Technically, it's the day after I said I would post this tomorrow.

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Thanks to the vagaries of that bizarre phenomenon we call "time", Neon Exodus Evangelion is no longer set in the future. In an alternate... well, sort of right now, the Langley-Crofts arrive in Japan to see what Misato has in store for them, and how it will shape the coming struggle against the new threat to the world.

Exodus 5:2—"The Best Toys"

--G.
And technically, part of it will still be set in the future until Saturday.
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I love how calm and matter of fact Shinji is about a kidnapping attempt.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

>I love how calm and matter of fact Shinji is about a kidnapping
>attempt.
>
>Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

Given his experiences, it's understandable.

Peter Eng
--
"I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal."

>>I love how calm and matter of fact Shinji is about a kidnapping
>>attempt.
>>
>>Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter
>
>Given his experiences, it's understandable.
>

Well yeah. That, and it's an important part of making sure San is kept entertained and mentally active. Otherwise she gets bored. No one wants a repeat of Budapest.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

>>>I love how calm and matter of fact Shinji is about a kidnapping
>>>attempt.
>>
>>Given his experiences, it's understandable.
>
>Well yeah. That, and it's an important part of making sure San is kept
>entertained and mentally active. Otherwise she gets bored. No one
>wants a repeat of Budapest.

It's not always easy having a personal demon.

--G.
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>No one wants a repeat of Budapest.
>
>Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

"You and I remember Budapest very differently."

Peter Eng
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Insert humorous comment here.

What about Marina? Does she not have the EVA factor? Is her machine piloted differently?

>What about Marina? Does she not have the EVA factor? Is her machine
>piloted differently?

As I understand it, she doesn't have the EVA factor, and her machine is piloted differently.

Peter Eng
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Insert humorous comment here.

>What about Marina? Does she not have the EVA factor? Is her machine
>piloted differently?

No one on the XCOM/NERV side really knows. The Soviets weren't involved in the GEHIRN/SEELE/NERV complex and never participated in the Marduk program. As for Защитник, even when they were working closely together with NERV's people in Halifax, Dr. Kirishatov's team kept certain aspects of its inner workings close to the vest, including the control system. It's known to involve an R-grade military neural interface, like the MiG-31F and XCOM's advanced Raiden-DX and Firestorm-class interceptors (and the Archangelions), but they never revealed whether the particular psionic resonance peculiar to Evangelion pilots is required to operate it.

--G.
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Well, hopefully she and her mech come back for this new threat.

>Well, hopefully she and her mech come back for this new threat.

If nothing else, we'll probably get something like, "You come to my neighborhood, start throwing down with a giant monster, and expect that I won't notice?"

Peter Eng
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Insert humorous comment here.

"You come here to fight giant monster, blow up half of city, and forget to invite me to party? I thought we were friends!"

We haven't gotten to the action yet and still, I'm liking this premise a great deal so far. Heck, just seeing the growth and maturity all the Children have experienced since NERV is a breath of fresh air.

I'm curious to see if the In Nomine celestial elements will make a return late in this new series, but for now...yeah. They need to be in the background if not invisible.

I haven't seen the new movies but I fully expect Mari to be another 'Yeah, Anno, THIS is what you should have done with her' moment and I'm hoping it will be as glorious.

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Authors of our fates
Orchestrate our fall from grace
Poorest players on the stage
Our defiance drives us straight to the edge

"This isn't a fight, Squaddie. It's a conversation.": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iYe5oGMtmo

-VR
The rest of Jill Bearup's channel is pretty good too.
"They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."

Jill's a TERF and has been for years, just FYI. Said that trans kids wanting access to gender-affirming healthcare was equivalent to her wanting to eat chocolate cake for breakfast every day. Derail over, enjoy your regularly-scheduled fanfic discussions.

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

Well, damn. That was quick. :(
Want a milkshake with that cake, Jill?

I am greatly pleased to see Lady Penelope and Parker, and hope that we'll see more of International Rescue along with them.

>I am greatly pleased to see Lady Penelope and Parker, and hope that
>we'll see more of International Rescue along with them.

