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<![CDATA[Drunkard's Walk Forums - Drunkard's Walk II: Robot's Rules of Order]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:52:26 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Raven's Garage appears to be down!]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14863 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 02:02:30 -0500 STMPD]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14863
I ask because back in January Skuse was announcing the site's 30th anniversary, remarking that he was now a 60-year-old man, and that he still wanted things to talk about, so email him etc etc etc. I did actually try to do this and the email didn't go through, I don't know what happened. And now the site appears to be... down? Like there's a page but it's not a real page, it's this weird 'index of' thing and then dumps anyone who clicks on the sole link buried in it to a 403 error.

So it's not that Skuse gave up on the site, I presume, unless his entire take on Raven's Garage switched between January and now and he now wishes for his work to be consigned to the void eternal. Does anyone know what happened? Am I missing something? I know plenty of people on the BGC Discord would like to see the site either revived or archived.]]>
I ask because back in January Skuse was announcing the site's 30th anniversary, remarking that he was now a 60-year-old man, and that he still wanted things to talk about, so email him etc etc etc. I did actually try to do this and the email didn't go through, I don't know what happened. And now the site appears to be... down? Like there's a page but it's not a real page, it's this weird 'index of' thing and then dumps anyone who clicks on the sole link buried in it to a 403 error.

So it's not that Skuse gave up on the site, I presume, unless his entire take on Raven's Garage switched between January and now and he now wishes for his work to be consigned to the void eternal. Does anyone know what happened? Am I missing something? I know plenty of people on the BGC Discord would like to see the site either revived or archived.]]> <![CDATA[Udon Entertainment putting out a major BGC artbook]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14746 Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:29:05 -0500 STMPD]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14746 Holy moly.

Yeah, 304 pages of book - I suspect this is as close as we’ll ever get to a translated B-Club.

They’re also selling it at SDCC this year - and Sonoda-sensei will be around for a few days, I think doing a panel - but I don’t have tickets to get there. Also promising additional merch, which they better sell elsewhere or else I’ll be super peeved.

Anyway, I’m hyped! Are you hyped? You should be hyped.]]> Holy moly.

Yeah, 304 pages of book - I suspect this is as close as we’ll ever get to a translated B-Club.

They’re also selling it at SDCC this year - and Sonoda-sensei will be around for a few days, I think doing a panel - but I don’t have tickets to get there. Also promising additional merch, which they better sell elsewhere or else I’ll be super peeved.

Anyway, I’m hyped! Are you hyped? You should be hyped.]]> <![CDATA[We have a new BGC Discord server!]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14699 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:07:56 -0500 STMPD]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14699 old BGC Discord? What will they think of next?' Well... we did.

A bit ago the admin accidentally got his account hacked, and DM'd me demanding I set up a new server. He scuttled the old one about 45 minutes after that, and I tried to bring as many of that server's regulars on board, but as-is our numbers are a little slim. So I'm asking you all if, as fans of Crisis, you would like to join. The old server was good fun, it was where a lot of younger fanfiction writers (such as myself) cut their teeth on the franchise, so I'm hoping to maintain that spirit. Bridge generations and whatnot.

Here's the invite. It does not expire.

(And yes, I did check with Bob before I did this, don't worry about it...)]]> old BGC Discord? What will they think of next?' Well... we did.

A bit ago the admin accidentally got his account hacked, and DM'd me demanding I set up a new server. He scuttled the old one about 45 minutes after that, and I tried to bring as many of that server's regulars on board, but as-is our numbers are a little slim. So I'm asking you all if, as fans of Crisis, you would like to join. The old server was good fun, it was where a lot of younger fanfiction writers (such as myself) cut their teeth on the franchise, so I'm hoping to maintain that spirit. Bridge generations and whatnot.

Here's the invite. It does not expire.

(And yes, I did check with Bob before I did this, don't worry about it...)]]> <![CDATA[Not-quite-203x ADPolice Interceptor as a transformer]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14689 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 07:29:37 -0500 classicdrogn]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14689
So, while it's more white with blue quarter-panels than the on-screen blue with white below a "belly line" and of course has Aurtobot logos instead of ADP, it is at least plausibly close, to the point it can do double duty as a BGC toy on your desk, and who'd have expected that after all this time?

