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nobahn
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:31 pm Reply with quote
TatsuGero23 wrote:
nbahn wrote:
I am NOT trying to ID a particular show; what I am TRYING to do is ID a particular posting/thread. There was this discussion of FLCL's meaning and someone posted a link to an essay on Adult Swim that discussed the various themes and meanings of the show. I am trying to find that essay's URL -- thus far to no avail (I'm sorry, but I don't remember what year the post was made). The forum search function is useless as it literally presents HUNDREDS of posts for review and I simply don't have the patience which is required in order to go through them all without my brain going through a meltdown.

So you want US to go through the hundreds of post of reviews?.... 20 bucks. No wait. 50 bucks.
I'm sorry; I wasn't clear enough and I humbly beg your pardon. What I was hoping was that someone would know of a search query that would provide better results (I used "flcl AND explanation OR interpretation")
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:52 pm Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:57 pm Reply with quote
Do you remember if you participated in the thread, or by some small chance of someone else who did? I've found that it can help to combine a keyword query with an author query. You just have to remember a word used in a post by a person.

I usually use it to find my own posts. For instance, if I want to find a review I made of a show in the gigantic "What are you Watching" thread I will put the show's name into the subject field and my name in the Author field and choose "Diplay Results as Posts" to find it. Or to find my introduction post in the introductions thread I use my cat's name as a keyword.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:58 pm Reply with quote
nbahn wrote:
TatsuGero23 wrote:
nbahn wrote:
I am NOT trying to ID a particular show; what I am TRYING to do is ID a particular posting/thread. There was this discussion of FLCL's meaning and someone posted a link to an essay on Adult Swim that discussed the various themes and meanings of the show. I am trying to find that essay's URL -- thus far to no avail (I'm sorry, but I don't remember what year the post was made). The forum search function is useless as it literally presents HUNDREDS of posts for review and I simply don't have the patience which is required in order to go through them all without my brain going through a meltdown.

So you want US to go through the hundreds of post of reviews?.... 20 bucks. No wait. 50 bucks.
I'm sorry; I wasn't clear enough and I humbly beg your pardon. What I was hoping was that someone would know of a search query that would provide better results (I used "flcl AND explanation OR interpretation")
Ha, I'm sorry man. I was just joking. I would have looked for the article if I wasn't at work right now. Hopefully NGE1113 found what you were looking for.

Edit: skimmed through NGE's link and that's a pretty epic write up. Will have to take some time out to give it a proper read later. But man, that's some pretty hardcore analysis there. And passion.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:42 pm Reply with quote
NGE1113--
THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!!!

(and as an aside, just how did you find that URL?)

TatsuGero23--
Thank you for the consideration of your reply.
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nobahn
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:45 pm Reply with quote
Spastic Minnow wrote:
Do you remember if you participated in the thread, or by some small chance of someone else who did? I've found that it can help to combine a keyword query with an author query. You just have to remember a word used in a post by a person.

I usually use it to find my own posts. For instance, if I want to find a review I made of a show in the gigantic "What are you Watching" thread I will put the show's name into the subject field and my name in the Author field and choose "Diplay Results as Posts" to find it. Or to find my introduction post in the introductions thread I use my cat's name as a keyword.
Thank you for the courtesy of your reply; and no, I never participated in the discussion -- I found it in an archive (What can I say? I must have had WAY too much time on my hands! Embarassed Rolling Eyes Wink )
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 4:23 pm Reply with quote
nbahn wrote:
NGE1113--
THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!!!

(and as an aside, just how did you find that URL?)


No problem at all, happy to be of help.

As for the URL itself, I searched the forums for "FLCL adult swim", hit the "Search for all terms" option, then found the link after opening a few threads that looked promising. Just simple dumb luck, really.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:47 pm Reply with quote
abunai wrote:
It may not be obvious from context, but I was referring to the female many-layered dress as court clothes, though the word "ceremonial" was, I agree, misplaced. I was not referring to the male-pattern dress with the slashed sleeves.

- abunai

 
Thank you for the reply. Since Gina Szanboti wrote about the male clothes with the slashed sleeves and you responded to it and wrote, 'They were starched. Remember, these were ceremonial court clothes, not practical wear. You didn't need to be able to move quickly or smoothly in them, you just had to look elegant,' and after that you said, 'The same applied to female court dress of the period,' I'm sorry to say this, but 'these were ceremonial court clothes' seems to refer to the male clothes with the slashed sleeves.

By the way, what do you think about when the sumptuary law in question was enacted?
 
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:55 pm Reply with quote
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vashna



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:42 am Reply with quote
I’ve seen quite a few different types of Megazone 23 releases, and I wanted to ask some advice. Is this the right place to do that? If I want every episode of that OVA, which DVD series do I buy? Or was the last bit never officially released in North America?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:59 am Reply with quote
This one has parts 1-3.
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vashna



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:01 am Reply with quote
That's where I was a little confused. After Part III, isn't there a final part? Though I added up Wikipedia's running times, and they equal the 255 min or so that the encyclopedia suggests.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:08 pm Reply with quote
vashna wrote:
That's where I was a little confused. After Part III, isn't there a final part? Though I added up Wikipedia's running times, and they equal the 255 min or so that the encyclopedia suggests.


Nope. Part III was the last Megazone 23 OVA made. The box set that DerekTheRed linked to contains all the Megazone 23 OVAs that exist.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:15 pm Reply with quote
I see why you're confused. Megazone 23 Part III actually has 2 parts, so that's why wikipedia says it's a 4 part series.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:02 am Reply with quote
Oh, thank you very much! So if I buy that, or a Part III disc for that matter, I can be sure that I'm getting everything?
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