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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by diribigal (?) » Fri Jun 07, 2019 4:00 pm

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btw y'all are indeed wonderful and you deserve this cat

On the one hand, it's cute that that cat knows a reasonable opening move. On the other hand, that's Japanese Chess not Chinese Chess.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Aramek (?) » Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:16 pm

Shogi?
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by diribigal (?) » Sat Jun 08, 2019 7:42 am

Aramek wrote:
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Shogi?
Yes, the cat is playing Shogi and moving a pawn to start to make room for its (only) rook to move. The only first move that's more popular would be the corresponding move for the bishop.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Aramek (?) » Sat Jun 08, 2019 3:07 pm

I know the word because one of the chicks in Persona 5 was into Shogi and she was one of the tarot linkes so I cad to help her do Shogi shit in church because she keeps playing in a church for some reason.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by ToastGhost (?) » Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:17 pm

I'd say it's worth it to know the tarot. Good metaphors for events and feelings in life.

But I'm just a magician so what do I know. :v:
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Vivianinatoga (?) » Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:32 pm

I'll never be a social link because AFAIK there is no Poo Emoji arcana.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Jun 08, 2019 10:10 pm

Davyinatoga wrote:
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I'll never be a social link because AFAIK there is no Poo Emoji arcana.
ToastGhost had a thread on the old forums where he assigned you a tarot card, if I remember it correctly. Did you ever post there?

Note that all I know about Persona comes from Smash Bros., so maybe there's more to it than that.
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Post by Weird Autumn (?) » Sun Jun 09, 2019 1:08 am

the shoji social link is a pretty good one to do, the character swapping is handy and the follow-up attacks are really nice when they trigger and the escape stuff is nice i guess if you ever decide to run from a battle (but you never will). plus P5 is basically designed around you ambushing enemies and killing them before they get a chance to move so the perk that gives you double money for doing that is just free cash

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Madeline (?) » Sun Jun 09, 2019 3:05 am

Every time I’ve ever had my fortune rad in some way, it’s always been about suffering and/or dying young, so I fear and dread it :v:

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by minty (?) » Sun Jun 09, 2019 1:04 pm

My horoscope often threatens that I will end up in a romantic relationship, which is asexaul aromantic erasure. :colbert:

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Post by Orange Fluffy Sheep (?) » Sun Jun 09, 2019 3:57 pm

minty wrote:
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My horoscope often threatens that I will end up in a romantic relationship, which is asexaul aromantic erasure. :colbert:
Does it specify it'll be reciprocated or will someone attach to you like a jawless eel
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Post by minty (?) » Sun Jun 09, 2019 5:20 pm

Some claim I have a partner which is a lie, just like some claim I'm a leader.

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minty wrote:
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Some claim I have a partner which is a lie, just like some claim I'm a leader.
The jawless eel syphoning nutrients from you is your partner if you bathe together.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Vivianinatoga (?) » Mon Jun 10, 2019 8:31 pm

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ToastGhost had a thread on the old forums where he assigned you a tarot card, if I remember it correctly. Did you ever post there?

Note that all I know about Persona comes from Smash Bros., so maybe there's more to it than that.
I did, and IIRC they were drawn and assigned randomly? Toast could confirm this better than I can. Most I remember was knowing some of us had minor arcana cards(four suits, Ace through King), including mine which I think was the five of coins or something like that?

