Necratoid,
There is still plenty of room for happy endings. Yeah, the humans should be shedding more blood than the Romans, without the Roman ability to absorb alien populations. That still isn't a sure loss.
I like the Romans, even though they ultimately lost. We all die in the end, but it does not shrink the victories we create along the way.
As I didn't get around to saying in that 'Hero' thread, nobody is going to get me to only follow definitions of 'Hero' that exclude Rick Rescorla and Regulus. My tastes for what a hero is, who I'm willing to cheer for, cry for, and be pleased at the struggles and sacrifices of, may be very different from yours.
If the scenario I described is well executed, and quite some number of people in it make the decision at say, ten to fourteen, that they don't mind signing on to something likely to get them killed badly, then I can see it as being at least as happy as David Drake's Isles books. I enjoyed Drake's Isles books.
I can see the possibility for good amounts of optimism and hope in the scenario I described. I think implementation makes a huge difference. I was trying to write the specification to remove ways for people to enjoy the crossover as described.
I enjoy reading history, which, along with prehistory, is full of horrible people doing horrible things. Often, the only happy ending is the some population managed to survived a generation or two more. I admit the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward is a bit much for my taste, and I don't think I really managed to come close to that.
As for Madoka, I am culturally and personally wired to expect certain things if an entity were to come up to me, and offer me magical powers. That sort of thing doesn't really make for a really happy story, but neither would shoving my hand into a plastic shredder. While I enjoy magical girl anime, often, deep down, I expect something else to happen, and am a little surprised when it doesn't. Apparently, Madoka spent some time traveling the path my instincts suggest would happen, and then swerves off back onto something that the Japanese market was willing to support. It looked like they were finally going to show the shredder mangling the hand, and then they didn't.
Sai-Kanokon
GunslingerGirlsaurus
Triangle Master of Martial Hearts
Shadow Moses Island in Metal Gear keeps on making me think of Persona.
The hero of Rifles for Watie reads E.W. Hildick's 'The Case of the Slingshot Sniper: A McGurk Mystery'
Because anachronism
There is still plenty of room for happy endings. Yeah, the humans should be shedding more blood than the Romans, without the Roman ability to absorb alien populations. That still isn't a sure loss.
I like the Romans, even though they ultimately lost. We all die in the end, but it does not shrink the victories we create along the way.
As I didn't get around to saying in that 'Hero' thread, nobody is going to get me to only follow definitions of 'Hero' that exclude Rick Rescorla and Regulus. My tastes for what a hero is, who I'm willing to cheer for, cry for, and be pleased at the struggles and sacrifices of, may be very different from yours.
If the scenario I described is well executed, and quite some number of people in it make the decision at say, ten to fourteen, that they don't mind signing on to something likely to get them killed badly, then I can see it as being at least as happy as David Drake's Isles books. I enjoyed Drake's Isles books.
I can see the possibility for good amounts of optimism and hope in the scenario I described. I think implementation makes a huge difference. I was trying to write the specification to remove ways for people to enjoy the crossover as described.
I enjoy reading history, which, along with prehistory, is full of horrible people doing horrible things. Often, the only happy ending is the some population managed to survived a generation or two more. I admit the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward is a bit much for my taste, and I don't think I really managed to come close to that.
As for Madoka, I am culturally and personally wired to expect certain things if an entity were to come up to me, and offer me magical powers. That sort of thing doesn't really make for a really happy story, but neither would shoving my hand into a plastic shredder. While I enjoy magical girl anime, often, deep down, I expect something else to happen, and am a little surprised when it doesn't. Apparently, Madoka spent some time traveling the path my instincts suggest would happen, and then swerves off back onto something that the Japanese market was willing to support. It looked like they were finally going to show the shredder mangling the hand, and then they didn't.
Sai-Kanokon
GunslingerGirlsaurus
Triangle Master of Martial Hearts
Shadow Moses Island in Metal Gear keeps on making me think of Persona.
The hero of Rifles for Watie reads E.W. Hildick's 'The Case of the Slingshot Sniper: A McGurk Mystery'
Because anachronism