[HN Gopher] Fonts of Neon Genesis Evangelion (2019)
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Fonts of Neon Genesis Evangelion (2019)
Author : impoppy
Score : 323 points
Date : 2021-12-13 16:43 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| quirino wrote:
| If you like this, you might also appreciate Typeset In The Future
| (https://typesetinthefuture.com). The article on the typography
| of Wall-E is especially fascinating.
| javchz wrote:
| The Typeface work in NGE it's amazing. Despite using the most
| common typefaces, you can recognize the card titles as the
| "Evangelion Art Style" despite only using fonts, copywriting and
| layout as design elements.
|
| Plus I love how Evangelion falls into a middle of exaggerated UIs
| to have the "hacker look" of /r/itsaunixsystem/, and at the same
| an amazing level of detail that make sense in their own world.
|
| Like when MAGI it's being hacked by the Computer Angel or SEELE,
| you can see they use a form of assembly and a Unix System to
| fight it.
|
| And then, the MAGI system by itself it's an amazing use of
| redundant architecture with 3 computers that should have the same
| output. That a system that it's resistant to data corruption, but
| at the same time working as an GAN AI.
|
| Amazing to think this it's from the 90s, and the most amazing
| part that those details are just 1% of what makes evangelion
| interesting.
| downrightmike wrote:
| Eureka 7 hits like this in parts, once you get past the first
| bits, you get to see the reality the world is built on.
| Claude_Shannon wrote:
| Is NGE worth watching for someone who never was really into
| anime? The only animated thing I've watched in ages was Arcane,
| but that's completly different style that NGE.
| ajford wrote:
| As a long-time fan of NGE, I'd say yes.
|
| It's got a fair bit of the classic "teens in mechs" tropes to
| it, but there's definitely more to it under the hood, and it's
| universe is rather well put together in my opinion.
|
| I'd try to walk into it without focusing on it being animated
| though. It's cinematography like anything else, it's just a
| different medium and a different style that makes use of the
| flexibility it's medium provides.
| Claude_Shannon wrote:
| I grew in a environment where admitting to even thinking
| about watching anything anime was like a social suicide. Only
| in high school it changed. I just can't help but treat
| everything anime related as childish (and I know that genre
| has some problems, with, uhh... fan service).
|
| Thank you, I will. The only thing I know about NGE is that
| ending(?) song, Komm Susser Tod.
| ajford wrote:
| I luckily got into anime right on the verge where it became
| more socially acceptable (late 90s early 2000s). Also, I
| grew up in an area where the dominant local culture was
| more accepting of anime since Dragon Ball Z, Gundam (of
| some flavor), and Saint Seya were all localized into
| Spanish and popular with my age group.
|
| The more off the beaten path animes like NGE, Hellsing,
| etc. didn't become as popular until a few years later when
| I hit high-school.
| mas-ev wrote:
| I'd recommend watching it with subtitles. If you don't like
| subs after the first episode or two then go for dub. Once you
| get to episode 25 & 26, you could choose to watch the End of
| Evangelion movie instead.
|
| Episodes 25 and 26 are very abstract and rushed due to initial
| production budget. EoE is a more watchable ending to the
| series.
|
| If you're craving more after that! The plot continues with the
| four Rebuild of Evangelion movies on Amazon prime video.
| superfamicom wrote:
| Lots of good comments from the last time this was posted too:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21323736
| Pxtl wrote:
| I think so many people focus on the personal emotional journey of
| Shinji and the horror of the Evas, it's so easy to miss how good
| NGE is at things like this.
|
| Personally what surprised me on re-watch and through the rebuild-
| series is how much emphasis there is on the beauty of industry
| itself - so many scenes of machinery on landscapes. This is
| particularly notable with Ramiel, the beam-weapon octohedron - in
| the original series they explain that the weapon to defeat it
| will require all of the electrical power in Japan. In the
| rebuild, they make the effort of "we have to build electrical
| equipment to get all the power in Japan into one spot for a few
| seconds, and we have to do this in like a day or two" feel real
| and amazing.
