Well, it could happen... in a way, it's already happening the worst: "Scre4m"... I didn't like the other movies either and I'm shocked (not really) that one of the most overrated directors ever (Wes Craven) is still allowed to make movies.
Poll: Run for your lives... the 90's are coming back!
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"Invader Zim" (early 00's) SHOULD be continued no matter what, revivals be damned!SilentCom said:
Why are you making this so easy?OutrageousEmu said:
1. Spellcheck. Proven.
2. Dictionary. Fallacy. Solution. Confusion? Yes. Clear answer to a question that was very obviously a joke? Nope.
3. God, where to begin. Advertisers just want product placement and don't usually give a good god damn about the content. Focus on the Family and its ilk try unsuccessfully to get advertisers to drop Family Guy every time they do a largely gay-themed episode. Shareholders and scary government officials like John Ashcroft have much more sway over the media, particularly in times of crisis. Saturday night live now has fairly regular skits which are themselves advertisements for yogurt and other products. Now that nearly everyone owns a DVR and uses it during commercials, advertisers put the products directly in the shows. DJs make recordings wherein they pretend at the beginning it's just them chatting live and then they go into a spiel on how you've gotta try lasik surgery/the newest spray on tan/etc. Product placement permeates almost all mainstream movies. And websites, including news websites, are overrun with this new phenomenon you may have heard of called banners.
4. What huge flaws are you referring to? I'd especially like to hear about "puplp fiction." Clearly you didn't pay attention to what I said at the beginning of my post and at the end of my comments regarding movies.
5./6. You seem to think that if you point out 2 games out of a library of over 200 that no one else will point out the dozens of games that can easily counter your argument, based on popular opinion or on thoughtful criticism. I'm glad you brought up the SNES, as it took the first steps toward 3D gaming with games like Starfox and now-archaic looking effects like Mode 7. I'm sure a person of your refined tastes would balk at these feats now, nearly 2 decades later, but without them we never would have reached true 3D gaming. If you're too young to remember ducking and leaning with the game while playing Starfox and F-Zero, or you opted instead for Sega's made-up blast processing nonsense, then I pity you - you missed out.
"Not bullcrap complete hyperbole "every game is an FPS" shit like now, actually having shelves full of those games, and nearly all of them wretched."
I'm not sure if this was just poorly worded or if you meant it. Either way, it doesn't make a good case for your initial premise.
7. Still not listening? OK, then. Dur hur it is.
8. I believe I just gave you over a dozen examples of shows worse than that.
9.
Care to refine that argument?
10. I wouldn't call the Gulf War a war of hatred at all. War of opportunity, war of disregard for human collateral damage, sure. Colombine? Well, I know you read what I stated because you responded to it, even quoted it - you simply chose to ignore it. So I'll ask a simple question.
How many civil liberties did we surrender, and how many fundamental American ideals did we betray, with the media and Congress almost entirely in lock-step, following september 11? How many citizens and legal residents did we lock up by blurring the lines between criminal law and immigration law to deny them any rights or access to a lawyer or appeals, without charging them with any crime, and what did these actions do to address national security? I think this embodies hatred and fear a little bit more than our little excusion into Mogadishu.
Edit: took out the first image. Waaaay too big. Sorry, mods!
Correction: GameInformer HAD competition. Today, I can scarcely think of another magazine that competes. Sort of a moot point now anyway since timely/credible gaming information is found almost exclusively online now anyway (if you know where to look).OutrageousEmu said:
Back on topic: Though some others have made great points. We didn't get all of this "Reality TV" horseshit until the late 90s/early 2000s. We also still had great animation from the remnants of Warner Brothers, Disney, and DC (before anime took over anyway).
On the other hand, I can scarcely think of movies that really stick out in my mind for each year. While every decade has more than its fair share of horrible D-Grade schlock, the 90s re-invented the "Direct to Video" market. I mean, the most popular movie of the 90s was fucking Titanic. A movie which amounted to little more than a three hour long soap opera with great set design.
