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No, that song is considered to be the first "robot" song or something like that. That's why it's widely used among some creators.
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Pretty close.
It was used to demonstrate the first-ever text-to-speech software.
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Me, when thinking of what some LiL Fanfics will become:
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Um. Has anyone here watched 2001: A Space Odyssey?
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Never been able to stay awake through it, and I've largely forgotten the bits I've seen.
(This is true for most Kubrick films)
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So… a three-hour movie is too long, but a 2-million-word work-in-progress totally has your attention? (I kid, I kid.)
The climax of the 1969 film features a scene where a computer sings “Daisy” — which is like saying The Shining features a writer quoting Ed McMahon from the Tonight Show.
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It's not the length, it's the pacing. There is nothing in the early part of the film that grabs my interest, so I doze off. The Shining and Clockwork Orange were the only Kubrick films I can think of that grabbed me early enough to prevent this.
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I get it. I mean, I'm the weirdo whose profile avatar is Anton freaking Chekhov. I'm okay with stuff that isn't adrenaline-fueled.
A lot actually happens in the movie — but none of it is spelled out. I do know it's not to everyone's taste.
ETA: I'm going to say that I'm kind of hoping that Selebus doesn't explain everything that's going on in LiL. That there's always room for interpretation and debate. I mean, it's about a descent into madness, either literal or figurative, and I'm not sure that any hard and fast clarification by the author would be completely satisfying. So whether this is all a dream while Sensei is in a coma after trying to kill himself or this is somehow actually happening — supernatural powers are forcing this group to relive the same school year over and over and over and over.... I don't know that I want to know. (Which doesn't stop me from wanting to talk with all of you about it.)
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I think more in terms of this:
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Yes
No. He has to many excuses not to use them
Sounds like all of them are cloning lil
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Sorry if you've already explained this somewhere else, but my thought was that she is Akira and Ayane's child that got "erased" from the time skip.
That would explain why she refuses to take on Ayane's form as the only stipulation of what she won't do. They also allude to how she is not supposed to "be there yet". I took that as that was her from "the future" if it had ever come to pass. But since she was swallowed by the time loop, that she could be any age technically.
Then she jumped in and helped Ayane out after Ami abandoned her in the woods. (I could see the Ami argument kind of here, since maybe she explained to Ayane how she was the real Ami and told her some information that gave her the confidence to confront "Ami").
The fact that you gave a name earlier too, made me feel that the name reveal for her would be whatever name you gave before when it asked.
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Well, there are a few things of note. It's not impossible that Himawari is the baby that was taken with the reset, but it's just as likely that she isn't because she already showed up way before it, as early as "the room with clocks"/"scientific research". So, if she had to time travel to show up before our Ayane got pregnant, then it's just as likely that she could be the baby of a million other Ayanes, or this one in a later point in time. If not, then we'd have to assume that Himawari's first existence is within our current cycle and that she somehow time-travelled. If she was the baby of another Ayane at another time, then she grew up in her own time and it's acting in this new cycle as well (after all that happened). I don't see enough evidence yet to declare it either way.
I, personally, am not that keen on finding that detail out specifically because the whole Himawari thing is that she's a possibility. Survival is her number one goal, as put forward by DeSkel. So I think, at the moment, she probably both is and isn't a lot of things (AmIOkay may have been referring to her as the paradox in "december 2020"). However, it must be said that if she was this Ayane's baby that got taken, she would be more of a thing that shouldn't exist than a possibility. And we already have a thing that shouldn't exist, which is Nao-chan. I don't really see both of them being of the same nature.
Regarding her name, if it was as simple as choosing the name yourself, then the reveal already happened. It's on the event where you meet New Maya at the temple in chapter 4, when that entity that slaps you is talking to you, it will make mention of a baby in its belly, and it will use the name you chose for Himawari.
However, the name you chose for her and her actual name are very likely to be two different things. That is because her actual name was chosen by Ayane, not Akira. As Himawari is telling us Ayane's thoughts (in "untitled"), she said that her name was chosen as one that she's sure Akira would like - and that narrows it down by a significant amount. And if you somehow got it right (like if you chose "Ami" and it turns out to be Ami), then it would be fairly simple to add a few lines that recognize that later, just like the recent Futaba event will recognize if she already called you daddy.
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Edit: I see Moonflare posted before me, but I think this still might help clarify things.
Yes, the consensus is that she is Akira and Ayane's child. I haven't seen anyone seriously argue otherwise. What isn't certain is her real name. What Moonflare is arguing for (and I also support this position) is that her given name is Ami, i.e. she has the same name as her cousin/half-sister.
As a preliminary, if you're not already aware, the community refers to her as "Himawari" (Japanese for sunflower) because she tells Akira to name her after his favorite flower, which is later established to be sunflowers. There are also a few references to Himawari in the game, such as HimawariCo.
To be really brief, this is what I think is the strongest evidence for her actual name being Ami:
- Ayane talks about the possibility of giving the name Ami to a future child on three separate occasions.
- During the Untitled Children's Show, Himawari as Ayane says that she picked a name for her baby that she knows Akira would like. As far as we know, Ayane doesn't know about Akira's love of sunflowers.
- At some point (I think in Maya's festival), Himawari tells Akira that her name is "hilarious, a real kick to the shin". "Himawari" isn't a funny name, but being the second person named "Ami Arakawa" would be.
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That part about the kick to the shin finally made sense to me, thank you. Sometimes I can really picture Himawari being the first "normal" person in their family, born at a time after all the fucked-up shit.
Can you imagine the little trickster being like "yeah dad, you have two daughters and they both have the same name, real kick to the shin that one, hilarious! You're not at all a goober for that, no sir!" then she also maybe had a knack for imitating all their friends, and would like to dress up... Akira and her would have no sexual vibe at all, and she'd know how to deal with his blackouts.
Man, I really want that day to come - and if it came to pass, it would perfectly sum up the "I'm all you never wanted, and everything you'll ever need" - with her being a normal daughter in a healthy relationship.
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I like the idea of her being born in a timeline where the resets didn't happen/after all that shit would have happened. She grew up with a loving father and they both had a great relationship with each other. Then somehow, shit got messed up in the past and she came back to help fix it. If she doesn't then she wont be born.
About a subject someone mentioned earlier. Sure we don't need everything answered but if by the end we still are mostly unsure about the major points then that will suck.
About a subject someone mentioned earlier. Sure we don't need everything answered but if by the end we still are mostly unsure about the major points then that will suck.
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