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I figured Blink 182 was sort of a sideways reference to the 80's movie Turk 182, but after some Googling it turns out I entirely made that connection up in my head.
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Fors Yard posted:1000 Maniacs conjures some sort of idea or image. Yeah: not enough maniacs.
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Feb 24, 2021 02:21
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central dogma posted:^^Throwing a number in you band name was pretty 90s. I thought Ben Folds Five was a throwback to the way bands/musicians used to include the number of members in their name, like the Dave Clark Five or the Dave Brubeck Quartet...with a bit of wink since there was only 3 people in Ben Folds Five. e: though the general trend of "noun" + "random number" did seem to be a thing in band names in the 90s.
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Feb 24, 2021 05:00
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twistedmentat posted:That game was brutally hard with its puzzles. That and the Douglas Adams games seemed like you were supposed to play with guide in hand and laugh at the wacky puzzle solutions rather than actually try to solve them yourself.
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Feb 24, 2021 13:59
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Porfiriato posted:I thought Ben Folds Five was a throwback to the way bands/musicians used to include the number of members in their name, like the Dave Clark Five or the Dave Brubeck Quartet...with a bit of wink since there was only 3 people in Ben Folds Five. Yeah there are some questionable ones on that list, but it was definitely a thing. The numbers were varying degrees of arbitrary, but getting a number in your name was trendy regardless. A few others: Sum 41 SR-71 Apartment 26 98 Degrees Powerman 5000 As usual, Christian music also hopped on the trend with names like Pax 217, Building 429, and Project 86, with the added benefit that they may or may not also be covert Bible verse references. Sir Lemming has a new favorite as of 01:47 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Feb 24, 2021 14:19
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Maybe it was a regional thing or whatever, but I remember hearing that the 182 in Blink 182 was the number of times Al Pacino said gently caress in Scarface. 20 plus years later I guess I could look it up. Apparently gently caress is used 207 times in Scarface, and the 182 was just made up. That was anticlimactic.
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Feb 24, 2021 17:13
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The Moon Monster posted:That and the Douglas Adams games seemed like you were supposed to play with guide in hand and laugh at the wacky puzzle solutions rather than actually try to solve them yourself. I mean if you ever played a Roberta Williams King Quest or something you'll realize that the solutions to that era of "adventure" games has nothing to do with logic or "fun". In jokes for the ones based on British joke books. Absolute bonkers nonsense for Sierra On-Line.
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Feb 24, 2021 17:48
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Sierra On-Line sold something like 2 or 3 times as many copies of the hintbook for Leisure Suit Larry 1 as they did copies of the game, and that really influenced the design of all their subsequent games.
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Feb 24, 2021 18:09
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Flight Bisque posted:Maybe it was a regional thing or whatever, but I remember hearing that the 182 in Blink 182 was the number of times Al Pacino said gently caress in Scarface. I renege a few of the urban legends about what the numbers meant, like 311 being popular with white supremacists because K was the 11th letter of the alphabet and they thought it was code.
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Feb 24, 2021 18:20
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I was really disappointed to learn that 311’s name didn’t come from it being 69 minutes to 4:20. Throwing in 1000 Clowns as a number+noun ‘90s group.
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Feb 24, 2021 18:31
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I renege a few of the urban legends about what the numbers meant, like 311 being popular with white supremacists because K was the 11th letter of the alphabet and they thought it was code. It really is the LA police code for public nudity. I had a list of them since there was a website that put up audio of large city's police scanners ca. 2000. Which is technically the nineties.
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Feb 24, 2021 18:45
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Jurassic 5. Bran Van 3000.
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The Moon Monster posted:That and the Douglas Adams games seemed like you were supposed to play with guide in hand and laugh at the wacky puzzle solutions rather than actually try to solve them yourself. I'd love to give the games that level of credit, but 80s/90s adventure games were just Like That. Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I renege a few of the urban legends about what the numbers meant, like 311 being popular with white supremacists because K was the 11th letter of the alphabet and they thought it was code. TBF poo poo like 14 and 88 ARE Nazi signifiers for those or similarly stupid reasons. I always just assumed it was a joke on N11 codes in the US phone system.
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Feb 25, 2021 02:08
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I thought it was an area code like where they were from.
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The Moon Monster posted:That and the Douglas Adams games seemed like you were supposed to play with guide in hand and laugh at the wacky puzzle solutions rather than actually try to solve them yourself. I think if you had memorized Hitchhikers you could finish the game as well. I will never miss an oppertunity to post PushingUpRoses, her video about Moon Logic puzzles is really good and talks about how insane puzzles got in games at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpiAFd9OkHY and her video on more specific puzzles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RoZU8jIqUo Sum 41 is named that because when they formed it was the sum of all their ages. The band Finger 11 was origonally called Rainbow Butt Monkeys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0lVjky2roU because being named after a ding dong is less dirty.
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twistedmentat posted:Sum 41 is named that because when they formed it was the sum of all their ages. The band Finger 11 was origonally called Rainbow Butt Monkeys not 90s at all, but now I’m reminded of the time Finger 11 became like dance rock stars with Paralyzer and how inescapable that song was for a while let’s never do another 2000s
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Feb 27, 2021 10:26
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Neito posted:I'd love to give the games that level of credit, but 80s/90s adventure games were just Like That. They felt more self-parodic than the typical adventure game to me, but I guess that could just be because they were adapting "wacky" IPs.
