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I'm gonna say ThunderCats, because the rights for it are basically up in the air. It should have gotten a film adaptation or a franchise like Masters of the Universe or Transformers, but nobody can figure out who owns it, so they can't make a movie without some rando suing them... so they don't.
The OG came out in 1985 and ran for something like 150 episodes, later divided into four seasons. But back then it just came on TV, it wasn't numbered or divided in any way (aside from multi-part episodes). They did a remake in 2011 on Cartoon Network that was pretty cool, but they couldn't get the legal stuff in order to get a second season — it was absolutely popular enough.
15 years later, I don't think anything's been done with it outside of, maybe, fan fiction and fan art.
Going back even older... Mysterious Cities of Gold. That's never been remade or adapted... however... while Tomb Raider was basically "we want to make a video game of Indiana Jones but we can't get the rights, so let's make it a girl with big tits," for some reason, they wanted to swing it back the other way and say "let's make Tomb Raider but have it be a hot guy instead and keep it exclusive to the PlayStation because at this point the concept is just so watered down, we'd lose money if we ported it to PC/Xbox" and called it Uncharted. Then they said fuck it and made an actual Indiana Jones game. Le sigh. But anyway, I wanna say one of the Uncharted games leaned into Mysterious Cities of Gold territory... but I'm not really sure. Anyway, it was about three Mexican kids (I think, as in born & raised in Mexico) who seek out the eponymous golden cities. IIRC they do find the ruins of the city they were looking for, but they expected the cities to be actually made of gold. And maybe they found some gold but not like they thought. But they had a plane and I think they had some cool adventures, so they broke even I suppose?
How about Runaway Train by Soul Asylum?
I heard Tim Russ in a video game — I think it was Dragon Age 2 — checked the credits, sure enough he was in it. Both of them definitely have Kate Mulgrew.
Garlic, or cedar. I love food though, but cedar just hits differently.
Pirated vBulletin. I sure didn't have the sack for that. I figure, pirated software running on a server, especially if it's not your hardware (and self hosting wasn't an option for me back then) is kind of dangerous.
When I found out I could get at the DMs in an Invision board I was running for a minute, I made a post letting everyone know, and worked it into the thing you agree to when you sign up. I made it clear that I wasn't good with SQL and it wasn't easy to read them, but that I did have that access and to not use our DMs for anything you wouldn't want someone to be able to see.
I assume most of the noods requests were from the juggaloes to the juggalettes exclusively? Or did it go both ways? Never cared much for ICP, though "The Amazing Jekyll Brothers" had some cool songs on it ("Everybody Rize," "I Stab People," "Mad Professor," and maybe a couple others)... but the fandom? Absolutely wild. Even if I thought ICP straight up sucked, I'd have to admit the fandom is awesome.
I sorta recently (couple years ago) learned that some US states actually brand juggaloes a gang. Like it's illegal to be one. That's wild to me. I don't think Deadheads ever got the same treatment, and, same thing, different genre.
No. Shit.
People who say Facebook (now Meta) paid $21 billion (with a B) for WhatsApp to be charitable. Even though the original creators have distanced themselves from it after the acquisition.
Fun fact: every forum running phpBB, Invision, or vBulletin (as in, traditional Internet forums) can read your DMs in plaintext. They're unencrypted in the SQL database. However, the forum's Admin Control Panel (ACP) does not provide this functionality. All three have mods that add it in. So imagine you run a forum. You have a hidden forum where only your mods and admins can interact. No one else can even see it. You could have a whole other one that is just all the DMs. I'm not sure about social networks. But I know if you have command-line access to the SQL database, you can query a user and see everything that user has put in the database. Public messages... and private ones. So a lot of the forums started saying "Personal messages" or "Direct messages" instead of "Private messages" because they were never private.
Disbelieve anyone who says they can't see your private or personal messages.
Ask Hitler's descendants who have changed their name.
In the most extreme circumstances, yes, people will distance themselves from a disgraced name. Hitler, Epstein, and soon to be Trump. Like right now the name is still connected to power (as well as the atrocities) so it still helps those who have it, but once the king is deposed in a few years, it'll be different.
Even web handles carry weight. I had a pretty legendary username once. I had movies named after (but not about) me. I got tired of being Internet famous, so I dropped it. Of course Internet fame is very subjective; I mean obviously I was big enough that movies were being named after me, the name was inspiring in some way to people with money (but apparently not enough to offer me any, not like I ever copyrighted or trademarked it), but if you hadn't heard of me, I wouldn't be surprised. I used to be on one community for a popular game once. Another community for that game made a mod for it and put a lot of their popular members in the game. (I'll tell you this one. The game is Deus Ex, the mod is The Nameless Mod, and the forum was Planet Deus Ex (part of the GamePlanet network).) I didn't know who any of those people were. But in their community, they were legends. Like the bad guy, Scara B. King was this really famous troll there (scarab king), and they put him in the game. You're supposed to know these people, but you only would if you were in that community. It's like that, I guess. (Sidebar: Scara B. King was an awesome character and I loved listening to him, and how he'd get your name wrong every single time. Not sure who voiced him (the real person behind the name, or someone else) but they did an excellent job.)
