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Prof. Spaceman posted:I have to wonder how their business model worked since from an outside perspective it seemed to just be Googling the word "college" with extra steps. Many dot com bubble companies were 'googling _ with more steps' so it's entirely possible
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Necronomicon posted:I remember seeing the New Pornographers and Aesop Rock and I think Boris at Pitchfork festival in Chicago in like, 2006? I had really long hair and I rolled my own cigarettes. My pants were so baggy. Oooo I have two kids now! I'm 40. My first SA account was from 2000. It got banned because I forgot to turn off my FYAD signature while posting in GBS. Goatse was almost assured.
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Tall Tale Teller posted:My first SA account was from 2000. It got banned because I forgot to turn off my FYAD signature while posting in GBS. Goatse was almost assured. That reminds me that I originally tried to get an SA account circa late 2004. I was visiting the site for all of college (2000-2004) but PAY...to POST?! That's asinine! But then once I got a Real Job, I figured I had $10 to waste, but it never let me register. I lived VERY far up north in NY, like...less than ten miles from the Canadian border. Whatever payment processor SA was using at the time somehow thought I WAS in Canada (I'm guessing just a reverse IP lookup and some assumptions off of what Ip ranges were for what country? Not entirely sure) and since I was trying to use a US-based debit card/bank, it kept flagging it as possible fraud and didn't let it go through. It wasn't until I moved back to VT that I could finally buy my account. So what I'm saying is, will some mod please update my reg-date to 2004, to accurately reflect howe many years of my life have been wasted here, TIA.
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I lurked for probably three years before buying an account because we were so broke that $10 was better spent on groceries or fuel oil. Long story short I have two teenagers 😭
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I was going through my old LiveJournal that I had when I was in high-school and there was a post I made in summer 2008 that linked to Leovinus's FF8 LP in the Archive saying something like, "check this out this is sooooooo funny XD XD". Would lead me to the forums as well a short time later and I've been here ever since. Definitely wish I reg'd back then, but yeah, still in HS and could not spare  to post on an internet forum Funny enough I was linked to the LP Archive from TV Tropes "Controls work just like a VCR" 
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I got an Instagram suggestion of a top 10 list of songs that turn 20 years old today, and weirdly most of them suck (imho), even with nostalgia on their side. "Bring Me to Life" (Evanescence)? "Stacy's Mom" (who the gently caress ever)? Ugh. 2003 is 20 years ago...   edit: there should be a :corsmith:
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YeahTubaMike posted:2003 is 20 years ago... That can't be right, because 1995 was only 10 years ago, 12 tops.
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My dad literally called me up the other night to gloat that Anchorman (a movie I saw in theaters) is 20 goddamned years old. I told him, "gently caress you. gently caress off" and hung up.
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Happy Landfill posted:My dad literally called me up the other night to gloat that Anchorman (a movie I saw in theaters) is 20 goddamned years old. I told him, "gently caress you. gently caress off" and hung up. You just released like 50 quotes now bouncing around my head you need to apologize to everyone who I run into for the rest of the day
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In high school of 2002-2003 I tried telling people about somethingawful, but it was blocked on the school network. So on a few occasions I would print out the guides to Starcraft or Counter-Strike and pass them around computer tech class. We eventually figured out out to circumvent the school filter using translation portals (Altavista's babelfish at the time)
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Milo and POTUS posted:Wait SA had Starcraft and counterstrike guides? https://www.somethingawful.com/guides/guide-amazing-world/1/ https://www.somethingawful.com/guides/guide-how-win/1/
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Grassy Knowles posted:You just released like 50 quotes now bouncing around my head you need to apologize to everyone who I run into for the rest of the day I will not 
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Grassy Knowles posted:You just released like 50 quotes now bouncing around my head you need to apologize to everyone who I run into for the rest of the day The Human Torch was denied a bank loan. I was reading the main page as early as 2002 in 10th grade; any period we had in the school library was spent goofing off there or on Maddox's page, or TheOnion. I don't think I bought an account until about '05 (EDIT: Oh wow, not until '07 when I was off in college, I guess I did spend those intervening years on 4chan instead) but yeah, people were so incredulous that I PAID MONEY to post on an INTERNET FORUM??? But I've always been like "best :tenbux: I ever spent" in response. For other content, I stopped by this vegan pop-up place for lunch today, I'd been meaning to check it out and was walking home that way. In The End by Linkin Park was playing and the shop owner and I reminisced about nu-metal for a while. We both shared the opinion that we sort of took it for granted back when it was popular and a lot (but certainly not all) of it deserved way more credit. Even Limp Bizkit were good, in retrospect. I pulled out this old chestnut: "Show me a 35-year-old man who doesn't at least kind of dig Limp Bizkit, and I'll show you a liar."
