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==What a debate should be like== | ==What a debate should be like== | ||
In a debate, unlike an argument or a good old-fasioned yelling-at-each-other, both sides present their arguments clearly, and accept the other side's arguments graciously. There's debunking of arguments, sure, but no "omg how can u think that?? u sux!!" or anything of that sort. Plus both sides must be willing to change their viewpoint - steadfast stubborness is a bad thing to bring to a debate. I would like to thank [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] for this enjoyable debate about a [[Template:STUFF/Commandos in the Classroom#And Knowing Is Half the Battle!|fun fact]] that was in [[STUFF]] at the time. | In a debate, unlike an argument or a good old-fasioned yelling-at-each-other, both sides present their arguments clearly, and accept the other side's arguments graciously. There's debunking of arguments, sure, but no "omg how can u think that?? u sux!!" or anything of that sort. Plus both sides must be willing to change their viewpoint - steadfast stubborness is a bad thing to bring to a debate. I would like to thank [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] for this enjoyable debate about a [[Template:STUFF/Commandos in the Classroom#And Knowing Is Half the Battle!|fun fact]] that was in [[STUFF]] at the time. | ||
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | I really think if it was a "knowing is half the battle" takeoff they would have ended the toon with the Commandos all saying together something like, "and information is the key to the universe" |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | not all the cartoons that had these segments did something like that |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | remember it's a parody of the whole genre, not just GI Joe |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | though it is mostly GI Joe |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | there again, we disagree. I think they would have been more blatantly GI Joe if they meant it more than "health class" video |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | *film |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | yeah, I see what you mean |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | to me, it would be like having a robot that looked like a humanoid version of a car and fought in an army against an army of humanoids versions of jets, and then they never transform |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | my plurals are messed up in that sentence |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | still, it's characters from a (parody of a) kids cartoon show doing a public service announcement - it's worth mentioning that the kids shows it's parodying did that too |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | so ignore that |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | agreed the content of that PSA is worded more like a health class video |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | you can't see me, but I'm making that face you make when you're trying to agree with another person but just aren't quite convinced |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | kinda like, ehhh, with the teeth together and the mouth spread |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | this is exactly why it took me this long to vote on the fact... |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | maybe it deserves a rewrite - make it less GI Joe-specific, and less definite (add "could be" or something) |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | I think that would cripple it as far as usefulness. I think the more GI Joe-specific things we find, the better, and the rest is periphery |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | hmm... I guess so |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | and only about 1 in 500 facts is a good "could be", in my estimation |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | although notice I did not say zero |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | every now and then, we need a "could be" or a "may be" |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | how about "This episode is similar to the segments that many 90's childrens shows (including GI Joe) would inclde after their show" |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | removes "based on" and replaces "and now you know" with something more recognisable to people like me who've never actually seen GI Joe |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | see, I don't think it's like those at all |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | it's not preachy enough |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | true |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | umm |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | and Gunhaver comes across as a coach or (naturally) a drill sergeant |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | telling his troops not to get VD or something |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | ok, ditch "similar to" |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | to me, it's got health class written all over it |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | hence, Commandos in the Classroom |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | I'm not really trying to change your mind. But I do believe what I used to believe more strongly now, so this hasn't just been idle conversation. |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | I do see your point too |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | I'd forgotten how preachy these segments were |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | especially Captain Planet and his ilk |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | (I'd only seen them on Captain Planet myself, but they were very preach tyere) |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | yeah |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | heh |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | there* |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | great