Re: Tzeentch's Thread of Everchanging Topics

by **Yarnaat** Fri May 18, 2012 2:29 pm

Coppersocket wrote:

I like this one.

by **Feydor** Fri May 18, 2012 8:13 pm

one of the best documentaries ive ever seen

quite a heart breaking ending to it, but an eccentric rendition of a song about orange juice performed by a nobel prize winner made up for it

by **Coppersocket** Fri May 18, 2012 10:55 pm

http://audioboo.fm/boos/419778-i-m-so-random-xd
http://audioboo.fm/boos/426740-my-little-pony-saved-my-life

by **Eowale** Sat May 19, 2012 2:37 am

by **Feydor** Sat May 19, 2012 11:45 am

oh yes theyve definately been jumped on

by **Eowale** Sat May 19, 2012 1:50 pm

Random topic: How will WoW try to counter GW2? Seeing as GW2 is free-to-play after buying the game since it lacks subscription fee, WoW might have some trouble keeping their players interested in the game.

Thoughts?

by Guest Sat May 19, 2012 2:09 pm

You'd still need to have the majority of the playerbase actually move over though. Even free to play won't be enough on it's own to move the majority of people.

by Guest Sat May 19, 2012 2:09 pm

Eowale wrote:Random topic: How will WoW try to counter GW2? Seeing as GW2 is free-to-play after buying the game since it lacks subscription fee, WoW might have some trouble keeping their players interested in the game.

Thoughts?

Good MMOs going f2p tend to become bad MMOs, some would argue. GW could be another story, though, the last one was incredible.

In the end I reckon it comes down to playerbase. WoW has a huge one, other games can't seem to get there. GW2 would have to demonstrate some staying power, that it isn't just another two-week venture to succeed. That and having endgame content. If so, it could become a real threat to WoW in a year or three.

by **Shaelyssa** Sat May 19, 2012 4:18 pm

I just saw The Boy in Striped Pyjamas

not as good as Schindler's List as far as jew movies go but it comes really close to it :'( (the mother though was starting to annoy me near the end of the movie because of her terrible over the top melodramatic acting but the little boy was incredible)

by **corleth** Sat May 19, 2012 4:32 pm

this is amusing on many levels

Tzeentch's Thread of Everchanging Topics - Page 10 C5a

by **Thelos** Sat May 19, 2012 5:25 pm

MEDAABOOOOOOOOOOOTS!!!
(Go get your friends!)

...

I can't be the only one who has a soft spot for bad mon-shows. You know, the deriviatives of Pokémon who tried to ride the wave of success of the big fish: almost each and every one of these shows copied the poké-formula and was desgined to marked some toy, cardgame, videogame - or most likely, all of them combined! They had nonsensical plots, cheesy drama, stupid jokes, very poor voice acting, but we didn't care. It had preciesly that special Japanese sort of action that was in vogue, and motherfucking robots battleing eachother. Honestly, were we asking for more?

hough I never actually bought any Medabots toys, it was one of the mon-shows I remember enjoying the most. Nevertheless, everything about this show makes it too goddamn obvious what it is it is marketing. I mean they explain the rules of the game every episode, and make it very clear that the more meda-parts you have in your meda-watch, the more ro-battles you're going to win. To be the very best, like no one ever was!

Do you really need to ask what the protagonist is like? He's the 10-year-old goofball in a red jumpsuit, the screw up who fails at school, athletics and popularity, who looks like he doesn't know what he is doing, but gosh darn it if he doesn't have heart! He's courageous, energetic and compassionate, and troughout the show we learn that he's actually got quite a knack for this whole fighting thing - why, he blossoms into something admirable trough all of his many trials and tribulations, who he of course could not have braved without the support his dearest nakama, for whom he would risk his very life! In the first episode he's still a novice who couldn't defeat a metamorphisizing catepillar, but by the end he's safing the world from ancient civilization-destroying alien races!

