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Akira: mind bullets, evolution, and odd horsepower calculations w/ Jolene Creighton

Published: Dec. 18, 2018, 7:45 a.m.

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Hey this movie was really important! Time and place. Budgets. Omg so pretty.

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Subtitling adult anime for the west. Translation vs localization. Different industries and approaches to localization. Software localization in comparison to film localization. Fansubs online before the likes of Crunchyroll.

\\n\\n Motorcycles \\n\\n

Horsepower! Sweet motorcycles. High-speed motorcycle attacks. Turning people into \\u201cmushwater.\\u201d

\\n\\n Funiculars \\n\\n

giant slidey freight elevators. Also mountainside trams. Related words:

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\\n\\n Waterways \\n\\n

Underwater or otherwise. Rivers vs sewers. The Tokyo sewer and transport overhaul preceding the 1964 Olympics. The inefficiency of poop-sucking truck fleets. Traveling in sewers and dysentery avoidance.

\\n\\n Psi powers \\n\\n

Creepy, wrinkly children. Psi floaty chairs, the escalator of chairs! When operational, their ares a floaty chair. When they fail, they are\\u2026 a comfortable chair.

\\n\\n Mind bullets \\n\\n

Obvious thing to do: government research into mind-bullets. Surprising thing: when it works. Even more surprising: when it works so well it blows up Tokyo and starts World War III.

\\n\\n The future of humanity \\n\\n

Evolutionary milestones. Latent abilities. Guided evolution. Atavism.

\\n\\n Laser guns \\n\\n

Laser rifles! Conventions against blinding weapons. Tricking the enemy into rout with elaborate eyepatches. Recognizing the obvious advantages of space lasers. Space-based light concentrators. The difficulties of penetrating atmosphere with space-based lasers. Space lasers for space junk cleanup (Kurtzgesagt).

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Overloading on mind bullets and turning into a big blobby guy before going all mini-singularity. Crushing your girlfriend in your fleshy bits.

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