The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • Man, new Disney Channel is weird

    It's definitely more aesthetically pleasing than it used to be (especially since the rebrand) but I don't like the new logo and the shows don't have any substance anymore

    Mixed feelings all around
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Neu! Order
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Neu!tral Milk Hotel
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Fall Out Neu!
  • Hm, well, I guess you could say Gravity Falls is the exception that proves the rule

    But even then, Season 2 is taking so long that it feels like they've put it on the backburner aside from the shorts
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    I haven't watched Wonder Over Yonder, but I've heard good things about that.

    also, Neu!606
  • Wander barely airs on Disney Channel proper anymore-- since February it's aired on XD

    It's a great show as well but it suffered the same problem GF did until it network hopped
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Tre said:

    It's definitely more aesthetically pleasing than it used to be


    Also, it sounds like Disney uses XD as a dumping ground of sorts now, if a show's not based on a Marvel property or Star Wars
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)

    Windows, doors, screens, paper, tables, keyboard keys, none of these have to be rectangular.

    Break free from ninety degree angles!
  • TreTre
    edited 2014-06-07 16:02:05
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    Heh, I remember like all of the stuff in this video

    Except for the whole abbreviation of the name to just "Disney", that slipped my mind; I do remember knowing the primary programming block as Zoog Disney, though
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I think it's a ways into this, but not long before that logo was ditched, they switched from "Disney" to "Disney Channel":

  • Man, seeing commercials for Jett Jackson makes me sad

    rest in peace, Lee Thompson Young
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    yeah...I barely remember that show but that is depressing
  • who ever thought that The Country Bears would be a valid idea for a film?

    like, I'm amazed I ever found any quality in that film
  • Movie Surfers as a full-length show was rad, though
  • heh, they totally converted that Zoog Movie bumper into the Disney Channel Movie one when the logo switched over
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    one must acquire speed
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    It kind of surprises me, somehow, that the Disney Channel becoming HIP 'n' RAD actually worked

    It seems like the sort of thing that would have blown up in their faces, been ridiculed, and then been abandoned

    Disney mind control at work there
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    the ID at 10:51 in the 7-2002 video

    good god it sounds like someone ran "Red Hot Skull" through a shredder
  • TreTre
    edited 2014-06-07 17:00:06
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    Looking at it from a modern perspective, I really like the old promotional package from when I was properly part of the channel's audience (seen here and here)

    I never gave it a second thought until it got replaced by the ribbon look from '08 or so
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I'm surprised nobody's made a Metro version of XBMC yet

    That seems like one of very few apps that would actually translate well to that kind of interface
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ^^@that first one

    letting Brandy and Mr. Whiskers move in with me? No thanks

    also I said stuff about all this in my own personal thread in the event people were tired of this discussion
  • I'm surprised nobody's made a Metro version of XBMC yet


    That seems like one of very few apps that would actually translate well to that kind of interface
    Plex for Windows 8/Phone exists

    also, using Windows Phone is a very good way to improve one's thoughts on Metro, considering that it was designed primarily for use in that context
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Heh.

    I've said all along that I don't mind Metro in the proper context (touchscreen devices), but resent that it's being forced upon me in contexts it clearly isn't optimized for
  • apparently classic Windows is just as awkward on touch though
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I can imagine.

    Which just makes Windows 8.x all the more bizarre...it's this bizarre mish-mash where you have to deal with touchscreen-optimized stuff even when you're using a mouse and mouse-optimized stuff even when you're using a touchscreen.

    By trying to do both at once, they've managed to do neither successfully. :\
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  • Torn between going to bed hungry, or eating before bed and not sleeping until 2am.

    #WhiteGirlProblems
  • edited 2014-06-07 18:21:43
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    MetaFour said:

    Overused internet memes? No-- I can't-- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


    (melts into a pile of bubbling purple moon sludge)

    Also, yay fun with being unable to sleep :|
    I'm reminded of the time the Homestuck fandom flipped their collective lid because Dirk's auto-responder made an "over 9000" joke. Completely ignoring the fact that "loves terrible stuff to the extent that you can't tell if he's ironic or sincere" is half of his characterization.

