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[Greiger]

That actually didn't seem half bad.  I kinda liked it, it was amusing in it's kids show kinda way. 

EDIT: Looking at comments of the youtube video i watched Pooh's voice is apparently scary?  I don't get it.  It wasn't to me.   Seemed kinda cute.

[Avis-Mergulus]

It's not as amusing if you're not a native Russian speaker. But still quite amusing.
In Russia/Ukraine/Belarus, the whole thing is very memetic and also rather well-loved for its deliberately odd and childish animation style and its quirky and very Russian humor and its utterly hilarious voice acting and if you say so much as a single bad word about it ill rek u m8
sware on me mum

[Greiger]

Yea the animation style is definitely different from the english pooh.  I actually kinda think I like that animation style a little bit better over the english one, and I grew up with it.  At least for poo and piglet.  It possibly depends on what Eeyore Rabbit Tigger and Roo look like I guess.

[i2amroy]

Point, up until this point I've been taking conspiracy theorist to mean the "aliens and shit" kind (of which there are, arguably, a lot more of than those who have actually been shown to be correct).

They're not in the majority, they're just the most interesting. There's a thriving piracy community and illegal information sharing community that should all attest to that. But the latter communities tend to not want publicity while the former do. Even still, there's wikileaks and such.

There's also thriving communities of people who believe in things like alien astronauts, etc.. My astrobiology professor has been teaching the same class for a couple of decades now and one of the things he always does is ask everyone who knows someone that believes they have met an alien to raise their hands. 15 or so years back he said he regularly had over half of the class with their hands raised; even in my class of about 70 we had about a dozen hands raised.

I'd say the difference is that whenever it turns out that somebody is right about a conspiracy theory it generally makes a fairly big bit of news, but in general the people who claim things about aliens don't get any network time anymore (because we've finally managed to get to the point where we look at things like that and actually see the crazy assumptions they are making, and because we've had enough horrible suicide-causing crazies like that that we try to keep them quiet instead of giving them publicity anymore).

[Avis-Mergulus]

Yea the animation style is definitely different from the english pooh.  I actually kinda think I like that animation style a little bit better over the english one, and I grew up with it.  At least for poo and piglet.  It possibly depends on what Eeyore Rabbit Tigger and Roo look like I guess.

Spoiler: I don't think Kanga and Roo were in it, sadly (click to show/hide)

[Bohandas]

Yea the animation style is definitely different from the english pooh.  I actually kinda think I like that animation style a little bit better over the english one, and I grew up with it.  At least for poo and piglet.  It possibly depends on what Eeyore Rabbit Tigger and Roo look like I guess.

Their version of Rabbit looks like Simon from the pre-CGI versions of Alvin and the Chipmunks

[Aqizzar]

I'd say the difference is that whenever it turns out that somebody is right about a conspiracy theory it generally makes a fairly big bit of news, but in general the people who claim things about aliens don't get any network time anymore (because we've finally managed to get to the point where we look at things like that and actually see the crazy assumptions they are making, and because we've had enough horrible suicide-causing crazies like that that we try to keep them quiet instead of giving them publicity anymore).

There's also the XKCD hypothesis, now that a large portion of the population is walking around with pocket-sized videocameras, "pics or it didn't happen" is the order of the day.  And we've been exposed to so much big-budget CGI that anything fake is immediately recognized.

I always thought it was peculiar that UFO sightings only happened in the rural parts of industrialized countries.

Except for those blinking lights that appeared over Mexico City one time.  That was pretty creepy.

[Greiger]

Spoiler: I don't think Kanga and Roo were in it, sadly (click to show/hide)

Ok owl.  That right there, owl.  Nightmare fuel, full stop.  His mouth is above his eyes wtf.  And I never really saw Rabbit as the bookworm type, knowledgeable sure, but I always just got that as because he's older.

I like Eeyore though.  Eeyore I approve of.  Really captures the soul crushing despair.

[UXLZ]

I'd say the difference is that whenever it turns out that somebody is right about a conspiracy theory it generally makes a fairly big bit of news, but in general the people who claim things about aliens don't get any network time anymore (because we've finally managed to get to the point where we look at things like that and actually see the crazy assumptions they are making, and because we've had enough horrible suicide-causing crazies like that that we try to keep them quiet instead of giving them publicity anymore).

There's also the XKCD hypothesis, now that a large portion of the population is walking around with pocket-sized videocameras, "pics or it didn't happen" is the order of the day.  And we've been exposed to so much big-budget CGI that anything fake is immediately recognized.

