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MisterBibs posted: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. Basilmarkets heyday was the times when everyone piled into the 'free market' essentially just a set of wide open maps and they spammed code:Then they made a feature where you coukd get a stall with like 4 items that acted like an NPC shop, you first had to leave the game AFK while you character manned the shop, then they introduced NPC player-shopkeepers. These features are/were all pay to use natch Rigged Death Trap has a new favorite as of 14:33 on Jun 23, 2019 |
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Admiral Bosch posted:Did you play Freespace? Freespace 1&2 were sooooooooo good.
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Mammal Sauce posted: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. Was this the show where a famous photographer takes a picture of some hanged people, then goes into a bathroom and his whole world changes?
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Is Twilight fandom dead yet? Phone posting but if you’re ever curious about the breakdown of Twilight fandom go look up “das sporking,” specifically the posts where the films and all the interviews/content published after the books were out. They are extremely long and detailed to the point of being an “anti” fandom, but interesting in how a wildly popular author can completely tank their own IP via what many perceived as fan antagonism. Possibly the best example of why creators should not openly, regularly interact with fans on social media and forums before JK Rowling went full TERF.
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Mammal Sauce posted: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. I think I remember. A UPN show? Did it run alongside a show about a high tech Dodge Viper?
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Millions of Crows posted:I think I remember. A UPN show? Did it run alongside a show about a high tech Dodge Viper? The name of the show was just "Viper"
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Mantis42 posted: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. That got a lot of attention for reasons outside of the Half Life fandom. Namely, it was a dumpster fire of terribleness  Tons of stolen copyrighted content, mediocre everything, etc. All the attention it got was people gawking at how a trainwreck like it got so far and just how deep the rabbit hole went.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Possibly the best example of why creators should not openly, regularly interact with fans on social media and forums before JK Rowling went full TERF. It’s great when fantasy/sci fi writers who are all about anything being possible in their books decide people in the real world better stick to what society expects of them or they’re disgusting freaks
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FFT posted:The name of the show was just "Viper" Ohhhhhhh wow, a bunch of shows I’d watch with my dad just come flooding back. Viper Time Trax Sea Quest
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Which reminds, I'm guessing there isn't much of a Quantum Leap or Sliders fandom left outside of some weird niches in fanfiction
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I was excited to find a Duckman DVD set of seasons 1-2 at a dollar store. I mentioned it at work. I've had to explain Duckman more than a couple of times.
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LinYutang posted:Not looking forward to the Avatar fandom being forcibly resuscitated As in The Last Airbender or as in blue cat people?
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:As in The Last Airbender or as in blue cat people? Blue cat people. The sequels (yes, multiple) are finally coming starting next year. For a preview of how sad and pathetic it will be, check out Jenny Nicholson's review of the Avatar theme park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIxGWterYA
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Was there ever an Avatar fandom? I swear to God that movie was purged from public consciousness within like three months of release. It made crazy money and then vanished.
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Do you count our next president? https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/923662217630896130
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Mists of Avalon sounds so cool but yyyikes I had no idea about the author and perhaps it’s best dead. Glad to know that fandom has always attracted some freak nasty monsters.
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Antivehicular posted:Was there ever an Avatar fandom? I swear to God that movie was purged from public consciousness within like three months of release. It made crazy money and then vanished. There was at least one (garbage) video game, there was also a whole lot of backstory information to be found. There was porn, for what little that's worth.
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Mr.Radar posted:Blue cat people. The sequels (yes, multiple) are finally coming starting next year. For a preview of how sad and pathetic it will be, check out Jenny Nicholson's review of the Avatar theme park: Disney delayed Avatar 2 to 2021 so they can alternate the Avatar sequels and the next Star Wars trilogy yearly 
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There were thoss people who thought they were the blue-cat people from Avatar and tried to learn the language. I thought there was an old Weekend Web feature on them but I'm phone posting and can't confirm. I also remember coming across Mpreg photo manips in the late 90's/very early 00's for the Sentinel. That's probably died out by now. Tulalip Tulips has a new favorite as of 09:27 on Jun 30, 2019 |
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Antivehicular posted:Was there ever an Avatar fandom? I swear to God that movie was purged from public consciousness within like three months of release. It made crazy money and then vanished. A quick check on the Archive of Our Own fanfic site found that Avatar had barely a third as many stories as the Michael Bay reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And, checking the actual stories, I found several on the first page of results that were clearly mis-tagged Avatar the Last Airbender fanfics.
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The only memorable character in Avatar is the angry military guy. I literally can't remember anyone else.
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I know Avatar once had a fan base to the point that people were getting depressed that they couldn’t ever actually live on the Avatar planet because it wasn’t real. There was a huge fan base in China, too. I haven’t seen much about them in years and ugh yeah there’s gonna be a resurgence of fugly blue catpeople soon.
