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KING EGG posted:Just as I get to the end of this thread, this movie comes on TV.
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oldpainless posted:
T-Money was the best part of this show. Terry Crews owns.
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Oh man, you just reminded me of a terrible show that was on...Fox, I think? In the mid to late 90's as part of their Saturday Morning line-up. I can't remember the name for the life of me. The premise was all these fighters were in some competition to be "the best," or whatever, by winning X number of matches (I want to say 6?.) I remember most of the fighters were "themed." I only really remember two...one was a black guy who's "martial arts style" involved his hair, sort of...in his culture/martial arts style, they shave their head except a braid in the back, and then every ten years cut off the braid and attach it to a handle to use as a "whip of sorts. The other guy I remember was some Asian guy who was the token "loses every fight, except this one episode when he really has to win to avoid elimination" or something. He wore a white gi with blue accents, I think... I also remember that when you won, you got the token of the person you defeated, and added that token to your belt. If you filled up your belt, you won "the season" or something. It was like a weird combination of WWF, Mortal Kombat, and Karate Kid. EDIT: Some quick Google-ing appears the show was called WMAC Masters. DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 21:52 on Jun 19, 2013 |
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Jun 19, 2013 21:41
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Sombrerotron posted:I only saw Demolition Man for the first time a few years ago, and I'm thankful for it because there is not a doubt in my mind that I could not have appreciated this film anywhere near as much if I had seen it in the '90s. The same applies to Last Action Hero, which - if memory serves - was widely panned when it came out. Somehow these two films are better and more sincere parodies of late '80s and early '90s action camp than anything made for that purpose today. I loved Last Action Hero. Had the toys and everything.  
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Jun 19, 2013 22:34
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Man, this car doesn't even have a back seat. Did these guys even watch the movie?  (also yes Last Action Hero is genuinely one of the best Schwarzenegger movies)
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M.Ciaster posted:Man, this car doesn't even have a back seat. Did these guys even watch the movie? The part where he tries to punch through a car window was brilliant.
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M.Ciaster posted:Man, this car doesn't even have a back seat. Did these guys even watch the movie? I totally wish they made Hamlet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk3cgJKBqAs
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Jun 23, 2013 05:04
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DO IT, ROCKAPELLA! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsa2nsjmc4Y
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Jun 24, 2013 20:20
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 If he's a bike messenger, why not put him on a bike? 
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DrBouvenstein posted:
I can't stop giggling out loud every time I look at that shirt.
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Jun 25, 2013 15:04
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He looks like David Byrne in casual wear.
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Sweet loving Jesus am I glad the oversized and baggy look from the 90s is gone for good. I bet that shirt would look decent enough on the guy if it were tailored to his body (probably L or XL), but since it was the 90s, you better believe he bought a 6XL to fit in. I know I had a few 3XL t-shirts in high school to try out the look, but just like in 1992 when we all wore our clothes backwards for a day like Kris Kross before declaring such an act loving stupid as all hell, I felt the same way about looking like a tall and skinny teen in the process of shrinking in my clothing, ditched anything that was crazy baggy, and went back to flannel (ubiquitous to the 90s) and polo-style shirts that fit my body. Even the older guy's suit is baggy, and while that may be okay for fedora-wearing brony neckbeards who think they have swag and class at a wedding in 2013, that style, too, went out with hip-hop moguls Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs and Master P in the late 90s. In fact, I found this picture while Googling "baggy 90s" that sums everything up about that suit: 
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Hey now, I prefer a boxy English style suit over an Italian one because I fit in them better. Even if I weighed 130 pounds as a six-foot tall male, I would fit in one better because of my frame. Italian cut suits are meant for skinny people so it makes them look like they have a shape in their chest. ...not that the baggy suit represents the kind of suit I fit in, though it's the same cut.
