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Cartoon Man posted:Pretty sure those belts didn’t work too good in a crash and were banned or something. I thought I read that one or two of them somehow choked someone, but I did a quick search just now and didn't see anything on that, so I guess it was just an urban legend growing up in the 90's. Which reminds me of this gem of a movie from the 90's "revivial," as it were, of slasher movies:  Edit: God, remembering it now, so many of the kills are basically pure coincidence that they "lined up" with an urban legend. The first one, for example, is a woman alone in a car. She is out of gas, pulls in to a gas station, but is freaked out by the creepy gas station attendant since it looks like he is going to rape or kill her (he has a bad stutter, and lies and says she has to pay inside and locks the door after her, because he saw the killer in the back seat.) As she pulls away, he manages to scream out that there is someone in her back seat, but too late, who then stabs her to death. So...how the gently caress did the killer know that someone would see them hiding in the back seat, but only just a little, and it would be a weird gas station guy with a stutter, so he couldn't easily tell the victim, so she could still manage to get back into the car and leave? DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 18:36 on Feb 5, 2020 |
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drat, I loved that series. Hard to find a children's cartoon that was serialized like that was back then (at least for American animation.) They kept track of how many treasures they found, and even had a point where they went back and used the half or so they had to fend of the Dark Water on one half of the ocean, but then the series ended before they collected all of them. But it's also too bad it had the same trend as so many other 80's and 90's cartoons with the really annoying talking animal. Here, it was a monkey bird...Conan had the baby phoenix, we are all too aware of Snarf from Thundercats, etc... dialhforhero posted:Alicia Silverstone STILL looks like that btw. Too bad about the crazy. She's not only an anti-vaxxer, but also at one point decided diapers were bad so her baby "free pooped" or whatever, and she claimed she sometimes fed him "baby bird" style by pre-chewing food. But yeah, she's got a portrait slowly getting older in the same attic Keanu Reeves keeps his.
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PoptartsNinja posted:
That's just a slight change to the H.I.S.S. tank! 
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mind the walrus posted:The WB/CW network used to be a goldmine for that in the 90s and 00s because whatever clothing sponsors they had would put the most ridiculous poo poo on the actors. Buffy/Charmed was the pinnacle. I still laugh when I watch old Buffy episodes and see Willow and Tara in their Ren Faire-chic outfits.
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Vanagoon posted:Edit: Another amazing 90s movie soundtrack from the same year (1997) is Flubber - which was a re-imagining of The Absent-Minded Professor. I wonder if the called it "Flubber" instead of "The Absent-Minded Professor" to avoid any sort of confusion with the recent remake of "The Nutty Professor"?
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empty baggie posted:They look mostly the same and have the same voice, but they are otherwise completely different characters. I'll give you the voice, and some mannerisms, but they really don't "mostly look the same."   Different noses, different glasses, different mouths when speaking, Anderson has a chubbier face, etc.. But yeah, that "could have been his dad/uncle if not for MTV" theory seems plausible.
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twistedmentat posted:Latest Todd in the Shadows is about the Beach Boys Album Summer in Paradise Were the Beach Boys in some way owned by Disney? I seem to remember the Beach Boys being featured on so many ABC (i.e. Disney) shows in the early 90's. They were, like, Wilson's cousins on Home Improvement, were on Full House with the Stamos/ Uncle Jesse thing, probably Rosanne at some point?
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twistedmentat posted:Also just lot of early internet porn. Want to see all of the earliest videos from NetVideoGirls? Got those. Though I bet all of them are unreadable. They might be readable, depending on what generation of CD-Rs they were. I remember the manufacturers grossly overestimated how long they would last, saying poo poo like a hundred years because that's what real CDs could last as long as, or something. Earlier ones seemed to die in a couple years, but later ones should at least last a decade or two. The biggest issue with that old moldy porn is having to download RealPlayer and discovering how small a 200x300 resolution video appears on modern screens.
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chitoryu12 posted:The first Star Wars is still very 70s. Check out the hairstyles and Han's absurdly deep V-neck on his shirt. And all the GLORIOUS mustaches.
