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HenessyHero
Mar 4, 2008

"I thought we had something, Shepard. Something real."
:qq:
Like other goons I once had awful taste in music and TV shows. Unlike most of you I had a friend make me a cd with all my favorite songs in one place because I was really young at the time and my parents wouldn't let me burn a cd.

-It was titled, in comic sans: HenessyHero's Omega Music CD
-On the front there was a picture of Piccolo from DBZ unleashing an awesome ki blast. My friend MSpainted an M on his forehead because I requested a Majin Piccolo on the cover.
-On the back was a picture of Sephiroth walking into a wall of fire, along with this awful listing of artists/tracks.
*Britney Spears
*'N synch
*Backstreet Boys :cripes:
*Duel of Fates
*Linkin Park
*Friends theme song
*Moonraker theme song
*One Winged Angel
*Liberi Fatali
*Limp Bizkit
*Kid Rock
*Ricky Martin
-There was also a secret track I requested not to be listed on the back because I wanted to keep it hidden from my parents. Geri Halliwell's It's Raining men.

:cripes: :cripes: :cripes:

I was trying to find it again so I could scan it in for you guys but I just remembered that when I stumbled across it in my box of dvds months back I cringed right down to my core and trashed it immediately.

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Inspector Zenigata
Jul 19, 2010

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A CRUNK BIRD
Sep 29, 2004
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Jhonen Vasquez in general

Skoora
Sep 29, 2009
The loving Clock Crew from Newgrounds. I'm just grateful that I never tried to get my friends into it because it physically hurts to recall.

teen witch posted:

Amanda Palmer. I really cannot think of a group of people she hasn't pissed off these days.

A good litmus test for whether I'll be able to stand a person or not is if they stick up for Amanda Palmer.

I must have missed something, what has she done to piss people off?

You Are A Werewolf
Apr 26, 2010

Black Gold!

Gangsta Rap.

To be honest, it was the early 90s and I was in middle school, so the marketing pretty much wrote itself for some 13 year old like me when albums like The Chronic and Doggystyle came out. I couldn't get enough of it thinking how hardcore and raw it sounded, and I was a doofus for trying to "bump" that poo poo in my first car's lovely stereo system in 1996. Gangsta rap kind of died off around 1997 with the likes of Master P and Puff Daddy outdoing each other with who had the shinier baggy suit and wider fish-eye lens for their videos, and I stopped listening to most commercial rap music around that time, even though I still had a soft spot for it.

When GTA: San Andreas came out, I revisited Gangsta Rap with Radio Los Santos, and even though the songs on that radio station are still pretty :krad:, I revisisted some dusty CDs of mine and found G-rap to be absolute garbage. I think the two biggest what the fucks from me are the persistent misogyny and the hilariously petulant name-calling toward other rappers in most songs that are the equivalent of two arguing children on a playground saying "YOU SMELL LIKE BUTT AND YOU ARE A DUMB BABY!". I will admit that only a handful of albums and songs are still classic, but so much G-rap is just poo poo, and I don't know what I was thinking.

mamelon
Oct 9, 2010

by Lowtax
I used to be wayyyy into what I'll call nerd-canon.

Examples:
- the "correct" order of the Legend of Zelda timeline
- coherence of decades of superhero comic book events/character development/relationships/team affiliations, etc.

I remember I came to a point when I used to visit the IGN forums - I just couldn't stomach discussion of this nature any more. "Well see you can place X event here, based on the existence of a silly aesthetic detail, and that means that Y character is an ancestor of Z character and not the other way around. It MUST work this way!" Just pages and pages of poo poo like this all over the internet. Sure, there are those who do it as casual way to further enjoy their source of entertainment/recreation... But there are so many people trying desperately to reconcile things that were never meant to be reconciled.

There were fan complaints about Lost: Jack's fake beard wasn't applied exactly the same in a scene that was filmed at two different times, months apart. IT'S A CONTINUITY ERROR, WE MUST CATALOG IT PROPERLY. So much effort and so much mental energy wasted. I feel dirty for ever caring about this kind of stuff.

If the reports in this thread have a common link, seems like it's the fact that it's a lot easier to snap out of these bad habits/tastes once you witness how annoyingly they cause someone else to behave. A lot of this kind of stuff is just the result of "being a kid" and now I'm careful not to fault them for it. It's like my patience with hipsters: I tell myself, "they'll grow out of it."

Lolitas Alright!
Sep 15, 2007

This is your friend.
She fights for your freedom.

