Well so to end this conversation, I obviously won't tell you what happens but also I hope you understand that if somebody refers to it in open conversation you don't feel slighted seeing as the film is from 1976.
Btw watch Logan's Run, it good.
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Btw watch Logan's Run, it good.
i can't even read your post because of what you might say lol
and because of the intent, i put you on ignore. sorry about that. dunno why you're purposely trying to spoil me
and because of the intent, i put you on ignore. sorry about that. dunno why you're purposely trying to spoil me
Then, again, I apologize for that. But since we can use this opportunity for me to stop posting and we can just move on away from this topic.
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I haven't been watching any trailers or anything, so I had no idea about this. Shouldn't surprise me... (Marketing overselling a product is kinda its own problem.) If they want me to see it that bad they should just post it on Netflix already.
C'mon, Disney.
The irony here is wild and also upsetting.
If somebody could at least tell Owlowiscious I didn't spoil Logan's Run I''d appreciate it.
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Heh. I get why you expected that, but there are no spoilers in that post. He actually said that he doesn't want to spoil it for you.
Part of that is probably because neither movie is particularly interesting. 🙃 Functional, but disposable.
I did love the Loudreds in Detective Pikachu tho. Worth the price of admission for them alone.
Bit disappointed by Rob's take on Anno, but I guess he mostly played the campaign!? The game actually considers working conditions, lets you build trade union buildings and there are worker riots and so on. I guess they used those rioters in a different way in the campaign where you take in your rebel cousin leading a one. I feel like there's more to it, hope he sticks with it.
A pertinent part of the whole topic of spoilers is something I remember being talked about in the earlier years of the Bombcast, and it's that, yeah while people going out of their way to spoil things does suck sometimes even if it happens, people becoming outraged at in-passing spoilers and making a big fuss about it are effectively doing the same thing as people that go out of their way to do it. I'm sure I've been casually spoiled on things all the time, but if they're in passing, and no one really makes a big deal about it, if I haven't experienced that piece of media yet I tend to just forget about it or not treat it with a huge level of importance.
Like, if I was a person who knew nothing about FF7, who am I to care if some character I have no context for dies? Why am I supposed to think that's a big deal? Why would I remember it, even? It becomes a bigger deal though when people kick up storms about it, only further propagating the actual spoiler by accident and making it more important than it is.
shouldn't ruin that game for anyone, people shouldn't think that's like the climax of the story or anything. I think Ryan was the one that made this point back in the day, but if someone casually mentions a spoiler in a podcast, and then a hundred people scream "WOW, THAT WAS A HUGE SPOILER, YOU JUST RUINED IT FOR EVERYONE!" in the comments, then congratulations, you have further spoiled it for people and ensured no one can forget it.
Like, if I was a person who knew nothing about FF7, who am I to care if some character I have no context for dies? Why am I supposed to think that's a big deal? Why would I remember it, even? It becomes a bigger deal though when people kick up storms about it, only further propagating the actual spoiler by accident and making it more important than it is.
Aeris dying
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This episode of Waypoints reminded me of how I first came up on the internet in a shit community, which happens to also be where my screen name is from, and realizing how I was missing a lot of undertones in books I was reading.
I was first drawn to the Repairman Jack forums because I liked the book series for it's supernatural elements and inter-connectivity. Then I eventually found out a loooooot of people apparently like the character and those books for the strong gun toting libertarian stick it to the man aspect of the books.
Haven't really read the books since and was glad looking back that I didn't continue down that community path and end up in far worse circles eventually stemming from it.
I was first drawn to the Repairman Jack forums because I liked the book series for it's supernatural elements and inter-connectivity. Then I eventually found out a loooooot of people apparently like the character and those books for the strong gun toting libertarian stick it to the man aspect of the books.
Haven't really read the books since and was glad looking back that I didn't continue down that community path and end up in far worse circles eventually stemming from it.
I started my internet community life in a System of a down forum.
I think I started out alright.
I think I started out alright.
I was part of terrible/"juvenile" communities too back then, without really realising it. The first wave of browsergames had some really shitty guilds.
I think, as long as you have a decent environment offline the danger of stuff like 4chan isn't that big. But when things suck in real life and these places become your primary refuge, that's when it can get dark quickly.
