Lurker > Count_Drachma

Metalsonic66 posted...

Pretty sure you can just watch it and figure out anything else through context

Yeah, but then I'd constantly feel, "This isn't the full experience."

It's like when I watched Kong vs Godzilla, and assumed there was valid, underlying context to the stuff I didn't understand... when in reality it was a terribly-written mess of a movie that sequeled another terribly-written mess of a movie.

Or if I hadn't seen Avengers before Thor 3 when I wouldn't have realized how stupid Loki's reaction in one scene which served as a callback.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Pretty sure if you watched you'd just be annoyed afterward that you'd wasted your time.

It's possible, especially if I watched the earlier stuff and then thought it wasn't as good as that.

shadowsword87 posted...

I've got to say, I'm very happy where scifi is for movies right now. Dune Part 2 came out, and that was a massive hit. Then there's also 3 Body Problem that netflix came up.

They're not hardest of hard scifi, but there's enough out there, that hopefully is big enough, that I'm crazy excited that scifi may become big again.

Other than Dune and the mainstream scifi franchises (like SW), I'm not sure I've noticed much scifi hitting theaters, etc.

Saw something related to Hati or whatever, which led me to briefly wiki-walk, confirming she's a character from the LA Ahsoka show. And, upon learning Sabine Wren is in it, I was kinda tempted to check it out... but then realized all of the "homework" involved since I'd first need to watch Mando and Rebels.

It's weird how decades ago, that would've seemed like a perk. Now, it's a hassle.

Were the rumors true?

The_Wave_Master posted...

I'm vomcerned only because competition is good for the marketn and with less competition the market has a chance to become stagnant.

Exclusives are the laziest form of "competition" and don't necessarily result in the kinds of improvements that move the industry forward. In fact, Microsoft's purchases of various companies -- which gave them their exclusives -- has made the marketplace LESS competitive and more stagnant.

Not to mention a lot of "competition" isn't really competition. For example, Apple recently released its own VR headset, but the features are basically what's already offered by other companies where the only difference is it costs a metric fuckton more because, well, Apple.

The_Wave_Master posted...

I'm sorry but why?

In hindsight, that's probably a fair question. I hadn't seen the trailers or commercials, but the art style and promotional materials had made me curious. I'd even already picked up mini figurines of Ace and Krypto for my desk... but I can't remember what I wound up doing with them since they never made it there. They just the cheap little Dollar Tree versions, though.

Anyway, it was still better than The Flash movie... which, I mean, isn't saying much, but...

Watched the DC Superpets movie. It was okay.

Wound up watching the s35 Simpsons Halloween episode (meh) and the Theranos spoof (woohoo!). Out of all the episodes I've watched recently, the Theranos spoof was probably the only to hit it out of the park.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I've never been able to appreciate Akira Toriyama's art.

It's actually discouraged me from playing games that I might otherwise have played, like the later Dragon Quest games (his art style was less obvious in the earlier games, when they were using NES graphics, but the newer games make it very on-model and very visibly his work).

I've enjoyed that particular art style, although it feels weird at times because I associate it with his manga/anime.

The Simpsons episode about Brandine getting smart was a 20-minute slog for an alright payoff. Other than the hillbilly museum, not a lot of laughs in that one.

Lokarin posted...

Geekin' off over here: I'm debating if I should sell-off my warhammer stuff

I don't need the cash, but I'm not committed to it anymore; In 10 years I played 3 games. ya.

I don't wanna sell off my pretty models, the ones I did up nice; just the ones that are Pay to Win and still sitting in their boxes unloved.

tbh, the figurines and decoration thereof always struck me as being more enjoyable than the actual game... which is probably why I never learned to play the actual game.

shadowsword87 posted...

Spend money on places that actually care about their customers.

Yeah, like...
Or, um, like...
...I've got nothing.

Well, there are some companies out there, but not a whole lot.

Just watched the Slipreme episode. That one was pretty good. Not amazing, but pretty good, whereas a bunch of the others felt like a waste.

All that Simpsons talk got me thinking about the Simpsons, which I'd fallen behind on. Went back to watching season 33 and it's. so. bad.

Worst thing ever? Maybe not, but bad. Very, very bad.

