Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › Bobby on YouTube Search for: This topic has 85 replies, 26 voices, and was last updated 3 minutes ago by Dax101. Scroll to bottom Viewing 36 posts - 51 through 86 (of 86 total) 1 2 Author Posts April 18, 2024 at 5:44 am #294234 MoonlightParticipant To reboot = to switch something on after it’s been fully switched off. Rebooting a computer is a synonym for restarting, and to revive something is to bring it back from the dead. So we could make the semantic argument in exactly the opposite direction. April 18, 2024 at 6:20 am #294236 DaveParticipant April 18, 2024 at 6:29 am #294238 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant > Those are pretty darn similar concepts they are doing very different things. And that’s the point people here are trying to distinguish. April 18, 2024 at 4:07 pm #294252 RunawayTrainParticipant As I understand it: Rebooting/restarting a computer is usually because something has changed – most commonly after a software update. Or because it’s lagging and the reboot shuts programmes down and clears temporary files or whatever. Reviving would be akin to waking it up from sleeping/hibernation, or turning it on again after it’s been switched off for a while simply because it wasn’t being used. Two different purposes, two different meanings – originally, anyway. Although to be fair I don’t know whether there was any difference when you had to put in a disk to be able to boot up the computer, which would be the *original* original meaning, but I’m not sure those terms were used metaphorically until the computing usage became as above. April 18, 2024 at 7:04 pm #294257 Flap JackParticipant Right, usually you would only say you’re rebooting a PC when you’re switching it off but switching it back on immediately. There aren’t many TV series that feels analogous to. Maybe shows that were cancelled by their original network but then very quickly picked by another one? I don’t think many people would describe e.g. Brooklyn Nine-Nine Seasons 6-8 as a revival to be honest, let alone a reboot. That’s why what the words have come to mean via popular usage is most important… but then of course we just end up disagreeing about whether or not said usage is actually popular enough to be recognised as a correct definition. April 18, 2024 at 9:44 pm #294264 MoonlightParticipant My argument is that calling every time something comes back a “reboot” means I need to ask follow-up questions about what exactly that means that could be answered by the word we use to describe the thing itself. April 18, 2024 at 9:51 pm #294265 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant My argument is that calling every time something comes back a “reboot” means I need to ask follow-up questions about what exactly that means that could be answered by the word we use to describe the thing itself. Yeah this. Something is lost by reducing the language down from 2 good descriptive words to one single word that could mean either thing. I’m generally in the camp of “language changes and evolves” and accept that reboot is used to mean revival. But it isn’t helpful and at the very least blogs and news outlets could help by using the distinctions April 18, 2024 at 11:02 pm #294266 Flap JackParticipant Yeah, I get that for sure. For what it’s worth, I’m sorry for derailing the thread like this. I could have just let “well, reboot seems like a correct word to me” remain in my head, or just said it once and left it, but internet forums create a compulsion… at the very least I could have derailed it with something more fun than semantic argument. Last year someone made a post on the Last of Us subreddit, that was a picture of Ellie as made in the Hogwarts Legacy character creator, and just by pointing out the obvious irony of it, I turned the comments section into a nuclear disaster area in under a couple of hours. This was, in my unbiased opinion, a rare and precious example of Virtuous Thread Derailment. But “there’s no virtuous thread derailment on the Ganymede & Titan forums”, as my great great grandmother used to say. April 19, 2024 at 3:09 am #294273 MoonlightParticipant For what it’s worth, I’m sorry for derailing the thread like this. You say that as if it totally wasn’t me. April 19, 2024 at 7:18 am #294279 Flap JackParticipant Well you made the initial comment, but it was me that turned it into an actual argument. Let’s call it a team effort. April 19, 2024 at 9:26 am #294287 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant April 19, 2024 at 11:17 am #294289 Ian SymesKeymaster Should be “pedants on both sides”, surely? April 19, 2024 at 11:29 am #294291 FormicaParticipant Should be “pedants on both sides”, surely? Well, are we referencing the tactics