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[Hound55]

Is it Nubsy's Trannys?

 

[lixdexia]

H. Jon Benjamin has one of the coolest voices in animation today.

i love him, but i can't not hear coach mcgurk every time he talks. my name is brandon, so it's like he was talking to me...

 

[Mystirious]

Who is basically Sterling Archer.

True 'dat

 

[chamber-music]

I know. FF = dropped for me.

Anyway, I had an idea when I was driving around today:

In the future, society has managed to master time travel technology but also embrace beaurocracy and capitalism to the nth degree. The government, fearing all the paradoxes we've seen a million times in sci fi shows and comics and books, has taken this amazing time travel technology and decided to use it primarily for "time audits": they go back in time, chronicling all the things history missed or lost, and recording their findings for a variety of uses in the present, but never interfering with anything. Someone on trial for murder? The trial consists of a presentation of the time audit--now the only permissable form of evidence--to the judge/jury, followed by a ruling and sentencing. So justice is absolute but fair, science has advanced way faster because scientists can now see exactly what their predecessors did, etc. Virtual utopia, naturally.

The most profound of these changes, though, turns out to be the application of time audits to property rights. Now that people can see exactly who did what, genealogical lines become super-important. Virtually no one works anymore because everyone is entitled to some slice of the residuals from their ancestors. Maybe the caveman who plucked the first G-chord on a string is your ancestor--you get like a quarter or a nickle every time that note is played now.

Of course, since there's no financial impetus to do anything, humanity has fallen into total stagnation. No one bothers to create or do much of anything anymore. Enter: our hero. The protagonist comes from the lowest rung of the societal ladder, with ancestors who created virtually nothing, but he rises up to inspire his fellow people to find their creative spark again. How? I don't know. Maybe he becomes a terr--er, "freedom fighter" and smashes up the time travel tech so that humanity has to live in the now again or something. I just thought the idea of "time audits" was kind of cool and the rest of this stuff started popping into my head. I never really got around to coming up with a narrative, though.

Everytime I see those lawsuits when someone sues a really successful person I think that where society is heading.

I'm watching Jackie Chan's Thunderbolt before it leaves Netflix in a couple of days.

Seriously, if you're ever looking for the bad guy in one of his old Hong Kong films, search for the nearest European.

Armor of God is where its at. You can't beat Jackie Chan doing Indiana Jones Hong Kong style

well when I was stationed in Japan, the word was Japanese girls saw dating an American as a status symbol....dated one or two, got bored

My friend white dated a Japanese girl and he said as much. She took him home to meet her parents and they all gazed at him because he was a redhead and super pale which is like hitting the jackpot in exoticness for Japanese people.

What's wrong with typecasting Europeans? They've been doing it to Asians and other ethnic minorities for years.

I just saw this video called "Why Asian girls date White guys" done by a couple of Asian guys. Its funny cause all these Asian American girls give like completely lame-ass reasons like how "effeminate" Asian men seem or how "quiet and reserved" they are. The documentary should have been called "Why Asian American girls date white guys".

You could do that for any race really. Its just lazy racial stereotyping.

works just as well in real life. all europeans are mustache-twirlers, it's a scientific fact.

Hey don't be racist

 

[Mystirious]

Watching Archer and checking out parks and recreation today to see if it is good

Got Inception on dvd too fun on a bun

 

[Tron Bonne]

I know. FF = dropped for me.

Anyway, I had an idea when I was driving around today:

In the future, society has managed to master time travel technology but also embrace beaurocracy and capitalism to the nth degree. The government, fearing all the paradoxes we've seen a million times in sci fi shows and comics and books, has taken this amazing time travel technology and decided to use it primarily for "time audits": they go back in time, chronicling all the things history missed or lost, and recording their findings for a variety of uses in the present, but never interfering with anything. Someone on trial for murder? The trial consists of a presentation of the time audit--now the only permissable form of evidence--to the judge/jury, followed by a ruling and sentencing. So justice is absolute but fair, science has advanced way faster because scientists can now see exactly what their predecessors did, etc. Virtual utopia, naturally.

The most profound of these changes, though, turns out to be the application of time audits to property rights. Now that people can see exactly who did what, genealogical lines become super-important. Virtually no one works anymore because everyone is entitled to some slice of the residuals from their ancestors. Maybe the caveman who plucked the first G-chord on a string is your ancestor--you get like a quarter or a nickle every time that note is played now.

Of course, since there's no financial impetus to do anything, humanity has fallen into total stagnation. No one bothers to create or do much of anything anymore. Enter: our hero. The protagonist comes from the lowest rung of the societal ladder, with ancestors who created virtually nothing, but he rises up to inspire his fellow people to find their creative spark again. How? I don't know. Maybe he becomes a terr--er, "freedom fighter" and smashes up the time travel tech so that humanity has to live in the now again or something. I just thought the idea of "time audits" was kind of cool and the rest of this stuff started popping into my head. I never really got around to coming up with a narrative, though.

I just wrote this story....thirty minutes ago

 

[Mystirious]

I did it thirty five minutes ago

 

[Drz]

Who cares? I tweeted about it, thus i trademarked it.

 

[Mystirious]

 

[Tron Bonne]

Such liars

 

[Mystirious]

 

[Kane52630]

Joshua F. Greenwood is such a horrible person.

 

[Mystirious]

Who is he Kane

 

[Kane52630]

edit.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well it's going to be hard to drop with Marvel "cancelling" it.

Anyway I trust Hickman. He's a strong writer and have complete faith that he's going to do something interesting with the group. Besides if Johnny is really dead I will eat my shoe, Herzog style.

