There’s a scene in evangelion where the mc jerks it over an unconscious asuka (the character on the video card in the background) and nuts all over his hand.
He covered his hand in thermal paste as a reference.
It’s a (intentionally) creepy scene and extremely off-color for a repair tech to send this to a customer, IMO. Good thing it’s probably fake.
With no context whatsoever my first thought was it was one of those “uh oh, if the thermal paste is on my hand, then that must mean I accidentally put the cum on my cpu…”
I will be deleting this shortly I am sorry
Edit: Most upvotes I’ve gotten on Lemmy. Listen to the guy below. Live your truth, lemmings.
You made a good joke, dont let thine shame and cowardice control thee.
Now that’s funny
Welcome to puberty.
You’re never piloting the robot version of your mother ever again.
It means that it’s a sexy GPU
It means he wasted 2 or 3 dollars worth of thermal paste. Possibly to make a weird Evangelion reference, based on that other comment.
What DOES it mean??
I believe it’s a recreation of a scene from one of the endings of Evangelion. My hazy guess is the movie “End of Evangelion.” Asuka (on the GPU) lies unconscious in a hospital bed. Shinji (incel protagonist) stands over her. He shuts the door to the hall and breathes heavily for a few seconds, then this shot with white instead of gray.
Hello? Yes, I’d like to have unread what I just read. Yes, I’ll hold.
I sort of regret watching it myself and never rewatched
Now I’m curious!!
Btw she was hospitalized after a savage defeat while piloting a mech where the pilot feels all the damage as if it’s happening to them. Her mech was ripped apart and devoured by a pack of hostile umanned mechs.
Edit: it was heavily hinted throughout the series that the mechs also have a consciousness and the source of that consciousness is yet another layer of fucked up
The overall story about why the author did it is interesting, because it is part of his ongoing hatred of how the fans treat the property.
Yeah, I read that and… the author is still a piece of shit.
Oh dear god…I thought you were joking.
Don’t do this to me
Lol wtf
If you’re wondering what narrative purpose this scene serves, you have to consider the whole series. It’s a mirror of a scene in episode one where Shinji also stands on top of a female character with a bodily fluid on his hand, but for a whole other reason: Shinji was told to pilote a giant robot he’d never seen before to fight a giant monster. He refused. The injured girl was brought on a strainer and he was told if he didn’t pilote the robot, she’d have to. The ground shook because of the robot, the girl (named Rei) fell from the strainer and Shinji rushed to see if she was okay. He looked at his hand and saw that he had her blood on it (obvious symbolism), then he accepts to pilote the robot.
That scene is what asserts Shinji as a protagonist. It’s the first showing him doing something for someone else, and he’s putting his life on the line to do so.
So mirroring this scene but having him do something cowardly and shameful, opposite of the bravery and kindness he showed in episode 1 makes him exit this role as a protagonist. And I don’t even think it’s necessary to understand it for it to work: For most of the movie after that, Shinji isn’t the protagonist, you follow other characters as they conclude their respective narrative arcs and without the hospital scene, I think many would feel frustrated and wait for Shinji to do something. Instead, we’re more prone to watch the other characters because we don’t really want to see Shinji anymore.
Another thing is, there characters have all been through a lot and been repeatedly traumatised. Not that it’s an excuse, but the series is also a bit original in the way it rejects the trope that hardship builds character and makes one better, without going in the reverse cliche of it making them a villain either. Trauma makes them mentally ill. Mental illness sometimes cause them to do bad things to other, which they then regret.
well, that is some much needed context, otherwise I would’ve had a much different perspective on the narrative and the characters going on as i’ve never seen the show. I actually find it charming, oddly, that the writers worked this way. thanks!
Don’t worry, the author went on to create the most hated ending for a popular series in modern history. So it balances out.
oh wow thanks, i never made the connection to ep1. it’s so obvious in hindsight!
God I don’t understand why people love this anime.
I know it’s a deconstruction of the super robot. I know that shinji has a plausibly realistic reaction to his situation, especially as an unwilling Eva pilot. That doesn’t make me wanna watch the psychological unravelling of a child until he becomes completely insufferable and wanks it over his comatose friend. Why does anyone wanna watch that, no matter how powerful?
Why do people engage with anything that makes them uncomfortable? Horror? Tragedy? It’s just morbid curiosity. It’s not a bad thing, really. Any exploration of the human condition is incomplete without a look at the darker side. Some need more light in their entertainment to help the medicine go down, and that’s OK too.
I know art is subjective, but like… 26 episodes devoted to watching an annoying little shit face become even more annoying and shittier?
I want to like the show so bad, but shinji is just so unpleasant to watch.
Generally I think there is value in engaging with media that makes you experience negative and uncomfortable emotions, but I think the exception to that is anger. If the predominant emotions is anger, then probably not a tremendous amount of value. Most other emotions evoked by media are either enjoyable themselves or produce enjoyable after effects (like the thrill of horror, or the catharsis of tragedy); but not anger.
As you say it’s subjective, but I don’t find Shinji that annoying for most of the series. And it’s not just a downwards spiral, he and the other characters have ups and downs.
Even the conclusion of the End Of Evangelion is that something is better than nothing. A big part of Shinji’s character is hesitation of what is or isn’t worth doing, and the big final choice he’s offered when he’s at his lowest possible point is basically end the existence of humans as individuals and all the pain that goes with it or let humanity be reborn. It’s a metaphor for being on the fence about suicide, and he choses life. Which is pretty strong knowing how Hideaki Anno was himself struggles with depression when he wrote this.
