Top Gun

ITT people continue to reference sites that don't allow hotlinking.

Went with grape as the default, but blackberry jam is fucking amazing.

I'll believe it when it actually happens. Which, given the production of like 95% of these proposed adaptations, will be never.

Nice write-up, and I'll buy a lot of what it's selling. The one bit that doesn't completely jive with how I view the series is the bit about Paradigm existing to keep incrementally improving the "tomato crop" of people until they become an exact match of the people from before Paradigm became...whatever it is now. Not that I think it's wrong or anything, but I just can't recall a whole lot of narrative support for it. I've felt for a long time that episode 14, "Roger the Wanderer," contained some of the most important material for piecing everything together. There's a great line Roger has in there: "It feels like I'm behind the times, or maybe it's the other way around." I think that's us getting a glimpse of the "real" Paradigm, before the catastrophe and domes and artificial holographic stage. Maybe that's just me though. Man, back in the ancient buried days of forums past I wrote what to be like a 5000-word essay on the show, in which I probably said nothing useful whatsoever. I wonder if that still exists anywhere...

I still firmly hold that any sport routinely ending in scoreless ties is fundamentally broken.

Punkin' Chunkin', the Fightin' Blue Hens, Dogfish Head Brewery, some pretty nice beaches.

Hope you weren't attached to your resale value.

Krillin really must be the strongest human alive to avoid having his dick ripped clean off.

I don't.

Christ ben how have you never learned how to multi-quote.

...we're talking about viewership, not those arbitrary strings of letters.

Seriously, it's 2017. Why do people still give a shit about ratings?

I will never get the appeal of that thing.

REAL MONSTERS!

There are some friends from the old Action Discussion AIM chats that have fallen off my radar. I keep tabs on a few via Facebook, but I haven't heard from some others in ages.

Top of the class, pretty much socially nonexistent.

Well that explains pretty much everything.

OCR is the shit. Been listening to their stuff for more than a decade.

Funny thing is that the next volume release will still sell hand-over-fist.

Pale Moon. It's a fork of Firefox without all of the massive bullshit Mozilla has added to it over the past several years. Tabs on the bottom! A status bar! No fucking Australis!

That show hit uncomfortably close to home on multiple occasions.

People actually watch this show?

People shouldn't have to use an ignore function as a replacement for proper moderating. Like, I'm genuinely curious as to what sort of moderation philosophy looks at someone who has been shitposting for a literal decade and thinks, "Yeah, that's someone we want to keep around our community!" At what point do you call a spade a spade? Again, it's okay to ban someone just for being a fuckwad. That's part of what a moderator does. If you're not willing to remove someone whose raison d'etre is apparently to make the rest of the community miserable, what message does that send to the rest of us who want to post in relative sanity? Or what sort of message does it send to random passers-by who see people able to post racist or pedophilic garbage without consequence? Because man, that totally sounds like the sort of forum I'd love to join. (Honestly ignore functions are fairly shitty in principle, since all they do is turn threads where an ignored person is posting into a one-sided unreadable mess. At that point you're better off not reading the thread in the first place.)