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Naked Man Punch posted:Coincidentally, that call came up on my MP3 player on my commute today. I have it listed as one of Opie and Anthony's bits - but I've never bothered to validate that. Real Networks is still around and kicking. They've pivoted a number of times and right now their big product is a facial recognition suite aimed at schools.
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It feels like a massive missed opportunity if their slogan isn't "Burgers so good it will make you praise the lord."
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Iron Crowned posted:I insist that the 80's didn't start until September 16, 1984 Miami Vice?
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:There was(and to a lesser extent still is) a belief among the hard liners of the LGBTQ community(and even elsewhere) that Bi doesn't really exist it's just people too afraid to commit or even looking inattention by fishing in a shallower pool. Mostly gatekeeping assholes that also tend to be TERFS so gently caress them. It's gotten a bit better, I'm much less likely to have a gay man tell me bisexuality doesn't exist and those types are more likely to just go Ewww and believe in bad bi stereotypes. My bi/pan female friends seem to get it much worse from the lesbians but better than it was in the 90s. But gold stars are apparently still a thing. And if you're gonna go with musicians popular with lesbians, don't forget Melissa Etheridge ,who came out in 1993 and was a big deal because she came out right before her first big hits. And K.D. Lang who wasn't as musically successful but had a Vanity Fair photoshoot with Cindy Crawford that got a lot of attention.
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mind the walrus posted:It does seem to be a case where the most prominent early voices in bi/pan communities were those who were super into sleeping around for one reason or another and it really jaundiced the people already disposed to be possessive jackasses. "Oh so now you're telling me I need to be worried about everyone as a sexual rival!?!?!?!" I'm not sure that's all of it. My ex-wife was firmly convinced that as a bisexual I had two sex drives that had to be sated. One for women, one for men. Discussions about gender being more complicated than that were met with "I'm a nurse, I know biology better than you".
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twistedmentat posted:With the stripes, it would make it seem like the kids were in old timey prison. USA's Up All Night
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Ferrule posted:f them. So many nights staying up hoping for a boob shot because TV guide said that movie contained nudity... Tune in during the middle of a movie hoping it would be hosted by Rhonda Shear only for Gilbert Gottfried to kill any chance of an erection.
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Pastry of the Year posted:I love Gilbert and whoever decided to cast him as the host of such an event absolutely had a moment in which they thought "I cannot believe I'm actually getting away with this" Along with Joey Lawrence and RuPaul. MTV had a documentary thing they did about Spring Break and as per Ed Lover, the tapes from that were destroyed.
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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? A cousin got a baseball shaved into the back of his head. Then my uncle smacked him in the back of the head and shouted "Home run". The rest of us decided not to do it after that.
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My dad was a mechanic and owned a garage. And to pay off my AOL bill, I spent my weekends cleaning it. Where I would constantly be finding porn. Move a box? Find some porn under it. Put some manuals in order, find some porn mixed in. It was like an Easter egg hunt. But with porn.
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Ok Comboomer posted:lol at your dad just constantly cranking it at work It was five mechanics plus my dad. I'm pretty sure they were all jerking it.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I thought combo meals have existed way prior to the 80's. Maybe it was late 80's where the menus started prominently featuring them and numbering them? The Extra Value Meals were introduced in 1991. They came out of the fast food pricing wars of the late 80's/ early 90's
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:RIP Lynne Thigpen. Carl Tart did a pretty fantastic Chief on Comedy Bang Bang. I remembered her, and I remembered Rockapella but I didn't remember the host at all.
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Sweevo posted:The 90s thought diversity meant a bunch of white kids with different colour hair. Don't forget the use of "positive" stereotypes. Black kids are athletic. Asian kids are good at math. Native American kids are in touch with the Earth.
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FilthyImp posted:The rumor was Malibu went under because of the game studio and then was acquired by Marvel for their digital printing setup. The rumor was that the IP has payout requirements that Marvel didn't want to pay out. But Joe Quesada denied this and said the real reason would require airing dirty laundry. So it's possible Marvel is being cheap or there is some sort of #MeToo thing at Malibu that Marvel would prefer to keep buried.
