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Ghost Leviathan posted:I imagine it must be also pretty demoralising for a developer to have to start over again with an IP because they had the rights to their creations taken away from them. Reminds me of when the Sonic comics writers basically had to do that two or three times because of legal fuckery and Archie's bullshit. The story behind the Sonic comics is much weirder than that. The most obvious incident is that Archie either never actually signed or just totally lost their contract with their lead writer, Ken Penders, which let him pull some legal nonsense to just walk away with legal ownership of all of the not-from-the-games characters he had invented over his tenure, including ones that were obvious derivatives of Sega stuff. For obvious reasons this led to Sega blacklisting Archie completely and the entire comic line starting again from scratch in 2018 with IDW.
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Yeah but can you blame them? Everything I've ever seen about it is like a distilled example of why the Sonic franchise is a joke
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But does Sonic have sleeves?
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Defiance Industries posted:Yeah but can you blame them? Everything I've ever seen about it is like a distilled example of why the Sonic franchise is a joke Fair, but Sonic's mirror universe counterpart being an insecure edgelord who literally makes himself into a recolour OC is hilarious.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Fair, but Sonic's mirror universe counterpart being an insecure edgelord who literally makes himself into a recolour OC is hilarious. It gets stupider: Ken Penders has made repeated attempts to license out the Scourge character for comics and whatever, and all of them failed because it turns out nobody's actually interested in paying for a series about a recolor Sonic OC with various recolor OC background characters.
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Roadie posted:It gets stupider: Ken Penders has made repeated attempts to license out the Scourge character for comics and whatever, and all of them failed because it turns out nobody's actually interested in paying for a series about a recolor Sonic OC with various recolor OC background characters. Also Penders didn't even create Scourge in any meaningful way besides the idea of 'evil mirror universe Sonic', and only won the lawsuit because iirc Sega literally didn't show up. I imagine any licensing deal at this point would probably have Sega actually pay attention now.
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Honestly the station in Solaris seems like it's a bit of a jank place to live. even without being constantly placed under mind games by the planet below.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Also Penders didn't even create Scourge in any meaningful way besides the idea of 'evil mirror universe Sonic', and only won the lawsuit because iirc Sega literally didn't show up. I imagine any licensing deal at this point would probably have Sega actually pay attention now. And even THEN when they rebooted it with IDW, they just made Surge the Tenrec, who's Scourge but a Girl, and also has her own Evil Tails.
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Wapole Languray posted:And even THEN when they rebooted it with IDW, they just made Surge the Tenrec, who's Scourge but a Girl, and also has her own Evil Tails. I wish global warming would come quicker so the Sonic knowledge iceberg would die along with facts such as these
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EVIL Gibson posted:I wish global warming would come quicker so the Sonic knowledge iceberg would die along with facts such as these Where do you think we are? Wapole Languray posted:And even THEN when they rebooted it with IDW, they just made Surge the Tenrec, who's Scourge but a Girl, and also has her own Evil Tails. Who are possibly thread examples as going with the long tradition of DBZ references in Sonic, they're basically Androids 17 and 18.
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Phone watch. Dick Tracy WAY oversold the utility. I wonder if it tracked his sleep cycles too...
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El Spamo posted:I really do wonder what the average dude's knowledge of things is like in very late-series or a few years post-show SG-1. The writers are pretty clear that it (SGC, aliens, etc.) isn't going to stay secret for long but that the knowledge release will be managed in order to keep everyone from flipping their poo poo. The population has been slowly prepared for the truth using Wormhole X-treme
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SpeakSlow posted:Phone watch. Dick Tracy WAY oversold the utility. I wonder if it tracked his sleep cycles too... Video phones are a fun one since they were such a staple for so long right up until they became viable, and then it turns out they're more edge cases than anything. That Simpsons future episode had probably some of the best video phone gags with Marge forgetting she's literally on camera.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Video phones are a fun one since they were such a staple for so long right up until they became viable, and then it turns out they're more edge cases than anything. I think the issue came when everyone and everybody wanted to make their version of video conference that getting everyone to just use the same software and opening the correct million ports made everyone sick of it when Skype came around before the flood. The only two that work today is Apple Facetime(because it comes with every drat Apple phone) and MS Teams for business because it comes with the Office 365 license. Lest we forget the Skype cell phones like this one with a 176 x 220 screen and before 4g so you can behold the most artifacted conversation ever. 
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Demolition Man had that bit right. Like with all sci-fi, I think it tends to be more accidentally on the money in parody a lot because it's not trying to focus on how the technology works, it's focusing on how people interact with and use technology if they have the option.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Demolition Man had that bit right. Spoken like someone who doesn't know how to use the three seashells.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Demolition Man had that bit right. That movie took some swings and a few hit well. Same as old books that just made up some poo poo and it later ended up becoming a thing. I agree that the focus on interaction over function does work out better. 'accidentally on the money' is pretty much the same as spam shooting and getting lucky sometimes. Demolition Man was an awesome movie anyways, it's just too bad everything isn't a Taco Bell now, or that rat burgers are easier to find.
