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frankenfreak posted:I very much remember girls playing with their Tamagochi in class. I was so serious about mine. I had like five, and I always named them after my crushes. I would use empty Altoid tins as "beds" for them. Ridiculous.
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I remember the day I got my tamagotchi, it was transparent orange and I was so excited to show my friend. I ran over to his house and dropped it on the floor and broke it.
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Jun 21, 2018 17:37
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Frankston posted:I remember the day I got my tamagotchi, it was transparent orange and I was so excited to show my friend. I ran over to his house and dropped it on the floor and broke it. I never had one myself but I remember being so drat desperate to get one during that fad. I doubt they cost anymore then 20bucks or so but never had the cash as a kid I suppose. In retrospect kids get so drat obsessed over the most ridiculous poo poo.
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Jun 21, 2018 18:37
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Arernt certain kinds of tamigachi crazy valuable right now because of how rare they are?
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Jun 21, 2018 18:44
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I had the r2d2 one growing up. It was great.
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Jun 21, 2018 19:01
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I had a yellow one I got on clearance for like $3 after the fad passed
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Jun 21, 2018 19:01
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They released them recently. You can get them at like FYE for like.... 20 bucks, I think?
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Levitate posted:not really the "most 90's thing" exactly but every once in awhile I remember how much Primus sucks and go on a listening binge and goddamn Les Claypool is both weird and loving fantastic Les is bastard.
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Captainsalami posted:I had the r2d2 one growing up. It was great. I had Yoda and a rancor and a mummy. I also had a second generation digimon at one point
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I had a GigaPet  .
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My grandma brought me back this bootleg tamagotchi when she visited Hawaii I'll always remember you Raku Raku Dino Kun 
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Last night my local PBS played some old documentary program from the 90's. It was (partly) about a couple local microbreweries, Long Trail and Magic Hat, and the narrator was wondering if they would stick around, or if this whole micro/craft brewery thing was "just a phase that will pass quickly." They also did some interviews with people on the street asking them about beer (and no one knew anything because it was the 90's and even here in VT all most people knew were things about macrobrew American Pilsers) and this guy here is basically peak 90's:  
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Jun 22, 2018 16:03
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He just needs a drug rug hoodie to complete the look. 
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Jun 22, 2018 18:49
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Did they wear sweatshirts inside out where you guys were? That was definitely a thing when I was in middle school, so ~'92-'94
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twistedmentat posted:He just needs a drug rug hoodie to complete the look. Oh I just got a big ol pang on nostalgia
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Jun 22, 2018 18:56
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twistedmentat posted:He just needs a drug rug hoodie to complete the look. They sell those at Dollywood!
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Jun 22, 2018 18:57
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There'sa store in the mall near me that sells those, over by the incense and the porciline dragons, across the store from the swords.
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Iron Crowned posted:Did they wear sweatshirts inside out where you guys were? That was definitely a thing when I was in middle school, so ~'92-'94 twistedmentat posted:He just needs a drug rug hoodie to complete the look.
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Croatoan posted:Yep I thought they just came from the factory with weed smell already baked in?
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Neito posted:There'sa store in the mall near me that sells those, over by the incense and the porciline dragons, across the store from the swords. That's their natural habitat.
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When my Tamagotchi broke I had a funeral for it and buried it in the garden  I miss those electronic toys from the 90s that probably are just apps now.
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Collecting Tamagotchi and other virtual pet toys is my dumb nerdy hobby!! You may be pleased to learn that they're still making the drat things. The modern (Japan-only, lol) releases are in full colour and use NFC for communication between the toys and with smart devices. The ones in Walmarts right now are actually a rerelease of the Mini version from 2005, rather than the 90s ones. Raku Raku Dino-kun is actually a great pet and was frequently knocked off, itself! The genuine ones sell for pretty good prices online.
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HOLY gently caress posted:When my Tamagotchi broke I had a funeral for it and buried it in the garden There is an app! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bandainamcoent.tamagothiclassicus Its probably on iOS too. I had one that I kept alive for like a week, and then when it died I didn't bother with it again.
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Neito posted:There'sa store in the mall near me that sells those, over by the incense and the porciline dragons, across the store from the swords. Man your mall needs to be more efficient. We have the incense, swords, dragons, and "glass pipes" all in the same store.
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twistedmentat posted:He just needs a drug rug hoodie to complete the look. Please don’t doxx my dad tia
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JediTalentAgent posted:That whole Chris Gaines thing would have probably been seen as way less alienating years later.