So far, I've watched:
-Seriously Flanders (the one where he finds the bag of money, which was ehhhh...)
-The one where Marge and Burns fight over a football player (it was okay-ish)
-The one where Marge and Homer wind up in the wilderness (that one was somewhat enjoyable)
-The one where Bart is sentenced to hiking (had some good moments, but... eh)
-The one where Maggie gets a godfather (some good jokes, but mostly a slog)
-The one where Homer needs reputation reform (I mean, some of the lead-up was good, at least)

And then I skipped a bunch because there was a Smithers episode, an episode where a teen Homer looks for his mom, and some other uninteresting ones.

Probably one of the worst seasons in a while.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I like the one theory I've heard, which basically boils down to the idea that most of the younger writers today (and by that I mostly mean people under 40-50 or so) are the kids who grew up as complete and total narcissists who have never really had any interesting life experiences, and who have only ever really consumed pop culture (as opposed to anything more meaningful or artistic). So you're basically left with people who have no interesting stories to tell, who can only fake creativity by regurgitating pop culture they grew up with, and who can't write characters who are anything other than thinly-veiled versions of themselves. They're post-postmodernists who can't write stories that resonate with anyone other than themselves, not helped by their habit of inserting their personal politics into everything (in an annoyingly preachy way rather than an interesting or engaging way).

I like the idea simply because it appeals to my jaded cynicism. But, on a more practical level, that's probably more of an issue with so much long-running content where people can write for THE SAME THINGS they enjoyed as a kid, at which point their shitty fan fiction can become canon (and Joe Quesada can fuck up Spider-Man). A lot of early franchises were great simply because it was a new thing, not something too popular to ever die.

However, society is partly to blame. Because kids today tend to be in cities and sticking around technology, they never go exploring the woods and finding a dead body anymore.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Then you plug those people into a system that has grown "too big to fail" and which can't afford to reward creativity, but which has to exploit existing properties and nostalgia to survive. Where the people making the money decisions are completely disconnected from the actual work, and more or less incapable of understanding it.

The end result is a lot of soulless "content" that is neither art nor entertainment. The inevitable end result of pop culture eating itself, fueled by a Hollywood machine that has grown out of control and can no longer properly function.

It's why the rare jewels you still see now and then all seem to come from smaller studios or artists outside of the massive corporate machine. Or even from alternate distribution models like YouTube. Creativity still exists, but it's rarer, and it has a harder time getting to the audience.

On top of that, the consolidation of entertainment (certainly in the US) has made it more difficult for creativity to get through the cracks.

shadowsword87 posted...

Smoker feels like something that's clutter 350 days of the year.
And if it's not, you become one of those people.

Somebody who loves the delicious, delicious taste of smoked meats and that pleasant aroma around their home?

Granted, I imagine it gets super-unhealthy super-fast.

The_Wave_Master posted...

Kang was conquered...

https://deadline.com/2023/12/jonathan-majors-marvel-fired-guilty-verdict-1235671790/

Don't hit women. I shouldn't even have to say that to anyone, ever, but people need to be told the obvious from time to time.

Shit casting, shit person. And, honestly, the MCU's plans in general were complete shit. Between re-rolling the Avengers, building the next arc around a villain whose variants are encountered (AND DEFEATED!) across movies/shows prior to the big arc movies, a terrible casting choice for said villain that failed spectacularly, etc, it's amazing how Disney/Marvel managed to completely fuck everything up in amazingly short order.

That said, GotG3 might've been shit, but Warlock was fun and the cartoonishly evil take on the High Evolutionary made me giggle.

The_Wave_Master posted...

I admit that I'm an old man, but I do not care for SpongeBob Square Pants.

I do not care for his antics.

Who else is brave enough to admit this truth?

The show came out at the wrong time in my life. It actually looks funny, but -- like a lot of recent stuff -- I've been checked out of western animation aimed at younger audiences. Granted, entertainment in general hasn't been doing it for me in recent years.

Again, a lot of the clips I've been shown for it and several others shows seem like something I'd enjoy. Despite that, my interest level is pretty low. But a lot of that is the result of entertainment overload years ago where I just burned out on everything and it just takes a ton of effort to want to watch anything.

I did, however, finally watch Moon Knight recently. It was... like four or five hours. >_>

But yeah, my enjoyment varied where the first episode mostly sucked, then for a lot of the rest I was like "this is pretty good," but the next day I was like, "Was it, really?"

To compare Moon Knight to the NF Marvel shows, it was pretty Iron Fist but not as fun. The show seemed to hit many of the same story beats, etc. And then the resolution for the final fight was deeply unsatisfying since it more or less existed to set up a continuation. Oh, not to mention the MASSIVE plot hole where the third personality is clearly working for Khonshu, yet it killed the people who were going to tell where Ammit might've been located


ParanoidObsessive posted...