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I'm pretty sure in 2001 I found a way to email a mod and offered to send them a money order for to make me an account since I was in high-school and didn't have a credit card. Then I found out you could just use one of those prepaid visa things.
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Happy Landfill posted:My dad literally called me up the other night to gloat that Anchorman (a movie I saw in theaters) is 20 goddamned years old. I told him, "gently caress you. gently caress off" and hung up. Well that escalated quickly.
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I get what you're saying here, but the fact that it's gaining traction at pop-up vegan restaurants really just solidifies the fact that nu metal has always been kind of a joke.
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Well, while we're here talking about '00s music, Fight Night 2004's soundtrack absolutely loving ruled. "Fighting in the Club" and "Crank it Up" made it onto my "songs of all genres that are my jam" playlist.Mister Speaker posted:In The End by Linkin Park was playing and the shop owner and I reminisced about nu-metal for a while. We both shared the opinion that we sort of took it for granted back when it was popular and a lot (but certainly not all) of it deserved way more credit. Even Limp Bizkit were good, in retrospect. I pulled out this old chestnut: "Show me a 35-year-old man who doesn't at least kind of dig Limp Bizkit, and I'll show you a liar." 1) I still remember that feeling of popping the Hybrid Theory CD into my stereo, then "Papercut" starting to play, then my mind being completely & utterly blown. Maybe I was just sheltered or something, but up until that point, most of my music taste was from my Gen X gangsta rap loving uncle, the first five Offspring albums, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. Not a whole lot of nu metal in my system when Hybrid Theory came out. 2)  And I'm a 36 year old woman, and I don't care what anyone says -- aside from the weird part at the end of the Spotify version, "Boiler" owns.
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I still remember the first time I was on the phone with my best friend at the time and she put the phone up to her tv so I could hear In The End for the first time. That was officially the start of my Alt Rock phase and I never looked back (sorry S Club 7) Edit Who else remembers how they felt at 5 min to midnight on December 31st 1999? 
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I ignored and mocked Linkin Park and basically all music while a teen. 15 years later when I was no longer "above it" I gave their discography a listen. Pretty good, I'm still not a fan of nu-metal which is why Thousand Suns was the only album I kept on a playlist. Still I feel bad about avoiding a ton of stuff I would've potentially liked out of fear of change, a loss in identity, or affiliating with some notion of a stereotype. Happy Landfill posted:Who else remembers how they felt at 5 min to midnight on December 31st 1999? Somewhat panicking, in case the armageddon would happen. The media certainly didn't help. As a kid there was not much other reason to think that new year's eve being anything special beyond the novelty of all the digits changing, and marketers slapping "2000" on the name of everything.
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Happy Landfill posted:Who else remembers how they felt at 5 min to midnight on December 31st 1999? I don't, but I remember the good old aftermath   Side notes: - Bryana was my diary's name, named after Bryan (Dexter) Holland from The Offspring but obviously I couldn't tell all my deepest secrets to a boy  - I was 12 when I wrote this; not sure where I thought I was going to buy cigarettes. - I just included the Gigapets part for added late '90s/early '00s ery. je1 healthcare posted:Somewhat panicking, in case the armageddon would happen. The media certainly didn't help. As a kid there was not much other reason to think that new year's eve being anything special beyond the novelty of all the digits changing, and marketers slapping "2000" on the name of everything. I remember some segment in the daily news about "millennials" in which "millennials" were specifically defined as people who would become teenagers in the year 2000 (such as myself). Not sure about the contents of the article, but I'm guessing it was pretty unremarkable and that I wouldn't remember that it existed at ALL if "millennial" hadn't eventually become a mainstream term.
