At least they had Shiro's rank right. He was an Ensign the entire time. And I'm assuming they would have had to been officers to become mobile suit pilots. Like pilots in the military today (well at least fighter pilots). But maybe the federation was running into a personnel problem as well and didn't have enough officers for mobile suit pilots. Because Karen and Sanders were a chief petty officer (sanders) and master chief petty officer for Karen. Yeah would have made more sense to have shiro a brand new ensign with no real battles and just training. Sanders also probably an ensign but a number of battles he was in. And Karen an O2 like you said with the commander having seen enough that he is really good in a mobile suit but doesn't pilot one (in the show) till he orders shiro out of his so the commander fights the zeon ace.
Wrapping up Steven Universe. I swear, Steven has the patience of a fucking Saint. The Diamonds are all just total assholes for absolutely no fucking reason and he's still like, "well, maybe you could try not being assholes?"
Watchin' One Piece. Dressrosa arc. AKA Luffy Rides a Bull for Like Eighty Three Consecutive Episodes Straight and Also Trafalgar Law is Here I Guess.
So it's like when in DBZ someone is yelling and powering up for 5 episodes and the bad guy just let's them?
Nobody really powers up in One Piece. Some characters have transformations but they use them on the fly. So instead to fill time everyone is invariably absolutely anywhere except where they could do anything useful. Half of Luffy's crew is just sailing around the ocean right now for no real reason.
You can totally do powering up in real fencing - some opponents are really, really, REALLY passive. I can literally place the sword on the ground and start baking some coffee beans and take a powernap while the machine is making the coffee and still they will be just standing about outside of measure in some super defensive guard. If I knew how to power up I totally would even if it took 2 minutes to do so. "Oh, it's mr Turtle again" and spend first 2 minutes powering up and then throw in a quick super charged attack just before the time runs out - with the bout ending 1 - 0. Perfect. Totally legit.
"I want to be king of the pirates" yet very few actually seem to be pirates. Everyone (even the bad guys) just seem to be vigilantes of various degrees.
Pirates are their own thing in that show. They’re basically unrelated to real pirates or even the modern romanticized version of them except in that they have pirate ships and flags.
Makes me wonder what the Japanese think a pirate is. Also I think technically the pirates of the Caribbean movies they would have been buccaneers. Because pirates is a very general term.
Not sure about the footwear but for a "combat nun" (can they come up with a better term? Or better yet a new group, like a sub order of nuns) at least the shortened habit makes some sense. But probably not needed.
Yeah she’s actually just kind of a pervert. She’s basically just not wearing the bottom part of the uniform. There’s also more than one sister who doesn’t wear underpants. It’s not even that kind of anime, this is all prime time stuff.
I think the Japanese got the nuns and Christianity right with the same confidence that Westerners got the ninjas and Samurai right. Not exactly OT, the misconceptions have now pervaded the Japanese and anime cultures so thoroughly that now many Japanese themselves completely misunderstand their own past. Which is in no way different from how badly Europeans or Americans misunderstand their past. That said if you know a nun convent like that, please share the address, I would like to visit them and talk about theology and which part of the scripture they're interpreting for their practices. Purely theologically academic interest.
Like how most renaissance festivals/faire (at least in the U.S., I think they exist in europe) are depicting usually more medieval time period and not the renaissance? I mean I guess there is some overlap. But most are going off english renaissance which was later than most of the rest of europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_fair
Many see Renaissance as the latter part of the Middle Ages. Also, many of the terms describe various facets of society, one is more focused on culture, another on technology, etc. but Renaissance is one of the big all encompassing things as part of Middle Ages. The "I love history" crowd is funny in that it is heavily divided to "oh, I'd just throw that 14th century armor into landfill; the doublet's leather straps are of wrong type of leather and you used a modern oil" or the opposite of "oh, I do love history, I just can't be arsed to ever actually read anything and if someone says that my centaur outfit is ahistorical and fantasy, I'll just use my right to disagree until someone completely disproves the existence of centaurs and magic". It seems like there is not that much of a middle ground at times but that could just be that the most annoying people are often the most vocal. "...that could just be that the most annoying people are often the most vocal."
There are weebs and hipsters in every group. The perfectionist historians are easy to counter though, especially in the 'Renaissance' because the era technically spans a number of different time frames depending upon what part of the world you're in. 'oh I had to have my doublet repaired in Spain by a local cordwainer, he gave me the oil from a travelling Greek apothecary. It's a shame, once I run out I'll never find it's like again. What's a "landfill?" good sir?' Also, don't knock my completely hysterically accurate centaur cosplay. Mythology is as much a part of history as anything else and whether the centaur is based off a real thing or someone's wine soaked scouting report doesn't mean that people of the era didn't come up with some absurd costumes at the time, like building a giant wooden horse to hide up it's butt until nightfall and nobody thought 'hey you know, this thing's big enough people could hide inside...'
I really like the SCA folks and stuff like fantasy pirates, amazons and centaurs, they're all cool. What I have a problem with personally is when people insist they're doing something historical and they've got it wrong and when you show them that they're wrong they start going with "well, you know, I bought this PPSh-41 from the captain of a Chinese oil tanker so it's completely legit for my 16th century musketeer". Like, if you're just going to make stuff up, just say so, there's nothing wrong with it. If I had the money I'd order a full set of equipment for Gil-Galad, silver helmet, a silver shield with the northern starmap etc. I just would not even think of trying to pass that as historical. And if I'll get around to making a mail armor then I will know where it differs from authentic, admit that it isn't fully authentic and not insist it is nor will I mind being pointed out that it's not. All of that, it's really mostly about being honest to yourself about what you want to do and why and then also being honest to others too and not pretending that you're doing something you're not. Like, there was an incident in HEMA recently with a guy sending faked tournament data to HEMA ratings. What do you gain from inflating some HEMA rating thing anyway? Why? And yet he was caught for it. No one would have held it against him even if he had been at the bottom of the ratings but getting caught of lying and faking data.. That's bad. Ok, sorry. Way OT. Though that about wraps up my thoughts on the subject and I've got nothing to add, really. Do what you like, just say what it is that you actually do.
