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Taking the Mickey: A Save Disney Quest
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Slynnwen
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Next turn, you pick a die roll and only even numbers will be rolled (the benefits of even/odd split physical dice).
Chernobyl Response
Slynnwen
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Chernobyl Responses said:
Dean stared out at the glowing fires in the distance, dimmer now after the air runs, but still bright enough to see miles out.
"The Reds really screwed the pooch this time." Came the voice of Edwards from beside him. "Course, that's par for the course for them. Run out a bunch of crap and hope the weight of numbers fixes things in the end."
"They're saying they need more volunteers for the ground work, reaching places they can't get to by air." Dean responded. "I figure if me and a good chunk of the other guys go in, we could handle it quickly enough-"
Edwards turned to look at him. "Absolutely not, son."
Dean tore his gaze from the blaze to look back. "Sir?"
"You're what, twenty-one? Twenty?" Edwards questioned.
"Nineteen, sir." Dean answered.
"Christ. Men shouldn't die that young. You and your friends stay at command, help coordinate if you can, load the trucks if you can't." Edwards looked out towards Pripyat. "I'm sixty-eight, if I die or get cancer down the line I can meet my maker with a smile."
"Sir, I know what I'm signing up for-" Protested Dean, gesturing towards the burning distance with his hands.
"Son, with all due respect, you have no idea what you're signing up for. I spent some time in Japan after the war, part of the occupation, and we saw the 'survivors' from the bomb." Edwards chuckled darkly, his face twisting into a grim smile. "And they're saying this is worse. Let the adults handle this one, kid. Go find someone, treat her right, and have a good life."
"Here at the top of the hour, Peter Jennings, ABC News. Following the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, the USSR's international call for aid has been answered resoundingly by all of Europe and America. Veterans of WWII, upon hearing of the dangers present for those exposed to the radiation, volunteered to run the treacherous missions to dump containment material onto the fires on the ground following the initial air drops, in nearly all cases refusing to allow younger individuals to accompany them. When asked why they would choose to do this, they simply responded with "It's a job that needs to be done." Their brave actions have resulted in what many amongst the nuclear scientific community are calling a miracle, as containment of the disaster is proceeding at a pace that will see the entire area contained by the start of July. While an amount of radiation has spread to large parts of Europe, raising concerns, the rapid response has ensured that no further spread will occur. Chairman Gorbachev has awarded medals to all involved in the cleanup, and in sharp contrast to his remarks just months ago, promised that no further nuclear development will happen until the disaster is fully analyzed and all current nuclear plants will be shut down as quickly as possible for review. President Reagan has similarly tasked all currently operating nuclear plants in the US to undergo rigorous safety testing and reviews, with some rolling blackouts expected as a result. Many of the funds that were earmarked for nuclear expansion around the world have been shifted to other energy projects, notably solar amongst other renewable options. A breakthrough in battery technology by Stanford Ovshinsky while working on a project for Disney has given many hope that the future of renewables is bright, while further cementing the idea that nuclear power will someday be unnecessary. Continuing coverage of the Chernobyl disaster cleanup efforts will resume after the break."
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well as horrible as all that sounds on the personal level
i`ll take it as a sort of win for humanity!
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You know I just thought of something. If the Soviets, Europeans, and Americans veterans of World War II are volunteering for Chernobyl cleanup, this is probably the first joint military exercise of the "Allies" of World War II since... well World War II
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This makes me smile... somehow.
staplesdex2
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Well Nuclear research will go on the backburner because of this. It's only hindsight that we know that Nuclear power is a viable alternative for free energy.
Travler66
Let her name echo in song!
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Sometimes, disasters and tragedies tend to bring people together to help eachother out. Sometimes it doesn't always work out, but I like to think it does most of the time.
overmind
Ruler of the Swarm
Damn...Perhaps it might be too soon at the moment, but this would make for a great movie in the future.
Tithed_Verse
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It made several great movies IRL. Have you seen the HBO series?
