/retro/ - Y2K

>>4747
Agora Road? Yes, used to post there more but it's been pretty crowded as of late. Also the demographic seems to have shifted the last couple of years by about 10 years: it's not 20 and 30 year olds as it used to be, it's 15-25 year olds that are there for the aesthetic. I'm not dunking on it, I was into forums at 13, but the tone is way off as the posters were like 5 when vaporwave was in full swing and not even sperm when the retro stuff they profess to enjoy existed. Again, not dunking, it's great they enjoy it, but I feel like the old guy with kids zooming around the room. 
Also bots... some of the members were playing with AI last year and it looks like the models have gotten better. Feels like a handful of honest posts with AI regurgitating the schizo ramblings with the exact same tone but no new insight lately.

>>4748
Similar feeling. I just chat with the old computer nerds at work for my retro fix. They enjoy talking about 1990's tech as much as I do. 

I don't really have an interest in the "Terraria everything" push; nothing for me there. 

Won't that be crazy? Slab phones and apps as retro though.

I have nowhere else to talk about this so I'll post it here

I went to the zoo recently, no phone, just my camera, with some friends, and it was pretty good. It kind of felt like the good old days if that makes any sense

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>>4800
Glad you enjoyed it anon, are you gonna share some photos with us?

>>4802
Maybe later if I remember.

>>4786
That Kirby commercial was slick, transitioning between the animation and gameplay footage so smoothly.

>>4786
Really enjoyed the Kirby and the stop-motion one. The other one I found a bit repellant (though I love car racing).

Thanks, Anon! Please post more if you have them.

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>>4787
>>4788
Glad you anons liked them, that Kirby one is a personal favorite of mine.I'll be posting more as I remember to do so.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=owzvqwLNW_g The Roches New York Christmas Show, December 22nd, 1990. Enjoy, and merry Christmas!

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>discovered los angeles: critical mass a couple years ago >>3239
>tried to find torrents for a high-quality rip of the album
>instead torrented another series of albums named critical m@55 by mistake that are aggrotech and darkwave 
>love every part of them
https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=4193220
and i just noticed the uploader's name is DivineShadow, which is the antagonist of Lexx which i consider my absolute favofite scifi series ever made. what a small fucking world holy shit.

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someone posted this on spee and i need the original video, it looks like it's from darude but i'm not sure

>>4770
It's called "Ecuador" by Sash, released in 1997 if I recall correctly.

>>4772
of many thanks

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>>4637
>I was making Doom levels (for the DOS version, not newer ones) and it stopped being interesting once I realized that scene has moved on and wants "bigger, better, harder" stuff. I basically went in thinking it's a retro scene and found out the hard way it's not. So I gave up on all that because it's just not what I'm looking for. Like I would post stuff on their forum (doomworld) and this one dude Graf Zahl would say shit like "LOL you're stuck in the past!" and that pretty much conveys the nature of this scene.
I get what you mean. I tend to prefer my Doom experience to be close to the vanilla versions, and I don't want it loaded up with a bunch of BULLSHIT. I gave Brutal Doom a try a long time ago, and while it seemed fun I felt like it ruined the feel of the game. I also played Skulltag back in the day. I'm at the point where if I feel like playing Doom nowadays, then PrBoom+ is about as wild as I'm willing to get.

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>>4638
At this point I've had enough of 3D games tbh, and especially the FPS stuff. Time for other things now.

>>4679
I generally prefer 2D games too. I'm more into strategy games than any other genre, and I don't feel like most 3D strategy games benefited from going 3D.

>>168 (OP) 
>What substitutes for "Wild West" these days?
Making your own site/forum/blog/whatever

>>4470
>So start supporting smaller sites and communities like people use to do. 
Problem is that most of these smaller sites/communities aren't any better, especially since they're also affected with the cancerous social media culture and generally the modern era retarted mentalities. Their only "difference" is that they're their own circlejerks.

>>4685
I watched Planetes, but it was years ago. About the only things I remember now are the opening scene of the disaster caused by the orbiting bolt, and the fact the 12yo girl was as big as a fullgrown woman.

>>4685
What all's good about it?

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>>4690
The Lunarian girl, yeah. It was nice to see a series that had science fiction concepts like people living on the moon and added details like the health problems a human would face growing up and going through puberty at a fraction of Earth gravity.

>>4692
The number one thing I can say about both the anime and the manga is that they are absolutely gorgeous. The manga was published in 1999, so stylistically it combines the 90s grit with the more human proportions and style that became prevalent in the 00s. Visually, the manga is a beautiful blend of highly detailled mechanical stuff and endearing human characters with incredible detail put into the backgrounds and set dressing. The anime is also very detailled given that it aired in 2003-04, around the time that anime began to lose its way and rely too much on digital shortcuts.

The anime is also incredibly sound on a technical level, which is especially impressive since so much of the series takes place in zero-gravity, low-G, and normal-G environments, the characters often require a fundamentally different approach to how they're animated. It'd be really easy to have a lot of bland, slideshow shots of them sliding across stiff backgrounds, but whenever the characters aren't in normal-G environments they actually move like it. The sound design underscores this too: the 

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>>4700
Some examples of the anime addressing how astronauts actually move around in zero-G environments.