    Naturally, Hussie responded by working an even dumber "over 9000" reference into a future conversation.
    I found the ARquius callback to that joke genuinely funny, to be completely honest, at least partly because it was completely in character and actually called for.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I've always found the bile people fling at old memes bizarre

    On IJBM2, when UE explained that the site's favicon was a reference to "the cake is a lie", people acted like he had thrown a picture of a bleeding corpse up there or something

    But then again I got tired of "arrow to the knee" ultra-fast, so
  • old memes are okay if they are old memes that never kind of got massive and are just old

    the old memes that are, i would not say infuriating, but rather cringeworthy, are the ones where they got really massive and people with no cultural awareness or real sense of humour (beyond 'wow a meme!! this will be funny if i mention it at every conceivable opportunity.') picked up on them and ran them into the ground. that happened to cake is a lie. also happened to arrow to the knee, absurdly quickly. and "rage comics"

    then they become sort of tainted by association, to add to the fact that usually by this point theyve already started to become boring (as all in jokes do after a while)

    its like comic sans. it is not something inherent in it, but the many, many times it gets misused, overused, or used in plain stupid contexts.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Precisely. It's about misuse rather than something inherent.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    We should make a musical episode of HH.
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Anonus said:

    I've always found the bile people fling at old memes bizarre


    On IJBM2, when UE explained that the site's favicon was a reference to "the cake is a lie", people acted like he had thrown a picture of a bleeding corpse up there or something

    But then again I got tired of "arrow to the knee" ultra-fast, so
    ...But IJBM2's favicon is a ladybird?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

    Anonus said:

    I've always found the bile people fling at old memes bizarre


    On IJBM2, when UE explained that the site's favicon was a reference to "the cake is a lie", people acted like he had thrown a picture of a bleeding corpse up there or something

    But then again I got tired of "arrow to the knee" ultra-fast, so
    ...But IJBM2's favicon is a ladybird?
    It used to be a slice of cake with a "no" symbol
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Huh. I don't remember that.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Pasta ninininininininininininininininini!
  • edited 2014-06-07 19:09:30
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    Huh. I don't remember that.

    Me neither. Must have been really early on.

    Wait, now that I think about it, I might remember! But it was so long ago...
  • you know as much as i have enjoyed ~getting into~ academia i think it has made me more prone to using 250 words where 25 will do

    like i typed out a massive post about memes up there (lol why did i do that) and vash came along and basically said what i had posted in the space of one sentence

    this post could also probably be made in about 7 words but lol i am gonna run it over at least three line breaks

    maybe four
  • drinking a nice cotes du rhone. stuck Sunset Mission on. it's one of those nights
  • BE ATTITUDE FOR GAINS
    So hurt
    Much pain
    Very sensitive

    Wow
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

    I found the ARquius callback to that joke genuinely funny, to be completely honest, at least partly because it was completely in character and actually called for.

    I really liked it too. Partly because the setup of the joke involved a reference to 2001: A Spade Odyssey. A quintessentially Homestuckian juxtaposition of highbrow and lowbrow.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    MetaFour said:

    I found the ARquius callback to that joke genuinely funny, to be completely honest, at least partly because it was completely in character and actually called for.

    I really liked it too. Partly because the setup of the joke involved a reference to 2001: A Spade Odyssey. A quintessentially Homestuckian juxtaposition of highbrow and lowbrow.
    And this is why Homestuck is basically a postmodernist novel with pictures and sometimes music.

    Among many other reasons.
  • I am heeeeere after going to the grocery store and stuff
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Sometimes I feel like I have ruined comics for myself forever. Sometimes I will look at a normal comic, and think to myself, what the fuck are all these fucking panels doing on the same fucking page? SPREAD EM OUT DUDE! True story.
    It is my fond hope that I have ruined, or will ruin, comics for everyone else too. Scott McCloud wrote what I am sure is a pretty good book called Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. One day I hope to write a book called Ruining Comics: Forever. It will be a 1000 page book, and every page will simply be a photograph of my face.
    — Andrew Hussie
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    I am eating popcorn.
  • I am most chipper today.
  • TreTre
    edited 2014-06-07 20:05:47
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    gearsHHift
  • I'm going up to NYC with my family for a week tomorrow. I'm really super excited right now.
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