Random Thoughts — Page 794

I forgot to put music in the main menu of the DVD I spent 3 hours making last night.

Ruffles chips are good.

Darth Tremor said:

Stargate was an underrated Space Odyssey.

I go back-and-forth on this. Sometimes I think it’s underrated, other times I think it’s rated appropriately. The script is weak as hell, but every other aspect of the filmmaking is spot-on. Definitely a mixed bag.

SG-1, on the other hand, is grossly overrated. All it does is pilfer from better shows like Trek and Babylon 5, watering down their concepts to be as mass-consumable as possible, seasoned with plenty of casual racism, eurocentrism, and American imperialism. I can understand liking this show as a kid back in the day – I was one of them – but I don’t know how any grown adult can view this show as anything more than a guilty pleasure.

The Giza Necropolis after Al-Aziz Uthman failed to have it demolished:

Okay, so I’m over here looking outside thinking “Why does it look so dark out? The sun is shining brightly and there’s not a cloud in the sky. Have I been looking at screens for too long today or am I going crazy? It just looks… darker somehow.”

Then I learned the solar eclipse was happening today.

So my eyes are fine. I still might be a little crazy, but that’s irrelevant right now.

of_Kaiburr_and_Whills said:

Okay, so I’m over here looking outside thinking “Why does it look so dark out? The sun is shining brightly and there’s not a cloud in the sky. Have I been looking at screens for too long today or am I going crazy? It just looks… darker somehow.”

Then I learned the solar eclipse was happening today.

So my eyes are fine. I still might be a little crazy, but that’s irrelevant right now.

The cosmic ballet goes on.

Channel72 said:

theprequelsrule said:

This place is a ghost town. Never seen the forums so inactive.

So are most old-school Internet forums where I used to post. All the kids these days are on social media. But at least they’re not on my lawn.

It sucks that the Internet these days is basically just like 3 companies.

Agreed. Something like Discord is NOT a suitable replacement for forums, like at all. Those servers are not only far more cliquey than forums, but also are way too fast paced, often have genuine asshole moderators (quite famously) and are overall rather unpleasant as an alternative to forums. Not to mention predators-in-waiting with anime or furry profile pics.

Discord is best used as a way to chat to friends you already know in real life as an accompaniment while playing a game. It is worst used as a way to talk to strangers on the other side of the world that you’ll never meet in real life about what music you like. Forums were used for that. And REAL LIFE CONVERSATION.

Reddit also is a culprit to the same things, but on a marginally lesser scale.

Also trying to search things on Discord can be a bloody nightmare.

P.S., I know OT.com apparently has a Discord, but that’s not the point I was trying to make.

Mah Na Mah Na

Off topic is now on its deathbed…

The post frequency is akin to a day on Venus.

The more videos I see of the amazing first responders to the LA wildfire disaster remind me of both the bravery of those who helped with the aftermath of Chernobyl, and the quote from Mister Rogers, “Always look for the helpers.”

Spuffure said:

Off topic is now on its deathbed…

The post frequency is akin to a day on Venus.

To everything there is a season.

Spuffure said:

Off topic is now on its deathbed…

The post frequency is akin to a day on Venus.

Then why not attempt to make a change to remedy that, mate?

Get together with the people who do post here… and attempt to make a grouped effort to post and participate more; to encourage each other, listen and talk with each other, to look for and post up some… interesting, insightful, engaging or just fun content… in a bid to making this section a more livelier part of the forum - enticing others to also join in and post on a more regular basis.
 

Maybe encourage the members who only make post after post asking for ‘project links’ in the four Fan Project forums… to join in the discussions across the board… including ‘Off Topic’ (as well as encouraging them to at least leave some feedback or reviews for the projects they desperately want to acquire. For them to become an actual member and a part of the community here - which in turn would likely help get them acquire the projects they find so ‘difficult’ to acquire.
 

Damn straight Oojason!