CFFJR wrote:Are you saying they were planning the prequels that far back?
Yes. Or at least, the idea that there is a story that they want to tell that comes before A New Hope.
Wow, that's surprising.
I'd always assumed that the prequels were something of a spur of the moment, "let's wring some more money out of this franchise 'cause its a sure bet" sort of thing. Especially when I hear the fans hating on them so much.
Interesting.
GameSack wrote:That's right, only Sega had the skill to make a proper Nintendo game.
CFFJR wrote:Are you saying they were planning the prequels that far back?
Yes. Or at least, the idea that there is a story that they want to tell that comes before A New Hope.
Wow, that's surprising.
I'd always assumed that the prequels were something of a spur of the moment, "let's wring some more money out of this franchise 'cause its a sure bet" sort of thing. Especially when I hear the fans hating on them so much.
Interesting.
On the contrary, every since Episode IV was listed (back in 1980) fans have wanted to know what happened in the prequel era, and the writers of the EU made a point of staying away from those events and being as vague as possible when discussing anything that might occur during that timeframe.
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lisalover1 wrote:So wait, the reason you dislike MLP is because it is popular?
There's popular, and there's "shoved in your face constantly." The first is easily ignored if you aren't into it. The latter gets old really fast, and tends to make people hate whetever it is the fans are trying to force everyone to like.
I stopped posting ponies here outside the official pony thread. I haven't seen them posted gratuitously for a while on Racketboy. So, what do you mean for it to be shoved down your throat? If you answer, be aware that passive instances where you find ponies online do not count (User avatars, web pages that you know contain ponies where it is your own choice to view them, etc.); only when someone specifically spams them. This topic has come up on Ponychan a lot lately. We know that many people don't care for ponies, so we are working on toning it down a bit as a community effort. What we will NOT stop doing however, is expressing our love for the show. We have every right to say that we are fans; no one can tell us what we can and cannot like.
Hey, let's not turn this thread into a big argument. lisalover1 likes ponies, and others here don't like seeing them. Let's just leave it at that.
prfsnl_gmr wrote:There is nothing feigned about it. What I wrote is a display of actual moral superiority.
yomomma1 wrote:MLP and Invader Zim. The former has died down alot, but MLP is everywhere. It is good to be enthusiastic about what you like, I guess, but the MLP fanbase (excluding 5 year old girls) is a whole different monster.
So wait, the reason you dislike MLP is because it is popular?
I hate ponies and fanbase, because they flood boards with pony topics. If you mention this, and you want them to stop THEY HIJACK THE THREAD. There does not need to be a discussion of ponies on every forum, and certainly not an active thread 24 hours a day.
And don't forget, just because someone says that "Fanbase X tends to do dipshit thing Y on internet forums" doesn't mean that the members here who belong to X do Y, since we've got a great group of people here and a good moderating team.
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The cannabis fanbase. Granted, I have a Minor Threat avatar hanging out below user name, so you might want to take that into consideration and handicap my statements with your own mental counter-weight so that you can come to a more balanced conclusion for yourself. I don't think that smoking weed is the worst thing in the world, but it does lower peoples' standards for what entertains and inspires them. My personal standpoint is that if something is not satisfying with a sober mind, it's not worth putting my left brain on hold in order to convince myself that it's worthwhile -- it means I need to try harder to find or produce more meaningful stimuli for myself, because that will lead to progressively more meaningful and challenging experiences. That said, some of my closest friends as well as historical figures I respect smoked the stuff -- in fact, I had a friend with SEVERE anger-management problems who conquered them using weed as a sort of crutch. I'm hoping this preface will serve to demonstrate that I have a fairly balanced perception of the plant in and of itself.
What bothers me is the army of pot-smokers out there whose only political stance is "Legalize It" -- I agree that marijuana should be legalized (mostly because I'm an environmentalist and producing paper and oil from the plant would be a great service to our planet compared to our current methods of producing those commodities), but the majority of the people behind this cause are absolute fanatics who brilliantly display all the reasons why people still think the plant should be banned in the first place. Most of them don't really care about the environment, economics, or history, but they've memorized a novel of THC talking-points just so that they can convince people to let them smoke more pot -- they'll never get behind another political cause because of their laziness and ignorance... and it gets mighty difficult not to make a correlation between those traits and the plants they're smoking. It's just like the NRA -- I understand why the Second Amendment exists, but the main proponents behind its political cause are precisely the kinds of people that I'd never want to let touch a gun in their lives.
Anyway, it makes me want to see only THC-less strands of cannabis get legalized, just to see them squirm.
