The overall aesthetic of this show is so, so perfect. That was a fantastic trailer too.

As someone who just started getting deep into Gundam over the last ~6 months in anticipation of GQuuuuuuX, I have to say that it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that I really loved it.

I’ve been a big fan of Gainax, Khara, Anno, Tsurumaki and Enokido for roughly 25 years now, and I feel that GQuuuuuuX pulled the rabbit out of the hat by bridging old and new. I feel that they hit the 7-10 split of making a show that was simultaneously respectful and fanboyish about the original Mobile Suit Gundam, while still managing to fight against it both literally and symbolically. Would it be a good show to watch for someone with a “death to the author” attitude who wants a purely stand-alone story? Maybe not. But I don’t think that’s what GQuuuuuuX was attempting to be.

Say what you will about GQuuuuuuX, but it was absolutely a love letter to 0079, Zeta, CCA, the entire UC timeline, and most importantly, the people who made it–who, had they not existed, Gainax, Gunbuster, Evangleion, FLCL, Diebuster, Khara also would not have existed. Maybe I’m just being sentimental, but I felt that GQuuuuuuX was a statement about life and circumstances. It was a show about all of the other possibilities that could happen in life if things were just a little bit different. And it was a show about how people like Tsurumaki built their life and career on the shoulders of people like Tomino, who in turn also benefited from being the right person, at the right place and time, especially compared to the wartime generation of Japanese people who came just before him.

As such, I think GQuuuuuuX is best enjoyed with knowledge of the UC and an appreciation for the meta-narrative.

I didn’t go into this show (or The Beginning movie cut, which I saw in theaters twice) expecting it to be totally divorced from everything that came before it. From the first minute of seeing GQuuuuuX The Beginning, I was sold on the idea of this alternate-UC, a version of the Gundam UC universe where Amuro doesn’t get in the robot. This show was answering that specific question, “what would Gundam be like if Amuro never got in the robot in the first place?” That was what set the stage for the entire continuity that Machu and Nyan existed in, and I also think they did a good job of exploring not only why such a universe might exist, but also what that would mean for other characters in the UC framework, and even the design language of the mobile suits!

I’ve seen people complain that GQuuuuuuX is either too heavily reliant on UC or that they would have preferred more focus on the UC characters. But what those people fail to understand is that GQuuuuuuX is UC, and so characters like Char, Challia, and Kycilia are just as much native characters to the GQ-UC timeline as Machu and Nyan are. They are not actually even really the same characters as their 79-UC counterparts.

One thing I want to say about the show is how much it evoked FLCL, including the ending:

I think people have some legitimate complaints about the break-neck pace of GQuuuuuuX. Tsurumaki is no stranger to telling fast stories over a small number of episodes, but it could be argued that GQuuuuuuX had so much to say in its allotted time that it wasn’t able to have as many of the moody and atmospheric moments as shows like Evangelion, FLCL and Diebuster have. (FLCL is famous for being frenetic, but it also has some truly beautiful calm scenes!) We got a bit of that in GQuuuuuuX, like Nyan’s montage in Episode 5, but if the show had a little bit more time maybe we could have spent a bit more quality quiet time with our main characters, especially Machu and Nyan. (On the other hand, people wanted more FLCL, only for the monkey paw to curl with the creation of 4 subpar spinoff cartoon network cashgrabs… Sometimes less is more!)

Overall, I really loved GQuuuuuX.

I spent the last few months really looking forward to every release, watching it multiple times and looking at a lot of the online discussions around it. I haven’t been this excited for, or had this much fun watching a new anime in many, many years. I’m sad that it’s over, but very glad that it was created. As someone who only watched 0079, Z, ZZ, CCA, 0080, 08th MS, Unicorn and WfM this year (with a couple episodes of Wing back in the Toonami days), I can only imagine how a show like this would feel to people who watched all of this stuff when it came out. If nothing else, it was a new Tsurumaki + Enokido show by Khara, with participation by Anno, and an absolute love letter to Mobile Suit Gundam.

You’ve already said you’re planning on it, but Cagliostro is a must. It’s not only a good Lupin film but a classic piece of anime media by Miyazaki.

I’m nostalgic for Season 2 (red jacket) lupin, and while you probably not need to watch them all I think there are quite a few fun and good episodes there too (including a couple of cool and beautiful episodes directed by Miyazaki, which have some interesting relations to his other work).

Also I think the new Lupin the IIIrd film series by Takeshi Koike is quite cool, representing a much darker and grittier Lupin than the light-hearted Miyazaki vision. It’s a great time to get into these ones too, because the final 2 pieces, Zenigata and the Two Lupins and The Immortal Bloodline are coming out in just a few weeks.

I somewhat agree with you, and I think we’re also saving Trump and the Republicans from themselves here.

On the other hand, it is undoubtedly a great thing that SOMEONE has finally put their foot down and challenged Trump’s authority to run the economy by fiat.

