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Stalins Moustache posted:"An old man gets naked and kisses a model-doll in his attic Wasn't there a GBS thread about this guy once?  When I was in grade 2/3, these were the poo poo:  Over a hundred books in a series featuring seven of the most one-dimensional characters you will ever meet, including Sporty, Shy, Horses, and Black (But That Doesn't Matter, Really). (Ok, technically her Thing was ballet, but really it was that she was black.) On a completely different note I also really liked the CAD mock threads when they were around. I genuinely miss them sometimes. Every now and again a Loss edit will pop up somewhere around here and it makes me smile every time.
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RainbowCake posted:On a completely different note I also really liked the CAD mock threads when they were around. I genuinely miss them sometimes. Every now and again a Loss edit will pop up somewhere around here and it makes me smile every time. Good news: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3580504
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May 11, 2014 15:17
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Oh boy!  It is a good day for terrible things and you are a good terrible person.I really, really shouldn't be happy about this.
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May 11, 2014 15:25
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NESguerilla posted:I used to know a guy that would always aggressively try to get me into Nightwish back in the day. Seriously they might be the worst band I've ever heard in my life, I was also into Nightwish and the "goth/opera metal" genre for a (thankfully short) period of time. The only band from the genre that I still listen to is The Gathering, because they went on to leave the genre behind and make some really good trip-hoppy progrock. It's interesting to revisit a band like Nightwish almost a decade after I last heard them, though, only to find that they still sound exactly the same. Seriously, they must be in their 40s by now and still dressing and acting like teenage emo kids.
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May 11, 2014 16:06
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Haha Nightwish. I still enjoy a lot of their music, not the newest stuff because it's just awful but yeah. The male singers obsession with talking about a dead kid is tiring. Annette Olson was good for them so it's a pity she didn't last long. Musically for me, System of a Down and Godsmack.
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May 11, 2014 20:32
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Is it wrong that I actually still like System of a Down? That and a lot of 90's nu metal. Some of it was garbage sure but it wasn't all bad. Granted these days I mostly listen to industrial and synthpop but still...I don't look at my old metal CDs and think "wow, these all suck." The taste I had for bad J-Pop, however, was absolutely unforgivable. I have no idea why but for a while I started listening to, and enjoying, the absolute worst J-Pop I could find.
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May 11, 2014 21:22
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DicktheCat posted:You mother fucker. I think they were around earlier than '07, 'cause I remember them, and I kind of fell off around late '06 before I graduated. Yeah, I 'played' it as a teen, sue me. Oh god, I was one of the original Prommies. I got tired of it in '05 or '06 though so I don't remember that Montague/Capulet stuff. For content- I LOVED Coal Chamber in high school. I can't get through the first song on Chamber Music without cracking up anymore CYNICS AND CHRIST-LIKE HYPOCRITES HOW THEY STICK TO YOU LIKE GLUE
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May 11, 2014 21:59
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Is it wrong that I actually still like System of a Down? That and a lot of 90's nu metal. Some of it was garbage sure but it wasn't all bad. Granted these days I mostly listen to industrial and synthpop but still...I don't look at my old metal CDs and think "wow, these all suck." Sometimes it's ok to like terrible things, as long as you're willing to acknowledge that they're terrible. I love '90s pop and will make no apologies. 
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May 12, 2014 00:05
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Intoluene posted:Not sure if it's been posted yet but System of a Down. Good god, I could slap 14 year old me for listening that poo poo. I still think their first album is fantastic but everything after it I can't deal with.
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May 12, 2014 00:21
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StrangersInTheNight posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuLO66xoutg I once imported a Malice Mizer CD for like forty bucks when I was in middle school. That was hard, since I had very, very little money growing up. Forty loving dollars.
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I too listened to Malice Mizer in my early years of university, because my weeaboo crush liked them. I graduated to the much cooler SIGH, and then Boris 
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Bertrand Hustle posted:gently caress you for reminding me of Nightwish. I used to think "Dead Boy's Poem" was so loving deep and sad. My brother and I liked Nightwish, but we didn't know any lyrics. Is that better or worse? Devil Wears Wings posted:Then again, John said a lot of stupid poo poo before he grew up and started to believe in something other than greed and beating his wife. Selling out in the sense of jamming out listenable but safe songs is pretty terrible. Cuntellectual has a new favorite as of 06:06 on May 12, 2014 |
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I loved The Phantom Menace when it came out in theatres. Granted, I was 9, so I was probably right in the proper age demographic they were gunning for. Liking the next two movies when they first came out gives me a little bit more shame. Pretty much the only thing I still consistently like about the movies now is Ian McDiarmid. Yes, even in RotS.
