The Big Picture: The 90's Didn't Suck
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What macho action heroes were those? I think you're confusing the 90's with the 80's.Entitled said:
And quite honestly, I'd rather have that kind of pandering than the teenage, fanservice, quirky-for-the-sake-of-quirky pandering anime consists of today.
The 90s were awesome because it had the explosion of personal tech and the information age. Anyone involved in that (You mentioned you were a forum runner when batman and robin launched...) knows that *that* was where the biggest changes were.
The real thing is that there isn't a bad guy, so to speak, so it's somewhat forgettable to people who look for that, but the reality is that by and large people were working to fix general problems, because, really, we'd conquered all the big stuff. At the moment, I feel the big theme is conquering religion on a global scale, but once that's over (and who knows how long that'll take, but the fight goes well, I suppose), that general progress is what we'll get back to. I was born in '89, and I work in cybernetics, so I feel I still embody that (I've had my own computer since I was four, and a netizen since I was six, the internet shaped me into who I am today). Things like automation, wearables, and the amount of control that a person has over their own space thanks to technology... the only problem in that, I suppose, is that people were afraid of it instead of embracing it.
The real thing is that there isn't a bad guy, so to speak, so it's somewhat forgettable to people who look for that, but the reality is that by and large people were working to fix general problems, because, really, we'd conquered all the big stuff. At the moment, I feel the big theme is conquering religion on a global scale, but once that's over (and who knows how long that'll take, but the fight goes well, I suppose), that general progress is what we'll get back to. I was born in '89, and I work in cybernetics, so I feel I still embody that (I've had my own computer since I was four, and a netizen since I was six, the internet shaped me into who I am today). Things like automation, wearables, and the amount of control that a person has over their own space thanks to technology... the only problem in that, I suppose, is that people were afraid of it instead of embracing it.
Just because the 1990's was not a presentism decade it does not mean that the 1990's was not aware of itself. In fact the 1990's was not the end of a century, but of a milenia. 1990's reverence of it's past is a rare thing. Look at this way: the positivism that dominated the late nineteenth century and yearly twentieth century died and historical theories of postmodernism gained more and more adepts, the 1990's could not be so self indulgent as the previous decades.
Another way to look at what makes the 1990's special to this communit to is that the home console became a big thing during the 1990's and pc gaming walked big steps during this period. The special effect industry grew also thanks to CGI. Now one thing really sucked in the 1990's: hero comics in general.
Another way to look at what makes the 1990's special to this communit to is that the home console became a big thing during the 1990's and pc gaming walked big steps during this period. The special effect industry grew also thanks to CGI. Now one thing really sucked in the 1990's: hero comics in general.
I am probably older than a lot of people on this site (being in my middle 40's), but for me, the 90's were about smugness and apathy at the start. "We Won the Cold War! We're #1!: And then towards the middle of the Decade, we started to become the target of Domestic and Foreign terrorism, what with the Bombing of the Alfred P. Murraugh Federal Building in Oklahoma City, the first bombing of the World Trade Center by a Fuel Oil Bomb and the resulting suspicion of and backlash against militias, and later, foreigners because of the World Trade Center Bombing. It sort of defined for me that the next threat to the US would not come from any nation, but by small groups or individuals.
But even though these things happened, the idea that no one could really affect the US in the same way that other countries were also experiencing terrorism made us complacent and probably led to even greater shock in 9/11.
I wasn't big into music in the 90's, at least, not like I was in the 80's, And yeah, I did watch "after school" and "Saturday Morning" cartoons still, when I could (I was working at the time, so the whole "not having much time" was a thing for me, then. I did get my first computer in 1991, and played a metric ton of really good games: Civilization, Civ 2, Command and Conquer, Taskmaker (the first game I ever owned for the computer), The Exile Series (the originals, that is), Baldur's Gate and Tales of the Sword Coast, the SSI Gold Box Games (Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds and Secret of the Silver Blades, and then, Pools of Radiance). Dark Queen of Krynn, Crystal Quest, Burning Monkey Solitaire, Sim City 2... well, you get the idea.
But even though these things happened, the idea that no one could really affect the US in the same way that other countries were also experiencing terrorism made us complacent and probably led to even greater shock in 9/11.
I wasn't big into music in the 90's, at least, not like I was in the 80's, And yeah, I did watch "after school" and "Saturday Morning" cartoons still, when I could (I was working at the time, so the whole "not having much time" was a thing for me, then. I did get my first computer in 1991, and played a metric ton of really good games: Civilization, Civ 2, Command and Conquer, Taskmaker (the first game I ever owned for the computer), The Exile Series (the originals, that is), Baldur's Gate and Tales of the Sword Coast, the SSI Gold Box Games (Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds and Secret of the Silver Blades, and then, Pools of Radiance). Dark Queen of Krynn, Crystal Quest, Burning Monkey Solitaire, Sim City 2... well, you get the idea.
"We are the middle children of history. We have no place or purpose. We have no great war, no great depression. Our war is a spiritual war. Our depression is our lives."
- Tyler Durden, Fight Club, 1999
- Tyler Durden, Fight Club, 1999
I experienced most of the nineties as a sort of never-ending Saturday morning cartoon run. School was fun, people were interesting, leisure was easily renewable, my sense of purpose was clear...
The same applies for the 2010s, insofar, but I'd say the feeling's been dulled considerably. I'm less living than I'm going through the motions. I can't find things that amuse or tantalize me as much as I remember being able to. Everywhere I look, there's reminders of corruption and creeping social decay. It's easy to sort of steel yourself against it all, but there's still times when I look through Retrojunk or Dinosaur Dracula and really, honestly wish I could turn the clock back.
I loved the nineties. I might have been born in 1983, I wasn't really a conscious individual until 1990.
Above all, I miss my old metabolism. What I wouldn't give to be able to go on a Domino's Pizza dough binge again...
The same applies for the 2010s, insofar, but I'd say the feeling's been dulled considerably. I'm less living than I'm going through the motions. I can't find things that amuse or tantalize me as much as I remember being able to. Everywhere I look, there's reminders of corruption and creeping social decay. It's easy to sort of steel yourself against it all, but there's still times when I look through Retrojunk or Dinosaur Dracula and really, honestly wish I could turn the clock back.
I loved the nineties. I might have been born in 1983, I wasn't really a conscious individual until 1990.
Above all, I miss my old metabolism. What I wouldn't give to be able to go on a Domino's Pizza dough binge again...
I guess I can?t comment on this decade as I was still young and was a teenager in the ?noughties? as I result I don't rember much of the pop culture. Also I was a bit behind, I didn't have game console for years and when I first did it was by Texas Instruments and the only playable game was a port of Space Invaders. Then it was a Sega Master System someone threw out and then a Sega Mega-drive/Genesis before finally getting a PlayStation and Crash Bandicoot.
Even then I was quite preoccupied with the previous decades particularly the 70s and 80s in terms of film and music. So maybe the 90s sucked or perhaps I just wasn?t really part of it...
Even then I was quite preoccupied with the previous decades particularly the 70s and 80s in terms of film and music. So maybe the 90s sucked or perhaps I just wasn?t really part of it...
"Unwatchable" is a term thrown around too much, these days; Reality Bites is awesome when you're on an insomnia trip.