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Gigapet I had the pink kitty one
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I had a couple of off-brand ones and I named one of them "Kevin Jr." after Kevin (Noodles) Wasserman from The Offspring. You know, in hindsight, I think I kind of liked The Offspring.
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je1 healthcare posted:I ignored and mocked Linkin Park and basically all music while a teen. 15 years later when I was no longer "above it" I gave their discography a listen. Pretty good... I feel both of these points. I did mock a lot of popular music in highschool but came around to it pretty quickly. I sort of feel the same way about American Idiot, we made fun of Green Day 'selling out' but in retrospect that album is an anthemic masterpiece and who gives a gently caress about selling out anyway. And I distinctly remember hearing Alexisonfire for the first time and saying out loud "these guys would be great if they lost that screaming rear end in a top hat" and now they're one of my favourite bands. Re: the latter, yeah in hindsight I wish I'd gone to some raves back in the day, gotten into the scene earlier and solidified it in my mind as a passion and a career. Still working on that one later in life. I was just too insecure and introverted and never took in the music I really liked anywhere other than a pair of headphones.
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Happy Landfill posted:Gigapet I had the orange kitty one myself.
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Mister Speaker posted:And I distinctly remember hearing Alexisonfire for the first time and saying out loud "these guys would be great if they lost that screaming rear end in a top hat" and now they're one of my favourite bands.
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I've occasionally attempted to give Linkin Park a listen but I just can't do it. The main singer is so loving painful to listen to. He later went on to kill himself, right? I feel bad because like, it really makes this screaming agonizing angst ridden stuff seem authentic... but it's still just screaming agonizing angst ridden stuff that is painful to hear. I want to slap him. I see like a 13 year-old me in these lyrics and I want to slap me.
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^^^ He was actually a really good singer. The whiny stuff got the radio play, but dude could belt. RIP  Darthemed posted:So is it ‘Alex Is On Fire’ or ‘Alexis On Fire’? I had one of their stickers on my high school computer tower just because I had a cousin named Alexis whom I hated. The latter. They got the name from a pornstar who threatened to sue them over it.
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Mister Speaker posted:I sort of feel the same way about American Idiot, we made fun of Green Day 'selling out' but in retrospect that album is an anthemic masterpiece and who gives a gently caress about selling out anyway. Nah, gently caress that, I will hate "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Wake Me Up When September Ends" until the day I die. credburn posted:I've occasionally attempted to give Linkin Park a listen but I just can't do it. The main singer is so loving painful to listen to. He later went on to kill himself, right? I feel bad because like, it really makes this screaming agonizing angst ridden stuff seem authentic... but it's still just screaming agonizing angst ridden stuff that is painful to hear. I want to slap him. I see like a 13 year-old me in these lyrics and I want to slap me. He did, and like, I feel bad about hating "In the End" for this reason, but at the same time, I can't just UN-hate it, you know? The fact that the lyrics come from an actual place don't make them seem less trite or hollow, and of course, there's also the actual tune.
