brazenautomaton asked:
Yes, but in anime girl form. Because anime.
@ranma-official: Argumentative girl thought to be flirting with protagonist in comedy filler episode 17, actually interested in protagonist’s love interest. Side plot is dropped entirely once she becomes member of ship’s crew.
@isaacsapphire: The ship’s no-nonsense mechanic.
@mitigatedchaos: Loyal officer of the season 1 main antagonist and mobile suit knightmare frame mech pilot. Actually believes in main antagonist’s plans to bring about World Revolution, and the Hard Choices this requires. Thought to have been defeated and killed by the protagonist ¾ through season 1, returns to investigate/fight the Mysterious Organization behind the World State in season 2.
@slartibartfastibast: Ship’s lab-coated biologist. Secretly working against the Mysterious Organization, as hinted in season 1.
@the-grey-tribe: Ship’s engineer. Keeps the protagonist’s Super Prototype Mech Discourse Suit functioning in between combat engagements.
@collapsedsquid: Journalist investigating the true motives of the season 1 main antagonist, thought to have been killed by the Mysterious Organization near the end of season 1, but revealed to be alive in season 2.
@kontextmaschine: Esoteric ‘hipster’ gets little screen-time, revealed as former member of the Mysterious Organization currently in hiding in season 2, annoying viewers as an underwhelming use of foreshadowing in season 1.
@xhxhxhx: Reasonable Authority Figure of World State District 11, origin point of the protagonist’s ship.
@wrathofgnon: Even more war-hawkish general of the main antagonist.
@silver-and-ivory: Handsome Mech Discourse Suit pilot from other battlegroup rescues protagonist twice in season 1, once in season 2. A fan favorite but doesn’t get much screentime.
@theunitofcaring: Peace activist focused on by plot but brushed aside by ludicrously destructive Discourse Suit war. Finally achieves goal in end of season 2.
@yudkowsky: Thought to be the secret identity of the main antagonist, turns out to be just a philosopher in one of the space colonies.
@bambamramfan: Additional philosopher on Earth. Encountered by the protagonist in season 1 to impart some wisdom with a few other philosophers before departing.
@wirehead-wannabe: Bridge bunny. (Sorry.)
@slatestarscratchpad: Another space colony philosopher. Explains the goals of the Mysterious Organization in season 2 when Yudkowsky is found, but not actually a member of the Mysterious Organization.
@argumate: Generic owl-themed harem protagonist of the spin-off series.
[This article is incomplete. You can help by expanding it.]
@mailadreapta Is a gruff father, and an honorable loyalist colonel of the season 1 main antagonist. He is killed by a shady and corrupt member of the protagonist’s faction during the battle of Space Colony Alpha halfway through season 1, when the protagonist attempts to take him prisoner.
@thathopeyetlives is Col. Dreapta’s lieutenant, and somehow survives until the end of the second season, only to bravely die fighting alien invaders in the follow-up movie.
@brazenautomaton is the ship’s shy, stressed and anxious gynoid AI. The sideplot to fix her permanently burned-in pessimistic Personality Template is sadly dropped during season 2 due to budget cuts. ( :< )
rocketverliden asked:
I’m sorry to say this, but as an experienced Gundam fan, you are the DSX-05L Custom Prototype Full-Autonomous Discourse Suit revealed by the World State in episode 18 and added to the ship’s crew, that sides against the mass-production autonomous discourse suits fielded by the Mysterious Organization in season 2.
It’s just how it is. Don’t worry, your self-sacrifice in season 2 episode 23 is touching and heroic.
@ranma-official: Argumentative girl thought to be flirting with protagonist in comedy filler episode 17, actually interested in protagonist’s love interest. Side plot is dropped entirely once she becomes member of ship’s crew.
@isaacsapphire: The ship’s no-nonsense mechanic.
@mitigatedchaos: Loyal officer of the season 1 main antagonist and mobile suit knightmare frame mech pilot. Actually believes in main antagonist’s plans to bring about World Revolution, and the Hard Choices this requires. Thought to have been defeated and killed by the protagonist ¾ through season 1, returns to investigate/fight the Mysterious Organization behind the World State in season 2.
