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I remember Battle of the Planets, which had a talking R2-D2, also called G-Force. I don't remember ever seeing it as Gatchaman. That was my first anime. That or Simba/Kimba The White Lion, if that counts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Planets

As a maybe a ten year old when exposed, maybe younger, I could never understand why the same bad guys attacked every week nor what their motivation for attacking was.

Daehawk wrote: Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:32 am Came across this little gem last night. Its a sci fi space movie that came out in 1977...the same year as Star Wars. But it looks a decade or more older. Hard to believe they released the same year. 1977

Watch the trailer there on IMDB's site..horrid. lol. And it stars John Richardson.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149677/?r ... mg_t_8_act

Or you can watch it in its entirety here: Cosmos: War of the Planets

My d-i-l is mad at me because I keep buying things they wanted to get me for Christmas.

dbt1949 wrote: Fri Dec 01, 2023 10:01 am My d-i-l is mad at me because I keep buying things they wanted to get me for Christmas.

dbt1949 wrote: Fri Dec 01, 2023 10:01 am My d-i-l is mad at me because I keep buying things they wanted to get me for Christmas.

Tell her you still need a tiny violin.

Well since my tablet broke and I cant do without a tablet in my life I got a new one. Instead of holding out for the best and brightest I really wanted I got what I could reasonably get now that did it all but not quite as good but I HAVE it and its great. It was my single treat for this month instead of some fancy food item. Thanks to low power bill and other things I was able to get it and not infringe on anything else.

I got the Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite 8.7". I love it! So nice sleek and fast and beautiful. All I could want. Still waiting on my GLASS screen shield for it. Not sure Ill get a case for it but a thicker case might make it easier to handle.

Now to figure out what all I can do with it I couldn't do with my old tablet.

OO (GoneGold?) history question: What was the Battle of Fucktard Ridge?

I was doing a nearly unrelated search and came across an oblique nod to this apparently significant historical event. Unfortunately, even a direct search uncovered only ancillary references. May I ask for the full story?

(As far as I can tell, it occurred during the GoneGold days when I was still just a lurker.)

I'm aware that board norms might require that I be piled upon for this request...

Are you familiar with Marvel's Civil War story line? Well, the Battle of Fucktard Ridge is our version. Instead of arguing over whether or not the Sokovia Accords were morally just, there was a fight over owls and memes. It made sense at the time. Unfortunately, it fractured the survivors of Gone Gold's demise even further.

I was around back then and vaguely remember something, but felt it was insignificant and didn't pay much attention. Kind of reminds me of Lightning Bolt!

Smoove_B wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 5:28 pm Are you familiar with Marvel's Civil War story line? Well, the Battle of Fucktard Ridge is our version. Instead of arguing over whether or not the Sokovia Accords were morally just, there was a fight over owls and memes. It made sense at the time. Unfortunately, it fractured the survivors of Gone Gold's demise even further.

I never did understand that mess and stayed away for the most part. I really dislike conflict.

Holman wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 5:17 pm What was the Battle of Fucktard Ridge?

Ugh. Too soon.

Smoove_B wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 5:28 pm there was a fight over owls and memes. It made sense at the time.

Smoove_B wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 5:28 pm Are you familiar with Marvel's Civil War story line? Well, the Battle of Fucktard Ridge is our version. Instead of arguing over whether or not the Sokovia Accords were morally just, there was a fight over owls and memes. It made sense at the time. Unfortunately, it fractured the survivors of Gone Gold's demise even further.

You're confusing the Battle of Fucktard Ridge with Hooterloo. I'm really stretching to remember the details after ~17 years, so expect some of this to be a bit off, and possibly out of order. Also: Both incidents took place on OO, not Gone Gold.

Hooterloo was the owls. People started posting owl pictures in threads, which was funny. Then they started posting them more. Then they started following around a poster that they actively disliked (U2K), posting multiple (sometimes dozens) of owls, resulting that any thread that poster visited being immediately derailed and any discussion stifled. It was referred to as 'owl bombing.' They were asked to stop by a staff member who has since retired (I think his name was Hackblawk or something.) They were asked to stop disrupting threads and stalking certain posters repeatedly. Two threads were locked because of it. Eventually, they were given a straight up warning to stop. They responded with an owl picture. That resulted in a temp ban of an established poster, and a few of that poster's buddies went ballistic because the CoC (remember that?) didn't specifically say that they couldn't stalk people with pictures.