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I've filmed a little bit of original XBOX gameplay for an unrelated project, hope it fits the aesthetic.

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New York City March 17 2000
Video from St. Patrick's Day March 17, 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0WEgeQ814w

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Concorde's Take-off over the Neighbourhood
Video from user Maguirerichardson, Heathrow UK, 2003

By now a famous video showing a small glimpse of bri'ish everyday life in big city suburbs, many of the video's visual cues are pure early-00's.

>>4489
Jesus fuck imagine living there

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cosplay in Japan 1999
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50RjM376Gzo

ManlyBadassHero routinely brings out indie horror titles big and small which draw from those days. 

There's even a HOI4  mod called Twilight of the Anthropocene which old msn-style news pages to get across events. Think there was another one in development with similar ideas of presentation.

So it's happening. Any other finds you can see?

>>2221 (OP) 
A "generation" (I hate this whole concept but it can be useful) is generally considered to last 25 years, thus I bet on the resurgence (and bastaridzation) of Y2K on the year 2025

>>2225
>The 80s will keep getting milked for generations to come, even kids nowadays are nostalgiafagging over the decade, believe it or not.

Sadly, this.

The 1980's are the new 1950's. 

From the early 1970's up until around 2010 or so, the 1950's/early 1960's was the go-to "retro" era for stereotypical normie nostalgia-fagging and now the 1980's is being treated the same way

>>2242
Do you seriously not remember what visual kei was? Bands like psycho le cemu and malice mizer?

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>you lived long enough to see a throwback rave for the Y2K generation
Anyone live in/near Ohio?

https://bsky.app/profile/desktopgeneration.com/post/3lewphbvtvk2h

>>4513
>I vowed to never be the old guy sitting in front of the TV watching reruns, driving a 23 year old car, and only listening to classic rock.
Isn't...isn't that what we're doing here?  Isn't that what we're becoming?

>>4513
>driving a 23 year old car
What's wrong about this one. Cars from 90's and 00's are about the best ones, having just the right amount of electronics and tech while still being quite repairable.

I'm not sure. I will always like things that are old compared to the present moment because that's what shakes out of all the torrents of trash. In twenty years we will still be here pining for what we don't yet know was gold in 2025. I look up psytrance music that was made before I was born because all modern psytrance sounds exactly the same and surprisingly often has Rick and Morty voice samples, which I find obnoxious.

>>4651
I have never had the misfortune to encounter such samples. How do they even use it?

>>4670
How should I explain it to you? They're cringy voice clips of Rick talking and burping interspersed throughout the FL Studio default percussion presets. They've been in every non-Goa psytrance mix I've loaded up since 2020, so I just turn it off and see what 90's Israeli psy is worth listening to that I haven't heard already.

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>>342 (OP) 
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I wonder how secure/private will this be?

>>344
I could see myself using this just to see Winks again.

>>344
I use escargot, even if it's just to keep it opening automatically with windows (msn is very light) and the icon in the taskbar. I tested with friends and works pretty fine, but have some major issues: offline messages don't work and, if I'm right, messages aren't saved in the history.

Post your screennames dudes. We could start a /retro/ chatroom later
VibriVibRibbon

>>349
BillSaysHi
I've never used AIM before, was mostly an MSN dude...

>>344
>Anyone know if there's one for classic ICQ?
Since it's been years from the last post in this thread, I'll second this question. ICQ was the one everyone used around my place. I wonder if anyone works on it, but since I can't find anything mysefl, I guess the answer is no.

I don't want to sound too pessimistic when frankly I'd be happy in any one of those cars. Even the Agila with a fog light delete and silly bolt on wind deflectors. But you have to do some car spotting to see them still out in the wild, whereas the Jaguars were generally well kept and looked after.

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Some spoilers they made back then are truly awesome. Best stuff since the huge wings of american aero warriors.

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>>4463
heck yeah, super saloons with widebodies and spoilers are fuckin sick

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>>4188
>Basically the only working man's champion in there is a second-hand Jag
I was thinking about a Jaguar XK or a Maseratti GT or Ghibli/Quattroporte because they were cheap (well under 10k dollaridoos, at times only 6k) and quite comfortable in their interiors, i am a sucker for interiors, but i keep reading they are shit-tier in terms of electronics and general reliability.
Point granted, most drivers are retarded in terms of checking their own cars and giving preventive caring measures but even mechanics hate these cars and outright charge unholy amounts of money to fix them. In my land the XK, despite being supposedly somewhat similar to the Mustang New Age, gets taxed to death in services because it's seen as a luxury ride.

If by working man we mean a british man who could take out the innards and fix them himself while having a magical discount/advanced knowledge to replace pieces then yeah, i agree.

>>3459
>In the 2010's they've lost everything that made them muscle. Every single one of them, except for the Challenger - it is the only one that still looks like a proper muscle car.
And they cancelled the production. End of an era. Muscle cars are dead, again.
Well, it was good while it lasted.