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A while back I found an interesting blog series about dead fandoms - pop culture artifacts that once had a dedicated following that for one reason or another died. We live in an era where nothing ever seems to die, there's always another reboot down the line or a sequel or whatever, so hearing about once big properties that are well and truly dead is a real curiousity. Can anyone give me anymore examples of this kind of phenomenon? The more obscure the better, I love reading about this kind of thing.
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Jun 21, 2019 07:54
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Remember ALF? He's back. In pog form.
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Jun 21, 2019 10:40
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It’s impossible to tell which niche property will make a comeback in the current love of rebooting franchises for new series, but I would’ve expected some sort of resurgence of Xena or Anne Rice stuff that for whatever reason hasn’t happened
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Jun 21, 2019 10:44
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Ready for the Gobots to finally get their movie!
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Jun 21, 2019 10:47
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Way back in the day, I remember fans of the Descent series being absolutely convinced that the future of first person shooters - which they dismissed/insulted by calling them groundpounders - was in games like Descent: full degrees of motion, joysticks as the main form of control, etc. Naturally, I recall a sense of dying when... well, Descent had a gimmick but games like Quake et al had audiences. I just checked an old forum I used to visit (descentbb), and while it's not offline, the amount of users is paltry. I think they produced a text documentary of the fall of the franchise (and how sad it is, etc) called something like Fahrenheit 360 or something.
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Jun 21, 2019 11:54
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Nobody visits my AngelFire site about Earth 2!
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Jun 21, 2019 15:00
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When is updated Reboot? It's in the name
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Jun 21, 2019 15:52
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Dead fandoms? What about SomethingAwful?! hey-oh!!!
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Jun 21, 2019 16:00
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MisterBibs posted:I think they produced a text documentary of the fall of the franchise (and how sad it is, etc) called something like Fahrenheit 360 or something. Kashclarke posted:When is updated Reboot? It's in the name they already did and it died already too
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Jun 21, 2019 17:02
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Ok didn't know that
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Jun 21, 2019 17:22
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Coolness Averted posted:so a book? or a post? I remember it being, like, a Word document. I kinda want to say this was a preliminary version, but this was ages ago. I remember it ending on an unintentionally hilarious ending that was, paraphrased, will gamers eventually have the same six degrees of freedom again? thing, like it was a tragedy or whatever that a game whose multiplayer didn't let you use mouse and keyboard controls (because it was faster than a joystick) didn't do well.
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Jun 22, 2019 00:42
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Mantis42 posted:A while back I found an interesting blog series about dead fandoms - pop culture artifacts that once had a dedicated following that for one reason or another died. We live in an era where nothing ever seems to die, there's always another reboot down the line or a sequel or whatever, so hearing about once big properties that are well and truly dead is a real curiousity. Can anyone give me anymore examples of this kind of phenomenon? The more obscure the better, I love reading about this kind of thing. WAIT WAIT WAIT Turok was an old comic book????  EDIT - Holy crap I had no idea, this is blowing my mind 
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Jun 22, 2019 00:55
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They are underwater.... They are on land? They.... 
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Jun 22, 2019 01:18
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Super Waffle posted:WAIT WAIT WAIT "Hunger crazed honker" is ace at least.
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Jun 22, 2019 01:50
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God, it does suck that Descent style games never took off. They were so good.
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Jun 22, 2019 05:06
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DicktheCat posted:God, it does suck that Descent style games never took off. They were so good. Look up Overload, you might like it.
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Jun 22, 2019 07:32
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DicktheCat posted:God, it does suck that Descent style games never took off. They were so good. Did you play Freespace?
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Jun 22, 2019 14:11
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How come Dexters Laboratory never got a proper release on dvd or anything
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Jun 22, 2019 14:32
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Alan Smithee posted:How come Dexters Laboratory never got a proper release on dvd or anything Cartoon Network is known for being really terrible at home releases of their stuff, basically. If it's not available on one of the digital purchase sites, you're best served just pirating.
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Jun 22, 2019 15:41
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Here's part 3 of the blog posts.
