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>These guys think they're bad because they walk slow...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRiH3jNE7OY
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i heard the around the world WUBWUBWUBWUB remix at the gym again today and now i'm mad
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>>5012
I argue all remixes are terrible. I work with a guy that's too cheap to pay for a streaming service or buy albums but won't pirate, so he'll download remixes and covers as a loophole. I've heard enough butchered music to cement my opinion.
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>>4281
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>>5013
Never underestimate the power of a good remix. Ignore all the modern trash and listen to these.
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Do old internet remixes count?
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Those are always nostalgic. What comics from past do you like?
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Wormy, from The Dragon (what TSR's Dragon Magazine was originally named). But I was too young to read it from the beginning, I only found some back issues at local library. And the strip was already gone by the time I started buying the magazine in the late 80's. The author suddenly went MIA, and they replaced it with some very lame and boring comic strip featuring a chick with big tits (but that alone isn't enough to make a good comic). So I guess the new one was probably drawn by Larry Elmore, but I can't remember the name because it was so incredibly bland and boring.
Anyway now it's easy to find the entire Wormy saga in PDF. I guess they made it easy for us when they released (for sale) all the Dragon 1-250 issues on CDROM a long while ago...
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>>5103 (OP) 
I got hand-me-down comics from my older brother back in the '90s. I remember a few contemporary Superman issues. Archie too. There some black-and-white comics in what I believe would be considered digest form (I think there was an Archie one and ones with origin stories of Popeye and Superman) as well as some older comics I don't really recall. Those ones were old enough that they had those classic old-school ads. Pic related is one I always thought looked cool, but after seeing what the actual product looked like as an adult, I don't think I would have liked it as a kid. Speaking of ads, I had an Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade comic as a kid that had this Metal Gear advertisement that made me want to play the game. I was disappointed when I got around to trying it and it wasn't an action game like I was expecting. I think I mentioned that story in a different /retro/ thread. That ad is one of the main reasons I can remember that comic. Later on I remember even having one of those Kool-Aid Man comics. I'm not quite sure when that was. I'm positive there are more comics that I'm forgetting.

My mom had a pen pal who lived in England, and she was kind enough to send my family a bunch of British children's comics when I was like 10 years old. Like The Beano and that sort of thing. I really liked them. They felt like a breath of fresh air compared to the usual superhero comics. I rec
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Here are some gag comics I have just remembered.

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Anyone else here /retro/maxxing? I've realized there is no point in denying myself happiness and gigacoziness and I may as well go all in on my retro obsessions even if it's a bit weird. 

I could list a bunch of things I'm doing but I'll start with just a couple here

>film photography
I have never bought a digital camera and I have stopped being a NEET lately. I have a small comfy job so I have some money and I buy rolls of film on occasion and I carry a late '90s point and shoot camera with me almost everywhere I go. It's fun and super comfy. I also started developing black and white film myself, at home.

>computer
I have set up my windows machine to look like windows 98 (not completely accurate but I've changed over the icons and use a classic theme, etc. 

And on my linux machine I have set it up to look like some versions of UNIX from the late 80s to early 90s.

And for my browser I use Pale Moon and I have it set to look like Netscape.

>music
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>>5063
I hope this leads to other old home computers getting a renewed version. Like the Spectrum but especially like some of the rarer ones like the SAMCoupe or the Timex Sinclair.

>>5064
>I potentially want to see some older developers and composers getting some new work because of this
That would be great.
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>>5069
The ends are just basic composite connections.
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>>5092
just get an RCA-to-whatever adapter with an end that'll fit your speakers. Probably 3.5mm, but maybe yours are weird.
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>>5063
I bought the Commodore 64x case for mitx. They're still offering it. I tried to shill (raise awareness) of it over the years. Sean who's one of the people involved with this even though Perifractic is the point man is a great guy.
>>5072
Maybe you should tell that to Leo on his forum for 'Commodore' OS.
>>5087
Spectrum was already brought back?
>>5093
Yeah, that's what I figured. I'm going to have to see what I can find.