Even at the time I found Ren & Stimpy to be mostly shit.

I'm not sure it was ever not shit. The show was mostly poorly-done toilet humor. Plus, didn't the creator groom a thirteen year-old girl or other absurdly young minor?

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's sort of like The Simpsons in that respect. Almost everything I remember enjoying from the Simpsons comes from episodes from the first 8 seasons or so. And even at the time I started feeling like the show was getting worse somewhere in the 7th season (and looking back with hindsight, I'd say the slow rot kind of started even earlier). Who Shot Mr. Burns? might actually have been the shark-jumping moment, though there were still good episodes after that (even if they started to become more and more rare).

I think season 11 was the last good season, until maybe season 25? idk, the Simpsons dips and then it recovers. However, the dips weren't as bad in the past. At this point, I'm maybe a year or two behind.

iirc, I *thought* the last time I did an episode list, seasons 7-9 were the best. Season 1 was pretty terrible, and I think season 2 was before it was consistently good.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I'd argue that the problem isn't that it was mainstreamed. The problem is what they did with it afterwards.

I think I'm at the point now where nearly every single geeky interest I had for the first 30+ years of my life is now something I utterly loathe and have completely cut out of my life entirely. Shitty people ruined it all because most entertainment industries have been taken over by post-postmodern narcissists who are no longer capable of saying anything worth hearing, let alone anything profound or interesting.

That's a natural part of the mainstreaming process, though. Gotta "broaden the appeal" until it appeals to nobody, and then things tank.

The_Wave_Master posted...

What do you Geeks want for Christmas?

I wanted Tears of the Kingdom, but instead my brother gave me $100

...actually, that might've been just about the only gift I got this year, other than a sherpa blanket. Granted, I also only gave gifts to a few people this year, so it kinda works out.

The_Wave_Master posted...

I leave for a few years to get my legs amputated,

Oof. Sorry to hear that.

and I come back to no Geek topics.

Because they kept getting murdered by the demon known as apathy... and the fact geekery is on the decline as people made the mistake of mainstreaming it.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

They were your topics. When you disappeared on us out of the blue, they just sort of died off.

Well, I kept making them, but everybody was like, ehhhhhhhh.....

Idiot_Savant posted...

This.

For what it's worth Zeus archived some of it on that board where he talks to himself like PandaMaster

Zeus does not talk to himself. Nor does he talk about himself. For Zeus is a humble guy.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Is that a karma building trick or something? I thought Panda was just a little off TBH

I thought it was just a panda thing.

He didn't break up a fight because there wasn't one. Stop with the #FakeNews

As entertaining as a fight would've been (although, considering one guy is ex-MMA and stayed in shape while the other guy doesn't look like he'd ever seen a gym, so it'd be one-sided as shit), there was no way they'd go through with it in there. This is the kind of spectacle you'd expect to see in congress, not the senate.

Pretty much everything with any insurance industry is fucking terrible. You can specify one, but they're all objectively horrible.

Granted, it's also the nature of the beast.

The suspect and victim allegedly used school apps like Canvas to contact each other during the academic year.

tbh, when I first saw that, I assumed it was a typo for Canva. That's just confusing as shit.

Zareth posted...

Good. It is absolutely a fault of the school for not paying attention or caring about rumors that a student might have a gun.

Yeah, there were like a million warning signs. It's fucking insane that it wasn't handled before that.

darkknight109 posted...

As soon as I saw the verb choice in the topic title, I immediately thought, "Female teacher, male student, right?"

No one would ever describe a male teacher having sex with a female student as "banging" her.

Yeah, definitely a double-standard on those verb choices. That said, we don't know the gender of the student. It's very explicitly not listed (or, at least, I didn't see it), so this might not be a case of toxic masculinity glorifying what was clearly predatory behavior and an abuse of power.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

yeah, no, sony absolutely lost that gen,

No. Seriously, just no.

adjl posted...

As much as people kind of handwave this issue now because of how ubiquitous DVD players are, it was actually a pretty big deal in 2000. I know quite a few people that had a PS2 as their only DVD player for several years after it first came out, simply because a standalone player in 2000 cost almost as much as a PS2 did and didn't include a game system on top of it. By the end of the generation, DVD players were dirt cheap and it wasn't a big deal, which is why the Wii not playing DVD's wasn't a problem, but combined with the PS2's 1-year head start it definitely gave it a substantial competitive edge at the beginning.

