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VidaGrey
Mar 19, 2009

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

The Orange Mage posted:

Okay, the JNCOs were terrible, but the actual flares/bellbottoms were okay and don't get why people find them so terrible.

I thought the whole skinny jeans thing would last a year or two tops BUT here were are seven or eight years later going strong. Hopefully in a decade or two we'll all find them to be terrible. :allears:

I was 4'10 and 95lbs wearing the biggest legged JNCO jeans I could find. I wore these with oversized flannels. It was a very awkward time. Also, at first I hated skinny jeans, but now I actually love them because they do shape your body and make it easier to wear boots :). As for the bell bottoms, normal sized ones don't really bother me that much. However, the style that was popular when I was in middle school was the impractically huge bells. You couldn't even see your shoes.

Also, I not only liked Maddox...I...I bought his book. :(

Edit: I also used to be obsessed with flash animations like Leskos Revenge ...yeah.

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El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

Scout Finch Bitch

Pixeltendo posted:


-a series of unfortunate events by lemony snicket


This series was good if only for the book he wrote called Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography which is a really detailed parody of Edwardian and Victorian secret society literature and customs which NO CHILD WILL EVER UNDERSTAND. It's a really well done book, but it's just about as far as you can get from being understandable by your target audience while still remaining in-canon. When I first read it I thought it was oddly confusing and I could tell it was full of jokes I didn't get (I was like 14), as an adult familiar with the material it parodies I enjoy it much more.

Casull
Aug 13, 2005

:catstare: :catstare: :catstare:
I too am guilty of MapleStory. Oh, freshman year of college, where did you go?

It probably didn't help that I chose Fire/Poison as my mage's specialty because it only encouraged my playing. Poison spells were actually a viable path because you could be high-risk, high-reward by slowly killing monsters that could one-shot you (and cost you anywhere from half-an-hour to an hour's work, depending on how high your level was.) It basically allowed me to level-up in 4-6 hours versus the ten hours it would take for a class at a comparable level. Eventually I stopped playing because even with the "rapid" pace it was still going to take me 10 hours per level.

The last time I started up the game a year or two ago to see where the game had gone, I found out they had nerfed the poison skill so that it wouldn't work against enemies drastically overlevelled compared to you.

And to think I actually worked for these Korean MMO grindhouse companies for a bit. Don't do it, folks. Don't loving do it. :negative:

Alpacalips Now
Oct 4, 2013
In late high school all the way through my Junior year of university, I liked jam bands because I was a white stoner. Though I've seen Umphree's McGee live more than anyone ever should, I can't remember a single one of their songs. I even went to a festival just to see a band that had the Grateful Dead's drummer. At least I didn't become a Phishhead.

And what's wrong with skinny jeans? I think clothes that shape to your body are attractive on most people. Also, I'm thin and hate wearing loose-fitting clothing because it feels like I'm wearing a tent. I hope they don't go out of style anytime soon.

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.

Alpacalips Now posted:

And what's wrong with skinny jeans? I think clothes that shape to your body are attractive on most people. Also, I'm thin and hate wearing loose-fitting clothing because it feels like I'm wearing a tent. I hope they don't go out of style anytime soon.

Same. I'm also short and because skinny jeans articulate the curves of my legs, it doesn't look like two formless stumps dropping out of my torso. Plus, they look great with knee-high boots and don't bunch up. :j:

Also, found those Gaia pictures:




And what was my ever-present signature:


Lawdy, lawdy. :smith:

Twitch
Apr 15, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

miserable lil onion posted:

The Bloodhound Gang. My gentle teenage rebellion. :unsmith:


I listened to the Bloodhound Gang well into my 20s. At least with nu metal I was a teenager.

My best excuse is that Bloodhoung Gang and Green Day were the only two bands I could sing decently at karaoke.

Mr. Pither
May 28, 2006

Hello, friends!
Well gosh, I see I wasn't the only one that was into Star Wars novels as a kid. Man, those were dumb.

