I can't stand nerd whining about big movies I haven't seen

Odradek

Is this just me?

Imipolex G

no

Sredni Vashtar

Not by a long shot.

Tachyon

it doesn't really bother me, but it depends what they're whining about and how whiny the whining is

excess whining can kill the fun of something for me

Tachyon

also Sredni's back

yay!

Imipolex G

I've also become annoyed by whining about the Star Wars prequels

I get it, you don't like 'em. Well, the last one was eight years ago, give it a rest already, huh?

Tachyon

there's gonna be more

by the guy who did the Star Trek movies that people are already whining about

even tho the one i saw was awesome

Sredni Vashtar

Tachyon said:

also Sredni's back

yay!

I've not been able to get to the library because my sleep cycle is astoundingly terrible.

Also I'm at home, which is why I have to hike up to the library to do Web things.

All that aside, it's nice to know that people missed me, a certain fine young gentleman accepted...

Obā-san

>////>

anyhoo i liked the star trek reboot movie i saw

it seemed to lack that sort of unique star trek quality if that makes any sense, but the people who made it gave it a good reason not to so i was ok with it.

Anonus

J.J. Abrams likes House Industries so he can do whatever he wants :P

Previous Calica

I liked the 2009 Star Trek movie but I've heard really bad things about Into Darkness, which I guess feeds into that alternating movies thing when you include Galaxy Quest.

Anonus

I thought it was decent, being someone who hasn't watched Wrath of Khan all the way through

Justice4243

I disliked it for a # of reasons. 

Mostly plot hole related, and not all of them related to Khan's skin color. 

glennmagusharvey

Exactly a #?  How many sig figs?

Bee

$ of them.

I dunno.  There were a lot of things about those movies that made my inner physicist start frothing at the mouth, even as far as Star Trek goes.  But as movies they were okay.

Tanya

Pillows said:

I've also become annoyed by whining about the Star Wars prequels

I get it, you don't like 'em. Well, the last one was eight years ago, give it a rest already, huh?

To be fair, and I say this because of my extreme dislike of Other:M, when it comes to franchises, there's not just the quality of a stand alone title anymore, whenever a franchise makes a misstep, that kind of thing will always be stained on the franchise, and sometimes they affect the franchise going forward.

Whether this is because of preconceptions because of the poor quality entry or things from the poor quality entry being mimic'd in future entries.

Just think about if no had ever bought Zelda games because of the Zelda CDI? Or how about voice acting in every Zelda game?

Tachyon

^ That's sorta true, but only to a point.  i haven't played Other M, but when most people think of Metroid i think they're more likely, or at the very least as likely, to think of earlier titles because it's such an iconic series

that goes like 100 times more for Star Trek, which is such a strong and iconic brand with such a devoted fanbase that a single bad installment is not likely to hurt it that much

now, a string of bad installments in succession, that'd be different

Miss Miko Mayonegg

Just think about if no had ever bought Zelda games because of the Zelda CDI? Or how about voice acting in every Zelda game?

Nintendo has managed to ignore their existence completely and pretend they never happened. ^_^;

Obā-san

the Zelda CDI games are the best

Imipolex G

Honestly, before "MAH BOI" and all that got turned into YouTube poops and whatnot, I thought the Zelda CD-i games had been completely forgotten

Tachyon

yeah

like i don't think i even knew they existed until i saw them mentioned on Wikipedia

Previous Calica

I saw them like once.  In a Seanbaby article.

Imipolex G

I was vaguely aware of them around the time they came out, but since the Philips CD-i was a commercial flop they seemed to make no impression on the collective gamer consciousness.

I guess I underestimated their, uh, influence a little.

glennmagusharvey

Just like many other people (from random schmucks all the way up to NASA), I think you misestimated internet.

Tachyon

i think you'd be showing astonishing foresight to predict Internet memes and YouTube back in the early 1990s.

Alduin

Other M

We are never to mention this ever again. 

Obā-san

Sredni Vashtar

Obā-san

Imipolex G

Other M

lee4hmz

Sredni Vashtar

^ I was about to say...

Previous Calica

Other M spells Mother you guise omg

Obā-san

Sredni Vashtar

Imipolex G

Pink Floyd - Mother
Danzig - Mother
John Lennon - Mother
Beatles - Your Mother Should Know
Coheed & Cambria - Mother May I
Rolling Stones - Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadow
U2 - Mothers of the Disappeared
Jethro Tull - For a Thousand Mothers
anything by the Mothers of Invention

not gonna embed any of these, you can find 'em yourself if you want 'em

Section42L

Sredni Vashtar

I am tempted to post The Knife's "Without You, My Life Would Be Boring", but that's really pushing the number of videos on one page into dangerous territory.

glennmagusharvey

Mother 3: Pollyanna

youtube.com/watch?v=e4Fc2H7jvQM

glennmagusharvey

Super Metroid: Mother Brain

youtube.com/watch?v=AqaNrWcIRYY

Obā-san

Sredni Vashtar said:

pushing the number of videos on one page into dangerous territory.

glennmagusharvey

I'll edit mine into links then.  Sorry about that.

Alduin

In my head Other M is a really unreliable in-universe biography that the real Samus hates. Or something like that.

Just please, please don't let it be canon. Please.

Tachyon

in my headcanon nobody on the Internet cares about Other M and people got over whining about it a long time ago

Alduin

Hey buddy I put it past me already. You guys were the ones who brought it up.

Tachyon

i am not Counterclock!

Tanya

Problems don't go away just because you choose to ignore them, you need to bash people over the head and rub their face in it, or else they start this process where they stop thinking of it as a problem.

Alduin

Problems don't go away just because you choose to ignore them

counterpoint: Twilight 

glennmagusharvey

btw what's the difference between whinging and whining?

Tachyon

Counterclock said:

Problems don't go away just because you choose to ignore them, you need to bash people over the head and rub their face in it, or else they start this process where they stop thinking of it as a problem.

Other M is only a problem because you choose to treat it as one

if you ignore it, nothing bad will happen

glennmagusharvey said:

btw what's the difference between whinging and whining?

there isn't one

Anonus

Twilight isn't a problem if you own Summit :P