While the ps2 playing DVDs was a big deal WHEN IT CAME OUT, by the time the GC came out, that fact was moot. Even if the GC could've played DVDs, it was much too late to market for that to have the same impact as the ps2.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It was rising even before the current shit. People barely contain their antisemitism even at the best of times.

This, pretty much. Although usually college professors tended to rely on dog whistles instead of outright cheering on livestreams of attacks on Jews. And their level of supports makes it unsurprising that Yale and other campuses had students release thinly-veiled anti-Semitic statements.

And although it's nothing new, it's still shocking how open the celebrations have been in the US over the murder of Israeli women and children.

Devil_May_Cry posted...

Obama bombed more people than Israel could dream of and did not send pamphlets warning civilians

He certainly didn't warn that wedding party they were about to hit by a drone strike.

Lokarin posted...

but it dumbed it down so far that it doesn't even make sense any more.

Did it ever make any sense?

Yellow posted...

Also the fnaf IP is actually really creative take on horror and as always the horror genre lets everyone down

*eyeroll*

I wouldn't call the IP creative, for starters. It just mashed together tired horror tropes.

It wasn't a great movie, but to be fair, the franchise had been on a downward trajectory, just like most of the MCU.

The High Evolutionary was fun, though. And they did finally give us Adam Warlock.

Lillard and Freddy Prinze Jr really killed it, but the others were kinda... eh. But I don't think anybody carried the movies on their back because they were terrible films.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

Im not spending money on something Im going to wear once

You can wear it more than once or you can DIY a costume.

The GC had some questionable decisions (including the weird micro-discs), but it had native 4p support, a robust multiplayer library, etc.

Although it never felt like it broke ground like the N64, it didn't flop like the confusingly-named WiiU.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Gamecube is forgettable.

I strongly disagree.

Shrek posted...

people have said that miles would replace peter ever since his introduction in 2011

it's 2023 and peter is still the main spiderman

think it's time for you to get over it at this point

tbh, the whole situation at this point is just weird, but at least Miguel O'Hara is finally getting appearances, so... step in the right direction?

Otherwise, the claim that 'people said Miles was going to replace Peter Parker in 2011' is misleading because he DID replace Parker, who was killed off to bring Miles in almost immediately -- iirc, the promotional material came out within weeks of Ultimate Spidey's death. And Miles was intended to bring in a more diverse readership, which didn't really work and the poor handling of Ultimate Parker's sendoff just further alienated parts of the readership. Although it's hard to blame Miles alone for the failure of the Ultimates continuity because they'd done so many stupid things and, technically speaking, the Ultimates continuity influenced the MCU which has been financially successful.

adjl posted...

I'm not sure it's "gullible" to like a better character better than a worse character. Like if I baked you two chocolate cakes, one of which had chunks of horse testicle mixed into it, you're not "gullible" for preferring the version without nuts. That's just liking a better thing better.

Peter Parker is objectively the better character, but you do you.

Saw one of the new models on clearance at Wal-Mart and Target a while ago. tbh, the Digimon I tend to like usually aren't included or you have to buy a Japanese card to use (which are more expensive)

Damn, some semi-spoilers in that first post...

tbh, when I recently learned about it, I was definitely interested after learning some of the details. However, when I'd first heard about the title, didn't realize it was a show instead of a movie, and thought it was just another normal adaptation of Poe's story, I was absurdly disinterested.

Honestly, the involvement of Mike Flanagan is unsurprising, since he took two other works where I groaned at hearing there'd be another adaptation -- Hill House and The Turning of the Screw (aka Bly Manor) -- and got me heavily invested from almost the first episode.

Blightzkrieg posted...

I'm not actually sure if the Warhammer VG license is that pricey, it mostly seems to be given to smaller studios. I think GW is primarily concerned about having their IP transform into a video game that overshadows their main business. They used to almost never license out for this reason.

And then hedged their bets by making their games suck?

I started seeing ads even with ublock a while ago, so I started using a second ad blocker, too, which took care of it... although everything is a bit laggier these days.

captpackrat posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/0/7/AAQwHjAAE80r.jpg

tbh, it's an interesting issue because the point is 100% valid yet sites also need to monetize somehow. Although a 100% premium model is an option, it'd kinda lock a portion of the population out from content.

