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some kinda jackal: Feb 25, 2003; �
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MichiganCubbie posted:

Oh hey, like 400 new posts, maybe we got some Discovery news...

Well I definitely think we discovered something.

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twistedmentat: Nov 21, 2003; Its my party
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MichiganCubbie posted:

Oh hey, like 400 new posts, maybe we got some Discovery news...

Season 3 has a kitty in it.

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The_Doctor posted:

put him on ignore

# ? Sep 13, 2020 23:02

Bilirubin: Feb 16, 2014; The sanctioned action is to CHUG

MichiganCubbie posted:

Oh hey, like 400 new posts, maybe we got some Discovery news...

I am currently experiencing bij ITT

# ? Sep 13, 2020 23:15

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Bilirubin posted:

I am currently experiencing bij ITT

That's how you know it's working

# ? Sep 13, 2020 23:23

MichiganCubbie: Dec 11, 2008; I love that I have an erection...

...that doesn't involve homeless people.

Bilirubin posted:

I am currently experiencing bij ITT

My avatar like ten years ago was the VHS game's knock-off Gowron saying "You, the poster who is typing now: Experience BIJ!"

# ? Sep 13, 2020 23:46

Snow Cone Capone: Jul 31, 2003

MichiganCubbie posted:

the VHS game's knock-off Gowron

I'm sorry the hwat now

# ? Sep 14, 2020 00:07

Gelf: Oct 1, 2005; Wake up and smell the psychosis!\

Holy poo poo I had no idea that Robert O'Reilly was not actually playing Gowron in this VHS game and is in fact another Klingon character called Kavok?! Thanks for sharing MichiganCubbie - that is some seriously obscure trek trivia!

# ? Sep 14, 2020 00:14

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MichiganCubbie posted:

My avatar like ten years ago was the VHS game's knock-off Gowron saying "You, the poster who is typing now: Experience BIJ!"

I have not played this game in literal decades but I totally want to try again now.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 00:23

nine-gear crow: Aug 10, 2013

Gelf posted:

Holy poo poo I had no idea that Robert O'Reilly was not actually playing Gowron in this VHS game and is in fact another Klingon character called Kavok?! Thanks for sharing MichiganCubbie - that is some seriously obscure trek trivia!

I learned that myself a couple of months ago too, but it's funner to just think that it literally is Gowron, the Chancellor of the Klingon Empire and sworn ally of the United Federation of Planets, and he's hijacked the Enterprise-D for basically no reason because he's Gowron, he's an insane weirdo. Just go with it.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 00:32

MichiganCubbie: Dec 11, 2008; I love that I have an erection...

...that doesn't involve homeless people.

Hahaha I have no idea why I thought that was common knowledge. Glad to teach weird Trek trivia!

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some kinda jackal: Feb 25, 2003; �
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I learned about the VHS thing when Tested.com did a playthrough on their podcast. It sounded so bizarre.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 02:20

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

Lord Krangdar posted:

But since neither the setup nor the ultimate outcome are actually depicted in the panel, but are just implied, that means it actually does not contain either a setup or punchline. You can put it into words to restructure the gag that way, but they're not there in the comic.

That's pretty much what I said though?

Tiggum posted:

Yeah it is? Or at least, it can always be analysed or explained in that way.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 05:05

Super Deuce: May 25, 2006; TOILETS
Oh, I like the smell of my own dumps.

Tiggum posted:

That's pretty much what I said though?

I'm trying to imagine a stand up act without any premises, setups, or punchlines. Even stool fuckers know the mechanics of a joke, even if they don't employ them sometimes because LOUD NOISE or something similar replaces a step.

EDIT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMT7MAnJna8

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# ? Sep 14, 2020 05:23

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Caught up on the most recent couple of episodes and the show is definitely getting better. The pilot is really, really manic in its comedy and they thankfully tone it down after that somewhat.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 05:30

Sardikar: Sep 27, 2004; I cant think of anything to put here.

I like it...

