Anything: Series, video game, book, food, old toy from childhood, service, etc. Also, any series which you wish did not end, etc.
Manual transmissions in the United States.
I always thought discontinuing the 3ds series was stupid. Nintendo switch is good and all but there is something about this console
I have two cookies I’d like brought back, please.
Nabisco suddenly Smores
And (one I can’t find a pic of) Chiquita made banana shortbread cookies with chocolate on the bottom in the 90s, and they were great, too.
Compact pickup trucks. I got one of the last S10s made and it’s older than the average Tiktokist.
The joyful wonder and whimsey that lived in my soul and twinkle that shone through my eyes, or at least I think it was there. It’s now just a faint memory of a memory, something that I yearn for but unsure if I ever even tasted it.
The satanic panic. It made playing RPGs and video games feel so fucking metal.
Renegade Nell
Mandatory Firefly comment
Also Pushing Daisies, Better Off Ted, Jericho, My So Called Life, Dead Like Me, Freaks and Geeks…
Better Off Ted had so much potential :(
Seems all the more relevant today. They should revive the series, as long as Phil and Lem are still around.
Better Off Ted and Dead Like Me, yeah
I’m here for Pushing Daisies.
Martin Starr is too cool now lol. Freaks and geeks might be hilarious with all the same actors now.
I imagine Bertram Gilfoyle is the adult that Bill Haverchuck grew up to be
I actually know Martin in real life and worked with him for almost a year and he’s almost exactly like his Guilfoyle character. He probably was Bill as a young person lol. The only difference is he’s super sweet but still has that dead pan sense of fuck you humor.
Lol that’s awesome
Last Man on Earth, too!
Why would Freaks and Geeks need another season? It ended fine.
Some shows are great in part because they knew where to end. F&G, AtlA, The Good Place all for example.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
Every time somebody mentions Firefly I automatically think of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Bruce Campbell in a steampunk cowboy romp across the old west?
That show ended way too soon.
Dark Matter (the SyFy show), it was just getting good!
I don’t care, I’m still free, you can’t take the original series from me.
The title has two questions and this one only fits one of them.
Wish wasn’t cancelled, yes!
Wish they brought it back? No, it was a long time ago, and they made Serenity to close off the story and tie things up. It’s likely that bringing it back would do more harm than good.
Man, that show was so likable, but I could never get over the pro-Confederate vibes, even with all the staff denials.
Call me crazy, but if I was going to bring back a series doomed by its association with Joss Whedon I’d give The Nevers another shot. I thought it was fun and then the Whedon thing happened and Covid happened and people seem to just have agreed it wasn’t worth it and gone home.
There’s talk of a reboot, and that’s not what anyone wanted at all…
As long as we’re on cancelled sci-fi shows, Babylon 5 spinoffs. The entire setting is more or less dead and it hurts.
(Yes, I know about The Road Home. It’s not the same.)
Problem with that is that almost everyone who was interesting is dead. Actor wise.
Yep. (Mira Furlan was a real punch in the gut, particularly.)
democracy
So what they actually did was basically flawless from start to finish.
But give me 100 more episodes of the Good Place anyways.
I agree but at the same time I’m happy it got an actual ending instead of being drug out because of its popularity.
What they did was perfect, and there’s no way they could have just added stuff and had it be the show it was. They stuck to the vision and nailed the fuck out of it.
But I could also sit and watch a lot of episodes of reboots 2-5000 or whatever. The chemistry of that cast playing those characters with that writing was all magic.
Oh yeah I could not get enough of that show
Light pickup trucks.
People will inevitably come in here saying “whatabout the Maverick and Colorado?” but those trucks are all the size of full size HDs from 30 years ago.
Edit: don’t even get me started on the Tacoma bloat, the “only mid-size truck on that market” which is the same size as a Humvee.
Yeah. I hate that shit. Those suck too.
Indeed. I have a (parked for the past year, need major suspension work but w/e) S10 which is honestly perfect for me. I know that even in the 90s it was seen as a “mini” truck, but it’s carried everything I’ve ever needed to haul
If the made them again I’d buy one for sure. I had one I high school but the transmission went out so I traded it in for a Civic (which I still have). I love the car but it’s annoying having to borrow my dad’s truck every couple weekends when I need to haul stuff and I hate driving it because it handles like a school bus and I’m too short to see over the front end.
I like the idea of the Maverick, but it’s the same overall size of the Ranger. Why not just reboot that?