Lazy, marketable rap dominated my early childhood, and it's easy to see how popular music has devolved into what it is today: generic, unbearable, talentless cock-dribble that dominates pop-station radios and dance clubs.
Because no other business in the world does that hunh? What with Bollywood an all, and the way Dr. Who has been on a decline (at least to me it seems).Daystar Clarion said:
OT: I wouldnt mind the Nineties coming back. Would be cool to see grunge make a come back, and the cartoons, though id ont think they would be as good if they're adapted to meet todays audience.
Plus the economic ramifications could be amazing (at least for the US) since Clinton pretty much made the country's finances his *****.
TL;DR. Sorry, but that text was pretty hard on the eyes.
Anyways, I wasn't very old during the 90's - but from my memory it must've been a pretty boring time. The clothes were bland and the hairstyles were bland. Just looking at sitcoms/movies from that time pretty much ensures that.
Don't flame me about this. As said I was just a kid. All I base my knowledge on is the TV. >.<
The 00's(how to you say that...?) wasn't very impressive either though, but at least I was a teenager then and I recall the fads coming and going.
Anyways, I wasn't very old during the 90's - but from my memory it must've been a pretty boring time. The clothes were bland and the hairstyles were bland. Just looking at sitcoms/movies from that time pretty much ensures that.
Don't flame me about this. As said I was just a kid. All I base my knowledge on is the TV. >.<
The 00's(how to you say that...?) wasn't very impressive either though, but at least I was a teenager then and I recall the fads coming and going.
funguy2121 said:Why are you making this so easy?OutrageousEmu said:
1. Spellcheck. Proven.
2. Dictionary. Fallacy. Solution. Confusion? Yes. Clear answer to a question that was very obviously a joke? Nope.
3. God, where to begin. Advertisers just want product placement and don't usually give a good god damn about the content. Focus on the Family and its ilk try unsuccessfully to get advertisers to drop Family Guy every time they do a largely gay-themed episode. Shareholders and scary government officials like John Ashcroft have much more sway over the media, particularly in times of crisis. Saturday night live now has fairly regular skits which are themselves advertisements for yogurt and other products. Now that nearly everyone owns a DVR and uses it during commercials, advertisers put the products directly in the shows. DJs make recordings wherein they pretend at the beginning it's just them chatting live and then they go into a spiel on how you've gotta try lasik surgery/the newest spray on tan/etc. Product placement permeates almost all mainstream movies. And websites, including news websites, are overrun with this new phenomenon you may have heard of called banners.
4. What huge flaws are you referring to? I'd especially like to hear about "puplp fiction." Clearly you didn't pay attention to what I said at the beginning of my post and at the end of my comments regarding movies.
5./6. You seem to think that if you point out 2 games out of a library of over 200 that no one else will point out the dozens of games that can easily counter your argument, based on popular opinion or on thoughtful criticism. I'm glad you brought up the SNES, as it took the first steps toward 3D gaming with games like Starfox and now-archaic looking effects like Mode 7. I'm sure a person of your refined tastes would balk at these feats now, nearly 2 decades later, but without them we never would have reached true 3D gaming. If you're too young to remember ducking and leaning with the game while playing Starfox and F-Zero, or you opted instead for Sega's made-up blast processing nonsense, then I pity you - you missed out.
"Not bullcrap complete hyperbole "every game is an FPS" shit like now, actually having shelves full of those games, and nearly all of them wretched."
I'm not sure if this was just poorly worded or if you meant it. Either way, it doesn't make a good case for your initial premise.
7. Still not listening? OK, then. Dur hur it is.
8. I believe I just gave you over a dozen examples of shows worse than that.
9.
Care to refine that argument?
10. I wouldn't call the Gulf War a war of hatred at all. War of opportunity, war of disregard for human collateral damage, sure. Colombine? Well, I know you read what I stated because you responded to it, even quoted it - you simply chose to ignore it. So I'll ask a simple question.
