Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[dragoner]

When the Warriors left San Francisco, SF wouldn't let them keep SF, and they didn't want to use Oakland. lol

 

[overgeeked]

I wonder if that is changing. Neither of my sons or any of their friends are into Star Wars. At all. One is 18 and the other is 15. They are into anime, D&D, Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, Altered and other geeky thing. None are interested in Star Wars. They know of it because their parents made them watch it when they were younger. My son works at a game store and says that Star Wars games, whether TTRPGs, card games, miniatures games, are mostly played by "older white guys". I think the standards of my generation (Star Wars, Star Trek, Monty Python, and Doctor Who) are replaced with various anime series for the newer generation. Well, at least in the geek circles my kids hang out in.

Yeah, it's a huge generational shift. Anime is king. My kid is a few years older than your oldest and is into Star Trek, Star Wars, Monty Python, Doctor Who, and D&D along with all the anime stuff. It's not all my fault, but I'm a long-time fan of all the nerd stuff including anime. But most of the kids at the school didn't care a bit about the rest of that stuff, only the anime and anime-adjacent stuff like light novels, manga, etc.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Just thinking about that…

Several of those franchises could handle an anime-style movie or TV series release. Star Trek has had at least 2 cartoons made already. Given the space dogfights and the Jedi powers, Star Wars would seemingly be an ideal IP to get the anime treatment.

As a show that has always been story driven with subtle SFX- until they’re not- Dr. Who could work too.

The only one that might be problematic from my POV would be Monty Python.

 

[Autumnal]

I used to enjoy reading Autumnal's posts, until his writing took on a vernal energy that belied the tone suggested by his username.

Just wait till my meds get low again!

And in case I’ve never shared it:

 

[Velderan]

Companies selling to actually existing audiences who’ve proved willing to spend money on their products and who play them happily, enthusing online and off, also demonstrated their creative bankruptcy and, inevitably, their impending literal bankruptcy, too. Free markets are useless if they don’t keep me gratified at all times.

They would be much better off selling products to a much smaller audience that existed 30+ years ago and may or may even still exist today. The basis for my argument is I have fond memories of playing back then when I was blissfully unaware of… gestures wildly at everything

 

[Velderan]

Yeah, that's how I feel about the Lakers. I wasn't even born when they left the Land of Lakes but kept the name. It still bothers me.

On a related note it’s incredibly hard for me to type the name Norm Green without preceding it with an expletive

 

[TiQuinn]

When someone uses a word over and over that shows they like saying the word but don’t really understand its meaning and usage.

 

[Willie the Duck]

Pet peeve: Once you create a thread, unless someone is actively threadcrapping, you can't really control the direction people choose to take the conversation and chastising people into following the narrow boundaries that you personally find acceptable for the topic is some BS.

Must preserve the sanctity of the thread, right?

At the same time, if it's not protectionist feelings but instead some kind of 'hey, we were having a moment here' kind of situation, I can totally get the frustration. But at the end of the day it is making demands of other people and their actions in a public fora. So, yeah, you really can't demand anything or it's absence barring tragedy-of-the-commons type issues like threadcrapping, trolling, or general abusiveness.

Wow. Come on...

Something about my pretty innocuous post has created an itch in your drawers. I'm not sure what that itch is... don't really want to get to the bottom of it, based on the point-by-point nature of your response (which never ends well).

Look, you make good posts. Don't take what I said personally. Move on.

Interestingly, this is almost verbatim the first draft of the post you are responding to. We may be mutually 'what's up with them?'-ing.

On a related note it’s incredibly hard for me to type the name Norm Green without preceding it with an expletive

How about a Cheers-esque 'Norm!,' but with the inflection of a Seinfeld 'Newman!'? With Kari Dziedzic stepping down suddenly (for the public) and passing away last year, I was just revisited the harassment controversy that sent Green packing to Dallas with the team in tow. Suffice to say, even without moving the team, I'd be saying his name with an expletive associated to it.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Every gaming thread is heavy lately. Which is fine, really -- it's not my place to tell people what mood they should have! But I'm trying to prep and research The Wild Beyond the Witchlight which is at least supposed to start with a sense of whimsy and wonder before getting dark and twisted. It's giving a strong sense of cognitive dissonance.

 

[TiQuinn]

Must preserve the sanctity of the thread, right?

At the same time, if it's not protectionist feelings but instead some kind of 'hey, we were having a moment here' kind of situation, I can totally get the frustration. But at the end of the day it is making demands of other people and their actions in a public fora. So, yeah, you really can't demand anything or it's absence barring tragedy-of-the-commons type issues like threadcrapping, trolling, or general abusiveness.
Interestingly, this is almost verbatim the first draft of the post you are responding to. We may be mutually 'what's up with them?'-ing.

Yeah, it's not that I don't get the feeling behind it, but at the same time, you create a thread and you maybe try to steer the conversation a bit, but at some point, you gotta let it go whichever way it goes, and hey, maybe start another one down the line if you don't get the answers or discussion you want. Banging people over the head isn't the way.