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goddamnedtwisto posted:TOS was literally pitched as gunsmoke in space, apart from a couple of ham fisted "klingons are russians romulans are chinese" episodes it never got more complex than "bad guy menaces the innocents, kirk shoots it" it got a space shuttle named after it what you talking about
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goddamnedtwisto posted:anyway it was a flop on it's first run, and pretty much the only reason anyone has ever heard of it is that desilu sold it dirt cheap in syndication so it got saturated across hundreds of little channels in weird timeslots and picked up a cult following of young nerds cult following is kind of a dumb way to understate it 20 years after it first aired, it was still the #1 most popular syndicated show... and syndication was not exactly a new or weird thing in the 1980s.
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also paramount failed to create tv networks like once a year back then, so they were very nearly 100% dependent on syndication to avoid being under the networks' thumbs not surprising that they paid attention to their #1 independent show
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voyager was absolute poo poo, the rest of trek shouldn't be judged as if that's some stellar example
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Install Gentoo posted:what's weird about the way us televison works in this context. television in other countries is mostly a propagandized element of the government where, even if the stations are independently owned and operated, they're legally required to play content that shows the country in a favorable light
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i mean idk i guess that guy is from some country where there was only 4 tv channels period until the 80s so the entire idea of running shows more than once doesn't make sense thereCocoa Crispies posted:television in other countries is mostly a propagandized element of the government where, even if the stations are independently owned and operated, they're legally required to play content that shows the country in a favorable light the federation is space america
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everyone works for nothing and money has been abolished. sounds like space ussr to me!
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Install Gentoo posted:i mean idk i guess that guy is from some country where there was only 4 tv channels period until the 80s so the entire idea of running shows more than once doesn't make sense there the federation is an idealized america. the ferengi are real americans, until rdm ruins them at the end of ds9
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Sweevo posted:everyone works for nothing and money has been abolished. sounds like space ussr to me! nah they only have one russkie
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Cryin Burnigan posted:it got a space shuttle named after it what you talking about i want to live long and prosper
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:cult following is kind of a dumb way to understate it the cult following was what made it the most popular show in syndication though. it was sold cheap and so independent, mostly uhf, stations put it on as late-night filler or against the 6 o'clock news on the networks. the uhf bit is important because the rise of cable in the seventies meant uhf channels were relegated to second sets, which were in bedrooms, which meant that teenagers (boys and girls, against the normal stereotype of trek fans) ended up being it's main audience. this is what gave it the cult following, everything else followed from there. Install Gentoo posted:what's weird about the way us televison works in this context. almost every other country on earth had monolithic national networks until the rise of digital television. the idea of independent stations, and hence syndication - in fact the idea that a show might get a repeat on a channel other than the one that made it - is a completely alien concept to almost everyone else
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goddamnedtwisto posted:almost every other country on earth had monolithic national networks until the rise of digital television. the idea of independent stations, and hence syndication - in fact the idea that a show might get a repeat on a channel other than the one that made it - is a completely alien concept to almost everyone else well our national networks didn't do more than about 8 hours of programming a day either you know. syndicated stuff (or local origin stuff) was needed to fill the rest of the broadcast day which was generally about 16 hours or so. and for what its worth there are legal requirements that national networks cannot supply more than a certain percentage of their national programming from their own studios - this has lead to a decades long practice where even though NBC, CBS and ABC all compete with each other they all usually have at least one show on their national programming that's produced by the studios of a competitor. i don't really see what's weird about it though. it's what has to happen if your primary tv channels are private. tbh stuff like the uk's "independent" regional systems were just goofy and dumb.
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Install Gentoo posted:well our national networks didn't do more than about 8 hours of programming a day either you know. syndicated stuff (or local origin stuff) was needed to fill the rest of the broadcast day which was generally about 16 hours or so. the itv network centre model is basically the american model though. you have (well, had, the model was dropped after the carlton fiasco and itv is now much more monolithic) 10 or so regional stations who transmit the central network feed at prime time but make their own programmes otherwise ("prime time" slowly crept up until local non-news programming was only an hour or two a day). the only real difference was that for historical reasons three of the regional companies - associated rediffusion/thames television and itc/atv in london, and granada in manchester, all of which were owned by the big old media monsters of the time, provided the vast majority of the network programming. independent production companies weren't really a thing until the 80s and arguably the itv system allowed a lot of programmes to buld up steam locally before going national - tiswas and the bill being the examples that uk goons of a certain age are most likely to remember, both of which had a couple of series on their home station before going national (also anyone wanting to defend the us system over the british one should look up the muppet show and where and how that made it onto television)
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This was just in the Kickstarter email newsletter and it looks like a fun toy, but I would solder my finders to the board and burst into flames if I tried building it  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onetesla/onetesla-a-diy-singing-tesla-coil
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http://www.indiegogo.com/HelloHarto My Drunk Kitchen gets 60 large in 6 hours for a tour My Drunk Kitchen Girl is awesome
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not worthless at all. she's awesome. im glad she's getting to do that.
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polpotpi posted:not worthless at all. she's awesome. im glad she's getting to do that. she had to bleep out 'gently caress ebaums world' in one of the videos heh
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I don't think so, Hannah.
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a free-to-play browser-based little red riding hood-themed anime diablo from American McGee? sign me the gently caress up
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hey why didn't they mention Bad Day LA??
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lol american mcgee also invested in this http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1428934180/camcuff-the-bold-camera-wrist-strap-youll-wear-all
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Sniep posted:bring on the rotating tv mounts
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ghorahn/sometimes-i-make-music 
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(Wondering who Miorin is? Short version: She's a j-pop performer.)
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Werthog 95 posted:(Wondering who Miorin is? Short version: She's a j-pop performer.)
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Yodzilla posted:hey why didn't they mention Bad Day LA?? i'm still wondering how much mediocre poo poo american mcgee has to put out before people start realizing maybe he's not god's gift to game design afterall apparently we haven't hit that point yet
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Proteus4994 posted:i'm still wondering how much mediocre poo poo american mcgee has to put out before people start realizing maybe he's not god's gift to game design afterall who thinks that though? i don't know anyone who thinks he's anything other than a mong. just a plain old mong. american mcmong
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Dr. Honked posted:american mcmong mods
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Dr. Honked posted:who thinks that though? people who keep buying his terrible games, i'd imagine e: i guess what i'm saying is that bad day la should have been american mcgee's daikatana but yet somehow he keeps releasing stuff and getting publicity. it makes me sad. 
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i rescind my previous comment about Spicy Horse and Bad Day LA because apparently they had nothing to do with that piece of poo poo! thanks Aspyr!
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that's what happens when aspyr tries to do anything beyond porting somebody else's poo poo to mac i guess
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i don't know how much American McGee had to do with Scrapland but goddamn what a weird and lovely game. the voice work is completely bonkers and if i remember correctly there's a scene where a flamingly gay robot priest gets boiled alive in a hot tub
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The alice games were pretty alright. I have no idea what else mcgee has been a part of.
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prahanormal posted:The alice games were pretty alright. he did level design for iD back in the days, iirc
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