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Ugh. I just remembered what it was like to be a moderator on the Interplay forums when Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (the console game) was announced. That was a rough weekend.

There's a few other oldies around (albeit I think there are some posters who predate the BIS forum ). Some don't post but still PM. Sargy hasn't been around since his last post in this thread AFAIK.

Comedian Sean Lock Possible language:

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Well, maybe it'll happen in Season 2 (which Neil Gaiman is working on, derived from ideas he and Pratchett had discussed once upon a time).

I get what you're saying; that said in the old days we pruned out the 'me toos' since they were considered spam, so they wouldn't necessarily keep a thread on top. That said, having likes bump a topic might be interesting (provided someone can't keep unliking/liking the thread to keep bumping it).

Sadly, Poncey is long gone...then again I'm not sure the center field magnolia tree would have went over well with modern viewers.

I've always seen likes on a message board as a way to cut out the "me too" posts.

Everybody's a critic.

Better?

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...or know how to get things printed at Kinkos*... HEEEEYYYYY-OOOO! I'll be here all week, be sure to tip your waitstaff. *yes, its FedEx Office now, but that looked weird in the sentence.

Yeah, not 100% sure, its been a long time since I tried to fake translate things into Japanese and I used an English-Japanese dictionary then...!

Rippanamusuko?

Artist interpretation of what Neolithic life was like:

*puts away ban button*

You say that like its a bad thing. I still remember how Harmony Gold, because of the success of Robotech, took the 70s Queen Millennia and Space Pirate Captain Harlock animes and merged them into a single show called Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years to meet syndication requirements for number of episodes. That said, I love Leiji Matsumoto's stuff, and I wish more of it was translated here. (cue someone telling me about official manga releases that I missed over the years). Theme song with lyrics allegedly by Stan Lee himself. ♫ Defenders of the Earth (De-fennn-dersssss!) ♬ I think that US production companies or the network/syndication heads tended to think of teenagers as less accepting of complex storytelling in cartoons than happened in Japan, which for many years made action series somewhat dumbed down versions of live action TV shows (which also, for many years, were done-in-one-episode types of storytelling).

I'm currently re-watching DEFENDERS OF THE EARTH which is similarly a US show animated in Japan (and later Korea). In this case the writers and character designers/storyboarders from Marvel Productions animation (previously DePatie-Freleng, who did the Pink Panther titles and theatrical shorts) and Toei (later Daewon and Sei Young). Like a lot of US television animation, its aimed for, at best, a teen audience and the writing shows. I've enjoyed it for what it is, not expecting it to be a particularly nuanced show as it was a few years too early to benefit from the BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES breakthrough in television adventure cartoons*. I think that's one of the big differences from this kind of show and, say, Tom & Jerry which was pulling from a theatrical model that appealed to families (ie it was multilayered with gags for adults and kids) even after they moved to television (at least for awhile). *Yes, it does come post Robotech, but Robotech severely altered the source material to make it suitable for a teen audience and ultimately didn't lead to the breakthrough that many thought it would of more serious TV animation. And anyway, the model for DOTE seems to be GI Joe: A Real American Hero.