Answer 1:
Like a DVD or Laserdisc commentary track.

Answer 2:
A cheap way to make a no content post into a minor content post (placement being more important then content for a "This Goes Here" post, which, given this board's reaction to previous Symphony installments, might be a good idea).

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Luc "If you look over there in the background, you can see a Psi Corps poster. We almost digitally edited it out as an anacronism, until our historian pointed out that, while not yet in common use, it had been first posted a year before." French

See, now, this is exactly what I don't want to happen - people getting locked into the mindset that there can only be a single thread for the discussion of any given episode, instead of giving their own questions and comments and whatever subthreads. If that doesn't get done, then the single threads get longer and longer and longer until they're completely unmanageable.

So, basically, This DOESN'T Go Here, or at least not Only Here.

Oh, and as to your first question, I doubt you'll ever see that. I think they're annoying enough on DVDs, let alone spliced into a piece of prose, however THAT would work...

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

Eh. I just know I prefer to have some clue that there's a new story, and that I dislike undescriptive Subjects. (Which this has rapidly evolved into.)

>Oh, and as to your first question, I doubt you'll ever see that. I
>think they're annoying enough on DVDs, let alone spliced into a piece
>of prose, however THAT would work...

MiSTing format, for example.

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Luc "Wondering how he eats and breathes and other science facts" French

I believe they're called Pop-Ups in the format you are thinking of. MiST implies poking fun at. Pop-Up (Popup, Pop Up, the Impossible Man of Popup) types are more informative.

Static-Pulse
- the most impulsive post alive
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How are they annoying? Nobody's forcing you to listen to them.

-- Sean --

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And you know that how, exactly?

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

It's a comment on the level of "if you don't like X, change the channel/don't read it/etc." I personally like commentary tracks (and thus greatly appreciate Fight Club's plethora) but I don't force my sister to sit down and watch it, fr. ex.

-- Sean --

http://www.thebrokenlink.org The Broken Link 4.0 is live!
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I could be wrong.

Ard
usually puts her machine away from the DVD player to avoid incessant DVDwankage.

Ard Sumhenner
Ronin Research, Sacramento, CA

Well, that's still not the same thing as being forced to pay attention to it. I have my main computer sitting in the study, and I have a laptop that I use in the living room if I want to have a computer nearby while I'm watching a movie. Neither of my machines has a DVD-ROM drive, though at times I'd like my laptop to have one. (Not that I'm going to blow the $350 to get one, either; at that point, I'd just get a laptop that already had one.) I also sit in the living room while my sister and her boyfriend use my TV and DVD player, ignoring whatever they're watching, because the loveseat is a lot more comfortable than my computer chair.

-- Sean --

http://www.thebrokenlink.org The Broken Link 4.0 is live!
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My guess is it's a throwaway; on the other hand, it may return to haunt me at some point. Sometimes throwaway references do that.

>> "K-Katsuj-j-jinkenr-ryuu," said Kaitlyn, and left it at that.
>> "I d-don't f-feel like exp-plaining it to the d-d-dean."
>
>Does the Psi Corps know that Force-users can sense psi? Do they even
>know the Force exists?

The Force is an old wives' tale. No educated lifeform believes in its existence. Next you'll be asking if they've got a pilot program to determine just how it is that Santa Claus knows if you've been naughty or nice.

(Sarcasm theirs, not mine.)

>> Ravenhair arrived tuxedoed as well - and so did Nall, his little vest
>> and bow tie eliciting a most unseemly storm of giggling from the box.
>
>I want to see a picture of this ^_^.

If you know what Nall looks like, you can approximate it by checking out the scene in the Big O episode "Missing Cat" in which Perot is similarly attired. :)

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

If there's a freshman at WPI in the fall with black plastic glasses, taped in the middle, and a lightning-bolt scar, I'll... well, okay, I have no idea what I'd do.

