csulu wrote:
Section 6:Beurocrats i guess(wikipedia says Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Yeah, I should have clarified I meant in the SAC continuum. They are the foreign intelligence service in the movie and manga, similar to CIA, or so they come off as. They don't offically employ cyborgs fior diplomatic reasons, but they do use thermo-optic camouflage. It seemed to me, that the Cabinet Intelligence Service has taken a good deal of their fuction, though it is possible, that they just gather the information and then pass it to the CIS.
Also what did section 1 do?
We see them kill Shou Kawashima, who they believed to be a foreign terrorist Wong Chu Ren, in episode 8 of the 2nd Gig. Their full job description isn't very clear, but in the manga they employ some seriously heavy firepower in form of huge multiped tanks.
Tonks_kittygoth wrote:Wiki, Otaku central, and actually this sites main page use the wording most for B's cyberization, with other wording like nearly all for Ms. Major. so Im still thinking, along with some vauge memory of seeing a percentage like 85% somewhere on him, that he has some squishie bits. Maybe its his left kidney and his little toe bone. Whatever, It doenst really mater, I was just wondering if someone knew for Sure Sure.
Neither Wiki nor Otaku central is an offical source - on the other hand, I do have a recollection of Batou's specs being mentioned to be a full cyborg in the Production IG's Stand Alone Complex page, when it still was in it's more informative incarnation. There is once again no ambiguity, that Batou in Innocence is a completely full cyborg, but trying to mix different continuities isn't a smart thing to do, in the case of this bit of fiction. I've never seen any particular percentages, anywhere - it would be helpful to see the sources.
The squishing any gooey bits with long jumps seems not to hold as much water, since he only jumps a story or two, not the skyscrapery jumps like the Major.
Episode 8 of the first season, I might point out. Batou sits on top of a crane, that is most definately over a hundred feet tall, possibly as much as triple that height. He had no qualms about jumping down from there.
Don't argue with a man who knows his trivia.
most people with cyber heads have standard heads, and customs are hard to move about. Dont have the episode though so Ill have to wait.
It is possible, that information has been messed up in the dub, but since I never watch those, given an alternative, there is no way I can tell. In the original Japanese script, though, it is obvious that the fact that Kuze can't move his mouth and the fact, that he has a custom-made face from a top-quality artist are in no way directly related. Besides, in flashbacks he has the same face, but his mouth moves just fine. Also, in the episode, where a refugee attempted to blackmail the Energy Ministery and got hit by a truck it was said that his body was entirely ordinary model, with face as the only unique feature.
Oh, and at least in the manga universe it has been stated, that most cyborgs prefer to have custom-made parts, if they can afford them, to keep their sense of individuality. Motoko is an exception with her generic outer shell, designed to discourage body-robbers, by giving off cheap appearance, despite of her ultra-high specs.
When he shoots him self up in Innocence there is blood, and they make it clear that the old arm was cyber.
In Cash eye the creepy pervert dude coments on the Majors white blood, and Arimaki corrects him, that she is a cyborg not a ai.
So does that imply that for any fleshy components cyborgs need blood blood?
I think I saw some other cyborg red blood too...
Yes, that is something, that doesn't seem an entirely fixed matter in the SAC universe. The bad guy at the very beginning of the first season definately bled, although it was obvious that he was a full cyborg. However, Kuze doesn't bleed at the episode 3 of the 2nd Gig, when he gets shot full of holes and Batou's wounds never seem to bleed, either. They do have to have a some sort of circulation in order to keep the brain alive, though. Possibly it varies between different models, how through the circulation is. Or just, that the creators changed their minds about the visual effects.
And finally, about the damn stupid punctuation, we aparntly travel in diff. web circles. Excessive puntuation has alway connotated to me, and those I have met, freindly enthusiasm, nothing more.
A loud voice was denotated by all caps, or underlineing.
I dont squeal like a madwoman, and am struggling not to take your coment pejoritvely, as I hope it is not meant that way.
While I'm not sure, what "pejoritvely" means, I assume it's something in the lines of insulting or malign - no, I wasn't trying to be anything on those lines - I was simply warning against it. We do seem to move in different circles, though - some forums I visit would chew newbies alive for punctuation like that - I don't mean to offend you with this, either, it's just a statement of fact and one I've gotten rather used to.
All in all, Chill, its not that serious.
You're right - it's not serious. Simply a bit of etiquette I'm fond of. It's simply, that when some rules of courtesy get broken, it seems to get easier to break others as well - that doesn't happen always, but often enough that I like remind people of such standards, if they seem to be forgotten. No offense meant, as long as there wasn't any meant on your side, either.