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Is it just me or was anything related to dinosaurs really fucking huge back in the 90's and very early 2000's?


You had the original Jurassic Park trilogy, Walking With Dinosaurs, Dino Crisis, Land Before Time, the Dinosaurs TV show, Disney's Dinosaur movie from 2000, even PBS kiddie shit like Barney.


Even the shitty 1998 Godzilla movie with Matthew Broderick tried to ape Jurassic Park.


Like, this was most obvious with children's media like Land Before Time and Barney, but you even saw it elsewhere in the 90's, like the Toronto Raptors


I guess the first Jurassic Park was where it all kicked off, considering how huge that movie was in the early 90's and a lot of the craze fittingly died down with Jurassic Park III, which was the worst of the original films in a lot of people's opinions (including my own)
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>>13 (OP) 
It kind of still is? Jurassic World is still out there, and there are games like  Dino Hazard: Chronos Blackout and Dinosaur Fossil Hunter, and there's band named Victorius that has at least two albums about dinosaurs and another band named Ultra Raptor, et cetera...
I mean, it might be not that mainstream, but mainstream today in general is a weird thing, as I really wonder who can even enjoy 90% of mainstream content. Yet obviously someone enjoys it, since it refuses to die out.
But among the non-mainstream stuff, dinos are still quite a big niche. You just have to dig for it.
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I've got some dino stuff saved here and there but most of it's way earlier than from 90/2000s or even the 80s.
>>4640
I think the "feather wars" might have split a lot of people on whether dinos are cool or not. Pop culture wise people prefer dragons to big birds.
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>>5039
In my own experience, it goes even further than that. I realized as I got older that I preferred the really antiquated depictions of dinosaurs over what it seems they were actually like. Especially the more fantastic versions from pop culture.
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>you just have to dig for it
>>3522
Found the Prehistoric Shark doc.
https://archive.org/download/shark-week-prehistoric-sharks-dc-1998

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>ITT: Vidya of the 90's and 2000's


Keep it limited to the scope of this board, so basically Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Generation consoles only for now. 


For those who don't know what consoles are part of which generation, here's a quick rundown of the time frame we're talking about...


>Fourth Generation: SNES, Sega Genesis/Sega CD
>Fifth Generation: PS1, N64, Sega Saturn
>Sixth Generation: Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, OG Xbox


Discussion of games from the Seventh Generation consoles (PS3/Wii/Xbox 360) is allowed as well, but I'd like the thread to mainly focus on the 4th-6th console genererations since the 7th Gen era carried over into the 2010's and a lot of the games from that era onward obviously have far more in common with modern gaming than stuff from the 16-bit consoles or the PS1 and PS2 eras.
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>>4969
Super shotgunning Mancubi is very satisfying, especially with the sounds they make. I'm more uncomfortable with the presence of that Arch-vile though. :^)
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>>4970
>Arch-vile
Damn I hate this mother fucker so much.
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>>4971
Total Arch-vile Death.
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been playing halo 2 again on the hueg and forgot how fun it was. playing it on hard instead of legendary since the latter is just painfully unfun. never realized how easy it was to go out of bounds in just about any level and walk around. still never found a single skull though.
it's also very much into the metalheart aesthetic, especially with its menus and UI. if you haven't played it something is wrong with you.
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2000s obscure media by Game Arts (creators of Lunar and Grandia series) with character design by Atsuko Nishida (Pokemon designer and Pikachu's creator)

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Does anyone know any free Neocities alternatives?
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>>2653
As far as I know it's kind of a neutral zone. Sure, there's trannies and furries all over the front page, but there's also a site for a /pol/ podcast and one from a self-proclaimed incel, and they've been around for a couple years. I'm not sure if it's because the admins are apolitical enough not to care unless you're spewing "NIGGERNIGGERNIGGER" or making legitimate threats, or if they only come down on you when you start criticizing trannies. Or if no one's reported them yet and I've probably jeopardized both sites by mentioning them.
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>>2655
The last blogpost is from 2019 so it might be on autopilot, could be tested by violating the TOS with a burner and reporting yourself from another burner.
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>>2659
How about no? There's absolutely no need to push the site admins' buttons like that. Neocities is most probably running on autopilot so let's keep it that way.
>>2640
fc2 looks like the only half-decent one and its like 80% either bots or indians
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>>2640
anyway, nekoweb is the only alternative to neocities i have ever encountered, but if neocities is too woke for you then i doubt youll prefer nekoweb

theyre individual websites, its not like you can get cancelled and tossed like its twitter

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I know this is gonna sound weird, but you ever feel a sense of nostalgia for hentai you enjoyed from back in the day?


