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| 49802 | Legacy Sequels | <p> </p> <blockquote><strong>eddstarr wrote :</strong> <p> </p> <p><em>This horrible cycle of "sequels/reboots/prequels/remakes" must come to an end. Otherwise one day this generation will see "2060" on a calendar, and realize they wasted the best of their lives reliving the 20th century.</em></p> <p> </p> <em> </em><strong>-end quote</strong></blockquote> <blockquote> </blockquote> <p>For some reason this reminded me of that stupid new song that has the exact same tune as "Blue" by Eiffel 65. As soon as I heard it, I knew that we'd have an entire generation of people singing the wrong words to "Blue".</p> <div data-oembed-url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8wdVF88NHA"> <div> <div style="height:0; left:0; padding-bottom:56.25%; position:relative; width:100%"><iframe allow="accelerometer *; clipboard-write *; encrypted-media *; gyroscope *; picture-in-picture *; web-share *;" allowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//if-cdn.com/r5tg8tv" style="top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;" tabindex="-1"></iframe></div> </div> </div> <p>I guess the way it's relevant is it shows how the people producing mass media are so focused on remixing nostalgia because they think it's what sells, but they do so without realizing that they're making it way worse. Even if they create something that newer generations who didn't experience the original might like, and might initially suck in nostalgic audiences, they've isolated fans of the original and complicated their relationships to it.</p> <p>I can typically separate my love for something from a bad sequel that other people claim "ruins" the original. Like the people who say the Star Wars sequels/prequels ruined the original movies, I never thought like that. I can enjoy the original thing and keep it isolated from all of the awful follow-ups. But it does make it so I can't get as excited about any new stories taking place in the same continuity as the new things.</p> <p>Star Trek Discovery is a good example of this. I love Trek, but I hate Discovery (and to a lesser extent Picard). Please don't get me wrong, though. I'm not one of those people who complain that Star Trek has gone "woke" because Discovery has a black female lead. Those people are stupid. Star Trek has always been progressive and ahead of its time on social issues.</p> <p>I was really excited when they announced Star Trek was coming back, but what bugs me is that the new Trek canon is so pessimistic about the future and that's not what Star Trek ever was to me. Suddenly all of Starfleet is basically as bad as Section 31 and the gubbermint is the baddies and the memes about Starfleet being fascist are actually being taken seriously by the writers. All of that is what they gave us instead of the utopic vision of a galaxy unified by common ideals that Star Trek was always about. Yeah, nu-Trek mirrors real life in its pessimism and social issues, but Star Trek was never supposed to show how bad our world is right now. It was supposed to show us what we can aspire to.</p> <p>Thankfully we now have Strange New Worlds which finally feels like a return to classic Trek, and it looks like Paramount wisened up and are totally ditching the awful Discovery redesign of the Klingons. But now when there's a new Star Trek-adjacent <em>thing</em> announced, I can't get immediately exicted for it because I know it could easily go back to being like Discovery.</p> | MamboGator | Apr 23, 2023 |  |
| 49801 | Best Fighting Games | <p>Even after all these years, Dragon Ball Fighter Z still looks awesome on Unreal Engine.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/C3rTYAGu51k" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p> | eddstarr | Apr 23, 2023 | |
| 49800 | My Danny Thomas Moment | <p><img alt="" src="https://i.pinimg.com/236x/cb/4c/f9/cb4cf91c3a9d8773d00dc894bc66f809.jpg" /></p> <p>My age is really starting to show as I've gotten into online shout downs with tubers who think the best TV shows from the 60's were just lucky accidents.</p> <p>I've had to sing the praises for Danny Thomas a lot, lately. But I also want the praise Lucille Ball as the real believer in Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek" series proposal. Lucy put in a lot of background networking, contacting everyone she knew in the industry to give Star Trek a chance. NBC passed the first time but said Yes when the proposal came around for a second time.</p> <p>Sometimes, magic happens when actors move from in front of the cameras to become producers behind the camera.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/54/71/05/5471051e49658b337f9176cc6fc3ebf0.jpg" /></p> | eddstarr | Apr 23, 2023 | |