FIGHT ME!

# ? Sep 14, 2020 08:31

Alchenar: Apr 9, 2008

Here's how a smart show would have done a holodeck callback joke: the characters go into the holodeck and someone makes a reference to how in TNG the safeties would go off and the holodeck characters would go all Westworld and try to murder everyone. The holodeck glitches a few times hinting that that's what's going to happen.

Instead what happens is when the ship gets damaged and the holodeck controls/safeties go off it turns out that *guest crewman of the week* is homicidal and wants to use the opportunity to kill our heroes, while the holodeck characters are still harmless and try ineffectively to help them.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 08:47

twistedmentat: Nov 21, 2003; Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

MichiganCubbie posted:

My avatar like ten years ago was the VHS game's knock-off Gowron saying "You, the poster who is typing now: Experience BIJ!"

I remember one of the old Trek threads wanted to get a gang tag that said Experience Bij but the mods said gangtags were a pain in the rear end so no.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 12:19

Drone: Aug 22, 2003; Incredible machine

Aren't gangtags now just another HTML field that you put at the bottom of your custom avatar text?

Like, I'm pretty sure people can do them themselves now... that's how latecomers to the Animal Crossing one had to do theirs after the IK was done handing them out, anyway.

Though this shouldn't be done right now because the money still goes to Lowtax.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 12:32

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

Drone posted:

Aren't gangtags now just another HTML field that you put at the bottom of your custom avatar text?

Like, I'm pretty sure people can do them themselves now... that's how latecomers to the Animal Crossing one had to do theirs after the IK was done handing them out, anyway.

Though this shouldn't be done right now because the money still goes to Lowtax.

You can add one or more images to your custom title as long as those images are on the SA server. "Real" gang tags are uploaded as gang tags but can then be used by anyone. There are also "fake" gang tags that are just images that someone bought as an avatar, which can then be added to custom titles in the same way.

"Real" gang tag: https://fi.somethingawful.com/images/gangtags/racgoons.png

"Fake" gang tag: https://fi.somethingawful.com/safs/titles/7a/8c/00177214.0001.gif

You can see that the URL is different because that second one is actually biznatchio 2.0's avatar.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 13:04

MichiganCubbie: Dec 11, 2008; I love that I have an erection...

...that doesn't involve homeless people.

twistedmentat posted:

I remember one of the old Trek threads wanted to get a gang tag that said Experience Bij but the mods said gangtags were a pain in the rear end so no.

I think we designed them and everything, too.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 13:27

Lord Krangdar: Oct 24, 2007; These are the secrets of death we teach.

Tiggum posted:

That's pretty much what I said though?

The other poster asserted that "Not all humor is setup/punchline". That comic was an example of humor that does not depict/contain a setup or a punchline.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 17:11

Super Deuce: May 25, 2006; TOILETS
Oh, I like the smell of my own dumps.

Lord Krangdar posted:

The other poster asserted that "Not all humor is setup/punchline". That comic was an example of humor that does not depict/contain a setup or a punchline.

It does, though. He explained what the setup and punchline are. Just because you're not explicitly told something is the setup doesn't mean it's not.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 17:23

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Somebody just making a funny face can be humor

If it has a setup it's just "all of your life experiences up to that point" and if it had a punchline it's "and now this unexpected facial contortion"

But if you really want to claim that is a setup and a punchline, all you've done is make the terms you're defending so broad as to be utterly meaningless

# ? Sep 14, 2020 17:35

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

Lord Krangdar posted:

The other poster asserted that "Not all humor is setup/punchline". That comic was an example of humor that does not depict/contain a setup or a punchline.

"Setup" and "punchline" are just ways to explain parts of a joke, not actual things that exist. No joke contains a setup and punchline any more than a character contains motivation or a movie contains acts. They're just tools of writing and analysis.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 17:43

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# ? Sep 14, 2020 17:48

piratepilates: Mar 28, 2004; So I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it.