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Feb 27, 2021 17:01
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Ok Comboomer posted:not 90s at all, but now I’m reminded of the time Finger 11 became like dance rock stars with Paralyzer and how inescapable that song was for a while Yea, I'm glad that we haven't gotten full on early 2000s nostalgia yet, but there's still a few years left before we reach the 30 year cycle. Though I don't think anyone wants to remember 9/11 and all the bullshit that caused. Its better to remember the end of history 90s where everything was fun and cool and the worst thing we had to worry about was Backstreet Boys vs NSync, Britney Vs Christina. Please ignore that mainstream believes about the innate dangers of inner city black people and welfare queens dictated some really horrible policies.
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Feb 28, 2021 00:40
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I saw some teen the other day in full on Greenday American Idiot apparel does that count? I feel like there's a lot of nostalgia going for that sort of emo/punk stuff?
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Feb 28, 2021 01:51
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Images you can hear.
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Feb 28, 2021 03:17
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Judging by the vomitous shade of day-glo pink, the haircuts, and the glasses... I want to say.... 1997?
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Feb 28, 2021 03:19
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I'd guess a little earlier that still looks like the 80s hangover neon. By 1997 most family pictures had entered the Teal Age.
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Feb 28, 2021 03:28
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Nah, that looks earlier, like 92-93.
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Feb 28, 2021 03:29
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I just discovered this song from 97 and it feels like the universe has been conspiring to hide it from me the entire time. Apparently it was a huge hit? Like it was used in Gap commercials and stuff but some how this is the first time I've ever heard this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LBnMRWeV-E
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Debunk This! posted:I just discovered this song from 97 and it feels like the universe has been conspiring to hide it from me the entire time. Apparently it was a huge hit? Like it was used in Gap commercials and stuff but some how this is the first time I've ever heard this. I will always associate this song with M2, and Mtv essentially giving up on playing music videos.
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Debunk This! posted:I just discovered this song from 97 and it feels like the universe has been conspiring to hide it from me the entire time. Apparently it was a huge hit? Like it was used in Gap commercials and stuff but some how this is the first time I've ever heard this. I don't know if it was a huge hit but I did remember seeing it on Much Music a lot. I prefer the non-remix over the remix.
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Feb 28, 2021 04:25
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The Fatboy Slim remix went number 1 in the UK. Pretty sure that’s the definition of a hit song. It wasn’t so big in Australia but it was played enough on Triple J to convince me to buy the single. If you could wear out CDs from overplaying I definitely would have. Absolute banger. It’s played just about every day on MTV 90s, when they’re not playing another Madonna clip or that one by Take That featuring Lulu.
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Creature posted:The Fatboy Slim remix went number 1 in the UK. Pretty sure that’s the definition of a hit song. Hit song in one country, minor hit in another.
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ookiimarukochan posted:Sierra On-Line sold something like 2 or 3 times as many copies of the hintbook for Leisure Suit Larry 1 as they did copies of the game, and that really influenced the design of all their subsequent games. I think someone at work gave my dad a copy, and he turned around and gave it to, 10 year old me. I managed to brute force my way through the entire game in only the way children can. I probably got Larry killed 5,000 times through trial and error. Edit: There was a new LSL game that came out last year 
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Debunk This! posted:I just discovered this song from 97 and it feels like the universe has been conspiring to hide it from me the entire time. Apparently it was a huge hit? Like it was used in Gap commercials and stuff but some how this is the first time I've ever heard this. drat, I’d completely forgotten about that song, loved it back in the day.
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Iron Crowned posted:
Yea but it lacked anything sexual. You might as well buy Hunniepop 2.
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fartknocker posted:Nah, that looks earlier, like 92-93. As I had that exact outfit only in pine green in 3rd grade, I agree.
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Feb 28, 2021 20:50
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I have legit played that Cornershop song on the air when it was released, I wish I had my old aircheck tapes from then to amuse and horrify y'all.
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I dunno if this is just a false memory or one of those things where something happens as a child being blown out of proportion, but does anyone remember a lot of news stories and weird pushback when McDonald's, et al started doing combo meals? Like, people were kinda indignant when they'd order like a big mac coke and fries and get told it was a number 1 or whatever.
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not really, but it may have been before my time. was it worse than the backlash they got when they started shifting to healthier happy meals?
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I don't remember that but I have absolutely no trouble believing that it happened.
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Not sure about people getting upset/indignant, but I am pretty sure I heard more than one bad take from a poo poo comedian or an uncle or two (the same sort of uncle who would tell racist joke once Obama was elected...assuming he wasn't telling them before,) along the lines of: "Those teenagers at the McDonald's are getting dumber every year...now they only know how press a button for your order! They don't know how to type in prices or items or what they are, just have to hit 1, 2, 3, or 4! " Har-de-loving-har.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Not sure about people getting upset/indignant, but I am pretty sure I heard more than one bad take from a poo poo comedian or an uncle or two (the same sort of uncle who would tell racist joke once Obama was elected...assuming he wasn't telling them before,) along the lines of: yet they’d be the first people to whine that their order was half a second later than they wanted
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