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Darthemed posted:Sounds like the music video for "Free", by VAST. (link jumps to the butterfly release part) THANK YOU. I don't even remember that band name but it's nice to finally see it again. I was mixing the colors of the windshield splatter with the butterflies flying out. Weird how your memory combines different things.
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This twitter thread is going around currently https://twitter.com/Ilana_Who_/status/1423435411225989127 It is really hard to explain to a younger person who weird and creepy the post 9/11 patriotism was, and how basically impossible it was to stand against it.
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:I saw one too fairly recently, and pretty much the same questions ran through my mind; what leads one to actively display… that? I saw a bumper sticker recently myself, and I regularly get calls from John Galt Staffing asking me if I'm looking for a job. John Galt is the hero of an Ayn Rand book, and idiot libertarians think it makes them look smart and cool to reference it. Anyone with half a brain will realize that this means that person is a gently caress You Got Mine rear end in a top hat.
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I walked past a guy in his car with a Lovecraft bumper sticker next to a Who is John Galt? sticker and i was gonna ask how objectivism lines up with cosmic horror idea that we all basically exist at the whims of forces beyond our control. But then i realized the real answer is "both of them were racist."
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Lazermaniac posted:Summer of 2001 was a weird time to move to the US from Russia, especially as a lanky nearly-teenager. I know this is from months ago, but I had an extremely similar experience immigrating stateside and it's so odd to read a timeshifted version of my life (the Moscow bazaar thing we got was rollerblades, and on the train out of Siberia we watched a woman bribe a cop with a fish). I came in 1996 when I was younger, though, and they didn't have ESL at my school so I learned my English from listening to teenagers from my apartment balcony, watching Pokemon, Arthur, and the X-Files. High-key convinced my teachers thought I had a mental disability, because that's what you get in 90's suburban Ohio, despite my impeccable math skills and outstanding handwriting. By the time the towers came down I was still too young to understand what was going on, and so was everybody else in Mrs Morgan's math class, baffled why the AV cart was in the room watching this instead of announcements. I was recovering from an extremely traumatic car accident and moved to Texas at the time so it just slid past my radar between physical therapy, surgeries, moving house, and general kid poo poo. My takeaway as a kid was that my favorite shows weren't on for days in favor of news coverage, not realizing that the weird, pubescent, misdirected anger of the 2000s would lead directly to today's burning hellworld. I don't know which of The Bad Things it was but 2001-2008 are essentially a black hole in my brain. Anyway I'll have a frosty and some spicy chicken nuggets I guess RE: nu-metal: not quite nu-metal but nothing says "2000s" to me quite like Three Doors Down AveMachina has a new favorite as of 06:42 on Aug 25, 2021 |
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They should've stuck with elevators.
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Aug 28, 2021 18:21
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Everyone knew at least one person who could "program a card" to get free satellite.
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Aug 28, 2021 19:08
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twistedmentat posted:This twitter thread is going around currently Young people with dumb hot takes, part the infinity. Nobody tell her what happened after Pearl Harbor, she might go catatonic.
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Young people with dumb hot takes, part the infinity. You think she doesn't rember?
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mlnhd posted:Is that Elon musk This was Old Musky in 2000: 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbh9-mNmviE Can't believe it's coming up on 20 years since I was really into Homestar Runner.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:This was Old Musky in 2000: That is an unfortunate hairline for that age. SweetMercifulCrap! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbh9-mNmviE I remember a guy wearing a homestar runner shirt, and making a comment on it and he had no idea what i was talking about. He thought it was a band shirt.
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twistedmentat posted:This twitter thread is going around currently Not American, but we even saw RESPECT DA FLAG bullshit on bumper stickers and the like. Of course I was way too young to fully grasp the situation other than "some boring office buildings fell down."
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Aug 29, 2021 19:51
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September 11th 2002 was probably the most 2000's thing to ever happen.
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twistedmentat posted:That is an unfortunate hairline for that age. I had a Trogdor shirt that I would get comments on. That shirt was the shirt that taught me a painful lession about cleaning with bleach.  Trogdor shirt
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Happy Landfill posted:How we all doing coming up on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, folks? It's going to be a blowout
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Milo and POTUS posted:It's going to be a blowout It'll bring the house down
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Happy Landfill posted:How we all doing coming up on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, folks? I was at a convention, commenting on how weird it is that we all kinda... DIdn't notice what the day was until like dinner time. Also, I dunno if it's just me and the stores I visited as a kid, but I feel like the most 2000s smell is Nag Champa in an over-airconditioned store like Newbury Comics or Spencers.
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Iron Crowned posted:I had a Trogdor shirt that I would get comments on. That shirt was the shirt that taught me a painful lession about cleaning with bleach. Whenever I buy a shirt that's something obscure and nerdy, I try to find something that could just be passed off as a cool art print or band shirt. Why i want that synthwave looking warhammer shirt. Oh that reminds me at this time I was working at HMV and a dude came in wearing a Something Awful shirt and when I did the "do you have stairs in your house" he looked at me like I had 3 dicks growing out of my face. I explained what i was saying and he said he found it at a thrift store and just thought the grenade was a cool logo. Nothing more early 2000s than buying physical media.