|
| As much as Evangelion is a story about isolation and loneliness,
| visually there's a sort of celebration of industrial civilization
| - especially the rebuild. Not just individuals, but kind of a
| "together look what we can achieve" thing. In most other series,
| the images of machinery and industrial equipment weaponry splayed
| out over beautiful mountain landscapes and put to task would be
| dystopian... but in Evangelion, the artists instead make it
| heroic.
|
| The original series has this too - everybody _loves_ the
| machinery of Tokyo 3, even poor Shinji, it 's just amped up in
| the rebuild.
| quacked wrote:
| The coloring, fonts, monsters, sets, and UIs of NGE are so
| pleasing to look at.
|
| I hold NGE in much higher regard than other similar IPs, and
| would continue to do so even without the excellent art direction.
| Like many other stories, NGE asks "what would happen if a young
| boy with an unusual ability was entrusted with the saving of
| humanity?" However, unlike many other stories, the show answers
| "he would fail, be driven insane in the process, and humanity
| would fall."
| dclowd9901 wrote:
| Finishing 3.0+1.0, I was met with the same realization. The
| story is a bit Lord of the Flies with giant mecha, and I think
| it's unexpected because we're used to seeing protagonists in
| media being young people who are far more emotionally and
| psychologically developed than they have any right being. The
| trope leads you to believe it's going to be one kind of show,
| but it ends up as something very different.
|
| FLCL, which I'm sure most Eva fans have seen, follows a similar
| conceit about the ineptitude of kids to cope with circumstances
| beyond their understanding, and is another show that I hold in
| similarly high regard. Incidentally, it also references Eva a
| lot.
| danbolt wrote:
| I remember reading an interview with Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, the
| character designer for the 1979 _Mobile Suit Gundam_ on the
| idea. Him and the interview noticed a bit of a trend along
| the lines "the larger and more powerful the robot, the more
| vulnerable and neurotic the child inside is".
| teraflop wrote:
| And it's not just mecha anime that does this, either.
|
| https://twitter.com/curewiki/status/1180163641070346240
| surye wrote:
| FLCL was created by much of the same team as NGE, so that
| makes sense!
| p_l wrote:
| Back in ~2000 when FLCL was fresh, a common quote was that
| FLCL was NGE team (and Production IG's EoE team) taking a
| very necessary step into absurd, to decompress from having
| worked on NGE.
| willis936 wrote:
| FLCL was a collaboration of Gainax (who made NGE) and
| Production IG.
|
| Also, I feel that FLCL is a more true coming of age story
| than a commentary on teenage psychology. You're taken along
| for the ride too, so the viewer can connect on multiple
| levels if they're also coming of age. That's in part why I
| enjoyed it so much as a teen.
| downrightmike wrote:
| I love Production IG for Ghost in the Shell SAC. Too bad
| the new series is so hollow and no real substance.
| jasonwatkinspdx wrote:
| I hear that. The older GiTS really took its audience
| seriously. I mean a finale scene that's a conversation
| about Jameson and similar theories? Heady stuff for an
| anime. The original movie is one of my all time favorites
| because it hits such a poignant mood, and it's portrayal
| of a Hong Kong that's ravaged by climate change and
| technological advancement that isn't utopic was prophetic
| imo.
|
| Edit: re the last sentence this is the sequence I'm
| thinking of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARTLckN9e7I
| tombert wrote:
| I liked the first season of SAC, but it did kind of annoy
| me how they basically decided to put Major Kusanagi in
| lingerie throughout most of it. She was nude in a good
| percentage of the 1995 movie, but it wasn't really
| "sexualized." In SAC it kind of felt like, instead of
| being a conflicted character unsure of her place in the
| world, a large percentage of her character was just there
| as fan service/eye candy, and I thought it cheapened her
| as a result.
