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Prof. Spaceman posted:Not Gwen Stefani, though. That poo poo was bananas
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Prof. Spaceman posted:Not Gwen Stefani, though. yeah i once tried to holler at her but i got no reply. weird.
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Shibawanko posted:yeah i once tried to holler at her but i got no reply. weird. No scrubs pls
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early 2000s music was a lot better than late 2000s music. i remember at the time everybody felt the whole indie music thing was a breath of fresh air after early 2000s monoculture but when i listen to that poo poo now it just sounds like absolute rear end while i can still enjoy a lot of early 2000s pop and rap and rnb. like just listen to crystal castles or arcade fire or something, i dunno, it just sounds like a bunch of amateurish nonsense to me now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-6jPIOYrjc this is fun Shibawanko has a new favorite as of 20:04 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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Survivor premiered May 31, 2000. The show just celebrated its 40th season. ninja edit: I ain't even kidding
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gosh, thanks yahoo! 
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The 2000s were dozens and dozens of Hollywood movies that "everyone" watched and I just couldn't be arsed. Mostly because about 100% of them starred Tom Hanks, somehow. (Wilson there reminded me.) e: That was also the 1990s.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:Survivor premiered May 31, 2000. Survivor was the terrible precursor to the reality TV hell that we've lived in one way or another ever since. Yeah, it's 40 seasons, they film at least two per year. All of them are like that and there's no shortage of idiots willing to make fools of themselves on TV.
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Iron Crowned posted:Survivor was the terrible precursor to the reality TV hell that we've lived in one way or another ever since. Nah, that was Cops.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:Nah, that was Cops. Cops wasn't a game show
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Iron Crowned posted:Cops wasn't a game show You said reality TV, not game show 
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Iron Crowned posted:Survivor was the terrible precursor to the reality TV hell that we've lived in one way or another ever since. Yeah, it's 40 seasons, they film at least two per year. All of them are like that and there's no shortage of idiots willing to make fools of themselves on TV. A friend of mines wife loved reality shows, so when I was at their place it was the only exposure I had to them. They were all so boring. People just sniping at each other and plotting, then maybe some boring to watch activity (Hold only this pole and whoever lasts the longest wins!). At least American Idol you get to hear music. Also, reality shows reminded me a lot of wrestling, how everyone always over sold everything.
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twistedmentat posted:A friend of mines wife loved reality shows, so when I was at their place it was the only exposure I had to them. They were all so boring. People just sniping at each other and plotting, then maybe some boring to watch activity (Hold only this pole and whoever lasts the longest wins!). At least American Idol you get to hear music. Speaking of the 00s and reality television: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2M3ykUPbjc I remember thinking I had tuned into the middle of a bad comedy show but the sketch just kept going on and on.
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Lazermaniac posted:(moving to America in 2001, then 9/11 happened) One of my classmates in middle school emigrated to America from the middle east, her father died fighting Islamic fundamentalists and her mother took the kids somewhere safe from revenge. Her mother made a special morning visit to school and brought her a cupcake, to celebrate her first birthday in this new country. Her birthday was September 11, and this was 2001. She was escorted by police out of the building before lunch time. I cannot imagine how hosed up I would be in that situation. She was extremely solemn and quiet throughout high school. I hope she is doing okay now. Earth is a real hosed up place to live, isn't it?
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IMO, MTV's The Real World was the beginning of the end... not only for meaning never actually seeing a music video on MTV again, but introducing the reality show to the world. I mean, it's got "Real" right in the title, as if we were actually gonna see what happens when real people from different walks of life got thrown together! What a novel concept! I can see why people latched onto it, especially not realizing how absolutely scripted and edited it was. I was in college at the time, and had some friends that became totally absorbed in the manufactured drama. "It's like a soap opera, but, like, totally real!" It was A Big Deal back when it first started. That garbage started in 1992, so I blame them for everything.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:IMO, MTV's The Real World was the beginning of the end... not only for meaning never actually seeing a music video on MTV again, but introducing the reality show to the world. I mean, it's got "Real" right in the title, as if we were actually gonna see what happens when real people from different walks of life got thrown together! What a novel concept! I can see why people latched onto it, especially not realizing how absolutely scripted and edited it was. I was in college at the time, and had some friends that became totally absorbed in the manufactured drama. "It's like a soap opera, but, like, totally real!" It was A Big Deal back when it first started. This is a good point, I never watched The Real World, and it probably didn't take hold in the greater consciousness because it was behind the cable wall, whereas Survivor was on CBS. That said, I lived in Seattle when they were filming the Seattle one, and Seattle as a whole loving hated them. I remember that the place they stayed at, it was actually illegal to be used as a resisence, so it had to be classified as a 24-hour film set. On top of that they put a bunch of fake sails up to make it look better. I seem to recall they also got thrown out of Gameworks at some point.