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That reminds me of one of the DC Legion of Super-Heroes reboots that came out around 2004, I think? Where they had people in the 30th century so socially isolated and absorbed by technology that they were texting and videoconferencing each other in the same room. The general response to that was "That's stupid, nobody's ever going to become that addicted to technology." Cue the iPhone.
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We were doing that in 2004. Even at the time I was having a laugh at me and my friend in college, talking to each other over IRC while we were physically in the same room.
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I mean, the Solarians of Asimov's universe had giant mansions ran mostly by robots and they have different words for seeing someone in person. Seeing another solarian in person, even your spouse or children, was viewed as a perversion that had to be endured to make children. And even then eventually it was set aside for fully remote insemination. And that was in the 50s.
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Waffle Shake posted:We were doing that in 2004. Even at the time I was having a laugh at me and my friend in college, talking to each other over IRC while we were physically in the same room. Were you in college actually in class and goofing off typing messages back and forth during a lecture or something? Because I can see that easy. Or on IRC or whatever in the same chat room together but talking with other people that weren't physically there? Because that could make sense too. Maybe as a novelty or a gag for like a minute back then, knowing what you were doing was dumb as hell, and that's why you were doing it, sure. But just the two of you sitting in a room by yourselves typing to each other and nothing else otherwise? I dunno... I use my phone and similar type stuff less than most people I know by a fair margin though, so there's that. nesamdoom posted:Demolition Man was an awesome movie anyways  nesamdoom posted:it's just too bad everything isn't a Taco Bell now nooo!
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Waffle Shake posted:We were doing that in 2004. Even at the time I was having a laugh at me and my friend in college, talking to each other over IRC while we were physically in the same room. Around the same time I was playing a MMO with a friend in the same room. I typed a joke in chat and they replied with "lol" even though they didn't actually laugh.
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I mean, middle/high school was full of AIM/MSN chats where you'd message someone right next to you. No one thought it was even novel it was just "another medium." You'd still look up and talk to them when appropriate.
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Yeah, for a lot of people text is just another medium and sometimes a more efficient way to communicate, like leaving notes. It's also quiet, easier to multitask with and leaves a record that can be checked.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Yeah, for a lot of people text is just another medium and sometimes a more efficient way to communicate, like leaving notes. It's also quiet, easier to multitask with and leaves a record that can be checked. Text is great for work poo poo or planning something, but it's dogshit at giving people the nonverbal context crucial for real conversation.
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I've had conversations quite a few times where I'd be talking to a person about one topic with my voice and talking to them about a different topic at the same time over AIM or whatever, sometimes in the same room sometimes not. It's easier if you're trying to do two totally separate cognitive threads to have them in different media.
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theflyingexecutive posted:Text is great for work poo poo or planning something, but it's dogshit at giving people the nonverbal context crucial for real conversation. Ahh, this must be one of your strange allistic quirks.
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The most autistic thing about autistic people is they can't recognise other autistic people. The most online thing is then going full twitter about it "I'm the only autistic on the internet No one has suffered more than me. All of you will suffer my revenge on your cruel world which amounts to annoying posting."
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have i said romulans yet
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This thread is the Torment Nexus and I didn't listen
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:The most autistic thing about autistic people is they can't recognise other autistic people. You have traveled in very different circles than I.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Yeah, for a lot of people text is just another medium and sometimes a more efficient way to communicate, like leaving notes. It's also quiet, easier to multitask with and leaves a record that can be checked. It was pretty nice texting my daughter when we were around people because she wouldn't talk and then I could make sure she was cool and not freaking out. But, for most cases it's crazy to not just talk to a person. I blocked my kid's mum on snapchat for sending me something when I was on the other end of the couch. ThisIsJohnWayne posted:The most autistic thing about autistic people is they can't recognise other autistic people. This is a very odd take. Not worth arguing over or anything, just odd and inaccurate. nesamdoom fucked around with this message at 01:00 on May 3, 2024 |
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nesamdoom posted:But, for most cases it's crazy to not just talk to a person.
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dr_rat posted:There are quite a few cases where it's fine. I've texted people I've been standing right next to at a concert or what not just because we're shouting at each other, but still couldn't hear. My hearing sorta suck, so concerts and loud bars and what not, I often have a bit of trouble hearing what the hell people are saying. For sure there are reasonable times. Concert def makes a lot of sense, I just mean in like standard settings it seems weird to me.
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