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Oh man, this thread. So many memories.  Glow in the dark stars; not the realistic looking ones with galaxies, the crappy shaped ones that either peeled off in a week or couldn't be removed for love nor money. Any Brit Goons remember Brian Conley? Especially his merciless mockery of children's TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f64H3hDa93Y ISSA PAPPEEEEEEEEET Mystic Meg! God drat, apparently she's still around. I wasted so many hours playing Theme Hospital, I think it came with my first PC. I have it on my computer right now and I still love booting it up and playing with the code to hear the receptionist snipe "the hospital supervisor is cheating". Good times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ptFZpOBLYY And I was a huge X-Files fan as a teenager, really into the whole paranormal/conspiracy theory thing, so of course I collected the X Factor magazine set. It was one of those sneaky set ups where the first issue is 50p and comes with all this free poo poo, then after that they're like £1.75 each. I had every single issue ever, plus all the VHS tapes and binders to keep them in. I believed every drat word of it, too. God I was gullible. My Nan called me a few months ago and said she still had them in her attic and I told her to take them to Oxfam or something; apparently they refused to take them, so they all went into the landfill. 
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Caller-ID boxes are very 90's, and this commercial from 1990 is certainly an interesting and creepy way of advertising them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM7P1j1-ebY
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Otana posted:I wasted so many hours playing Theme Hospital, I think it came with my first PC. I have it on my computer right now and I still love booting it up and playing with the code to hear the receptionist snipe "the hospital supervisor is cheating". Good times. Works fine for the most part, X-Ray machine seems to bug out a bit though, other than that it seems stable. And being able to play it in modern resolutions is And a map/level editor! No MP though.
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DrBouvenstein posted:
Airwalks spotted : 
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Croccers posted:Give this a shot: https://code.google.com/p/corsix-th/ Ooh, thanks for that! I can see the rest of my day circling the drain already.
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Metanaut posted:Airwalks spotted : No lie, up until a few months ago I had a pair of Airwalks I was rocking for over a year. They're now a Payless brand. I paid less than $20 for them, they looked fine and the comfiest drat shoes I ever wore. Just like so: 
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Metanaut posted:Airwalks spotted : I had these, in a different colour. They were my favourite ever shoes and ridiculously comfortable, I wore them till the sole fell off. That was a sad day. If they still made them I'd buy them in a second.
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Yeah, Airwalk was my favourite shoe brand back in the days. They were comfy, awesome and you could wear them to whatever. I think my last pair fell to pieces after one drunken soccer match too many.
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DrBouvenstein posted:No lie, up until a few months ago I had a pair of Airwalks I was rocking for over a year. They're now a Payless brand. I paid less than $20 for them, they looked fine and the comfiest drat shoes I ever wore. I have these shoes, and I unironically wear them every day.
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FetalDave posted:I have these shoes, and I unironically wear them every day. As you should. I wore that exact make/model of shoe for many years. Is there some kind of knock-off Airwalks that we can buy today now? I went to the airwalks website and they only had terrible, terrible shoes for sale (not the foot couches of yesteryear).
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I got made fun of in this thread for pointing out that cargo shorts are not 90s exclusive and people in here are defending Airwalks. I was always weirdly jealous of my friends who had caller ID before me and was way too excited when we got a phone equipped with it.
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mactheknife posted:I was always weirdly jealous of my friends who had caller ID before me and was way too excited when we got a phone equipped with it. My parents still don't have it on their landline because my dad refuses to pay for 'unnecessary flashy features for suckers' even though they have a phone that can read caller ID signals already and the surcharge is like $3 a month these days  I couldn't tell who was calling me (if they didn't call my cell phone, which they NEVER DID) until I went to college.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:My parents still don't have it on their landline because my dad refuses to pay for 'unnecessary flashy features for suckers' even though they have a phone that can read caller ID signals already and the surcharge is like $3 a month these days We only ever got calls from like the same six people anyway so I'm not sure what I was so jazzed about but boy was that a great day for me.
