gestalt

El SillY · Post by **El SillY** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 11:23 am

it means that in Swedish too...

Does this mean Buster is a Swede?

-Penance- · Post by **-Penance-** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 11:38 am

Taken saltily, it can also mean a likeness or guise.

In Gestalt von der Bustercharlie?

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Vazagi · Post by **Vazagi** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 11:41 am

On 2002-03-23 11:21, AtmanRyu wrote:
Wasn't the name of the "apparent" villian on Final Fantasy 6 (3 american)?

You mean emperor Gestalt? Man, i gotta play that again sometime

Michael Ezaiany · Post by **Michael Ezaiany** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 11:47 am

Do you have the feeling that Buster's up to something? He's changing his every post and topic to 'gestalt'.

Striker · Post by **Striker** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 1:00 pm

The emperor was 'Gestahl' and 'gestalt' is one of those german words that have been incorporated into english to some degree, like angst.

I'm not entirely sure what it's about...the best I could gather from context was that it's a sort of composite image.

Arcaton · Post by **Arcaton** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 1:07 pm

Well, speaking as a stupid -ass fanboy ......
I think gestalt is, like, a man-made composite entity. In the Red Dwarf episode "Legion" the crew find themselves on an abandoned space station with a masked and incredibly intelligent lifeform called Legion who is a gestalt formed of their four personalities; Lister, Cat, Rimmer and Kryten. As each is made unconscious so Legion regresses until he becomes a clone of Kryten.....

Striker · Post by **Striker** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 1:09 pm

Gotcha.

gestalt

n : a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts

Courtesy of http://www.dictionary.com .

Isn't the net wonderful?

Krikkit · Post by **Krikkit** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 2:42 pm

Its commonly used(at least in the circles I pay attention to, can't speak for the whole world.) to indicate that a person cannot be simply explained, and you need to "Get to know them to understand them."