Cat Sh*t One

[Les Nessman]

Aha! Now I know where Moose42 got his avatar.

Pretty cool vid.
If I was the less-injured hostage bunny, I would have grabbed one of the AK's and a mag or two before running off to the pick-up point. /nitpick

[Greg]

If you didn't know already it's a continuation of a paper comic book series called 'Apocalypse Meow' ( really ! ) - Packy and Botasky actually started their careers working as Spike Team members for MACV\SOG in Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam war.

Yeah, and it's very cool, but not quite right. The major problem is that Kobayashi doesn't really know and understand soldiers; and he especially doesn't understand American idiom.

Basically this is the problem with any Japanese representation of American culture. They impress Japanese social and cultural norms ont o the American characters; which just doesn't work.

I may have to try watching it with the sound on. With the sound off, it was pretty cool.

And yes, there is an almost insurmountably deep cultural divide between the two countries.

[Darrell]

It appears that Packy favors an MGI modular AR-15 with a 7.62x39 magwell, and Botasky has a Springfield SOCOM with a Smith Enterprises Vortex flash suppressor in a SAGE aluminum chassis. I didn't get a real close look at the pistols, but they seem to be a type of 1911.

I was scratching my head over that AR, I thought it looked like an AK mag.

[skb12172]

Aha! Now I know where Moose42 got his avatar.

Pretty cool vid.
If I was the less-injured hostage bunny, I would have grabbed one of the AK's and a mag or two before running off to the pick-up point. /nitpick

I know. What was up with that? Take some responsibility for saving your own cotton tail!

[Greg]

If you didn't know already it's a continuation of a paper comic book series called 'Apocalypse Meow' ( really ! ) - Packy and Botasky actually started their careers working as Spike Team members for MACV\SOG in Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam war.

Yeah, and it's very cool, but not quite right. The major problem is that Kobayashi doesn't really know and understand soldiers; and he especially doesn't understand American idiom.

Basically this is the problem with any Japanese representation of American culture. They impress Japanese social and cultural norms ont o the American characters; which just doesn't work.

Now that I've heard the dialog... they didn't act like veterans. Well maybe, but not American. (Said from my experience with same, which is non-zero if not as extensive as some of the rest of y'all.)

[Jericho941]

It's not a continuation.

[Kommander]

The 1911s, well at least one of them, are STIs. You can clearly see the logo in the closeup when Packy climbs up the boxes into the building the hostages are in.

[moose42]

See my avatar.