One time that I always look back on and wonder what the hell I was thinking was when I was briefly enchanted by Dale Brown novels in middle school.

I stumbled across "Shadows of Steel" in a used book store and picked it up since it had a B2 Stealth Bomber on the cover. If you haven't heard of him, he writes off-brand Tom Clancy-style rah-rah military adventure books about air force bombers. The protagonists will get in some big magic bomber plane that's got three dozen guns and 2 million hit points, and then go drop some munitions-grade justice on America's enemies while making room for a few awkward sex scenes on the side. Unsurprisingly his books were quite easy to dig up in used book stores, so I must've read quite a few of them before I heard another one of my friends (a kid who was into hardcore military history at a very young age, I think he's a helicopter pilot now) disparage them with an offhand remark and whatever appeal the books had just evaporated instantly.

The thread reminds me of another experience I had where I was in college and a buddy of mine had an episode of Ninja Turtles on his computer. This was right before Youtube and BitTorrent took off, so if you wanted to watch something like that you had to actually have the video file on your computer. I thought it would be a fun nostalgia trip to watch it, but I was completely floored by how terrible it was now that I wasn't a 6-year-old. The dialog was excruciating. I'd put it as exhibit A for the maxim that people who work in children's entertainment do it because they couldn't hack it in the real entertainment industry.

I've lived abroad in Korea and Japan and I've seen the kids into the local versions of the same things I was so wrapped up in as a kid: CCGs, money-sink video games, paranormal YA novel series, never-ending cartoons where the characters battle each other forever. I really can't fault them, can I?

Aphra Bane
Oct 3, 2013

Two that immediately come to mind are:

Beanie Kids - those $10 collectable bears sold in gift shops. They came with special cardboard ear tags that you were supposed to keep safe, which is a bit cruel for a kid's toy, but I guess the idea was that the future would have a raging beanie kid market in which you could sell your special edition beanie kids for megabux. I had at least 100 of them. Even though I did genuinely love them at the time, I still think back on them every now and then and cringe. What a waste of my parent's money.

Final Fantasy 7. At some point in my teens I decided I wanted to play a final fantasy game, so I went with FFVI, it apparently being the best of the lot. Played it, loved it. Then I decided to do some preliminary research the next game in the series, and ... I don't know, all the angst in the story must have been like crack to my teenage brain, because I became seriously invested in it. I had a folder dedicated to fan art, religiously read a "Cloud x Aerith" forum that debated the in-game love triangle (the forum is still going strong today, apparently!), watched countless terrible fan-videos, bought the Advent Children movie on dvd (and forced it upon my poor, poor sister), I even bought Kingdom Hearts 2 for the sole purpose of seeing the 2(?) tiny Cloud/Aerith scenes. It went on for years. All without ever even playing the game itself :cripes:

venus de lmao
Apr 30, 2007

Call me "pixeltits"

Anime and nu-metal. :ughh:

I outgrew the anime by the time I was 14 or so and a high school buddy introduced me to actual decent metal and it's been gravy ever since.

Except I still kinda like System of a Down because it reminds me of a high school crush. :shobon:

Console Role Player
Sep 15, 2007

Snooch to the Gooch
I used to be mormon.

By the time I hit nineteen I was so frustrated with all the doublethink and rationalizing that goes along with being a member of the LDS church. The thought of serving a mission and coming back to raise a family in that environment became morally repulsive to me. So after spending my entire teenage life espousing mormon doctrine and playing pious with a kooky cult I moved away for college to get away from my mormon friends and family.

I try not to let it get to me, but I wasted my youth and so much energy on guilt and "my sins." The non-member friends I made in high school all grew up to be amazing people while I concentrated on some nebulous concept of "worthiness." I can't help but feel the years I spent with the church left me developmentally stunted. The prophets say "be as little children," and that's exactly what you become. You defer all choice and agency to the group so as not to cause friction.

