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Have a device which lets you film anything in the entire multiverse with only a one-in-a-million chance of explosions!

Wow, you left so long ago that we don't have any archived posts from you! It's an honor! Anyways, have a portable teleportation device.

Hello all!

It's been many moons since I've posted on the Boards, but I could never bring myself to unsubscribe from the emails, so I saw about the change. Like Cassie said, I started reading through all my old posts and such again. It's amazing that this community has been here so long! ~Kerowyn

The header is defined in _header.html.erb, and it includes the ability to have conditional sections based on which deployment of the Board the header is for (this one is :main). I'd appreciate if you, Delta, or anyone else could put together a pull request that updates the header.

Welcome to the Board! Here, have some chocolate, and enjoy your stay!

Please accept this bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object as welcoming gifts. :D

... that it seems the logic for assigning posts to subforums has an error somewhere. Currently, Cassie's returnbie thread is listed under both 'Plugs' and 'None of the Above', probably due to having no tags on the main post and a 'Plug' tag on a subpost; this seems logically impossible, and threads assigned categories should be removed from 'None of the Above'. And Huinesoron, it looks like the New Post dot was fixed, so it is consistent with the Subforum numbers now.

Hi there! Have a portable SEP generator, and don't forget to check out the links to the Constitution and the Wiki if you haven't already.

Hi all. To be honest, I am not sure what to type here, so I will just run through the basics of myself, as a human being. Please, call me Cipher (he/him) I have read the original series, constitution, and, I think, half of the wiki. My fandoms are varied but I am the most knowledgable in the following ones: Gravity Falls, Undertale, Harry Potter, Gollarion (Default setting of Pathfinder TTRPG), Cthulhu Mythos and some Russian books most of you never heard of. I am a Russian (as you can deduce from the previous line) nerd who studies in a university.

I think Red Jacket Lupin was on Adult Swim back in the day, and I liked that pretty well. Will definitely check out the new incarnation if I get the chance. ^_^

~Neshomeh

This should be long enough to annoy automated scripts, while short enough to rarely trip up a human

Ooooh, man. Okay, I'm six episodes into this thing, and I just... have a compulsive need to talk about it. So seeing as we have a review thread going... well, here ya go.

Lupin the 3rd is a looong running anime series. It started in the 70s, has reappeared and gone off the air a ton ever since, and has kickstarted more than a few careers in the process. In particular, the original "green jacket" run and the film that followed it brought a young upstart by the name of Hayao Miyazaki to prominence. You may have heard of him.

The show follows the titular thief, descendant of the legendary Arsène Lupin, another fictional gentleman thief. It follows him and his companions (crack shot and right-hand-man Jigen, anachronistic samurai Goemon, and femme fatale/on-again-off-again love interest Fujiko) on their quest to steal rare and valuable objects for no real other reason than because it's fun, all while being pursued by Inspector Zenigata, the obsessive Interpol agent who's on their case.

To translate, it's basically a madcap mix of James Bond, Tom and Jerry, Ocean's Eleven, and Mission Impossible. And if that didn't sell you on the series I don't know what will. I grew up watching it as a kid though, so that may just be the nostalgia talking.

Anyways, enough background. I just watched six episodes of the Lupin III Part 5. What did I think?

It's... just... fantastic. This might be the most fun I've had watching anything all year. Although I don't watch that much TV so maybe that's not saying much. But it's still really good. It's updated and modernized the series (in that it's actually set in the modern day) while still capturing what makes the characters likeable. Lupin is morally questionable and sometimes sleazy (the opening literally depicts him travelling into space to spy on Fujiko sunbathing), but he has his own weird set of moral lines, and he's so charming that it's hard not to like him, at least a little. Goemon's uptight and formal, Jigen is the sarcastic one who's the first to complain, and Fujiko is always juuuust this side of selling Lupin out for kicks. And Zenigata is just as charmingly absurd as everyone else, albeit on the other side of the law. The characters work just as well as they did in the 70s.

But this time, they've added technology and hacking and stuff that was distinctly not around in the 70s. And that modern technology is... the basis for some really good plot threads. When Lupin robs a gang of hackers, they turn hunting him down and taking pictures of him into a viral competition. Suddenly, Lupin can't go anywhere without his location instantly posted to the entire world. So how does Lupin respond? By aggressively oversharing everything he does to make the game boring, all while traveling outside Interpol jurisdiction so the police can't do anything about it. And that's just the start. It just keeps getting better from there until it all reaches a climax that you probably saw coming a mile away but you don't care because it's just so awesome to watch.

