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Wheat Loaf posted:I feel as though big standalone action or disaster movies like Twister were the big box office blockbusters of the 90s or at least the second half of the decade - e.g. Independence Day, The Rock, Deep Impact, Armageddon, Air Force One etc. - but I don't feel like you really get movies like that now unless they're part of a franchise or are intended to start a franchise. Somewhere, a Hollywood executive just started planning a Disaster Movie Cinematic Universe. (I tried coming up with a description for what the big team-up movie would be like, but it was basically Sharknado)
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They were trying to get the youth vote, but it was before memes
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For my family, 9/11 literally led to us getting cable (and thus, Fox News) because most of the TV signal we picked up had been transmitted by the twin towers.
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The mid-90s were also a high watermark for CD mixing. Most mixing engineers had finally figured out how to actually have audible bass and keep everything at a reasonable average volume, so it didn't sound weak like most '80s CDs, but they hadn't yet figured out how to compress it all to hell. Until the end of the decade, right around Californication. We're only just now starting to recover from that garbage trend. The 2000's were very noisy.
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Iron Crowned posted:What is that font called anyway? It was all over everything in the 90's Looks a bit like Flexure but it's hard to tell.
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I've never liked Sublime, yet I still buy every album 311 puts out.  I think it's just because of the lead singer's delivery; there's something about it that strikes me as smug or something. Very subjective. Same reason I can't get into Cake even though, genre-wise, they really seem like something I'd love.
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Feb 26, 2018 14:51
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BraveUlysses posted:busta fuckin rules and is still good Same album, but also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PS3HdJHCs0
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wow such nintendo such graphic wow
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I will save whatever quarters I can just in case I need to use one of those stupid tire air filling stations. It's getting harder and harder to find any to save though.
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May 14, 2018 17:18
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AlternateAccount posted:Steven Tyler just did 3 hours on Joe Rohan’s podcast. Exactly what you think it is. Wow. You're getting your Tylers mixed up; that was Arwen on the Rohan podcast.
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May 22, 2018 02:12
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Randaconda posted:Jihad/Vampire: The Eternal Struggle was good. Illuminati was good too, and Steve Jackson Games was like the only company that saw the crash coming and pulled out early and din't get burned. But clearly, the makers of Jihad didn't see the crash coming
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Jun 4, 2018 14:16
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twistedmentat posted:Was there ever basic cable boobs in the US? Canada we had the French Channel with its Blue Nuit, and later Showcase and Bravos broadcast of indie and european movies including the best erotic movies Europe can provide. You could see straight up penetration in a few of them. Not really, but I think there were occasional late-night exceptions. In the early 2000s, MTV (or MTV2, who knows) would show uncensored music videos late at night, sometimes, including stuff like NIN's "Closer" and Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" which are both pretty out there. Comedy Central also showed the South Park movie and celebrity roasts uncensored late at night sometimes, not sure if they did other stuff like that, or how far the content went beyond cursing. (Saddam Hussein's dildo in SP:BLU is pretty explicit though.)
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Iron Crowned posted:When it comes to cable, they're not as regulated by the FCC like your over the air networks are. Cable channels are considered optional, so technically they could show boobs at noon if they really wanted to deal with the puritanical pushback. On the other hand cable channels have their own standards and practices departments that can actually be more strict than the FCC at times. There's been quite a few cases of working around the S&P restrictions coming up with some much better solutions than just calling someone an rear end in a top hat. Oh I know. I was just responding to that question. Legally they could show whatever they want any time. (With a few truly blatant exceptions I suppose.)
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enigmahfc posted:I still sing "Money shot!" when the time is appropriate (it's never appropriate, but still) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXlCjmLzNp0
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fast cars loose anus posted:This is the first U2 song I ever heard, and I felt extremely deceived when I listened to my dad's U2 CDs as a result because it's just about the least U2 song they've ever done and also the one song of theirs I've ever liked This is fairly true, but most of their '90s output is closer to this style than the rest of their stuff. Achtung Baby's got some bangers on it. Hard to believe it was their first full-length album after Joshua Tree, the U2-est album.
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Jun 13, 2018 13:20
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Wheat Loaf posted:That trend of "Music from and inspired by" soundtracks seems like an exclusively 90s thing. Thinking of the biggest soundtrack albums of the past five years or so, they're either all originals from the movies (Frozen, The Greatest Showman) or licensed songs that were played in the movie (Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel). Black Panther basically fits that mold, as far as I could tell only 2 songs from the soundtrack album appear in it (club scene and credits). Which isn't too surprising because it's actually some pretty raw stuff for a PG-13 Disney movie.
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Jun 14, 2018 13:23
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Grassy Knowles posted:Swasticoin Mein Koin, which would make for some really confusing discussions of how to mine Mein Koins
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Flaggy posted:Every graduation I went to in the 90's had this song. Including my own, for years afterwards this song was played. I was always wondering if that obvious ploy actually worked on anybody.
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Jun 19, 2018 16:10
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JediTalentAgent posted:I think someone made a comment as to why Disney songs tended to always win the Academy Award for best song was because Disney was able to get them a lot more pop radio airplay. Six of Ten 90s Best Songs Oscars went to Disney movies in the 90s, with 5 of those being to animated movies. Sort of a "chicken or the egg" thing but Disney was doing way less musicals around that time. Pixar (and imitators) were putting out all the big-name animated stuff and Disney's output was attempting to appeal to teenagers (with limited success). It's probably a cyclical thing, and they've realized the time is now right to target the children of people who grew up on Disney musicals.