One of my worst fears is that I'll run in to an old friend I haven't seen since high school and they'll casually slip, "By the way, I joined the church." I wouldn't wish a stint in the mormon church on my middle school bullies, so imagining someone joining the church based on how I presented myself as a teen is genuinely horrifying.

About the only thing I don't regret from my time as a mormon is Boy Scouts. I love camping and I still make it a point to get out to the woods every once and a while to camp with my friends. (Let me make myself clear: the Boy Scouts organization sucks too, but as a teen it was pretty rad to go outdoors and participate in all sorts of activities you don't usually get to do living in a big city.)

In any case I'm a lot happier since I dumped the mormon identity, but there were some other reprehensible things I liked as a youth.

I'm still in to anime, but I've developed a stronger filter with what I watch and don't watch. I also don't talk about it with friends who don't want to hear about it.

Science Fiction novels. I was WAY in to stuff by Asimov, Clarke, Heinlien, and (ugh) Orson Scott Card. When I took Freshman Composition in college I wrote a compare and contrast paper on Asimov's Foundation series and Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I shouldn't have been surprised when I got a D on it, but I was a starry eyed college freshman. That pretty much shut my gob on sci-fi for good. These days I can only stomach the occasional Phillip K. Dick novel or the first Dune. I tried reading Foundation recently, and I remember all the reasons I loved it as a teenager, but it is some serious juvenile reading.

Console Role Player has a new favorite as of 20:02 on Feb 7, 2014

Lightning Lord
Feb 21, 2013

$200 a day, plus expenses

I guess I have to say Rob Liefeld. I still think his art has an endearing dynamism to it, and the way he's become a lazy punchline for nerds who aren't funny is more obnoxious than anything he ever did, but I still thought he was hot poo poo.

I'm not really embarrassed about anything I ever did though because I was a loving kid. None of my interests have ever caused me to miss out on anything in life either, so I don't have a chip on my shoulder about them.

Horrible Smutbeast posted:

I have found people who make point and clicks at least try to be interesting with the story or art style. They also try to pay more often than anyone else in my experience.

Now, sure. Back in the early days of indie adventures, it was all Monkey Island clones all the time. I don't just mean the comedy style either, every other indie adventure was about whacky pirates.

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


SuitcoatAvenger posted:

Kevin Smith movies. I matured as time went on. His skill as a filmmaker did not.

I thought Mallrats and Clerks were the funniest thing I'd ever seen and was really disappointed when Dogma came out because I didn't think it was funny at all. Then I went back and watched Clerks again and realized it was some of the most unfunny poo poo ever, and it wasn't that Dogma was worse than his other movies, I just wasn't 15 years old anymore.

AcetylCoA!
Dec 25, 2010

Aphra Bane posted:

Two that immediately come to mind are:

Beanie Kids - those $10 collectable bears sold in gift shops. They came with special cardboard ear tags that you were supposed to keep safe, which is a bit cruel for a kid's toy, but I guess the idea was that the future would have a raging beanie kid market in which you could sell your special edition beanie kids for megabux. I had at least 100 of them. Even though I did genuinely love them at the time, I still think back on them every now and then and cringe. What a waste of my parent's money.


Ahaha. Beanie Babies. I remember people camping outside of the AC Moore to get the newest release and paying 10 bucks. Can now get at the grocery store for 5.

This song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LahcSFleKm8

Stottie Kyek
Apr 26, 2008

fuckin egg in a bun
The Pokemon and Digimon cartoon shows. I used to love those when I was little. I know everyone likes what was on TV when they were kids, but when I graduated in the recession and spent a few months filling out job applications, I'd have the TV on in the background, and kids today have much better shows than we did in the '90s.

I can't believe my sister and I dragged our mother to the Pokemon movie. I think on some level, even at the time, I knew it was total mince, but I wasn't going to admit that to myself.