It is with the greatest shame I admit that, when I accidently ran across an episode, I still enjoyed the fuck out of it. What a fun-loving show! I love these kind of pokémon-esque worlds filled with 10-to-12 year old boys set on a magical adventure with some whacky monster. It's a great genre, one I'd like to see revived in earnest, commercialism be damned!

Even now this song sometimes surfaces in my mind. It's insipid. I can't get rid of it!

It's horrible!

(22th Century!)

It's amazing.

It's time to battle!
Yeah ro-battle!
MEDAABOOOOOOOOOOOTS!!!

So which were your favorite mon-shows, DB?

by **Shaelyssa** Sat May 19, 2012 5:30 pm

digimon!!!

I remember watching it dubbed in arabic on spacetoons and not understanding a single thing but I loved that short kid with the weird orange pig thing thing that turned into this massive angel

that's all I remember about the show though

by **Thelos** Sat May 19, 2012 5:38 pm

Ah yes, Digimon, I remember that. The other Mon. As a show, it was quite a bit better than Pokémon. If the toys and games didn't suck as much ass as they did, they could have been a real contendor.

by **Antistia** Sat May 19, 2012 6:26 pm

This is my 2000th post.

by **Lini** Sat May 19, 2012 6:33 pm

Corleth wrote:this is amusing on many levels

by **corleth** Sat May 19, 2012 6:39 pm

its not as good without the communist/anarchist political commentary.

by **Kristeas Sunbinder** Sat May 19, 2012 7:04 pm

Thelos wrote:
Spoiler:
So which were your favorite mon-shows, DB?

Does this count?

by **Eowale** Sat May 19, 2012 7:06 pm

There's more mon-shows than just Digimon and Pokémon? Huh.

by **Thelos** Sat May 19, 2012 7:58 pm

Kristeas Sunbinder wrote:
Thelos wrote:
Spoiler:
So which were your favorite mon-shows, DB?
Does this count?
Spoiler:

Heck yeah it does! I don't actually remember this show, but I know it involved something collectible. Like spirits or something. Gotta catch 'em all! Monsters? Chuck a ball at 'em. Ghosts? Suck 'em in one of dem spirit jars.

Eowale wrote:There's more mon-shows than just Digimon and Pokémon? Huh.
Spoiler:

by **Eowale** Sat May 19, 2012 8:28 pm

I meant mon-series, as in other series that ends with mon.

I remember both of those series. I probably have some Yu-Gi-Oh cards lying around in the attic aswell as a Beyblade or two. I even had this plastic arena.

by **Thelos** Sat May 19, 2012 8:38 pm

Well, no, but ending in -mon doesn't make a mon series a mon series. It certainly helps, but it isn't half as important as the formula.

As always, I'm using the TV tropes definition!

by **Chase - Esou** Sat May 19, 2012 8:47 pm

I watched all of the above except for Shaman King, but I did read some of the manga. Maybe I'll torrent Digimon or Beyblade in the summer and give it a go again, see if it holds up still Very Happy

by **Seranita** Sat May 19, 2012 8:56 pm

Thelos wrote:Well, no, but ending in -mon doesn't make a mon series a mon series. It certainly helps, but it isn't half as important as the formula.

As always, I'm using the TV tropes definition!

sorry?? did someone call? *mon waves*

by **Thelos** Sat May 19, 2012 8:57 pm

Monrena wrote:
Thelos wrote:Well, no, but ending in -mon doesn't make a mon series a mon series. It certainly helps, but it isn't half as important as the formula.

As always, I'm using the TV tropes definition!

sorry?? did someone call? *mon waves*

by **corleth** Sat May 19, 2012 8:58 pm

Monrena wrote:
Thelos wrote:Well, no, but ending in -mon doesn't make a mon series a mon series. It certainly helps, but it isn't half as important as the formula.

As always, I'm using the TV tropes definition!

sorry?? did someone call? *mon waves*

lol Mon why are you so amazing Laughing

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