[Image: S4JWNPg.png]

Amazon USA listing

Earthspark, like BBCA before it, is a "semi-budget" subline, but this was one of the better BBCA molds so it can still stand up with the average War For Cybertron (Siege|Earthrise|Kingdom) or TF Legacy (adjectiveless|Evo|United) Deluxe despite the lower price point, so at $20 MSRP he's already a good deal and if you find him for less I'd call it a priority buy if you're thinking about getting toys at all.]]> <![CDATA[I made a transcript of an interview with Toshimichi Suzuki, BGC's creator.]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14291 Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:49:13 -0500 STMPD]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14291
Anyway.

It's really interesting, especially when Suzuki waxes cynical about the future economics of OVA's in the mid-90's (by the end of the decade the format was dead, but Suzuki seemed to think the slump he was in would be undone. Poor bastard). Certainly there are parts where he's talking out of his ass about planning for Crisis, but those are interesting too.

Seriously, read this!]]>
Anyway.

It's really interesting, especially when Suzuki waxes cynical about the future economics of OVA's in the mid-90's (by the end of the decade the format was dead, but Suzuki seemed to think the slump he was in would be undone. Poor bastard). Certainly there are parts where he's talking out of his ass about planning for Crisis, but those are interesting too.

Seriously, read this!]]> <![CDATA[I ranked every episode of OG BGC. And ADP Files. And BGCrash. And two other OVA's.]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14230 Sun, 10 Oct 2021 22:50:54 -0500 STMPD]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14230 Oh boy. Here we go.

Yeah, I think I might have just written like, I dunno, three thousand words evaluating all the bits of original BGC media against each other. Also threw in Riding Bean and MADOX-01 because I think they capture the spirit of BGC very well thanks to their headline creators being Sonoda and Shinji Aramaki. Also threw in Grand Mal, but more to rib on it. Heh. Funny.

Thoughts?]]> Oh boy. Here we go.

Yeah, I think I might have just written like, I dunno, three thousand words evaluating all the bits of original BGC media against each other. Also threw in Riding Bean and MADOX-01 because I think they capture the spirit of BGC very well thanks to their headline creators being Sonoda and Shinji Aramaki. Also threw in Grand Mal, but more to rib on it. Heh. Funny.

Thoughts?]]> <![CDATA[Threeboot is now slightly more marginally possible than previously.]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14117 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:21:06 -0500 STMPD]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14117 AIC Rights, the holding company with the rights to BGC, now has 'joint ownership' of the IP with anime megajuggernaut Toei.

- Joint ownership my ass. AIC hasn't had the money to do anything but half-assed Tenchi since 2015. This is Toei basically buying the IPs they wanted (Tenchi, Megazone, Zeorymer, BGC).

- They didn't take everything. El-Hazard was part of an AIC crowdfunding proposition, maybe a reboot could slosh around in the Big Isekai Money Pool for a time - but they didn't take that. Then again, more money probably went to the Megazone continuation than that, and they bought Megazone, so I assume they grabbed these IP's explicitly with rebooting them in mind. I doubt AIC is really in a position to negotiate terms and demand they take joint ownership of truly stupid properties AIC has, right? (Or maybe they did, Dangaioh is in there for some reason.)

- 2040 began and ended, and was co-produced with the now defunct ADV films, so a continuation of 2040 is out I think (thank GOD). And a continuation of 2032 would be difficult to say the least. Toshimichi Suzuki's dead; Shinji Aramaki's Production IG elite; Kenichi Sonoda's juggling time between running his family candy business and polishing up his Riding Bean OVA; Michie Tomizawa couldn't even be pried out of retirement to re-voice Rei in Sailor Moon Crystal so there's no chance in hell they could get her back for a continuation... and does anyone in Japan actually have any idea how 2032 was supposed to end? Or are those records lost to time, like tears in rain?

-So: Toei has money, has the rights to BGC, probably snatched the rights up with an eye toward an out-and-out threeboot. It's not impossible in light of various cyberpunk anime being planned: Blade Runner Black Lotus, Trigger's CP2077 anime, Ghost in the Shell 2045... but, wait, that last one wasn't actually good.