I know it’s a bit stupid, but this series kinda feels like a depression toggle switch for me: It makes me feel depressed if I watch it while not depressed, but had the opposite effect if I’m already feeling depressed.
It’s got deep-ish themes about identity, 6 frames of boobs and a memorable theme, everything the Otaku needs while saving up for that Fedora they have their eye on
Thomas Manga: “No, I just wanted to make him jerk it.”
Good explanation. I think many people miss out the point of Shinji. Too many people assume that protagonists are always people that you should aspire to be, but Shinji’s messed up self and traumatic past is something that still resonates with many youth today.
Thanks for the explanation. Makes more sense that way
The whole movie, even the whole series was pretty fucked up like this.
I would like to return one mental image please
wtf I never saw evangelion, what the hell is going on in there? you said that’s the ending?
Evangelion is one of those anime where the author starts shitting on the fans towards the end because the 15 year old males in the audience see themselves in Shinichi. Those same fans started sending him death threats when the end of the main show points out he is not a good person, and the harem that wants to sleep with him actually don’t want to sleep with him because he’s going to save the world but because they require therapy.
It’s been a long, long time, but I don’t recall having the impression that any of the so-called harem actually desired him at all. Rei was apathetic toward everything, I don’t recall Asuka showing anything but competitiveness, disdain, and occasional grudging respect, and Misato treated him like a kid brother. And yeah everyone needed therapy!
During one of the ending episodes (there were two or three different ones) but not the final scene in any of them
Wait
That’s What the fuck man what
Chicken dinner right here boys. Gotta be it.
incel protagonist
god I hate you twitter zoomers
I mean… It’s not wrong. The main character is a fucking creep.
Whatever. I collected and watched Evangelion on VHS back in the 90s. Maybe “incel” isn’t quite accurate, but Shinji really was quite a pathetic wimp of a protagonist.
It’s probably the most accurate description I’ve ever heard of shinji
I don’t think you’re an incel as a teenager, dude is just horny
No, he is an insufferable whiney little shitfart. 100% incel energy.
Yeah, that’s a teenager alright.
It means he finished
If that’s what it looks like when he finishes, he needs to see a doctor.
You don’t want to know.
The most unnecessary scene in anime
A very professional customer interaction for an Evangelion fan
It honestly took me a few seconds to get.
I’m ashamed it took me that long
I’m even more ashamed I got it at allBut are you as ashamed as Shinji, is what I wonder. I can’t believe I got the ref, though. I’m not even a fan of the show but that scene was so out of nowhere… I guess it did mark me.
It all returns to nothing
This just makes me sad ,because someone wasted thermal paste and wasted about 30-50 euros for a design on the back and a red color scheme.
If they’re a repair tech, they have thermal paste in bulk. That was maybe $3 worth of paste. Probably much less.
it looks like Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut which is just about the most expensive thermal paste you can get and I don’t think you can get it in bulk
it looks like any other grey thermal paste I’ve ever seen, what exactly made you think it’s this specific expensive paste?
Well there is a tube of that thermal paste in the background
that’s a very valid way to find that out😂
my bad
The tube in the background is probably for the real repaste…
I think they meant the design
I know ,but still a waste and what repair technician would do this if someone left a review with this attached no one except evangelion fans would understand the reference others would think the guy was into objectophilia.
“wasted” is completely relative. I would pay 30-50 euros for a cool design of a GPU.
One you can’t even see most of the time?
I’ve never understood this about GPUs, why are they all designed so that the cool-looking decorated part with the fancy heat spreader and fans and LEDs and stuff are facing downwards?
Rgbs most of the time are spread apart and you can see the individual diodes, but the designs probably because the fans but you can still make cool designs with them like usb fans they draw a simple image using blades you do realize how cool that would be!!!
My confusion isn’t why they’re decorated, but why the decoration is always on the downwards facing side so you can’t actually see it once installed.
最低だ、俺って
気持ち悪い
This kills the man.
On a not really related note, having Asuka or Rei as a waifu is fucking weird as an adult right? They’re like 14?
Is it wrong to remember your first time if it happened when you were a kid? Same thing.
deleted by creator
Is it though?
deleted by creator
Okay but know you’re comparing a spouse and child to A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD ANIME GIRL
deleted by creator
Is it the 50 year old teacher/coach/priest touching 15 year old boys, or is it the 15 year old boy inside the 50 year old just exploring his sexuality?
deleted by creator
People like them have always thought that. Being into anime = being a pedo, it doesn’t matter that it’s now mainstream, these people have thought the same thing for decades.
Honestly it looks like he squirted heat sink goo all over the place (you’re supposed to put it between the cpu and heat sink to let the heat transfer more efficiently). Why he liberally applied it to his hand like jergens and sent you a pick i couldn’t say. But I would wipe the machine down real well when you get it back 🤣
It’s a reference to Asuka (the character on the GPU), and a very creepy scene near the end of the series. The main character jerks it over Asuka’s unconscious body, and we see his hand covered in white fluid (just like the thermal paste is covering the hand in this pic) afterwards.
It’s a symbolic scene that is meant to turn the audience against the main character. Basically, he starts his journey with a very similar shot of his hand covered in blood. And the scene of him jerking it over an unconscious girl’s body is basically the end of his journey as a “good” guy. Evangelion is a very psychological show; The series is meant to turn a bunch of tropes on their heads, and it actively works against the “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” trope. It accepts that what doesn’t kill you probably leaves you traumatized. So by the end of the series, all of the characters who started out as heroes have ended up broken and hurting, and are basically treated like Vietnam veterans.
deleted by creator
