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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 20:36:04 GMT -5
The 80s did everything the 90s did, but better. You can add Ohio to that Midwest black hole, too.
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Post by Bobinator on Dec 19, 2014 20:46:20 GMT -5
The 90's had the modern internet.
Bam.
...(For reference, I'm counting that as a good thing. For some people, that might be unclear.)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 21:03:47 GMT -5
80s had He-Man, Transformers, GI JOE, Thundercats, Jem, Wheel Warriors, TMNT, CBS Saturday Supercade, the NES, the height of the arcade era, Back to the Future, Batman (1989)...and these are just the things off the top of my head.
We're always nostalgic for the era we come from. No doubt the (even) older members of the board are wistful for the 70s.
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80s also had Purple Rain and Thriller. Fuck every single decade before or after.
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Post by cambertian on Dec 19, 2014 21:18:34 GMT -5
We're always nostalgic for the era we come from. No doubt the (even) older members of the board are wistful for the 70s. I grew up in the 2000s but I'm nostalgic for the 1990s
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Post by llj on Dec 19, 2014 21:18:39 GMT -5
The 90s were good. Not so much pop culture wise (I prefer the 80s for that) but there was a feeling of optimism and acceptance in the air. The Cold War was over, we were making great strides when it came to racial and sexual acceptance, we were more open to different opinions, and even the ongoing problems in the Middle East didn't seem to dampen the vision of the future. As a visible minority, I never felt excluded in any social situation during the 90s (while I sometimes did in the 80s and 00s) I feel like after Columbine, and later 9/11, people just got a lot more cynical and guarded. Socially people reverted back to a past era where they were much more judgemental towards people outside of their closest social circle. The recession in 2008 didn't help matters either. Everything these days is tinged with sarcasm and irony...even the kids are meme generators now. There's a lot more crap to wade through today to get to anything resembling sincerity and earnestness. With the internet, we're more connected than ever internationally, but the funny thing is that all it has done is make most people decide that they don't like the world outside of their own country very much.
Not to get serious in this thread and everything.
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Post by kayjay on Dec 19, 2014 21:22:09 GMT -5
I'm a teen and love the Mega Man Franchise.
TBH, i haven't beaten any of them, but i own all of the Classics, X, & Zero games. I like X the most though.
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Post by Ike on Dec 19, 2014 21:50:25 GMT -5
Having most of my memories in the '00s, I feel like I should feel insulted. Also I should probably be offended about the "Iowa-Illinois-Indiana-Minnesota-Michigan black hole" thing. That was from personal experience in the not-Chicago part of Illinois. In the suburb I grew up in, the median age is like 40something. "Culture," here used to mean "experience outside that particular time zone or of people who aren't old WASPs" is pretty near nonexistant.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Dec 19, 2014 22:16:43 GMT -5
Having most of my memories in the '00s, I feel like I should feel insulted. Also I should probably be offended about the "Iowa-Illinois-Indiana-Minnesota-Michigan black hole" thing. That was from personal experience in the not-Chicago part of Illinois. In the suburb I grew up in, the median age is like 40something. "Culture," here used to mean "experience outside that particular time zone or of people who aren't old WASPs" is pretty near nonexistant. I've been thinking about it all day, and I can't help but agree. Something about my generation is aware of it. But, so much of what you said, made me think how odd, don't most people live like that.
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Post by Gentlegamer on Dec 20, 2014 0:05:42 GMT -5
80s also had Purple Rain and Thriller. Fuck every single decade before or after. And Iron Maiden!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2014 0:21:13 GMT -5
Not so much into metal, but I can respect those who are. Even as a dyed in the wool grunge devotee, I'd still take the 80s over the 90s. Especially over the 70s. Give me new wave over disco any day of the week. The 80s were such a great time. Your fast food had to be ordered one piece at a time. There were no sizes. Everything came in Styrofoam. Women had hair as high as Olympus, and the hairspray they used gave it an edge that could cut like certain Bryan Adams songs. The wood paneling from the 70s was still everywhere, and people smoked indoors so much it got into the floorboards, giving entire buildings a disgusting miasma of tar and nicotine. God, those were the days.