| p_l wrote:
| SAC and 1995 movie effectively base on different chapters
| of the first manga volume (all of them avoiding certain
| bits though, like Major's "on the side" enterprise), and
| the character design used in both matches the source
| material - just different scenes (SAC arguably follows
| the design more closely)
|
| EDIT: to make it clearer, Major's clothing choices in
| Manga were definitely her own and it didn't feel like
| it's just random cheap sexualization, but then you have
| to consider that some of the off-the-books income streams
| Major had were censored from some releases, and she
| definitely knew how to play off people's looks at her
| (explicitly called out in GitS 2.0 manga)
| tombert wrote:
| I guess part of my issue is that I wasn't a huge fan of
| the manga either; it felt borderline-hentai at some parts
| and just wasn't my jam, I never finished it.
|
| The 1995 movie is easily in my top five favorite movies,
| and I think a large part of it was because I liked that
| _specific_ version of her character.
|
| > Major's clothing choices in Manga were definitely her
| own and it didn't feel like it's just random cheap
| sexualization
|
| I mean, I guess? These are fictional characters, so these
| depictions are still _created_ by people. Yes, it 's the
| character's decision in-universe, but it's still the
| author's decision to put her in situations that require
| her to be in skimpy outfits.
|
| I don't mean to come off as super social-justicey, I
| guess I just never really liked the trope in anime of
| every female character being hyper-sexualized.
| p_l wrote:
| Ah, I meant it in the sense that Major, compared to
| many... other creations even from the same time, felt
| more punk/counterculture in that approach, fitting also
| with how Section 9 pretty much didn't give a crap about
| things like dress code (other than poor boss needing a
| suit for meeting other suits)
| tombert wrote:
| FLCL was one of those shows I hated the first time I
| watched it at age 19, but I also got a vibe that there
| might be some subtext and metaphors that I missed. About a
| year later, I saw that it was on Netflix and decided to
| give it a second chance.
|
| I'm glad I did, because it's become one of my favorite
| animes at this point. I think a lot of the veiled
| references to erections and the analogies strangeness of a
| 14-year-old-boy forcing his way through puberty were lost
| on me the first time, and it took until I wasn't a teenager
| anymore to step back and view it in an almost "nostalgic"
| sense.
|
| NOTE: I have only seen the first six-episode run of it. I
| can't speak to the newer reboot series that came out in
| 2016.
| KennyBlanken wrote:
| If it makes you feel any better, I saw FLCL at twice your
| age and only now that you've said it did I realize what
| the whole forehead-robot-bulge thing was a reference to.
| coldpie wrote:
| I'm glad to hear it. I last watched it around a similar
| time (15 years ago... ... ...) and was wondering if it'd
| hold up to a rewatch.
| glandium wrote:
| Never watched them, but two new seasons were produced
| recently.
| mftb wrote:
| > "he would fail, be driven insane in the process, and humanity
| would fall." ...and since that is the obvious conclusion, it
| makes for a truly awful ending. The last 3 or 4 episodes of NGE
| are interminable. There are some truly exceptional things in
| NGE, but it's flawed.
| whymauri wrote:
| The movie saves it for me. Like, I appreciate the last 3
| episodes of NGE from a 'psychoanalysis of the writer' POV,
| but the real entertainment is in the catharsis of End of
| Evangelion.
| bsanr2 wrote:
| I highly recommend you watch the End of Evangelion and Rebuild
| movies if you get a chance. Ultimately, I think Eva is
| ambivalent about the _value_ of saving the world, far and away
| from the ability to do so. By the end of 3.0+1.0, Shinji
| essentially HAS saved the world, except that that 's not the
| important victory. In the end, Eva doesn't care about
| canonicity, and it barely cares about narrative. It's instead
| more interested in characters, and their relationships to each
| other and the world they inhabit. Everything else is malleable
| to produce interesting dynamics between each actor. It's
| fascinating in how experimental it is, and not just because it
| superficially upends assumptions about how stories should play
| out.
| herodoturtle wrote:
| This comment needed a spoiler tag.
|
| Too late to edit it now I guess.
