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For those unaware, the name and logo are inspired by NERV from the Japanese anime Evangelion (1995): https://evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/NERV https://evangelion.
by evanjrowley 3y ago
For those unaware, the name and logo are inspired by NERV from the Japanese anime Evangelion (1995): https://evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/NERV https://evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/NERV
- phantomathkg 3y agoThe creator is a die hard fan of EVA according to Asahi Shinbun's interview in 2020. https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13996940 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13996940
- nvahalik 3y agoMy first thought. Both cool but also a little weird, given the content of the anime.
- chromakode 3y agoIt's very funny and odd that they retained the "God's in his heaven, all's right with the world" text.
- Hamuko 3y agoI imagine to the average Japanese person, that's just cool English text and nothing more.
- pizza 3y agoThat's what made me think that it was a parody at first... Like.. that's just the Eva NERV tagline.. must be an Eva account.
- shadowgovt 3y agoIt's the message I'd hope to see in relation to natural disaster prediction!
- aspire2Bamalek 3y ago“Pippa’s Song” THE year’s at the spring, And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hill-side’s dew-pearl’d; The lark’s on the wing; The snail’s on the thorn; God’s in His heaven – All’s right with the world! Robert Browning (1812-1889)
- Garlef 3y agoAh... I just realized for the first time that this must be the same Robert Browning whose poem served as an inspiration for Stephen Kings "the dark tower"
- devindotcom 3y agonever knew this was a Browning poem, interesting. thanks!
- chronid 3y agoThe company behind it is called gehirn to add more fun to the story. :)
- throwaway892238 3y agoI'm honestly kinda spooked out at the multiple websites and companies here that seem to be from NGE. I can't really tell if these are fake or real.
- djur 3y agoThere's a product called "Soylent" and a company called "Palantir" -- lots of precedent for this kind of thing.
- kmeisthax 3y agoAah yes, we've finally invented the Torment Nexus from the famous sci-fi classic Don't Invent the Torment Nexus
- djur 3y agoThis goes way back. Over a century ago a guy named his beef extract after the Victorian equivalent of the Force from Star Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril
- sehansen 3y agoThis life force "Vril" is from a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, best known in hacker circles as the author of the opening line "It was a dark and stormy night" and the namesake of the Bulwer-Lytton (bad) Fiction Contest. Winning entries are a fortune staple. Or "were", since the newest entry on my Arch Linux box is from 1990.
- XorNot 3y agoI hate that tweet. It was coined in the context of whatever Meta was doing with "the Metaverse" which for some reason everyone decided to lose their minds about as some sort of imminent threat rather then just a ge nobody wanted to play. The thing is, The Metaverse wasn't a problem in Snow Crash. It just was - it was a thing, and it was generally regarded as one of the last places not totally under the dystopian corporate lawlessness that the rest of the world was. So the motivating example is built on misunderstanding the original text, in the same way that Meta doing it was built on misunderstanding everything about the concept.
- mezzode 3y agoThe logo isn't even just inspired by, it just outright is the NERV logo from Rebuild https://wiki.evageeks.org/Nerv_Logo https://wiki.evageeks.org/Nerv_Logo