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The best reality show was Joe Schmo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joe_Schmo_Show There was only 1 actual "contestant," who was already pre-ordained to win, everyone else was an actor playing a character to mess with "Joe's" head. It was just full of over-the-top reality show cliches and tropes, and it was only in 2003! poo poo like when someone is voted off, they take a plate off of a mantle (like, as in one of those decorative Franklin Mint Commemorative Plates,) and smash it into the fireplace. And then the token "bad boy" (basically the actor was doing Puck from The Real World amped up to 11) was voted off, but in a "twist" came back, so his "plate on the mantle" was just shoddily glued back together. It even had Kristen Wiig in one of her earliest TV roles, and David Hornsby (Rickity Cricket from Always Sunny) as "The bad boy." I guess they had a couple more seasons but I never saw them, it peaked at 1.
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The second season was amazing. It was a dating show with two "real" contestants. One of them figured out it was fake and ended up being looped in with production. She still got her prize as well. They brought in another person to fill her spot since she was essentially a cast member at that point. SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 16:16 on Jul 6, 2020 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:It was just full of over-the-top reality show cliches and tropes, and it was only in 2003!
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Burning Love was a fake reality show, but it was pretty funny
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the worst reality show was the one where they sent a bunch of kids out to rebuild a town or some poo poo. Obviously, this led to the teenagers ruling the rest with an iron fist. It made it a few episodes, before outraged parents complaining drove it off the air.
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Randaconda posted:the worst reality show was the one where they sent a bunch of kids out to rebuild a town or some poo poo. Kid Nation, it occupied the spot that Jericho had when it was cancelled the first time, and we were very bitter about that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E23H-nnNkM Funny or Die, but it doesn't even have to add comedy about it
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How can you forget the time BBC 4 gaslit a dozen people into believing they'd been launched into space https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadets_(TV_series)
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 remember when Blackberry squandered a massive lead on Apple and Google and basically laid down and died when face with competition
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I miss those sliding keyboard phones. God I could fire off texts with those things, no lookdown needed. Touchscreens are like typing on ice
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Milo and POTUS posted:I miss those sliding keyboard phones. God I could fire off texts with those things, no lookdown needed. Touchscreens are like typing on ice I want another smartphone with a slide-out keyboard like the old Windows ones  .
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Yeah I really miss having a physical keyboard. I get why they don't really exist anymore, but I miss them. My favorite was the G1. That thing was awesome and I kept it way past the point it stopped getting updates.
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Randaconda posted:
Their main tech support facility was in my home town and they paid a ton. It was a sweet job and while they expected a a lot they did train you so you didn't have to come in as a full Electrical or Computer Engineer. I just hope those people saved their money.
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Inspector 34 posted:Yeah I really miss having a physical keyboard. I get why they don't really exist anymore, but I miss them. My favorite was the G1. That thing was awesome and I kept it way past the point it stopped getting updates. LG Rumor 2 was my favorite phone. I miss it, in all its pearlecent whiteness.
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I don't really miss it, but i had one of those Boost phones that looked like a brick, that I couldn't kill.
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The only thing I miss about the pre-smartphone era is that I spent way less time with my phone than I do now, as dumb phones were useless to me as web devices. I didn’t care about having anything feature-rich, and I thought the RAZR was meh.
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:The only thing I miss about the pre-smartphone era is that I spent way less time with my phone than I do now, as dumb phones were useless to me as web devices. I didn’t care about having anything feature-rich, and I thought the RAZR was meh. The thing is, lately I've started turning on navigation for my routine routes. In Android you can turn off the directions, so it just interrupts my podcasts to inform me that there's a speed trap ahead, or the other day there were three accidents, so it found me a new route that bypassed the whole thing.
