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@jharish
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@loresjoberg Barrington Bayley did it first in "The Fall of Chronopolis" which the central characters exist in an empire that is extending itself through time by taking over other 'dimensions'. I do like how you visualize it and think this idea should be canonized in geekdom.
@loresjoberg Why not just create a new internet law and name it after you? But to make it sound smarter you can call it the Sjöberg Postulate.
@loresjoberg Funny that you are trying to write a novel in the 'Modern World' since most written fiction tends not to be modern because if you include a website, even one that is major and currently popular, you might end up with something like 'They all met on MySpace' and people won't even know what you're talking about.
Why not world build a fantasy world that is very similar to the modern world just with a few differences that come around when you write them?
@loresjoberg Thank you for making me look at the word. Now I want to see 'Robo-Tussin' which would most likely be something like robot pro-wrestling.
"Now that you have your black belt you need to get your hands and feet registered as deadly weapons!"
I keep wondering when the police plan to start that registry and if it would be a who's who of 'Soldier of Fortune' subscribers.
@loresjoberg The problem with this is that most of the "good" or at least "Non-creepy" tech billionaires aren't (in)famous because they're sensible people. The two Marks - Benioff and Cuban tend to be well-behaved tech billionaires and so they aren't common names.
@loresjoberg You echo a lot of my sentiments about Bakshi's animations. I wanted so much to like them as a teenager but they were hard to look at after an afternoon of He-Man, GI Joe and Transformers.
Have you ever checked out Scanimate? It's a late 70s/early 80s and I feel like it became the spiritual successor to rotoscope animations.
DVDA's Justice video is a homage to Scanimate transitions and is a video entirely of transitions.
@loresjoberg That list also says Toyman is 'The most iconic' but I always thought that went to Icon Man.
Also, the entry for Lobo is great. He is a character.... appearing in comic books. Wow. Observation station there.
@loresjoberg The funny thing is also the news reporting, as evidenced by the headline. When you figure that the crisis must be something cool like they found a portal to Hell, but instead it's just that the maths doesn't line up between two equations and they're upset about it.