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GeekNights Wednesday - Space Dandy

Tonight on GeekNights, we preview Space☆Dandy, the most recent anime to "save anime" after Kill La Kill. Space Dandy is a dandy in space. It might be set in the Cowboy Bebop universe, or at least one that has superficial similarities. It's... difficult to express what this show is. You really should just watch it. In the news, Sailor Moon's anime reboot (based more closely on the manga) is tentatively to air in July 2014. Booth babes don't work. Also, be sure to submit panels to ConnectiCon 2014!

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  • MrPeriod said:

    Also, be sure to submit panels to ConnectiCon 2014

    Based on the reports I saw coming out of BGG.con this year, it's time for you guys to retire the "ConnectiCon has the single best game library in the US" schtick. That con seems like it's really getting its act together, and now that it's topping 2,000 people, might be at a point to break out and go bigtime.
  • RymRym
    edited January 2014
    2,000 is pretty small. It needs time to grow.

    It's also $110. That's a lot of money for a small con.

    It's also in Texas... at the airport.

    They require attendees to wear one wristband for the entire convention. Not doing that.

    I can't tell if there are panels of any sort. It doesn't appear so.

    According to their official policies, no gaming in hotel lobbies is allowed.
    Post edited by Rym on
  • I am glad my collection of games and the ability for me to haul them all gets the Rym and Scott seal of approval. I am trying to be more of the "guy who brings the board games to places" however no one is biting as of yet.

    As for the Connecticon comparison to my stuff, the line of games is closer then you would think, and if money were to come in (outside of my own) I could easily bolster it to that level.
  • Connecticon has a lot of very old games that would be quite difficult for you to obtain. And for newer games, they have at least one copy of pretty much everything.
  • edited January 2014
    Rym said:

    2,000 is pretty small. It needs time to grow.

    It's also $110. That's a lot of money for a small con.

    It's also in Texas... at the airport.

    They require attendees to wear one wristband for the entire convention. Not doing that.

    I can't tell if there are panels of any sort. It doesn't appear so.

    According to their official policies, no gaming in hotel lobbies is allowed.

    Not saying it's a big boy yet, and yeah, it has plenty of obvious flaws when compared to the big boys, but I think it's coming up in the right way.
    - They do have panels, although they seem to be pretty shit about putting a schedule up online
    - No mailing of said wristbands which is also bullshit. (I almost threw up when I saw a picture of a guy who wore his wristband for the entire year leading up to the next BGG.con)
    - Despite said guy, I'm hearing that as the attendance is growing, it's rapidly shifting away from neckbeard and old-guy gamer culture. Let's just say the name of the con does not give it the same vibe as the grumpy website.
    - They're looking into expanding to a small convention center, but in the meantime, I don't think I really want to leave the airport in Texas anyway, and a $112 room rate does a lot of offset an expensive $110 admission.
    - Being around the airport limits food, for sure, but at least they acknowledge the issue and have a free shuttle bus to the land of good restaurants not far away.
    - Lobby rule is bullshit but no shortage of table space so it's kinda moot.
    - None of the scheduled game/paid game bullshit that you get at the big tabletop-only cons, so they're doing it right.
    - That Essen room. Damn. They quite literally send people to Essen and have them ship back crates of the new games, give them all permanent table set-ups and teach you the games/translate them to English if it hasn't been done yet.

    Post edited by Matt on
  • Gogol is to Google as Jaicro is to ...?
  • Not saying it's a bad con by any means. It's just not on the radar for us. There are a lot of cons that have potential.

    Remember well: Magfest 8 was on our radar just barely, and wasn't worth attending. Magfests prior to that were completely unknown to us, or ignored if we had heard of them.