This was when we added a 'catch all' rule to the CoC, basically restating Wheaton's Law: Don't be a dick. It forbade intentionally disruptive behavior without defining it precisely (because defining it precisely was impossible - people would always find a way to skirt around it.) It was a "Mods' discretion" type rule. Those posters who were already angry got even angrier, acting like staff would start going around banning people left and right whenever they felt like it because we didn't have every offense clearly spelled out. Those posters started acting like assholes in response to every single mod decision, every locked thread, every request. It eventually resulted on additional bans, which resulted in those posters taking their ball and starting a new website (Cow Cabal or something.)

I was front-and-center on that one, and the whole thing was a miserable experience, as most of the people that were acting the worst were people I considered personal friends.

Fucktard Ridge was a person (or a few people) who wouldn't stop with personal attacks. A thread got out of control and was locked (I seem to remember Gellar being the proverbial straw, and the lock came from a staff member who has since retired.) A couple of posters took exception to the idea, and started making drama, including personal attacks, which resulted in a ban, which resulted in a few people leaving in a huff.

FWIW, that wave of drama was the reason that I stepped down from being on staff. It had reached a point where my favorite place on the internet was mostly stress and gritted teeth, plus second-guessing every one of my own decisions lest it cause drama. The mod who was point on Fucktard Ridge stepped down too, and I believe the reasoning was similar.

The thing is that we got ride of 90% of the disruptive posters over that period, and the drama pretty much petered out after that, save for (I believe) the BrettMCD hassle.

Ahhh...you're right! I guess I mixed those events together not realizing they were so distinct. Both were related to moderation and online behavior, but they had very different elements - like the European and Pacific theaters of WW2.

I don't remember any of that. But I don't remember lots of things. Like dbt, I avoid conflict, so I probably floated above the fray.

This is my least favorite time of year, Christmas decorating season . However, since I've not been too Scroogist about it, my wife rewarded me with a special lawn blow-up (which I still had to put up myself ). But it made me happy:

YouTuber Who Intentionally Crashed Plane Gets 6 Months In Prison For Obstruction

YouTube pilot Trevor Daniel Jacob was sentenced to six months in prison Monday for destroying the wreckage of an airplane he intentionally crashed in southern California for video views, according to a statement, a ruling that comes about 5 months after Jacob pleaded guilty to a federal obstruction charge.

Daehawk wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2023 9:28 pm Damnit Walmart. I buy a cheap wine from Walmart..because its cheap Oak Leaf. I like my wine sweet and alcoholy. Anyways I think they take and oversized fake cork and hammer it into the bottle with Thor's Hammer Mjölnir itself. Damn things is ALWAYS flush in there and hell to pull out. I barely have the strength to do it now days Im so old and infirm. Maybe I ca hire Hercules..or Kevin Sorbo. Anyways I have to put it on the floor and grasp it with the rubber soles of my tennis shoes and I bend over and pull with all my might to yank that sumbiotch out. And then Ive hurt my back and need my wine.

A joke I made a long time ago:



How can you tell if you are drinking cheap wine?



Check under the cap to see if you won a free bottle!

I lived in Arkansas from 1987 to 2023...36 years, and now I live in Oklahoma. I am not impressed.

dbt1949 wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:04 am , and now I live in Oklahoma.

I missed this news if you shared it before. I'll need to update my mental maps.

I imagine Arkansas had a more interesting landscape than Oklahoma.

I moved in with my stepson and his wife and they live in Spiro Oklahoma. Pretty boring flat landscape.

I sort of assumed that they lived in Arkansas not too far from you're old house. I've updated my mental map also.

