JCC How to be a JCCer, the Thread

I was a baby during 9/11 so no I can’t say I do. But it is crazy to me that we are approaching the 20th anniversary

 

I was in middle school.

.... no, wait, that was the shuttle explosion. I was working in a physics lab when 9/11 happened.

 

I was 27, living in Boulder, CO.

 

have you seen Titanic

 

have you seen the Star Wars

i have. in a Movie Theater. When it was just called "Star Wars".

HOLY **** I'M OLD

 

Yes

 

Just know that you will never experience anything like that theatrical release in your life

 

Theaters are dead. So I don’t think we’ll be experiencing anything theatrical anytime soon

 

It’s ok. Everything is slowly rotting away.

 

I was 20. One of the players at my RPG table at the time called me to tell me "turn on your TV, you're going to love what's happening". Just in time to watch a plane crash into the second tower "live". More than enough in time to watch both towers fall as it happened.

I see your Titanic theatrical experience and raise you Schindler's List.

 

What did you friend think you would love to see? 9/11?

 

The theatrical releases of Aliens and Saving Private Ryan were also noteworthy IMHO.

 

Classic Twazzo

 

Yes.

 

Wait but "Rogue-one-and-a-half" already existed as a concept before the movie came out?

I thought the name was invented in 2016

 

Every generation had its own shuttle disaster. Or at least, every generation that mattered.

 

You think that's bad; on the flip side I'm young enough to have had a older middle school teacher who worked with and personally knew Krista McCalluf at Concord High when he was a young man.

Rogue One and Half is the sidequel tie-in to Rogue One, it's about Chirrut walking around Jedda City preaching about the Force and asking people about their jewelry while Baze is really, real board. It was a direct release with low production values and Chirrut recasted with Randall Park - suffice to say, it didn't do so good, so I'm surprised you haven't heard about it.

Still it wasn't as bad as Lando the Magnificent, the spinoff prequel to Solo where Lando performs cheap magic tricks to con the people of Coruscant and gets roped into rescuing the emperor when he's apparently kidnapped by Mother Talzin.

 

I've been Rogue1-and-a-half for over twenty years now. Never did a name change. It's a reference to one of the X-Wing books. I forget which one. One of the Wraith Squadron ones, I'm pretty sure. It's established that the worst pilot in a squadron gets assigned number two so that they'll have the leader and thus most experienced pilot as their wingman. I figure I'd be even worse than the number two guy so I'd get the 1-and-a-half callsign in any squadron I was in.

 

I thought it was a reference to the ongoing gag in the boom series about the fake Ewok pilot.

 

This is the revelation of the week, easily.

 

I always thought it was a reference to the minimum number of pages you need to write for your movie reviews.

 

"His name is Kettch, and he's an Ewok."
"No."

 

This has been a fun read (with the exception of the numbers username with the Aphra icon, who posted so far the opposite of how Aphra would post... lol). Anyway, only skimmed it overall but picked up quite a few things.

Lots of names were mentioned I hadn't thought about in 15 years or more. Some I'm glad to remember. Some I wish I could still forget.

I found out about someone being a creeper from another thread earlier. When I first joined I was 13 and stupid and didn't get along with a lot of people but I turned it around and got along with almost everyone or at least mutually ignored each other otherwise. Yet I distinctly remember never liking him. Makes me feel justified now. Sucks that it happened to the victims.

I thought the ASG thing came out earlier than it did. Or maybe we just suspected something was amiss but it was never proven until later? Because I was probably disappeared by the time the truth was verified. Or maybe I just happened to be lurking at the right time to see it somewhere down the line or someone told me about it or something. idk.

Mod Squad updates. When I was a regular user I remember waiting in anticipation for a recap of the weekly drama. Then for a while if you knew who to talk to on AIM, or for a while a separate website, you could get "leaked mod squad forum threads" that were html file saves. Then I became a mod and realized it was actually quite boring. Even for a 16 year old who just wanted to constantly make thread indexes and otherwise try too hard to be liked.

Anyone remember InvisionFree boards? There was an offshoot board for like every little group when WiseGate was going on and no one was sure what was going to happen. I probably made some for something or other. Can't remember. They all disappeared pretty quick when the "Free" part of InvisionFree was no longer free.

Someone mentioned the old Advisory Council. I remember it existed, but nothing more about it. Don't think it lasted very long.

Once upon a time we had to put WTH or WT* because the letter F was banned.

Also banned was "slash fanfic." That seemed like a debate that would never end. Seems silly now that almost every new-canon book has a character that would fall into that category.

Sometimes when I drive by an Arbys I still think of the phrase "I found a pubic hair in my Arby's curly fries"