MorgaineDax posted:

That's Anne Bishop, a completely different BDSM fantasy author! She's the one that writes the series about Jaenelle, the Mary Sue to end all Mary Sues. You know, the beautiful part-human, part-cat, part-unicorn, part-fawn, part-wolf, part-elf Queen, who's the most powerful witch in all the realms, and also the adopted daughter of Satan.

Oh that's right, it's by the Black Jewels Trilogy lady. Let's not forget that Jaenelle's husband, Daemon Sadi, son of Satan, totally got a boner when he met her when she was like six, but hey man, it's okay, they were meant to be in the future. I seem to remember that had quite a bit of poorly written sex in it too. Oh yeah, and when the brother, Lucivar (loving God I wish I was making these names up) bit some lady's clit off.

I have chosen some loving great literature in my time, poo poo.


edit: Oh yeah, I read one of the AN Roqulare or whatever books, the Sleeping Beauty ones that involved pony play and a dude having sex with a statue penis. Those were pretty fuckin terrible too.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

Rather Watch Them posted:

Basically, everything R&J has created for the past hundred years is the opposite of its intent, which makes it not a timeless classic but a bloated mess of a story that falls on deaf ears unless the audience knows what "wherefore" actually means.

If I remember right from the hilarious old ENB dating site thread, OKCupid had the question "In Romeo and Juliet, what does the 'wherefore' mean in 'Wherefor art thou, Romeo?'" and literally thousands of people (probably more than not) answered "Where" but also rated their own wrong answer at high importance for a dating match.

Online dating is terrible, but I can't submit it as relevant to the thread because I never "used to love" it.

Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you



AcetylCoA! posted:

Most I recall is Goodkind's thing for female domination. You had the pain stick ladies; nuns with electroshock colors and a lady who could touch a man and turn him into a drooling Renfield sort. I gave up once I noticed that the series ran like a crappy cop show - bad guy does bad/creepy thing using gimmick power. Richard is immune; naturally - because he's a Rahl. Zed wanders in and out like a store-brand Gandalf. Richard kills bad guy/other people.

Wizards First Rule - Wear red to hide the blood stains.

Yep. At first I kinda liked the fact that the books had strong female characters, but when I became more critical of what I was reading, I noticed they weren't so much "strong" and more "fetish". Richard being the ultimate Mary Sue actually kinda kept me going for longer than I should have, since every book added some new bullshit that he could either do suddenly or be resistant to, and I wanted to know what it would be this episodebook.

Lolitas Alright! posted:

And the rape. So much rape. I stopped about five books in because it was like there was someone getting raped every other chapter and it was just gross.

It really did become creepy the way the books were written. The author clearly lost track of what his plot and characters were doing, so it all boiled down to: What cool thing can Richard do now, Which woman can be abused this time, or Which political belief can be ranted about

Bast Relief
Feb 21, 2006

by exmarx
I lost touch with video games, and it's been great. I think it's because of an intersection between getting serious within my field and video games changing. Eventually I realized that never would there be the magic that was, say, Crono Trigger again, and even if there was I wouldn't have the patience or time to dump into it 12 year old me did.

Sometimes I'm floored by the hours I racked up on games when I think back on it. Now days when I struggle to have enough time to keep up with my life, I really wish I had all that video game time back. I could have actually been accomplishing something!

cyberia
Jun 24, 2011

Do not call me that!
Snuffles was my slave name.
You shall now call me Snowball; because my fur is pretty and white.

Computer viking posted:

I'm very happy that the genMay subforum over at hardOCP were closed and deleted, and equally happy that I didn't spend much time on the standalone (and moderated by far less sane) version that popped up later. It resembled the impression I've gotten of GBS ca 2001.

My friends and I used to obsessively post on genMay when we were in highschool and were way too into it for our own good.

I also (briefly) used to post on the xkcd forums before I got sick of how awful everybody was. It was like every person on the forum was a proto-Niceguy. I can only imagine how much worse it is now that fedoras, bronies, MRAs, etc, are a thing in nerd culture.

When I was younger I was obsessed with WCW wrestling. I'd watch Nitro every week and use my pocket money to order the Pay per Views every month. I also played the WCW wrestling games on N64 almost exclusively and read every wrestling magazine and book I could get my hands on. I still watch wrestling sometimes (although it's been mostly replaced by watching terrible MMA like Bellator) but it makes me cringe how completely and unironically I loved wrestling as a kid, especially when I rewatch old shows and realise how cheesy it all was.