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Randaconda posted:I was unaware Blur had more than one song, though. I mean... It's right there in the name
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Jul 3, 2018 13:33
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D&D was the weirdest Satanic Panic. I guess it's just because spells or whatever, but there's plenty of other fantasy that escaped unscathed. Whoever started that panic did a great job, because a lot of my parents' generation still have a deep mistrust of D&D even if they're pretty cool about other stuff.
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That's an excerpt from the upcoming Ready Player Two: The Late Night Wars
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Aug 14, 2018 13:36
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It was definitely The Sopranos. People had heard of HBO originals before, but everybody was talking about The Sopranos. Not that there was nothing being produced on that level before, but it was popular enough to convince a lot of other networks to put in that level of effort and money for a TV show. 24 was definitely the big influencer for serialization, but I think of these as 2 separate trends that happened to coincide, though they probably helped each other.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWo-02Hsab4
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It's basically the same thing currently happening to movie theaters. Consumer tech got good enough to give you the same experience at home and ultimately cheaper / more convenient / don't have to deal with annoying people or poorly maintained facilities. And once again we see them throwing whatever gimmicks they can against a wall hoping something will stick. I see a similar future for both: fewer venues, but they will serve beer
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As a New Yorker, I--1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Ehh, pizza is one of those things that goons get really weirdly snobby about and I find it's always best to ignore those derails when they happen. * Quietly passes over thread like the angel of death *
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Oct 9, 2018 13:48
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It seems like we're destined to have this crossposted in every thread, but it definitely belongs here. The new Grimes song definitely hits that late-90s nostalgia button pretty hard. Specifically that just-before-9/11 high-gloss metallic neon future vibe. Sort of like a cleaner-sounding Orgy or Powerman 5000 song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYG_4vJ4qNA
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Wheat Loaf posted:Does anyone else sort of like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the Brian Setzer Orchestra or is it just me? I still Stan for Brian Setzer, it may have been a fad but it's still drat good music. Maybe I'm just weird/old, but big band/swing music feels like it will always be appropriate in a certain context. Sort of like classical I guess.
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wow such britnay such spier wow
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Randaconda posted:Isn't Violator entirely about heroin as well? It's maybe roughly 75% about heroin. Songs Of Faith And Devotion, about 85%. Then Ultra is 100%.
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Pastry of the Year posted:
So that's what that Simpsons joke was about.
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If it was Doom it must've been a later release of it. I'm sure I would've cheated out the rest of the game if I could've. I don't think Doom 2 ever had a "shareware" version unless there was eventually something done retroactively. I think at that point they knew Doom was a license to print money which was why it was a full retail game instead of episodic like they had previously done. Sir Lemming has a new favorite as of 23:14 on Apr 24, 2019 |
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We just "rented" PC games from a local shop that I'm sure was totally authorized to do that. Fortunately my dad had a photocopier so we could also make copies of the pages of the manual that had the answers to the copy protection quizzes. We did uninstall the games eventually.
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Phanatic posted:You didn't need authorization to do it until 1990. First sale says once you've purchased a thing, it's yours to do with what you want. Video rental stores didn't need anyone's authorization to rent out the video tapes they purchased. In late 1990, though, Congress passed a law prohibiting software rentals without the authorization from the rightsholder. So if your games shop was renting before that it was totally in the clear . Well I rented Doom 2 so...
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Volcott posted:A network of self-reporting sexperverts. I thought our slogan was "The Internet Makes You Stupid". chitoryu12 posted:I think whether or not a metal or rock band was able to survive the 90s was dependent on whether their sound could actually be tweaked. Bon Jovi and Aerosmith had a harder blues edge to their sound, so even if their appearance was outdated the music was still distinctive and couldn't really be tied to a specific decade. Poison, Ratt, Dokken, and other hair metal bands were extremely 80s and took the genre's stereotypes to the point where they couldn't recover if the public turned on the genre. Guns n' Roses probably could have made it if Axl wasn't a lunatic. Your point is well taken, but Aerosmith was already firmly a legacy act at that point, they had a good 10+ years on Bon Jovi. They were well into their "every album is their comeback album" phase by then.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:After leaving the recording industry he opened a hot dog stand. It got a negative review entitled "You Give Lunch A Bad Name" in Bon Jovi Appetit magazine
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It's not exactly what this thread is for, but it's definitely 90s-related: The Bittersweet Symphony Dispute Is Overquote:For the last 22 years, The Verve haven't made a penny from Bittersweet Symphony, after forfeiting the royalties to The Rolling Stones.
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twistedmentat posted:Though was using the CD for the sound better than having sound files? Kinda. Being able to fit ≈650MB per disc instead of 1.44 was a pretty drat big jump. Games didn't immediately balloon in size to match, so they started exploring other ways to fill the space, which led to both crappy FMV games and Redbook audio. For the most part, game data loaded from the CD would reside in memory during actual gameplay (as reading from a CD is much slower), so the disc drive would basically be doing nothing until it had to load a new level or whatever. So it made sense to have the game tell the drive "play track 8" to give it something to do in the meantime, while also reaping the benefits of the best audio available at the time (losing some interactivity in the process).
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I used to do both! Hard to believe I had the time.
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