As a Portlander, I’m really happy that some of the people that we elected here in Portland and Oregon lead this legal fight to stop Trump’s dumb fucking bullshit trade way by fiat.

In some ways we are saving the economy from Trump, and thus saving Trump from facing the ramifications of his own stupid fucking decisions, but on the other hand, it’s nice that something is being done to challenge his authority.

Is the ai doing anything that isn’t already allowed for humans. The thing is, generative ai doesn’t copy someone’s art. It’s more akin to learning from someone’s art and creating you own art with that influence. Given that we want to continue allowing hunans access to art for learning, what’s the logical difference to an ai doing the same?

AI stans always say stuff like this, but it doesn’t make sense to me at all.

AI does not learn the same way that a human does: it has no senses of its own with which to observe the world or art, it has no lived experiences, it has no agency, preferences or subjectivity, and it has no real intelligence with which to interpret or understand the work that it is copying from. AI is simply a matrix of weights that has arbitrary data superimposed on it by people and companies.

Are you an artist or a creative person?

If you are then you must know that the things you create are certainly indirectly influenced by SOME of the things that you have experienced (be it walking around on a sunny day, your favorite scene from your favorite movie, the lyrics of a song, etc.), AS WELL AS your own unique and creative persona, your own ideas, your own philosophy, and your own personal development.

Look at how an artist creates a painting and compare it to how generative AI creates a painting. Similarly, look at how artists train and learn their craft and compare it to how generative AI models are trained. It’s an apples-to-oranges comparison. Outside of the marketing labels of “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning”, it’s nothing like real intelligence or learning at all.

(And that’s still ignoring the obvious corporate element and the four pillars of fair use consideration (US law, not UK, mind you). For example, the potential market effects of generating an automated system which uses people’s artwork to directly compete against them.)

Either get rid of copyright for everything and everyone, or don’t.

But no stupid BULLSHIT exception for AI slop.

Does anyone know what reciprocal means?

Just checking.

It’s not a surprise that all these techbros who want to steal everything and feed it into their AI machines without paying a single fucking cent to the original creators all the sudden want to get rid of IP. They can lead by example by submitting their IP into the public domain.

Or maybe they’re just massive frauds?

AI isn’t ready to replace just about anybody’s job, and probably never will be technically, economically or legally viable.

That said, the c-suit class are certainly going to try. Not only do they dream of optimizing all human workers out of every workforce, they also desperately need to recoup as much of the sunk cost that they’ve collectively dumped into the technology.

Take OpenAI for example, they lost something like $5,000,000,000 last year and are probably going to lose even more this year. Their entire business plan relies on at least selling people on the idea that AI will be able to replace human workers. The minute people realize that OpenAI isn’t going to conquer the world, and instead end up as just one of many players in the slop space, the entire bottom will fall out of the company and the AI bubble will burst.

Big tech will do what is best for extracting money customers and investors.

If you really care what your operating system is made of, use Linux.

Why the fuck is our media so bad that they blindly accept Trump’s bullshit line that the tariffs are “reciprocal”? Are they just stupid or have they been paid off? Do they not know the meaning of “reciprocal” or are they just too fucking lazy to question the White House’s rhetoric even a little bit?

The state of the United States makes me sick. We’re being robbed blind by the oligarchy in broad daylight while the media gleefully amplifies the administrations lies.

slopaganda

These fucking guys only ever lie and deny.

Are we really too stupid and weak as a country to be able to do anything about this?

I had pretty mixed feelings about Stampede but I’m glad to Vash and the world of Trigun coming back again. Pretty interesting that Oshiyama is doing the animation character designs. If only they could bring back Tsuneo Imahori (the composer of the original Trigun anime) for the soundtrack.

what the fuck

I don’t blame Harris or Walz. I don’t even blame Biden, the senile old fool that he so clearly is.

I blame the Americans for fucking up the most outrageously obvious binary choice in history.

Has there ever been an election so obvious? Even during Trump vs Clinton one could almost be forgiven for giving Trump the benefit of the doubt as a “political outsider”, but by 2024 we knew exactly who this fucking guy was… The fact that people today are acting surprised and outraged about all the stuff that’s been happening during Trump’s first 1.5 months is only further proof that Americans are perhaps the dumbest amnesiacs to infest the Earth.

Literally all we had to do was vote against Trump’s particular brand of fascism.

But Americans are the type of people who fail a single question true or false quiz because they forgot to write their name at the top of the page, and we deserve to suffer the consequences of our collective stupidity over and over until it is bred out of us, or until our society falls. The American people allowed this to happen–and not just Trump, but everything bad that has happened over the course of American history.

THERE ARE DOZENS OF US!!

But seriously this is good news and I’m glad to have you all here. Lemmy is in a pretty good position right now in terms of having a critical mass of users and decent traction within popular communities. At the very least it feels self-sustaining here.

They deserve to lose so much more.

By 2035 everyone who actually likes computers will be primary using Linux.