While minor arcana cards do have their own meanings in Tarot, they aren't as significant as those of the major arcana (the numbered ones with the individual names). Persona games only use the major arcana to directly link the themes of those cards to the side characters that you can interact with. All of the fictional/mythological figures that are used as personas are also sorted under all of the major arcana.
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Post by Vivianinatoga (?) » Mon Jun 10, 2019 8:50 pm

Personas of the Poo Emoji arcana include Nick Bottom, LEGO Joker, and the dancing shark
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Post by Logicgate (?) » Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:18 am

I want to casually mention that I've had surgery in a foreign country more often so that people will ask why and I can tell them it was to treat a terminal case of bofa

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Post by Octavia (?) » Tue Jun 11, 2019 10:02 am

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I want to casually mention that I've had surgery in a foreign country more often so that people will ask why and I can tell them it was to treat a terminal case of bofa
It's also very effective in preventing ligma
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Post by Princess Flufflebutt (?) » Wed Jun 12, 2019 5:54 am

That's nuts.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Fri Jun 21, 2019 2:33 pm

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It always astonishes me how Spike Jones managed to make a sound similar to this while also leading a full band with individual instruments. There's a lot more that can go wrong with that many individuals but he made it work somehow.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Jun 26, 2019 12:48 am

One of my favorite blogs is Stripper's Guide (yeah yeah, laugh at the name), which covers comic strip history. Every other day the blog author showcases really obscure strips that usually didn't run very long.

Recently, he showcased a strip called "The Dumplings", a strip about an overweight couple drawn by a Disney artist. Kind of a "Mike and Molly" of the 1970s; the strip is surprisingly not mean-spirited with no awful fat jokes, which is refreshing (indeed, the strip's actually rather cute for the most part).

The strip was a bit of a flop, only running for 2 years in a small number of newspapers. In spite of that the strip somehow gained a live-action TV sitcom on NBC, produced by Norman Lear. The show was even more short-lived, getting cancelled after just 10 episodes.

Which made me realize, there's a surprising amount of obscure newspaper strips that managed to get adapted into different media. On top of my head, there was Jim Davis's other strip "U.S. Acres", which had a cartoon as part of a back-up segment on "Garfield and Friends". The strip only ran for 3 years, but the animated version managed to go on for 7 due to it being part of "Garfield"

Merriweather Williams (remember her?) showran at least one adult cartoon: "Free For All" on Showtime, which ran for 7 episodes. The show was based on a newspaper strip that only lasted one year in syndication.

And I don't know if "Over the Hedge" counts, since the comic is still running, but I'm willing to bet the Dreamworks movie is better known than the strip, unless your paper ran the comic when you were a kid.

And speaking of "Over the Hedge", the co-creator of that comic, Michael Fry, did another strip about dysfunctional family called "Committed". While the strip ran for 10 years, it was never hugely popular and not many papers ran it, making it even more obscure than "Hedge". But the strip later became an animated series that aired for one season in Canada.

Of course, as you may have noticed none of those shows ran very long with the exception of "U.S. Acres" (and even then, it was because it was riding on the coattails of the even more successful "Garfield")

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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Wed Jun 26, 2019 3:21 am

don't forget the Dilbert show (that's not an obscure comic, but the show was shortlived too)
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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Wed Jun 26, 2019 3:22 am

also yeah I had no idea Over the Hedge was actually a comic adaptation, TIL!

shame the movie is kinda eh
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Jun 26, 2019 3:43 am

Perrydotto wrote:
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don't forget the Dilbert show (that's not an obscure comic, but the show was shortlived too)
"Dilbert" did better than most, running for 2 seasons. Still short, but managed to have a bit more episodes than it could've.

The "Baby Blues" TV series was a much bigger flop, though. The strip is relatively popular, having been going since the early 1990s and running in just about every major newspaper. But the show had the misfortune of airing on the WB network, not even airing all of the completed episodes. It was later dumped to Adult Swim few years later, where the remaining episodes were shown.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Jun 26, 2019 4:03 am

Perrydotto wrote:
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also yeah I had no idea Over the Hedge was actually a comic adaptation, TIL!

shame the movie is kinda eh
Yep, it was! My paper ran the strip when I was a kid (they might still run it today), so I was familiar with it before the movie came out.