The 90's and 2000's had some good titles, and I'll include a lot of the 80's titles in this as well since most of them didn't get released in the West until the 90's or early 2000's.


IIRC, Legend of the Overfiend came out in 1987 in Japan but did not get a release in the West until 1993.


I think the first three parts of the Urotsukidoji OVA was the first hentai release in America ever.


Central Park Media took the different OVA installments of Urotsukidoji and edited them into four feature-length movies, the first of which got a limited theatrical release in the 90's.

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>>4266
I have made progress; when I was in high school and university I was spending at least an hour jerking off every day and these days I can go several days at a time without having much or any desire to do so as long as I keep myself busy. I just wish that I could have enough self-control to stop myself when I get into these deranged benders that take up an entire afternoon.

One thing I have noticed is that my tastes have seemed to become gradually less and less extreme, especially over the last couple of years, and my fantasies are now mostly focused on a single woman or myself and a single woman.
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>>5 (OP) 
In a few ways I do, I'm fond of the stuff I grew up with, at the same time I feel it was bad for me to have access to so much stuff from such a young age with the internet and all, it made my brain less sensible to this stuff, to the point where when it was time to finally do it for real, I suffered from ED for months, even now I'm still not perfect, though I'm a lot better, and when I want to make sure I'll pull it off I just use some medication, which back then barely worked because my case was so bad, now it's a treat. Anyways, besides the ED, I feel like the constant need for more stimulus made me develop unrealistic expectations, and fetishes I don't feel proud off, but can't get rid off no matter how long I stay away from all kinds of pornography, I should've used it less.

It's a double edged sword for me.
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>bring up some good old fashioned hentai
>look over the pages robotically
>no longer horny
>imagine having a gf
>instantly very horny and very angry and very sad
Could just be me getting older, but when I was younger almost everything got me fired up really easily. It takes a lot more to titillate me these days.
I focus on AI these days with very carefully curated text erotica it can be great but only when I really manage to get immersed and don't end up writing stupid shit or the AI slopped everything up. I don't think I have changed much tbh, it's just that everything that's out there is so crappy. 70s and 80s porn and 00s early internet amateur kind of stuff was often pretty good and still is if you look at it now. If I open any regular pornsite nowadays I just get disgusted. The people are ugly and what they do is gross. I don't think it's me, either.
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>>4996
genAI porn is like having a bottomless pit in your brain. It's truly going to be the distinction between people who can control themselves and people who can only be led around by surges of brain chemicals.

Getting my mind back took years after I'd spent formative years training myself on "regular" porn. Having infinite media that looks 85% close to your mental image will do horrible things to the human mind.

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I want to go back. When browsing the Web felt like going on an adventure.

What substitutes for "Wild West" these days? All I can think of are Tor, Zeronet, and the vast array of imageboards. Discord can feel pretty wild too sometimes, that is if you can find the right servers.

Post what you know, please.
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Could you enable anonymous posting on usenet if you had a server with a single user whose name and password are public knowledge (e.g. anon; anon)? I mean, I see no technical reason you cannot do it right now, but I am not familiar enough with the technology and culture to decide if it would be a good idea.
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>>168 (OP) 
Vrchat , webXR, fediverse
>>176
ipfs recently been hosting dynamic dApps chats, forums with Orbitdb
https://hashchan.network 
https://plebchan.eth.limo/#/
https://plebbit.com

>>371 
we had local city wide wan ethernet 20 years ago. not much anymore.
>>4237
kewl
>>168 (OP) 
yup
>>4746
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I see problem of bubbles.
Like boards/chans/webring bubbles, that are hard to escape.

