If you have an email ending in @hotmail.com, @live.com or @outlook.com (or any other Microsoft-related domain), please consider changing it to another email provider; Microsoft decided to instantly block the server's IP, so emails can't be sent to these addresses.
If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
-UE

IJBMer Updates

161626466671388

Comments

  • AHR has a good liveblog.

    Well worth reading.
  • MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I think my Princess Tutu liveblog is pretty good. /shameless pimping but I'm bad at updating.

  • What are you planning to liveblog, AU?
  • Cow and Chicken episodes, in an informal manner.

    I wasn't very good at Lackadaisy liveblogging (though the big gaps are in part because I was waiting for you to respond and was averse to multi-posting).
  • "Implying that getting comments is a surefire way of measuring the quality of a liveblog."

    Obviously the rate of comments is influenced more by the subject matter, but it's a way of showing that at least people are interested in reading your stuff. I was merely pointing out that it's silly to doubt yourself too much since people still do it despite being modestly popular.

    As for recommendations, Caper Nerd's Kiddy Girl-and liveblog is a good overlooked one.

  • Well, if you were planning to do a full-on liveblog, I think the biggest thing is that you need to explain some more. The Lackadaisy thing was fun because we were both doing it together, but if you were writing a liveblog for a general audience you have to write it with the expectation that they're not actually reading/watching along with you.

    ...Of course, I've never done a liveblog, so that may be terrible advice. The blind leading the blind, etc.
  • "but if you were writing a liveblog for a general audience you have to write it with the expectation that they're not actually reading/watching along with you."

    Or even if they are, you can lead them to the little things that they may have otherwise overlooked. That always makes it more fun.

  • Alright, maybe it should just be commentary or something.
  • MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Just finished Batman Begins for the billionth time.

    (drags thug up by wire)

    WHERE ARE THE DRUGS?!
  • You can change. You can.
    shut it, malk, can't watch movies right now. -_-
  • @Malkavian. Don't make IJBM your only hope for a normal life.
  • MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    To save TV Tropes, I need to become more than a user... I need to become something... untrollable.
  • You can change. You can.
    IJBMers are a suspicious cowardly lot.
  • You're just an ordinary user with an avatar! that's why you couldn't fight the trolls and that's why you can't stop this derail!
  • MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    Who said anything about rerailing it?!
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    > @Malkavian. Don't make IJBM your only hope for a normal life.

    Oh my goodness, how this statement applies to various unnamed problem users.
  • You can change. You can.
    And now you know why Batman is a philosoophical treaty in disguise.
  • MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I actually have the 'Batman and Philosophy' book. It's actually pretty good except for one really dumb essay that's basically 'hurf durf Batman's better because he doesn't have superpowers.' and I believe I've covered why that's bullshit.
  • Cover it again Malk, ^_^

    I wasn't here for the first lecture.
  • You can change. You can.
    I can do it better than him.

    I've rambled about comics as much as him. >:(
  • Juan, rather than boast unnecesarily, Put your money where your mouth is~!
  • edited 2011-08-31 23:51:24
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I'll try to be concise. Generally, there tends to be this complaint that Superman sucks because his powers mean he always win. This betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how heroic fiction works. If you genuinely believe that Batman isn't going to beat the bad guy, then you don't understand how fiction works.

    Batman and Superman both generally have the powers the story requires them to. (much like Doctor Who, actually) With Superman it's being an alien and with Batman it's gadgets. There's a lot of fine detailing that makes them very different characters, but they've been paired as the 'World's Finest' for a very good reason: they're the two characters in the DC Universe you can buy as complete equals.

    Batman might have gotten his abilities with will and hard work, but he also got them with his vast amount of inherited Scrooge McDuck money, which is the closest thing in the real world to superpowers. It's a lot easier to train yourself to be the best detective ninja in the world when you have those resources and can buy them at the drop of a hat. Batman sitting in his million dollar batmobile telling Superman, who uses his natural gifts only to help others, that he sucks because he was born with those powers isn't just assholish but hypocritical.

    "Batman's better than Superman because he can only fly when he has his jetpack." doesn't hold water for me.

    ^^Bitch, I was whining about Superhero comics since I was three and Batman '89 ruined its fakeout in the beginning by not calling the dad Thomas.
  • @Malk. If you had to choose one Superhero to be the Doctor's companion, who would it be?
  • MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Blue Beetle/Jaime Reyes.
  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    I'd go with Mitchell Hundred (if he even counts as one). The ability to talk to machines would be really useful in a sci-fi show, and might allow them to do more with the TARDIS as a character.
  • @Malk. I've never heard of this Blue Beetle character, what makes him a good companion?
  • You can change. You can.
    I'd go with Mitchell Hundred (if he even counts as one). The ability to talk to machines would be really useful in a sci-fi show, and might allow them to do more with the TARDIS as a character.

    INUH...you're my new favorite mod.
  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    ^_^

    Well, you recommended Ex Machina to me a few months ago. I'm only through volume 3, though. Same with Y the Last Man.
  • edited 2011-09-01 00:01:34
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Blue Beetle is a legacy character. Jaime is a nerdy (but not Hollywood nerdy) teenager in El Paso and the newest holder of a mysterious scarab which he learned was actually technology that disguised himself as magic. It's a sentient piece of technology that he communicates with and, of course, uses to fight crime. There's a much larger arc involving the Reach, the aliens who created the scarab. The ultimate result is something of a blend between Iron Man, Kamen Rider, The Greatest American Superhero, and Peter Parker.

    The scarab itself would make for great interactions with the Doctor, being a very odd piece of technology. Jaime himself shows a good deal of deductive and inductive cleverness in his comic that makes him a very good crime fighter and would make him invaluable to the doctor. Jaime is also always entertaining to watch as he would be inquisitive and do his best to understand how the Doctor's world and use it to apply his own problem-solving rather than simply following the doctor. The last part would make for some interesting character drama for the two.

    However, since most of his companions are female, the current Spider-girl because her tweeting her adventures through space would be great.
  • You can change. You can.
    Anyway, as the premise of Ex Machina is that the only superhero in the world is now the mayor of New York, I'd say that Hundred counts. 

    Also, I'm saddened that I don't remember Ex Machina as clearly as I remember Y The Last Man. Then again, Y was pretty much what Lagann seems to be for many people (AKA A highly motivational work that helped me feel better about myself)
Sign In or Register to comment.