These guys are my favourite characters in Votoms. foppish evil administrative murder twinks who like doing experiments. this is a character archetype that should have caught on.
finished my Votoms rewatch. While I think the show could have done with a few less episodes (the pacing gets a bit wonky in the last stretch) the conclusion it ultimately reaches is probably one of the better endings in mecha fiction. quite an emotional epilogue, i think.
like the original star wars, there's also a certain working class joy to votoms. this is a series about those on the very bottom of the galactic pecking order, the junkrats and mechanics, who ultimately come to spit in the eye of every power hierarchy there is.
one of the most impressive things to me about Votoms is that a lot of its imagery that initially seems to just be cool ends up having quite a bit of thematic resonance. it's a show about how Wiseman, the technological moloch of war, is always watching. and that's why you should kill him.
ultimately, it's still not quite my favourite takahashi. i just vibe a bit more with Dougram's story of neocolonial rot. but it's still very impressive and compelling and original. and more than any other real robot sunrise series from the 80s, it really managed to differentiate itself from Gundam
At long last! After another little delay, a new Computer Lab video! And a juicy one! Nathan explores what he henceforth dubs the ‘Gamer Folklore’ surrounding whether Mario Kart 64’s AI cheats or not & unpacks some of the history of this mystery. Be sure to watch to the end! youtu.be/phDkDM5k7zE?...
motivating every life decision, big or small, by going "loran cehack would want this for me" out loud