Gelf posted:

Holy poo poo I had no idea that Robert O'Reilly was not actually playing Gowron in this VHS game and is in fact another Klingon character called Kavok?! Thanks for sharing MichiganCubbie - that is some seriously obscure trek trivia!

huh what the hell

I guess they didn't want to pay out the writer of gowron's episode?

# ? Sep 14, 2020 18:12

Phylodox: Mar 30, 2006; College Slice

piratepilates posted:

huh what the hell

I guess they didn't want to pay out the writer of gowron's episode?

Or they didn't want to characterize Gowron as a full-out villain. At that point he was still nominally a good guy.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 18:27

MichiganCubbie: Dec 11, 2008; I love that I have an erection...

...that doesn't involve homeless people.

Phylodox posted:

Or they didn't want to characterize Gowron as a full-out villain. At that point he was still nominally a good guy.

It's funny because they actually went to the effort of getting him different makeup and a different forehead piece, so they can definitely make the argument that it's not Gowron.

It's a shame they cancelled the sequel:

Apparently the footage was all filmed and it was basically ready to ship when it was cancelled.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 19:23

HD DAD: Jan 13, 2010; Generic white guy.; Toilet Rascal

MichiganCubbie posted:

It's funny because they actually went to the effort of getting him different makeup and a different forehead piece, so they can definitely make the argument that it's not Gowron.

It's a shame they cancelled the sequel:

Apparently the footage was all filmed and it was basically ready to ship when it was cancelled.

I never knew this existed. I take it there are no footage leaks anywhere?

# ? Sep 14, 2020 19:25

Snorb: Nov 19, 2010

I think the only still I've seen of it was from the customizable card game; Q dressed as a referee.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 19:26

Drone: Aug 22, 2003; Incredible machine

Is that John de Lancie as a Borg drone?

Please tell me that footage just ended up becoming the video game Star Trek: Borg.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 19:26

Timby: Dec 23, 2006; Your mother!

Drone posted:

Is that John de Lancie as a Borg drone?

Please tell me that footage just ended up becoming the video game Star Trek: Borg.

Doubtful, since Borg was shot on Voyager's sets.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 19:33

some kinda jackal: Feb 25, 2003; �
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_739DxrMOs&t=3431s

:lol:

57:11 in

# ? Sep 14, 2020 19:39

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Snorb posted:

I think the only still I've seen of it was from the customizable card game; Q dressed as a referee.

I think that is from Star Trek: Borg

# ? Sep 14, 2020 20:07

MichiganCubbie: Dec 11, 2008; I love that I have an erection...

...that doesn't involve homeless people.

Drone posted:

Is that John de Lancie as a Borg drone?

Please tell me that footage just ended up becoming the video game Star Trek: Borg.

It was completely different. I really hope some of the tapes survived and are out there. If the footage can be recovered, the game might be able to be reverse-engineered together, assuming it's similar to the first game.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 20:59

Timby: Dec 23, 2006; Your mother!

FlamingLiberal posted:

I think that is from Star Trek: Borg

Nope.

That's clearly on the bridge of the Enterprise-D. As I said earlier, Borg was shot on Voyager's sets.

# ? Sep 14, 2020 21:07

nine-gear crow: Aug 10, 2013

FlamingLiberal posted:

I think that is from Star Trek: Borg

Q shows up in a Hawaiian shirt with Raoul Duke hat and a full on daiquiri in ST: Borg, for what it's worth though.

twistedmentat posted:

I remember one of the old Trek threads wanted to get a gang tag that said Experience Bij but the mods said gangtags were a pain in the rear end so no.

I could probably recreate old Experience Bij logo from The Spoony Experiment for the thread. The mods are MUCH more amenable to doing gang tags these days.

Any takers?

# ? Sep 14, 2020 21:31

Arglebargle III: Feb 21, 2006

Timby posted:

Nope.

That's clearly on the bridge of the Enterprise-D. As I said earlier, Borg was shot on Voyager's sets.

Voyager was the same sound stage as TNG. dum facts

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