I always thought it was peculiar that UFO sightings only happened in the rural parts of industrialized countries.

Except for those blinking lights that appeared over Mexico City one time.  That was pretty creepy.

That could just as easily be attributed to the aliens being aware of our current technology and being more careful to avoid detection, if one wanted to counter-argue. Similarly to how one hick farmer saying he saw 'aylee-inz' would be unlikely to garner attention in the past compared to an entire city claiming likewise, that's why they were spotted in rural areas, the likelihood of there being 'conclusive' evidence motivates the level of secrecy.

I'd like to mention that there are insane things from credible sources. It's like gold panning, most of what you get is crap but every so often there's something valuable hidden away.

[Eric Blank]

My mother used to be completely obsessed with UFO shows, and she'd have me sit down to watch them with her. Some people were clearly insane, but there are a few who at least appear to keep their heads on straight and try to describe what they saw or whatever. Even if it didn't turn out to be aliens. And then there's the ancient astronauts guys. Had a show on history channel for a while. I just liked to watch that one to snicker at them for being so goddamn dense.

Also; "belief in conspiracy theories" is apparently being marked down as a mental disorder in the next edition of the DSM. Father brought that up recently.

Ok owl.  That right there, owl.  Nightmare fuel, full stop.  His mouth is above his eyes wtf.

Shook's father was the lead arts director. The shookface never gets old.

[Sergarr]

Spoiler: I don't think Kanga and Roo were in it, sadly (click to show/hide)

Ok owl.  That right there, owl.  Nightmare fuel, full stop.  His mouth is above his eyes wtf.  And I never really saw Rabbit as the bookworm type, knowledgeable sure, but I always just got that as because he's older.

I like Eeyore though.  Eeyore I approve of.  Really captures the soul crushing despair.

owl looks much better in motion

[UXLZ]

Also; "belief in conspiracy theories" is apparently being marked down as a mental disorder in the next edition of the DSM. Father brought that up recently.

Okay, now that is bullshit. "Belief" in a conspiracy theory is no different to "Belief" in God or a similar figure/entity.

Unless it means "belief in any and every conspiracy theory presented to the person, absolutely regardless of evidence." Then I could understand, but something like that being marked as a mental disorder could honestly make a fairly good conspiracy theory in and of itself.

[Eric Blank]

Yeah, I'm gonna try to find info on that if i can.

[AlleeCat]

My mother used to be completely obsessed with UFO shows, and she'd have me sit down to watch them with her. Some people were clearly insane, but there are a few who at least appear to keep their heads on straight and try to describe what they saw or whatever. Even if it didn't turn out to be aliens. And then there's the ancient astronauts guys. Had a show on history channel for a while. I just liked to watch that one to snicker at them for being so goddamn dense.

Also; "belief in conspiracy theories" is apparently being marked down as a mental disorder in the next edition of the DSM. Father brought that up recently.

Ok owl.  That right there, owl.  Nightmare fuel, full stop.  His mouth is above his eyes wtf.

Shook's father was the lead arts director. The shookface never gets old.

I love Ancient Aliens because since they have to seem credible, they have to say "If it was aliens..." or "It might have been aliens..." Instead of actually saying it was aliens.
"I'm not saying it was aliens... But it was aliens."
Also that show is where we got Double Down guy from, back in the day.

[IcyTea31]

IIRC someone once did some math on the 9/11 aftermath. Many, many people worked on rescuing people, clearing the ruins and such, and most likely would have uncovered evidence of a conspiracy, were there any. Now, if the government bribed those people to keep quiet with say, $100 000 each, it would have caused a huge hole in the budget, noticeable to anyone keeping track of it. Similarly, making all the people disappear even after they've been seen on TV doing their work would be suspicious, the inflated bodycount doubly so.

Aliens: thousands of people watch the sky the whole time, and would notice any anomaly. 'Stealth systems' would be a plausible explanation, but stealth in space is so ridiculously inefficient (and it makes you effectively blind), it wouldn't make sense for the aliens to use it just to steal cattle or whatever it is they would want.

Illuminati etc.: Practically unheard of before Dan Brown wrote on them, and we know how his stories are '99% true'. In this modern world, it would be next to impossible to keep a huge project such as this secret, knowing how many people it would need to keep quiet, and some wouldn't anyway in order to become famous instead of rich.

Conspiracy theories just don't have a sense of scale.

One more thought about 'punk types: what would one call a 'punk genre based on the period from the mid-60s (after atompunk) through the mid-80s (before cyberpunk)? Transistorpunk? For a less technologically-based name, rockpunk?

Bit late on this, but...rocketpunk.