    Magfest was one of many cons that had potential. It wasn't until Magfest 9 that it proved that potential. It wasn't until Magfest 10 that it lived up to that potential.
  • edited January 2014
    Oh, totally fair points. I wouldn't expect you guys to attend a small hotel con in Texas. I only brought it up because I keep hearing about how the ConnectiCon library is the best in the country, but I don't think it's true.
    Post edited by Matt on
  • My weird airport story:

    I was connecting in Frankfurt. I got off the plane saying bye and thanks to the cabin crew. I walked across the airport, waited by a different gate, got on the plane, and said hello to... the exact same cabin crew! A different plane, going to a different place, but the same crew on board. I thought I was going crazy.
  • From reading pilot blogs I've learned that it's pretty common for a crew to be a team that sticks together, but changes planes. At least, it was common for the guy whose blog I was reading regularly. Pretty neat, actually. They work crazy long hours, though, which is a little scary given that they're driving around multi-ton flying machines going hundreds of miles an hour.
  • Matt said:

    Oh, totally fair points. I wouldn't expect you guys to attend a small hotel con in Texas. I only brought it up because I keep hearing about how the ConnectiCon library is the best in the country, but I don't think it's true.

    Rym and Scott NEVER Exaggerate.
  • You've been to ConnectiCon. ;^) It puts most every gaming con in the greater New York City area to shame.
  • I happy accept this new language!
  • So I have not seen this show yet, but from your description of the "Boobies" it totally makes sense to me that the waitresses would all be humanoid. Maybe the place is owned by a human? Or maybe the owner just thinks humans are suckers and the best way to make money is to target them. The reason the waitresses aren't strictly human is to his alien eyes "Meh, close enough"
  • edited January 2014

    So I have not seen this show yet, but from your description of the "Boobies" it totally makes sense to me that the waitresses would all be humanoid. Maybe the place is owned by a human? Or maybe the owner just thinks humans are suckers and the best way to make money is to target them. The reason the waitresses aren't strictly human is to his alien eyes "Meh, close enough"

    But most of these aliens aren't even remotely humanoid.

    For that matter, why does Jabba the Hutt think that Leia is hot? Shouldn't he be into Hutt ladies?

    Of all sci-fi universes I can think of, Futurama probably handles this the best.
    Post edited by Apreche on
  • Leia is hot because she is a symbol of his power.

    In episode 1 Jabba has a lady Hutt companion at the pod race.
  • edited January 2014

    Leia is hot because she is a symbol of his power.

    In episode 1 Jabba has a lady Hutt companion at the pod race.

    But why does he want to lick her and shit?

    Turn the tables. Let's say you were a powerful intergalactic mafia boss. You capture a Hutt princess as your slave. Do you want to lick her? Even if it was more humanoid. Would you want to sexually harass a Wookie you captured?
    Post edited by Apreche on
  • Scott, clearly Jabba the Hutt is far more progressive about interspecies love than you are.
  • Apreche said:

    Turn the tables. Let's say you were a powerful intergalactic mafia boss. You capture a Hutt princess as your slave. Do you want to lick her? Even if it was more humanoid. Would you want to sexually harass a Wookie you captured?

    It might be a personal kink of Jabba's. Think about it this way: in the real world, we have furries. We even have people who go beyond furrydom and are actually into real animals (eww) and not just anthropomorphic characters and/or people in fursuits. We have some people who don't even care what they're doing and just get off on having that sort of power over the objects of their lust.

    Jabba's probably like that. He's either into non-Hutts as a personal kink (at least he seems to like them sentient, though) or he gets off on having that sort of power no matter the species, as Luke implied. Maybe a bit of both.

    It's not like this hasn't been addressed in other SciFi works than Star Wars, Space Dandy, and the like. Having a thing for alien women (notably humans) was a known character quirk of Babylon 5's G'kar, who was a reptilian-looking humanoid alien. Babylon 5 Crusade went further by stating there was actually some sort of black market for human/alien porn and by making one of its characters, Max Eilerson, a fan of it. Apparently he had a copy of "Snow White and the Seven Pak'ma'ra" in his personal stash (Pak'ma'ra basically look like human-sized Cthulhus, tentacle mouths and all).
  • muppet said:

    Scott, clearly Jabba the Hutt is far more progressive about interspecies love than you are.