For many horror franchises, the best film wasn't the first one... or, in other cases, it offers something different.

But, in general, most things with sequels get criticisms for those sequels, with the exception of fantasy/scifi adaptations where the story is told across several films.

tbh, thought it was a new season of AHS. Might check it out once it hits streaming.

Is it any good?

BlackScythe0 posted...

This isn't funny, I'm sure this is supposed to be about the alien predator but it's worded to make people think of things like child predators and the whole joke is MC pretending like we're crazy for thinking it. That kind of edgy humor really isn't funny.

Yeah, that was kinda my take, too. It's like 4D trolling.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Ironically, humans aren't even really predators. We're basically scavengers that figured out how to jump the line in the food chain.

We're basically the metaphorical equivalent of if crows stopped just waiting around for roadkill to eat and started driving cars to hunt it down for themselves.

Technically a lot of predators are more scavenger than predator, so it's not exactly unique.

Well, a lot of them are just variants on another malware. Beyond that, AI could make malware, so... it's halfway there.

Wait, when did Bacon leave?

Also, the funnier part of all this is that Gamefaqs and/or its parent company has probably been sold 4-8 times during that time.

Had a few things in mind, but... eh.

For kids films, obviously The Nightmare Before Christmas. Coraline and Parnorman are both great, too, though.

Adult tends to change. One film I want to watch again is Abominable, which is basically Rear Window x Bigfoot. However, for classics, probably Creature from the Black Lagoon. For slasher, maybe Machete (but I'm not thinking of a lot else). Comedy, either Ghostbusters or Shaun of the Dead. Supernatural, maybe Suspiria.

Oh, Mouth of Madness was mentioned in the topic, which is also among my faves.

papercup posted...

Halloween has been celebrated for 2000 years though

Technically no. Our modern conception of Halloween only dates back something like 100 or 200 years.

BADoglick posted...

Have you noticed that within the past couple years it seems like there's a more fervent obsession with Halloween on social media? And people making posts looking forward to it months out, making memes about it while it's still July? And generally those posts are responded to favorably. Contrast that to how most of social media reacts to Christmas decorations being sold in October. If you made a fb post about looking forward to Christmas in September, people would groan at you (and rightfully so imo).

While I admittedly don't use social media (because, and this is true, fuck social media), I seriously doubt that's the case. People have been making a big deal out of Halloween for a very long time now, thanks to it transitioning to more of an "adult" holiday -- sexy costumes, extreme haunts, etc.

ReturnOfFa posted...

no, because I am aware that social media is not an accurate representation of what I see in real life. In my personal life I see less Halloween decorations around the neighborhood than I saw in the early 90s. There are of course a few people that go extravagant and buy whatever the 'latest thing' is; recall the tall skeleton and the tall pumpkin man this year. I'm sure Halloween spending has increased year over year in general though, simply due to population growth.

I feel like neighborhoods always going to be 100% anecdotal because they can vary immensely, depending on the number of kids in an area and the individual homeowners. If you have somebody with a lot of Halloween spirit, you tend to get pretty done-up houses because everybody else gets into it, too. However, when an area has few trick-or-treaters and nobody has a lot of spirit, you don't get decorations.

As such, some places will be over-the-top nowadays that had nothing in the 90s and vice versa.

Why's it so much? Is it a full-on machine or something?

Lokarin posted...

They don't need bones, you can slide to $3000 for just silicone/TPU and such

I feel like they have to be cheaper than that. There was an episode of House that talked about a guy getting a custom one for like $3k iirc (and it turned out he modeled it after his ex and I think the problem was she'd gotten him into netty pots and he got some bacteria in his brain or something)

It's on the way to the grocery store.

I very much love the idea of archery, but never got into the practice/skill, since the entry costs are high and, at a tender age when those sorts of things are picked up, I wasn't able to get into it.

Lokarin posted...

people who spend 10+ hours a day refreshing their conspiracy reddit pages

Or, you know, work for a living and then also use the internet outside of work. Especially since collaboration software tends to be on the cloud now, so even if you're updating a spreadsheet, you're online.

I feel like this is perhaps a cautionary tale in reaching across the aisle because oftentimes those allies will turn around and slit your throat at the first opportunity. While it's a great way for the renegade republicans to establish their power, the move is painfully short-sighted

papercup posted...