Oh, is that who that was? I was trying to puzzle out who this new person was/was based off and followed the wrong reference pointer. I thought maybe Penelope == Penny == Inspector Gadget? Which leaves Parker out of the equation, which is clearly incorrect.

In my defense while I liked Thunderbirds I only ever got to see, like, three episodes? Which were (as I recall very hazily) on during very strange timeslots back when black-and-white TVs were still around (that being what I had at the time).

--sofaspud
--I should really track down the full series now that the internet exists

Pretty much all the Supermarionation shows are great, though my favourites are Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, and Stingray in that order. Also: the new Thunderbirds CGI show was actually pretty damn good! So check that out as well.

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

I love Stingray, truly I do, but I do think one facet in particular has aged poorly: the fact that there's a paramilitary organization called WASP. The World Aquatic Sea Patrol would slot right into UF; WASP sounds like it'd slot right into a Proud Boys demonstration somewhere near a beach.

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I found something from the new NGE stuff to salvage for the forum
https://imgur.com/yEpLurf
sfw but super cute
Asuka and like 3 year old mini Asuka

>Asuka and like 3 year ols mini asuka

"How has this happened?"

"Who knows? Parthenogenesis, probably."

--G.
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>>Asuka and like 3 year ols mini asuka
>
>"How has this happened?"
>
>"Who knows? Parthenogenesis, probably."
>

"Well, it started with Doctor Vahlen..."

Peter Eng
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Insert humorous comment here.

>>>Asuka and like 3 year ols mini asuka
>>
>>"How has this happened?"
>>
>>"Who knows? Parthenogenesis, probably."
>>
>
>"Well, it started with Doctor Vahlen..."
>
>Peter Eng
>--
>Insert humorous comment here.
who had this idea of making our own Eva pilots from scratch, perfect in every way, and well turns outs that
(points at 1/6 scale Asuka)
is what peak Eva pilot performance looks like.

>Technically, it's the day after I said I would post this tomorrow.
>
To which I reply, as I read this:

> The long pink car had pulled into the drive not more than five minutes before
> the event.

> The event being a loud cry of "Fuck yes!" followed by doors slamming multiple
> times, and finally the sound of the blue Vespa parked in the drive revving up
> to its heavily-modified maximum power and screeching off.
>
> Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, XCOM MIB's London Agent-in-Residence, watched
> the girl on the Vespa roar off down the lane, swerve onto the roundabout at
> the end, and disappear from view, then sighed.
>
> "Parker, I fear we ought to wait for the young lady's parents to return home,"

To which, I am falling over in laugher because of COURSE, with people like XCOM there would be no need for International Rescue (or, more likely given XCOM funding for thing XCOM sees needs doing but does not want to be seen doing!) or perhaps 'folded into' XCOM. Either way, having just recently found the reboot of 2.0 on Amazon prime, where Miri pulls something akin to what Sinji does his... wait. I think its his second or third meeting with Rei. Still Hilarious given the innocence Ano wants Sinji to have at that point.

And a cliff hanger that would be aggravating except that I know that our heroes will emerge victorious in the end.

> with people like XCOM there would be no need for International Rescue (or, more > likely given XCOM funding for thing XCOM sees needs doing but does not want to > be seen doing!) or perhaps 'folded into' XCOM

Personally, I would think it would be the other way around; International Rescue is the publicly-acknowledged, "pretty" operation, while XCOM is built off IR's tech development and hidden within the IR budget. Basically, International Rescue goes in when disasters happen and fixes things up . . . XCOM does the same thing, but for disasters that require the root cause to stop living in order to be fixed.

"This is the Model 300WM Self-Installing Disaster Remediation Device. The device is certified for use in all Class X-Ray Disaster Events, and remediation begins within one second of activation."

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

>
>"This is the Model 300WM Self-Installing Disaster Remediation
>Device. The device is certified for use in all Class X-Ray Disaster
>Events, and remediation begins within one second of
>activation."
>
>"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

It does sort of strike one as a bit of kit that falls into the "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" category, doesn't it?

As long as no one has to call in the SCP Foundation, everything is cool.