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Being a kid in the 90s was all about claiming how your mom was cool and let you watch south park all the time but really you didn't even have the cable channel for it. But it's not like the other kids could call you on your bullshit cause they hadn't seen it either.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I was into dinosaurs in the 1990s, but I think I may have clearer memories of this than I do of Jurassic Park.  thing I've seen. Certainly one effective way to impress the importance of environmentalism on kids.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYiLJlzh6Oc
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May 12, 2015 15:47
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Some how the "You weenie!" is the most absurd part about that commercial for me.
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May 15, 2015 16:33
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twistedmentat posted:
Similarly I remember getting songs that had AIM message tones mixed in and ones that halfway through turned into ear splitting static. I think they were released by record labels as a sort of guerilla tactic, to make downloading songs such a crap shoot you wouldn't bother.
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Dec 9, 2015 00:43
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BCR posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr2iQ96em2w I thought this was a really well drawn parody jesus christ.
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Jan 19, 2016 13:48
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That's a very old arcade game, Qix, which has been rehashed so many times, can't say for certain what you played.
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Feb 5, 2016 05:32
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When Ronnie Reagan lifted the restrictions on advertising to children the floodgates opened to try and sell goddamn anything for toys.
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Apr 11, 2016 19:15
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At the time of old Simpsons it would have been very difficult to be topical, in the same way south park is now, due to the time between production and airing. It did have its moments though, like they slipped in a crack at Bush sr. by inserting a scene where Homer makes a jab back at him for insulting the Simpsons.
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Apr 11, 2016 22:56
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It's not...hard? You're just really dense I guess.
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Sonic CD had really bad level design and was really only held to a high standard because it was inaccessible for so long for the vast majority of people.
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Jan 20, 2017 20:44
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Wheat Loaf posted:Was that not the one that was just a compilation of the Mega Drive games? (Or am I thinking of another one?) That was the mega collection. Xtreme was a cancelled 3d sonic on Saturn. Obviously it was turning out pretty bad or they wouldn't cancel a headline title like that. But forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest.
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Jan 21, 2017 04:50
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:dreamcast was cool though I admit the dream cast deserved better than it got but goddamn what bad release timing.
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Jan 21, 2017 05:46
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twistedmentat posted:Wait Skylanders is a spin off from Spyro? That's crazy. Spyro was one of the first characters, mostly because Activision was still sitting on the license. To my knowledge spyro is neither anything special as a character nor is any connection to the original games drawn.
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Feb 5, 2017 22:58
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Asking the Playstation's "killer app" is basically like asking about the NES or SNES, it had a truckload of games that basically defined the medium as a whole.
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Feb 22, 2017 23:32
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The Repo Man posted:Just how into Dutch Angles were the 90's? It showed you didn't give a gently caress about conforming to rules and standards.
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Apr 15, 2017 17:34
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I think everything on Nick and cartoon network had some level of gross out humor. That's the most 90s thing.
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Apr 16, 2017 13:56
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The thing with Rocco's Modern Life was that they constantly, deliberately, and knowingly tried to slip as much poo poo past the censors as they possibly could. They stopped at nothing, really; after they were forced to change it to Chewey Chicken they kept having Rocco and Heifer go there but every single time from there on out Heifer choked on his chicken. I know the animaniac's writers had this thing where if they wanted to slip in a bad joke they would write something even worse they knew the censors would say no to, therefore making their original joke look not nearly as bad and then they could be "well can we do this instead?" and the censors would say "sure". The "Finger prince" joke wasn't supposed to be one of the ones they approved but I guess whoever was auditing the episode that day didn't pick up on it.
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Apr 17, 2017 05:09
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This is the most british thing I've ever seen.
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chitoryu12 posted:Iron Man also wasn't written for the MCU. An Iron Man movie had been in some attempt at getting made since 1990 when Universal bought the rights, and decided to make the movie with Jon Favreau as a completely independent feature with nothing to reboot (unlike Spider-Man, which already had the Sam Raimi film series). The script was unfinished when filming began and large parts of the dialogue were improvised on the spot. I'd say it was a bit more planned than that given the end credits stinger where Nick Fury literally says "You're part of a bigger universe". You're probably right that if the movie didn't do well they'd call a mulligan but that 30 second stinger shows a fair amount of foresight.