The movie featured the main characters from the strip, but it also added new characters just for the adaptation. The comic made fun of the fact that the movie characters are not in the strip:

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Post by Weird Autumn (?) » Wed Jun 26, 2019 11:30 pm

for some reason when i was 12-13 i wound up watching over the hedge a bunch of times because it just was on in places we went to and i still have a weird affection for it

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Jun 26, 2019 11:54 pm

I was curious and decided to look into The Dumplings' creator Fred Lucky's IMDB page to see what exactly he worked on, and it's...impressive.

He was one of the writers for the Disney movie "The Rescuers" and he did a TON of storyboards. Not just for cartoons (such as "Scooby Doo" and "Goof Troop"), but also for a ton of live-action films like the "Rocky" and "Rambo" movies. He also worked on "Mulan" as well.

Fred Lucky wasn't very lucky (I'm so clever :-I ) when both his comic strip and the TV version of it got cancelled after a very short time, but I have to say, the dude accomplished a lot in other ways.

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Post by ToastGhost (?) » Thu Jun 27, 2019 5:42 am

The album Toxicity by System of a Down holds up wonderfully to this day, partly because 99% of the problems sung about are still around to this day. :rainbert:
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Post by minty (?) » Thu Jun 27, 2019 5:44 pm

The IMDB says he worked on the Free Willy cartoon which existed for some reason.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Jun 27, 2019 8:51 pm

minty wrote:
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The IMDB says he worked on the Free Willy cartoon which existed for some reason.
I didn't even know there was a "Free Willy" cartoon (I probably glanced at it and figured he worked on the live-action film). Man, that was a weird period in cartoons, eh?

I remembered another comic strip-to-television adaptation: "Animal Crackers". The show was produced in Canada at Cinar/Cookie Jar and aired in the 'States on Fox Family in 1998. It was based on a comic strip that began in the 1960s and still appearing today.

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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Fri Jun 28, 2019 1:52 pm

I saw the Free Willy cartoon a few times, for some reason Willy has a baby at some point
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Post by minty (?) » Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:06 pm

I vaguely remember it. He talks, which is strange. It would be like Toothless talking in the Dragons cartoon series.

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I guarantee at least 5 of you will see my latest thread title and go "Hoo boy." :-I
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I guarantee at least 5 of you will see my latest thread title and go "Hoo boy." :-I
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Post by ToastGhost (?) » Sat Jul 06, 2019 3:17 pm

Fucked up if true. :fluttersmith:

Bring back Daikatune and Sidotsy, damnit. :rainbert:
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Jul 06, 2019 6:52 pm

I've been rewatching "All in the Family" lately. It's scary to imagine what Archie Bunker's Twitter would be like if it was around back then.

Also, the two-parter "Edith's 50th Birthday" scared the shit out of me when I first saw it as a teen, and that opinion still holds today.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Jul 06, 2019 11:25 pm

Watching an episode where a freeloader cousin Archie (and others in his family) doesn't really like dies, leaving him stuck arranging the funeral. He asks the funeral director if he can buy a used casket cheap

Pfft :-I

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:49 am

You know, this show highlights just how important it is to hire the "right" actor for a role.

A character like Archie Bunker is really hard to pull off. He's a reactionary, loud-mouth bigoted asshole, not exactly the kind of person we want to see every week. But Carroll O'Connor did a REALLY good job playing him, creating one of the most memorable character in TV sitcoms.

All the characters in that show was cast well. Norman Lear really knew how to get the right actors a role.

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sun Jul 07, 2019 4:57 pm

pokemon uranium is a piece of shit game, but i can't help but love daikatuna

a angry fish with a katana on its head named after a famous mess of a game

it's too good for this game
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too pure
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Post by Orange Fluffy Sheep (?) » Sun Jul 07, 2019 10:21 pm

Daikatuna's pretty decent, as much as anything that doesn't resist nuclear or fire can be.

Hard to get a grasp on what OU Uranium would look like, you know, without Nucleon and Inflagetah ruining the rest.
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