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Dixville posted:I dunno if the blizzard of 93 aka "storm of the century" has already been covered in this thread. I was just thinking about it, it's one of my earliest memories. And I remember people wearing I SURVIVED THE BLIZZARD OF 93 tshirts I don't as much remember the storm of the century in 93, but I definetely remember the Great Ice Storm of '98: https://www.mynbc5.com/article/from-the-archives-the-great-ice-storm-of-1998/29815226 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_ice_storm I was in high school, and we left early the day it started, and then had the next 2 days off (I want to say it started on a Wednesday?) There were people without power for close to a month in my area (northern VT.) And yes, plenty of t-shirts were made:  
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Iron Crowned posted:My first wish on the Mokney's Paw would be to bring back OK Soda I demand the original Wheatables. They were salty, savory, and herby. Not whatever this "honey wheat" bullshit they have now. It's like a bad knockoff of those delicious Rold Gold honey wheat twists. Which is what I heat if I want a honey-wheat snack! Though much like The Simpsons, I think "new" Wheatables have been out longer than the original were.
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But it's not even needed now. In the old days of McD, the common items would get stockpiled during busy times, I seem to remember. So keeping the lettuce and tomato cold was more necessary so they didn't wilt of left they're for 10 minutes or so. But now, everything is assembled on demand. They pull the tomato and lettuce out of chilled drawers when they make it, so just get a cheeseburger and add lettuce and tomato, or get a quarter pounder if you want a bigger burger.
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mind the walrus posted:Wayne's World 1 and 2 are also extremely early 90s creations, but there's enough heart and universal appeal in the slacker story that it feels like a time capsule in the good ways. Jokes like Bohemian Rhapsody, fighting the father with dubbing, and "I will bow to no sponsor" are drat near evergreen even if you don't know what the gently caress Nuprin was or ever once watched a Hong Kong action flick. I can't say how it would play to a Zoomer, but now I want to try it out just to see. And, this is important, let's not downplay the factor of early 90's Tia Carrera as Baberaham Lincoln.
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May 29, 2020 18:56
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Randaconda posted:me and my dorky friends played it all the time Same. Fun fact: That board game is the reason Sierra had to change their adventure/RPG hybrid series "Hero's Quest" to "Quest for Glory" thus breaking the [blank]Quest format it had going. Why they went with "Quest for Glory" and not, say, "Glory Quest" to keep the theme going, I don't know, other than I guess it sounds stupid, but there you are. We also played a similar game that came with a VHS, and most of what I remember is half the VHS is sort of "in world" with a CGI Manscorpian that, honestly, was just as good as the one from The Mummy Returns despite being several years earlier, and the other half was the DM talking about playing the game and going over the rules. Fake edit: The other one was Dragonstrike, which I think we played more of simply because it was a licensed D&D game, and we also played a lot of D&D, so we were at least already mostly familiar with the rules. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF1_IHliRhI Oh man, it's 30 fuckin minutes? Christ. DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 19:58 on Jul 20, 2020 |
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The X-Men series gave us what is probably the best version of Apocalypse, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYt78FWfa5M "I am the rocks of the eternal shore. Crash against me, and BE BROKEN!"
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Flight Bisque posted:Batman was great, but was he ever CoVerED wItH sCOrpIonS causing him to try and murder an old lady who lived in the sewer? Why was that lady even with the Morlocks? I thought it was basically mutants who look like ACTUAL mutated people and so lived in the sewer* to not be seen. She just looks like an old lady. *And where did this idea that sewers are a good place to live come from? Good ol' human waste! And they're usually, like...sealed pipes, not ten foot tall subway platforms with rivers in them that, despite being human waste, always appear to be clean water. Unless sewers really ARE like that and I'm up here paying mortgage like a sucker?