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China actually officially renamed a mountain after Avatar, that's how big it got. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_Hallelujah_Mountain
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I am so loving ready for an Animorphs reboot. The books were total middle schooler crack, but the TV show was terrible and I don't think there was ever a notable video game. There are a couple of fan wikis out there but otherwise it's pretty slim pickings. There are a couple of articles about how they were surprisingly good, but there's always this air of glum resignation that they're gone and probably won't return.
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Open Marriage Night posted:I remember the Gundam Wing fandom being where the boys who liked DBZ and the girls who liked Sailor Moon could find some common ground. AKA Wingers A weeb of true sophistication and taste only watched the original series and the following Universal Century continuity series
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Kenning posted:I am so loving ready for an Animorphs reboot. The books were total middle schooler crack, but the TV show was terrible and I don't think there was ever a notable video game. There are a couple of fan wikis out there but otherwise it's pretty slim pickings. There are a couple of articles about how they were surprisingly good, but there's always this air of glum resignation that they're gone and probably won't return. I was not expecting that first link.
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Kenning posted:I am so loving ready for an Animorphs reboot. The books were total middle schooler crack, but the TV show was terrible and I don't think there was ever a notable video game. I vaguely remember playing this one:  It was not good.
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Kenning posted:I am so loving ready for an Animorphs reboot. The books were total middle schooler crack, but the TV show was terrible and I don't think there was ever a notable video game. LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I vaguely remember playing this one: This, the PS1 and the Gameboy Color games are notable, or at least notorious, for how bad they are. Especially the GBC game, which is a Pokemon clone with a bizarre colour scheme:   
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I don't remember if I stopped reading the Animorphs after one or two dozen installments, but I loved every bit of it. They started coming out around the time I was branching out into science fiction, and I only stopped keeping up with them when I'd discovered better. But I'll always remember. Also that first article is wrong, Tobias didn't truly choose to stay a hawk iirc, he was forced for the good of the team to go past the 2 hour permanency limit. Remember the time they (or one of them) got shunted into extradimensional space because that was where their extra mass went when they morphed and it was also where ships traveled FTL so even a near miss was a disaster?
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Mammal Sauce posted:Nowhere Man. Great thriller/conspiracy show that was probably ahead of its time. FFT posted:Which reminds, I'm guessing there isn't much of a Quantum Leap or Sliders fandom left outside of some weird niches in fanfiction They also had the ORIGINAL Mallory brother plot from one of the showrunners he's an engineered CroMag spy that would steal the codes to Prime Quinn's Homeworld and disable their Slide Shield to allow the Mags to finally conquer their oppressors amd other poo poo from the showrunners. Open Marriage Night posted:I remember the Gundam Wing fandom being where the boys who liked DBZ and the girls who liked Sailor Moon could find some common ground.  when Heero says he would kill Relina.Related Animu: the SaveOurSailors campaign to finish Sailor Moon dubbing.
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FilthyImp posted:Related Animu: the SaveOurSailors campaign to finish Sailor Moon dubbing. Weren't they extremely homophobic, even by 1990s standards?
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FFT posted:I don't remember if I stopped reading the Animorphs after one or two dozen installments, but I loved every bit of it. He was later given the ability to morph again, and was introduced to his pre-hawk human self via a cosmically powerful superbeing messing with space time (thus permitting him to become human again for 2 hours at a time) but he chose to not permanently "morph" back into his human form because that would mean losing the ability to morph for a second (and final) time, thus permanently removing himself from the Animorphs and just living as a regular kid again. 
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EightDeer posted:Weren't they extremely homophobic, even by 1990s standards? What, the dubs? Yeah, they were notorious at the time for translating an obviously gay couple as 'cousins'.
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Liquid Communism posted:What, the dubs? Yeah, they were notorious at the time for translating an obviously gay couple as 'cousins'. I think they mean the SaveOurSailors group. I don't recall them being extremely homophobic, at least in the context of the 90s. I know some believed a rumor going around that Sailor Uranus was originally Prince Uranus reborn as a girl on Earth, and 'his' and Neptune's relationship continued. Which, you know....honestly, while it's still "Well, there must be a reason they a couple, because no one is just gay", at least they acknowledged they are a couple, and other then "gotta explain it somehow" didn't really find anything wrong with them being together. Which is fairly accepting by late 90s teen standards. I know the media was slowly improving at that time, but I was a gay, trans high schooler around that period, and I can tell you teenagers themselves were still seriously homophobic on average.
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FFT posted:Remember the time they (or one of them) got shunted into extradimensional space because that was where their extra mass went when they morphed and it was also where ships traveled FTL so even a near miss was a disaster? !!! The extra mass thing always bugged me as a kid. It's been rattling around my brain for the last two decades. Finally, I have closure.
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