The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXXI

[AdrienIer]

Does anyone else here have a crush on Marine Le Pen?

Try the niece, Marion

 

[Michkov]

What is rubbery animation?

Google tells me its an early animation style. Probably got the name from the fact that every extremity and object seems very stretchy and deformable. See here for an example

 

[Gori the Grey]

Is there an example of a music group (a rock band, say) that, over the years, has lost and gained members such that there are now none of the original members in the group?

If there are multiple instances of this phenomenon, I'm looking for most famous instance.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Stratovarius has no original members.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Thanks Chukchi. I hope someone will have an example of a band that is better known, but I'm going to keep this as an example, too, because of an interesting comment in the wiki article. Evidently, this band had its greatest success after all of its founding members had been replaced. So that's a neat wrinkle.

 

[shadowplay]

Quiet Riot, Yes, Sepultura

 

[Gori the Grey]

Thanks, shadowplay. Both Quiet Riot and Yes are famous enough, I think, to serve my purposes.

 

[Arakhor]

Isn't there that Japanese girl group that has essentially franchised itself and now there are loads and loads of people of "in the band"?

Maybe also Atomic Kitten? Didn't they swap out a load of members at one point?

 

[Broken_Erika]

Was it that one "band" that had over a hundred members?

 

[Arakhor]

They were recently mentioned in an article on the BBC website, which is one of the very few ways I actually know anything about pop music.

 

[Takhisis]

Both Quiet Riot and Yes are famous enough

And Sepultura isn't?

 

[Gori the Grey]

I've never heard of Sepultura. If it's a newer band, remember I'm an old guy. If it's as old as Yes, then my ignorance is just a mark of my narrow musical knowledge.

 

[Takhisis]

You need to broaden your fields of knowledge.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Oh, that's undoubtedly the case. I'll go listen to something by Sepultura, if you recommend it.

 

[Arwon]

Is there an example of a music group (a rock band, say) that, over the years, has lost and gained members such that there are now none of the original members in the group?

If there are multiple instances of this phenomenon, I'm looking for most famous instance.

Not only do the Sugababes have no original members, the original members now perform as Mutya Keisha Siobhan.

 

[Takhisis]

Oh, that's undoubtedly the case. I'll go listen to something by Sepultura, if you recommend it.

If you want to listen to bands from the same era I prefer others, but wim would fall in love with you if you listened to Sepultura.

 

[Arakhor]

Not only do the Sugababes have no original members, the original members now perform as Mutya Keisha Siobhan.

That's who I was thinking about, not Atomic Kitten.

 

[cardgame]

the jpop group with a hundred girls or whatever is IB-48 iirc

 

[Ajidica]

I'm working on an RPG where the players are partially divine and set in a sort of Ancient Babylon themed world and am looking for a good ruleset to go along with it. I have experience with D&D 5e, Cyberpunk 2020, and GURPS but none of them have the feel I am going for. D&D sort of has it, but I'm not a huge fan of how D&D handles skills and magic. (Plus I have to bring along all the class progression junk.) Combat would be a large part of the game. I looked at Mythender but the players are too divine there.

Any ruleset recommendations?

 

[Catharsis]

the jpop group with a hundred girls or whatever is IB-48 iirc

AKB48. The only Japanese girl group you could realistically storm a fortified position with.

Incidentially, question not worth its own thread: who would win in a fight, AKB48 (all current and past members) vs. Metallica (all current members, at current age, but they're allowed to use their instruments)? I kinda feel like AKB48 would just swarm the hapless rockers. They'd cover them and boil them alive like those bees do to that one big hornet.