How many civil liberties did we surrender, and how many fundamental American ideals did we betray, with the media and Congress almost entirely in lock-step, following september 11? How many citizens and legal residents did we lock up by blurring the lines between criminal law and immigration law to deny them any rights or access to a lawyer or appeals, without charging them with any crime, and what did these actions do to address national security? I think this embodies hatred and fear a little bit more than our little excusion into Mogadishu.
I just want to add that candy bars cost $.69, gas was somewhere between $1.08 to $1.35 and Presidents just lied about their sex lives and not about yellow cake in the 90's.
I mut say, it's very annoying to read your text. I believe it's because of your fondness of dots, because you plant five of them after every sentence.
Oh and about the reviving of the 90s? I don't care. I won't watch what I don't like, and it's not like I'm acively missing something.
Oh and about the reviving of the 90s? I don't care. I won't watch what I don't like, and it's not like I'm acively missing something.
Very true. You could get full-sized candy bars for 3/$ at many grocery stores, and you didn't have to get one of those stupid discount swipe cards that would fill up your mailbox with junk to do it.Rigs83 said:
However, I think we'd experience quite a shock at going to the pre-everyone but businesspeople and asshole yuppies owning cell phones era. Before I got my license, if I didn't secure a ride home after band practice I had to use the school payphone. And I remember the year it went up to 35 cents. If I didn't have it, I had to walk three miles.
Also: no tea partiers. On the other hand, Jerry Falwell was still alive to spread his message of hate...
I remember some shows from the 90s fondly. But I was young, and the more I hear about the 90s, the less I like.
Oh god, why can't we ever just move forward with culture. We've been stuck in a stable time loop throughout the entirety of human existence.
Oh god, why can't we ever just move forward with culture. We've been stuck in a stable time loop throughout the entirety of human existence.
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It'll happen and just like all the 80s remakes/reboots/crap I'll just ignore it. And if someone brings it up I'll just make a reference to the original one. Just like I did with the Transformer movie.
YOU'VE GOT THE TOUCH~ YOU'VE GOT THE POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH~
>Good
It'll happen and just like all the 80s remakes/reboots/crap I'll just ignore it. And if someone brings it up I'll just make a reference to the original one. Just like I did with the Transformer movie.
YOU'VE GOT THE TOUCH~ YOU'VE GOT THE POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH~
Oooooooooh, you did just not say that about the Norse mythology... now you force me to wear my "The More You Fu******* know" hat, my friend!ZamielTheHunter said:Just checking, but you do know that Yggdrasil comes from Norse mythology right?Adrian Madhog said:Oh sweet Jesus, NO MORE "X-FILES"! That series is DEAD and not even all the Yggdrasil leaves in the World will be able to resurrect it!octafish said:
(That's a "Dragon Quest" reference, btw)
OT: I would love to see some of those cartoons aired again, not remade just aired again. I'm currently rewatching Samurai Jack and loving it.
DHU! Of course I know that! Most classic fantasy environments, both past and present, are filled with references from Norse mythology. Ever since Tolkien was inspired by Richard Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung" to make its novels, it seems every fantasy tale has to have at least ONE Norse mythology element by LAW! Even better, in "DQ" case, blending certain elements of said mythology (such as the Tree of Life, The Yggdrasil upon which rest the various plains of existance on its brenches) with a more obvious Christian iconography, what with the winged guardians, the churches and the possible existance of ONE Maker............. I could also spend hours, pointing out the single references from tale to tale (in "Dragon Age II", there's a character named "Fenris" (abused Norse reference n. 354), after the giant wolf, son of Loki the God of Mischief, who's supposed to chase after the sun; in "Oh My Goddess!", the two supercomputers that rule both Heaven and Hell, are named after the Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life, and the Niddhogg, the monstruos dragon said to chew upon the Yggdrasil's roots, which will eventually destroy the universe during Ragnarok; and so on), but I'll pass on that.
So yes, I guess I did know about the Yggdrasil leaf, thank you for boosting my ego XD