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Digimon: The Convergence of the Human and Digital Worlds

Alright

Firstly: It saddens me to say that, this morning, Mr The Rik Mayall left us. He, like Roger Lloyd Pack has gone where all the great Comedy actors go. Whether you knew him as Lord Flash Heart, Rick from The Young Ones, or even a lesser known name such as General I.P. Grimly. He has touched the hearts and funny bones of millions and he will be fondly missed.

Secondly: I was trying to have a lighthearted conversation with you lot, that idea was the initial draft, which is why I came back here asking what people thought of it, and why we are voting to change it. Many things go through different drafts of things before they get to their finished state. Look at Star Wars, in the initial draft, Han Solo was supposed to be the main protagonist, with Luke as his brighteyed kid sidekick, and lightsabers were supposed to be very commonplace. And we all know that changed.

My real point that I was trying to make was that... Well, we are the writers, we are the guys that decide how this universe works. Look at Doctor Who, when William Hartnell decided to leave, the writers sat around for ages thinking up how to change his actor and for it to make sense within the context of the universe, then some clever spark said "Wait a second, guys, we make the rules. We can just say that Timelords can change their look at will." and lo, the idea of Regeneration was born.

There can be any number of ways we can get everyone to forget about the Digimon. We can say that there is a new Digimon that has the power to mindwipe peoples knowledge of Digimon, and even keep people from seeing them. We can go the Men In Black 2 route and use Tokyo Tower as a giant Flasher. We can do anything we want, because, let's face it, there have been goofier things that are Canon... Such as the fact that Digimon can get drunk on Pop. I'm not saying "WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ASININE BECAUSE WE CAN!!!" I'm saying "We can bend and remake the rules to allow plot points to make sense, because... Well, why can't we?"

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Sep said Also don't you forget the good old Taiidani Emperor. Be interesting when you mention how your idol killed the Emperor what the W40k guys do.

There are many pretenders who have called themselves Emperor, they'll probably give her guys a medal.

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RBYDark said
And you know what? People also know Uwe Boll and Michael Bay. What's your point?

My point is that Ed Woods work has stood the test of time. And Michael Bay isn't totally shite, I mean, Bad Boys was a good popcorn flick. And if you stop thinking of the Transformers films as films based on the Transformers franchise and judge them as a film about giant robots, they're also good popcorn flicks.

My point is that 41 years after he died, we are still talking about his work. I don't like what Michael Bay does, but I still respect him because he has passion.

And Uwe Boll... I don't really know what to think of him... Don't get me wrong, he has made some really enjoyably bad films, but recently, he's just been making bland films, like "In the Name of the King" and its sequel. Uwe Bolls has got better as a Director in recent years, and I respect that... But the problem is that he has graduated from "Enjoyably Bad Director" to "Middle of the Road Director"

In the end, what I really mean is that, if 41 years after I die, millions of people are talking about my works of art, I'll be a very happy man.

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Click This said
Put that jehova spam on mute.

Worshipping Jehova is HERESY!!!

We want you to worship The Emperor.

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Psyker Landshark said
You're going to side with the man that was named the worst director of all time. Good call.

Have you ever watched an Ed Wood film? His stuff is fucking brilliantly shite. But you respect him, and why? Because, 60 years down the line, people are still watching his work, whereas so many other, great directors have faded into obscurity. Without googling it, tell me who Tod Browning is? Name 1 thing William Keighley directed? Who's Victor Fleming? All of those men created Masterpieces and nobody remembers their names. Now Ed Wood, you say that name and everyone goes "Oh, the guy that did Plan 9 from Outerspace?" "The Bride of the Monster guy? That film was so bad it was funny" "The guy behind Night of the Ghouls... Crap film, good popcorn flick..."

I'm not saying his stuff was good, but all in all, there are worse men you could aspire to be like. I'd rather people laughed at my name with respect, than didn't recognize it.

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Psyker Landshark said
You're going to side with the man that was named the worst director of all time. Good call.

Have you ever watched an Ed Wood film? His stuff is fucking brilliantly shite. But you respect him, and why? Because, 60 years down the line, people are still watching his work, whereas so many other, middle-of-the-road directors have faded into obscurity, without googling it, tell me who Tod Browning is? Name 1 thing William Keighley directed? Who's Victor Fleming? All of those men created Masterpieces and nobody remembers their names, now Ed Wood. You say that name and everyone goes "Oh, the guy that did Plan 9 from Outerspace?" "The Bride of the Monster guy? That film was so bad it was funny" "The guy behind Night of the Ghouls... Crap film, good popcorn flick..."

I'm not saying his stuff was good, but all in all, there are worse men you could aspire to be like. I'd rather people laughed at my name with respect, than didn't recognize it.

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I'm basically planning on playing my guys as Space Jehova's Whitness'

"Good day, sir, would you like to hear about our lord and savior Deus Mechanicus?"

Essentially, they see the humans amongst the group as being misguided, because they come from planets that The Emperors holy light hasn't touched. So, they plan to introduce the other humans to the cult and put their heads on straight, I mean, you can't blame people for not worshipping his holy might when they have never heard of him, after all, When His Holiness first touched down on Fenris, nobody there had heard of him, same with Macragge.

Don't worry, Assallya, with any luck, your Feddies will be burning that heretical, Xenos, so-called captain of yours in no time. Then building shrines to the Machine Spirit inside your vessel.

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Fish of Oblivion said
Read this sentence a few times over, see if you can figure out what's wrong with it.Also, vote's with Xcom.

And again, I'm going to side with Ed Wood on this...

Either way, I have a few good plots that can work on either side. specifically:

If we go Men In Black, then one of the enemies will be a Wikileaks style group dedicated to uncovering the truth about it, forcing our characters go through the moral dilemma of "Is it alright to lie to people if it protects them? And is it totally wrong to silence the truth if it means saving lives?" If we go Xcom, then there will be a U-Men style cult, dedicated to granting humans the power of Digimon (Not like the Cyber-Newtypes/Bio-Digimon experiments, with humans turning into Digimon, but giving normal humans the same powers as Digimon.)

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Psyker Landshark said
Giant digital monsters murdering each other in the middle of Tokyo seems rather hard to cover up.

again, we're talking about giant digital monsters existing, saying that the Government can cover it up isn't exactly a stretch... But, that's one for the Xcom approach.

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Alright, I forgot to put this up, but I need to ask, would everyone prefer, for S11, for ATLAS to be out in the open, ALA Xcom? Or hidden in the shadows, ALA Men In Black?