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Sweevo posted:They carried on doing that poo poo with DVDs for a while. They'd release a series, but not as a box-set, you had to buy 45 discs with two episodes each. It took a while for them to come down, even after they would put out full seasons on just 5 or 6 DVDs. Granted, this is more for the 2000's poo poo thread, but I was working one summer (2002/2003) in a Wal-Mart electronics department, and the full seasons of Trek, X-Files, B5, etc... were about $100. Even current "prestige" dramas are generally under $50 a season now, even when first released a year after they aired. And older shows are pretty much at $20/season, less if you get one of those "full series" collections. And these are Blu-Rays at this point, not even standard DVDs. I actually worked out a scam (after I was done working there) where I bought 1 of those "$5 DVDs!" from the discount bin, copied the UPC code into some barcode software, and printed them off onto sticker sheet, and bought several DVD sets of Star Trek, X-FRiles ,etc... for only $5 each, and sold them for like $70 each on eBay. It only worked because, for some reason, I noticed the Wal-Mart I worked at was the only one that I'd seen that didn't have the TV DVD sets behind a locked case where the associate had to open it and you had to pay for it right there. They were just sitting next to the regular $20 movie DVDs. I'd grab one, discretely slap that generic $5 barcode sticker on it, and choose the checkout lane with the oldest cashier who wouldn't have any idea what price it should ring up as.
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SubNat posted:Did they not come up as the wrong thing in the system and on the reciept? (Though to be fair, I imagine that's something a cashier could overlook, you tend to just go on automatically unless something sticks out.) Yeah, the latter. The "$5 DVD bin" just had a sticker placed over the barcode of every DVD in there, and when rung up it just came in as "$5 Discount DVD" or something. By choosing an old cashier, I was confident they probably might not even know what a DVD is, let alone what they should cost. I only ever bought one at a time, and IF I was ever questioned on it, I figured I would claim ignorance as well and agree it should ring up as $100, or whatever. I never was, but I also only did it about 10 times so as not to push my luck. I'm not PROUD of it, at least not the theft part, partially proud of thinking up the scam at only 19/20, the the early days of the internet and all, but I was a poor college kid and had NO money for a month or so after paying rent and whatnot so I needed to do something to get some quick cash.
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Cartoon Man posted:
And then when the first GBA was released, things like that popped up again because the screen was so drat dim from alack of back or front light. As well as internal kits to mod a front light inside the thing. But, again, that's stuff more suited to the 2000s thread.
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Darthemed posted:My RC car of choice: Thought for sure this was going to be The Animal: Squawk! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afofc_Jt86s I guess that's more 80s, but they re-ran that commercial for like a decade and a half.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcMpJlYynBw International Coffees. lovely, instant, flavored coffee. But to ten-year-old me, I thought that these were some sort of super sophisticated, fancy coffee you'd break out if the President came to visit or whatever. Edit: In the same vein: 
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ultrafilter posted:I don't know who's writing this but the idea that the Infinity Gauntlet was cooler than the Ninja Turtles in 1991 is just a little bit suspect. Marvel, creators of the Infinity Gauntlet storyline, created it. Edit: Around the same time, I remember seeing a LOT of comic ads for X-Men that used the tagline: "Kids' favorite mutants ain't turtles!" Early 90s Marvel had a bug up their butt about TMNT.
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dialhforhero posted:Also it makes me irrationality angry when people talk about the Juggernaut as if he is a mutant. Hasn't he been retconned into a mutant as well as having the gem? I know in at least some other versions (movie universe) he's a mutant...maybe also in the Ultimate Universe? But I thought even in the main 616 verse he got powers, or only survived having the gem because of powers? But I'll agree that at the time of that ad, I'm 99% sure he wasn't classified as one.
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I wish I knew what NIntendo "omnibus" strategy guide my brother had when I was a kid. It wasn't one of those "How to win at Nintendo Games" books posted just above, it was some other brand. I just remember seeing screenshots and strategies for a LOT of games that, to 8-10 year old me, looked REALLY cool but I'm sure were absolute dogshit. Off the top of my head, it had stuff on Crystalis, I want to say some Bugs Bunny game? And some game where the character sprite is a GIANT purple axe-wielding dude.