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Darthemed posted:So is it ‘Alex Is On Fire’ or ‘Alexis On Fire’? I had one of their stickers on my high school computer tower just because I had a cousin named Alexis whom I hated. a Lexus on fire
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credburn posted:I've occasionally attempted to give Linkin Park a listen but I just can't do it. The main singer is so loving painful to listen to. He later went on to kill himself, right? I feel bad because like, it really makes this screaming agonizing angst ridden stuff seem authentic... but it's still just screaming agonizing angst ridden stuff that is painful to hear. I want to slap him. I see like a 13 year-old me in these lyrics and I want to slap me. I always appreciate the chance to do little musical thought experiments like these, i.e. if I had to pick one song to prove Chester Bennington was a great vocalist, which would it be? I think I've landed on "I'll Be Gone". It's from a later album so he's matured a bit, and it shows off most of his range, except for the guttural screaming he was also capable of. I submit that the song couldn't possibly be as sonically interesting with almost any other vocalist because it really plays to the unique multiple facets of his voice -- the specific timbres he slips into during different types of singing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1wM5ljye28 There are still quite a few songs where I find him grating (even on later albums), but I've made peace with it. Edit: It's also worth noting that after the first 2 albums, Mike (the guy who rapped) became more comfortable taking on some of the singing parts and so you got a little more variety & texture, which also helped. They got more intentional about when to use a more "normal guy" singing voice (Mike) and when to let Chester do his thing. So you got more stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qF_qbaWt3Q Plus some fairly out-there vocal experiments from Chester like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpfRXSHb-6Y Sir Lemming has a new favorite as of 04:16 on Aug 16, 2023 |
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Getting a copy of Hybrid Theory was a big deal for me in high school but I honestly don't think I listened to more than the singles on it. I remember convincing my dad to drive me into the city to get a copy. I can't say I even enjoy LP now, I think it faded from my consciousness pretty quickly when I discovered Pink Floyd and The Beatles. For whatever reason I just took a lot more readily to the classic rock stuff. Napster was a huge influence in that regard, since I could just find music that was otherwise inaccessible to me but that I was curious about. I think the sense that I "discovered" it on my own rather than it being what was popular among my peers at the time, and I still really love those bands.
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Happy Landfill posted:I still remember the first time I was on the phone with my best friend at the time and she put the phone up to her tv so I could hear In The End for the first time. That was officially the start of my Alt Rock phase and I never looked back (sorry S Club 7) It was a pretty good day. I got this cool action figure that I don’t remember what brand it was but it was this 12 inch guy with computers and poo poo. I don’t think he was max steel. Def not GI JOE But that night we all partied hard. I was too young to drink but i vibes with it anyway. And then when it hit midnight there was definitely a slight nervousness but then we shot fireworks out in the backyard including a really messed up Titanic branded one lol
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My most vivid memory from NYE '99 was of my cousin singing along to Fastball's "The Way", and I wouldn't know the title of that song until like, last year when I googled some half-remembered lyrics. That, and me and my cousins all running and hiding under the table at the stroke of midnight because we thought there would be a big earthquake or something. IDK, we were like 10-12 years old.
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Happy Landfill posted:Fastball's "The Way" I know this is hella '90s, but that song is the reason I bought NOW 1 on tape. 
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Song is also inspired by true events that are actually pretty drat tragic:quote:Fastball frontman Tony Scalzo came up with the idea for the song after reading articles that described the June 1997 disappearance of an elderly married couple, Lela and Raymond Howard from Salado, Texas,[5] who left home to attend the Pioneer Day festival at nearby Temple, Texas, despite Lela's Alzheimer's and Raymond recently recovering from brain surgery. They were discovered two weeks later, dead, at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, Arkansas, hundreds of miles off their intended route.[6][7] The authorities who investigated the accident believed that Lela, who was driving the car, was trying to locate a place where she had once vacationed.[8] But I like the sort of "bittersweet" twist they took on it, where the couple DECIDED to just drive off, one last time, leave it all behind. 
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It's a really good song that managed to elude me for many years. Everytime I caught it on the radio I always missed when they announced who sung it or the name of the song. Not sure how I missed that it was Fastball since I really liked "Outta My Head". Also, Fastball's been putting out music this whole time! They just released an album last year, actually
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Happy Landfill posted:Who else remembers how they felt at 5 min to midnight on December 31st 1999? I don't specifically remember, but knowing me, I was probably fuming about the nonstop hysteria over Y2K. In fairness, the media would not shut the gently caress up about Y2K through most of the second half of 1999. It was a legitimate problem but the media jumped on it because sensation always sells.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I don't specifically remember, but knowing me, I was probably fuming about the nonstop hysteria over Y2K. To give elon one single thing, his changes to twitter have caused more system outages than y2k ever did.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:In fairness, the media would not shut the gently caress up about Y2K through most of the second half of 1999. It was a legitimate problem but the media jumped on it because sensation always sells. I remember loving Nickelodeon having commercials that basically amounted to “it’s just a new year, main this is all 4 numbers change at once which makes it extra special, that’s it” during the same time so many people were preparing for it to instantly be the first five minutes of Terminator 2 when the clock struck midnight (In their timezone).
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