Quote:ClassicDrogn wrote:Well, if we can find a small one that can put out a decent amount of power on the shaft, be able to start within a couple or three seconds, and (most importantly) doesn't cost a arm and a leg, then Garrick would go for it.
WRT gas turbine power, I believe the suggestion was to use that to power the generator, not a gearbox to the wheels. A simple one can have all of two moving parts (plus bearings) - the compressor/turbine and a throttle to regulate the fuel going into it - hard to get simpler than that. You can pretty much run it on any liquid or gas that will burn, as well.
Quote:Deadpan29 wrote:I know, it is fast, but another way we could explain this away is that they probably feel that it is best that way given his intimate knowledge of them. Like Garrick said to Seto earlier, knowing how she is she'd want to keep him where she could keep a close eye on him.
Good
character insights and character interaction. However, it feels like
these people are pulling Garrick into the inner circle and upper
echelons a little too quickly. He pops up totally at random, they know
nothing about him, and right away he's part of the household, handed a
seed that will grow up into a ship that can one-shot plannets, and by
extension adopted into the Royal family.
These people are friendly and accomodating, but again this seems to be going a lttle fast.
Another way of looking at it is that this is all provisional as it stands right now. They're testing him to see what he's made of and learning how he reacts to things - and there's really no better place than the Masaki Household on Earth where things tend to go kablooey on a regular basis.
Quote:Deadpan29 wrote:I've pretty much decided that I'm going to go through with it. The only real hang-up is going to be the final story arc of the manga, and having that lead into OVA3. It's gonna take some work, but hopefully I can pull it off without breaking things too badly.
On other subjects, I'm a fan of the manga as well as the cartoons and
would like to see Minagi and other elements in your story.
Quote:Deadpan29 wrote:Well, it's kinda hard to be offensive when you're honestly looking for answers. Though I tend to find some of the more outlandish things people say about Mormons to be downright amusing. (Ever heard the one where they say we make virgin sacrfices by throwing them off the Salt Lake Temple and into the Great Salt Lake? It'd certainly take an act of divine intervention to make them travel that far overland to get there! ^_^ )
Lastly, and this may be completely misinformed and even unintentionally
offensive on my part, but what little I know of Mormon theology leaves
me with the impression that it's more open to the idea of having
multiple creators of multiple creations than most other Judeo-Christian
branches. The whole, "What man is, God once was. What God is, man may
become," point indicates that there was a creation in place before this
one and there are other creators with their own domains.
Anyhow, you're both right and wrong. The way it works is that, in accordance to Mormon teachings we are indeed Children of God. There's even a Goddess out there that is our mother, but patriarchal religions being what they are, she strictly plays in a background role. In essence, we're all tadpoles to the frog, but unlike the tadpoles we have a very long way to go. How far? Supposedly Jesus and Lucifer where His own sons when He was as we are - that or they are of a previous generation. Either way, it makes them very literally our elder brothers - elder brothers who do not have domains of their own yet.
As for other Gods... Well... the going theory among some of us more free thinkers is that our is but one household in an entire way of life where this pattern has been repeating beyond reckoning.... and our galaxy is just the nursery within that household.
Pretty humbling thought, ain't it?
Now, the part where your wrong... God is pretty explicit on the whole matter of not having any other gods before him. And when you take that in the context of the what I already told you, it makes sense. It'd be like coming home to your family, and your children are suddenly saying, "You're not my daddy! This guy is my daddy! He lets me do whatever I want!" Awkward to say the very least!
So, while we do, in essence, recognize that there are other beings like God out there, we do not really recognize them as Gods. They should have no more bearing on us than, say, you neighbor several houses down should have any bearing on your own children.
Now, in Garrick's case, the best thing I can say is that for whatever reason he's been snatched from the nursery, flown overseas to some foreign country, and tossed into someone else's yard knowing that the people in charge there wouldn't turn the poor kid out. In fact, not having the slightest clue of where he came from or how to get him home, they would do what they could for him, and just adopt him into their own family. Which is pretty much what Tsunami is doing here.
And this gives me hilarious and WAFF inducing imagery of Tsunami with this poor little toddler getting dumped on her (literally!) out of nowhere, and the antics that come afterwards. (Where's the parents? Can't find the parents! Where did he come from! Oh dear... he's crying!)
Now, on to a different topic!
Quote:ClassicDrogn wrote:
With the way Ayeka and Ryoko are iconically depicted as fighting each
other by throwing energy blasts around, to be the one to win the hand of
their mutual beau, I think "Shonen" fits better, myself.
Quote:Deadpan29 wrote:How about a trade-off then? Since Noboyuki's collection is explicitly NOTHING! BUT! SHOJOU! Garrick will say Shojou Manga at first... and then he will proceed to wisecrack that given the way Ryoko and Ayeka behave you'd think Sasami had slipped them Shounen Manga instead!
On a third subject, "shonen" could work but it doesn't work as well as
shojou, specifically because its Noboyuki's shojou manga collection that
Sasami and the other girls read.