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BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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I think this car that parked outside my building belongs here.

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BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Iron Crowned posted:

DO you live In Ohio? Because I have seen this car driving in the wild.

Nope, Florida.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Busket Posket posted:

Everyone has their favorite Star Trek* Captain, but do you prefer Joel, Mike, or Jonah?





*no mod jokes

Kevin :colbert:

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:

The Joel episodes have too many esoteric references and name drops and the really early ones can be downright boring because of how little they actually riff. They also chose a lot of 50's B movies which just aren't that fun to riff because they suck for understandable reasons.

The Mike episodes have overall the best balance and they started picking movies that absolutely should not have sucked as much as they did, which makes them more interesting to watch even without the riffing just to see how bad they are.

The Jonah episodes, well, the first one is dire and the first season is a bit rocky, but the second season is a big improvement. They try too hard to cram in as many jokes as possible, so it comes off as forced compared to how natural Mike and Joel sound, but I actually think they're the funniest overall because more jokes per minute = more jokes that land overall. If you need convincing that the Jonah episodes are worth watching, start with "Mac & Me", it's probably my new all time favorite MST3K episode.

All of this, though I still refer you to the link under my avatar as evidence that Kevin is the real MST GOAT.

Or any of these songs he does for the Rifftrax live shows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nwXZF-ksSI

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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You want some 90s training videos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HpCJov3Uj0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbVDQKcxg00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=net7t1HjQxY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYjgHLFZMa0

This one in particular hits me as I worked in blockbuster in high school right at its peak in 2003-2004 (when they were finally leaning hard into DVD but still stocked a dozen VHS copies of each new release).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc_yHON1oiQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7JiQaKJcSc

It's probably lost to time, but I'd love to find a copy of the CVS photolab videos that I had to watch around 2002. Again, right at its peak before digital would utterly annihilate film cameras; I have a lot of those where I was in somewhere right before it died to new technology.

Overall fairly lovely jobs, but pretty great for a teenager at the time. So many memories....

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Len posted:

McDonald's had some flash looking videos and animations to teach you things.

Like their cover of Beat It?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kuA2G2lX5Q

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Mostly the internet was a mistake, but it's almost worth it to preserve these things for future generations.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Iron Crowned posted:

I really love those channels that are nothing but videos of big blocks of commercials from when someone recorded The Wrath of Khan off of TV in July of 1992.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who watches those. It has me teetering on buying a K'Nex Big Ball Factory set on ebay (this video should start at the right timestamp for that commercial).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDwWEQM-TnQ&t=223s

My rear end in a top hat father gave all of that poo poo away when I was at college. All the huge K'Nex and Lego sets, my NES and Genesis and all the games. poo poo's worth thousands now, and he just gave it away to clear some space without asking (he may have sold some at a yard sale but definitely not for anything remotely close to what it was worth).

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Iron Crowned posted:

They're things that are fun for an afternoon these days, now that I'm 40. I gave away all my Legos, NES, and Genesis and all the games when I left Kansas a decade ago because I couldn't fit them into my car.

The Legos went to a friend of a friend who took some of my furniture, they weren't very well off, and had a couple of kids with them, you should have seen the look on those kids' faces when I offered them a 60 gallon tub of legos.

Yeah I have a raspberry pi that emulates everything ever made from the Atari 2600 through the N64, but it'd be nice to have for nostalgia or to at least sell and get what they're worth to spend on other stuff.

It's more the principle of the thing, I was absolutely furious when I went home one xmas break thinking I'd grab a console to take back with me only to be told he cleared everything out the moment I walked out the door freshman year. At least ask so I could have said, "Unless it's going to one of my little cousins or something let me tell you what price tag you should put on those things and then send me the proceeds since they're mine."

Thankfully the Pokemon cards were safely at my mom's house and she just kept my stuff safe in the attic all these years.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Guy Axlerod posted:

My set came in this red plastic suitcase. Seems like everything came in suitcases:



I had a vinyl case sort of like that, I remember the plastic trays. But more importantly my great-grandma knitted a case with plastic canvas.