thoughts:
- try non-web, p2p protocols. (dApps today is pretty wild west). Nothing scary about blockchain, or holochain. Just review the source and compile it locally.
- I'm not interested in yet another entertainment brainrot web page. I want to see project management systems where communities collaborate, create, work together. 

ah, https://radicle.xyz/ btw
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>>4943
I don't know anything about stuff like this, but Plebbit and Plebchan look interesting. How do they plan on dealing with illegal content, exactly? If it's a peer-to-peer system, wouldn't that that be a legal liability for users if unscrupulous characters decided to shit a board up with cheese pizza or whatever? I know people have mentioned that being a problem with torrent-style frameworks for imageboards and such in the past.

I can't say I'm a fan of the name either. Reddit will always be Plebbit to me.
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>>4945
Never mind. From what I've just read, their way of getting around that is that they don't actually host images themselves.

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Which ones are your favorites?

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>>4612
The subtle background continuity for each of the characters had great payoffs in later seasons.
- Malcolm goes from middle school to high school to considering college and potentially getting into foreign exchange programs.
- Reese discovers he's an incredibly gifted cook, but has more fun beating up nerds so he squanders his potential.
- Dewey gets put into a class for emotionally stunted kids and turns to music in order to have some kind of emotional vent.
- Hal's company gets investigated for CEO embezzlement and everyone conspires to pin the blame on him, but because he's been such a bad employee over the years he physically couldn't have done what he's been accused of.

I think the only real exception to this is Lois getting pregnant and having another kid, although I suspect that was due to Jane Kaczmarek having a kid IRL.
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>>4613
The webms only have background music and sound effects, no speech... Are they supposed to be like that?
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Must be a browser issue on your end. They played fine on my machine in MPV.net and the opera.webm is working on LibreWolf when I play it here. 

joke.mp4 and eggs.mp4 don't load for me, either inline or when viewing the source. Perhaps these webms will work.
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They're all playing for me now.
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Just saw the Double Dragon film, and it was unironically a very etertaining movie. Yes, it was silly and extremely stupid, but it also had something "earnest" about it inronically enough. Much more so than all of the recent productions that try to "replicate" that cheesiness of 90's sci-fi and fantasy films.

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My grandfather introduced me to "All in the Family" the other day, and I started binge watching it out of a sense of...how edgy it was.  Like this is something that would not come out today.
Some time ago, I was reading some old Usenet posts and thought, "Holy cow, how did this not get banned/deleted?"  Post/users like that would just immediately get scrubbed now.
I recently saw "Freddie Got Fingered" and was kind of amazed that that was in theaters.

Was the 90s more tolerant than today?  Was everything really this edgy?  Or is this some sort of weird survival bias?  The only thing today that I can think of that comes anywhere close is Southpark, but I'm not sure that counts because Southpark came out in the 90s.
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>>4581
Newgrounds was losing relevance after the death of flash, so when Deviantart and Tumblr went to shit NG pivoted to being the "alternative" art website. Come to think of it NG was always full of degenerates so I'm not too worried about them, I would only worry about the censorship culture that permeated DA/Tumblr seeping into NG.
My mom watches this sometimes and she told me that they put a disclaimer before the reruns claiming that the show doesn't represent the views of the network airing it because of how "outdated" it is despite being edgy when it was airing.
>>4516 (OP) 
As others have already pointed out, Archie Bunker's character was written as satire, much like Homer Simpson.  That is to say that media provides prescriptive rather than descriptive depictions of society.

It's a relatively small group of people who decide what to prescribe as "real", so I wouldn't put any stock in the fact that such-and-such used to be considered kosher.
Well OP, people weren't such political correct pussies back then. This is how they could laugh at someone like Archie Bunker. Now that commies have politicized everything, you can't do anything but either propaganda or something like the Care Bears.
There was some of this, sure, but the bulk of daytime TV was squeaky clean, especially the stuff on network TV over the rabbit ears. After hours (8 or 9ish) this stuff came on, especially if you had cable TV.

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