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Jun 22, 2019 16:20
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This one is rather niche and personal, so bear this in mind while reading: If you used to play MapleStory back in the mid-to-late 00's you probably heard of BasilMarket - the unofficial auction house to the game, because the game has yet to have its own. It worked a lot like Ebay - you'd bid on something, message the seller, and meet up in-game to make the transaction.  Specifically I want to focus on the forums: it was a very well moderated and active community of kids and teenagers. The official MapleStory forums were full of trolls and (strangely enough) neo-nazis. So another place to chat about the game was good. Also the requirement to post on the forums was to have at least 3 positive reviews be left on your record as an auctioneer, so it had a somewhat basic way to filter out shitposters (until they dropped that requirement off in later years).  I'm showing pictures of the off-topic subforum (which is the liveliest of the subs) as a contrast to the fact that the site is still alive (if you're on the phone right now don't bother clicking because the site is not mobile-friendly), but the community grew up and left. If you thought SA was a dead forum - this one is the skeleton left after everything else decomposed. Nowadays it's just a forum. The auctionhouse part of the site has been removed, and so have many of its colors. The last stickied posts from the site creator is "We're not dead!" and "how do we keep things alive?" threads.... made in september 2017. the latest threads of some of the subforums are from three years ago. the existing "community", i believe, comprises of about 5 regulars who post like once a week, 7 twenty-somethings posting once a year about their nostalgia to the game, and another 5 users who are bots. I think the site runs only for nostalgic purposes now. you can find your old account and see how many days your account existed (4044 for me). It's just jarring to see the site that i frequented everyday in my childhood become.... this ---- I believe in general most of the F2PMMO's of the 2000's are probably dead. So stories of those could be interesting.
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Jun 22, 2019 17:12
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Whoops, I can't believe I left this out. Thanks
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Jun 22, 2019 18:53
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Solar Tornado posted:... Furcadia is still going. 
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Jun 22, 2019 19:08
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Solar Tornado posted:MapleStory I don't even remember the names of them to check out, but I wonder if this is the same sort of deal that the old trade-items services/forums for Diablo 2 were. Especially when the third game rolled around and it came with an actual auction house to handle all that stuff. Like everyone, I hated the real-money auction house, but I really liked the fake-money auction house in D3, and I was vaguely bummed when it was removed. Felt good to get over a hurdle or two by buying things with in-game gold every once in a while. Rather obviated by how the game plays now, but still.
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Jun 22, 2019 22:01
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Solar Tornado posted:I believe in general most of the F2PMMO's of the 2000's are probably dead. So stories of those could be interesting. Kingdom of Loathing still exists and is being actively supported, albeit with a lot of grumbling from the playerbase about how the developers are neglecting it, because that's late-stage MMO life for ya.
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Jun 22, 2019 22:35
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Nowhere Man. Great thriller/conspiracy show that was probably ahead of its time. There were fansites back when I was in college while it was on air and then later theories about how it might have ended, etc. after it was killed off after one season. Now, most people have never heard of it.
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Jun 22, 2019 22:38
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That blog reminded me of the Tripods books, which I'm pretty sure were never actually any good. Time for someone to buy the rights up cheap and make a movie I guess.
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Jun 22, 2019 22:47
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FactsAreUseless posted:That blog reminded me of the Tripods books, which I'm pretty sure were never actually any good. Time for someone to buy the rights up cheap and make a movie I guess. Disney owns it and has since the early 2000s iirc
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Jun 23, 2019 03:45
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Is Twilight fandom dead yet?