I had one of those for these little matchbox-like airplanes (really high quality die-cast metal, they were nice). It unbottoned to flatten out into the map of an airport, and part could be re-buttoned differently to become a control tower.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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dialhforhero posted:

Lori Beth Denberg was underrated.

She was the best part of All That to kid me, but she didn't seem to have a career afterward like so many others.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Len posted:

I'll stand by they killed the wrong Grey. Lexie should have stuck around and Meredith died in the plane crash

She was one of the only ones that wasn't a blatantly, ragingly terrible human being, a category of which the main character is the absolute worst example.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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I enjoyed that movie. But I was 10.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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My entry-point in the late 90s:



Apparently it's up on Steam for less than $2 right now.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Happy Landfill posted:

Bought some Chupa Chups from the Asian grocery store near my house since they were selling them by the register. I haven't had one of those goddamned things since '99, so I ate the three that I bought one right after the other

Edit: guess Chupa Chups are not 90s specific, but the first time I ever had them was because they were doing an ad campaign with the Spice Girls, so I associate them with the 90s, I guess



These were great. Our babysitter when I was a child was obsessed with them. We'd camp out the street corner to wait for the ice cream truck (we were on a little side street he wouldn't go down) and buy out the entire stock.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkWYP95WbbY

I'm watching the first episode and it's so hard to get through, I'm so embarrassed for everyone involved in this.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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I guess I can't even call this a derail since I can't think of anything that takes me back to the late 90s more than obnoxious fanboys shrieking about Star Wars ad nauseum.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Cartoon Man posted:

Was chatting about this in the blessed thread, this was one of my all time favorite shows as a kid.

https://youtu.be/bhef_fxMQP0

gently caress Ninja Warrior, bring this poo poo back! Get somebody at Netflix to make an adult version of this!

I hate to break it to you, but they did that already.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydp-vqaDzQM

....but it's not even close to as good, though :negative:

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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I don't know why that image perfectly captures my state of mind today, but it does.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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There's one in the plaza next door to my old apartment complex across town that's now a pizza place.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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This showed up in my feed just now for some reason: https://secretatlanta.co/save-the-video-store/



This weird poo poo posted:

A 75-minute immersive theatrical experience that transports you straight to the days of the low-rise jeans, just landed in Atlanta! Embark on an adventure at the heart of a true-to-life replicated video store, where a cast of employees, patrons, and their VHS tapes depend on your bravery to save the day.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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I can't believe that show is still going in the age of youtube.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Neito posted:

Flashbacks to Shaws for me.

gently caress yeah Shaws. I love going there when I visit my mom.

The other ones from my childhood were King Kullen (Long Island) and Food Lion (when I visited my grandparents in FL)

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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I do something similar, basically using two fingers "on top" instead of just the one. This just made me realize how little I write on actual paper in recent years. I always had a circular callus on the inside of my right ring finger from holding writing implements this way, but now it's completely gone.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Killingyouguy! posted:

Did y'alls teachers not cover how to properly hold a pen? Your grip looks painful to maintain for long

Not really, it was actually uncomfortable to do the thumb and one finger grip so I did what felt more natural to my hand :shrug:

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Unperson_47 posted:

Entertainment centers as pieces of furniture really are completely gone, aren't they? Gone the way of the wardrobe.

Just a natural consequence of new tech. Our tvs are so large right now that you basically lose the whole upper portion. Our peripherals are also shrunk way down, with the exception of the PS5 I guess, with no more big stereos or VCRs. So having just the bottom half with the tv resting on top makes sense, hence our modern tv stands. If you're not gamers, you have a tv, maybe a cable box, maybe a pretty slim blu-ray player?

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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gently caress yeah Quiz Whiz. I was obsessed with Jeopardy from a very young age so my family all raced to snap up the "easy" xmas gift that year...whatever was the new hot trivia game or toy.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Another thread mentioned Carrot Top and that triggered a weirdly vivid memory of a very 90s thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwHBK4wRH_U

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Randallteal posted:

Dang, I loved this show as a kid. Somehow I mentally combined it with All That in my memory though. Action Leage Now! was my favorite but I liked the weird claymation alien skits a lot as well.

