Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[payn]

If I ever need an incorrect answer, I know who I can reliably ask about anything now.

 

[dragoner]

I have quoted this at the table:
The river of death has brimmed his banks,
And England's far, and Honour a name,
But the voice of schoolboy rallies the ranks,
"Play up! play up! and play the game!"
-Newbolt

People overthink stuff.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"Look, what I'm really looking for from these companies is to make me 13 years old again. The fact that they can't manage this just shows how creatively bankrupt they all are."

 

[Autumnal]

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.

 

[payn]

Feels like splitting hairs is a strong theme lately.

 

[Autumnal]

Feels like splitting hairs is a strong theme lately.

Only partly. Let’s make some distinctions here….

 

[Scribe]

Only partly. Let’s make some distinctions here….

10 out of 10.

 

[MNblockhead]

Fact: Any discussion on a forum of nerds/geek will at some point end up discussing star wars in at least three or more threads at the same time.

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.

 

[MNblockhead]

When the New Orleans Jazz got moved to Utah, they retained the “Jazz” part of the name. Despite not impacting the quality of the team, some people still mock them for this, decades later. On a certain level, it reflects an unwillingness to blend in with the local culture. Wouldn’t something like “Mountaineers” be a popular change?

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.

 

[MNblockhead]

Names just don’t signify that way to me. But I recognize that they do to others, across a whole spectrum of intensity. Thanks - that’s a help to me in interpreting others’ reactions.

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