>The Force is an old wives' tale. No educated lifeform believes in its
>existence. Next you'll be asking if they've got a pilot program to
>determine just how it is that Santa Claus knows if you've been naughty
>or nice.

I figured as much. It'll be interesting to see how this works out into the next story.

>If you know what Nall looks like, you can approximate it by checking
>out the scene in the Big O episode "Missing Cat" in which Perot
>is similarly attired. :)

I'll keep an eye out for it when I get to that episode. I picked up the first disc of the series at NekoCon, and damn, does it kick ass. I want an R. Dorothy Waynewright.

-- Sean --
"Your taste in clothes stinks."
http://www.thebrokenlink.org The Broken Link 4.0 is live!
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Follow my random thoughts
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They come in six-packs, right next to the Zaphod Beeblebrox section...

--rR

Just watch out for the red ones.

Patrick Chester
"...could you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"

That's wrong on so many levels and in so many dimensions I can't even begin to chronical them here...

-={(Astynax)}=-
"Not sure which part frightens me more, but 'the Zaphod Beeblebrox section' is slightly in the lead..."

	-={(Astynax)}=- "Sometimes fanfic is a love letter to canon, sometimes it's a polite disagreement, and sometimes it's 95 things canon did wrong nailed to a door."

Stop reading Eyrie? Run screaming at the thought of what would happen if Hagrid meets Wapiko? Run screaming at the thought of Quidditch matches played with Veritechs (actually, that sounds kinda fun...)? Laugh out loud? Wonder who he is 'cause Harry's are big, round and rimless?

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-Pasha
Harry Potter fan, of the House of Slythern, according to my little sisters Selecting Hat...

*scratches his head* What's Quidditch?

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"And what _are_ we dealing with? Little green men!?"
"No. Little green blobs in bonded polycarbite-armor!"

Imagine soccer, played on flying broomsticks.

By two mixed teams of cricketeers, baseball outfielders, and hockey players.

With four flying balls, two of which want to kill you, and one of which keeps running away and hiding.

And it's played in an ancient Aztec ball-court, and the air above it.

With a scoring system that makes tennis look logical.

That should help you begin to imagine Quidditch.

-- Bob
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500 plastic ducks.
1 world.
Infinite possibilities.
http://www.ifoundaduck.com

1 goal = 50 points.

capturing the snitch = 3 goals and ends the game.

Team with the most points wins. Makes as much sense as any other game out there.

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Vaughn doesn't know I exist. I guess this explains why the rest of reality keeps ignoring me as well. >_<

Cool. So, where is it from?

>capturing the snitch = 3 goals and ends the game.

Snitch? Is that the ball that's running away?

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"And what _are_ we dealing with? Little green men!?"
"No. Little green blobs in bonded polycarbite-armor!"

Harry Potter. The ref from wence the t-shirt came, and from wence the Freshman with the scar came.

>>capturing the snitch = 3 goals and ends the game.
>
>Snitch? Is that the ball that's running away?

Yeah. It's kinda complex. Go read the books. They're surprisingly good. I liken them in...spirit I guess...to UF<1>.

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-Pasha
Umm, right....I'll be with you in just a sec now...

<1> Ok, before everyone goes off the deep end and hangs me by my short and curlys, by spirit I mean: "Have a good time, with a fairly standard formlua that you kinda twist 15 degrees queer of left."

Off-topic.

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

Bastard.

*shatter*

My, but this style of post is getting old.

--truss.

Yea, but exploding heads are allways so messy.

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"And what _are_ we dealing with? Little green men!?"
"No. Little green blobs in bonded polycarbite-armor!"

True. And aside from that people has stopped drinking while posting, reducing the numbers of <SNARF> and <CHOKE> type of posts.

Pangaro, "You are VERY unoriginal...""Thanks, I guess..."
Member of the Narn Bat Squad

You misunderstand me. By "this style of post" I am referring to all the examples you just cited.

--truss,
not impressed by content-free posts.