Subject: Watch the first RWBY trailer.
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Posted on: 2014-05-03 20:32:00 UTC
It will show you exactly how… 'impractical' Crescent Rose is.
>:D
Subject: Watch the first RWBY trailer.
Author:
Posted on: 2014-05-03 20:32:00 UTC
It will show you exactly how… 'impractical' Crescent Rose is.
>:D
I was skimming around the other day, and I found this. Being my brilliant self, I went: "Self, this is probably the strangest thing I've ever seen.
"I'm gonna show it to everyone I know."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMpaoby4sbc
If you are impressed, give a thumbs up. If you are not, snicker.
Those are kinda popular.
That's actually a pretty good remix there. Lots of action, feels like it would fit the tone of Shingeki's theme song... yeah. I guess that's another one to add to the list.
Funnily enough, I found this remix of the SnK theme mashed with Puella Magi Madoka Magica, so here, have that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svuKK4L4tsI
I'm not as knowledgable about ^Madoka Magica^, but I am something of a fan…
By the by, how did you get it to make italics? Or does that just not work with Macs?
In his case, it's something like [text here]
...by putting "i" and "/i" between angle brackets. It should look like
<i> yourtexthere <>
but without the underscore in either set of brackets.
A good resource for this kind of stuff is this website, which tells you how to do stuff in HTML.
Now I will be able to write titles properly.
This makes me want to watch RWBY! Is it any good?
Also, check out these other two vids set to/featuring Guren no Yumiya. This one's a pony AMV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFGlw48a0fM
And this one sounds like it should be boss music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zciS442JWA
(Can you recommend any good AMVs set to Flugel der Freiheit? That song is AWESOME!)
Watch RWBY. Just do it. It has humour, action, gunblades, monsters, magic, a secondary magic system, a really interesting moon, good animation for the most part, animal people, a combat school, EPIC music (so, so, SO EPIC), Combat Skirts, dinosaur easter eggs, it's produced by roosterteeth and MONTY OUM, and is getting serious in the next volume. Also may I mention that the creator is supportive of fanfiction, may or may not include a fan made character later on, and has already held a design contest for the battle gear of one character, who was originally supposed to be a bit character that appeared twice, but is now a full fledged character because of fan popularity? Also, REALLY EPIC FIGHTING. REALLY. REALLY. EPIC. I say epic, but in the non-slang sense, it has fairly short episodes, and only one 'volume' in the first season, if I understand the system right. Also mysterious back-stories, and weapons even more epic than the fighting. for example...
Crescent Rose, a High Calibre Sniper Scythe (HCSS), touted as one of the most dangerous weapons ever conceived.
Myternaster, a rapier with a revolver mechanism that allows the powering up of her attacks with elemental magic.
Magnhild, a warhammer/grenade launcher. 'Nuff said.
Gambol Shroud, part Cleaver, part Glock-18, part Katana/Ninjato/generic Japanese sword, part Kusarigama, and all awesome.
Ember Cecilia, shotgun gauntlets that have either concussive or long range projectile ammo.
Ruyi Bang & Jingu Bang, a staff that spits into shotgun nunshucks. Once again, 'nuff said.
If that doesn't convince you, I don't know WHAT will.
The Pony one was pretty good. I can't say I'm too familiar with Flugel der Freiheit, and I wasn't really looking for this one in the first place. I kind of just stumbled upon it and posted it on a whim. But if the song is good, I'll see what I can do.
...seriously, what?
This gunscythe is less practical than Bardiche.
It will show you exactly how… 'impractical' Crescent Rose is.
>:D
Even the Krull Glaive worked well in-universe, and that thing would do more damage to its wielder than to the enemy in literally any other context.
Anyway, the Crescent Rose is still enormously impractical. It shapeshifts and apparently weighs nothing at all, so the functionality gets a bit of a break due to plot boosting, but speaking in terms of usability, sweet Sobchak would that be hard to maintain. The mass conservation systems alone would play havoc on its ability to do anything if they were damaged even slightly. The blade would be damaged every time she fires one of those gun-scythe blasts since there's nowhere else for the recoil to go with her rooting it into the ground like she does and whatever she's shooting is apparently a high enough caliber to gib a wolf in one hit. Good luck pulling off that "just shot another round at such an angle as to decapitate someone" move if you've damaged the blade or its join enough to bring either out of alignment. If you end up hitting the wrong spot when that blade starts going through bone, the gun recoil is going to snap the end off.
In context, the characters not constantly shrouded in darkness are apparently magic or something, but it's never explained how or why everything is so indestructible, not even a handwaved "precursor material" or "PKE-enhanced" or something. I watched most of the first season yesterday since the episodes are apparently only five to ten minutes long each, and there was still nothing, which just strikes me as kind of silly. Even Star Trek would blame new weird space stuff on poliustic shield fluctuations in the beta waves of the engineering deck or something. The closest there was to any explanation was a mention of "the power of dust" in an exposition dump in the first episode, which was never elaborated on except for a later appearance that showed it was highly combustible.
I don't hate the series, before you take this the wrong way. I am just the sort of person who notices things like this. After the first episode's cavalcade of what-is-going-on moments and absolute bullcrap(a fifteen-year-old forged a mass-altering shapeshifting weapon by herself? Out of what, Makuta armor?), everything started to get much better, and most of the first episode's nonsense was either completely forgotten or explained better later, save Silly Cigar Guy With A Grenade-Launching Cane That The Penguin Would Call A Bad Idea, who is apparently going to be a recurring antagonist. Also, Yang was introduced after the first episode, and Yang is the best. I know I say things are "the best" a lot, but I don't say it as a ranking. Sometimes a character just deserves to be called the best.
Or at least, it isn't too bad. But then again I doubt practical really passed through Monty Oum's mind when RWBY was being created.