(RFC) Untitled SI (Nanoha)

[Black Aeronaut]

ClassicDrogn wrote:

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So apparently for a combat cyborg, that which has been seen can, in fact, be un-seen. Handy in this case, though you'd definitely want to make sure your cyberwarfare defenses are up to scratch or things could get very Ghost in the Shell/Shadowruns Intensify/Matrix-y.

Personally, I would have slapped a tag on that file that would prevent my system from casually 'recalling' the image for me.  Although I get the sneaking suspicion that my mind is surprisingly diabolical.  As for security... decoys, traps, and counterattacks, and all of the nastiest varieties.  Walls are just to keep the general riff raff out.

ClassicDrogn wrote:

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(Then I try to watch a dub or a US cartoon or play a video game, and
lackluster voice acting has me palming my face and wondering what the
hell was up with that bullshit, because if I was doing voice work and
turned in a performance that flat I'd expect to be fired five minutes
into the job, yet the same people go on to one property after another
and are considered top names... it's really no wonder I spend so much
time reading compared to other forms of entertainment.)

I've spoken with a VA on this matter at Anime Odyssey here in San Antonio (it was their first year, so that's why you never heard of this con) and what she had to say was rather enlightening - they force the VA's to go at it, totally cold turkey because they don't want to pay the money for racking up the studio's hours.  On top of that, they force them to match up as closely to the lip-flaps on the screen as possible.  Even if they haven't been modified from the original animations.  Even if the script isn't written to take those lip-flaps into account.
And that, my friends, is why we are better off with the subs... Unless someone were to go to the length they did when they remastered Akira.
Back on topic...

ClassicDrogn wrote:

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It does make me curious as to whether Uno set up safety cutouts to keep
Jail from obsessing over the non-Euclidean geometries for too, long, he
did himself but just forgets everything in the face of the GLORIOUS
QUESTIONS OF THE UNKNOWN!, or if something is brainjacking him from its
lair in Angles Estrangelos.

I don't think that was Uno's doing, but either way that is pretty damn ominous.  Were I in Imma's shoes, I take a step back and a good long round turn on the whole situation just to make sure that everything is really on the up-and-up.  After all, every slice of the multiverse out there is just a couple of degrees off from making something like Dead Space look like a picnic.