- Oh god. Given the present state of anime nowadays, the odds are that this hypothetical threeboot could be bad. Think: The last licensed BGC product was that fucking light novel where it rebooted the Sabers as schoolgirls. They could do that, in some blind effort to pursue the popularity of other LN franchises or whatever. Questions about whether cyberpunk is still a good backdrop to chart new worlds in sci-fi are irrelevant, BGC never aspired to that. So it could fail either for slavishly adoring the most boring parts of cyberpunk-y stuff, or for ignoring cyberpunk stuff in favor of, I dunno, doing isekai? Or making Priss a contemporary idoru? Oh god. Love Live Crisis. Love Live Crisis: The Gacha Game.

I don't know what to think anymore. I'm freaking out here. My mind is awash with rainbow iridescent possibilities or whatever the hell the guy said in Blazing Saddles.]]> AIC Rights, the holding company with the rights to BGC, now has 'joint ownership' of the IP with anime megajuggernaut Toei.

- Joint ownership my ass. AIC hasn't had the money to do anything but half-assed Tenchi since 2015. This is Toei basically buying the IPs they wanted (Tenchi, Megazone, Zeorymer, BGC).

- They didn't take everything. El-Hazard was part of an AIC crowdfunding proposition, maybe a reboot could slosh around in the Big Isekai Money Pool for a time - but they didn't take that. Then again, more money probably went to the Megazone continuation than that, and they bought Megazone, so I assume they grabbed these IP's explicitly with rebooting them in mind. I doubt AIC is really in a position to negotiate terms and demand they take joint ownership of truly stupid properties AIC has, right? (Or maybe they did, Dangaioh is in there for some reason.)

- 2040 began and ended, and was co-produced with the now defunct ADV films, so a continuation of 2040 is out I think (thank GOD). And a continuation of 2032 would be difficult to say the least. Toshimichi Suzuki's dead; Shinji Aramaki's Production IG elite; Kenichi Sonoda's juggling time between running his family candy business and polishing up his Riding Bean OVA; Michie Tomizawa couldn't even be pried out of retirement to re-voice Rei in Sailor Moon Crystal so there's no chance in hell they could get her back for a continuation... and does anyone in Japan actually have any idea how 2032 was supposed to end? Or are those records lost to time, like tears in rain?

-So: Toei has money, has the rights to BGC, probably snatched the rights up with an eye toward an out-and-out threeboot. It's not impossible in light of various cyberpunk anime being planned: Blade Runner Black Lotus, Trigger's CP2077 anime, Ghost in the Shell 2045... but, wait, that last one wasn't actually good.

- Oh god. Given the present state of anime nowadays, the odds are that this hypothetical threeboot could be bad. Think: The last licensed BGC product was that fucking light novel where it rebooted the Sabers as schoolgirls. They could do that, in some blind effort to pursue the popularity of other LN franchises or whatever. Questions about whether cyberpunk is still a good backdrop to chart new worlds in sci-fi are irrelevant, BGC never aspired to that. So it could fail either for slavishly adoring the most boring parts of cyberpunk-y stuff, or for ignoring cyberpunk stuff in favor of, I dunno, doing isekai? Or making Priss a contemporary idoru? Oh god. Love Live Crisis. Love Live Crisis: The Gacha Game.

I don't know what to think anymore. I'm freaking out here. My mind is awash with rainbow iridescent possibilities or whatever the hell the guy said in Blazing Saddles.]]> <![CDATA[Where Is It?]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14108 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 21:26:41 -0500 Ariel Schnee]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14108 <![CDATA[The Priss & The Replicants in my mind]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=13672 Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:56:08 -0500 classicdrogn]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=13672
Watashi wa Arashi (I Am a/the Storm) by Show-Ya

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What little Japanese I understand and can catch in the lyrics makes this sound similarly themed as well.]]>
Watashi wa Arashi (I Am a/the Storm) by Show-Ya

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What little Japanese I understand and can catch in the lyrics makes this sound similarly themed as well.]]> <![CDATA[re-read travelouge thread]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=13387 Tue, 23 Apr 2019 18:05:34 -0500 Wiregeek]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=13387

Sylia's really worked up about Rule 11.. poor thing, realizing that people are people and you need them! Very pleased with her characterization.

Lisa's about to bite off more Doug than she can chew..

More as I find 'em!

Edit: Lisa. Derp.]]>

Sylia's really worked up about Rule 11.. poor thing, realizing that people are people and you need them! Very pleased with her characterization.

Lisa's about to bite off more Doug than she can chew..

