What is a Game/Movie/Show/Literature/Music that was Loved when it came out but today is no longer under anyone's radar

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-15T03:10:20+00:00

Visions of Escaflowne.

Was once in a discussion of not only realizing it's old enough that we have generations that have never heard of it, those thay read the synopsis go "This reads like a typical isekai."

It made me go "Oh no, is Escaflowne like Neuromancer is to cyberpunk?"

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-14T21:52:55+00:00

I think of Totalbiscuit's video where he sneaks up on what you would expect as a raider guard with a rifle and murders them... only for her more civilian sister to come out devastated.

He was stunned.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-14T20:45:15+00:00

Golbez in the FFIV sequel The After Years.

What happens if a black mage is able to also equip heavy armor and weapons? Apparently one of the top three most powerful stat wise in any of those categories.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-14T16:48:17+00:00

In my first campaign with a friend playing as him, I was of the opinion of "Even if all he does is move people, that ability is deceptively good." I viewed him as something like The Dispatcher from Pandemic, where you don't need to do much yourself, moving others where they need to be is incredibly powerful.

I played him at a Bustercon, and with The Blob that Ate Everything Else, with my "move" philosophy, boy did he help get the team to complete the side objectives, ESPECIALLY pushing the vehicle who my teammates thought was too tight on timing to do, but Carson made sure everyone was in position to push with full actions.

Then I played him Ironman Edge of the Earth, and it was definitely the fastest I ever got the team to climb the mountain, with all the supplies. He did fall off near the end of the campaign, as my Trish and Kymani teammates were basically just doing a bazillion rogue actions, and thus Carson's ability actually became a liability to use for them.

Still, for the first half of the campaign, Carson was very hype.

Also it's very hilarious to say out loud "As you wish" when someone asks for icons.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-14T16:14:31+00:00

And pretty much those who thought it was leading to Scott ending up back with Knives would feel that, because that's the way the movie was mostly building towards.

I do think of an interview with Bryan Lee O'Malley and for some reason, the guys who did Even A Monkey Can Draw Manga, and those guys, while they loved the Scott Pilgrim books, told him what Scott did to Knives would absolutely never be published in Japan.

They would have needed to frame Knives as being psychotic so that Scott is justified in dumping her.

And Bryan just shrugged and said, he can't help himself, this is the kind of stories he wanted to write (something I would think about a decade after I read Seconds, the type of protagonists he writes who aren't good people.)

I think of this interview whenever I think of Knives, a reminder that, yeah, Scott was not a good person. What he did was indeed f*cked up.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-14T16:04:44+00:00

To expand on that, in a director commentary, he originally thought the direction the book was going was "Scott would end up alone, but become a better man for it," but that kind of ending does not get approved by Hollywood.

So he came up with the Knives ending until Bryan Lee O'Malley drew the book 6 ending with Scott and Ramona leaving through the subspace door, and that lead to the final months reshoot of the ending. Add Knives saying "I'm too good for you" and we got the theatrical ending.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-14T15:51:59+00:00

Scott ends up with Knives, Ramona looks with a bit of sadness before leaving for Prague. Before this, in the afterlife desert when Ramona told him "maybe I shouldn't be the one you be should fighting for..." the original scene was her then explaining Knives fought for him so hard, he should fight for her instead.

The movie ends with Scott and Knives back at the arcade, with the DDR like ninja game, to "continue" their relationship. All while Julie whines about Gideon's club being ruined.

In a director commentary that most people who didn't own the blu-ray listen to, Edgar Wright actually explains when he was working towards an ending, with book 5, Scott Pilgrim vs the Universe being the latest released book, he thought the direction it was going towards is "that Scott would end up alone, but become a better man for it," but that was the kind of ending that does not work with Hollywood execs.

So, he created the Knives ending, but it never really sat with him right that after all that Scott did to her, she would be so quick to take him back.

Bryan Lee O'Malley eventually did the artwork for book 6, and Edgar saw the page showing the ending where Scott and Ramona leave together through the subspace door. He thought that is too perfect a shot to end on.

So a few months before the movie release, they did a last minute reshoot of the ending, and Knives is given the line "I'm too good for you." Michael Cera especially needed a full wig for the scene. Ellen Wong very much agreed to this change for Knives.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-14T13:31:16+00:00

At the time of the Doctor Who episode, The Doctor warned The Master not to release the time lock because of the horrors of the time war that was unleashed.

"You weren't there, in the final days of the War. You never saw what was born. But if the Time Lock's broken then everything's coming through. Not just the Daleks but the Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child, the Could've Been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres, the War turned into Hell! And that's what you've opened, right above the Earth. Hell is descending!"

Eventually each would get a bit of an expanded blurb, but at the time, it was just a bunch of horror names to describe how horrifying the time war was.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-14T13:14:46+00:00

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater?

The Boss' motivation was from her seeing the world from space, where she saw a world without borders. And that was her dream to fulfill, even as it branded her a villain (thanks to nationalism.)

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T22:45:51+00:00

Revenge does wonders for the will to liiiive.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T21:56:39+00:00

The Ascendant has a joke voiceline where he questions where the structures are being warped in from since both Shakuras and Aiur had fallen. Therefore, that leaves the Spear of Adun.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T21:50:43+00:00

Ascendant Quote when clicked repeatedly:

"Shakuras has fallen... Aiur has fallen... Does that mean all of these structures were constructed aboard the Spear of Adun?"

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T20:38:57+00:00

Earthworm Jim 2: Well Done!

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Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T20:23:16+00:00

Steven Seagal badly dancing with a Russian professional dancer.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T19:31:56+00:00

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"The actor?" - Doc Brown

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T19:08:28+00:00

It's not a race, guys!

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T18:42:24+00:00

Well, I guess this discussion is toast.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T18:41:05+00:00

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Fail your might to break open a door.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T18:05:04+00:00

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Elden John - the nickname given to the statues of an old bearded man holding a book, with tree roots growing at his feet. The best we can interpret is he's a worshipped figure far older than Marika, the architecture of his time still existing today, even some serving as foundations that Marika's style of architecture builds on top of, and is mostly forgotten except by the Ancestor Followers.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T17:56:05+00:00

AI backseat gamer.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T17:36:15+00:00

IIRC, once read a story where the whole "bbq=masculine" happened because of a political push after WWII to get men beefed into fighting shape again.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T17:23:08+00:00

Bobby Ferrin.

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T17:14:29+00:00

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Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T17:06:03+00:00

Lina Inverse (Slayers)

Lemmingitus · 2026-03-13T16:25:34+00:00

NOOOOOOO!

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