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

Scout Finch Bitch
Beanie babies are nice because they produce pretty high quality stuffed animals for a bunch of animals that don't really have good stuffed animal versions. For instance when I got my friend who likes sloths a little stuffed sloth the Beanie Baby one was the only good one I could find that actually looked like a sloth and was cute.


Stottie Kyek posted:

The Pokemon and Digimon cartoon shows. I used to love those when I was little. I know everyone likes what was on TV when they were kids, but when I graduated in the recession and spent a few months filling out job applications, I'd have the TV on in the background, and kids today have much better shows than we did in the '90s.

I can't believe my sister and I dragged our mother to the Pokemon movie. I think on some level, even at the time, I knew it was total mince, but I wasn't going to admit that to myself.

My Mom loved the first Pokemon movie. She thought that Mewtwo was a really advanced and well fleshed out villain for a childrens cartoon, which I guess is pretty true, he has motivations that at least make sense and stuff.

Shiki Dan
Oct 27, 2010

If ya can move ya toes ya back's fine

Henchman of Santa posted:

Personally I think Seanbaby's best work is when he rips apart Gregory JP Godek books. Much funnier than Maddox.

Nah, Seanbaby's MMA articles on Cracked and Broken Pixels are totally gold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_D1qVKvxwo&list=PL74F969E8A8BA2790

He's probably the one internet celebrity who got BETTER with age.

Krolewna
Jan 8, 2014

The me of the future can worry about THAT, while the me of the present enjoys life.
Twilight.

Began reading the series at a time where I was terrified of letting anyone know I liked it. Only other people I could see that showed interest in it were the school's adamant weaboos. Didn't really want to become associated with their group, so I religiously kept the fact of me reading the book on the down-low.

I was surprised at how its popularity blew up, and became excited that I could talk about the book with other people.

It wasn't until I went to see the movie with my "friends" and their mothers (who were more enthusiastic about the showing than their own daughters) while witnessing girls screaming incessant love calls at the screen that I realized what I've actually been reading.

Jesus.

Alpacalips Now
Oct 4, 2013
I used to think the Tourettes Guy videos were a hoot, even though they were obviously staged and full of bad actors. But I still chuckle at the one where he wakes up to find a huge M&M statue in his room and furiously cusses it out.

dolphinbomb
Apr 2, 2007



Grimey Drawer

NESguerilla posted:

I thought Mallrats and Clerks were the funniest thing I'd ever seen and was really disappointed when Dogma came out because I didn't think it was funny at all. Then I went back and watched Clerks again and realized it was some of the most unfunny poo poo ever, and it wasn't that Dogma was worse than his other movies, I just wasn't 15 years old anymore.

I can't really stand most of Kevin Smith's movies anymore but Clerks still holds a special place in my heart. I worked at a gas station for just over 5 years and Clerks captures the crushing despair of being a self-hating 20-something loser working a convenience store job loving perfectly.

RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire

Lightning Lord posted:

I guess I have to say Rob Liefeld. I still think his art has an endearing dynamism to it, and the way he's become a lazy punchline for nerds who aren't funny is more obnoxious than anything he ever did, but I still thought he was hot poo poo.

I heard Rob is actually a nice guy and is totally aware of his shortcomings when spoken to in person.

DicktheCat
Feb 15, 2011

Oh, wow, Das Boo, you must have hung around Gaia way longer than me, because I have no recollection of those, and I played the puzzle game a bunch for the gold. Then again, it was fairly shortly after that "bump for gold" game that I left.

Also, re:4chan, when I was there (as an idiot early teen) I didn't see any kiddy porn. It was more like an ironic in-joke about what terrible people /b/tards were rather than something that really got posted, along with the "shocking" racist jokes. I have no idea what it became later, or now. All I remember from it is dumb image macros and shoop da whoops.

p4vl
Aug 13, 2004

I still love Black Metal, though I will say that my politics and attitude are completely contrary to the baseless arrogance of the scene (gently caress nazis).