More as I find 'em!

Edit: Lisa. Derp.]]> <![CDATA[New Dead Bang!]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=13346 Fri, 05 Apr 2019 07:22:57 -0500 Bob Schroeck]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=13346
Ian McLeod has released two new chapters for Dead Bang, the official sequel to Drunkard's Walk II:

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Ian McLeod has released two new chapters for Dead Bang, the official sequel to Drunkard's Walk II:

]]> <![CDATA[El Helicoide]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=13327 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 03:07:22 -0500 Labster]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=13327 https://99percentinvisible.org/article/v...nsumerism/
https://failedarchitecture.com/tropical-babel/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Helicoide

El Helicoide is a giant hill-shaped Modernist building designed to be a center of commerce, eventually turned into a edifice that dominates the dystopia below both visibly and in life, with unspeakable human rights abuses inside.

And I'm wondering if everyone else knew about this and I'm one of today's lucky 10,000. It certainly could have been known to the makers of BGC, as the Venezuelan intelligence service moved in 3 years before production. But probably the Tower of Babel is the archetype for GENOM Tower.

Posted here as opposed to General Discussion (or Eyrie Miscellaneous) because the human rights angle reminded me of DW2 the most.]]> https://99percentinvisible.org/article/v...nsumerism/
https://failedarchitecture.com/tropical-babel/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Helicoide

El Helicoide is a giant hill-shaped Modernist building designed to be a center of commerce, eventually turned into a edifice that dominates the dystopia below both visibly and in life, with unspeakable human rights abuses inside.

And I'm wondering if everyone else knew about this and I'm one of today's lucky 10,000. It certainly could have been known to the makers of BGC, as the Venezuelan intelligence service moved in 3 years before production. But probably the Tower of Babel is the archetype for GENOM Tower.

Posted here as opposed to General Discussion (or Eyrie Miscellaneous) because the human rights angle reminded me of DW2 the most.]]> <![CDATA[Robin Hood]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=12928 Wed, 20 Jun 2018 03:27:06 -0500 Labster]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=12928 DW II, Chapter 13 Wrote:It had been her favorite book, once. Howard Pyle. The Adventures of Robin Hood. The definitive Japanese translation, first published in 2018.
You know that thing where you pick a distant date in the future, and then you end up living through that time? I think most of the characters of BGC would be in school by now. Incidentally, no Robin Hood translation released this year, afaict.

I'm doing a reread now, again, because I was flying to a conference, only had a phone in my pocket, and I wanted something to read on the plane. It's odd how you notice different things each time you read.

It strikes me as unlikely that a selling a diamond at a pawn shop would net so much money in a place with nanofacs -- then again, DeBeers sounds like a corporate culture that would get along really great in a merger with GENOM.

Chapter 8 Concordance Wrote:"Nice nail polish, Lisa!"

Yeah, it's permanent. Probably not inheritable, though. Probably.

So why would Lisa get blue nails? Oh, right. Seemed pretty random at the time, but now it seems like foreshadowing.

Chapter 6 Wrote:"There what?" Nene crinkled her nose in confusion as she read the line under Priss's fingertip. "'Beverly's Dandelion Wine', the Beatles, 1974? What about it?" ...
"The Beatles broke up in 1971, right after the Revolver Tour. They didn't get back together again until just before Sir Paul McCartney's death in 1983." The singer stabbed her finger at the screen again. "And they never recorded any song by that title, least of all in 1974!"

Chapter 7 Wrote:The JSDF is disbanded, and the Nationalists re-establish the Japanese military

Arrrgh, are these facts supposed to be related? I guess we found out who really split up the band after all!

Moreover, I think what I said recently about reporters in the DW S step seems to apply here too. Maybe they're somehow author surrogates -- a way of asking questions to explore the setting. Bob seems to have one in each setting: Lisa, Yoshi, and Hermione (and to some extent Luna). Each a person who keeps asking questions at the plot until things start making sense. I think it contributes a lot to the realism of the stories, and it shows how much time Bob has thought about how it would be to live in each world.