    I'm sure there will always be a small minority of any alien race that have fetishes for other species. Probably about as many as there are humans who are into bestiality. Jabba may very well be a fetishist. That still does not explain how most of the clientele of boobies are very non-humanoid. It also does not explain how boobies in particular is such a universe-spanning successful chain restaurant. It should only be economically viable in the small portion of space where humanoids live.

    Also, if you're so progressive, you won't take it as an insult if make your new nickname Hutt-licker, right?
  • I didn't say I was progressive. I said Jabba clearly is.
  • Apreche said:

    I'm sure there will always be a small minority of any alien race that have fetishes for other species. Probably about as many as there are humans who are into bestiality. Jabba may very well be a fetishist. That still does not explain how most of the clientele of boobies are very non-humanoid. It also does not explain how boobies in particular is such a universe-spanning successful chain restaurant. It should only be economically viable in the small portion of space where humanoids live.

    First, the universe is a pretty big place and apparently they have the technology to travel across it pretty easily. We don't know how far flung various Earth human colonies are in the Space Dandy universe. It could be that there are enough of them spread out to sustain a chain like Boobies.

    Second, we don't know how common the humanoid form is across this universe. Again, it's pretty big, after all. Star Trek addressed this problem in two ways: one is the (pretty BS, but it was otherwise a decent episode) notion that some ancient humanoid progenitor species seeded the galaxy/universe with genetic material such that other species would eventually evolve into a humanoid form. The less BS one, and one that has seen limited parallels in real life with Earthly evolution, is a concept that similar environments are likely to evolve similar life forms (Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development). If the Space Dandy universe has enough Earth-like planets and if we assume that something like Hodgkin's Law is in effect there, then it would be logical to assume that humanoid forms could be relatively common across the entire universe.

    Third, Boobies hires wait staff from any species with breasts or breast-like objects on their chest. The opening episode showed several booby species of alien, some with numbers of breast-like objects other than just 2 (think of the three-boobed mutant from Total Recall, for example). They may not even be mammary glands like found on mammalian species -- they might just be some sort of chest lumps that serve some other function but they still qualify as "boobs" as far as Boobies is concerned.

    Fourth, again, this goes back to the vastness of the universe. This universe seems to be teeming with sentient life, so the overall population must be immense. If you add up every last sentient race in the universe, there just might be enough non-humanoids with a fetish for humanoid boobs in addition to humanoid species to keep Boobies up and running.
  • I don't think I can handle this thread but I want to thank you guys for my afternoon entertainment.
  • I don't agree with similar environments yielding similar life forms. The same ocean that has fish has coral and has whales and has sea anemones and has jelly fish and has sponges and so on.
  • Apreche said:

    I don't agree with similar environments yielding similar life forms. The same ocean that has fish has coral and has whales and has sea anemones and has jelly fish and has sponges and so on.

    Whales and fish are superficially similar. Sure, underneath they are different (fish have gills and lay eggs, whales have lungs and have live births), but they've both got streamlined shapes with fins and such adapted for moving through water quickly and easily. At first glance, a layperson would be hard pressed to tell if a sea creature is a fish or a whale just by taking a quick look at it. Hell, even an expert may have difficulty if they don't have a good enough look at the critter.

    The point I was making is that similar environments may lead to similar adaptations and therefore similar life forms. Both whales and fish have to swim through water (never mind sharing a common ancestor) and the laws of hydrodynamics don't care if you're a whale or a fish, so it makes sense that they'd end up with similar shapes. In fact, there is a real world scientific term for this (which I didn't remember for my first post): covergent evolution.

  • Yeah maybe there is just a evolutionary imperative at work in the universe that states that not will there be boobs but the at least half the population of any given species will find them attractive. :)
  • Although we are all missing the obvious reason why all though aliens with desperate anatomies would be frequenting such an establishment as Boobies. They like the wings!
  • Although we are all missing the obvious reason why all though aliens with desperate anatomies would be frequenting such an establishment as Boobies. They like the wings!

    This would make sense if there weren't an entire station dedicated to every ramen ever.
  • Ahh, but maybe they have the best wings favored ramen recipe, or so they tell their wives.
  • Man (or woman... or alien) cannot live on ramen alone. :)
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