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El-Hazard Online / Re: New El-Hazard DVDs from Geneon
« on: June 02, 2007, 11:54:20 am »
It is nice to see that we might actually have affordable El-Hazard. Maybe there will be a resurgence...? Nah, not likely.
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El-Hazard Online / Re: New El-Hazard DVDs from Geneon« on: June 02, 2007, 11:54:20 am »
It is nice to see that we might actually have affordable El-Hazard. Maybe there will be a resurgence...? Nah, not likely.
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El-Hazard Online / Re: El Hazard Jokyoku« on: April 02, 2007, 03:39:32 pm »
This one goes against Rule #3. Sorry, Vince.
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El-Hazard Online / Re: Nakazawa at Otakon!!!« on: December 13, 2006, 09:16:15 pm »Quote
Normally this is true. But by chance I actually did meet up with someone with whom I had no official plan of meeting (but knew would be there.) So you just never know how chaos of the universe will pan out! Quote Oh, well - I still had a great time, and it's good to know that you managed to meet with him. I'm glad he was tickled by your costume; I know I would have been, in his shoes! Yup, and just to quote daguru himself: "... nothing beats walking in and seeing the ear-to-ear grin on his face." Someday I would love to impress someone with a delightful tribute to one of their works, whatever that might be... the closest thing I've had in the other direction is someone who made a degrading half-parody, half-outright insult of something -I- made. 35
El-Hazard Online / Re: Ending scene of the OVA1 musing« on: October 26, 2006, 04:56:48 pm »
To be fair, the VIZ manga literally states they go back to El-Hazard. This may be where the author got the idea.
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El-Hazard Online / Re: El Hazard : Animated Music Video« on: September 13, 2006, 12:12:40 pm »
Ah, MPAA, RIAA... whatever. Not fond of either AA.
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El-Hazard Online / Re: El Hazard : Animated Music Video« on: September 12, 2006, 11:55:29 pm »
Yeah. I'm surprised YouTube hasn't been one of those things shut down or otherwise hunted by the RIAA yet. I mean, it has plenty of legal content, but a good deal of it ranges from gray area to outright dangerous.
And even though the glory days are gone, I guess I should still make my administrator thing and not advocate piracy, etc. Of course, as mentioned in this thread, you're already half-punished by losing art detail. 38
Non-El-Hazard Topical Discussions / Re: AzuDai yonkoma« on: August 31, 2006, 03:55:05 pm »
Ah, so you poke around the Azu image forum too. I poke around there... strictly anonymous anyway.
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El-Hazard Online / Re: Nakazawa at Otakon!!!« on: July 16, 2006, 10:04:30 am »
Ha, cool. Let us know how it goes.
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El-Hazard Online / Re: El-Hazard Mobile Goods« on: May 27, 2006, 09:36:25 pm »
That's awesome. I never yet have a configurable cell phone like all you cool kids.
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El-Hazard Online / Re: TM! / El-Hazard 4-panel Funnies« on: May 27, 2006, 09:35:03 pm »
Those are new to me. I don't know much about Tenchi, unfortunately. I never quite got into it.
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El-Hazard Online / Re: i'm an idiot--time, space, etc.« on: May 20, 2006, 08:22:38 am »
Haha, don't worry about it too much. How can the beginning possibly be the end? Doesn't this violate time travel ideas? Certainly from a typical "time travel" sort of perspective it really does. It's the old can't go back in time to shoot your Grandfather without causing the reasoning to be invalidated by the action and initiating a paradox.