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twistedmentat posted:There was that period where everything was just white boys singing melancholy songs about how much they love you. A lot of them. Old Town Road, Despacito, etc. This years was Good 4 U. An angry pop punk breakup song feels fitting for the year.
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Neito posted:I'm glad it's not in general use, but "wigger" is part of a long, weird causal chain that ends with "weeaboo" and every time I think about how that term started I snicker a little. It's gone farther than that. Wehraboo came after that. It's used for people who are either Nazi sympathizers in history circles or for people who claim not to be but have a hell of a lot Nazi/SS memorabilia.
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PhotoKirk posted:There were a bunch of mediocre to great naval warfare sims back in the 80's/90's. Harpoon, Red Storm Rising, 688 Attack Sub, Silent Service, Silent Hunter, etc. Hmm Silent Hunter. Murdering people with math. And explosive warheads. But mostly math.
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dialhforhero posted:Master of Orion was my entry into grand strategy/4x games. MoO II for me.
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DrChu posted:Wasn’t the split files also due to things being distributed on Usenet? Yep. Originally Usenet had a 60,000 character limit per message. So you'd use something like uuencode to convert binaries to massive text strings. But you'd have to break it up. Over time the limit per message went up but I don't remember the timeline for that.
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GWBBQ posted:OK, so why the gently caress do people still split files up into spanned archives these days? Some hosting services have limits for what people can download without a paid account. For people on poo poo connections, downloading chunks might be more successful than trying to grab large files.
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Waldenbooks was my first retail job. By retail standards it wasn't bad. Sunday nights I would get the 6pm to 12 am shelving shift. There is something very relaxing about taking a cart of books and just putting them in alphabetical order. Two other coworkers did that shift and we had full control of the sound system. So we'd each put in a few CDs and hit random. You'd get this mix of 90's metal, showtunes and bits from comedy albums. Which shouldn't work but it kind of did. And I got to take part in this:  That was a pretty good day. Hung out with a bunch of TSR people, gave away a gently caress ton of swag, didn't have to go near a register, and got an attaboy from my manager for selling 10000% of the RPG sections sales total for the year in one day.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Back then you could ask him if you'd get a bonus without getting reprimanded for a bad attitude She, but yeah. She was a pretty good boss, and a great one for retail. No random fuckery with the schedule. When she needed coverage, she didn't ask someone to close who was opening. She might not have given me the raise if I asked but she would have just said no. And not tried to imply I was an rear end in a top hat for wanting it. Also it was the queerest place I ever worked. Everyone there was either LGBT+ or an ally.
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 The only pods from the 90's that mattered.
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dialhforhero posted:This will forever live in my head as being peak awesome and nothing has ever matched it. At the place I went to, the leagues turned on a bunch of stuff with the side displays. So you could customize them and use them as various read-outs. Also it would make it so heat was a bigger factor. But yes, those pods made my inner 12 year old scream with glee. They were loving awesome.
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uber_stoat posted:yeah i was gonna say, it still needs a lens. how do they design around that. Anti-graffiti coatings exist. They go on clear enough to not interfere with a traffic cam. Spray paint just runs off.
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minato posted:didn't someone here have a story about how a cop handed around 2 joints to a classroom so everyone knew what they looked like, and made it very clear that if he didn't get them back there'd be hell to pay. When he got them back there were 3. All the stories I heard were the reverse. Two joints go out and zero or one come back.
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Majere posted:I really wish someone would set up a server for the old Neverwinter Nights on AOL. So much I never got to do before it got shut down. Of course I started playing just as AOL went unlimited so Lord Nasher was always blocking the gates, and would wait for sometimes hours mashing the retry button. Someone did a version of it with the non-MMO Neverwinter Nights.
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Majere posted:Oh cool is it the Rosedragon site? Frua.rosedragon.org No idea. I only saw it in passing long ago.
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mind the walrus posted:It's also so surreal to me that like, Batman Returns, Iron Man 3, and of all things Gremlins are all heavily winter/christmas-themed yet were dropped right in the heat of summer For Iron Man 3 at least, it's because almost all of the films Shane Black does as a director or writer are set around Christmas time. He does it to tie into the human bonding element that also tends to be a theme in his movies.
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