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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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3 > The Lost World
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>>4359
?
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>>4359
>>4361
Jurassic Park I assume you mean. I'm not really sure myself but I would tend to agree. The first one was head and sholders the best though.
That reminds me. Did anyone ever play the DOS/Windows JP game where the first part was an overhead view where you played as Grant with a tazer electro cannon and you had to rescue Tim and Lex in each stage; Then in the second part of the game it switches to a FPS where you have to fight raptors in dark caves and tunnels?
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>>4418
3 really was overhated compared to LW, and I'm not sure why.
>>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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>>4533
he isn't retired, he has a profile on Behance and still does commissions
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>>4535
https://www.behance.net/Gyodea/appreciated
This guy?
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>>4536
Not sure if that's the guy but I was looking for him as well, I'll message him and see if it is.
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>>3186
>look up his site
>he's still at it
HE HAS A KITTY
>>4531
Wow, I see these wallpapers when I am unconscious. I always wondered where it was from.

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Which ones are your favorites?

Pic related
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I've been rewatching Malcolm in the Middle over the last couple months and it's aged like wine. Not only is the whole vibe and aesthetic completely bang on for the late 90s/early 00s Y2K era, the cultural foundations of what good and bad were had yet to completely rot away. Malcolm is a gifted kid who hates his family but also wants to escape them because they act like idiots, his older brother Reese beats him up and wears too much hair gel, and his parents are both working shitty jobs just to make ends meet.

Francis, the oldest son who caused the most trouble, starts the series in military school, then hitchhikes to Alaska, then gets married to an Inuit woman, gets rich from a land buyout and drives down to somewhere in the desert and finds an eccentric German man who owns a dude ranch, gets hired as foreman with zero experience, and goes from being an immature whiny bitch ranting into a phone receiver to a man with a job who has real responsibilities. His character arc is incredible, funny, and genuine - and he's not even the main character.

I'm six seasons in now and there genuinely hasn't been a single bad episode, which is more than I can say for many other long-running series. One thing I'd forgotten about the show is how cartoony and out-of-left-field a lot of the jokes and story beats could be. You get a good mix of wordplay, visual gags, and dramatic irony in almost every episode.
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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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>>4614
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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Merry Christmas. I'm an anon from 8chan, and we are organizing our inter-board Christmas event. This project aims to gather around anons from different imageboard and anonymous communities from all around internet during a weekend and celebrate Christmas together. The planned date is December 14 and 15 and it's going to be here [redacted] you can make your "embassy" thread talking about your IB, its history and local memes.

I hope to see you there. If you have any other questions please make me know, I'll be more than grateful to answer.
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USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST Fuck that place just go to >>>/christmas/

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Does anyone want to do this? I'm ambivalent about interboard events.

>history
We're a bunch of 30-50-year-old guys who remember when the world used to be better and the internet used to have cool stuff on it. We used to be hosted on anon.cafe but came here when that place decided to shut down.

>memes
Anything you have kicking around in your reaction image folder from 20+ years ago should do it.
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Mods are asslickers
That Christmas board is stolen from the original organizers and is being run in bad faith. Original organizers are on 8moe.
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>>4607
>is being run in bad faith
>says the markchan shill from a literal honeypot 
That's cute. Now fuck off.
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>>4608
The guy is not wrong. I hosted the /christmas/ event back on 2022, I moved it to 8moe last year because it would get more visibility there and it would be easier to set things in motion among other reasons. The current owner of trashchan's /christmas/ is just one guy who took over the board last minute and later moved it here, which is not wrong, that's totally fine by me, what I do think it's not okay is that he pretends his board is the only legitimate continuation and steering shit to any other alternatives and the same time, pretending I'm the one taking over a project last minute when in reality it's the other way around. Therefore it's run in bad faith.
That being said, I don't have any personal grudges against that guy, I'm just making things clear.
>>4606
It's fine, the point of the event is to set aside our differences for a couple of hours and have fun, imageboard communities trend to be too hermetic IMO, therefore I think it's a great idea to set something like this in the spirit of Christmas, just for a couple of hours every year, that doesn't sound like a lot, does it?

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A thread for artwork and content of anthropomorphic animals characters (or "furries") from the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Sources are encouraged.