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Len posted:Man your mall needs to be more efficient. We have the incense, swords, dragons, and "glass pipes" all in the same store. Glass Pipes * *for tobacco use only (Hahahahahah) Talking about smoking in the 80s thread reminded me that there was an uptick of smoking in movies and tv, it became shorthand to "this character is cooooool and sophisticated". I remember watching Mullholland Falls (not the Lynch one, the one with Nick Nolte) and that movie is just smoke smoke smoke smoke smoke constantly. But then you saw less and less smoking IRL. Like it was when I first remember seeing restuants that just didn't have smoking sections, but straight up banned it.
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Len posted:Man your mall needs to be more efficient. We have the incense, swords, dragons, and "glass pipes" all in the same store. Rose in a tube? That's what the seedy gas stations would sell.
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Len posted:Man your mall needs to be more efficient. We have the incense, swords, dragons, and "glass pipes" all in the same store. Do dorky teenagers still do swords and wall scrolls? That was peak 90s for me. I drooled over a Blade sword back then, and had super lame Dragonball Z wall scrolls. I had a friend with a katana set, and another that bought a Zwiehander from Germany over the internet - it cost him easily $1000 plus shipping and we were all blown away by buying things on the internet.
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Len posted:Man your mall needs to be more efficient. We have the incense, swords, dragons, and "glass pipes" all in the same store. I love going in those stores, because there is also a bunch of knockoff merchandise, like the owner busted out some Sonic figures in his basement, but wasn't sure what color Sonic is, or if he had shoes.
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My Twitter Account posted:In 1998 Garth Brooks hosted Saturday Night Live, with musical guest Chris Gaines. Something like that only seems to add to how odd it was for the time. Some 10+ years later when you have so many things in media doing some sort of variation on that kind 'fake brand' promotion, that's a thing, but in 1998 I don't think his country fanbase or a potential non-country fanbase could figure out what it was. Probably it wasn't easy at the time, either, for a COUNTRY act to try it. It's around the same time Pat Boone did a bit of a metal thing for a "In A Metal Mood" album that a lot of people saw the whole promotion and gimmick of to be silly.
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twistedmentat posted:Glass Pipes * *Any reference to drugs and you will be asked to leave the store
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I saw Rent on Sunday, that was very 90s.Dixville posted:My grandma brought me back this bootleg tamagotchi when she visited Hawaii My parents got me one where the unit was shaped like a dalmatian and I think the pet was also supposed to be a dalmatian. Dalmatians are pretty 90s.
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The Moon Monster posted:I saw Rent on Sunday, that was very 90s. I loved that play when I was in high school, and saw it again fairly recently, and I couldn't even begin to feel the slightest bit sympathetic for a bunch of junkie "artists" who got a huge apartment in NYC for pennies on the dollar because their friend owned the building, and then still didn't want to get real jobs and pay their bills because heroin. Seriously, gently caress like 90% of the characters in Rent.
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Also the main white guy's family is rich
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E! Television in the 90s used to be so damned good. I'd tune into their trailer shows, their behind the scenes shows, Talk Soup. That reminds me of something thinking of Talk Soup that I'm not sure is STILL a fairly frequent occurrence on talk shows (maybe due to something that happened on Jenny Jones). The entire gimmick of, "Your Secret Admirer Wants To Ask You Out." That used to be fairly frequent, and then I think they had the episode of a show where someone involved got killed shortly after taping of the show because of the whole affair.
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pseudosavior posted:I loved that play when I was in high school, and saw it again fairly recently, and I couldn't even begin to feel the slightest bit sympathetic for a bunch of junkie "artists" who got a huge apartment in NYC for pennies on the dollar because their friend owned the building, and then still didn't want to get real jobs and pay their bills because heroin. I took my fiancee to see it last year for the 25th anniversary tour and it was the first time I'd seen it and that was how I felt. drat near every main character is an unlikable person and I just wanted to know why they wouldn't go get jobs to at least try and pay the rent.
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Len posted:I took my fiancee to see it last year for the 25th anniversary tour and it was the first time I'd seen it and that was how I felt. Because it's the 90s and they are artists and money is bad
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JediTalentAgent posted:E! Television in the 90s used to be so damned good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Scott_Amedure is the wikipedia article you seek
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The Moon Monster posted:I saw Rent on Sunday, that was very 90s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_Dalmatians_%281996_film%29?wprov=sfla1 Also on the topic of Rent, there was a pretty good critique of it on YouTube by that girl that used to be "Nostalgia Chick" (Lindsay Ellis) https://youtu.be/q0qfFbtIj5w "Look Pretty and do as Little as Possible" Edit it is more specifically a critique of the 2005 movie adaptation but it also touches on the issues with the original play Dixville has a new favorite as of 16:08 on Jun 23, 2018 |
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