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That's why I mused that it's probably not under our control- and further, I never stated that I wanted it unedited? Saban-style dubbing (like their Digimon and PreCure dubs) is the ideal- the world probably isn't ready for a Digimon-style dub, unless it's explicitly about ninja or something considered blatantly Japanese, but Harmony Gold already made The Magical World of Gigi, and Pretty Creamy the Perfect Popstar, Harmony Gold's proposed Creamy Mami dub, might be entertaining. Could also be too weird, and making new songs or English versions of the originals might be a bit too much effort.
Also, the idea of a block was a bit enthusiastic- it probably makes more sense to just slot the anime in with other shows- slotting them in with fitting blocks if applicable, stuff like that.
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Of course as often as it might make a great movie it is fodder for poor ones as well.
staplesdex2
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I'm against dubs in general as some things might get lost in translation.
I'd support it if done right.
I'd support it if done right.
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Doing Anime in the 1980s is going to be an extreme uphill battle. Due in no small part to their being very few anime aficianados in the United States in the mid 1980s. Generally the bad dubs on broadcast TV of that time WAS the first introduction of anime in America (funny enough NBC tried to show Astroboy anime in the 1960s cartoon programming but it flopped). Many public broadcast stations picked up anime since well it was cartoons they could afford, and they were trying anything to hook teen demographics. It SOMEHOW worked, but it took years for anime to reach its convention phase, or swapping VHS. Keep in mind this isn't the convention culture of today, conventions were literally swapping VHS reocrdings from TV (commercials and all) in fact until the original 1978 BSG came out on DVD, fans STILL had to VHS/DVD swap because networks and companies simply didn't put out their back catalog. TV marathons were big deals to get the episodes that were missing from your collection. The reason is well... economics. VHS tapes wear out over time, and can only hold so much footage. So... You could create a 4 VHS tape collection of a 26 Episode anime... and pay for subtitling... and maybe dubbing... and censoring... and other costs. OR you could just make more of last years blockbusters and sell to VHS stores immediately.
Getting Anime going in the 1980s has some major hurdles. Overcoming serialized story structure, Cost of subtitling/dubbing, economics of VHS, prickly anime distributors (who'd rather just sell to the Japanese market instead), and censoring due to different cultural norms.
The serialized story structure is the result of the fact that TV until the Sopranos, was very episodic outside of the occasional 2 episode arc. This is why Babylon 5, and the fact that they got 5 years was remarkable. You CAN'T syndicate Babylon 5, since syndication is supposed to be self contained chunks, the fact that Babylon 5 went on for 5 seasons and had multiple integrated year arcs is amazing today, it was downright unheard of in the era before DVD season collections. DVD collections only started because you could cram 8 hours of high quality video onto a DVD, and also A&E. No one... and I mean NO ONE... saw DVD collections being a thing. This is why music seems to disappear for DVDs, the contracts were for the music for broadcast TV, and not for recordings. Daria doesn't have it's original soundtrack, because MTV would have to pay millions for the music rights for that. Sopranos, Family Guy, Futurama DVD collections literally flipped the table and showed there's a market for this. It couldn't ever happen on VHS, the tech just isn't there.
Cost of subtitling and dubbing is the most prone to cost cutting since the producer of the sub/dub only cares about reducing cost not quality. as long as it's consumable, he doesn't care if a gunshot should sound like a slap or not. (you all know what I'm talking about there)
VHS only can hold about 160 minutes of good footage, that can be extended but quality is sacrificed. Why does this matter? 13 episode anime show? Cram to 2 VHS's. Evangelion would be on 3-4 tapes. God help you if you put something that's LONG on VHS, a full stack of Naruto VHS tapes could kill a man if it fell over
Prickly anime distributors, well they honestly don't care about the American market (in some ways you can argue they STILL don't).
Censoring anime, if it was broadcast this will have to happen. It was an uphill battle in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and in the 1980s it might as well be a sheer cliff. Adult Swim only got away with SOME uncensored things by being on a 1 AM after all
Getting Anime going in the 1980s has some major hurdles. Overcoming serialized story structure, Cost of subtitling/dubbing, economics of VHS, prickly anime distributors (who'd rather just sell to the Japanese market instead), and censoring due to different cultural norms.
