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... so has the set caught fire or something, or...?

... the manga turned down the fanservice?

Most of gundam isn't exactly milwank, heh. The style is something fairly particular, and gundam's storytelling falls in different areas. It does involve military factions and themes and whatnot, but it's almost never wank. Gundam's a bit too high brow for that

Honestly, I haven't really noticed much actual milwank in anime. When military forces are involved it's usually something very different from that particular writing style.

Also, yeah, definitely didn't notice... anything like that, from the parts of the manga I read. It was bog standard milwank set against a less technologically capable foe, with no more propaganda silliness than is entirely normal for the genre.

Would you prefer "steal w'eva social gubbins dey won't fukkin' kill you fer"?

... game, what are you doing. You have a r'lyeh village. You have dedicated part of your opening squence to a flashback set in r'lyeh village involving an immortal time nun and future killer cyborg gothic lolita talking about dinner. What. The fuck. Is going on. _{^{and please, please tell me you're not going to stop doing it ;_;}}

I legitimately can't tell if this is a case of the original writers being amazing or the localization team screwing with everyone hard.

"Run."
"There's a cliff behind us! How can we run!?"
"Like this."
*grabs the other people, jumps off the cliff*

Point to you, fortuna magus. You made me laugh.

The problem with Government As Business to me is that many parts of real life are made up of things of intangible value. Can you put a price on happiness? What is the happiness of a citizen worth?

It's easy to quantify losses in a monetary sense, but I think it's harder to quantify some gains the same way.

*shrugs* Non-profits manage alright in a lot of places. S'fairly difficult to quantify happiness, but it's damn easy to quantify a lot of the behaviors exhibited by happy people.

Problem being most of the people talking about running government as a business are very much not talking about running it like a nonprofit one, heh. Weirdest thing to me is that people think that'll reduce the corruption in government, somehow. Always seems like it's one of those things that look appealing to somehow who has no goddamn idea how business tends to actually work. Or worse, does :V

What kind of sad existence is one on a world populated by roaming shoals of giant spiky flying sharks? I get that RPG games are all basically set on deathworlds, but to live in a place where air-born sharks five or six times the size of an average human doesn't even draw comment is, just...

Eclipse of Illusion, in this case, if someone was actually curious. A fairly alright jrpg from what I've seen so far. Just... some of the enemies...