why is this a thing? So-called "Super Pochaco" is a companion to Super Sonico -- or at least she's part of the same canon. Sonico's attractions are obvious, but why, oh why, is anyone interested in this Pochaco? Ye Gods!
Whatever it is, there are a lot of expensive figurines of her, and they wouldn't do that if they didn't sell. What next, a Super Pochaco anime? (Super Sonico got one, and IMHO it's better than it has any right to be. I enjoyed it.)
The way I understand it, Pochaco is Sonico's fan and decided to try to emulate her. But unless she has an amazing singing voice it's apparent that Pochaco is completely unqualified for the role of model and rock musician. (Sonico is also studying oceanography in college, by the way.)
I suppose I should have gotten over being surprised by Japanese fans a long time ago, but this one still massively perplexes me.
Because not everybody has the same tastes as you? That particular figure doesn't do much for me either, but that's mostly because the entire SuperSonico family looks weird to me.
Posted by: Wonderduck at July 20, 2016 09:19 PM (Hdexn)
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Some people don't seem to have the "too much" off-switch. A little is good, more is better, too much is best.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 20, 2016 10:30 PM (PiXy!)
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TAKE MY MONEY POCHACO-SAMA, TAKE IT ALL
What can I say? Too much of a good thing is awesome.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian at July 23, 2016 06:17 PM (g2A9v)
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There's a 1:3 statuette selling for more than five hundred bucks, which counts as "too much of a good thing" in my book.
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A little more top-heavy than my first wife, But I did love her, for all that she turned out only to have married me as a get out of debt quick scheme. Personality makes a good deal of difference, and she was fun to be with in her manic phase.
But even if I were single I don't think I'd pay $500 for a statue of Super Sonico, let alone Pochaco.
Posted by: Brett Bellmore at July 25, 2016 03:49 PM (l55xw)