Something else terrible was that as a kid I loving loved to read. I didn't have many friends and was pretty awkward and goony so I spent most of my time reading. The problem was that I read so much I quickly exhausted the supply of age-appropriate books at both my school library and the local public library so I started reading anything. I discovered that if I went to the local Goodwill I could buy a bag of books for pocket change which lead to a few years of reading the sort of books that people in the late 1990s thought were worthy of donating to Goodwill. Nothing but terrible Cold War thrillers, bloated coke-fuelled epics from authors like Harold Robbins, ancient sci-fi pulp novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and twee British stuff like PG Wodehouse. None of these books by themselves were that terrible (most were just dull and uninspired) but I can't imagine it did my already goony self any favours to grow up reading trash like that every day for years.

ILL ON PZONES
Oct 13, 2013

A CRUNK BIRD posted:

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Jhonen Vasquez in general

Hah. That was relevant for, like, 4 months.

Autumn Angel
Jan 18, 2014

I still play some video games, mostly to unwind at the end of the day, but I tend to be a lot pickier about what I play. Essentially, I grew up with the 8 and 16 bit stuff, like the NES, Genesis, Gameboy, etc. But whenever I try to play some of the games from my childhood consoles I'm reminded of just how bad most of those games were. Like, almost every NES game is atrocious. It's crazy that some people still collect really old games.

I also used to be really into indie games a few years ago until I realized that they are generally either overrated, pretentious, or lazy. Braid is the prime example of a pretentious, overrated game. It's also annoying how many games go for a "retro" look that don't even look anything like the kinds of games they're emulating.

I have a lot of opinions about video games apparently.

you may die
Dec 15, 2013
I went through this period where I read lovely webcomics a lot. Yeah, your usual lovely gamer ones like Penny Arcade, PvP, Ctrl+Alt+Del, some semi-popular lovely manga style ones like Megatokyo and a buttload of terrible sprite comics. There was a time for, like, more than a year where I'd follow links from webcomics to other ones, read the whole archive and then keep up with them. I don't even know if I even liked most of them that much, I just read them consistently. I think I realized a lot of them were lovely/it was a drag to keep up with them especially if I'd be away from the computer for a few days and have to catch up on all of them - some of which updated 5-7 days a week - and cut it down to just a few, then came off it altogether.

Around the seventh grade I liked a lot of godawful stuff, particularly anime and jrpgs I'd never played (I'd had an n64 then a gamecube; my gaming experience had mostly centered around characters that were in super smash bros) because I had this self-image where I was this super nerd/edgy dark and mysterious type like a lot of awkward teens, except that I was actually kind of a normal kid and this was a pretty short phase.

Then in later junior high I got really into metalcore, pop-punk and post-hardcore (most of which I would have described at the time as "emo" and "screamo") and I'd buy compilation albums like warped tour/taste of chaos and if I liked bands from those I'd find their myspace or purevolume pages and listen to more and download what was available and/or buy their albums. There were a couple of decent bands in there like Bane, Thursday and Saves the Day but mostly it was garbage.

Horrible Smutbeast
Sep 2, 2011

Autumn Angel posted:

I still play some video games, mostly to unwind at the end of the day, but I tend to be a lot pickier about what I play. Essentially, I grew up with the 8 and 16 bit stuff, like the NES, Genesis, Gameboy, etc. But whenever I try to play some of the games from my childhood consoles I'm reminded of just how bad most of those games were. Like, almost every NES game is atrocious. It's crazy that some people still collect really old games.

I also used to be really into indie games a few years ago until I realized that they are generally either overrated, pretentious, or lazy. Braid is the prime example of a pretentious, overrated game. It's also annoying how many games go for a "retro" look that don't even look anything like the kinds of games they're emulating.

I have a lot of opinions about video games apparently.

Yeah, I think I liked indie games because it was a way you could make your own work, release it, and make money without any large corporation making you change stuff so it'd appeal to their demographic. After trying to get into it I realized that it was really just a bunch of weirdo proto-niceguys making weird poo poo with no direction or just copying games they grew up with...which are always either metroid, mario, zelda or generic final fantasy rpg. I think I finally left for good when skullgirls announced they hired 2 porn artists who are known for porn animation stuff of underage girls and the entire community shouted down anyone who disagreed with that decision.

I have found people who make point and clicks at least try to be interesting with the story or art style. They also try to pay more often than anyone else in my experience.

Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you



For me, videogames have gotten significantly better as soon as I started ignoring the gaming community. I pretty much only find out about games when they hit the Steam front page, or a friend tells me about them.

