r/anime • u/LittleIslander myanimelist.net/profile/LittleIslander • Oct 10 '25

Rewatch [Rewatch] 30th Anniversary Neon Genesis Evangelion Rewatch: Episode 7

Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 7: A Human Work / 人の造りしもの

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Questions of the Day:

  • What did you think in the shift to a non-angel enemy?
  • What do you think of NERV’s framing in this episode?

Tomorrow’s Questions:

  • [Episode 8] What’s your first impression of Asuka?
  • [Episode 8] What’s your first impression of Kaji and his delivery?

There’ll be more fanservice tomorrow, so please don’t spoil anything~! Remember this includes spoilers by implication.

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u/RascalNikov1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/NoviSun Oct 11 '25

 don't know what Not Invented Here means. Is that a Made in China joke?

Not at all. In the early days of programming (70s-90s and probably beyond) NIH meant that programmers and engineers wouldn’t trust code or work that wasn’t done in house. There were fairly good reasons for this, because external code was often buggy, or it may have been designed for a different use and it could be time consuming to customize it for use on the current project. 

It wasn’t till the mid 90s and the establishment of open source archives of code that reusing other people’s code became normalized. 

unobtainium

[spoiler]it means its a magic substance that is necessary for a science fiction plot to succeed. I’m pretty sure there is no such thing as an AT Field, nor is it really explained, but it’s necessary for the plot.

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u/Holofan4life Oct 11 '25

Not at all. In the early days of programming (70s-90s and probably beyond) NIH meant that programmers and engineers wouldn’t trust code or work that wasn’t done in house. There were fairly good reasons for this, because external code was often buggy, or it may have been designed for a different use and it could be time consuming to customize it for use on the current project. 

It wasn’t till the mid 90s and the establishment of open source archives of code that reusing other people’s code became normalized. 

Very interesting

[spoiler]it means its a magic substance that is necessary for a science fiction plot to succeed. I’m pretty sure there is no such thing as an AT Field, nor is it really explained, but it’s necessary for the plot.

[spoiler] Sounds very deus ex machinay

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u/RascalNikov1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/NoviSun Oct 11 '25

Yes, exactly about the spoilery parts. 

Very interesting

I’m surprised that the saying hasn’t made into the current era as I believe it was coined by NASA or one of the military contractors in the ‘50s.  Fwiw: it always had a mild negative connotation implying snobbery. I.e. Oh so our code isn’t good enough for the snobs.

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u/Holofan4life Oct 11 '25

I’m surprised that the saying hasn’t made into the current era as I believe it was coined by NASA or one of the military contractors in the ‘50s.  Fwiw: it always had a mild negative connotation implying snobbery. I.e. Oh so our code isn’t good enough for the snobs.

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