I think it was Ihsahn from Emperor who said (paraphrasing) "When you have long black hair, wear black clothes and sing about misanthropy, no one will consider you the pride of western civilization". Also gently caress Metal Archives.

In high school I owned a BC RICO Mockingbird (with one EMG 81) and a Crate solid state half stack. That's what you call a guitar player stereotype.

Miss Kalle
Jan 4, 2013

This avatar is lacking a certain something, don't you think? IT'S MISSING YOUR SCREAMS, TRANSFER STUDENT!
Add me to the Gaia Online train as well. Reportedly, it's become Anime Zimbabwe at this point, since they've been pumping out random generators that spit out millions in virtual currency so that every item's a billion dollars and the currency itself is essentially worthless.

Other things I'm ashamed of myself for enjoying:

-- Real person fanfic. When I was like 13 or 14 I would sneak onto the downstairs computer in the middle of the night and read smutty *NSYNC fanfic (either m/m slash of the band members themselves or band member-on-Mary Sue stand-in. both were equally repugnant) There was also a point in my life where I read a lot of Linkin Park slash.

-- Tomoyo42's Room. I have no clue why I thought a webcomic that was basically Cardcaptor Sakura with gratuitous gore and dead-baby comedy was the funniest poo poo ever.

-- Invader Zim. Similar to the above, just less gore and magical girls and more ~*hoh my gaw so EDGY and DARK and RANDOM*~ I would parrot Gir's stupid 'catchphrases' every chance I got, and now that I'm older I just look at all the obnoxious Gir merchandise that persisted well after the show died and just sigh.

I also enjoyed a small handful of The Nostalgia Critic's videos, but didn't latch onto the series hard enough to consider it a truly shameful thing. Still, there's some residual shame and revulsion in knowing and admitting that, I guess.

swamp waste
Nov 4, 2009

There is some very sensual touching going on in the cutscene there. i don't actually think it means anything sexual but it's cool how it contrasts with modern ideas of what bad ass stuff should be like. It even seems authentic to some kind of chivalric masculine touching from a tyme longe gone
I had a major Star Wars merch novels phase at about 11 and 12 years old. The thing is, actually reading them was a slog and never particularly entertaining. What I liked was having more Star Wars to consume, so anything that had the imprimatur of the Official Star Wars Franchise was "fun" despite everything about it. It's funny how effectively the logic of franchise marketing was impressed on my brain. Anyhoo, off to give a poo poo about the new ones they're making, for some reason, for some unknown reason...

P.S. During this time I was assigned a school project that involved the students sending letters to our personal heroes or something like that asking them what they read. I sent one to Timothy Zahn and he very nicely wrote back, telling me that he didn't have time to read anymore. Looking back, that's telling and kind of sadly hilarious, but at the time it just made me assume that enjoying books or movies or art was for the public, the plebs, and actually creative people were too involved with their own awesome talents to care about anything else. Haha

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010
Strangely I never read the Star Wars novels but I did read the Essential Guide to Characters and the Guide to Alien Species. I really liked those kinds of spergy world-building things I guess. I also really enjoyed reading Monster Manuals even though I was never big on D&D.

Flaccid Trip
Apr 29, 2008

Anime. Anime conventions. So much wasted money. And I cosplayed, too. Badly. Goddamn it, high school me.

Stottie Kyek posted:

I can't believe my sister and I dragged our mother to the Pokemon movie. I think on some level, even at the time, I knew it was total mince, but I wasn't going to admit that to myself.

I should probably apologize to my mom for making her do this. Not only that, but the reel caught fire near the end. (But at least they got it going again?)

corn on the cop
Oct 12, 2012

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

― Corey Dostoyevsky
If I could take back any decision I've ever made in my life, it would be for 5th-grade Poonerman to never click on an ad for something called Runescape back in early 2001.