Autumn Angel
Jan 18, 2014

kannonfodder posted:

For me, videogames have gotten significantly better as soon as I started ignoring the gaming community. I pretty much only find out about games when they hit the Steam front page, or a friend tells me about them.

Yeah, me too. The same can be said about a lot of things really. For instance, unlike some others in this thread, I still like to watch some anime. Every online anime community is loving terrible though. Best to just enjoy it solo.

whatshesaid
May 6, 2007
:spooky:
The Babysitters Club books. And dolls. And the movie. Oh my god. I read every book probably twice, and I had all the dolls--yes, dolls, that were between one and two feet tall. Did I play with them? No, I was too old for that at that point, I just had to have them.

And when the movie came out, I'd watch it multiple times in a day. I probably could have recited each line backwards in my sleep. It was a terrible movie. I watched it so much that I wore the tape out in short order, VHS of course. What the loving gently caress :psyduck:

Oh and of course I wanted to babysit when I was 12. I never got a job though. I've never liked kids, not even when I was one. Never understood them, what they're all about, and I never will. I just wanted to be a "normal" little girl who loves dolls and babies, even though deep down I didn't. Glad I grew out of that and became the rear end in a top hat I am today!

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Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010
I used to wear "funny" t-shirts almost exclusively. To be fair I think I had better taste in them then the ones about having voices in your head or whatever.

Later I switched to band t-shirts all the time by which I mean I still do this

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.

Horrible Smutbeast posted:


I have found people who make point and clicks at least try to be interesting with the story or art style. They also try to pay more often than anyone else in my experience.

I am loving the poo poo out of Broken Age. The humor and VAs are spot on and it looks like an illustration in a children's book. :3:

On topic, how many of you guys had Mary/Gary-Sue OCs? I know I sure did!

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theironjef
Aug 11, 2009

The archmage of unexpected stinks.

Medieval Mayhem Society.

I'm sure it means something different somewhere else, but to me it meant spending months in a garage artfully wrapping foam around lengths of PVP pipe and calling the results things like "Zweihander" and "Voulge" only to swing them at other teenagers like baseball bats as hard as goddamn possible.

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

Scout Finch Bitch
Oddly enough I hated wrestling for most of my childhood but am now a huge fan of 80's Pro Wrestling, and Japanese Pro Wrestling just because of the sort of intense performance that goes into it. It's all very intricate and there really isn't anything comparable in terms of people pretending to do a thing in a way that is also extremely complex and dangerous even if the its all smoke and mirrors.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Promoted Pawn posted:

I think the worst example was probably the poo poo Monster scene in Dogma.

I really loved Dogma when I first saw it, but thinking back now it seems like a really bad movie. I haven't rewatched it to find out, but everything I remember about it just makes me think "Wait, I liked this?"


cyberia posted:

I discovered that if I went to the local Goodwill I could buy a bag of books for pocket change which lead to a few years of reading the sort of books that people in the late 1990s thought were worthy of donating to Goodwill. Nothing but terrible Cold War thrillers, bloated coke-fuelled epics from authors like Harold Robbins, ancient sci-fi pulp novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and twee British stuff like PG Wodehouse. None of these books by themselves were that terrible (most were just dull and uninspired) but I can't imagine it did my already goony self any favours to grow up reading trash like that every day for years.

Are you calling PG Wodehouse trash? :psyduck:


you may die posted:

I went through this period where I read lovely webcomics a lot. Yeah, your usual lovely gamer ones like Penny Arcade, PvP, Ctrl+Alt+Del, some semi-popular lovely manga style ones like Megatokyo and a buttload of terrible sprite comics.

I used to read a ton of awful webcomics, including CAD. I even used to think Chef Brian was funny.

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Jul 19, 2010

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ThatPazuzu
Sep 8, 2011

I'm so depressed, I can't even blink.

Das Boo posted:

On topic, how many of you guys had Mary/Gary-Sue OCs? I know I sure did!

Yuuup. For a while whenever I discovered a new thing I'd write a character for it who looked like me but buffer and he'd have some sort of obstacle that was never an actual problem and he would beat up any bad guy easy.

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.

ThatPazuzu posted:

Yuuup. For a while whenever I discovered a new thing I'd write a character for it who looked like me but buffer and he'd have some sort of obstacle that was never an actual problem and he would beat up any bad guy easy.

