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Can somebody PLEASE update the Blue Rivet page?

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I haven’t seen the new episodes so I don’t know how specific the references are, but Blackadder is well-enough known here that they probably do land. Count Duckula depends; it aired regularly here when I was a kid (on Nickelodeon, I think?), but I don’t know how long it actually stayed in rotation. I didn’t even know it was an import until much later! I don’t have an answer for your Red Dwarf riff question, though. Maybe someone can ask the AI writer bot.

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TOS is back up so will they finally update the Blue Dwarf page?

Also, “he’ll always be grateful to Brando’s ghost for giving him a second chance” pops into my head at least twice every hour now.

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The first three episodes are available just as of recently to everyone, as far as I know. I saw them early and can vouch that they’re quite good.

That’s great to know! Thank you. I thought Jonah’s first season was a bit rough but he really hit his stride in his second season…at which point Netflix killed it, of course. Very glad to know that this season has come out well and that he’s getting more room to settle in. Emily has been great in the bits that I’ve seen so I’m particularly excited for whatever episodes she ends up hosting.

And thank you to the memes for justifying the existence of this thread. I knew I could count on you.

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Maybe you’ll ask me to come back again and maybe I’ll say maybe.

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I sent Chris a letter many years ago, when I first discovered the show, and it was returned to me because I’d used insufficient postage.

I’ve never forgiven him.

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FANS: May we have Sonic Mania 2?
SEGA: What’s that? You want more Sonic?

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/06/rumour_sonic_the_hedgehog_is_reportedly_set_to_become_a_vtuber

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It’s probably due to the announcement of the Origins collection or something, but I suddenly realized I’d never played the Sonic Mania DLC so I booted it up again, figured I’d play through a few levels to get back into the swing of things before playing with the new characters…and ended up just playing through the base Sonic Mania game again.

It really does get better every time I play it. I still haven’t come around on a few things (Titanic Monarch drags, it’s too easy to get into the Blue Sphere stages) but the game is so…damned…good.

I’m still holding out hope for a direct sequel. There are so many other classic zones I’d love to see them tackle, and of course more new ones would be great as well.

I’ll play through the new modes, certainly, but I’m impressed by just how easily I got sucked into the main game all over again. Just wonderful.

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In his book Fuck Yeah Video Games, Dan Hardcastle (Nerd^3) mentions Porky Roebuck.

This topic is the only place I feel like bringing this up. Thank you.

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Now I can’t stop thinking about a Red Dwarf / Half-Life mashup.

“We don’t go to Rimmerworld.”

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Nobody Does it Butter

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Shout Factory has been gradually putting out some truly lovely John Carpenter steelbooks:
https://www.shoutfactory.com/search?q=john+carpenter

Not a direct link to the steelbooks, but you’ll see them there. I really hope they do Dark Star at some point. Honestly I’d be surprised if they didn’t.

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I should probably start reading this site.

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I think his point is that Super Mario Bros.: The Movie is based off video games and not toys.

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>Lol as if they didn’t do things this way back in the “classic series”

Why did you post three separate screengrabs that refute your own point though?

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I thought about getting Forces but…eh. I’m not as interested. If it went on sale for a cheap enough price, I’d probably grab it for the hell of it. I know you mentioned it’s less expensive than Mania, and that’s nice, but I think it would still need to be cheaper still to interest me.

Mania, on the other hand, has had some real staying power with me. I’ve played through it a few times and diddled around with it even more. I’m far from finishing all the Blue Sphere stages and I may not ever, but that game impressed me way more than I expected to be impressed as a casual fan of the series.

I put it in my top 10 games list for the year: http://noiselesschatter.com/2017/12/31/my-10-best-games-of-my-2017/

If Forces ever dropped to around $5 I’d grab it, if only for the novelty of character creation (which I hear is fairly deep), but for now I’ll just wait patiently for Mania 2 (feat. Starlight Zone).

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Well I’ll be. For some reason I’d retained the knowledge that it was just a working title with no distinguishing substance attached to it. Now I’ll spent the rest of my life trying to scrape that distinguishing substance out of my brain.

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“also mentioned in the VIII scriptbook is a script called “Phwoaarrrr” about the crew all getting sexed to death, which sounds fucking awful”

Is it, though? I thought that was a working title for Krytie TV. It’s been a while since I lost my scriptbook, but I don’t remember it being a different entity with a distinct plot.

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Underrated thread.

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Continue resting in peace.

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These are YouTube poops.

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In fairness to whatever OP’s name is, Burton himself refers to it as Sonic 3D throughout the video. Maybe that was a working title. More likely he’s using it as shorthand. But there ya go.

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Pretty disappointed in Britbox. I’m paying for the service because they said episodes will be available the day they debut in the UK. As of right now, they still just have Cured. If they can’t do same-day uploads, so be it. But if they advertise that they will I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be disappointed when they don’t deliver.

I don’t like pirating things, but when the official alternative is to pay a subscription fee and still not get to watch…well…

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Thank you! That’s all very helpful.

For a more timely variation on the question: what classic Who stories are appropriate for Halloween? I may shotgun a bunch this weekend.

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Ignored this thread in case it contained any spoilers about “Cured.” Now I’m here and it doesn’t…but, surprisingly enough, it could have!

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I’m excited to dig into the library a bit more. If I liked drama more than I do, I’d have much more to choose from, but I’m not complaining.

Also I’ve never seen a single episode of Doctor Who, but this seems to have loads of classic stories. I’m open to suggestions. I’m planning to start with some Tom Baker stuff, but…there’s a lot to go through, so feel free to direct me as you see fit.

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Got my account. Seems to work well and there’s a decent selection of stuff here! Not great…but decent!

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Tunnelbear wouldn’t work for me. (It kept sputtering, and refused to buffer.) I’m more than happy to pay for Britbox. Less thrilled about waiting until the broadcast date. WHAT AN AWFUL CONCEPT THAT IS

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Oh, hey, welcome back.

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“single birth accommodations”

You mean berth. None of those characters could possibly give birth.

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I hope they finally address the issue of how empty the text here looks by adding nebulae in the background.

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I should have reloaded the page. Or killed jonsmad when I had the chance.

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Performingmonkey is going to be called back in to retype all his old posts, despite the fact that he looks 20 years older.

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Jonsmad wins.

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