Stottie Kyek
Apr 26, 2008

fuckin egg in a bun
U2. Teenage me used to actually cry listening to that overproduced, three-chord, sanctimonious wank. Yes, helping the poor is a great message, but when it comes from a bunch of millionaire tax exiles you can't really take it seriously.

KIT HAGS
Jun 5, 2007
Stay sweet
Foamy and Stickdeath. Ugh.

ThatPazuzu
Sep 8, 2011

I'm so depressed, I can't even blink.

Poonerman posted:

If I could take back any decision I've ever made in my life, it would be for 5th-grade Poonerman to never click on an ad for something called Runescape back in early 2001.

Sameee. Holy gently caress I put so many hours into that game and was still weak as gently caress because I didn't understand how MMOs work.

Gertrude Perkins
May 1, 2010

Gun Snake

dont talk to gun snake

Drops: human teeth


I don't think anyone's mentioned this, but I had not one, but TWO Neopets phases. First when I was a young teenager (2003-4ish) and then again when I was an older teenager (2008?) whose online crush was really into it. Some of the games were fun, but the community and the lore and the strange random economy of everything were just exhausting.

I just checked into my old account...it's still there, as is my pet. They never die, it seems. They just starve, and sit there miserably. For YEARS.

TunaSpleen
Jan 27, 2007

How do I say, "You're the grossest thing ever" without offending you?
Grimey Drawer

Coconut Indian posted:

Foamy and Stickdeath. Ugh.

In high school I had a shirt with the drug addict squirrel that said "Childhood caps have spoiled my happiness." I finally realized how terrible I looked and gave the shirt to a total neckbeard friend who probably still wears it to this day. It accentuates his man boobs nicely. He still claims any day now he's going to start working for Blizzard on WoW expansions because he went to a for-profit school for video game design :rolleyes:

Gertrude Perkins posted:

I don't think anyone's mentioned this, but I had not one, but TWO Neopets phases. First when I was a young teenager (2003-4ish) and then again when I was an older teenager (2008?) whose online crush was really into it. Some of the games were fun, but the community and the lore and the strange random economy of everything were just exhausting.

I just checked into my old account...it's still there, as is my pet. They never die, it seems. They just starve, and sit there miserably. For YEARS.

It was cute when it was just run by a couple and half the stuff was broken at any given time way back in 2001, but when Nickelodeon bought the site it became all about shoving advertisements down your throat and pushing virtual items for real money. I still play the flash games on occasion but everything else from the layout to the fanbase is absolutely terrible. It's not even kids that play anymore, it's girls in their upper teens and twenties that care way too much about who has the cutest and rarest pet like Gaia avatars.

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

Thinking that being depressed was the poo poo. And that depression was a result of just being so much smarter than all those oblivious and stupid happy people. Don't they see how awful society is? Why don't they understand how hard it is to be alive? Why are they so unaware? Only us miserable people are truly awake in life. It's a curse but I accept it, because I don't want to be a blind idiot.

Fuuuuuuck am I ever glad I got meds.

God Of Paradise
Jan 23, 2012
You know, I'd be less worried about my 16 year old daughter dating a successful 40 year old cartoonist than dating a 16 year old loser.

I mean, Jesus, kid, at least date a motherfucker with abortion money and house to have sex at where your mother and I don't have to hear it. Also, if he treats her poorly, boom, that asshole's gonna catch a statch charge.

Please, John K. Date my daughter... Save her from dating smelly dropouts who wanna-be Soundcloud rappers.
When my grandfather died, for awhile we weren't check to check students with part time jobs. Then I spent entirely too much of a $20,000 inheritance on collecting all the old game systems of my childhood and beyond. But for some reason, I had to start collecting old video games.