@slartibartfastibast: Ship’s lab-coated biologist. Secretly working against the Mysterious Organization, as hinted in season 1.
@the-grey-tribe: Ship’s engineer. Keeps the protagonist’s Super Prototype Mech Discourse Suit functioning in between combat engagements.
@collapsedsquid: Journalist investigating the true motives of the season 1 main antagonist, thought to have been killed by the Mysterious Organization near the end of season 1, but revealed to be alive in season 2.
@kontextmaschine: Esoteric ‘hipster’ gets little screen-time, revealed as former member of the Mysterious Organization currently in hiding in season 2, annoying viewers as an underwhelming use of foreshadowing in season 1.
@xhxhxhx: Reasonable Authority Figure of World State District 11, origin point of the protagonist’s ship.
@wrathofgnon: Even more war-hawkish general of the main antagonist.
@silver-and-ivory: Handsome Mech Discourse Suit pilot from other battlegroup rescues protagonist twice in season 1, once in season 2. A fan favorite but doesn’t get much screentime.
@theunitofcaring: Peace activist focused on by plot but brushed aside by ludicrously destructive Discourse Suit war. Finally achieves goal in end of season 2.
@yudkowsky: Thought to be the secret identity of the main antagonist, turns out to be just a philosopher in one of the space colonies.
@bambamramfan: Additional philosopher on Earth. Encountered by the protagonist in season 1 to impart some wisdom with a few other philosophers before departing.
@wirehead-wannabe: Bridge bunny. (Sorry.)
@slatestarscratchpad: Another space colony philosopher. Explains the goals of the Mysterious Organization in season 2 when Yudkowsky is found, but not actually a member of the Mysterious Organization.
@argumate: Generic owl-themed harem protagonist of the spin-off series.
[This article is incomplete. You can help by expanding it.]
silver-and-ivory asked:
The very fact that you don’t understand why you’re a fan favorite that saves the protagonist in the middle of Discourse Suit combat is part of why you’re suitable for the part of fan favorite that saves the protagonist in the middle of Discourse Suit combat. ☆ ★
silver-and-ivory asked:
mitigatedchaos answered:
The very fact that you don’t understand why you’re a fan favorite that saves the protagonist in the middle of Discourse Suit combat is part of why you’re suitable for the part of fan favorite that saves the protagonist in the middle of Discourse Suit combat. ☆ ★
…thank you?
what are the other parts
Okay, I’ll answer this more seriously.
I recall reading that selfie post where you asked about looking male-sexed but visibly femme. Also, said selfie had long hair. So, not so far off from a bishounen!
Now, in a space mech war anime, there sometimes is a bishounen or maybe biseinen character with long hair. Usually, he is a capable mech pilot, as you don’t want to spend that characterization on an unimportant side character.
Now, you’re more SJish than I am, and I am read as right-wing. The goal of the main antagonist in the first season is not so dissimilar from various Gundam antagonist factions - Space Nationalism - or just plain opposition to the World State. So since I’m on that side and I’m a villain, you of course are on the protagonist’s side.
It makes sense for the protagonist (since this is being hinted at as being harem genre) not to be upstaged by such a guy on his ship! So the logical thing is to place him on another ship. And since the two ships often won’t be together to avoid loss of narrative focus, they will encounter each other several times.
Now then, since the director would want this pretty male character to bring cross-demographic female interest, it makes sense for him to be an ace pilot that rescues the protagonist and maybe gets rescued by the protagonist again later to drive fandom shipping (and thus viewership and merchandise sales).
Fan favorite because this combination of factors leads to shipping wars and conservation of screen-time ninjutsu, but also you have a very earnest personality.
(Note that I’m not a proper mecha otaku. Sorry @rocketverliden!)
@wirehead-wannabe doesn’t seem like the type to pilot a mech in a space war, and also is not a Nationalist/Traditionalist/etc, and also this is an anime, and thus ends up as one of the bridge bunnies.
@brazenautomaton I like but left out on the first round because I couldn’t figure out a good one and also didn’t want to accidentally come off harshly.