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twistedmentat posted:For some reason I keep thinking this was in Varsity Blues and Not Another Teen Movie. Varsity Blues has the original with Ali Larter that Not Another Teen Movie is parodying
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Now, it might just because I was too young to remember the 80's all that well and wasn't alive at all in the 70's, but didn't it seem there was a glurge of Made for TV Movies/Miniseries in the 90's? Especially mid 90's? These multi night events, like adaptations of The Odyssey, Merlin, Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, etc. Lot of public domain works. I know the 70's had Roots, and it actually WAS a Major TV EventTM, but it seems like most of these others just sort of fizzled and were never as epic as they claimed to be, and really could be crammed down to one night, maybe 2.5 hours, if they had less commercials. Was there more then, or was it just that that was when I was paying the most attention/would have actually watched them? They definitely petered out in the 2000's, though, right? Since Prestige TV started becoming a thing, so rather than waste all those millions to get Movie Stars to be on your TV show just for ~4 hours, you can now convince them to do it for a whole series and it was no longer considered "slumming it" on TV.
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empty baggie posted:I remember watching the IT miniseries in 6th grade (would have been 1990 or 91). It aired over 2 nights. I went out and bought the book the day after the first part aired, which started a Stephen King obsession over the next couple of years. I still have that paperback copy of IT. Oh yeah, Stephen King mini series were huge then, too. It seemed like if it was either too long for a theatrical movie...or too crappy (or in the case of The Shining, cause King didn't like the OG movie version) it got a mini series. It The Stand The Shining The Tommyknockers The Langoliers Storm of the Century
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I can't tell you the number of times I saw this ad for Bonk's Adventure when reading comics in the early to mid 90's: Never played it, or any Turbo Grafix 16 game for that matter, but drat if this ad doesn't make it look confusing as gently caress. He's a...caveman? Who fights sort of dinosaurs, but also needs to save a dinosaur princess...then there's a tractor thing, and power flowers? Also he hits things with his head? Sure.
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wesleywillis posted:Did anyone here actually shave, or have shaved, a word in the back of their head in the 90s? Not I, but I knew a kid who got the Batman symbol shaved.
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Heath posted:We need to return to the era of the Big Shirt Or maybe Big Dog Shirt?  
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Trabant posted:
I've never had one of those. Aa a kid, I just assumed my family was to y poor to afford such opulence.
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I think both of you missed the whole "as a kid" part. As in...a freakin' 6-8 year old dumb-rear end kid who didn't know what stuff was. Obviously I know NOW, and did when I was a bit of an older kid, that it wasn't some kind of "$200 super premium luxury" on the same level as, like, caviar. But again...six year olds are stupid.
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But then he proved himself wrong, the spot he has to smash open in the library in Venice was a big X.
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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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I've seen this so many times and still have no idea where it's from...I assume a sketch comedy show from the late 2000s/early 90s? Does remind me of this, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjK1aUU2Dx4 Edit: Whoa, it was directed by Spike Jonez.
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mind the walrus posted:You're really close. Ultraforce: Hey, X-Men: The Animated Series, can I copy your homework? X-Men: Yeah, just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious you copied. Ultraforce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYV8fgKW-8Q
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Mu Zeta posted:He did let his girlfriend peg him in the first movie. Though he really didn't like it. He's just mostly a top, but not adverse to some vers/switch work. By the second movie he sermed to enjoy adopt as he playfully suggested to Vanessa that she put on the strap on and gently caress him in their effort to make a baby.
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SubNat posted:You can still get something like that if you use MyDefrag. But should you? Like...I guess if you still manage to have a spinning drive, but isn't defragging somewhere from useless to actually bad for SSDs? Since they have a limited number of read/write cycles, and there isn't really a physical "location" for files to be next to each other in, you're just (albeit barely) reducing it's lifespan?
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mactheknife posted:none of them are me because i wasn't allowed to hang anything on my walls until i was in high school, which 2000 High School was when I had to STOP hanging things on my walls. My parents did a minor renovation on a few rooms in the house when I was like 13, my brother and I's room included. All the walls and ceiling torn down, floor ripped up, whole nine yards. So you bet your rear end they were not going to allow tack holes or tape residue on their new walls. Edit: Oh, and a couple pages late to 90's name chat, but basically we can just watch this easy reference video on 90's kids' names: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDYF_nu2I4M
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