minds think alike |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | ok, so play down the similarity of content, just of structure... |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | how about "Many 90's childrens shows (including GI Joe) would have segments like this where the characters would tell the children how to behave" |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | or something |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | not happy with the last phrase |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | meh |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | now you're stretching |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | I'm not saying TBC didn't have that in the back of their minds, but I don't believe that's what they were thinking when they wrote it |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | yes, the more I think about it the less it seems like a direct reference... |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | though I still don't know why, if they weren't referencing it, they'd revive the cheat commandos to do it? |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | I'm sorry, I don't follow your last post |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | well, the cheat commandos haven't been seen for a while |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | wait |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | I see what you meant |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | if they just wanded PSA material they could have used one of many sets of characters |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | including the main bunch |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | true |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | SS and HR making a PSA, SB messing it up for them |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | but |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | they've been exploring other stuff for a while |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | (no sbemail in over 6 weeks) |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | this is also true |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | and the Commandos have personalities that fit this well |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | and Reinforcements: "hey guys" |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | that kills me! |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | hehe |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | oh well, I've gone neutral again |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | I'll mull over it a bit more |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | Gunhaver's a good arrogant personality, and Renold is a good wimp, and the other Commandos are good color |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | and the Blue Laser minions and commander are a hoot |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | good "generic evil persons" |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | (but I was actually hoping for a CC toon for a while now, so I'm a little biased in that regard) |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | me too |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | love the CC |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | WE'LL BLOW UP THE OCEAN!! |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | Part of this complete delicions breakfast! |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | (gallon of ice cream not pictured) |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | I mean, *how* could they possibly blow up the ocean!! |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | with a really big microwave ;) |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | oo ah, oo ah |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | lol |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | Firebert, you stay here and think of a better commando name |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | movie night is my favorite night... I think it is my favorite night |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | "fire the new grappling-hook zip-line (cheap as free)" |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | psst... don't tell the people on the "day shift", but we're using the channel for its intended purpose... to discuss the wiki and H*R |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:blue">'''Phlip:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | O_O shock horror |
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| - | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | & | + | | style="text-align: right;" valign="top" | <span style="color:darkred">'''Dot com:'''</span> || style="text-align: left" valign="top" | *no offense to the Eastern Hemisphere by the "day shift" remark, by the way |
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Revision as of 05:04, 22 September 2005
My major contributions to the wiki:
- All of Stinkoman 20X6 Walkthrough Level 4 except the boss strategy, and the transcript part of Stinkoman 20X6 Walkthrough Level 9
- The Level 4 through 6 enemies in Stinkoman 20X6 Enemies
- Starting Videro
- Started the transcripts for Alamo Drafthouse - 10 Jun 2005
- Made the trophies for the S2005 HRWiki Forum Awards
- Did a lot of work documenting Random Toon and its side-effects, including all the Puppet Stuff having their own HTML files now (though I didn't start the page, and others have contributed a lot to it too)
- Random gnoming... why were there so many templates with centering broken in the exact same way? It's like people just went and copied the same broken one over and over...
style="margin: 0 auto", people!
Other achievements:
- My Stinkoman 20X6 Cheat Program was Fanstuff of the Week for 29 May - 5 June, 2005
User:phlip/sig: phlip TC
What a debate should be like
