in the shell

I was wondering about the significance of the apples too. I'm specualting that the apples Motoko and Kuze had represented the "forbidden fruit" of a sexual relationship with eachother, and the fact that Kuze took a bite out of his indicated that he at least was willing to go through with i...

I didn't like it, very much. Compared to the earlier parts, it was simply bad. Too many ideas put in one movie. Mutant cure, Brotherhood getting restless, Phoenix awakened...And all those new characters with barely any screen time. It would have gone better, IMO, if they had concencrated solely on ...

Look, I feel sorry for anyone who feels the need to kill themselves over something like this. Really, it's not the insult that's at fault, it is whatever caused them to have such poor self-esteem in the first place. Okay, I guess the insult would be part of that. But you say I have to get used to w...

The horror... the horror... :shock: I'm mainly hoping for more anime movies or another anime TV series. A postcyberpunk movie or story that borrows the great ideas in ghost in the shell, like cyberbrains, organic to mechanised and then digital life, and the ehtical, social, and philisophical issues ...

Of course Batou has feelings for the major. Even Gouda picked this up, just from what he gathered on section 9 and his personal observations of how Batou acts towards her. This is hinted at subtly in many episodes, and very blatant in both season finales. I remember one scene at the end of episode 1...

I'm also confused about the significance of the apples, why the CIA whacked Kuze, exactly why Gouda tried to defect (besides the fact that he must have known he would be punished sooner or later), and how Aramaki figured out they were going to kill Kuze when he saw the CIA was involved.

What do you mean "Aramaki cops a feel"? That's just gross. :oops: I found it a little unbelievable how Togusa knocked those guys out so easily. Why didn't they draw their weapons the instant they saw him? He didn't even need his gun there. Kuze's revolution is basically the overriding them...

I just watched the remaining episodes of 2nd GIG yesterday and I still can't pin down how the concept of a Stand Alone Complex applies to Kuze and the revolt of the refugees. I know the individual eleven are stand alones due to their actions and ideology copying and being driven by a nonexistent ess...

I have final fantasy 10. The graphics and movies are awesome, but the two main leads annoyed the crap out of me. The storyline wasn't bad though. The summon animations got old the 2nd or 3rd time I watched them, especially if I use them in one random encounter after another. My vote goes to Final Fa...

Plus the hero of Deus Ex 2 was an obnoxious metrosexual skater punk. I choose the anarchy option because I believe that true freedom and inlusive democracy is something worth killing and creating the chaos of a revolution over. I didn't trust that creepy bastard helios any more than I liked the idea...

Has anyone here ever tried to beat the entire game without using any of the merchants? I found out about this guy, Vincent Merken, who wrote a walkthrough and put up a video someplace for a no merchants run through RE4. He also did a handgun only guide.

I heard about this one before. I'm surprised top learn they have robot dog pets and even a robot receptionist in Japan right now. Pretty awesome stuff.

Why could batou tap into their comms if they're cloaked?

This one was pretty cool, they ratcheted up the action this time and everything is starting to fall into place. Though I wonder what the real reasons the American empire has for nuking Dejima, and how the acceleration of the security treaty would benefit them. Something tells me they wouldn't do som...

secondhandevil wrote:Sounds like a SS190. http://www.global-defence.com/2000/pages/herstal.html

I distrust any source that talks about "energy transfer", which is considered by ballistic experts to be a bunch pseudoscience used to sell guns rather than give an accurate measure of performance.