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Post by Bobinator on Dec 20, 2014 0:54:53 GMT -5
The 90s were good. Not so much pop culture wise (I prefer the 80s for that) but there was a feeling of optimism and acceptance in the air. The Cold War was over, we were making great strides when it came to racial and sexual acceptance, we were more open to different opinions, and even the ongoing problems in the Middle East didn't seem to dampen the vision of the future. As a visible minority, I never felt excluded in any social situation during the 90s (while I sometimes did in the 80s and 00s) I feel like after Columbine, and later 9/11, people just got a lot more cynical and guarded. Socially people reverted back to a past era where they were much more judgemental towards people outside of their closest social circle. The recession in 2008 didn't help matters either. Everything these days is tinged with sarcasm and irony...even the kids are meme generators now. There's a lot more crap to wade through today to get to anything resembling sincerity and earnestness. With the internet, we're more connected than ever internationally, but the funny thing is that all it has done is make most people decide that they don't like the world outside of their own country very much. Not to get serious in this thread and everything. Honestly? I couldn't have said it better myself. Thank you for illustrating my thoughts much better than I could seem to. You're right, though, nobody really seems sincere about pretty much anything anymore, and I guess recent events make it hard to actually have any real thoughts on anything. Even when you're going into things like just gaming, everybody's got their own thing that matters, and everything else is terrible and deserves to be disregarded without any further thought. Maybe it's just me, I dunno.
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Post by zilliont on Dec 20, 2014 1:52:26 GMT -5
I'm a teen born in 1999, but I feel terribly nostalgic for the three or so decades that went by before I was born.
I find the music, games, art and general entertainment from ages past much, MUCH superior to what we have nowadays, even though during most of this period Brazil was stuck in a hellish dictatorship (nowadays a vocal minority is claiming for its return. If that isn't fucked up, I don't know what is).
I really love most of the stuff that happened and/or was produced from the 60s to the 90s, but I'm still stuck on the fence whether I'd live then or now, especially considering some aspects of myself.
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Post by X-pert74 on Dec 20, 2014 2:37:33 GMT -5
Part of me wishes I was alive during the '80s (born in 1990) so I could experiences the video games and metal music (especially the underground tape-trading scene!) that was coming out when it was still new. On the other hand though, LGBT rights were really lacking back then, so I don't think I'd want to experience that first-hand. Blegh. I guess growing up in the '90s/'00s is cool, because I still get to enjoy things from before my time, as well as grow up with the internet being a prominent part of my life from an early age. I'm a teen and love the Mega Man Franchise. TBH, i haven't beaten any of them, but i own all of the Classics, X, & Zero games. I like X the most though. X is pretty awesome. My personal favorite is Mega Man X3; I love how dark and aggressive the Super NES version's soundtrack sounds.
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Post by Tarsier on Dec 20, 2014 9:44:37 GMT -5
I'm a teen and love the Mega Man Franchise. TBH, i haven't beaten any of them, but i own all of the Classics, X, & Zero games. I like X the most though. X is pretty awesome. My personal favorite is Mega Man X3; I love how dark and aggressive the Super NES version's soundtrack sounds. I don't like X3 just because of the Buster Parts making you stop when you shoot a charge shot, it makes it harder to do the whole "time shots just right to avoid the enemy's attacks" thing I enjoy about the X series. I agree on the music though, it's pretty cool.
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Post by Garamoth on Dec 20, 2014 9:46:58 GMT -5
I don't feel nostalgic for any decade. I rather like the idea of times moving on and things being forgotten. Except the Internet keeps briging everything and anything back, no matter how irrelevant, boring or outdated.
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