They're either going to try to make Trump the Speaker, so they can assassinate Biden and Harris and make Trump president that way. Or they're just not going to elect a Speaker to grind the government into an indefinite halt.

I'll have some of what papercup is having.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

The first time a speaker has been removed in US history is because *checks notes* McCarthy had the audacity to agree with the Democrats to not shut down the government.

This is the state of the GOP. Domestic terrorists.

No, it's the state of... what was it, 4-8 Republicans? And likely from districts that aren't conventionally competitive, which means the wackiest people can get elected -- much like how Alexandria OC got elected by Dems despite being fringe, since the district was so solidly blue that a primary win decides who takes office.

ReturnOfFa posted...

I really don't know what the Dems that voted him out were thinking though. Just an opportunity for worse.

Political advantage, for starters. The ouster is mostly upside for them, especially when they're running for office and can point to chaos in the GOP, even if they actively participated in it.

darkknight109 posted...

Speaker sets the agenda for the House; no bills can even come up for consideration without their say-so. They're arguably the single-most powerful officer in the country aside from the Senate Majority Leader and the President.

Pretty much this. People make a big deal about filibusters, but this is far bigger.

Let's see... the definition is "a violent uprising against an authority or government." Feels like we have several of those a year at this point, so probably.

Although if you specifically mean an election-day riot where the capitol building is swarmed, the security would be tight for that. On the right, you wouldn't be able to find enough people willing to do that, especially since most of the ones who might do it are still being punished from their previous involvement.

BlackScythe0 posted...

I think I remember someone saying technically no? It's not a requirement in the constitution, but putting an unelected individual 3rd in line for presidency would be asking for chaos which is their singular goal.

Yeah, just saw that myself. So fucking weird. However, it's always been a member and it probably always will be.

Gaawa_chan posted...

Green.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B03jxGzEaEg

ParanoidObsessive posted...

What if it's a reverse Superman situation where the new planet makes you incredibly weak and lame, and everyone points and laughs at you as you walk by?

That would not be a very appealing planet.

adjl posted...

Alternatively, you could just recognize that when people say things like that, they're talking about making the planet inhospitable for human life (usually just to such an extent that survival would require a substantial shift in how we live, not fully overwhelming humanity's adaptive capabilities and causing extinction), not actually blowing it up.

Most planets would need to be made hospitable for human life before we could make them inhospitable for human life.

And even with Earth, you'd have to substantially try to make it inhospitable, because the environment is pretty good at recovering or only maintaining that harm in small ways.

Revelation34 posted...

Citation needed.

I feel like the Earth has lots of problems that keep it from being a top tourist destination for aliens.

All I care about is that priests can resurrect the dead and remove curses.

It depends on the circumstances and benefits. If Joe Biden decided to set off all of the US's nukes tomorrow and the world's surface was irradiated, suddenly a space colony looks more attractive.

Granted, if it's a Superman-type situation where the new planet makes me virtually immortal and OP as hell, that's an easy choice.

Zareth posted...

Well by the time humans completely fuck up whatever planet you move to you'll be long dead

Leave it to the human ego to believe that humans can "fuck up" a planet. A planet is a giant rock ball floating in space. We don't have the technology (yet) to shatter an entire planet. And I sometimes doubt that humanity as a species will ever band together and create the kind of technology needed to actually fuck up planets. Instead, we may have always have to settle for minor cosmetic damage.

No idea. I probably joined late and I'm pretty sporadic about it, so I'm not sure most years count. My gaming habits in general aren't what they used to be 20 years ago.

I enjoyed Garfield. The humor was kinda meh at times, but it was fun. I read the comics (some good, some bad), watched at least one of the cartoons (which I felt was alright at the time), the tv specials (which I still have fond memories of), and... I couldn't make it through the first live-action movie. And I've liked the merch.

If Garfield hadn't cashed in as much as it did, the overall reputation would likely be better.

trivialbeing posted...

it's often looked down upon compared to the likes of Peanuts and Calvin & Hobbes and others, since it mostly just exists to sell merchandise

I think the character himself is endearing in a way tbh

I think it evolved to the point where merch became a big deal. However, Peanuts was big on merch, too. Most comics DO try to sell merch if they can.

C&H mostly has a hipster appeal nowadays, which kinda ruins it for me. It was probably funnier than Garfield on average, but everything has hits and misses. The Far Side is absolutely adored, but most of the jokes didn't land, either. However, Far Side had interesting art, etc, which kept it going.