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If you're not here to have a conversation, at least be funny. If you can't be either, don't post. Regardless of whether or not a thread is full of bad opinions, posting just to dismissively write everyone/anyone off with nothing to bring to the table, nothing at stake, is meaningless white noise.
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My 2 cents is that the basement was utterly predictable but that was entirely necessary. It didn't need to be shocking, the consequences of having been there should be good though.
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Sep 8, 2016 14:51
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Truly, the basement was Attack on Titan's Fishman Island. Its No Man's Sky. A thing that, no matter what, could not possible live up to expectations.
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Sep 8, 2016 15:18
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Elias_Maluco posted:Where are you all reading the chapter? in the basement
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Sep 8, 2016 15:45
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If you know other languages there's some translations out there faster than the english one.Bad Seafood posted:If you're not here to have a conversation, at least be funny. If you can't be either, don't post. Is this for me? Because I agree. My purposefully lovely passive aggressive post wasn't found funny but I guess I'm glad it called down a voice of reason or two. Opinion: The dust has settled on Armin's survival but at least they're telling him immediately that he can't be a replacement for Erwin. If they actually run with that and he doesn't double down on being a cold blooded planner then it could almost salvage his character. This is an even more interesting possibility now that everybody back home wanted to welcome Erwin and his ideas back with open arms. Somebody has to step up and fill those shoes. Will it be Hanji? One of the other important officers like Pixis? The reorganization of society within the walls, the scouting legion, and potential technological progression to come are honestly a lot more interesting to me than the truth of the basement. After all these years of buildup the basement just wasn't going to be a satisfying reveal. It was unlikely to come close to the realization that there were titan shifters out there or when one of the titans suddenly spoke and expressed curiosity in 3DMG. And we're just not going to get anything like that without it being completely out of left field like, say, it was suddenly an alien experimentation camp all along. It certainly could have been more interesting than "It's actually peaceful out there" but Isayama really liked MuvLuv Alternative I guess.
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Sep 8, 2016 16:07
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Maybe the people inside the walls are dangerous to everybody outside for some reason.
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Sep 8, 2016 18:35
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I kind of like the hints at some notion of ancestral sin that's keeping the people inside the walls while the rest of the world moves on like normal. Gives me Amigara Fault vibes. I think the who and the why of this question is a more compelling mystery than the source of the titans, even. Like what if there's a perfectly good reason for it?
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Sep 8, 2016 18:46
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People had their loving families who never did anything to anyone legit murdered over this poo poo, the easiest way to make this worse than it is is to try and act like the people who died are somehow at fault for the mere crime of trying to survive.
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Sep 8, 2016 18:47
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Baal posted:People had their loving families who never did anything to anyone legit murdered over this poo poo, the easiest way to make this worse than it is is to try and act like the people who died are somehow at fault for the mere crime of trying to survive.
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Sep 8, 2016 18:56
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That makes it a legit not good reason and trying to portray it as such would be stupid which is why I said that.
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Sep 8, 2016 18:59
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Baal posted:That makes it a legit not good reason and trying to portray it as such would be stupid which is why I said that. Yeah, I didn't mean in a "sins of the father" kind of way. The only way to spin their captivity as a good thing for the larger world is if there's something legitimately, supernaturally wrong with them.
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Sep 8, 2016 19:24
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People were talking about muv luv before and I for so long was 90% sure that they would find diaries in the basement about how Eren's dad was transported from the real world when he came in contact with a japanese harem protagonist Ok just the real world part I admit but heh this is close to it.
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Sep 8, 2016 20:05
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As I'm not familiar with either Muvluv Alternative or Muvluv Classic, can someone fill me in on what the reference or whatever is?
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Sep 8, 2016 20:23
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Ceci n'est pas une peinture!
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Sep 8, 2016 22:55
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Schwarzwald posted:As I'm not familiar with either Muvluv Alternative or Muvluv Classic, can someone fill me in on what the reference or whatever is? Muvluv is a generic harem thing. It has a sequel/spinoff/whatever which is a super-grimdark mecha show where humanity is losing a war against unstoppable super-beasts.
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Sep 8, 2016 22:57
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ImpAtom posted:Muvluv is a generic harem thing. It has a sequel/spinoff/whatever which is a super-grimdark mecha show where humanity is losing a war against unstoppable super-beasts. I think I knew that much. Was there something specific in AoT recently that made people think of Muvluv, or was it just the general concept?
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Sep 8, 2016 23:09
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Schwarzwald posted:I think I knew that much. Was there something specific in AoT recently that made people think of Muvluv, or was it just the general concept? The author has said in a interview that he was manly inspired by muv luv(the main visual novels at least) in creating AoT.
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Sep 9, 2016 00:27
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ImpAtom posted:Muvluv is a generic harem thing. It has a sequel/spinoff/whatever which is a super-grimdark mecha show where humanity is losing a war against unstoppable super-beasts. No. The original ML contains two games, Extra, the harem thing, and secretly Unlimited, which introduces the mech stuff. Extra also contains numerous allusions to the events of Alternative, the third game, which would be released by itself, as making that was always the goal.
