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[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Kids nowadays know everything about evangelion but nothing about John the evangelist 🙏

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I can relate to that loser in many ways, but I think the biggest hurdle that prevented me from fully taking the show seriously or it having any impact on me was the scale of the larger problem.

Like yeah, he was depressed, lonely, and abused, but at the same time… there are also literal demons about to the end the world. Yes, yes I know they’re metaphors for whatever. But come on. You cannot make the problem so grand, so earth shattering, and expect me to care about his depression. It’s the equivalent of feeling sorry for Jesus because he got nailed to a cross - suck it up, or else we all suffer.

Unironically, get in the fucking robot.

Though I guess this circles back to the problem of Omelas. Hmm rust-darkness. I looked this up to see if anyone had made more coherent analysis comparing the show and story, but surprisingly, not many.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Unironically, get in the fucking robot.

You mean, "get in your fucking mother"

homer-bye

[–] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I would like to end the world because my father is a dick"

Get in the robot Shinji. This is literally the fate of all mankind, including yourself. Your options are to let everyone die and then you die 3 minutes later or get in the robot, be scared, and possibly live.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

if we have to conscript child soldiers and we choose to conscript child soldiers maybe all mankind should fuck off

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[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So people making the objectively wrong choice and putting everyone and themselves at risk is too unrealistic too you?

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

No, it’s not unrealistic. But I feel like something high stakes like this would resort in extreme measures. Mr. Robot is basically Hacker Evangelion, and I think it shows a tad bit more realistic situation - the protagonist and his colleagues are constantly tortured, harassed, manipulated, etc. to do something because the stakes are high. Similar things happen in Evangelion but I don’t know, maybe i expected humanity to treat their teenage saviors like Jesus.

[–] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I can relate to that loser in many ways,

the fucking shooter whaaaaaaat?

I think the biggest hurdle that prevented me from fully taking the show seriously

oh

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