{"id":10908,"date":"2013-11-19T13:51:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T18:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=10908"},"modified":"2013-11-19T13:51:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T18:51:14","slug":"submarine-with-duckie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/submarine-with-duckie\/","title":{"rendered":"Submarine with duckie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ducksubmarine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ducksubmarine-640x361.jpg\" alt=\"Submarine with duck\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10909\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Episode seven of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/arpeggio-of-blue-steel\" target=\"_blank\">Arpeggio of Blue Steel<\/a><\/em><\/strong> was mostly just plain silly, with the &#8220;mental models&#8221; of the warships behaving like infatuated adolescents. The show is partly about about artificial (or alien) intelligence, as embodied by the models, acquiring human-like emotions and behavior, but this was ridiculous. Oh, yeah, it was a beach episode, too. It was set on Iwoto\/Iwo Jima, and, as I anticipated, there was no indication that the writers had any awareness of the geological nature of the island.<\/p>\n<p>Episode seven of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/kill-la-kill\" target=\"_blank\">Kill la Kill<\/a><\/em><\/strong> was also subpar. All the absurd invention and energy couldn&#8217;t redeem the trite moral: wealth isn&#8217;t necessarily a blessing. (I would like to verify that for myself, though. Would anyone care to subsidize a few months of luxury for me?) It&#8217;s still worth watching, but I expected something better.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I recently discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=57806\" target=\"_blank\">Kazuki Nakashima<\/a>, the &#8220;series composition&#8221; guy for <strong><em>Kill la Kill<\/em><\/strong>, also wrote the play that <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=7631\" target=\"_blank\">Oh! Edo Rocket<\/a><\/em><\/strong> was based on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode seven of Arpeggio of Blue Steel was mostly just plain silly, with the &#8220;mental models&#8221; of the warships behaving like infatuated adolescents. The show is partly about about artificial (or alien) intelligence, as embodied by the models, acquiring human-like emotions and behavior, but this was ridiculous. Oh, yeah, it was a beach episode, too. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/submarine-with-duckie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Submarine with duckie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,9],"tags":[67,309,413],"class_list":["post-10908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-art-and-screen-captures","category-current-viewing","tag-arpeggio-of-blue-steel","tag-kill-la-kill","tag-oh-edo-rocket"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-2PW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}