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Sep 14, 2017 11:31
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Iron Crowned posted:Not to mention Iron Man had a sequel by the time Thor and Captain America got their "origin" films. Iron Man was pretty much a backdoor pilot for the rest of the MCU. This was because they really tripped up with Hulk so rather than go into Thor immediately (a hero with some recongition but not an A-lister) they used Iron Man 2 to retreat and build up some good will again. It worked, too.
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Sep 14, 2017 13:14
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Mu Zeta posted:Colin Powell was like one of the highest ranking and most prestigious military guys in 1990. Yeah but casting wise...black people were still often regulated to kooky sidekicks unless there was a "reason" for them to be black, such as the character being black in the comics (Steel and Spawn come to mind) In the 90s Nick Fury would totally be a middle aged white dude because thats how the comics still represented him at the time.
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Apr 14, 2018 12:39
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ryonguy posted:Hasselehoff is Nick Fury because he literally was Nick Fury in the 90's. I never knew this got made. Im sure for good reason.
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Randaconda posted:
It was OK.
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May 3, 2018 11:43
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Yeah let's not pretend that's what killed sega. For a time they had Nintendo beat in America. Had they survived they certainly would have changed advertising with the times. Stupid business decisions and infighting killed them.
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May 7, 2018 10:12
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Bobby Digital posted:Sure, SNES was good, but the Genesis had It's honestly kinda impressive how many ideas Sega had ahead of the curve but technology just wasn't ready for it.
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May 15, 2018 02:19
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ToxicSlurpee posted:While they were ahead of the curve in a lot of ways they also handled a lot of things very, very stupidly. No question, I'm not one of the types who thinks Sega was cheated. They made their bed and could have survived a few screw ups but they just kept piling them on.
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May 15, 2018 02:37
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Because Monobear sounds bad to English ears. Theres an argument that translation isnt always about 1:1 accuracy but getting across meaning. FFXIV has puns. Like a lot of loving puns. Every quest name is a pun or cultural reference. You couldnt translate them from Japanese because it'd make no sense to English ears. So they substitute English puns and references.
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Jul 5, 2018 15:04
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:Ffxiv is a a collection of puns with a mmo attached And I love every second of it.
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DicktheCat posted:Tbh, cars lately seem kind of boring, design-wise. I mean all cars seem boring when theyre contemporary? The 90s were some ugly rear end fuckin cars tho.
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Imagined posted:Not sure if you're doubting or just saying "I had no idea!" Either way: To be fair the article says both. quote:Some merchants resisted this disapproval of the packaging, as longboxes theoretically made it harder for shoplifters to hide the items as well as avoiding friction with retailers
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Wheat Loaf posted:Maybe that was why PC games came in those big square cardboard boxes? That was more because 1. There wasn't an industry standard so everyone made different boxes and would try and be as eye catching as possible. 2. PC games would often include physical items or huge manuals that necessitated big boxes.
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I kinda disagree in that horror has always been filled with a high percentage of crap. Their cheapness to produce meant they were always churned out rapidfire because even it bombed the loss would barely be noticed by the studio. I get what youre saying there is a loss of that mystique of coming across a rare vhs you dont get from streaming where more stuff is easily accessible, but the genre always been a bit of a crap shoot.
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Volcott posted:What was that goosebumps where a guy does a time travel and erases his sister and it ends with him like "yeah idk maybe I'll go fix that... later." The Cuckoo Clock of Doom. I dont know why that one left an impression on me.
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Killingyouguy! posted:Can someone please explain how 187 means 'I hate you' because every explanation I can come up with has failed me 1 looks like an I 8 rhymes with hate I got nothing on the 7
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Oct 11, 2019 15:32
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dialhforhero posted:I still have a version of Rock the Casbah where there is this old Nokia ringtone that shows up in it during one of the verses. I remember when it was a bit of a gamble that youd get songs with AIM prompts in the background or would blow out your speaker with distortion halfway through. Turns out record companies were distributing those to shake peoples confidence in file sharing lol
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Nov 2, 2019 11:46
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Around the mid 2000s Americans also started to become more health conscious and so while fast food places didnt really fail because they were so ubiquitous they did see enough of a drop in numbers that many have tried to rebrand, like how McDonald's now tries to look like a starbucks.
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Dec 4, 2019 16:10
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It might be worth more still sealed.
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At the time it was a bit of a meme that if you bought a computer it was out of date by the time you got home and that wasnt that far off. Imagine paying that much in 1990s money too.
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appropriatemetaphor posted:maybe i'm just a square but what's "def" mean in this context? like it's not mos def.... It was one of the million synonyms in the 90s for "Excellent"
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