| Taywee wrote:
| It's not really a spoiler. Shinji has such intense self-doubt
| and psychological pain from the very beginning. It doesn't
| really broadside you with him being unable to cope with the
| pressure of the world's salvation at the end or anything,
| it's a continual theme throughout the entire series starting
| at episode 1.
| KennyBlanken wrote:
| This anime has been out for longer than many HN readers have
| been alive and it's extremely well known.
|
| I think the calendar on spoiler tags being necessary for NGE
| has long, long since expired.
| qybaz wrote:
| I hadn't watched it and it was on my TODO list, but
| whatever.
| Lammy wrote:
| That's barely a spoiler. You should still watch it :)
| filoleg wrote:
| Gotta be careful though, because while NGE indeed feels way
| past the expiration date on spoilers, the Rebuild movies
| definitely aren't (the final one came out just earlier this
| year). And people online definitely like to bring up
| Rebuild movie spoilers in conversations about NGE. Mostly
| due to how very inter-connected, yet, at the same,
| disconnected NGE and Rebuild movies are from each other.
|
| TL;DR: agreed on no need to be afraid to spoil NGE, but we
| gotta be explicit that it applies only to NGE (+the end of
| evangelion movie, which is the true ending to the show that
| is absolutely a must-watch; also imo past the expiration
| date on spoilers), and not to Evangelion as a whole (which
| would include recent Rebuild movies). But there is no harm
| in putting a spoiler warning at the beginning, and that's a
| nice gesture towards those who might want to watch it for
| the first time without the storyline being spoiled.
| jasonwatkinspdx wrote:
| Yeah, I was part of an anime club in the 90s where the main guy
| was importing laserdiscs from Japan, downloading fansubs, and
| generating subtitles with an amiga. So we watched NGE as it
| came out, and it was such a perfectly executed troll. It starts
| out as yet another anime mecha fantasy, and by the end of it is
| showing you what that world would be like if it was actually
| real in a very adversarial way.
|
| I remember when we watched the finale (the first version) one
| of the members of the anime club lost his cookies so hard he
| stood up and screamed a rant and walked out of the house in a
| state of rage.
| [deleted]
| oneoff786 wrote:
| I find this funny because now it's pretty much just NGE, a
| deconstruction, and Gurren Lagaan (sp?) that have maintained
| significant cultural appeal in western audiences imo. As
| anime has gotten more mainstream, the original mecha shows
| have not.
|
| Somewhat similar for magical girls in Madoka Magica and Kill
| la Kill.
| Pxtl wrote:
| Yep. It's funny how so many anime follow this sort of
| "tropy premise with backstory strip-tease" formula, where
| they start out in a well-worn theme, but then gradually
| reveal a dark backstory. Madoka Magica is the absolute
| pinnacle of the form, each new revelation being as
| staggering as the last, and yet it never feels opaque and
| cryptic like Evangelion, and it all makes perfect sense
| together at the end.
|
| Trigun is another show that does it well. It's a sci-fi
| western that slowly reveals the origins of the hero and the
| villain and the philosophical underpinnings of their
| conflict, as well as the miserable desert planet all the
| characters live on.
|
| Elfenlied does the same with harem animes, but nobody
| should ever watch Elfenlied.
| bsanr2 wrote:
| Can't forget Utena, the proto-Madoka. It IS as cryptic
| and opaque as Evangelion, while covering similar ground
| as (but also completely different ground from) PMMM. It
| also stands in opposition to Madoka in that it seems
| almost immune to ongoing commercialization: Rebellion and
| Magia Record, in its multiple forms, exist, but beyond
| Adolescence Apocalypse (perhaps in part because of
| Adolescence Apocalypse), Utena is probably one of the
| most popular magical girl franchises (very, very few
| anime have had as much written about it) to never be
| further capitalized on - and avoids thematic sliding in
| the process (looking at you, Precure).