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Jun 23, 2019 03:49
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Alan Smithee posted:How come Dexters Laboratory never got a proper release on dvd or anything It got one in 2017 in region 4, probably easy enough to import if you’re really keen. https://www.jbhifi.com.au/movies-tv-shows/movies-tv-shows-on-sale/tv-childrens/dexters-laboratory-collected-experiments/498900/
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Jun 23, 2019 04:15
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Antivehicular posted:Kingdom of Loathing still exists and is being actively supported, albeit with a lot of grumbling from the playerbase about how the developers are neglecting it, because that's late-stage MMO life for ya. Honestly, KoL never quite feels like an MMO to me. Also, how can it even truly be neglected? Has there even really been any substantial new content added since NS13? The Sea, maybe? I thought Mr. Store items and challenge paths were basically the way forward.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:34
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Browncoats as a fandom aren’t dead but they depress the hell out of me and I wish someone would put them out of their misery. The show is never coming back given Whedon’s past statements and a few lovely novels and comic books barely counts as providing fresh new content.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:25
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Is Twilight fandom dead yet? Pretty sure they became the 50 Shades fandom, so depends on whether that's still a thing.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:29
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The Bee posted:Honestly, KoL never quite feels like an MMO to me. Also, how can it even truly be neglected? Has there even really been any substantial new content added since NS13? The Sea, maybe? I thought Mr. Store items and challenge paths were basically the way forward. There have been intermittent events since then, but yes, the major content vectors these days are Mr. Store and the challenge paths. The major complaints of neglect come out when the Item of the Month is late and/or some part of it isn't implemented quickly, which does happen occasionally. (A chunk of the February 2018 IotM was never implemented, and the devs have indicated they're not coming back to it, and hoo boy are people angry about that.) Also, of course, every Crimbo is the worst Crimbo ever.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:34
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Anyone watch those old Sci Fi network shows like Lexx, Farscape and Sliders? I never did but they seem like good candidates.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:36
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Mantis42 posted:Anyone watch those old Sci Fi network shows like Lexx, Farscape and Sliders? I never did but they seem like good candidates. I want to say they all had fandoms at some point? I used to know a guy who was active in Farscape fandom, although I don't remember any details there. My sophomore year in college, my roommate was really into Lexx, and she decided to teach herself video editing so she could create a fan music video (are these still a thing?) of Lexx set to Sting's "Desert Rose." I never saw the final product, unfortunately, and am not sure if it was even finished by the end of the semester, but whenever someone mentions Lexx I always think of that weird period of my life.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:49
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http://www.warpstock.eu/ http://os2news.warpstock.org/ I loved OS/2 back in the day during Microsoft's peak shittiness around the Win95 era, but dudes, let it die. There's no reason to keep trying to get it "modern" when Linux exists, especially since IBM won't open-source it. You can throw the AmigaOS fans in this same category, and they probably outnumber the OS/2 hangers-on.
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Jun 23, 2019 08:17
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MisterBibs posted:Way back in the day, I remember fans of the Descent series being absolutely convinced that the future of first person shooters - which they dismissed/insulted by calling them groundpounders - was in games like Descent: full degrees of motion, joysticks as the main form of control, etc. The original Descent team from Volition "got the band back together" a couple years back and did a successful kickstarter for a new game (Overload) and successfully released it to good reviews last year, but sales were "disappointing" and the devs have mostly moved onto other stuff. The Descent IP itself got licensed to some people off the Star Citizen forums who did a halfassed job of making a MP focused game (Descent: Underground) and appear to have shut down development since their website is gone, the publisher isn't saying anything and there have been some "had a great time working at this place but they stopped paying me so I quit" style posts on Glassdoor. 6DOF shooters are just kinda niche in general, back in the day they had a "wow" component to them in that they were also tech demos to show off how powerful new video cards were, and it's not exactly enough to entirely carry a game these days. Maybe once VR gets more market penetration they'll see a resurgence but that's just speculation on my part.
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Antivehicular posted:I want to say they all had fandoms at some point? I used to know a guy who was active in Farscape fandom, although I don't remember any details there. Yeah, I was a Farscape fan back in the day. It was really good, and just cheesy enough to have charm. The movie they made to do the condensed wrap-up after it was canceled felt rushed but paid off the narrative. Ben Browder and Claudia Black on SG-1 a few years later was pretty nostalgic, and a few of the cast still do occasional SF cons. Does Half-Life count at this point? It's been 15 years since 2, and Valve's been pretty clear that HL3 will never get made because they're no longer really a developer of anything but the Steam platform. Liquid Communism has a new favorite as of 12:24 on Jun 23, 2019 |
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Half Life fandom still exists but its withering. That fangame about hunting Freeman got an official release somehow a while back and garnered a lot of interest. If Valve announced HL3 tomorrow it'd be huge news, whereas a lot of these other properties would essentially have to build interest the same way a new IP would.
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