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May 12, 2014 06:19
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JoltSpree posted:I loved The Phantom Menace when it came out in theatres. Granted, I was 9, so I was probably right in the proper age demographic they were gunning for. Liking the next two movies when they first came out gives me a little bit more shame. Pretty much the only thing I still consistently like about the movies now is Ian McDiarmid. Yes, even in RotS.
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May 12, 2014 11:08
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Radio morning shows. When I was in the 6th grade I woke up to the MJ Morning Show every day. 
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May 12, 2014 11:56
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JoltSpree posted:Pretty much the only thing I still consistently like about the movies now is Ian McDiarmid. Yes, even in RotS. Nothing to be ashamed of there, he seems to be the only person in those movies who's enjoying themselves.
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May 12, 2014 12:32
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Anatharon posted:Selling out in the sense of jamming out listenable but safe songs is pretty terrible. What's so wrong with listenable-but-safe music? Not everything has to be a challenging experience.
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May 12, 2014 12:55
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Dragonforce. It's loving neckbeard WoW music.
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May 12, 2014 19:43
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RadioactiveKid posted:The best thing about the phantom menace was, Star Wars Episode I Racer it was my favorite game on the N64 and one of my all time favorite racing games. Oo, I never played that, but I did play The Gungan Frontier and Droidworks when I was a kid and loved them. They're probably in my mam's attic now. I'll have to get them out again next time I visit, this thread is making me wonder if they'll actually be as much fun as I remember. LucasArts's merchandise was always way more fun than the actual films.
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May 12, 2014 20:07
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Devil Wears Wings posted:What's so wrong with listenable-but-safe music? Not everything has to be a challenging experience. Yeah, "being one of those assholes who describes music as 'safe' or 'accessible' as an insult" is one of those terrible things I used to love myself
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May 12, 2014 22:07
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RadioactiveKid posted:The best thing about the phantom menace was, Star Wars Episode I Racer it was my favorite game on the N64 and one of my all time favorite racing games. That was a fun game, though I could never figure out why Sebulba could only jet flames from one side of his pod.
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RadioactiveKid posted:The best thing about the phantom menace was, Star Wars Episode I Racer it was my favorite game on the N64 and one of my all time favorite racing games. I was completely awful at this game but loved it all the same.
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The best part is that you can control the N64 version with two controllers per podracer, using the triggers on each controller to control the individual engines.
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May 13, 2014 03:27
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RadioactiveKid posted:The best thing about the phantom menace was, Star Wars Episode I Racer it was my favorite game on the N64 and one of my all time favorite racing games. I actually played the arcade cabinet of this a couple weeks ago, it's still awesome and still really tough to control well.
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May 13, 2014 06:01
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Yeah, Pod Racer was a legit good game. Very "F-Zero"-esque (I know there was an F-Zero game for N64, but this was like having two of them.)
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Devil Wears Wings posted:What's so wrong with listenable-but-safe music? Not everything has to be a challenging experience. When it's all a band does anymore? Plenty. That's what selling out always meant to me. Ceasing creativity for guaranteed sales. 
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Creed, Korn, and Linkin Park get a pass since I was like 13-15 when I liked them. I then discovered stuff like Dream Theater - which is just as bad in its own way. The music was dorky, but the worst thing about it was my pride in being ~awake~ to prog rock/metal. I'd like to think they were a necessary evil though, as without em' I wouldn't have branched out into all the genres I enjoy now. Also, Something Awful. It was a terrible source of pride like ten years ago when I first signed up. All of the goth-shaming fostered a healthy dislike for teen subcultures, which I carried along in 11th and 12th grade. I'm pretty sure I considered myself the most culturally aware person at my school. I had a Gooncon 2k4 DVD and tshirt. That may have been more me wanting to fit in somewhere than SA itself, but it was definitely terrible.
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Anatharon posted:When it's all a band does anymore? Plenty. It's still a dumb thing to care about, plus it's basically saying "I know this band's thought processes and motivations better than they do themselves, and am a better judge of what they OUGHT to be creating than them too." Especially since a lot of people turn their critical engagement skills off entirely and simply conflate "is on the radio" with "has no creativity" (even bubblegum pop can be musically interesting and engaging in its own right - "Call Me Maybe" is, musically speaking, wicked interesting and does some non-standard things, but a lot of listeners still considered it "not art" just because it's on pop radio.) I just found a Happycat tshirt in my laundry pile. Wow. I'd forgotten all about that stuff.