I don’t like that it’s only 4-door, short bed and I don’t like the bed and body being one piece. It’s also 2024. There should be an EV and hybrid options before being a gassier. You aren’t towing with that thing anyway.
How about things that never were but have always existed? Been waiting my entire adult life (I’m 42) for GRRM to finish Game of Thrones. My kid was 2 when the last book came out and now he’s driving lol
I was gonna say Patrick Rothfuss’ King Killer Chronicles series. We’re never getting Doors of Stone. I loved his writing, but dammit, I’ve just given up on it at this point.
Oh wow I forgot about that series. It’s been like a decade lol. I didn’t even realize the third never released. What’s with these good writers not finishing their projects
The stress of success, many eyes watching, and not publishing is less crushing than publishing a shit ending that ruins the trilogy and wipes out all interest in the first two books.
It’s a shame I don’t find Sanderson books all that interesting because that guy puts out books like a Gatling gun.
I’ve literally tied myself over with several series of Sanderson’s while waiting for the final book in the Kingkiller Chronicle series.
I guess there’s always the reassurance that Sanderson will probably pick up any major series that needs finishing haha.
Way of Kings did nothing for you? :o
Nah not really. It’s well thought out and all that but it just seems kind of “clinical” to me. I like a lot of grit (cormac McCarthy is my favorite author), so I lean more towards Abercrombie or mark lawrence.
Steven Erikson is another I wish I could get into but I find myself rereading the same stuff over and over until ultimately giving up.
I think he painted himself into a corner with just how much he needs to resolve in the last book. Hell, we don’t even know what king is killed.
I think he could do quite a few things to make it more than just a third book. He could hand wave away some parts as “well that’s already well known, go talk to X for that story.” And then put that as a separate book.
Or just say to properly tell the story he needs more time than expected and give himself more than 3 of the in story days.
Gonna have to start fantasy book series just like Netflix these days. Not gonna start until the book/series has an ending!
And Matel still hasn’t released hoverboards
Inside Job. Canceling a series when there’s a cliffhanger should be illegal!
Also, Windows Mixed Reality, my VR headset is going to become a paperweight when I’ll be forced to migrate off Windows 10 in a year.
Upset about both of those too.
The WMR thing is bugging me so much. Like release whatever is needed to open the hardware if you’re done with it, jerks!
I have a Samsung Odyssey+ that’s a fantastic unit that of course I can’t run when I mainline Linux these days. Monado is making impressive gains but the fact that they basically need to hack and reverse engineer the thing out of being e-waste is just messed up.
I really like VR and want to make things for it. But I can’t swing a Steam set and there’s no way I’m giving a single rotten cent to Facebook if I can help it!
Like others said there’s still ways to keep it working but it feels iffy enough that it could just break at any moment =\
Don’t migrate off of Windows 10. Switch to the LTSC Enterprise edition, which will continue to get security updates.
You will have to manually install the WMR package on it, though.
Then migrate to Linux and see if there are devs working on open source drivers
You are not the first one suggesting that, I have been dual booting Linux for 10+ years and open-source support for WMR headset is very barebones.
Monado is the only project I’m aware of and it supports the headset only, not the controllers. Not a full solution for most people.
Monado is making impressive strides, but VR is a really tough nut to crack, given how ridiculously proprietary most units are. :(
The controllers especially seem to be giving them a lot of trouble.
I know M$ always extinguishes things it embraces, but they should really just release the WMR code if they’re done with ir. An open source WMR implementation would save SO MUCH headache of trying to engineer custom drivers and everything from scratch!
Firefly! We need more seasons of that amazing show!
I used to think like you, then I saw some sit down with joss whedon and the rest of the cast where he talked about where the series would have gone if it hadn’t been axed by Fox after the first season, and man it was a WEIRD talk. Joss started going on about the eventually fate of Inara and not only was it super harsh, but Joss kept giving Inara’s actor the creepiest looks and I sware on me mum the whole table got skeeved out.
Honestly made me appreciate Serenity that much more as the cap to the series
I’d have taken that chance.
Do you remember what that interview was? I’d be interested to watch it.
I don’t remember specifically but iirc a lot of clips are found when you search for “inara firefly fate” or “inara firefly ending”
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for sharing.
I was wondering if Firefly being the immediate de facto response to this had lived its life. It appears not.
Removed by mod
Better off ted. Fantastic show.
Ahh hells yeah
