#0, How I found my way here
Posted by Vorticity on Feb-06-12 at 03:59 AM
Hi all. I'm Brent, a meteorologist living in Southern California. Instead of trying to write about myself, I'll just tell you how I ended up posting on this here forum.(TL;DR version: I've enjoyed UF immensely and I'd like to thank everyone responsible for the fun.) So, about 3 years ago, I got kicked out of grad school. It was probably because I had spent too much time in the student government and on Discordian projects (bureaucracy division, of course). Being a role-playing gamer, I had a lot of friends in the anime club at school, so I decided to start watching anime with my new-found free time. Though eventually, one gets bored with the free time. I decided to get back into programming, because I think I secretly missed the problem sets, and coding is often like solving a mathematical puzzle. So I went back to Perl, a language I had used before college (and much nicer than FORTRAN). I started reading up on it, and came across a talk by Larry Wall on how Perl was a postmodern language, wherein he recommended Revolutionary Girl Utena for its postmodernism, Absolute Destiny Apocalypse and octopi in closets. I was hooked. I enjoyed Utena immensely. After watching the show, I was checking out the TV Tropes page, and noticed the fanfiction section. Moving to UF's page, I read the line "Connections: Host James Burke is a Time Lord." It's the kind of sentence that, once read, makes me wonder why I hadn't realized it myself. I decided to read Undocumented Features, but I didn't want to miss out on too much of the context. So I watched Dirty Pair, Bubblegum Crisis, and Magic Knight Rayearth before starting with the core stories, and worked my way forward in time. (I'm still watching Babylon 5, having missed it due to, let's say, my wasted youth.) After seeing Utena's name in the first bit of Dies Irae, I jumped ahead to the Symphony of the Sword. Symphony of the Sword truly is a amazing story. But everything I went through along the way was worth it, too, from the anime series to the exploits of Thunder Force. I look forward to all of the stories I still need to read. So thank you to everyone at EPU for writing entertaining, creative, and postmodern fiction, and for introducing me to so much other entertainment. Someone from TV Tropes said I should introduce myself here, so um... hello world!
#1, RE: How I found my way here
Posted by A Vile Gangster on Feb-06-12 at 05:18 PM
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Welcome to the collective, Brent. I'm sure there's a Derek Bacon publication for being new to the EPU community...it's around here, somewhere!----
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Incubus -- Dig (Light Grenades, 2007) If I turn into another
Dig me up from under what is covering
The better part of me.
Sing this song!
Remind me that we'll always have each other
When everything else is gone.
Oh, each other
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#2, RE: How I found my way here
Posted by Zuki on Feb-08-12 at 05:29 PM
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Pleased to meet you, Brent!My love of UF had also led me to seek out source material to better understand it, here and there, but it seems your seeking was more comprehensive than mine. And also, sometimes, better times. Having read most of the entirety of Symphony of the Sword /before/ I watched any Utena has permanently warped my understanding of the show and characters, I'm sure... Have you read Neon Exodus Evangelion yet, or just UF?
#4, RE: How I found my way here
Posted by Vorticity on Feb-09-12 at 06:12 PM
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I guess reading the Symphony first sort of gives away the ending of Utena, doesn't it. After seeing Evangelion, I was pretty sure that Utena was going to fail before watching the last episode. When you consider that she accomplished what she did at *age 14*, it's hard not to expect greatness from Utena and those around her. So I doubt your views of the characters are too far off the mark.I haven't read NXE, but it's definitely on my to-do list.
#5, RE: How I found my way here
Posted by Gryphon on Feb-09-12 at 08:00 PM
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>After seeing Evangelion, I was pretty sure that
>Utena was going to fail before watching the last episode.This sentence gives me mental images that are simultaneously agonizing... and hilarious. --G.
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#6, RE: How I found my way here
Posted by Vorticity on Feb-09-12 at 10:32 PM
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Not what I was thinking at all... but now that you mention it, I wouldn't mind seeing Akio dissolve into a pool of LCL.
#7, RE: How I found my way here
Posted by Droken on Feb-10-12 at 05:21 AM
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Or else the 5-minute-long-just-crush-the-dude-already scene. I can imagine squashing the bastard like a bug might have been strangely (if morbidly) satisfying.
#8, RE: How I found my way here
Posted by Gryphon on Feb-10-12 at 01:54 PM
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>Or else the 5-minute-long-just-crush-the-dude-already scene. I can
>imagine squashing the bastard like a bug might have been strangely (if
>morbidly) satisfying. Like they said in Special Combat Duty Unit Shinesman, "Ever wish you just had a shotgun?" --G.
"You guys, we have got to do something about these lame weapons."
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#3, RE: How I found my way here
Posted by CGWolfgang on Feb-08-12 at 09:57 PM
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Hello Brent and welcome to the fun!
#9, RE: How I found my way here
Posted by BobSchroeck on Feb-11-12 at 11:32 AM
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>Someone from TV Tropes said I should introduce myself here, so um...
>hello world! That would have been me, Brent. Glad to see you made it here! -- Bob
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