Resources:
https://yerf.metafur.org/
http://us.vclart.net/vcl/
https://confurence.com/
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>>4594
LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!
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I don't have time to go into too much detail, but Atlyss released a few weeks ago into Early Access on Steam. It's a one man dev project making a game taking a lot of cues from 6th gen game aesthetics, MMO worlds, and kemono/anime aesthetics with solo offline and multiplayer online play. The character creator is really robust and you have five playable races (dog people, kobolds, bird people, rat people, and midna imps) with a lot of customization including boob, ass, and even belly sliders. There are jiggle physics where you'd expect, but they go beyond simple fetish fuel since your characters' ears and tails will actually be affected by the armor and items you equip. Also, there's a /taunt emote where your character slaps their ass.

The dev is a NSFW artist who initially started the project as your typical furry ERP vaporware, but he shifted to a suggestive-but-SFW style partway through development. It seems to have worked out for him. My only real problem with the game is how literal it is about MMO style world and quest design, for although it can be a lot of fun to explore these vast empty worlds filled with cartoony enemies, the questing leaves a lot to be desired. I'm a former WoW addict and I can say confidently this game reminds me of the numbing brain fuzz I felt while I played WoW.

>accept quest from quest giver in hub area
>teleport to dungeon
>get gear checked and die
>try dungeon on lower difficulty
>goal: collect 10 skeleton bones, kill 5 ghosts, acquire 15 mushrooms
>reality: 8 skeleton bones, 4 ghosts killed, 13 mushrooms
>run dungeon again, getting different layout
>finally finish quest and turn it in
>immediately presented with the same quest again; flavor text is "well, those undead are quite a nuisance, aren't they? seems you may have to clear them out some more..."
>desire to play game deflates

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>>4601
>>4601
Your link was busted, fuzzball.
That aside, making into a straight game was probably a better idea. Balancing the porn with gameplay is a rough task, and honestly far from necessary.
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>>4604
So use a different invidious instance like inv.nadeko.net or something, or use yt-dlp to download the video. I don't post direct links to YouTube. Fuck YouTube.

>balancing the porn with gameplay
Yeah, by having gameplay first in the same way that old (actual) games did, the dev clearly demonstrates that he wants people to take it seriously instead of just being a pandering porn game. Furries making porn games have a tendency to make things hypersexual but not titillating, and Atlyss accomplishes the opposite by being incredibly horny but not explicit.

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I recently found out about Escargot (https://escargot.log1p.xyz/) which is a MSN Messenger revival project so let's have a thread about other projects to revive old software / games. There's also a really nice one for AIM too.
http://iwarg.ddns.net/aim/
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>download and build povray
>sudo make install
>installs
>can't find it
>can use it via terminal but no GUI
>do more reading
>there is no GUI
>it is all text-based
well there goes the fun I was planning on having. time to get an old PowerPC Mac and that software that Jurgen Ziewe used.
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>>2473
I think you might be able to make stuff in Blender and then export it to POV-Ray. That POV-Ray artist in the "Modern /retro/ material that actually does it right" thread says he uses his own script, but there might be other options.  You might want to take a look at that thread again, even if you've read through it before. Maybe it'll help. I love the old Jurgen Ziewe art though.
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>>2473
Hi, there have been GUI programs for POVRay in the past but they're all very outdated IIRC. The SDL (scene description language) may seem intimidating at first but is actually pretty simple and part of the fun personally. It's at least worth giving it a try.
>>2474
That's right, Blender has the ability to render with POVRay 3 using the included addon, though sticking to the SDL helps keep renders period appropriate in terms of scope IMO. Tutorial anon's script is a simple wrapper that sets the necessary switches for rendering, for scene creation he uses the SDL as in his tutorials.
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I just found out about the Xfire revival project, man I used it all the time to track my games and to find CoD 2 servers, I'm so happy it's back even though I can't stand playing on PC anymore 
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All my AIM friends moved on. It wouldn't be the same without them.

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Anybody want to talk about the fanfiction scene of the 1990's and 2000's? 


That whole era was a big deal for us fanfic spergs. Before the internet, fanfic was very obscure even for nerd stuff.


The rise of the internet in the latter half of the 90's is when fanfiction started to take off and diversify.


The 2000's was a golden age of fanfiction in my opinion, with the heyday of FFN and things like Deviant Art being seen more as a novelty than a punchline.


Even 2000's badfic was sort of legendary. My Immortal and Christian Humber Reloaded are both mid-2000's time capsules in many ways.