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The Blackberry Pearl was my first "smart" phone in 2008. The trackball required constant cleaning, the "apps" were crude and sucked, but drat did I feel cool with my Blackberry.
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Shibawanko posted:early 2000s music was a lot better than late 2000s music. i remember at the time everybody felt the whole indie music thing was a breath of fresh air after early 2000s monoculture but when i listen to that poo poo now it just sounds like absolute rear end while i can still enjoy a lot of early 2000s pop and rap and rnb. wutchu talkin' bout? I still listen to Crystal Castles weekly. I don't think that sounds has aged one bit. Prob enjoy it now more then ever. I still enjoy most all the music from the 2000's actually but to call C.C amateurish! PETEWWWWWWWWI I SPIT ON YOUR OPINION !
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:wutchu talkin' bout? I still listen to Crystal Castles weekly. I don't think that sounds has aged one bit. Prob enjoy it now more then ever. I still enjoy most all the music from the 2000's actually but to call C.C amateurish! PETEWWWWWWWWI I SPIT ON YOUR OPINION ! i dunno it just kind of sounds like a more basic forerunner to later synthwave stuff, kinda like how uffie is clearly a predecessor to a lot of later music but i wouldnt really listen to her anymore either
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Shibawanko posted:i dunno it just kind of sounds like a more basic forerunner to later synthwave stuff, kinda like how uffie is clearly a predecessor to a lot of later music but i wouldnt really listen to her anymore either I would say the opposite ! Not to make this music chat here, but i consider C.C to be a pivotal part in indie music history (not to sound all hyperbole here). Same for other indie/alternative greats during that time.  PLUS! synth has been around 4 evers. Some people adopted it and others adapted it. Good example would be how DEVO had songs that sound essentially 80s while playing in the early 70s.My point is; music is for ever and never grow up charlie ! I don't need an adult to run my chocolate factory! *puts in System of a down STEAL THIS ALBUM into c.d player* I'd actually stop listening to Crystal Castles because of the problematic producer over the music aging tbh
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:I would say the opposite ! Not to make this music chat here, but i consider C.C to be a pivotal part in indie music history (not to sound all hyperbole here). Same for other indie/alternative greats during that time. well i guess you're partially right but that post was prompted by me trying to listen to the band again for the first time in 10 years and realising that all of their earlier songs were like "get it?? it's the sound effect from q*bert!! in a song!!!" because that was a novel thing back then, but it just kind of sounds like generic chiptunes to me now. i guess its fine but i dont really ever find myself listening to music from that era (like 2006-2013) ever even though i used to be a big indie music guy. only pop songs from the 2000s have really stuck with me, like girls aloud and stuff like that
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Shibawanko posted:well i guess you're partially right but that post was prompted by me trying to listen to the band again for the first time in 10 years and realising that all of their earlier songs were like "get it?? it's the sound effect from q*bert!! in a song!!!" because that was a novel thing back then, but it just kind of sounds like generic chiptunes to me now. i guess its fine but i dont really ever find myself listening to music from that era (like 2006-2013) ever even though i used to be a big indie music guy. only pop songs from the 2000s have really stuck with me, like girls aloud and stuff like that I was exposed to The Loving Kind by Girls Aloud when I was in the UK, and I think I kinda like it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFY4DxiHzTI
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Shibawanko posted:well i guess you're partially right but that post was prompted by me trying to listen to the band again for the first time in 10 years and realising that all of their earlier songs were like "get it?? it's the sound effect from q*bert!! in a song!!!" because that was a novel thing back then, but it just kind of sounds like generic chiptunes to me now. i guess its fine but i dont really ever find myself listening to music from that era (like 2006-2013) ever even though i used to be a big indie music guy. only pop songs from the 2000s have really stuck with me, like girls aloud and stuff like that I mean that's fine. There's hot garbo music from each decade but the artist that did something or just kinda transcended the ages always stick with me. And basically music and trends start somewhere right? So of course over the years more artist with similar sounds will fine tune that poo poo. I never really considered Crystals to be "chiptune" but I can see your point. Guess you're not fan of Anamanaguchi?  I can pull out my fav music bangers from when I can even remember music. SO from 1993 up. Got a jam for each decade! *Queues up Daniel Bedingfield "Gotta get thru this"*
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