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Zobovor (zobovor@aol.com) wrote:
> Steve-o Stonebraker wrote:
> >And to my tastes in particular, I don't like it better or worse.  
> >Obviously, though, YMMV.  :)
> 
> JETSTORM:  Say... what?

As Tigris pointed out, YMMV means "your milage may vary".  As I recall, it
started out as a programming thing (well, after being a car thing) in
regards to running code on various different pieces of hardware.  What
works on my computer might not work the same way on yours.  It has evolved
into a definition sort of like "But of course, that's my opinion only, and
youmight well disagree completely."  There's a full write-up of the term's
evolution in the Jargon File (which you can find through Yahoo!). 

> >I have no detailed memory of the BW models, but I'd guess that if 
> >one looked carefully, one could find many of the same shortcuts 
> >being done there...  
> 
> Au contraire, mon cher pamplemousse.

Your... wha?  I'm afraid I don't remember pamplemousse from my high 
school days...  The only French term of endearment that's still with me 
is "mon petit chou" (my little cabbage).

Anyway, I was surmising that the shortcuts had *some* use, perhaps well 
hidden.  I know the majority of character features were physical.  
However, after M Sipher's description of TM2 Cheetor, I'm willing to 
admit I may be completely wrong.  :)

> Hasbro might have issued an edict that the series was supposed to have a
> darker, Batmaneqsue feel, until the censors stepped in and complained that
> the show was beginning to smack of "Dark Glass," so Mainframe threw in the
> cotton candy explosions and starry energy blasts to serve as a sub-tul
> reminder that this stuff wasn't real.  (Megatron: Who's to say?)

Gah...  Zob, maybe you missed the resolution of the "Dark Glass" affair 
during your hiatus, but that episode was *not* pulled for being too dark 
and scary.  It simply didn't have the quota of action that Claster 
demands, so it was dropped.  At least, this is what Larry DiTillio told 
(I think) Joona in an email which was later posted to ATT.  The rumors of 
it being axed by censors were quite unfounded, but naturally spread like 
wildfire becuase it gave people a chance to complain about "political 
correctness".

(Incidentally, I *like* the explosions in BM quite a bit... the energy 
blasts are a bit much for me, but they go by fast enough that I usually 
don't care.)

> >Darn that individual tastes thingy...  If only everybody thought like 
> >me,  the world would be perfect.  ;)
> 
> Hey, I think so, too!  :)

Great!  Just convince everybody else for me, wouldja?  Or, do you mean 
people should think like me, you, or me, me?  Although, I guess it 
doesn't make much difference, because no matter who we all thought like, 
we would all like it once it had happened.  :)

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                                                --Steve-o

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