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UO was super freeform, which was a boon for the grogs that had the time to invest, but not as welcoming for newbs. EQ came out when internet access was hitting the mainstream (99) so it also had a bit wider playerbase. Basically the X Walked So Y can Run meme.
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I really wish someone would set up a server for the old Neverwinter Nights on AOL. So much I never got to do before it got shut down. Of course I started playing just as AOL went unlimited so Lord Nasher was always blocking the gates, and would wait for sometimes hours mashing the retry button.
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Neito posted:UO's still going, though. I think the only MMOs with any claim to being anywhere near as long are FFXI and WoW. Anarchy Online still exists (somehow).
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Majere posted:I really wish someone would set up a server for the old Neverwinter Nights on AOL. So much I never got to do before it got shut down. Of course I started playing just as AOL went unlimited so Lord Nasher was always blocking the gates, and would wait for sometimes hours mashing the retry button. Someone did a version of it with the non-MMO Neverwinter Nights.
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quantumfoam posted:Anarchy Online still exists (somehow). I did the beta for that and remember thinking the UI was loving terrible.
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Also yeah there are a surprising amount of games still alive from the golden age of MMOs. And EverQuest may be the best true adaptation of DnD into an MMO/video game experience.
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Thomamelas posted:Someone did a version of it with the non-MMO Neverwinter Nights. Oh cool is it the Rosedragon site? Frua.rosedragon.org
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Majere posted:Oh cool is it the Rosedragon site? Frua.rosedragon.org No idea. I only saw it in passing long ago.
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West Edmonton Mall: The Official Souvenir Video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dmcaStN6jI This poo poo is wonderful. I had family in Edmonton so every summer we'd go up and I could wander the mall, see the pirate ship, go on a rollercoaster, shop at the sweet goth wizard sword shop:  Malls are a 90s thing, probably more an 80s thing. I don't think I've been to a mall in years. There's a lot of nostalgia here wow https://youtube.com/c/BestEdmontonMall Antioch has a new favorite as of 06:03 on Oct 15, 2022 |
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1991.
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Royal Ooze was my nickname in high school.
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we've got a huge mall where I live and we still go sometimes, even just to walk around (it's nice in the summer when it's like 110 here)
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We have one true mall here. The rest (at least 3) died or got repurposed into that lovely cookie-cutter outdoor mall concept template with the same garbage franchise restaurants.
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Majere posted:I really wish someone would set up a server for the old Neverwinter Nights on AOL. So much I never got to do before it got shut down. Of course I started playing just as AOL went unlimited so Lord Nasher was always blocking the gates, and would wait for sometimes hours mashing the retry button.
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Gonz posted:1991. Would make a powerful Username and avatar combo
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dialhforhero posted:Also yeah there are a surprising amount of games still alive from the golden age of MMOs. Yeah, EQ and EQ2 are both still around and getting regular releases. It's probably some kind of tipping point where if an mmo can last 7-8 years it'll never need to be shut down from the steady stream of nostalgia subs rotating in and out.
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mactheknife posted:we've got a huge mall where I live and we still go sometimes, even just to walk around (it's nice in the summer when it's like 110 here) I miss malls tbh. It feels like very successive shopping paradigm somehow becomes even worse and more antisocial than the one before it. Hell, it was just a fun place to walk around as a kid. So many places are hostile as gently caress to kids nowadays it's wild.
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The Seattle area has many well attended malls. It's good, but still not the same as what I remember. The first track on this vaporwave album is some nice ambient mall sounds: https://catsystemcorp.bandcamp.com/album/palm-mall If you like that, I also recommend the albums Hiraeth, Sunday Television, and News at 11.
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Just got it today, how about a Nagel-style painting of Cindy Crawford  Signed and dated 
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ishikabibble posted:I'd also disagree with it just being a queerphobia thing. The general themes of melodrama and fashionable depression also got ragged on in other genres that had nothing to do with popularity among girls or genderbending fashion. Yeah, I’d be remiss to mention that more contemporary criticisms of the genre often point out how a lot of its stereotype themes and tropes, whether fairly or unfairly, could be seen as romanticizing or normalizing toxic and abusive behaviors. Like there was a meme going around a few years ago that was basically variations on “find some random Emo/Screamo lyrics, now imagine a college undergraduate saying these things over the phone to his long-distance girlfriend because she told him she can’t come visit for spring break”/etc
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El Grillo posted:I mean if you're wanting a text-based D&D MMO in forgotten realms, Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition persistent world servers are kind of that lol. Albeit with dungeon masters. Nah I want to find the greybeards who worked on it originally.
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https://twitter.com/Snack_Memories/status/1588498665072906240 One of the shots has a poster for the movie Black Rainbow which came out in 1989, but according to Wikipedia was not finally released on home video until Jan 1992, so these photos are probably from winter/spring of '92.
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Porfiriato posted:https://twitter.com/Snack_Memories/status/1588498665072906240 I didn't grow up in a Wegman's area, but goddamn if that didn't hit me right in the feels
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I love the Sega Genesis section in the picture. Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this
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Porfiriato posted:https://twitter.com/Snack_Memories/status/1588498665072906240 This is actually kind of fun nostalgia, there's also a poster for 29th street which came out Christmas '91 but didn't get a home release until summer of 93.
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Porfiriato posted:https://twitter.com/Snack_Memories/status/1588498665072906240 That guys jacket with the red triangle is peak early 90’s
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namlosh posted:That guys jacket with the red triangle is peak early 90’s I would rock that jacket now
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Wonder if it's an ISPO.
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I'm enjoying the 90s revival https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-RclcvHW9k
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Iron Crowned posted:I didn't grow up in a Wegman's area, but goddamn if that didn't hit me right in the feels Flashbacks to Shaws for me.
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Neito posted:Flashbacks to Shaws for me. gently caress yeah Shaws. I love going there when I visit my mom. The other ones from my childhood were King Kullen (Long Island) and Food Lion (when I visited my grandparents in FL)
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Pathmark, A&P, and Grand Union were my childhood staples. Oh, and when I lived in NYC, I used to get my lunch from the Food Emprium under the Queensboro Bridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V-WLt__jdE It's from '88, but that played on heavy rotation on PIX11 through the mid '90s.
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tribbledirigible posted:Pathmark, A&P, and Grand Union were my childhood staples. to quote austin walker, "there are so many smiling white people in this commercial"
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tribbledirigible posted:Pathmark, A&P, and Grand Union were my childhood staples. Well holy gently caress that’s one I’d forgotten in a dark dusty corner of my brain. Now it’s shiny and new again just like it’s 1989 again.
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I'm not gonna read the whole thread, but I assume someone already posted a pic of me
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