I think, as long as you have a decent environment offline the danger of stuff like 4chan isn't that big. But when things suck in real life and these places become your primary refuge, that's when it can get dark quickly.
I think my actual start on the internet was in some weird book club chat room where it was comprised of people who didn't want children or something like that? But the funny thing was I was in it as a child because it was one of the only decent places I could find to talk about books.
Then that eventually led me to the reparimanjack forums. Which I just checked on for their current status and it either blew up, or everyone went other places.
Then that eventually led me to the reparimanjack forums. Which I just checked on for their current status and it either blew up, or everyone went other places.
I grew up online in a small, tight-knit Final Fantasy forum community. I was on there as young as 12 or 13, probably until about 10ish years ago. There was a pretty diverse crowd of regulars of all kinds of genders, sexualities, and ethnicities. I didn't realize it then but it's probably one of the things that primed me to become a leftist later in life, when the rising tide of right-wing bullshit in gaming communities became impossible to ignore and forced me to define my own politics.
I miss that late 90s/early aughts online, before social media made everything into a polemic and put everyone in their own little bubble. It is what it is, I don't wanna be old lady yells at cloud, but people don't really talk to each other online as much anymore as just state their viewpoints with maximum rhetorical force. It makes twitter really exhausting. We were never meant to process the thoughts of everyone on the entire planet at once.
I miss that late 90s/early aughts online, before social media made everything into a polemic and put everyone in their own little bubble. It is what it is, I don't wanna be old lady yells at cloud, but people don't really talk to each other online as much anymore as just state their viewpoints with maximum rhetorical force. It makes twitter really exhausting. We were never meant to process the thoughts of everyone on the entire planet at once.
yeah i attribute a lot of my early online existence probably mostly to deviantART chatrooms focused around comic competitions (which could have gone badly I suppose) and later to the Discworld MUD, both of which were super leftist generally speaking (Discworld for obvious reasons, and deviantART probably because it happened to luck into the portion of it dominated by Californians and people who liked Californians. The artist community I think generally speaking also had a higher proportion of girls in it than other places on the internet, which kinda persisted into online spaces like Tumblr, which was and remains probably the only place on the net where I default assume users are female. Actually, AO3 also, now that I think about it.
I also used to hangout a lot in metalhead forums and also music communities like sputnikmusic.
Incidentally I never want to discuss music with anyone ever again.
Incidentally I never want to discuss music with anyone ever again.
Started at the Other Place as a part of my PR job in like 2006, ended up sticking around until we're here.
I was around 10 when I started participating in online communities and bounced between the fanfiction.net and gamefaqs forums. Then I jumped from those to various forums of whatever I was interested in at the time to finally livejournal in my teens which had a huge impact on my political development.
I came for the fandom stuff, but stayed for the social discourse. Posters at livejournal, which were mostly women of diverse backgrounds, talked about race, gender, misogyny, trans rights, etc long before the broader gaming/nerdy internet communities broached those topics. They helped me realize that it was okay that I felt uncomfortable with all the racist, sexist, and homophobic garbage I encountered even if they were framed as 'just jokes'. I sometimes wonder if I would have continued to internalize that shit and became conservative if I never stumbled across lj.
This is why I could never move to newer social media platforms when they started to dominate. Felt like I was shouting into a void along with everyone else.
I came for the fandom stuff, but stayed for the social discourse. Posters at livejournal, which were mostly women of diverse backgrounds, talked about race, gender, misogyny, trans rights, etc long before the broader gaming/nerdy internet communities broached those topics. They helped me realize that it was okay that I felt uncomfortable with all the racist, sexist, and homophobic garbage I encountered even if they were framed as 'just jokes'. I sometimes wonder if I would have continued to internalize that shit and became conservative if I never stumbled across lj.
This is why I could never move to newer social media platforms when they started to dominate. Felt like I was shouting into a void along with everyone else.
Did you wake up, grab a brush and put on a little make-up to hide away the scars, to fade away the shake-up of being on a System of a Down forum?
I was wary of the internet for as long as I can remember. I didn't really participate in any communities until StarCraft Battle.net chats or really until WoW guilds.