Like, Hermione lends a lot of strength to the canon of Harry Potter, because she was always there to ask how something really worked, which forced JKR to build a deep consistent world. Although, that seemed to be her thing anyway. Which is what I mean by an author surrogate.]]> DW II, Chapter 13 Wrote:It had been her favorite book, once. Howard Pyle. The Adventures of Robin Hood. The definitive Japanese translation, first published in 2018.
You know that thing where you pick a distant date in the future, and then you end up living through that time? I think most of the characters of BGC would be in school by now. Incidentally, no Robin Hood translation released this year, afaict.

I'm doing a reread now, again, because I was flying to a conference, only had a phone in my pocket, and I wanted something to read on the plane. It's odd how you notice different things each time you read.

It strikes me as unlikely that a selling a diamond at a pawn shop would net so much money in a place with nanofacs -- then again, DeBeers sounds like a corporate culture that would get along really great in a merger with GENOM.

Chapter 8 Concordance Wrote:"Nice nail polish, Lisa!"

Yeah, it's permanent. Probably not inheritable, though. Probably.

So why would Lisa get blue nails? Oh, right. Seemed pretty random at the time, but now it seems like foreshadowing.

Chapter 6 Wrote:"There what?" Nene crinkled her nose in confusion as she read the line under Priss's fingertip. "'Beverly's Dandelion Wine', the Beatles, 1974? What about it?" ...
"The Beatles broke up in 1971, right after the Revolver Tour. They didn't get back together again until just before Sir Paul McCartney's death in 1983." The singer stabbed her finger at the screen again. "And they never recorded any song by that title, least of all in 1974!"

Chapter 7 Wrote:The JSDF is disbanded, and the Nationalists re-establish the Japanese military

Arrrgh, are these facts supposed to be related? I guess we found out who really split up the band after all!

Moreover, I think what I said recently about reporters in the DW S step seems to apply here too. Maybe they're somehow author surrogates -- a way of asking questions to explore the setting. Bob seems to have one in each setting: Lisa, Yoshi, and Hermione (and to some extent Luna). Each a person who keeps asking questions at the plot until things start making sense. I think it contributes a lot to the realism of the stories, and it shows how much time Bob has thought about how it would be to live in each world.

Like, Hermione lends a lot of strength to the canon of Harry Potter, because she was always there to ask how something really worked, which forced JKR to build a deep consistent world. Although, that seemed to be her thing anyway. Which is what I mean by an author surrogate.]]> <![CDATA[More typoes]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=1271 Sat, 01 Oct 2016 01:42:00 -0500 Labster]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=1271 In Chapter 5, you have "Fire bees". That should either be "obscured FireBees and buildings" or the more amusing "obscured fire, bees, and buildings"
And just a comment on Chapter 4:

Quote:Yelena Brzezinski. She'd been 25.

A singer and dancer who'd just received her first big break by
getting cast in a production on MegaTokyo's equivalent of
Broadway. It was a revival of a musical that I'd never heard of,
first produced twenty years earlier in 2016. She'd gone to the
Replicants concert with her boyfriend to celebrate getting the
part. The boyfriend was in the hospital, in serious condition
but expected to make it.

She was just cast in Hamilton and was violently killed before her time. Now that's irony.
Reread has been very fun so far, thanks again for writing!
-- ∇×V]]> In Chapter 5, you have "Fire bees". That should either be "obscured FireBees and buildings" or the more amusing "obscured fire, bees, and buildings"
And just a comment on Chapter 4:

Quote:Yelena Brzezinski. She'd been 25.

A singer and dancer who'd just received her first big break by
getting cast in a production on MegaTokyo's equivalent of
Broadway. It was a revival of a musical that I'd never heard of,
first produced twenty years earlier in 2016. She'd gone to the
Replicants concert with her boyfriend to celebrate getting the
part. The boyfriend was in the hospital, in serious condition
but expected to make it.

She was just cast in Hamilton and was violently killed before her time. Now that's irony.
Reread has been very fun so far, thanks again for writing!
-- ∇×V]]> <![CDATA[Typo Spotted in ch. 3]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=1270 Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:35:00 -0500 Jorlem]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=1270

Quote:Well, serious for this here-and-now. The local state-of-the-rat
isn't bad, but then again, they've never had to deal with
electropaths and the occasional meta who can digitize himself
with a thought.

I'm pretty sure that shout be "art", not "rat".
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.]]>

Quote:Well, serious for this here-and-now. The local state-of-the-rat
isn't bad, but then again, they've never had to deal with
electropaths and the occasional meta who can digitize himself
with a thought.