In a debate, unlike an argument or a good old-fasioned yelling-at-each-other, both sides present their arguments clearly, and accept the other side's arguments graciously. There's debunking of arguments, sure, but no "omg how can u think that?? u sux!!" or anything of that sort. Plus both sides must be willing to change their viewpoint - steadfast stubborness is a bad thing to bring to a debate. I would like to thank It's dot com for this enjoyable debate about a fun fact that was in STUFF at the time.
| Dot com: | I really think if it was a "knowing is half the battle" takeoff they would have ended the toon with the Commandos all saying together something like, "and information is the key to the universe" |
| Phlip: | not all the cartoons that had these segments did something like that |
| Phlip: | remember it's a parody of the whole genre, not just GI Joe |
| Phlip: | though it is mostly GI Joe |
| Dot com: | there again, we disagree. I think they would have been more blatantly GI Joe if they meant it more than "health class" video |
| Dot com: | *film |
| Phlip: | yeah, I see what you mean |
| Dot com: | to me, it would be like having a robot that looked like a humanoid version of a car and fought in an army against an army of humanoids versions of jets, and then they never transform |
| Dot com: | my plurals are messed up in that sentence |
| Phlip: | still, it's characters from a (parody of a) kids cartoon show doing a public service announcement - it's worth mentioning that the kids shows it's parodying did that too |
| Dot com: | so ignore that |
| Phlip: | agreed the content of that PSA is worded more like a health class video |
| Dot com: | you can't see me, but I'm making that face you make when you're trying to agree with another person but just aren't quite convinced |
| Dot com: | kinda like, ehhh, with the teeth together and the mouth spread |
| Phlip: | this is exactly why it took me this long to vote on the fact... |
| Phlip: | maybe it deserves a rewrite - make it less GI Joe-specific, and less definite (add "could be" or something) |
| Dot com: | I think that would cripple it as far as usefulness. I think the more GI Joe-specific things we find, the better, and the rest is periphery |
| Phlip: | hmm... I guess so |
| Dot com: | and only about 1 in 500 facts is a good "could be", in my estimation |
| Dot com: | although notice I did not say zero |
| Dot com: | every now and then, we need a "could be" or a "may be" |
| Phlip: | how about "This episode is similar to the segments that many 90's childrens shows (including GI Joe) would inclde after their show" |
| Phlip: | removes "based on" and replaces "and now you know" with something more recognisable to people like me who've never actually seen GI Joe |
| Dot com: | see, I don't think it's like those at all |
| Dot com: | it's not preachy enough |
| Phlip: | true |
| Phlip: | umm |
| Dot com: | and Gunhaver comes across as a coach or (naturally) a drill sergeant |
| Dot com: | telling his troops not to get VD or something |
| Phlip: | ok, ditch "similar to" |
| Dot com: | to me, it's got health class written all over it |
| Dot com: | hence, Commandos in the Classroom |
| Dot com: | I'm not really trying to change your mind. But I do believe what I used to believe more strongly now, so this hasn't just been idle conversation. |
| Phlip: | I do see your point too |
| Phlip: | I'd forgotten how preachy these segments were |
| Dot com: | especially Captain Planet and his ilk |
| Phlip: | (I'd only seen them on Captain Planet myself, but they were very preach tyere) |
| Phlip: | yeah |
| Dot com: | heh |
| Phlip: | there* |
| Phlip: | great minds think alike |
| Phlip: | ok, so play down the similarity of content, just of structure... |
| Phlip: | how about "Many 90's childrens shows (including GI Joe) would have segments like this where the characters would tell the children how to behave" |
| Phlip: | or something |
| Phlip: | not happy with the last phrase |
| Dot com: | meh |
| Dot com: | now you're stretching |
| Dot com: | I'm not saying TBC didn't have that in the back of their minds, but I don't believe that's what they were thinking when they wrote it |
| Phlip: | yes, the more I think about it the less it seems like a direct reference... |
| Phlip: | though I still don't know why, if they weren't referencing it, they'd revive the cheat commandos to do it? |
| Dot com: | I'm sorry, I don't follow your last post |
| Phlip: | well, the cheat commandos haven't been seen for a while |
| Dot com: | wait |
| Dot com: | I see what you meant |
| Phlip: | if they just wanded PSA material they could have used one of many sets of characters |
| Phlip: | including the main bunch |
| Dot com: | true |
| Phlip: | SS and HR making a PSA, SB messing it up for them |
| Dot com: | but |
| Dot com: | they've been exploring other stuff for a while |
| Dot com: | (no sbemail in over 6 weeks) |
| Phlip: | this is also true |
| Dot com: | and the Commandos have personalities that fit this well |
| Dot com: | and Reinforcements: "hey guys" |
| Dot com: | that kills me! |
| Phlip: | hehe |
| Phlip: | oh well, I've gone neutral again |
| Phlip: | I'll mull over it a bit more |
| Dot com: | Gunhaver's a good arrogant personality, and Renold is a good wimp, and the other Commandos are good color |
| Dot com: | and the Blue Laser minions and commander are a hoot |
| Phlip: | good "generic evil persons" |
| Dot com: | (but I was actually hoping for a CC toon for a while now, so I'm a little biased in that regard) |
| Phlip: | me too |
| Phlip: | love the CC |
| Dot com: | WE'LL BLOW UP THE OCEAN!! |
| Phlip: | Part of this complete delicions breakfast! |
| Phlip: | (gallon of ice cream not pictured) |
| Dot com: | I mean, *how* could they possibly blow up the ocean!! |
| Phlip: | with a really big microwave ;) |
| Dot com: | oo ah, oo ah |
| Phlip: | lol |
| Dot com: | Firebert, you stay here and think of a better commando name |
| Dot com: | and The Cheat is just crushed at this |
| Dot com: | movie night is my favorite night... I think it is my favorite night |
| Dot com: | are you even trying anymore? |
| Phlip: | "fire the new grappling-hook zip-line (cheap as free)" |
| Dot com: | psst... don't tell the people on the "day shift", but we're using the channel for its intended purpose... to discuss the wiki and H*R |
| Phlip: | O_O shock horror |
| Dot com: | *no offense to the Eastern Hemisphere by the "day shift" remark, by the way |