Anonymous asked:
brazenautomaton answered:
order of the stick
the backer comic, “how the paladin got his scar”, is about seeing humanity and value in your enemy and avoiding the needless loss of life and recognizing others have a perspective and wants and needs and fears and all that stuff
except if you’re an MRA or GG or some similar group where the lie “these people hate and are threatening to women” has been told and has been exalted and is more important than the truth; the comic makes it clear that those people are awful and contemptible and are motivated only by malice and hatred of women and everyone should feel contempt for them and they do nothing but lie and should die
and this reminds me that the lie is more important than the truth. people literally cannot stop themselves from believing the lie. they can’t. it’s impossible. no matter how much they want to be virtuous, no matter how much they want to be honest and charitable, the lie is so much more important than the truth they are incapable of not believing it. the lie makes up a fundamental component of how they see reality. they can’t stop. they can look at the lie. they can see it is a lie. they can be told it is a lie and agree “what I am looking at is a lie, and I do not want to believe it”. then they believe that lie anyway, because popularity is invincible and inassailable and will devour all and death is the only escape.
Alternative: They know it’s a lie, but they have to counter-signal so they won’t get purged or so that people won’t immediately turn off their brains and go all “YOU’RE IN LEAGUE WITH THE ENEMY”.
Feminism is Sexism plus Popularity.
Feminism cannot ever possibly be defeated and it will burn down every single thing that makes living tolerable and salt the earth just for the joy of annihilation.
You honestly think they’re going to stop the cybernetics/tissue industry?
Because what it means to be “a woman,” as a category, is on a countdown timer right now.
(Note: Rehashing things I’ve said before, definitely a late-night rant)
I still find the fact that 46% of the country decided to vote for Donald fucking Trump of all people for President to be completely baffling at a gut level.
How could anyone possibly have been comfortable voting for such an obviously mean, selfish, low-IQ, inexperienced, incoherent, authoritarian, and unserious person? How could otherwise educated, moral, rational people, have voted for this man (as many otherwise well-educated, moral, and rational Republicans did)? I still feel like I live in a bad satire of America rather than the real world.
Even if I grant every critique of his opponent, Hillary Clinton, and I try to inhabit the mindset of a person with conservative policy views, and I concede all the frustration with the cultural left that many on the right feel, I still don’t see how there is even a contest between which one would be preferable to run our military, our diplomacy, and our nuclear weapons. Like shouldn’t basic respectability and competence trump all else when the other candidate completely fails on those metrics?
I feel a deep shame whenever I think about the fact that such a horrible man is the face of my nation. I didn’t feel that way about Bush, I would not have felt that way about McCain or Romney.
Something is rotten about the right in this country, something so rotten that they all thought that somehow Trump was a lesser of evils choice. There were signs of this rot earlier: the rise of Fox News, talk radio, and Breitbart, the crazier elements of the Tea Party (Sharon Angle, Christine O’Donnell, Todd Aiken), the radicalization of Republicans in Congress and state legislatures, but it wasn’t clear until Trump how deep the rot went.
The left is by no means perfect, not even close, and if this were another time with a more normal President I’d be more comfortable focusing more of my time on that. But there really is no equivalence between the left’s dysfunction’s and the right’s. Right now there really is something truly different, something scary, something very big and uniquely bad going on with the right at a systemic, sociological level that I don’t really understand no matter how much I obsess about it, at least at an emotional level.
Half the country was willing to accept authoritarian rhetoric. Half the country was willing to accept incoherence and stupidity and lying. Half the country was willing to accept meanness, endorsement of sexual assault, and racist rhetoric. Most Republican voters are not authoritarians, racists, sexists, liars, or mean, but they didn’t mind voting for it at all.
That’s terrifying.
I want you to imagine that there was a group within your country that had been mass kidnapping kids for sex trafficking with more or less impunity, for years.
The police refused to do anything about it. The politicians not only claimed it wasn’t happening, but celebrated bringing more of that group. The media gaslit you and said it wasn’t happening.
In fact, when you raised objections, you were sent for ideological retraining.
Of course, I’m not talking about the United States.