My OO mental map is horrible. You, Blackhawk, Daehawk, Kraken (for now) and Holman have locations but everyone else is in a nebulus pile of Chicago or maybe Fargo? I know there are people in NJ, Colorado, and Florida but not who is where.

I feel like I can place about 70%
BH and Daehawk are easy (although I put Daehawk in Tenn/Kentucky interchangeably)

Top of my head:
I picture the Chicago group mostly as Lawbeef, Lawboy, Zarathud, Hepcat, JeffV, Seppe, Hentzau, Archinerd, hipolito... (I'm here too)
Texas has Isgrimnur, Cooposonic, LittleRaven
Michigan: LordMortis, Remus West, Chaosraven, recently Scoop### moved there.
Colorado: MHS, Meal, Zaxxon, TheMix, gilraen, I think Defiant too?
California: Piperkub, Jaymann
Pennsylvania: Holman
Mass: Kraken (but moving), El Guapo
Florida: jstemple, msteelers, Jag
Canada: MaxPeck, GreenGoo, Rumpy, Sudy
NJ: Smoove_B?, maybe Malchior?
NY: AWS###
Alabama: Lassr
Georgia: Grifman, I think?
Oregon: Exodor, Kurth
Washington: Alefroth
Utah: Skinypupy
North Carolina: Yellowking
South Carolina: stessier (but he may have moved again) , carpet_pissr

I don't trust locations. Madmarcus claims to be here and yet I don't see him.

Unagi wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:24 pm (although I put Daehawk in Tenn/Kentucky interchangeably)

You need to shift that to Tenn/Georgia.

Isgrimnur wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:29 pm

Unagi wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:24 pm (although I put Daehawk in Tenn/Kentucky interchangeably)

You need to shift that to Tenn/Georgia.

While I acknowledge that it's incorrect, I tend to lump Tenn and Kentuky together in my head very casually. I can't say that I've ever lumped Georgia in with Tenn.

Unagi wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:43 pm While I acknowledge that it's incorrect, I tend to lump Tenn and Kentuky together in my head very casually. I can't say that I've ever lumped Georgia in with Tenn.

+1, which makes it hard for me to reconcile that that the Cincinnati airport is in Kentucky, as Ohio is not part of Tennessee.

Unagi wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:24 pm NJ: Smoove_B?, maybe Malchior?

Add Octavious, RM9, Trent Steel, Hrdina and Punisher, aka the miserable bastards.

I think I did know about Octavious and maybe Punisher - but I wasn't aware of Hrdina, RM9, or Trent Steel (maybe this one in the back of my head, actually, but not recoverable data).

I haven't logged into my alt accounts (RM9, Trent) as frequently as I used to, so keeping up appearances has been difficult.

Unagi wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:24 pm South Carolina: stessier (but he may have moved again)

I haven't moved in *gulp* 10 years!!! (I really should think about finding a new place...they might be on to me)

I always think of one of the doctors as being in Colorado too - Freyland maybe?

I suppose I should mention that I'm in PA when I'm not just outside your vision

I haven't moved in 35 years.

Random thought.....I wonder if part of a person's or animal's spirit remains in places they were during life be a home or a store...just everywhere they went part of them remains in a way.

Then I wonder if like here at home the part that remains doesn't know they've passed on and they go about their time as always. But the living occupy that space as well. Like if I move some stuff around or walk through do the spirits think Im the ghost? Do they feel me or notice things in the home moved or a small of my cologne?

Unagi wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:24 pm California: Piperkub, Jaymann

I believe naednek is in Sacramento, second only to the candy on my list of favorite mentos.

AWS260 wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:00 pm

Unagi wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:24 pm California: Piperkub, Jaymann

I believe naednek is in Sacramento, second only to the candy on my list of favorite mentos.

As am I.

Unagi wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:24 pm
Washington: Alefroth

i'm the only Seattleite forum resident left (but maybe i always was the only one - i think the others were all in the suburbs/exurbs)

There was another from my area but he got banned.

Daehawk wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:42 pm I haven't moved in 35 years.

We've been in our current house 39 years. I've lived in Brevard County, except for being away to college, ever since The Association was on top of the charts with Windy