Shingeki no Kyojin is 100% a mecha anime. If you play Fur Elise on an electric guitar it doesn’t automatically become Rock’n’Roll, and making the giant robots out of meat does not change the fact trust SnK is full of mecha tropes, is structured like a mecha anime, and the characters treat the titans like vehicles.
Considering [SPOILERS] the derivation of the evas from Shinji's dead mother and the heavy use of womb imagery as the pilot sits in amniotic-like fluid, arguably this is a valid interpretation of Evangelion lore.
>Otherwise, a fight between two pregnant women could be seen as a mech fight.
I mean, when you consider what pregnancy does to an expectant mother, hormonally, and the lengths to which some will go to protect their unborn child... It's not an entirely implausible characterization.
But speaking to AOT, specifically, it's real robot with some super robot/fantasy/Abrahamic text characteristics to allow for the setting. Despite the "summoning" aspect, practical considerations of when and how to employ titans, the political, social, and philosophical ramifications of their existence and use, and the fact that the story is ultimately a study of characters caught up in war and history and intrigue, all point to a solid mecha, real robot classification.
what if they purposefully allow narco economies to thrive because of its destabilizing effects? Imagine if US had to suddenly worry about a powerful South American military/economic coalition, it simply wouldn't be able to focus on other parts of the world.
> The open source community is not, for example, going to make their own high performance gpus.
I think we should lower the entry threshold first. The open source and free GPU project was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw http://llhd.io/. After all, one of the main problems with OpenHardware projects is the closed FPGA ecosystem.
It's pretty amazing how far the open source FPGA tooling has come in the last few years. I'd even go so far as to say some parts of the open source ecosystem have surpassed the commercial tools.
Still a long way to go of course, but I'm pretty positive about the direction things are heading.
> However, in cases where people say that some language is bad, it means that it simply does not fit their tasks.
I disagree. It is possible for a language to simply be a bad language. Intercal is intentionally so. I will refrain from mentioning unintentionally bad languages in order to avoid a flame war.
If the task is to show everyone their own steepness, then isotheric languages are a good choice. Isn't it? If people did not confuse causes and consequences, it would be more boring to live without sacred wars. It is not correct to call a language bad. But it is correct to call a language not suitable for a specific task.
In fact, the flame wars can also be useful as an advertisement.
Nobody would have accused Brainfuck of being a good language but it turns out that its radical simplicity works well for integrating with optimization algorithms for creating self-programming AIs. It's all about a niche, except INTERCAL, you're right about INTERCAL.
Titans are closer to summoned creatures. And they're not the product of technology.
Otherwise, a fight between two pregnant women could be seen as a mech fight.