I guess that shows how dumb people can be about things. Like…no one under 40, even talks about He-Man. I know it’s older than me and I’m in my late 30s
It’s just seems such like a bizarre thing to be passionate about 
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It’s a show that was made to sell toys at that, lol
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Oh…oh god. That makes it even worse 
They arent though. No one was passionate about it. Thats how netflix got the rights so cheap. It is good… nay, better than the original ever was (the original was just meant to sell toys). People arent still passionate about it, they are suddenly passionate about it. And wisely, Netflix started with She-ra before going to He-man. It’s clearly marketed to young girls, not 40 year olds. There’s some gender fluidity stuff, and non-traditional family stuff that some people might take exception with, but its definitely a kids show.
Its a good example of what people can do with old characters. And should. Benedict Cumberbatch should play as a modern Sherlock Holmes. Or you can get crazy and turn Sherlock Holmes into a doctor and all the cases can be mysterious illnesses. Marvel Comics should screw around with Norse deities. Original isnt always better. Sometimes the view is better from the shoulders of giants.
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There’s been a lot of arguing on social media about it which seems to prove otherwise, though I can accept the theory that it was artificially created as a marketing tool. The reviewers I watch on YouTube seemed to have genuine passion for it though.
As it should be, because He-Man and She-Ra were originally created for children. That’s why She-Ra is a better show than He-Man.
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YouTube Reviewers have genuine passion for MoonDreamers which also came from the 80’s and yet they seem to admit to not having been alive when it came out.
Not surprising since MoonDreamers was apparently not popular in it’s native 80s.
The YouTube Viewers and Forum Posters call it the “Sailor Moon before Sailor Moon” despite the setting clearly being Outer Space(in comparison to Sailor Moon’s Modern Setting)!
Honestly any Remake of Moon Dreamers should be Sailor Moon in Space!(complete with 50 Episodes per Season) That would catch my interest at the least!
The show was never good. Objectively. Like the art was bad. The animation was cheap. The writing was bad.
The toys, however, were generation defining. They are as nostalgia inducing as the Taun-taun toy… you know the one.
I think people my age, who appeared at the tail end of he-man’s original run, probably mix it up with Hanna Barbara’s Herculoids which was actually great.
Edit: You know… it’s funny toys comes up, because I suddenly realize that the remake craze is like the collectibles market. We are just the age group now. When I was a kid, Tin toys and metal peddle-cars were super expensive at the collectibles shop, by the time I was in highschool, they were worthless. Then it was 70s-80s sports trading cards. As a young adult, the original Star Wars toy and licensed merch became expensive, followed by NES consoles and licensed lunch boxes. It’s kind of interesting that as my age group becomes more established, with more expendable income, our nostalgia is leveraged in television and cinema in the same way.
Well good thing you are in the minority with that line of thinking. Sorry that it doesn’t cater to you and only you.
I’ve got three months left on my sub, and I’ve decided I’m not going to renew. I haven’t played since before 9.2, and I don’t miss it in the slightest. I just have zero desire to play Shadowlands content. I’ll probably resub when Dragonflight is released. I’ve still got three months to post here, though.
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Backfire Blizzard! Trick me into a 6 month sub, I’ll point out every way your new expansion fails to excite me… MWAHAHAHA!
Destiny has some Type-of-Videogame advantages in this regard, but it nevertheless manages to always have a nice, warm crust of so-called soft worldbuilding around the videogamey center. For every new character or place that gets called into focus by new content, Bungie adds new, usually textual explorations of new people, places, and things. It took them a while to get the rhythm down, but they really have it firing on all cylinders now.
WoW gets some stuff like this occassionally–I’m thinking Wrathion’s dudes in Legion–but not enough. It doesn’t seem like it would be that tough to add, either. What if, fto copy one of Bungie’s tricks, each of the Warrior’s tier pieces had a lore tab that told a short story about a Stormwind Footman sent to reinforce Lakeshire during the scourge attack we know is going on? Or if the Shaman set told us about a pandaren from the Earthen Ring sent to do some research in Outland to follow-up on the Saurfang cinematic? If the rogue armor told us about a spy keeping tabs on the Twilight’s Hammer?
It’s a drip-feed for lore junkies, a place to sow seeds for future stories and characters, and just makes for a more fun world.
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I know its not going to happen, but I’d probably overlook a lot of crap development for hozen and fungoid allied races.
I’d macro that fungoid battle cry to every ability.
I’m legitimately too crabby for the forums today.
We’ve had 3 (minor) fires in 2 days, and one of them was on a boat in dry dock with tyvek over it so I had to make entry on hands and knees on the metal hull with a (choose your own obscenity) airpack on and I am legitimately too old and fat for that but since the other candidates were older, fatter, not qualified or all three, I won the lotto. And my knees are killing me today.
JOIN YOUR LOCAL VOLUNTEER FIRST RESPONDERS. It will allow you to experience things you never thought possible. Like knees that hurt to bend. Or hold straight. Or exist. (But seriously, do.) I just wanted to gripe.
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Hugs I hope our lovely resident dwarf poster feels better soon.
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Fortunately, I have the technology of devil’s club salve, aspirin, and a beer or two as needed.
It’s a temporary annoyance, but thank you!
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An odd drought up here is causing everything coastal to burn. Meanwhile, the state interior is flooding. Spread some of that water around a bit please, Gaia. It would make everybody’s job easier. It would be especially nice for the firefighters and first responders.
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The Norfolk fire?
Dude, vessel fires are ridiculous. Even just the training at piney point is stupid. Like, “Yeah… if we cant call shoreside, just secure ventilation, hit the fixed CO2 and consider abandoning ship.”
I wouldnt even put on the SCBA unless it was to recover a man.
One of the joys of my community is entirely too many boat fires. Mostly personal use, occasionally fishing vessels.
Fortunately, nothing big and dramatic and explosive has come up for me so far… though we did get a medical for a man training hot welding on a tank not as empty of fuel as he believed. He was fine, but I believe the experience offered some interesting perspective.
Jeff Grubbs made Aegwynn look like a Mary Sue(called Proud, Perfect and Wise and had beaten the Avatar of Sargeras) in The Last Guardian before her confrontation with Medivh.
After that she was humiliated badly!
Is it normal for an Author to create a Mary Sue who beats and outsmarts everyone else for the sole purpose of humiliating them in battle against a Character that is supposed to be a better more improved version of the Mary Sue(Medivh was a Guardian with all of Aegwynn’s power as well as the Avatar of Sargeras’s power)?
I wouldn’t say that Aegwynn was a Mary Sue at any point of her characterization. She clearly wasn’t perfect and she had many flaws even in the Last Guardian novel. Iirc, even in the novel the Kirin Tor did not trust her. If she was a Mary Sue, they would’ve trusted her no matter what.
A key aspect of a Mary Sue is that they are “loved” and trusted by nearly everyone they encounter.
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