or the participants? April 19, 2024 at 11:39 am #294292 WarbodogParticipant I think Quinn should have used a semicolon. April 19, 2024 at 11:50 am #294295 Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day nowParticipant 23 years and 109 days later and Douglas Adams’ prophesied massacre of the pedants has still yet to take effect. What’s taking them so long? April 19, 2024 at 12:40 pm #294297 JenuallParticipant “Oh wow, lots of posts in the Bobby on YouTube thread. I wonder what cool stuff Bobby has been saying about the show to generate this much discussion, must be good! …” April 19, 2024 at 1:31 pm #294300 DaveParticipant Should be “pedants on both sides”, surely? Pedantics semantics. April 19, 2024 at 11:19 pm #294335 MoonlightParticipant ♫ Pedantic / -dantic / oh, so frantic! ♫ April 22, 2024 at 5:46 pm #294396 siParticipant Oop, he’s doing another one in ten minutes. You can’t keep him away now, can you? https://t.co/egStDXml11 April 22, 2024 at 11:01 pm #294407 UnrumbleParticipant Oop, he’s doing another one in ten minutes. You can’t keep him away now, can you? April 25, 2024 at 5:35 pm #294476 Stephen AbootmanParticipant 5.55 for another BobCast April 25, 2024 at 6:33 pm #294477 Stephen AbootmanParticipant Update: “We’ve all agreed to do more, we’re not going to make a whole new series but we’re making…something, and it should be fun. And we’re hopefully… hopefully we’ll make it later this year, if not it’ll be early next year.” May 2, 2024 at 7:12 pm #294587 MoonlightParticipant Somebody tell me if he says anything about Red Dwarf on this livestream, I got pulled away from it. May 2, 2024 at 7:20 pm #294588 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant Everyone shush. Don’t tell Moonlight May 16, 2024 at 5:52 pm #295110 barbuchaParticipant Bobby talks about electric cars and the planned return of Red Dwarf. Filming should take place at the turn of 2024/2025! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJgCXUWq5_w Full stream on his Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUtsAWDSUTM&t=0s May 16, 2024 at 6:24 pm #295112 International DebrisParticipant Can’t believe I missed a discussion about the word reboot. Can we revive it so I can join in? (You certainly wouldn’t replace revive with reboot there, would you?) May 16, 2024 at 9:01 pm #295114 PodeyParticipant So, according to Bobby, it’s 3 x half hour episodes telling one story rather than a feature-length special. Thoughts? https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/red-dwarf-three-new-episodes-newsupdate/ May 16, 2024 at 9:22 pm #295115 WarbodogParticipant So, according to Bobby, it’s 3 x half hour episodes telling one story rather than a feature-length special. Thoughts? I can’t help but compare to how Back in the Red and Back to Earth turned out vs The Promised Land and feel disappointed by the idea, but just have to find out. Then again, 3 recording dates rather than 2 would mean more lucky people can go. May 16, 2024 at 10:09 pm #295116 FormicaParticipant May 16, 2024 at 10:18 pm #295117 PodeyParticipant God that Kryten mask really is terrible. It was spot on for Back To Earth, I don’t know how they managed to forget how to make it in the years between. May 16, 2024 at 10:30 pm #295118 Flap JackParticipant My first thought is that the circumstances for this being 3 parts are very different to the circumstances for Backs in the Red and to Earth, so it’s probably not a huge cause for concern. If done well it could be the happy medium between The Promised Land and Confidence & Paranoia / Me2. 3 distinct episodes but with a prominent throughline. My second thought is “Yes! At least 3 more entries in the Ruby Reckoning!” My third thought is “… cliffhangers and the anticipation between the episodes could be fun?” May 16, 2024 at 10:42 pm #295119 JenuallParticipant May 16, 2024 at 10:57 pm #295120 FormicaParticipant Perhaps I should make myself clearer. May 16, 2024 at 10:59 pm #295121 clemParticipant “… cliffhangers and the anticipation between the episodes could be fun?” Yeah it sounds like maybe they’re aiming for a bit of “event telly” with the three-part broadcast, perhaps on three consecutive evenings just like BTE, but the feature-length version will be intended as the definitive one. Fair enough I suppose. May 16, 2024 at 11:33 pm #295122 DaveParticipant My second thought is “Yes! At least 3 more entries in the Ruby Reckoning!” Mine was: a Smegle that I might actually stand a chance of guessing. May 16, 2024 at 11:37 pm #295123 Dax101Participant A 3 part special gives me Back To Earth flashbacks. Also 30 minutes less than TPM. Author Posts Viewing 36 posts - 51 through 86 (of 86 total) 1 2 Scroll to top • Scroll to Recent Forum Posts You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In