Top Gun

...and yet they're still not real doctors.

As usual, you are objectively wrong.

Little protip: if there's a civilization out there advanced enough to master interplanetary travel, there is literally nothing they would need from our insignificant little rock of a planet. Least of all our anuses.

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Yes, I'm well aware of that, and I appreciate your work, but that doesn't change the fact that it's still Luuv's place. And in the grand scheme of things, if I had to get by on the default SMF theme and couldn't like posts, I think I'd manage. I cut my forum teeth on a hideous homegrown ASP solution.

You've said absolutely nothing to suggest that it will be, and possibly a few things to suggest otherwise, but honestly this type of ridiculous hyperbole serves no one. No one's "tied" to Luuv specifically; in fact I fundamentally disagree with most of the statements he's made over the years re: moderation philosophy. But what I do see is that he dedicated a ridiculous amount of time and effort towards keeping the ASMB semi-functional (and was pretty much the only person doing so at the end), he gave everyone a place to hang after it went kaput, and he hasn't done anything particularly egregious since then that would compel me to look elsewhere. And really, that's all I need out of someone running a forum. I'll also reiterate my firm belief that providing redundant divergent options for a community this small feels like it will only serve to make both options poorer.

Given the list of people you suggested as staff members, I highly doubt that. Also still chuckling at the idea that the vast majority of people will jump ship from here just 'cause. But I've been wrong before, I suppose. "Running a forum" is hardly some sort of hours-per-day commitment. You provide the hosting, you update the software, you get decent people to do the modding, and you stay in contact to fix crap when it breaks. (Granted this place hasn't had a stellar track record on the last point, but eh.) The rest is up to the userbase. Honestly the fact that you're turning this whole announcement into some sort of massive production is what I find the most amusing. Honestly, a Discord channel just to say "hay guiz I'm creating a forum"? You're overthinking this way too much. As I said elsewhere, I've been part of a community where a certain group took their ball and went elsewhere because of some bullshit personal drama. Said alternate forum is now a ghost town, while the original soldiers on. I hope for your sake that you're more successful.

Running a forum via direct democracy is one of the worst goddamn ideas I have ever seen. But hey, have fun with that.

Honestly the funniest thing about this topic are the multiple people complaining about a scene that when you actually see it yourselves is about as tame as it could possibly be. But yeah, it's totally super-fanservice or something! (And yes Oda enjoys his well-endowed females, but this is literally the smallest of nits to pick.)

Jeans and normal long-sleeved shirt/sweatshirt in the winter, shorts and t-shirt in the summer. Y'all are nudists.

It's fun how you manage to interpret pretty much everything wrong because you haven't watched the goddamn thing you're bitching about.

I will never be able to stand Thom Yorke's voice.

Virus Buster Serge is not on here. Nor is Sword for Truth. This is incorrect. At least they did manage Psychic Wars.

I would be lying if I said that it did.

I know it's one big Jebus allegory, so maybe it's cheating the topic constraints a bit, but I've always loved the version of heaven presented at the end of The Chronicles of Narnia. A place where every decent person who ever lived is there with you, where you can revisit all of the places you ever loved, where everything feels far more "real" than it ever did in life. I could handle that.

Can confirm. Exploding. Lightsaber. Dildo.

Fukken' saved.

Of course it was rushed; that's an unfortunate consequence of this limited 10-episode run. If Genndy had had a full 20+-episode season to play with, I think he would have definitely paced things more naturally, but I feel like he's made the most out of the limited time he's had. I definitely disagree that Ashi has only served to wind up as a "lover": her regaining her humanity has served as a good counterpoint to Jack's own redemption, and with or without the romance element she's a badass warrior with an enjoyable personality. (Also cute as hell!) I don't see any way in which this ends with her being killed off: either she goes back to the past with Jack if/when he returns, or she stays behind and takes over his mantle, or who knows, maybe they both remain in the future. I don't think Genndy's going to make this a tragic ending after getting one more miraculous shot to properly conclude the series. Yeahno. People have been absolutely clamoring for a proper sequel for ages, and by some insane stroke of luck we finally got it, and it wound up being amazing. This is a pure labor of love by Genndy and the rest of the team.

Possibly, but cigarette smoke definitely makes you smell like shit.

Generally speaking, when someone makes a post in a thread, they're interested in continuing to read the rest of the thread, whether other people are directly quoting them or not. I can't think of a case where I've only been interested in someone's direct replies to me: at that point, I might as well be having a conversation over PMs. Plus this place isn't exactly the busiest forum on the planet, so it hardly seems like a major task to keep track of a few active threads that you've posted in. Honestly, the Lithium system just made posting exceedingly cumbersome as far as I'm concerned. The worst part of it was when you were trying to quote multiple people: I'd wind up having multiple tabs open for each individual "reply," then copypasta all of the code for each quote into another window. With SMF, or most other forum software suites I've used, you can easily insert multiple quotes into the quick-reply box, or at the very least quote multiple responses on the full-reply page. Lithium's still the only forum suite I've seen (outside of ancient comment-tree type setups) that treats a thread as a bunch of jumbled-together reply chains, instead of a cohesive conversation, which as I said before made modding in particular a real nightmare. (It didn't help that most mods never bothered to go back and re-add posts caught in a removal that weren't offensive themselves.) It just feels like reading a Reddit conversation in the default view, i.e. a fragmented pain in the ass.

It's not meant to track threads where people have explicitly responded to you (how it would determine that in the first place I have no idea), but instead threads you've posted in that have new posts after yours. You have to *gasp* actually read the thread to see who's talking to you.

At this point Media Blasters is just a sad remnant managing to crap out a single release every few months. They did have some legitimately good shows amidst all the crap of their past though. Twelve Kingdoms was a masterpiece. As far as possible Sentai stuff goes, how about Log Horizon? It'd cash in on the SAO fad, plus from what I've gathered it's far better written.

These titles are all reminding me of just how much pure garbage Sentai licenses. But they're bringing me Legend of the Galactic Heroes, so that makes up for pretty much every goddamn thing.

Usually people watch the videos they post.

Where did the hair gooooo?