Your 'Seinfield Is Unfunny' moment

I kept on forgetting even THAT much.

I played Banjo-Kazooie before Super Mario 64, and now the latter is dull as dishwater to me.

Is that a Wocket in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

That's like forgetting to collect $200 when you pass Go.

Anyways, I'd suggest Dragon Strike, it runs on a simplified D'n'D-type engine, and it has that instructional video to help newbies get started. Even if you don't like the game you can always laugh at the video.

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great

Or you could try Munchkin.

edited 8th Jun '14 6:40:10 PM by resetlocksley

Fear is a superpower.

I do always forget to do that... is that bad?

"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — Ultimatepheer

@Thrice: Banjo is my favorite game ever for exactly that reason, Mario 64 was practically the best game ever but it was a wee bit small and the hub was somewhat creepy. Banjo fixed those points and added more humor.

Anyway,I got hit hard with it for Citizen Kane which I pretty much despised for the character being so static and unlikable.

Creepy? How so?

I'm seeing words here, but I don't know what they mean.

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<seinfield>

Stargate SG-1 What's the big deal? Arc's? Babylon Five did it. Portal network? Star Trek did it. The characters are kinda dull when they're not full on Mary Sue / Marty Stu. The aliens...c'mon guys, buy some rubber foreheads! With B5 and Trek, plus the X-men movies, SG-1 was like a Burger Fool burger after eating a good T-bone steak.

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~dons fire resistant Gothic Lolita dress~

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be on The First 48

Thanks, I fell onto the floor laughing at that. Thank you.

"Did you expect somebody else?"

~puts out her smoldering cat ears and tail ~

Your *cough* welcome...

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be on The First 48

It means to roll a twenty-sided die and add various situational modifiers. It's a mechanic in RP Gs that use the D20 System.

And as for newbie players, I might also recommend the obscure-but-excellent RPG Cortex. It has simple but effective mechanics, a fair amount of flexibility, and is also generic, meaning it can be used with any setting.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."

Tabletop RPGs as a medium fall under SIU for me. I may be a total customization nut, but there has to be some kind of automatic response because I don't have any friends and TRPGs are by definition unplayable solo.

"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — Ultimatepheer

#132 If I had to guess, it would be because the castle is so big and expansive and yet so deserted. Besides the paintings and boss level warps, there's literally nothing in there besides some Toads and a small handful of Boos.

And the stairs. Always the stairs.

Grunty's lair, on the other hand, has plenty of enemies, NPCs, and puzzles to keep you busy throughout the game. It feels more alive.

edited 9th Jun '14 10:11:30 PM by Midna

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Would this count as a Seinfeld Is Unfunny moment?

I thought of this last night. In the past, computers and their accessories mostly came in beige while black ones were considered rare works of art. Nowadays, the opposite is true.

edited 25th Jun '14 8:15:10 AM by Demetrios

I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.

More of a deader than disco: beige was cheap and white-ish colors looked future-y.

As the iMac took over with its transparent look, that got Seinfeld Is Unfunny real fast. Aside from computers and their parts, there were, tools, appliances, vacuums and a microwave (not to mention other *ahem* toys ) that did the "see inside them with neon colors.

It Jumped the Shark with a microwave where you could see the parts, but the chamber with the food was blocked by a metal screen!

Yes, it was a nice white and neon scheme and you could see everything but the food!....

edited 25th Jun '14 5:18:53 PM by TairaMai

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be on The First 48

I thought I was going to have a Seinfeld is Unfunny reaction to the original Star Wars Trilogy, but I didn't. Sure, there are a few eye-rolling moments and a healthy dose of narm, but overall the trilogy is a lot of fun.

Fear is a superpower.