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>>3634
Is that show any good? I downloaded a torrent of it a while ago but never got around to watching it.
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>>3639
Looks wacky and unpleasantly perverse, but with some good points.
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>>3639
One of my favorite shows, if not my #1 favorite. Like >>3640 says you'll either love it or hate it.
>>3634
I remember watching a few episodes of Lexx as a kid, didn't really gravitate towards it at the time. I remember a few years ago coming across streams on CyTube and thought about actually giving a series a try. Definitely love the link you provided. Going to have to back up my HDD and make space and download some shows from that period, starting with Lexx.
I wonder, is Inuyasha worth trawling for fics?

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One thing I loved about the 90's was the overabundance of bootleg merchandise, T-Shirts in particular.

The myriad knock-off shirts with Bart Simpson were so common in the early 90's it even became a meme.

You also had a lot of other common targets of bootlegs such as Sonic, TMNT, Sailor Moon, and as always, the big name rock bands and rappers.

After copyright enforcement got more stringent, you did not see this type of stuff as often, not even at the usual venues like flea markets, gas stations, fairgrounds, and any town with a major tourist  trap nearby.
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Late 90s, early 00s, used to go to Chinatown, look at bootleg dvds, and anime merch from the shiftiest vendors. Good times.
>>3804
Bulls stuff was huge then. I've never followed any form of sportsball, but I think me or my younger brother might have had a Bulls sweatshirt or something when we were kids. It must be because of how big of a deal Michael Jordan was at that time.
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>>3808
Yes, it was Jordan at his peak. However, the Bulls in the 90s were officially discussed as a Dream Team. Only sports news I have seen come close to how the Bulls were dominating in the 90s is Tom Brady and company in football.
I got one of those bart simpson gulf war shirts haha
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>>4437
Remember where you bought it?

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Looks like none of the images in the catalog work. Let's get a fresh thread in here, focused on computers!

I don't have pictures at the moment to share, but I got lucky today and picked up a nice big beige computer case. I'm assembling a new personal computer from parts that I got deals on, found in the junk heap, or that I was given by friends.

So, I guess it's not really a /retro/ computer, but it will be in a /retro/ case, and I plan to get an adapter which will let me use a 3.5" floppy disk drive in there. The adapter plugs into the floppy pins, and presents a USB interface to the motherboard. That adapter is under $10 USD.

In fact, I've seen an adapter card that will do the same but for 5.25" floppy disk drives. So, when I have more money, I should be able to have not only a 3.5" FDD, but a 5.25" FDD in my system, running alongside new solid state drives, Blu-Ray disc drives, and of course a few regular hard drives. It should be pretty fun.

Again, no pictures yet but I will share with you guys when I can. For now I'll just post one from my collection.

What have you guys been up to?
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That really shouldn't be hard to believe. Give me a second.
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Here you go. T40 Thinkpad, Pentium M, XP SP3. browser is MyPal. I heard there is a new version of the browser which I'll check out but the one I'm using now mostly works.
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>>4342
Thanks, that really brought me back. My desktop in the earlier years was about as cluttered as yours if not more, but as I grew older I came to prefer a more clean desktop.
By the time I got on Windows 7 my desktop only had the recycle bin icon, which I eventually moved to My Computer, leaving me with a completely empty desktop.
Fun times!
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>>4344
I used to be a clean desktop person, with just one or two icons, and at some point, for some reason, I stopped. It was around the same time I stopped using most applications in fullscreen mode. Now, I normally have a web browser open in windowed mode so I can see my beautiful wallpaper(s) behind it, and I like having a few icons on the desktop. On my main Windows 7 computer, I purposefully left out shortcuts that have icons I just think look nice. It's almost like decoration. In a way I treat the computer desktop in the same way I treat my real desktop, as a workspace that I use, and clean up afterwards, but some things stay on top. 

I have a folder on my desktop that's like a miscellanous drawer into which I occasionally sweep random junk that's accumulated on the desktop. And when I'm working on something on my computer I just dump files on the desktop instead of making a temp folder. And then at the end I delete what I no longer need and file things away. Now that I'm used to the way I do things I don't want to change. My desktop will remain somewhat messy. It's home.
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>>4368
>I have a folder on my desktop that's like a miscellanous drawer into which I occasionally sweep random junk that's accumulated on the desktop
I do that too, although my desktop is also filled with tons of other crap. It's a mess.

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It has come to my attention that we don't have a wallpaper thread. Let's fix that.
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Just use >>536
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Nice selection. A lot of these look really cool.

>>4263
Nah. This is specifically for high-resolution images that would look good with desktop clutter spread all over them.
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Bliss, from a 600DPI scan of the film. Don't waste your time with 16:9 versions. the WTC wallpaper is one of my personal favorites.

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