Beat me to it. I was going to say "ask yourself why you don't post under the GrimReaper handle, and you'll have answered your own question."
I agree with you, but the problem is, IMDb collates ratings from thousands of people, each of whom have their own scale. I might have the same opinion about a movie, but I rate it as a 5 because it was completely average, and the next person who feels the same gives it a 7.
I would love to use a service that asks you a series of questions about a movie and generates a rating based on that. That way, if you're honest about your answers, the ratings should match. Questions like "was the acting good?" with answers like "the acting was exceptional," "the acting was bad," and "the acting didn't make me think about it at all." But if you ask if the movie was good? If it's a movie about a working man being pushed to the breaking point and he dies, the rich man is going to like that a lot more than a working man.
Then you have review bombing. I think the best example of this is Fullmetal Alchemist. FMA fans believe that no anime should be rated higher than FMA, so if something starts to get popular, they will organise a review bombing of it. Don't get me wrong, Fullmetal Alchmist was a good anime, but it was also kinda trash. The first series in 2003 did 20-odd episodes, caught up with the manga, then they decided to write their own ending/second half. In 2009 after the books were done, they did a remake, but the first episode was original (not in the books), the next nine summed up the first half of the books (because the 2003 series already covered that), and then the next 50-odd episodes cover the second half of the books, so you have one where the pacing is good but the story goes off the rails (IMO, in a good way, I like where they took it), and another one where it's more true to the books (except that random ass first episode) but the pacing sucks. To top it all off, the lead actor was accused of sexual misconduct a few years ago and has basically been cancelled online. It's still an awesome series, but is it so good that nearly 20 years later, nothing can be rated more highly?
Jellyfin doesn’t work without complex setup on Apple stuff. For the Apple TV app, you’ll need to know the server’s IP address to get started. It can’t just detect it like Plex can.
I had it up and running at one point, but tried it again this year and it was a complete non starter.
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Is Grok the dumbest AI?
Grok sounds brilliant compared with Siri, which can’t do basic math without going online.
Siri used to bust your balls with Sesame Street jokes if you asked it to divide by zero. Now it needs to go online or connect to ChatGPT.
The left? The right?
Progressiveness is defined by embracing change, sometimes to the fault of change for the sake of change. Conservatism is defined by embracing tradition, sometimes to the fault of rejecting change that benefits society.
However, some artists are politically left, and they don't like AI because they say it steals their work.
I do agree those who take a moral stand against AI are putting themselves at a disadvantage to those who use it. Not everybody who is opposed to AI is in a position that would be improved with AI use, however. So there is that.
In American politics, I see the president doing dumb shit with AI (such as making himself appear as Jesus and healing Jeffrey Epstein) but we all know it's AI and most people don't take it seriously at all.
You're welcome! I was an older teenager when the worldwide web started taking off in '94 — is that what you mean? A lot of people associate the Internet and the WWW, but IIRC the first email was sent in the 1960s. I'm getting old. Sometimes I feel old, sometimes I feel young. As a gamer, I try to stay current with tech, but while I like some modern games, I'm having so much fun catching up on 360/PS3 and 3ds era gaming. Like my wife got Animal Crossing for the Switch, but I'm enjoying the 3ds version more. It's a bit older, a bit uglier, my girl has hair like Claire/Molly Ringwald in Breakfast Club, but it's okay, I'll unlock the hair salon eventually.
I think there's a guide. I follow them on Telegram and they post whenever they add something (with a direct link to the coordinates). Lately he's been working on the flea market area with Link and Zelda.
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How many places/things are named Pandora, or Hyperion? A lot of names are just commonly used.
When the trailer for a new god game came out, I thought it was sly that they called it something about Albion, which is the setting of the Fable games. The game is being made by the creators of Fable, but they don't own the Fable IP anymore. (The new Fable game is being made without them.) Turns out Albion is just an old name for England. I had no idea!
Some names are just common.
Another example, Ka is a term known to Stephen King's Constant Readers (fans) as a force that is something like karma (what it likely comes from), but if you read the Hierarchy books by James Islington, Ka is a villain in the second book. I thought King's camp (kingdom? heh. I'm so clever) would say something, but it's probably a common name.
Just depends on where the original author/creator got it from and if they wanna push it.
Also, ask Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon. He lifted a bunch of stuff from other fantasy books. A few readers shook their fists but nothing really happened.
Facts. ThunderCats had a lot of good ideas but it was poorly executed and not very well acted. Everything's just a bit too extra.
Snarf is fine. Snarfer was annoying AF. Snarfer was the younger snarf on the second crew, with Lynx-O and Bengali and the others. No kids on that crew, I think it was just the old blind man, the alt-palette Tygra, and a woman I can only vaguely remember. And Snarfer. No one liked him. Or Mumm-Ra's dog, for that matter... "Ma-Mutt"? Though Mumm-Ra himself was awesome, in either form.
The show has aged like milk, though the 2011 series fixed some of the cringe. It added some of its own, but didn't add up to what the 1985 series reached.
I still think Grune the Destroyer, Tower of Traps, the Trials (where Lion-O had to best each of the other adults, and then beat Mumm-Ra unarmed), the time machine episode, and Book of Omens were mostly good. Maybe a couple others.