The Ravings of Demented Rabbits

Otakuism

I'd love to say I got a lot done this Thanksgiving break, but I really didn't. My sole human interaction was with the mail lady yesterday, and I'm currently hard at work on my Access database for ILS 501. Every so often you have to do an Access project, just to remind yourself how much databases just totally suck. They're the Antichrist.

So what I've actually done with my week, besides spending a couple days so far on this database, is watch a crapload of anime, and work on a bunch of D&D stuff. Well, some D&D stuff. The most awesome-looking maps nobody will ever see, because I am, as Whir told me, a perfectionist.

I'd love to tell you all what I thought about Neon Genesis Evangelion, but, uh, yeah. I dunno. As I was telling Whir, it makes me want to go watch Serial Experiments: Lain so I can make sense of something, because while Lain is REALLY CONFUSING, NGE takes that to entirely new levels. Also, while Asuka is cool, and Misato is cool, and Pen-Pen needs to team up with tachikomas to rule the universe, I seriously want to retroactively reach through the screen and throttle Shinji. Just beat the crap out of him. I've been wanting to for days. He's THAT annoying.

On the other hand, Trigun ruled. It's nice, it's simple, it's a good combination of comedy, action, and drama. Also Vash the Stampede is a cool name. I watched about 16 eps of it in one sitting last night it was that good. It also makes me want to go watch Cowboy Bebop, for reasons I find obvious and Whir doesn't. But I won't, yet. Instead I'll just listen to the soundtrack.

Also on that D&D note, something I was discussing with Whir last night:

[19:14] Whir: There just aren't enough explosions in my life.
[19:15] Dwip: There's all those Chicom tanks waiting to be Hellfired, too.
[19:15] Whir: If only I could do it with my 55 warrior.
[19:15] Dwip: How well does he fly the Cobra?
[19:15] Whir: She, and I'm not really sure about the technology gap.
[19:16] Dwip: That, and knowing your preference for either very very large or very very catlike races, will she be able to FIT in the Cobra.
[19:17] Dwip: Because, well, the little-publicized failure of that squad of elite Tauren helicopter pilots they tried to set up.
[19:19] Whir: No cat race in WoW. Undead was the smallest I could get.
[19:19] Whir: On horde anyway. There's always gnome on alliance.
[19:19] Dwip: You aren't playing a gnome. Please tell me you aren't playing a gnome.
[19:20] Whir: I just said I was playing undead.
[19:20] Dwip: Multiple characters, and all that.
[19:20] Whir: I'm not even sure how people can play gnomes. Their sounds are so fucking annoying.
[19:21] Dwip: And undead is ok. Death's better than being a gnome.
[19:21] Whir: Pretty much.
[19:21] Dwip: Is there any way to make gnomes anywhere unannoying?
[19:21] Whir: Make them cannibals.
[19:21] Dwip: I say, remembering how Kyle's paladin slaughtered an innocent gnome tinker, and everyone was like "Well, it WAS a gnome."
[19:22] Whir: Fine line between murder and mercy killing.
[19:22] Dwip: Not for gnomes.
[19:23] Dwip: ...I wonder where I picked up the pathological hatred of gnomes from.
[19:23] Whir: My WLD gnome was okay. He had huge floppy ears.
[19:23] Whir: That'll happen when you get bit by a vargoille.
[19:23] Dwip: Probably Dragonlance novels. I think Kender are cool though.
[19:23] Whir: However you spell it.
[19:23] Dwip: Hoopaks add a lot.
[19:24] Whir: WoW needs hoopaks.
[19:24] Dwip: I kind of miss staff slings in 3e, too.
[19:24] Dwip: Maybe just because I used about 800,000 of them in the gold box games.
[19:24] Whir: They don't have them in the Krynn books?
[19:25] Dwip: I dunno, the only DL thing I have is the 2e setting box.
[19:25] Whir: I should make a halfling that uses an atat.
[19:25] Dwip: atl-atl, or AT-AT? Either would rock.
[19:25] Whir: Or atlatl or whatever.
[19:26] Dwip: "Well guys, we ready to plunder to this dungeon?"
[19:26] Whir: In a 1/2 scale AT-AT.
[19:26] Whir: On the other hand, gnomes do get to ride mechanical chickens in WoW.
[19:26] Dwip: That COULD have style.
[19:27] Dwip: I'd like gnomes a lot more if they didn't ALWAYS have annoying voices.
[19:27] Dwip: Maybe if we could get some tinker dwarves. Ale, beards, and gigantic steam crossbows. How do you lose?
[19:30] Dwip: But seriously. Huge steam-powered crossbows. I bet you could get away with some sort of steam-powered rock crusher-inspired tank, too.
[19:31] Whir: I'll stick to the steam muskets from Last Exile.
[19:31] Dwip: And dwarves never get annoying voices.
[19:31] Whir: No, they just talk like pirates
[19:31] Dwip: And?
[19:31] Dwip: I mean, where's the downside, here?
[19:32] Dwip: You've got steam weapons, beards, battleaxes, copious amounts of alcohol, and piratical voice acting. How does that lose?
[19:32] Dwip: And they kill orcs. Who doesn't like killing orcs?
[19:33] Dwip: Might need some eye patches though.
[19:33] Dwip: And a war elephant. War elephants make everything cooler. Besides, they can mount the steam weapons on the howdah.
[19:34] Dwip: I mean, forget archers. How about a repeating steam ballista?
[19:35] Dwip: If nothing else, sell the posable action figure that shoots suction darts. It'd be like printing money. Or taking it from small children, one of the two.

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Because, well, imagine Minas Tirith being attacked by a bunch of dudes that look like Gimli, except riding the giant war elephants with enormous steam-powered weapons. Where does this go wrong? Where?

Posted by Dwip at November 26, 2006 12:33 PM