Prometheus and Bob was the poo poo, Action League Now is a close second though.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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CelticPredator posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfs8hVNvVik

I had the drink one and the drinks tasted like sprite I think. But probably not. Probably tasted like nasty rear end fizzy chemicals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYdqNxuSjbY

I just thought that beakers and vials were badass

Fuuuuuuuck I had this. The drinks definitely tasted horrible.

All the tubing and such was impossible to clean (when kids barely think you should clean things to begin with), so it did not last long.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Ghost Cactus posted:

I had this! My mother was so disgusted that someone had given it to me that I was only permitted to use it in the basement. I also wasn’t allowed candy so I mostly just ate the powders, like a little gremlin, in the basement. The kit got so mouldy down there that I think I had to throw it all out after like a month.

I had the 90s versions of these (or the 80s versions). I remember them being browner/oranger. Might have been the radio shack versions.





Played with those a lot.

Holy gently caress I had both of these but that memory was buried until seeing this just now.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Milo and POTUS posted:

What's it supposed to do? I had a rock tumbler because that's more my speed

It was the electronics equivalent of a chemistry set, a kit of experiments to learn the basics of the components and some Ohm's law and such. The later experiments ramped up to some basic RC circuits and diodes and stuff, ending with building a basic AM radio.

Heath posted:

I had one in the 90s but I was probably too young for it.

Same but I was that kid who taught himself C++ and eventually started building robots in middle school, so it was awesome for me.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Handsome Ralph posted:

Nothing about this post in particular, just that I love your sphynx cat and that song is amazing :3:

This was a really nice thing to wake up to.

Pretty sure she's one of the mascots of the cute thread at this point.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Holy poo poo. This is another one of those things that I was sure I remembered from childhood but have never been able to find, so I eventually decided it wasn't a real memory.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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gently caress that image is burned into my brain.

Maybe this thread can solve a lost media mystery: I vividly remember an educational program from around that same era. It was specifically about science, and it took the form of a "virtual science museum" that you could click around to go to each exhibit that if you selected was a little movie about some science or engineering topic.

I remember one of the videos was a little rectangle dude with a hook(?) on top of its head "walking" down a road. It comes up to a river and there is a bridge, but the bridge needs to be raised up to connect the road. It tries pulling on the rope, going from green to yellow to red and then giving up after only raising it halfway. Then it tries a system with pulleys, and is able to raise the road with only moderate effort. It then crosses and walks off down the road, fade to black.

The other detail I remember is there was a game component in the "basement": There were several rooms filled with weird scientist NPCs that just stood there. You talked to each one and they'd tell you a science "fact". You then guessed if what they said was true or false. If you got it wrong, I remember this audio clip that would play when the "actually here's why you're wrong" text box popped up. It was an annoying male voice, and he just said, "Oooooooooooooooo no," in a disappointed and possibly condescending tone.

I cannot for the life of me remember the name of this program.

But I think in the past year I went through the same thing with another educational program that was about ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome and finally found it, so maybe I'll get lucky again and someone else will remember this weird poo poo.

That ancient Egypt game:



There's a site that has a lot of these types of games: https://www.old-games.com/download/10435/microsoft-ancient-lands

EDIT: Unrelated, but here's another classic (from 1989) that I remember from the early 90s:

BaronVonVaderham has a new favorite as of 23:18 on Dec 14, 2023

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Oh holy poo poo there was a trailer for Ancient Lands:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQfXHKGTGv8

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BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Grassy Knowles posted:

I do a lot of ‘inadvisable for beginners’ tasks on skates as someone who broke 4k miles skated in 2023 this week but there are so vanishingly few situations where skitching can’t fatally backfire that I haven’t done it once.

The documentary Back to the Future led me to believe this is completely safe and fun :colbert:

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