Every episode left me with a smile on my face, and that's really the highest praise I can give.

Oh, and if you're worried about having to binge 300 episodes to get into this show... don't worry. Every Lupin series is totally standalone and largely monster-of-the-week. You can just tune in and watch this new series without having seen anything else.

(Kidding. ;) )

The Young Wizards series by Diane Duane is about (to start) two kids who find out there's a language used to talk to the universe, and everything in it.

It's also about coping with and growing beyond loss, setting twisted things right again, and learning how to break cycles of violence - alongside slowing down the death of the universe.

And also about more alien aliens than you could shake a stick at!

It's a long-running series, and it's still going! You can check out some of the books here.

I don't know who Daemon naming works. If the Daemon names himself, perhaps.

Then again, Thoth may have named it. I dunno what he'd name it, but I have a sense of humor, so he may have named it Epimetheus. Because he probably finds his daemon infuriating.

When I saw your post on facebook I got hit very hard in the nostalgia and decided to come back to my first real internet home to see how it was. I'm glad I did. I can't believe it's been over eleven years since I first found the PPC!

Thank you very much! To be honest the new place feels pretty familiar. I like it. ^^

So far as I can see, there's no indication in Subforum View as to how many posts a thread has on it. You can see how many 'new' posts it has - though this seems to be calculated differently to how Aurora suggests the 'new' dot works (I think in Subforum view, it's 'posts in the last 24 hours'). You can also see whether the top post is the one bearing the tag (my last plug appears in Writing, because I tagged a couple of responses, but doesn't have a Writing tag, because the post itself was automatically generated), but nothing more than that.

If this section is supposed to imitate a view like this, then some indication as to whether you're looking at a single post with no replies, or a sprawling 120-piece conversation, would be useful I think?

hS

Does the 'sort by tags' option literally just list everything under that tag, in order? That seems to be how it works on T-Board, where you hit 2016 under RPs before you get down to a different tag.

Because that seems like a... less-than-useful view if the tags get used a lot? I can't come up with a reason I'd want to view three years of Writing posts, and then start over with three years of Permission Request posts. I guess for the topmost tag (Writing will always come first, I assume) it means you can get the effect of a Subforum view without having to deal with 'there's 90 posts here and the only way to see them is to scroll through the entire expanded thread' from that, but if you're after a tag that isn't the first one, I don't understand how it's meant to help?

hS

I'd say an owl for Richard. Solitary, fly around to distance yourself from things, but also potentially as a way to discover more, old association to wisdom...

And after thinking about it, a raven for Marina. Clever, opportunistic, and despite the apparent squabbling, dedicated to their families...

Welcome back. :) I'm so glad someone saw, and it's great to have you back (even if it winds up only being for a little while).

hS

Well, I have an overload of gifts sitting there, so you get them all: a bag of black-hole chocolates, and a pot of black-hole coffee. Hope you'll find the new place to your liking, and nice to meet you.

A perfect occasion to go back to writing PPC fics, and in cowrite to get back on the saddle more easily? And I've got vacations starting that week? I'm signing up on this very much, please.

Agents are Richard Legard and Marina Nicodelli. FOr the items, I'll go with glasses and DORKS.

It's going to sound strange to say, but it's heartening to know that Boarders who joined after the decline of LJ still know each other's life stories. It's kind of obvious that people talked to each other about things other than writing, but it highlights the fact that we're not just a gaggle of weird writers - we're a community of close friends.

And the spinoffs... when you present them one after another like this, it's startling how wildly different people's PPC spinoffs have been. There's not a lot of fandoms that can naturally shift into so many different genres... this is a special place. :)

hS

I love the fact that everyone has their own stories here, and different ways of sharing them (even when those ways take the same approach). Objectively, I know the Board isn't all that special - that it's the community that made it what it was - but at the same time... it is, actually.

hS

I've been in a state of mild shock since the day I pulled up the login page and found a message saying YourWebApps was shutting down. I'm glad at least one person was able to come back and see the Board one last time before it goes.

hS