I'm sure Hickman will do a good job with it, but I'm sticking with my decision to never spend money on Spider-Man post-"OMD." I'm not even upset over "OMD" anymore, but it's handy for keeping my comics budget in check.

Also, the relaunched series is gonna be called FF too.

i like it except for the economic structure. that whole second paragraph kinda ruins it. if no one is working then what value would any of the residuals have? if you get .5% of the gdp from the state because your ancestor invented division it's worthless if the gdp is just a book of matches.

Good point. (Economics is not my forté.) So how about this: There is still work going on, but having to work for a living is considered low-class. There's a massive social divide between the haves, whose ancestors invented useful s***, and the have nots, whose ancestors invented... I don't know, eating paste or something. Because there's plenty of useful stuff from throughout history to go around, the rich, elite "leisure class" lounges around all day and wants for nothing while the "working class" has to work almost slave-like hours just to make ends meet.

The protagonist is one such second-class citizen, working as a time auditor who, rather than just observing historical figures doing great things and filing his reports, becomes enamored with the creative process and is determined to create something of his own. That creation? Revolution.

i love him, but i can't not hear coach mcgurk every time he talks. my name is brandon, so it's like he was talking to me...

I still think of him as Ben Katz.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Corp, all joking aside, I think you got a neat little idea with some refining and the such. Which is why I just wrote all this down in my pretentious Pac-Man Moleskin book and will steal it so hard.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Oh, and I know I'm insanely late on this, but I happened to watch that Mad Men sketch SNL did when Jon Hamm first hosted. Goddamn, did that suck. I know it's SNL and all, so I shouldn't be surprised, but I wanted to like it. The part where Don did his amazing, out-of-nowhere pitch for a product, and the reaction, was pretty funny, but the rest was a total dud. Sesame Street's Mad Men parody was better.

 

[Mystirious]

Corp, all joking aside, I think you got a neat little idea with some refining and the such. Which is why I just wrote all this down in my pretentious Pac-Man Moleskin book and will steal it so hard.

Tron Bonne

Stealing peoples stories like a fabulous word ninja

 

[BlackLantern]

stealing is wrong


I has a date tomorrow night...and she's not an escort

 

[Watchman]

I'm sure Hickman will do a good job with it, but I'm sticking with my decision to never spend money on Spider-Man post-"OMD." I'm not even upset over "OMD" anymore, but it's handy for keeping my comics budget in check.

Also, the relaunched series is gonna be called FF too.

I've stop caring about Spider-Man around movie number three so I can't fault you for that.

I still think of him as Ben Katz.

Damn it now I have an urge to watch Dr. Katz now but with no means to do it. I guess Archer and Home Movies will have to do.

 

[Mystirious]

That is great BlackLantern

How did you meet her does she seem nice

I'm sure Hickman will do a good job with it, but I'm sticking with my decision to never spend money on Spider-Man post-"OMD." I'm not even upset over "OMD" anymore, but it's handy for keeping my comics budget in check.

Also, the relaunched series is gonna be called FF too.


Good point. (Economics is not my forté.) So how about this: There is still work going on, but having to work for a living is considered low-class. There's a massive social divide between the haves, whose ancestors invented useful s***, and the have nots, whose ancestors invented... I don't know, eating paste or something. Because there's plenty of useful stuff from throughout history to go around, the rich, elite "leisure class" lounges around all day and wants for nothing while the "working class" has to work almost slave-like hours just to make ends meet.

The protagonist is one such second-class citizen, working as a time auditor who, rather than just observing historical figures doing great things and filing his reports, becomes enamored with the creative process and is determined to create something of his own. That creation? Revolution.




I still think of him as Ben Katz.

That sounds like sauce in a fun sandwhich Corp write it

 

[Tron Bonne]

stealing is wrong

Not when you do it via a Pac-Man Moleskin notebook. Then it's creative magic. If I were doing it via my Peanuts Moleskin notebook, you would be correct.

 

[BlackLantern]

That is great BlackLantern

How did you meet her does she seem nice

nice enough, she's one of the girls on the RD team (but on a leave at the moment, not skating) and she's a substitute teacher

 

[chamber-music]

Good point. (Economics is not my forté.) So how about this: There is still work going on, but having to work for a living is considered low-class. There's a massive social divide between the haves, whose ancestors invented useful s***, and the have nots, whose ancestors invented... I don't know, eating paste or something. Because there's plenty of useful stuff from throughout history to go around, the rich, elite "leisure class" lounges around all day and wants for nothing while the "working class" has to work almost slave-like hours just to make ends meet.

The protagonist is one such second-class citizen, working as a time auditor who, rather than just observing historical figures doing great things and filing his reports, becomes enamored with the creative process and is determined to create something of his own. That creation? Revolution.

Alot of old wealthy families are wealthy because they exploited people/resources, married into wealth, kissed someone importants ass ect. Thats what almost every aristocratic family in Britain did to get wealthy.

I think only a small percentage of people on the planet actully become rich from inventing something because someone else always comes along and uses the idea in a commerical way as most inventors are not business men or invent for finacial reasons more to answer unaswered questions and seek new discoveries to advance human understanding.

Most of those trust fund kids end up blowing their family fortune through gambling, debts and poor investments.

 

[BlackLantern]

but that percentage is growing....guys like Mark Cuban, Zuckerberg, all developed a new way of doing things

a lot of people do not know how Mark Cuban got rich....he basically wrote the code that makes internet radio possible....then sold it to Yahoo for a metric ****ton of money