Richard's Animorphs Forum

Heey Shenmue.

Good to be back! Weirdly comfortingly nostalgic to drift back in and see familiar names and boards. Even if the activity isn't what it was in the glory days.

Glad to hear you adopted the wise adage 'Kill not the cringe within you, but that within you that cringes.' We're too old to be ****ed about with what is 'cringe' or not.

I think the Yeerks are benefiting almost as much from the Andalites unpreparedness for the war as they are from their own learning curve, as well. I don't think the Andies were remotely prepared for a major conflict, or have the experience to prosecute one, and are almost learning on the go as fast as the Yeerks.

HELLO! Shenmue654 here, very much still alive and married even! :3

Yay, glad to see you Gumby! Welcome back to the old haunt!

When I was last on RAF as a genuine regular rather than an infrequent visitor, I was a little bit more embarrassed than I am now about expressing an extreme enjoyment of anything, let alone a character that most fans thought of as a joke. But after turning 30, I started caring a whole lot less, and the early-book versions of V3 are frankly where a lot of my ideal villain came from. And I feel like most people really don't consider the situation V3 must effectively be in when evaluating his competency, hence the rant.

And yeah, the Yeerks must have, by the standards of biological slavers, been a relatively peaceful race. In my headcanon they did have some inter-tribal conflicts that were genuine wars early in their history, but it was never more than the "handful" Edriss suggests. Visser Three is one of those rare people who could never have been happy outside of an armed conflict (he says he "would have lived happily enough," but Esplin, buddy, I think you're wrong). For a species without humankind's very particular history, they learned alarmingly fast. But they're still at a huge disadvantage, and the assignments should have been very different. The war was as much lost to resource mismanagement as the Animorphs.

Well lick my toes and call me a stick of Irish butter, I wouldn't mind a RAF discord to idle time away at work on.

Adulthood has been... OK? I've been on a trajectory of falling upwards. Got my dream job of being a decently paid office drone, and a decent-ish house in a small town. So honestly especially for my generation I can't really complain.

Here's hoping some sort of modest life can be kept ticking away here. 'Twas a good place. And I think the sort of community fostered by sequestered message boards is just a much more positive thing than what has taken over with the current social media /old man yells at cloud.

Really glad to see you're still kicking around, along with some of the other wizened ancients.

**** (wait are we allowed to swear now?) this was a good post. And honestly a good rationalization for V3's strategic struggles.

There is something to be said for the fact that the Yeerks are undertaking a campaign of galactic war and conquest on a speed-run setting having literally only gained access to space flight (and higher technology in general) under a century ago. Their selection for experienced, talented commanders is pretty slim since they do not have any tradition of literally anything they are doing. All considered it makes sense Esplin was given command of the earth campaign.