Three years later only the N64, NES, SNES and Genesis aren't broken. Those are collecting dust unless guests request to play them. All the others, Saturn, Dreamcast, Sega CD, Atari, X-Box, Game Cube, they are either broken or missing parts that were lost in a move. I don't care about them enough to replace them. Why? I think I turned 30. That's what happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW86WwC2qAg&list=PLvF9KXZdyP5PS1zBLuLz5KevU6X9-tKnw&index=68

MIDWIFE CRISIS
Nov 5, 2008

Ta gueule, laisse-moi finir.

Stottie Kyek posted:

U2. Teenage me used to actually cry listening to that overproduced, three-chord, sanctimonious wank. Yes, helping the poor is a great message, but when it comes from a bunch of millionaire tax exiles you can't really take it seriously.

Same, when I was 13 I became sort of obsessed with U2 when going through my dad's music collection. Lasted for a year and a half, during which I listened to nothing else. My favorite album was Pop :stare:

In general, I'd get way too obsessed with bands when I was a teen. I was one of those fans who'd get personally insulted over bad reviews or criticism.

Medieval Medic
Sep 8, 2011

Gertrude Perkins posted:

I don't think anyone's mentioned this, but I had not one, but TWO Neopets phases. First when I was a young teenager (2003-4ish) and then again when I was an older teenager (2008?) whose online crush was really into it. Some of the games were fun, but the community and the lore and the strange random economy of everything were just exhausting.

I just checked into my old account...it's still there, as is my pet. They never die, it seems. They just starve, and sit there miserably. For YEARS.

Oh god, me too. Just imagine a 14 year old boy logging on in secret shame to collect omlettes or some poo poo I can't even remember now a days.

Also Macromedia Shockwave games.

Medieval Medic has a new favorite as of 16:21 on Feb 11, 2014

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound
Anyone get hooked on this book or was it just me?
https://www.google.com/#q=expedition+wayne+douglas+barlowe

Also, that blue pepsi mixed with Vodka.

Anyone who lived during the original Nintendo years is cursed with having liked terrible poo poo because so many of those games were poo poo. The original Ninja Turtles game was poo poo, Bayou Billy was poo poo, MadMax (not the one you think) was poo poo, just sooooo many poo poo games I desperately whittled away my childhood on.

I also had an unhealthy obsession with Star Wars toys but you'll never convince me those were anything but rad. Also, it makes me sad that kids today will never know the joy of walking into an 80s Toys R US. Aisles and aisles of badass toys, models, video games, etc. Here's some pictures but they don't really do it justice unless you're 10 with money in your pocket to burn.

https://www.google.com/search?q=80s+toy+stores&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=PFT6UuSfIMTF0QHv44GIDQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&biw=1680&bih=857

Aristurtle Records
Jun 9, 2006

live at random, live as best one can
Anne Rice books. Not even just the first couple, which are kind of fun, but all the way through those awful books about giants and witches, just so I could get to the Blood Canticle, where it's about vampires and Lestat again, but also introduces a super weird christian plotline...? I don't remember clearly. I do recall an amazon review of that book that went something like "I don't know what the hell a canticle is, and I'm not about to go look it up" - which about sums it up, really.

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound
If it makes you feel any better, the internet has had a great time trolling Anne Rice for years.

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DicktheCat
Feb 15, 2011

Picnic Princess posted:

Thinking that being depressed was the poo poo. And that depression was a result of just being so much smarter than all those oblivious and stupid happy people. Don't they see how awful society is? Why don't they understand how hard it is to be alive? Why are they so unaware? Only us miserable people are truly awake in life. It's a curse but I accept it, because I don't want to be a blind idiot.

Fuuuuuuck am I ever glad I got meds.

I empathize totally. I wish I could have grown out of that sooner, so I could have, you know, enjoyed my childhood. So glad to one of those "stupid happy people".


Also, did anyone else watch Joe Cartoon stuff? I remember it being mostly dick, fart and violence humor. Used to eat it up like catnip in the late 90s-early 2000s, thinking it was soooooooooo adult. Same with JTHM. Never a Zim fan, oddly enough.

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