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Airwalks were awesome when there were a bunch of really creative and interesting shoe designs, then all of a sudden all you could find in stores were generic-looking skate shoes with the Airwalk logo, which was much less interesting.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:My parents still don't have it on their landline because my dad refuses to pay for 'unnecessary flashy features for suckers' even though they have a phone that can read caller ID signals already and the surcharge is like $3 a month these days Yeah, by this time caller ID should be completely free on even basic landline given that I think even the cheapest cell plan has some sort of caller ID feature built into it. There used to be an extra charge for touch-tone calling through the 90s, too. We had a rotary phone in our house and our keypad phones had a switch on them to alternate to pulse-dialing for making calls if you didn't have touchtone service. We never paid the extra per month to use touch tone, and I honestly think the failure to have it added meant that even if you pulse dialed a phone and then switched over to touch tone once the call was completed, it was still a complete crap shoot whether or not the automated service on the other end would accept your tone signals or if you'd have to just wait on line for an operator.
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Speaking of caller ID, does anyone else remember this other great 90s technological achievement, Mobil Speedpass? No more did you have to walk up to the man in the plexi-glass booth surrounded by hundreds of cigarette cartons to pay for you gas, you could just wave your magic wand on the pump and your good to go. Bonus commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t_jNV-K5zw
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Retail Slave posted:DO IT, ROCKAPELLA! gently caress you, I am now stuck in a loop.
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I was listening to a podcast today and it reminded me of this: 
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Hector Beerlioz posted:No more did you have to walk up to the man in the plexi-glass booth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlHsh2L8jKU
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Jul 9, 2013 04:13
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Basically every gas pump here in Canada has pay-at-the-pump.
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less than three posted:Basically every gas pump here in Canada has pay-at-the-pump. Same in the US. I just posted about it in the obsolete tech thread, and as I said there, most people in the US are perfectly happy to trade security for convenience.
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m2pt5 posted:Same in the US. I just posted about it in the obsolete tech thread, and as I said there, most people in the US are perfectly happy to trade security for convenience. I think Benjamin Franklin had some words to say about this in the '90s. The 1790's. Hah, heh. Most likely he just said "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power." and that in '38 but he had some good ideas about dating older women and how to make efficient stoves and eyeglasses. Back in the 1990s I believed that the US was a good place and worth fighting for. And Airwalk sneakers were pretty awesome too.
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WebDog posted:For a short time we had Pay at the Pump systems. They seem to have been phased out in part for discouraging impulse buys inside the store. Also there was no card verification - i.e signing off - so it was more open to fraud. Tonnes of Mobil servos in Melbourne had that right up until Mobil sold all their stores off a couple of years ago. They were great if you weren't interested in buying overpriced junk food. Some Safeway/Caltex servos have a system where you can use a Safeway credit card at the pump, but I have zero interest in a high interest credit card from a supermarket so I'm stuck paying the old fashioned way.
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South Australia is pretty arse backwards about this. The company I work for doesn't and will never put Pay-At-Pumps in because: 1: That costs money to fix/put new things in. 2: It will cut down the amount of people down impulse buying things which is their business model. They would entirely ditch selling fuel if they could keep up their other sales. They would be in trouble if 24-hour supermarkets or something like the US's CVS/Walgreens opened up in the state. They own a rather large chunk of the state's fuel stations too.
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Croccers posted:South Australia is pretty arse backwards about this. Hmm speaking of 90's poo poo from Adelaide... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA_NOxUOHlA Yes, people were over the moon to see Daryl Braithwaite. Dazzleland tragically coincided with the Asian market recession and the State Bank collapse in 1992 tightened quite a few purse strings. It shut down in 1998 and the top two floors have been vacant.
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WebDog posted:The city kind of dies after 7:00pm as unless you love going to pubs and clubs every night there's not much to do. Can we include 90's candy here too?
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Apologies if this has already been posted, this thread is far too big to search through, however it is nothing without... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtILxBszyf8 (a licky boom boom down)
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