| avhon1 wrote:
| Ender's Game, too. [spoilers follow] To ensure that the young
| boy entrusted with the saving of humanity succeeds before he
| goes insane, the adults spend years (at least a decade), and
| incredible amounts of money and political power, to manipulate
| and deceive him and his cohort so that they don't understand
| the gravity of what they're doing.
|
| > "You had to be a weapon, Ender. Like a gun, like the Little
| Doctor, functioning perfectly but not knowing what you were
| aimed at. We aimed you. We're responsible. If there was
| something wrong, we did it."
|
| > "Tell me later," Ender said. His eyes closed.
|
| > Mazer Rackham shook him. "Don't go to sleep, Ender," he said.
| "It's very important."
|
| > "You're finished with me," Ender said. "Now leave me alone."
|
| The most-salient parts are _excellently_ dramatized during
| tracks 9-12 of Julia Ecklar 's "Horsetamer":
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD6Lj0OPZAc&list=OLAK5uy_kBD...
|
| It's a shame Ender's Game hasn't received a quality visual
| adaptation. I think Evangellion being animated helped a lot
| with it being able to seriously depict children in a dark
| story.
| tombert wrote:
| I never read the books, I only saw the Ender's Game movie
| that came out like 8 years ago. I remember thinking that the
| premise itself had promise, but that the movie was this
| rushed, hard-to-follow piece of crap that was borderline
| unwatchable.
|
| For years people have told me that the books in the series
| are way better than the movie but I still haven't gotten
| around to reading it. Maybe I should.
| avhon1 wrote:
| The movie was sorely disappointing, which was itself
| disappointing because Ender's Game isn't at all unfilmable
| (except that the main characters are all children in a
| really messed-up environment).
|
| It really is similar to Neon Genesis Evangellion in many
| respects. If NGE had existed first as a novel, it's hard to
| think that the TV adaptation would be anywhere near as good
| as what was actually made.
|
| I highly recommend the book, with almost no reservations.
| It's not very long, and a very stimulating read.
|
| If you enjoy that one, and want to read more, then I'd
| recommend reading either one or both of the immediate
| sequels ( _Ender 's Shadow_ and _Speaker for the Dead_ ).
| Iff you read either of those, and enjoyed it, _and_ want to
| read more, then (and only then) should you concern yourself
| with the trails of sequels.
| henrikschroder wrote:
| The first book is fantastic, in that it makes a very good
| portrayal of _extremely_ intelligent children, and how
| their lack of wisdom and experience allows them to be
| manipulated.
|
| The movie completely missed this point.
| RhysU wrote:
| It's worth reading several of the books, if only for Jane.
|
| I still wish I could play the fantasy game, decades after I
| read the original book last.
| delecti wrote:
| My advice is to not worry yourself with "books" when
| considering Ender's Game. The first book is a complete
| product, and it wraps up everything it needs to.
|
| The sequels are good too, but they're also unnecessary if
| you aren't curious to experience more of the world. The
| ending of Ender's Game is roughly like the slideshow
| epilogue of a movie saying things like "Johnny went on to
| medical school and got married". The sequels and side-
| stories go into things like what happened while Johnny was
| at medical school, how he met his future wife, or what
| their retirement looked like, but the epilogue itself
| doesn't leave you hanging on anything.
| avhon1 wrote:
| For sure, nobody needs to worry about reading any of the
| books other than the original. The story begins, happens,
| and ends, all in one not-very-long novel.
|
| After that novel is a whole series of novels that follow
| Ender into distant futures and places, as he literally
| runs from his past to keep it from defining him. The
| first one, _Speaker for the Dead_ , is very recommendable
| for follow-up reading. The others I would only recommend
| if you've already decided that you want to read more of
| the series.
|
| However, there is also a different set of sequels, and
| the first of them is the _first_ book I would recommend
| to anyone who wanted to read more: _Ender 's Shadow_.
