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All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by dfinninger »

the_af wrote: post #3

How I loved Futurama! Much like with the Simpsons, it will helpfully provide a quote for anything , and its hyper focus on scifi and adventure made it more interesting to me. Though I'm a fan of the first "age", before the movie(s) and cancellation. I heard bad things about the later seasons, and don't want to taint my memories of the show by watching them.

I rewatched the whole thing last year. It’s one of the few shows that I can really rewatch the whole thing start to finish. I like the series more as it goes on.

IMDB ratings seem to agree with your sentiment (7ish out of 10 opposed to the 8ish of earlier seasons). But watching through the series start to finish I didn’t notice any drop in how much enjoyment I derived from the show. I definitely don’t think it will taint your memory.

And as another sibling post said, the send-off episode always tugs at my heart.

I’d recommend finishing the series if you enjoyed the earlier seasons.

Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by jodrellblank »

athrowaway3z wrote: post #13
gostsamo wrote: post #6

All the quotes are in pictures with the alt text being only the number of the episode. Online accessibility at its best.

And why do tell us, should somebody who is donating their time making something silly, jump through some hoops to live up to your standards? Please send the web master a list of every alt text before you try and make it someone else's problem or complain about it.

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Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by fumblebee »

For the crossover Simpsons episode:

“A show out of ideas teams up with a show out of episodes”.

Pure gold. Even if the newer Simpsons episodes are (imho) grade-A garbage, it’s strangely comforting that the writers are self-aware and self-deprecating enough to come up and stick with this.

Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by Diti »

jodrellblank wrote: post #32
athrowaway3z wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And why do tell us, should somebody who is donating their time making something silly, jump through some hoops to live up to your standards? Please send the web master a list of every alt text before you try and make it someone else's problem or complain about it.

> In Comments: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Considering the nickname of the person you replied to, this user does expect to be banned at some point.

Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by willis936 »

All the pictures are of the same frame of the TV turn-on animation. I wonder if someone did this by hand or wrote a script to detect the start of the animation and capture the image a specific number of frames after that timestamp.

Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by jayparth »

gostsamo wrote: post #24
kodah wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not the way to get people on board with accessibility. Open a PR and fix the issue or come up with ways to make accessibility an easier branch to reach or more common knowledge.

It is a bit funny that you are complaining from the style of my complaining. Not offering a better way to do it brings the discussion to my level, which is a bit sad. Anyways, the reason that such situations piss me so much is because of the sucker punch that they feel like. You click on something that is text, it can't be anything but text, yet someone has converted it to a picture to make it pop up easier in social…

It does suck that you can't read them, but they haven't converted them to pictures. Instead they're screenshots of the opening screens which have commonly have slight differences in presentation. As a person who can see I quite liked seeing how the title card text evolved as the show progressed.

But yea, it does suck that there is no accessible alt text.

Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by [deleted] »

gostsamo wrote: post #24
kodah wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not the way to get people on board with accessibility. Open a PR and fix the issue or come up with ways to make accessibility an easier branch to reach or more common knowledge.

It is a bit funny that you are complaining from the style of my complaining. Not offering a better way to do it brings the discussion to my level, which is a bit sad. Anyways, the reason that such situations piss me so much is because of the sucker punch that they feel like. You click on something that is text, it can't be anything but text, yet someone has converted it to a picture to make it pop up easier in social…

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Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by PhillyG »

bob1029 wrote: post #18

In college, we actually did the "Drink when you see the robot" game with that episode on a fairly regular basis. They intentionally made a ton of scenes with Bender entering/exiting frame such that anyone seriously following the rule would be hammered before the episode was over.

That's awesome
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