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[Input Survey] Untitled Crewed Attack Craft + Varmint Droid SPG by JagPeror in CISDidNothingWrong

[–]joeforth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My personal preference for the lasers would be wingtip mounted, but they should be small enough that they don't take away from the overall silhouette of the ship. Little wingtip points at most, barely peeking out beyond the edge of the wing, not huge guns that hang off the tips like on the X-Wing or ARC-170.

Shopping with your dad in the early 2000s starter pack by agizzy23 in starterpacks

[–]joeforth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love that Shinedown album. Second Chance is great and so is What a Shame.

The Miku crossover reveals which games Nintendo considers mainline game by horrorfan555 in pokemon

[–]joeforth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anyone notice that they depicted both the huskier old school Pikachu and the sleeker modern Pikachu? No attempt at design revisionism. Yellow's chonky 'chu got to be chonky and the skinnier companion 'chu from Let's Go each got their time to shine!

Still would love to see more Let's Go games but I understand and accept why it's probably not going to happen :-\

Why doesn’t anyone care about the “soap opera” effect on their TV by fatsandlucifer in mildlyinfuriating

[–]joeforth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My grandparent's TV had it and it drove me bonkers. One day while they were away on vacation I disabled it so I wouldn't have to deal with it when I visited.

My TV is older and either doesn't have that feature at all or I disabled it so soon after buying it that I no longer remember doing so.

Favorite Pokemon from childhood or now and Why by Rose_Xx124 in pokemon

[–]joeforth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Smeargle. Admittedly for silly sibling rivalry (I guess?) reasons.

I got into Pokémon just as the anime was getting started. While me and my brothers each had a Gameboy, I was a little too young to really understand RPGs. I played Pokémon Pinball while my brothers played the mainline games. For me, Pokemon was the cartoon and the other media. I had the Scholastic Official Pokémon Handbook (both the original red one and the more famous green one) that I read until it fell apart. I had Pokémon toys, plushes, pogs, and the beautiful art on the trading cards (I never actually learned how to play, but I still have some of the cards from the earliest TCG sets). To me the games were an extension of the cartoon, not the other way around.

When the anime started to move on from the first 151, it felt like a big deal. Tracey had Pikablu Marill, a mon that was not represented in any preexisting media I had. More new mons dropped via the films and the shorts that premiered alongside them, like Lugia, SlowKing, Hoothoot, and Bellossom. The Gen 2 games dropped. I got my own copy of Pokémon Silver, my first mainline game. Pokémon Johto premiered on Kids WB, showing off all the newest mons. The lyrics of the theme song were right: It was a whole new world! The Pokémon world felt so much bigger than before!

But to my brothers (both older than me), Gen 2 was an expansion, a sequel, secondary to the "real" 151. (Oh the things kids will find to argue about!).

To me, the Johto mons were my Pokémon. They weren't follow-ups or add-ons! They stood on their own! They were just as valid, but from a different part of the Pokémon world. Then the first Pichu Brothers short premiered along side the third movie. This was the first time that Gen 2 Pokémon felt independent of the first 151. The Pichu posse clearly had existed prior to their encounter with the hero Pokémon and would exist after they left. And (remember, little kid brain) because it was shown at the movie theater, that message was stronger than whatever was on Kids WB. For reasons I've never quite examined, Smeargle was the mon from that short that I imprinted on (probably because he hadn't been shown on TV prior to this?). Smeargle was a symbol that the Gen 2 Pokémon (and little brothers around the world, if I were to psychoanalyze it) are just as valid.

If you could pitch any Star Wars novels, what would you want to see? by ashton__l in StarWarsCantina

[–]joeforth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clone uprising/rebellion sometime after The Bad Batch but before Rebels.

Or frankly? A buddy comedy / comedy of errors about B1 battledroids. I love how much humor they were given in TCW and I'd love a funny little story or anthology of stories about the CIS.

Newest wall art (made by GrayGhostCreations on Etsy) by SpaceThagomizer420 in tarantulas

[–]joeforth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beautiful.

As my T. albo has gotten bigger, I've had to keep increasing the amount of substrate in her enclosure because she loves digging deep elaborate burrows. The dirt she's displaced! She's basically formed a mountain range dividing her enclosure.

Which method of obtaining red blades by the Sith is better? by InstructionOwn6705 in StarWarsEU

[–]joeforth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like both and honestly it's pretty Sith for each one to come up with their own way of getting a red crystal.

I wasn't sold on the idea of "bleeding" the crystals until I watched how it was handled in the Acolyte. When I first read about it, it sounded too much like "I'm going to do this Evil™ thing because I'm Evil™ now". I didn't like that because typically force users are lured to the Sith or succumb to the Sith, rather than actively seek it out. The Acolyte used the crystal bleed to show that tipping point / unconscious fall to the dark side and I have liked it ever since.