• Hearing Kraftwerk in the local record shop a scant few years ago and remarking on how it might have been ground-breaking for 1975, but not at all remarkable now. (However, my problem with Kraftwerk since was something of the inverse of this trope- it is because I understood the influence they have had on music that has followed. Everything seems to have to be mechanistic and beat-orientated, plus with what Kraftwerk I've heard, it all seems pretty minimalistic. Plus, I do listen to some other vintage electronica- including the likes of Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre and so on and they were doing stuff that was far different to Kraftwerk, which I find more musically interesting. Yet most electronic stuff people have heard from since seems to be the synthpop, dance music etc. which took a lot of its inspiration from them.)

• Talking with some older guys in the pub about The Beatles, and them saying (an argument I've heard before) how revolutionary they were, and because I wasn't around at the time I couldn't appreciate it. My view is that, whilst their songs still hold up as decent pop songs, rock has moved on since then, and I find a lot of what came since more interesting or just likable for me; moreover, simply because they were breaking the mold, doesn't mean there was no decent (if not better) music ever before the Beatles came along. Some older relatives of mine never saw what was the big deal even at the time- mind you, they do prefer classical music to even what was popular before the Beatles.

Much like Kraftwerk, they were influential and in their way ground-breaking, but, so what?

• Re-watching Robotech isn't necessarily this for me, as I find in the main it still holds up reasonably well today (once you get past the likes of the awful singing voice they gave Minmay and the obvious plot holes that are all the more easy to see when you know it was three different shows tied together). But there was one bit that really invoked this trope for me- when Roy Fokker dies and they have to telegraph it as much as possible before it happens even to the point of calling the episode "Goodbye Big Brother". Calling it that, it's pretty obvious what's going to happen to him. Obviously, thinking about it, they were playing on the "nobody dies in a cartoon" understanding prevalent at the time, so it was a case of "they won't really kill him off, will they? Or will they?" For someone used to seeing uncensored anime from his mid-teens onwards, in which characters do die quite frequently, it's not altogether unexpected.

• As a kid I could never get what the generations before me were so scared about when it came to classic Doctor Who that they supposedly watched from behind the sofa or suchlike. (EDIT: Please note that I am quite a fan of classic Doctor Who. Just what was scary about them, though?)

edited 29th Jun '14 4:49:59 PM by TheLyniezian

Ender's Game the Film of the Book. Flat characters, they wasted Harrison Ford. The plot twists that are The Not Secret. Everything had been done before. Aside from Orson Scott Card's Jerkass behavior, I don't get why people were clamoring for this to be a movie. If it had been done in The '90s or the late Eighties it would have been cool. Now? Meh.

edited 29th Jun '14 10:07:57 AM by TairaMai

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be on The First 48

Just my two cents on things, if you only think The Beatles wrote pop songs, you haven't listened to The White Album.

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Personally, I can appreciate the Beatles since I know what exactly they did for music: they pretty much killed off the old ways of popular music, giving way to what we know today.

See Elijah Wald's How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll (despite the title, it's not hateful) for a good summary of why practically nothing about popular music in 1890 survived to 1970.

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."

Superman:The Movie. I get like it has a very epic scope and even today it looks good but... the pacing is god awful and the movie is uneven from Epic and Camp. I like both, but they don't quite work together.

Still better than every Superman movie to follow though.

The second half of Psycho seemed just like your normal Criminal Minds episode to me, and the plot twist at the end was easy predictable since by now this has been done a bajillion times.

No you can't call me Jar(i) I am not a glass container

Like I said before - their influence is so obvious that to me it's dull and overdone. So many groups even make fun of them for that reason - overplayed and you don't need to state their influence because if you do it becomes an echo chamber.

People say the same about some of my favourite acts when it comes to rock after them simply for what they introduced, especially with some of their heavier ways of playing.

"Did you expect somebody else?"

I know they perhaps did more than straight pop, but it's the songs that stick in your mind.

(I have a broader definition of "pop" than most people, too).

Probably I shall have to give the White Album a listen. [EDIT: Problem- you can't get it for next-to-nothing prices though which is all I can really afford at the moment!] Along with a bit more Kraftwerk... (i.e. not just Trans Europe Express and their more well-known singles).

edited 30th Jun '14 2:58:02 PM by TheLyniezian

Here, let me help you with that

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