But suppose someone in the United States did know about such a thing happening. And the same cycle of “but it isn’t real” was being used by the same ideological groups to claim that what happened in another developed country was impossible, that it would never happen, and certainly wasn’t happening there and could not possibly happen here.
Approximately how many layers of “FUCK YOU” would they want to send those ideological groups as a message? Why on Earth would they care about those groups’ criticisms when said groups are a bunch of lying hypocrites?
Quite frankly, if you’re actually baffled that they could put Trump in the Whitehouse, you don’t understand Trump voters as well as you think you do.
And those Very Serious People that Clinton was the representative of? Clinton wanted even more involvement in Syria than Trump has so far actually provided. She said as much right before he missile striked that airbase, and we all know that the MSM would have been chanting “YASS, QUEEN, SLAY! #STRONGWOMEN” the whole time.
I didn’t vote for Trump, but the Serious People have worn down the value of being perceived as serious. If we get through to 2020 with no new big wars, I’m going to chalk it up as a victory.
1. I don’t claim to understand Trump voters, in fact my post is about how I don’t understand them.
2. The politically correct left does I think have real problems, as illustrated by Rotherham or the naivete of not being worried about Germany taking in so many Syrian refugees. But, with respect to America, they are basically correct. Immigrants to the US have lower crime rates than natives, largely assimilate by the third if not second generation, and you almost certainly won’t be killed in a terrorist attack.The fact that half the country would never believe this is attributable to the intellectual rot in right-wing news sources.
3. On foreign policy, I don’t love those “very serious people” either (or Hillary on foreign policy, way too hawkish), but they wouldn’t be completely destroying America’s leadership position and credibility, thus ceding it to authoritarian states, and they would possess much less of a long-tail risk of a true foreign policy catastrophe that Trump does. Also, I strongly doubt foreign policy had much to do with Trump’s success.
But, with respect to America, they are basically correct.
And you can’t even envision the mental state of someone who doesn’t believe this?
And you can’t even imagine a person who has noticed “Hey, they acted exactly the same way they did here, exactly the same way in every possible respect, as they did in Rotherham, and the things those people are telling me about how I’m a terrible bigot who is only driven by bigotry are exactly the same things they said about Rotherham, and all of the statistics they wave in my face are made and controlled by the same people as made the statistics that proved Rotherham wasn’t happening”?
You think it’s “intellectual rot” in right-wing news sources to not roll over and admit defeat and adopt your ideology. You keep admitting that there are horrific, soul-deep problems in Your Ideological Tribe and that they keep lying and they keep maliciously trying to hurt people, but you just act incredibly perplexed when someone actually notices those things, and then acts like a person who noticed it. When someone notices the politically correct left never stops lying to them and about them, they act like people who noticed that, and they stop believing the things the politically correct left demands they believe.
Your continued inability to understand conservatives is seriously because you aren’t trying.
So, in addition to what BrazenAutomaton says, which gets at why the Conservatives don’t trust “well okay, they lied that time, but overall they’re right.” (And why I didn’t respond earlier, since what I would have said would not have been so different.)
There are policies you can use to bring a Rotherham-like situation under control.
They are not nice policies. They are not kind policies.
This kind of price must be paid in pain or blood.
It will have to be very firmly established to not only these men, but the communities in which they reside, that this behavior is utterly unacceptable and intolerable. No excuses just because they are foreign. Child sex trafficking isn’t littering.
There are solutions to other problems as well, that are forbidden from consideration, because we are simultaneously too soft and too tough in all the wrong ways at once.
Some of them should be very stupidly obvious, like banning first and second cousin marriage, but oh, we can’t even admit there is a problem.
@brazenautomaton: oh so it’s okay when YOU call someone Mei-Ling
inferentialdistance said: Remember that time you complained about all Chinese girls being named Mei Ling in western media?
firstly, I was deliberately lampshading a popular trope
secondly, thank you for noticing! I highly appreciate it when people devote a portion of their mental resources to memorising my posts and scanning them for hypocritical inconsistencies
This is easily explained. You see, Argumate’s real name is actually Mei Ling (male),
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