| 49799 | Legacy Sequels | <p><img alt="" src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d4/31/fe/d431fe13327ef57132b57905d0099de6.jpg" /></p> <p>In 1966, one of my favorite teachers in school said, "people who wallow in the past possess an immature mind". So here I am in 2023 repeating to everyone I know, "I want to remember the past, not relive it".</p> <p>I now realize that it's not the fault of the audience or franchise fans. It's the big studios and production companies that see money in telling the same stories, over and over.</p> <p>As a boy growing up in the 1960's I enjoyed all the magazine articles and TV shows predicting the 21st century. No one could have imagined the awful people heading major production companies in the entertainment industry. Greedy people who only know how to make money selling the same story again, and again.</p> <p>This horrible cycle of "sequels/reboots/prequels/remakes" must come to an end. Otherwise one day this generation will see "2060" on a calendar, and realize they wasted the best of their lives reliving the 20th century.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/dc/60/9c/dc609c4ea9fb0b5fff373171662e6417--best-movie-posters-steven-spielberg.jpg" /></p> | eddstarr | Apr 23, 2023 | |
| 49798 | My Danny Thomas Moment | <p>Also, we must thank him for creating The Andy Griffith Show.</p> | Mr Magic | Apr 23, 2023 | |
| 49797 | Best Fighting Games | <p>The one I played the most was Eternal Champions on Genesis, which was kind of Sega's answer to Mortal Kombat. It had really cool lore, a great soundtrack and instead of fatalities each stage had a unique "overkill" that was always cool when you managed to trigger it. But I tried replaying it recently on and the fighting feels really stiff. It's still conceptually awesome, but the gameplay doesn't hold up very well sadly.</p> <div data-oembed-url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxdrHQOHsEE"> <div> <div style="height:0; left:0; padding-bottom:75%; position:relative; width:100%"><iframe allow="accelerometer *; clipboard-write *; encrypted-media *; gyroscope *; picture-in-picture *; web-share *;" allowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//if-cdn.com/sAU1wPn" style="top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;" tabindex="-1"></iframe></div> </div> </div> <p> </p> <p>The other one I really liked was DBZ: Hyper Dimension on SNES. I only ever played an untranslated emulated version, but I still love the unique style of the character sprites and the animation was really smooth.</p> <div data-oembed-url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_BMcxOe71k"> <div> <div style="height:0; left:0; padding-bottom:56.25%; position:relative; width:100%"><iframe allow="accelerometer *; clipboard-write *; encrypted-media *; gyroscope *; picture-in-picture *; web-share *;" allowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//if-cdn.com/9MHafr3" style="top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;" tabindex="-1"></iframe></div> </div> </div> <p> </p> | MamboGator | Apr 23, 2023 | |
| 49796 | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire | <p>Looks like it might be cool. I really liked Skull Island and the first new Godzilla (which everyone seems to have thought was boring I guess?). But I skipped Godzilla vs Kong because King of the Monsters lost me at the end. It was really good in the first third, but by the end it's like the studio ran out of money and the special effects for the final battle looked like a Syfy channel movie.</p> <p>But if they're going to keep the series going I guess I should get caught up.</p> | MamboGator | Apr 23, 2023 | |
| 49795 | The Café | <p>Looks like a retro dream come true, Vapor.</p> | Mr Magic | Apr 20, 2023 | |
| 49794 | The Café | <p>The wife is on a trip to Colorado and dropped by the semi-famous retro shop 'Fifty-Two Eighties<br /> </p> <p><img alt="" height="640" src="http://retro-daze.org/upload/1CD9D504-F0F2-4590-BD7B-08C6D2E73FF7.jpeg" width="295" /><br /> </p> <p><img alt="" height="640" src="http://retro-daze.org/upload/BF1892C4-FCA7-4D12-BF07-85781E202430.jpeg" width="295" /></p> | Vaporman87 | Apr 20, 2023 | |
| 49793 | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire | <p>Well that was unexpected, but kind of awesome. Who would have thought a villian for the two kings would come from the Kong side of things. I'm interested in this.</p> | Vaporman87 | Apr 20, 2023 | |