I still keep a pretty low online profile. I post a lot here, but otherwise everywhere I participate is under my own name and it's usually niche boards related to hobbies that facilitate meeting real people.
I can't imagine actually participating on Twitter, what a nightmare. I've always had a private account (with like a dozen IRL followers) that I use to follow Personalities like the Waypoint folks or local reporters. People who @ strangers are lunatics.
I still keep a pretty low online profile. I post a lot here, but otherwise everywhere I participate is under my own name and it's usually niche boards related to hobbies that facilitate meeting real people.
I can't imagine actually participating on Twitter, what a nightmare. I've always had a private account (with like a dozen IRL followers) that I use to follow Personalities like the Waypoint folks or local reporters. People who @ strangers are lunatics.
The first community I remember belonging to was one of the "hangout" forums in Gamefaqs. Could've done worse I guess.
Let's think... vaguely...
VMK forum -> MapleStory forum -> Twitter -> Tumblr -> mainly just Twitter again -> GAF, after using it very rarely/around E3 for several years before that -> here? Probably missed something, hmm.
Though there was always something on the side that was more important. MSN group chats with people from the VMK forum. IRC chat for the MapleStory forum. Nightly Skype calls with a group of Twitter/Tumblr people.
that's what I miss the most, I guess... it's been a long time since I had that kind of online friend group; closest I've gotten in the past few years was the couple weeks I was playing a lotta PUBG with some other Twitter people on Discord, and then a little of the same around Monster Hunter
I think using certain Discord servers more would capture some of that - I keep hanging out on big ones when I should be visiting, say, the FatT server more often as I rarely do that now despite being there a ton during its early days - but that's still not quite the same thing as having that tiny group of dedicated people
VMK forum -> MapleStory forum -> Twitter -> Tumblr -> mainly just Twitter again -> GAF, after using it very rarely/around E3 for several years before that -> here? Probably missed something, hmm.
Though there was always something on the side that was more important. MSN group chats with people from the VMK forum. IRC chat for the MapleStory forum. Nightly Skype calls with a group of Twitter/Tumblr people.
that's what I miss the most, I guess... it's been a long time since I had that kind of online friend group; closest I've gotten in the past few years was the couple weeks I was playing a lotta PUBG with some other Twitter people on Discord, and then a little of the same around Monster Hunter
I think using certain Discord servers more would capture some of that - I keep hanging out on big ones when I should be visiting, say, the FatT server more often as I rarely do that now despite being there a ton during its early days - but that's still not quite the same thing as having that tiny group of dedicated people
My formative community was Starmen.net, back when it was still Earthbound.net. I made the move to GAF as my primary hangout around the time Brawl came out, thanks to the Dojo thread, but I still go to the Camp Fangamer events in Tucson, which are essentially a Starmen.net meetup.
So as I was leaving to go to work today, I said to my dog "Bye, Be good, and Be good at it."
I've listened to too much Waypoint me thinks
I've listened to too much Waypoint me thinks
y'all getting hung up on spoiler debates but nobody addresses the real issue: I've seen TWO people during this discussion refer to sci-fi as "scify" like it's some twisted hybrid of actual science fiction and the network SyFy ...like, what the hell.
so long as people use the correct pronunciation, "sciffy", then it don't matter how it's spelt
was catching up on the waypoint radio only to hear daryl davis brought up again (although not by name). always fun to post these excerpts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/klan.htm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...d727b644a0b_story.html?utm_term=.5622de5814ac
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/klan.htm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...d727b644a0b_story.html?utm_term=.5622de5814ac
I'm in the same boat. Rob and Austin both have a knack for selling me on strategy games, even though it's a genre I've tried to get into dozens of times with very little success.
I dreamed about Pikachu pegging Jan from Giant Bomb while Rob Zacny was shouting "Pikachu, Thunderbolt," so, sure.
I'm interested in Life is Strange 2, but haven't gotten around to it yet because I wanted to wait until most of the episodes were out. I don't care about the absence of Chloe/Max. I'm just not into episodic games. Why buy the first episode and have to wait months for the next when you could wait until they're all released and play it in one go? I did the same with the first LiS.