| (Like Ender's Game, it won both a Hugo award and a Nebula
| award.) It takes place during the same time as Ender's
| Game, but from the perspective of one of the secondary
| characters. This second series of sequels generally takes
| place on Earth in the time shortly after Ender's Game,
| and follows Ender's siblings and the other Battle School
| characters. Like the first series of sequels, I won't go
| out of my way to recommend these to people who haven't
| already decided they're interested in reading them.
|
| AS I write this comment, I learn that Orson Scott Card
| has been writing prequels: a trilogy in 2012-2014 (
| _Earth Unaware_ , _Earth Afire_ , and _Earth Awakens_ )
| describing the First Formic War (which took place ~50
| years before, and is heavily referenced in, Ender's
| Game), and a not-yet-complete trilogy since 2016 ( _The
| Swarm_ , _The Hive_ , and the not-yet-published _The
| Queens_ ), which appears to be about the actions that
| were taken after the First Formic War to produce Ender.
| The reviews on Goodreads are promising; I might read some
| of these.
| handrous wrote:
| > For sure, nobody needs to worry about reading any of
| the books other than the original.
|
| Hell, I've only read the novella, and don't really see
| how it'd be improved by being extended into a full novel.
| Even a short one.
| garren wrote:
| I don't know. I read Ender's Shadow before Ender's Game,
| and felt like Shadow was a much better book. It's been a
| while, but as I recall it runs parallel to Ender's Game
| and goes into much more depth regarding the difficulties
| and anguish Ender endures.
| duskwuff wrote:
| On the other hand: _Ender 's Shadow_ also introduces a
| rather ridiculous and unnecessary origin story for its
| central character ("Bean"), involving an evil genetic
| scientist. This plot line continues through the rest of
| the spinoff series.
| Pxtl wrote:
| Note if you do choose to pick it up: The author of Ender's
| Game is highly homophobic, to the point of helping funding
| the anti-gay-marriage side during the gay marriage rights
| battle in 2008.
|
| On the other hand, it's an excellent book, and I recommend
| reading it.
|
| I'm not telling you what to do, but personally I make it a
| point to get books like that used, if not borrowed.
| jasonwatkinspdx wrote:
| I read the first three and have mixed feelings about them.
| They're creative and well executed. The stories are
| definitely captivating. But particularly in the later books
| the author's religious views come out and start coloring
| things in a way that personally I find a turn off.
|
| I feel the same way about the Honor Harrington series,
| which is basically a riff on redoing Horatio Hornblower in
| space. The books are quite engaging if you like the
| gimmick, but the author is a conservative monarchist (in
| the UK sense) and it comes through pretty strong in most of
| the books. In the later ones he balances it out a bit
| though, so I'd guess he's grappling with some view changes
| of his own.
| rscho wrote:
| Yes, you should. At least the first book. Even if you don't
| adhere to the philosophy/politics in the book, it's really
| quite an entertaining story and it's indeed far, far better
| than the movie.
| tombert wrote:
| I think I have had an aversion to it because I think that
| Orson Scott Card is a homophobic douchebag.
|
| Honestly, though, if I'm going to judge the "art by the
| artist", I'm afraid that a majority of the music I like
| is off the table, so maybe I'm drawing a somewhat
| hypocritical line on that.
| rscho wrote:
| Newton was a huge douche. Genius often flourishes in the
| most extreme environments.
|
| Regarding Ender's Game, I think it includes a very good
| depiction of modern American authoritarianism.
| oneoff786 wrote:
| It's been a while since I watched it but I felt the mechanic
| deconstruction angle wasn't the main point. Yeah the kid
| becomes really depressed and overwhelmed, but the conclusion
| deals with him understanding a great deal on the nature of
| humanity and rejecting the cynical desires of the evil cyborg
| puppeteer people. Seemed rather uplifting to me.
| moralestapia wrote:
| NGE has always been a favorite of me because of the UIs that are
| represented throughout the series. The new(ish?) movies are just
| gorgeous, I highly suggest you give them a try if you haven't
| already.