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twistedmentat posted:Whenever I buy a shirt that's something obscure and nerdy, I try to find something that could just be passed off as a cool art print or band shirt. Why i want that synthwave looking warhammer shirt. lmao this post
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Also, to dig in a few pages back to weird website talk, anyone remember Fat Chicks in Party Hats, or was that only a meme at my lovely little Massachusetts high school?
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Neito posted:Also, to dig in a few pages back to weird website talk, anyone remember Fat Chicks in Party Hats, or was that only a meme at my lovely little Massachusetts high school? I remember that. Uglypeople.com was well. There was a real vein of cruelty running through the Internet about 2002. There still is, of course, but real gleeful bully poo poo back then.
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Disco Pope posted:I remember that. Uglypeople.com was well. There was a real vein of cruelty running through the Internet about 2002. There still is, of course, but real gleeful bully poo poo back then. IDK it's hard to describe. Modern-day internet meanness almost feels... More personal. Like I'm not excusing fatchicksinpartyhats or uglypeople or even some of the more modern web 2.0 incarnations like People of Walmart, but modern meanness feels like it has this deeply personal angle to it that makes it cut extra deep.
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Neito posted:Also, to dig in a few pages back to weird website talk, anyone remember Fat Chicks in Party Hats, or was that only a meme at my lovely little Massachusetts high school? I remember that it existed, and browsing it a few times in the early '00s, but I don't remember anything about it. edit: If the site was mean and cruel at its essence, then I guess it's just as well that I don't remember anything about it. RobobTheGreat has a new favorite as of 04:51 on Sep 21, 2021 |
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We’ve come a long way from 2002 and while the internet is as mean as ever, you at least don’t have actual websites that exist only to mock people who can’t help it like UglyPeople.com. I mean I’m sure there’s something but not mainstream. People of Walmart is different because it’s pretty much people choosing to be that trashy.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:People of Walmart is different because it’s pretty much people choosing to be that trashy. this is basically what we said about all of the groups that were being mocked back then too. The biggest difference is that the internet was a vast archipelago where things said one place about pictures grabbed from another place probably wouldn't be seen by the person *in* the pictures. There was still a fog of anonymity.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:We’ve come a long way from 2002 and while the internet is as mean as ever, you at least don’t have actual websites that exist only to mock people who can’t help it like UglyPeople.com. I mean I’m sure there’s something but not mainstream. People of Walmart is different because it’s pretty much people choosing to be that trashy. This very forum had an Ugly People thread in GBS Circa about 2010 or so. It also turned in to an ugly/fat people thread by the end. The Cipko Brothers were posted in there at one point or two.
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Disco Pope posted:I remember that. Uglypeople.com was well. There was a real vein of cruelty running through the Internet about 2002. There still is, of course, but real gleeful bully poo poo back then. Getting, like, pictures of normal people online back then was like a rarity so you took note when you saw a weird photo somewhere. That's kind of gone with the heavily filtered and curated social media feeds now. Nowadays it's more of a "Get a load of this fuckhead, they're a bad person".
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FilthyImp posted:Nowadays it's more of a "Get a load of this fuckhead, they're a bad person". Please turn on your monitor and be kinder to yourself  .
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Alright since Diablo 2 Resurrected came out got to post about early 2000s Diablo 2. Can't believe it has been 20 years since LoD released. Who remembers actually chatting in Diablo 2 and having fun joining random chat channels? I remember sex, wolf, and I believe lue being big chat channels for whatever reason. Also, in your profile where it asked "Sex" you had to put yes please.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Please turn on your monitor and be kinder to yourself
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Every so often I read about someone who died in the Oughts, and i think of how disappointing it would be to leave off with that as humanity's peak. Not that we're doing a whole lot better at the moment, but still.
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Queen-Of-Hearts posted:Every so often I read about someone who died in the Oughts, and i think of how disappointing it would be to leave off with that as humanity's peak. I'm really not trying to be an edgelord or anything, I'm being perfectly serious - things are not going to improve over conditions in the oughts for decades and decades and very possibly ever. The oughts would've been a fine time to die.
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That was pretty dark. Im sorry, everyone.
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I worked in a public library in the 2000s, and the number of patrons who would patiently wait their turn for an hour on the internet only to blow it on get-rich-quick sites and forums was something else. I mean, that's a tendency that was and will always be true, but there was something so bumbling and unpolished about shysters online figuring out how to adapt their grifts as the "I have and use an email address" demographic expanded.
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Pastry of the Year posted:I worked in a public library in the 2000s, and the number of patrons who would patiently wait their turn for an hour on the internet only to blow it on get-rich-quick sites and forums was something else. Choosing that over an hour-long wank? Incredible. (A Welsh guy I know got banned from the library for punching some dude who was having a nice library wank on the computer next to him and his little daughter.)
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MOMMY STYLE M O M M Y S T Y L E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWo_Lsx7iU4 I remember the late-night informercials for this, but some lunatic uploaded the whole thing to YouTube, and thank god for that 
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