I was on a little Invader Zim message board and my character was Shade. Oh, she was such a deep and brooding little cuss, smarter than the teeming masses and wicked as an atom bomb full of Satans! Any she just happened to be a blonde-haired, brown eyed girl who curiously wore her hair like mine. :v:

I still appreciate a lot of aspects of Invader Zim (the slick colors and animation, the voice acting and its competency in the void of millennial children's shows) and I had a ton of fun on that board. But good lord, I was the projectioniest little poo poo to ever walk the earth for a few years there. And outside my weirdly fun-loving group of e-friends, I discovered that the Zim fanbase in general was just absolutely atrocious. It's probably where my pet peeve with condescension appeared.

If I can find any of the pictures I drew of my girl during my Zim phase or my anime phase, I'll post 'em.

Promoted Pawn
Jun 8, 2005

oops


Tiggum posted:

I really loved Dogma when I first saw it, but thinking back now it seems like a really bad movie. I haven't rewatched it to find out, but everything I remember about it just makes me think "Wait, I liked this?"

It's a lot like Mallrats in a lot of ways; it still has a few good scenes, mainly involving Affleck/Damon/Rickman, but most of the movie wasn't playing to Smith's strengths as a writer/director.

On topic: Terrible CCGs. In the wake of Magic: The Gathering coming out in 1993, there were a TON of 'me too' CCGs hitting the market. Unfortunately, approximately none of them had the care put into their design that Magic did (and even Magic didn't for a few expansions), but that didn't stop me from spending all of my allowance on them. Star Trek, Star Wars, On The Edge, Ultimate Combat, The X-Files, and so on. Most, if not all, of these games died not too long after release, leaving me with tons of cards that were practically worthless. I can clearly see the design flaws in them now, but my younger self was not so discerning. Nowadays I just wish I had spent that money on more Magic, especially since quite a few cards from that era are worth a lot of money now.

Lonely Virgil
Oct 9, 2012

That George of the Jungle movie from the 90's. I'm pretty sure I only loved it so much because a guy falls in elephant doody.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat

Skoora posted:

The loving Clock Crew from Newgrounds.

HA HA! Everybody point at this guy and laugh!

knife_of_justice
Aug 12, 2007

103 and still BITCHIN'

Lonely Virgil posted:

That George of the Jungle movie from the 90's. I'm pretty sure I only loved it so much because a guy falls in elephant doody.

Harriet the Spy for me. I could also see the charm in George of the Jungle, but turned my nose up at Flubber, which was pretty much the same caliber of film.

I used to develop obsessions with any kids movie with farcical, interweaving plot threads. Richie Rich, the hideous 1996 film version of 'The Wind in the Willows', Tom and Jerry the Movie, and the Julian Lennon cat version of 'David Copperfield' (no relation to the book whatsoever) probably received more airplay in my parents' VCR than in some US theatres.

It's not surprising how revivalism tends to ignore the 90s completely, as though 1989 blended seamlessly into 2000.

Devil Wears Wings
Jul 17, 2006

Look ye upon the wages of diet soda and weep, for it is society's fault.

You Are A Elf posted:

Gangsta Rap.

To be honest, it was the early 90s and I was in middle school, so the marketing pretty much wrote itself for some 13 year old like me when albums like The Chronic and Doggystyle came out. I couldn't get enough of it thinking how hardcore and raw it sounded, and I was a doofus for trying to "bump" that poo poo in my first car's lovely stereo system in 1996. Gangsta rap kind of died off around 1997 with the likes of Master P and Puff Daddy outdoing each other with who had the shinier baggy suit and wider fish-eye lens for their videos, and I stopped listening to most commercial rap music around that time, even though I still had a soft spot for it.

When GTA: San Andreas came out, I revisited Gangsta Rap with Radio Los Santos, and even though the songs on that radio station are still pretty :krad:, I revisisted some dusty CDs of mine and found G-rap to be absolute garbage. I think the two biggest what the fucks from me are the persistent misogyny and the hilariously petulant name-calling toward other rappers in most songs that are the equivalent of two arguing children on a playground saying "YOU SMELL LIKE BUTT AND YOU ARE A DUMB BABY!". I will admit that only a handful of albums and songs are still classic, but so much G-rap is just poo poo, and I don't know what I was thinking.

If gangsta rap is terrible then I don't wanna be not terrible. :colbert:

He Who Wears Pants
Mar 18, 2007

Who's the 'King of Pop' now, bitch?

Inspector Zenigata posted:

Those make great hiking pants, though. Especially if it's a long-term trip. I always take a pair with me when I go on a months-long backpacking excursion.