|
| If you like this, you may as well enjoy:
| https://scifiinterfaces.com/
| flobosg wrote:
| Here's a collection of GIFs showcasing Evangelion's UIs:
|
| https://imgur.com/a/PF3oA
|
| https://imgur.com/a/uDeBs
| ErikVandeWater wrote:
| I would recommend watching the original, personally. The new
| movies are sharper and brighter, but lack character.
| p_l wrote:
| I have yet to finish the last two movies, but I found the
| first two a lot more interesting if viewed through the idea
| that they actually continue from EoE (considering Kaworu's
| words at the end of 2.22)
| ErikVandeWater wrote:
| I fully support watching the last two movies. Just the
| recap movies lose so much character compared to the
| original.
| p_l wrote:
| Oh, sure, on the first look at 1.11 it felt dangerously
| close to losing a lot of the character to me - it was
| 2.22 that made it work, partially because of what I
| mentioned :)
| Pxtl wrote:
| 1.11 felt completely unnecessary to me, personally. It
| didn't add anything to the original story, and took away
| too much. The only real achievement for me was the final
| battle, since the octohedron angel was otherwise a
| forgettable villain-of-the-week episode.
|
| The sequels that stop tracking so close to the original
| is where it takes off. I still prefer the original but it
| didn't feel like a simple re-make at that point.
| matheusmoreira wrote:
| Evangelion uses graphical interfaces very effectively in its
| story telling. My favorite example is in episode 8: there are
| two pilots inside EVA-02, leading to problems. We know they've
| won when we see the synchronization gauge maxing out.
|
| https://wiki.evageeks.org/images/e/e1/Nigoki_synch_graph_low...
|
| https://wiki.evageeks.org/images/2/2c/Nigoki_synch_graph_hig...
|
| Episode 13 also has programmers saving everyone against an
| enemy hacking attempt:
|
| https://wiki.evageeks.org/images/1/18/Ireul_Hacking_Magi.jpg
| whymauri wrote:
| I always liked the pseudo-realistic stack traces in
| Evangelion. Like, when an error happens a literal stack trace
| runs through their digital screens. It's realistic enough to
| be immersive and nostalgic, but sci-fi enough to not warrant
| deep examination or to poke holes through.
|
| The UI is pretty timeless in that regard.
| pvarangot wrote:
| The NERV facilities capture the "rushed research facility"
| vibe quite well. Not only the UIs are spartan but they have
| a team of scientists running even the most basic systems
| and still looking at every issue, and you can also see
| cables laid out on the floor and everything. It's more
| realistic than the usual "pristine facility that deploys
| giant robots" on other shows.
| teraflop wrote:
| Yep. It reminds me of the striking difference between
| most space travel sci-fi (in which the pilot of a
| spacecraft is the captain of their vessel and can go
| wherever they please) and, say, the Space Shuttle (which
| required meticulous planning and a large ground support
| staff for every single mission). Evangelion does a great
| job of visually conveying how the pilot in the robot's
| cockpit is, in part, just a focal point for the efforts
| of thousands of other people.
|
| And then, of course, it subverts that portrayal by
| revealing that (ROT13) gur Rinf jrer npghnyyl perngrq ol
| na bpphyg frperg fbpvrgl hfvat napvrag nyvraf, naq abar
| bs gur grpuavpvnaf be bcrengbef unir n pyhr jung gurl'er
| ERNYYL pncnoyr bs.
| matheusmoreira wrote:
| Sometimes close examination pays off though. Jet Alone
| boots up version 2.2.1c, nearly melts down and then reboots
| back to 2.1.1c seconds before it explodes, confirming that
| it was sabotaged.
| Zealotux wrote:
| Its virus protection also indicates "Chech" instead of
| "Check"[1].
|
| Evangelion is full of amazing thoughtful details, I love
| how they mixed the pseudoscience with the pseudo-mystical
| concepts of the series[2].
|
| [1] https://i.imgur.com/dx2QQy7.jpg
|
| [2] https://i.imgur.com/uYV2WiD.jpg
| miffe wrote:
| 53 TB of UMB :)
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