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Gaspy Conana posted:All of the goth-shaming fostered a healthy dislike for teen subcultures, which I carried along in 11th and 12th grade. I'm pretty sure I considered myself the most culturally aware person at my school. I had a Gooncon 2k4 DVD and tshirt. Hahahahahaha cool. I want to see a phlegmatic teen dork in a gooncon shirt rolling his eyes at some mall goths and acting soooo over it
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Anatharon posted:When it's all a band does anymore? Plenty. So, "safe" music is automatically bad because... the band/artist is making a living off of it? Even putting aside how that perception is based upon a ridiculous assumption that musicians should be starving-artist types, that's a value judgment that has nothing to do with the music itself.
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Stottie Kyek posted:Oo, I never played that, but I did play The Gungan Frontier and Droidworks when I was a kid and loved them. They're probably in my mam's attic now. I'll have to get them out again next time I visit, this thread is making me wonder if they'll actually be as much fun as I remember. LucasArts's merchandise was always way more fun than the actual films. Man, I thought I was the only person who played Droidworks. It was the best game because it had a dance button in the create-a-droid screen so you could watch your crazy droid break it down and burn up the dance floor. I actually don't remember much else about that game other than it being one of the things that started my love of engineering and making things. And, uhhh for a terrible thing, I really liked Captain Planet? Nowdays the best thing I can say about it is that if I have kids, I'm going to show them Captain Planet to explain what the 90s were. If they don't get it, that's ok because we didn't either.
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For about a year when my family would go to the video store to rent movies I would always pick out Jingle All the Way. I had to have seen it at least 30 times. I haven't seen it since then, so I have no idea how bad it actually is, but I know that I absolutely loved that movie.
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 When I was 13, I got 3 of these books at a thrift shop. They were trashy as hell. The stories initially seem like hard-boiled detective fiction but it was just about the main character boning every female character in the book but the one who worked at the station with him. Imagine those if one of those Skinimax films had a novelization. I still can't believe my parents let me read these when every cover was a girl in lingerie sitting in those Looney Tunes circles.
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Being in a serious raiding guild in WoW. I mean, it was kinda fun, but at some point I realized I was scheduling around raidtimes, and that it had essentially become a part time job that I wasn't getting paid for. Also was pretty into Gunbound for a few years, which really just wasn't that great a game. After a while it kinda ended up being more about hanging out with buddies on Ventrilo though, so I guess that's ok.
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Action Tortoise posted:
Action Books for Men are a huge guilty pleasure of mine. poo poo, Somewhere I have like a 3x3x3 box of just Mack Bolan novels. Read them all too.
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bunnielab posted:Action Books for Men are a huge guilty pleasure of mine. Remo Williams. At least the first 100 books, say.
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InediblePenguin posted:It's still a dumb thing to care about, plus it's basically saying "I know this band's thought processes and motivations better than they do themselves, and am a better judge of what they OUGHT to be creating than them too." Especially since a lot of people turn their critical engagement skills off entirely and simply conflate "is on the radio" with "has no creativity" (even bubblegum pop can be musically interesting and engaging in its own right - "Call Me Maybe" is, musically speaking, wicked interesting and does some non-standard things, but a lot of listeners still considered it "not art" just because it's on pop radio.) Nah, it's not as complicated as all that. Sometimes you find an artist that makes neat music. You enjoy what they do and get pretty excited when they release new albums. One day they come up with a drastically different sound and maybe you don't like it anymore. Sometimes it's not a value judgment on the artist, but rather just plain old disappointment that their original style won't be available to you anymore. Kind of like if your favorite burger place where you take everyone when they visit from out of town one day shuts down because the owner could make more money opening a subway franchise there. Good on the owner, he's doing his thing but the fact is you're not gonna get any more burgs. For content, JNCO. Stupidest poo poo a human has placed upon their body. Danger Mahoney has a new favorite as of 06:23 on May 14, 2014 |
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Danger Mahoney posted:For content, JNCO. Stupidest poo poo a human has placed upon their body. What was it that made JNCO jeans so incredibly popular? I remember seeing kids in high school wearing JNCOs so hideously oversized they could barely walk.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:What was it that made JNCO jeans so incredibly popular? I remember seeing kids in high school wearing JNCOs so hideously oversized they could barely walk. I dunno, there was a window of like two years in the late nineties when rave culture got popular. There is no earthly explanation for this. Kids at my high school would bring glow sticks to class for some reason. Visors blew up. For reference, I grew up in a small Texas town probably two hundred miles from the nearest legitimate rave.
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Lhet posted:Being in a serious raiding guild in WoW. I mean, it was kinda fun, but at some point I realized I was scheduling around raidtimes, and that it had essentially become a part time job that I wasn't getting paid for. Same experience. Played WOW for almost a year, raided for about 3 or 4 months then realized I wasn't actually having any fun playing it anymore and quit once the guild started acting like jackasses anyway.
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