The serialized story structure is the result of the fact that TV until the Sopranos, was very episodic outside of the occasional 2 episode arc. This is why Babylon 5, and the fact that they got 5 years was remarkable. You CAN'T syndicate Babylon 5, since syndication is supposed to be self contained chunks, the fact that Babylon 5 went on for 5 seasons and had multiple integrated year arcs is amazing today, it was downright unheard of in the era before DVD season collections. DVD collections only started because you could cram 8 hours of high quality video onto a DVD, and also A&E. No one... and I mean NO ONE... saw DVD collections being a thing. This is why music seems to disappear for DVDs, the contracts were for the music for broadcast TV, and not for recordings. Daria doesn't have it's original soundtrack, because MTV would have to pay millions for the music rights for that. Sopranos, Family Guy, Futurama DVD collections literally flipped the table and showed there's a market for this. It couldn't ever happen on VHS, the tech just isn't there.
Cost of subtitling and dubbing is the most prone to cost cutting since the producer of the sub/dub only cares about reducing cost not quality. as long as it's consumable, he doesn't care if a gunshot should sound like a slap or not. (you all know what I'm talking about there)
VHS only can hold about 160 minutes of good footage, that can be extended but quality is sacrificed. Why does this matter? 13 episode anime show? Cram to 2 VHS's. Evangelion would be on 3-4 tapes. God help you if you put something that's LONG on VHS, a full stack of Naruto VHS tapes could kill a man if it fell over
Prickly anime distributors, well they honestly don't care about the American market (in some ways you can argue they STILL don't).
Censoring anime, if it was broadcast this will have to happen. It was an uphill battle in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and in the 1980s it might as well be a sheer cliff. Adult Swim only got away with SOME uncensored things by being on a 1 AM after all
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I don't know about the others, but I was proposing stuff like Doraemon, Littl' Bits, Maya the Bee, and some magical girl shows (Flower Angel, Pretty Creamy the Perfect Popstar, and The Magical World of Gigi) that have, or almost had, Harmony Gold dubs. Localization is definitely needed, but these shows have a young target audience (meaning not much, if anything, has to be censored) and are largely episodic in nature. I don't want to have complex, adult anime- there's not really a target audience at this point, and we'll obviously localize everything (except Maya, I don't think that that needs any localization) but this is a way to air "original" content (ie. without any prior English releases) without spending too much money. We're dubbing for much the same reasons that people dubbed at that point in time- to save money- however, because everything's kodomo, we won't need to make any awkward cuts that lowers the quality- mostly we just need to change the names.
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Good thing Ghibli's coming to contact us, then? But if we use Harmony Gold as an in between, that might not necessarily be needed. And we might want to just do a test run with something that's already been dubbed for two years in universe, but just hasn't been aired
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Don't forget French. We should take both next turn, if only to open more options down the road.
We don't get to do any more Nintendo shows until we pick up Japanese, so that's a pretty good incentive to get on that. Probably need to cut one or two less essential actions from our plan next turn.
Wasn't a major factor of Chernobyl that they were experimenting with a live reactor near the city?
Its safe if you weren't doing experiments, which have a higher chance to fuck up than routine activity
Rockeye
Plausible Engineer
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"Flights of the future, flights of fantasy" is an action I would like to get around to sooner or later. We're aparrently maybe having park capacity problems, and this action is noted to help fix that, plus I am personally fond of the skyway.
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Funny you bring that up. instead of Tomorrowlanding the skyway, why don't we give it the Fantasyland treatment. We do need to renovate the Magic Kingdom in Orlando after all but I had an idea. Why don't we renovate Tommorrowland Orlando to look like 2055, but the big budget expansion goes to expanding Fantasyland. We have the room, and honestly I feel like our parks shouldn't be carbon copies of each other. What do people think?
Crazy7s1
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Even if we're in good shape re board goals, there's SO MUCH STUFF we want to be doing! Ever more stuff! It's great and awful at the same time
Its what makes the quest so fun. There are so many opportunities and ideas that we can devout actions to, but we have only so many actions to spend.