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Sep 9, 2016 00:31
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Yeah apparently the entire Muvluv franchise was always intended to be one big switcheroo. Go fig.
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Sep 9, 2016 00:56
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Captain Invictus posted:Sins of the Father is not an unfamiliar belief nor is it any less deplorable and foolish, yet people still to this day blame children for the actions of the parents even if it makes no sense.
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Sep 9, 2016 02:00
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It's funny, I've only watched like 1.5 episodes of Total Eclipse (garbage) and Schwarzesmarken (Kind of garbage, but in an enjoyable way, sorta like Black Lagoon with politics and alien bugs) and it's strange. I'm totally in love with the Muv Luv setting. The premise is neat, the timeline of the invasion is neat, the designs for everything but the characters themselves are neat... ...But I have no desire to play the games. VNs are bad, and the notion of having to play through a lovely gal game, and then a bad end to get to the real ending makes me question the sanity of people who enjoy the genre. The ultimate Muv Luv anime would be a shockingly well animated 10 episodes long in the vein of those history documentary episodes of LOGH, except instead of doughy white dudes all the ladies talking about past events would be women with candy colored hair Oh, uh, that chapter was okay. The twist was predictable. I like how freaked out Armin is at the notion of his life being saved instead of Erwin's.
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Sep 9, 2016 02:58
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Schwarzwald posted:As I'm not familiar with either Muvluv Alternative or Muvluv Classic, can someone fill me in on what the reference or whatever is? The contrast between some people living in hell while others are carefree generic anime students is the most important theme in the game. In ML it works because you're culture shocked constantly with how different things are. But it only works because it made you waste your time and get invested in the generic anime setting first, then shocks you with this surprisingly well thought-out brutal meatgrinder of a setting. If you just drop "It is peaceful elsewhere." as a reveal when the audience is already used to the meatgrinder then it... Doesn't really have much impact. There's tons of similarities between the works, from people getting eaten by monsters to the nationalistic undertones, but this means we get to add another similarity to the mix.
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Sep 9, 2016 04:22
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GimmickMan posted:Is this for me? Because I agree. My purposefully lovely passive aggressive post wasn't found funny but I guess I'm glad it called down a voice of reason or two. If you've got a problem with a thread or a post or a poster or whatever, by all means speak your mind; it's just going "Y'all suck, later losers," doesn't really accomplish anything beyond stirring up arbitrary animosity with no real means of satisfaction.
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Sep 9, 2016 06:48
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They escape in the next 5 chapters and the rest of the manga follows the survey corps as they adjust to life in modern day Japan. Perhaps just in time for them to register at high school???
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Sep 9, 2016 07:01
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OnimaruXLR posted:...But I have no desire to play the games. VNs are bad, and the notion of having to play through a lovely gal game, and then a bad end to get to the real ending makes me question the sanity of people who enjoy the genre. The two first games are on Steam now and VNs aren't bad.
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Sep 9, 2016 07:02
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Captain Invictus posted:He totally does, but keeps getting beaten back down, and trauma and depression are helluva things. The real weakness though is being a tv show and not a movie. Hence why the rebuild movies so are much more tolerable. GimmickMan posted:Lots of people with awful opinions in this thread.
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Sep 9, 2016 07:05
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Terrible Opinions posted:The real weakness though is being a tv show and not a movie. Hence why the rebuild movies so are much more tolerable.  Well, at least you ueed the right word.. ?
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Sep 9, 2016 13:38
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It turns out that all along, Grisha Yeager was actually the lead singer of Nickelback. LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
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Sep 9, 2016 16:13
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Fister Roboto posted:It turns out that all along, Grisha Yeager was actually the lead singer of Nickelback. Booooo
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Sep 9, 2016 16:24
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I hope Eren keeps making dad jokes the rest of the series.
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Sep 9, 2016 17:21
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Goddammit
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Sep 9, 2016 18:08
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Well, gently caress me.
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Sep 9, 2016 21:48
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gently caress You
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Sep 9, 2016 21:57
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Fister Roboto posted:It turns out that all along, Grisha Yeager was actually the lead singer of Nickelback. Professor Wayne posted:I hope Eren keeps making dad jokes the rest of the series.
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Sep 9, 2016 22:13
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Professor Wayne posted:I hope Eren keeps making dad jokes the rest of the series. Nice.
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Sep 10, 2016 01:10
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I enjoyed this chapter and in all honesty I think the reveal was good. It may not seem like much to us as readers, but it's a groundshaking discovery to the characters in this story.
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Sep 10, 2016 02:07
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Sep 10, 2016 03:14
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This chapter was pretty deflating to be honest. I imagine crazier revelations are coming next month, but ending on that page was just an anti-climax.Professor Wayne posted:I hope Eren keeps making dad jokes the rest of the series. This was the  that made it all worth it though
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Sep 10, 2016 04:51
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I for one enjoyed the stupid fake out with Levi having none of that poo poo.
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Sep 10, 2016 04:55
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ZiegeDame posted:I for one enjoyed the stupid fake out with Levi having none of that poo poo. The whole time I was thinking "wait why does the key matter so much, it's an old wood door". I legitimately laughed at that scene.
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