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    1. Iuniper 8 yrs ago

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When you think about it, all skulls are secondhand.
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“In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was within me an invincible summer.” - Camus, Return to Tipasa
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Yeah, I'm sorry, folks, I'm going to have to bow out. Looking at my work schedule and other commitments, I just don't see this working out :/ I apologize and wish you all the best with this. Take care!


Ditto what everyone said, muchacho. Hope to see you around! Definitely pop back in if you have the chance, Mags is pretty sweet.
Howdy, Cele! There are a lot of different boards you can check out depending on what you feel most comfortable doing. If you're looking to roleplay with one person, check out the 1x1 Roleplay board and see if there's anything that tickles your fancy! :)
@Iuniper Doesn't seem very forced to me and I find the long-distance survivor's guilt believable enough, especially for a Redguard. Being warrior is in their blood and I can see how not facing the same tests as her fellow Redguards could create sentiments like that. If you want to submit her as-is, I'd probably accept, to be honest, but feel free to tinker with her a little more if you want.


Yeah, I had read that Redguard were very much into ancestor worship but I should more explicit, probably. If you have any more feedback, lemme know. I'll tinker with it a little bit more.
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Where'd it go? I was about to sit down and give you some feedback.

As for everyone else, let me, Peik and Jbcool settle the current situation before introducing more characters. People still working on their sheets, I'd very much like to see them by the end of tomorrow (Monday).


Here it is, unfinished:


I find it a bit unrealistic - in writing it originally I ad-libbed a bunch in order to draw some sort of connection to Sibassius, and motivations for guilt aren't really explained in a way that I'm happy with it. So ehh. I really just wanted to somehow make a Redguard character.
I thought about it and now just feel thoroughly disappointed. :(
Didn't the director say that the original source material was too philosophical?
@Awson
Saw it this morning. I enjoyed it.

I imagine people who are super familiar with the source material wouldn't enjoy it, though. The film doesn't add anything new to any of the content that's already been created, intellectually and otherwise - it really just cobbles together what was interesting and memorable from the anime series and film. Sometimes, this is done very well, beautifully. But a lot of times the film incorporates something that in the source material is quite profound, but doesn't spend enough time to make the material feel meaningful.

For instance, the film includes a recurring thread of dialogue about Major's consent: you're sort of beat over the head that entities such as Major deserve consent. When she reclaims her identity, this sort of line of dialogue doesn't change at all, and you're left with "consent is good". There are also other questions posed, for instance, about how someone like Major might view sexuality, with the inclusion of the scene where Major intimately touches a prostitute's face. But these kinds of scenes are just inserted into the film with no regard for the narrative flow/pacing. This sort of material is just thrown in alongside the gorgeous visuals which might be reasonably frustrating for diehard fans.

The 1995 film was really cinematographically wonderful and better incorporated some of the intellectual/philosophical material, but it had a lot of exposition which I think might bore a lot of people totally unfamiliar with the series. I think this film tried to introduce GITS to an audience totally unfamiliar with it through gorgeous visuals and a smattering of the other stuff that makes GITS successful within the span of 2 hours. I think it was successful in doing that, and I enjoyed it.
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@Iuniper

She is indeed a funny little bird. I feel like Trist/Aeudla conversations would be quite a highlight.

What didn't show up on the post? For me nothing appears to be wrong. I hate dis when dis happens.


Haha, I think a collaboration between them would be interesting. Though I think everyone is, to some extent, a merry little weirdo.

The quote underneath the image and what I guess to be the date/time are showing up as indecipherable special characters. But maybe this is just because I'm mobile. It's probably fine. :)
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