I once starting writing a fanfic-ish article on how I thought this could all work and I did it by extrapolating the regular four dimensions -- x, y, z, (3D space) and time (4D) -- and then adding a fifth dimension which I loosely called "existence" or an "existence version" or something like that. Our entire "existence" for every choice, every movement we make alters the course of the timeline which we'll be following. By this theory, parallel worlds could exist all over the place at any given moment, down to the simple detail. For example, let's try rolling a die. It could land on any of the six sides. But there's a million factors which might alter it, perhaps even a slight vibration in the floor that tilts it one way or the other. The die represents at least six different possible outcomes of which each would be a different fifth component -- same precise time, but different "existences." Since El-Hazard talks about dimensional travels and shifts, my theory about the Ifurita story would be this -- a different Makoto of a parallel world built a machine capable of making the leap to El-Hazard without any Ifurita apperance. (Think "El-Hazard: The Wanderers" for those who have seen it! The entire show is same time, same place, but different occurances.) So, in theory, let's say that this alternate world Makoto makes the jump to El-Hazard, either on purpose or by accident, and finds the Ifurita we know from the OAV. They fall in love, etc., and end up having to stop the Eye of God. Ifurita falls in, gets transported. Only instead of warping back to the beginning of the dimension-machine builder Makoto, she winds up at the completely innocent Makoto of the OAV. This way she "knows" everything and the beginning seems the same as the end, even though this particular "version" of Makoto at this point in time has no association with a dimensional warp device. Maybe Ifurita knows this happened, maybe she doesn't. Either way, she sends innocent Makoto away with the hope he'll be able to work his way back around. And that's one way to explain it. Actually, I do recall having once read an EH fanfiction which featured an alternate world Ifurita showing up and attempting to kill Makoto for never coming back for her or something. So I'm probably not alone in this theory. There could be other theories, such as just sticking to time travel and blaming Makoto of losing his dimensional machine powers by Ifurita arriving early and goofing up something in the timeline. Ultimately, it's never explained by any of the series anywhere, and if you want to just say "Cool, it happened" and not think about it, no one will think less of you for it. I only do this because I'm the thinking type. 43
Non-El-Hazard Topical Discussions / Re: Happy Birthday Rob« on: May 19, 2006, 06:36:10 pm »
Holy smokes. I wouldn't even have known who you were had I not been poking around FUS a couple weeks (?) ago. Anyway, it's 23. I'm getting old.
(For everyone else, that's a topic that essentially links to here, a Wiki I've been setting up about my game project experience which isn't complete yet.) If you ever want to talk to me there, er, Quex-ee-nohs, I'm still hanging around AIM as SHillsJunction, just sufficently less crazy than I used to be. (See said Wiki's "About" page for good fun.) Personally I find the random birthday rememberance a real left-fielder, but much appreciated, thank you. Actually it is perhaps appropriate. We're having my B-Day celebration early anyway over here because of various different family work schedules. SO YES, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE ROBERT. He is 23. Everyone can send me presents and such. 44
El-Hazard Online / Re: Build your own Ifurita« on: May 08, 2006, 11:12:03 am »
Haha, I stole the pictures from Spanner first for my really old 404 pages anyway.
Since stealing Spanner's Ifurita images is in vogue, I decided to that again and create a MegaHAL version of Cute Weapon Ifurita for comparison. What's fun about a MegaHAL is it tends to remember the stupid things you throw at it. But this is a hack job and a poor implementation of a MegaHAL -- it executes once with your supplied line, responds, saves, and exits. That means it will have no conversational context between one reply and the next. http://bobstuffs.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/MegaHAL/megahal_reply.pl But try it anyway. Its format is "sort of" based on Helio's. Admittedly though this is probably not a whole lot "better" of an Ifurita... maybe more mindless and insane... but it should at least respond to anything you throw at it. Maybe once in a while lucidly. Its brain is based on our Wanderers episode guides like episode 18-26 or something. I forget how many I went through exactly. 45
El-Hazard Online / Re: Build your own Ifurita« on: May 07, 2006, 12:14:15 pm »
It, uh, works I guess
Hi ya! Welcome! > Geocities hosting is horrible thing, isn't it? Sometimes I babble, I'm afraid, so I'm not always sure whether or not the things I say make any sense, or whether they're just stupid. Master doesn't like it when I babble, even though it sounds an awful lot like Master does when he rants about Makoto, but... ooooh I'm babbling again aren't I? Sorry! > That's a default response, right? Uh... sorry, what? > I'm too difficult, haha Uh... sorry, what? > Hi. Uh... sorry, what? > Hello? Uh... sorry, what? > 2 + 2? Uh... sorry, what? > Bye 'Bye for now! Come again soon!!! I don't quite get what you intend for me to do with this. I would've chosen a MegaHAL brain and did some neat server side stuff. But nice job anyway. |