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In Trends in Entertainment, or Why Do We Eat this Crap Up? → 11 yrs ago Forum: Off-Topic Discussion

Shy said
And same with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she was kicking vampire's butts before Meyer ever even had an idea for Twilight, she didn't jump on the vampire trend, she started that thing (Okay, maybe Dracula did but shh!).

Think he was saying that Twilight jumped on the same trend as Buffy, not that it started it.

In Trends in Entertainment, or Why Do We Eat this Crap Up? → 11 yrs ago Forum: Off-Topic Discussion

There's a difference between a producer appealing to the mainstream(producing for the bigger audience) and selling out(forgetting artistic integrity for the sake of monehz), and consumers tend to accuse artistic producers of selling out whenever they make something said consumer doesn't like (Which I would say is what is going in several of your examples and most of game theory's vid, just so you know game theory is generally a pretty yellow source of info on the gaming industry). Also note that the mainstream is different for each industry and the mainstream of each industry tends to change drastically every few years.

As far as the movie, music, and television industries go, they've always been heavily connected to the mainstream as they were born alongside widespread media (which created the mainstream), but we've definitely had more producers full on selling out in the past decades. The main problem now is that the mainstream's taste has been degrading since the late 90's and it just terrible, to the point that we're left looking for maybe one good movie each year instead of a competition as to which will be the best. You or any of the countless masses who have made similar "Don't buy garbage" speeches online do not have any chance of doing anything to change this, the only way this will change is if the widespread media starts changing the mainstream for the better, which it doesn't look like it will do for at least another several years.

As far as the gaming industry goes, I'd say things are a bit different. The gaming industries has always have very loose ties with widespread media with only occasional games getting picked up by it (WoW, Minecraft, and CoD are good examples of what a ridiculous money maker the gaming industry could be if widespread media gave it more attention). What I think is the cause of the problem you are talking about more has to do with one of the recent major mainstream changes, in that when it changed a large portion of the consumers didn't go with it, which has created another large (but still small compared to the mainstream) faction that detests a good portion of what the recent mainstream likes. Game companies had to make a decision as to which group they would work to appeal to more, most chose the mainstream while this little company by the name of Valve has made a killing by playing Steam as the savior of this other faction of gamers. IMO most game producers haven't full on sold out, apart for EA who sold out a long fucking time ago

As far as trending and franchising goes, yes, they're cheap tactics used to milk the mainstream, but major production companies gotta get their money somewhere. Though several of the things you accused of just following treads have been a thing long before they were popular. You say superhero movies weren't a thing and got no respect, when really big groups have been producing superhero movies and show long before recent series made it epic-tier popular. Oh, and as someone who didn't like Hunger Games, I'll tell you it is just as guilty on all of that teen-book trend shit as all the others, if not more so than most as it is the major series that took the mantle once Twilight and HP were out of the way.

In Tribes → 11 yrs ago Forum: Spam Forum

Svenn, you missed that bit but you have to have a special item to lead prayers, and currently Nex is the only one on your team with one such item.

In Tribes → 11 yrs ago Forum: Spam Forum

I know the tools and arrows spawned above your heads, but you can grab them this turn.

In Tribes Command Thread → 11 yrs ago Forum: Spam Forum

Turn 7 -
9 Turns Till Night

Team Info [+]

KOKA enters the cave. Over the sound of the waterfall, you hear the yelling and the clashing of steel echoing from somewhere else in the cave.

DRAKEL helps DERVISH finish praying. The had of your AX has become stone.

DERVISH finishes praying for two STONE PICKs and an upgrade for DRAKEL's AX. You never specifically told me that you wanted to change the order, but I decided to be nice since you expressed a vague interest in following DRAKEL's plan. Just remember that the person to change the order of a prayer should be the person leading the prayer.

SHY enters the cave with KOKA. Over the sound of the waterfall, you hear yelling and the clashing of steel echoing from somewhere else in the cave.

BLITZ heads EAST.

KNIGHTSHADE stores his HEALING POTION in his inventory slot and uses THREE BRANCHES to make a WOODEN SPADE.

Team Info [+]

NAT dies. You may still respawn by simply using the command ::respawn.

MTN heads EAST, only to get the shit slapped out of him by VORDAK on the way. (HP 4/5)

IMAGINATION chops a few CHUNKS OF WOOD out of the tree.

NURGLE finishes the prayer with NEX.

NEX finishes the prayer. Overprayer lead to an extra 2 ARROWs being produces, leaving you with 7 NON-TIPPED ARROWS.

HOLMI finishes the prayer with NEX.

VORDAK heads over to MTN and slaps him.

SVENN spawns to team white with a SPELL SCROLL: UNDERWATER BREATHING. Underwater breathing allows you to extend the time you can spend underwater at the cost of MP, 1 MP per turn underwater.

In Every day → 11 yrs ago Forum: Spam Forum