Oh I'm sure, I can't count the number of times I used them for long-term hiking trips (because there is nothing to count [it didn't happen])

But for walking in too-big t-shirts and sneakers, they were atrocious and I would like to go back in time and pants myself.

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.
In theearly/mid 2000's (say, 2003-2006ish) I was WAY into PC mods. I had several PC Mod webnpages/blogs bookmarked, a couple forums I posted in, etc...

But I was also poor, so I couldn't afford cool PC cases/accessories, or even decent supplies to make my own. So I super-ghetto "modded my rig" with random electronics parts I salvaged from electronics I found in dumpster in college, and then from stuff at work (I had a job test/fixing lots of electronics, so plenty of things got thrown away.)

So lots of spray-painted cases, random-sized fans with badly-soldered LEDs of whatever random colors all over them, really badly cut-out "custom fan grills", etc...

Thankfully, I got even poorer and had less free time when I started grad school, so I stopped out of neccesity and then later when I got a real job again and had money, I realized how stupid that all was.

All that being said, I did take away one thing I still do with my PCs..."stealthing" the CD/DVD/Blu-Ray drives. :ninja:

I just have a simple, plain aluminum case, and I don't like "ruining" the sleek look of it, so my Blu-Ray drive has the metal insert that normally covers up the empty bay over the top of it so they all look like empty bays.

Kaboom Dragoon
May 7, 2010

The greatest of feasts

Tiggum posted:

I really loved Dogma when I first saw it, but thinking back now it seems like a really bad movie. I haven't rewatched it to find out, but everything I remember about it just makes me think "Wait, I liked this?"

I still enjoy some of his movies, but what got me was following him on Twitter. He just comes across as the most relentlessly smug, self-righteous douche. If he was at least funny, I'd let it slide, but nope.


DrBouvenstein posted:

In theearly/mid 2000's (say, 2003-2006ish) I was WAY into PC mods. I had several PC Mod webnpages/blogs bookmarked, a couple forums I posted in, etc...


Did you have biohazard logos all over your cases? Everyone I knew who was into modded cases had to have at least one biohazard sticker or case fan.

AcetylCoA!
Dec 25, 2010

whatshesaid posted:

Oh and of course I wanted to babysit when I was 12. I never got a job though. I've never liked kids, not even when I was one. Never understood them, what they're all about, and I never will. I just wanted to be a "normal" little girl who loves dolls and babies, even though deep down I didn't. Glad I grew out of that and became the rear end in a top hat I am today!

Oh good, I'm not the only one. "Why aren't I 'normal' like the BCC? When will I become like the BCC?"
Right up there with the Thoroughbred series - where every girl becomes a champion jockey and where every horse ridden by them is the next Secretariat/Zenyatta/Frankel and yet is somehow always the underdog.

cyberia
Jun 24, 2011

Do not call me that!
Snuffles was my slave name.
You shall now call me Snowball; because my fur is pretty and white.

Tiggum posted:

Are you calling PG Wodehouse trash? :psyduck:

Inspector Zenigata posted:

Yeah cyberia, I take serious exception to you knocking Wodehouse like that. I also genuinely don't get how his writing could be seen in any way "twee". Edit: dull and uninspired? Wodehouse? Seriously?

Calm down, guys. I didn't say Wodehouse was trash, it was all the 1970s Cold War stuff I read that was trash. Wodehouse is just far too British for an already precocious goony kid to be obsessively reading. It's the book equivalent of nerds that get way too into Monty Python and Blackadder and think it makes them comedy cognoscenti.

And yeah, I would call Wodehouse 'twee'. Sure he's droll, he's ascerbic and witty, but when you move past that the stories themselves are basically 'A Hugh Grant character awkwardly chases women but in the early 1900s'.

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

Kaboom Dragoon posted:

Did you have biohazard logos all over your cases? Everyone I knew who was into modded cases had to have at least one biohazard sticker or case fan.

Actually, no! I did have this sweet fan grill, though:


A slight improvement, I think?

Psychedelicatessen
Feb 17, 2012

The first Star Wars prequel and motherfucking Space Jam. I've worn down an old recorded VHS of Space Jam by rewatching and rewinding it too much, it was the raddest poo poo.

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Dec 15, 2013

Devil Wears Wings posted:

If gangsta rap is terrible then I don't wanna be not terrible. :colbert:

I think You Are an Elf explained why they don't like gangsta rap decently enough and with enough knowledge about the genre that I'd give them a pass. My tastes in gangsta rap skew more east coast than west coast anyway, though.

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