Does anyone miss the 90's? - Memba Parthian chicken?

[Observerer]

>Starts a thread about nostalgia
>doesn't Tag @Dom Cruise
Never gonna make it lad

Fuuuck, the 90s had some good anime. Guys, I know of this super underground 90s Anime that will change the Anime game forever, trust me bros. Its weird because this anime should've been the new Cowboy Bebop but it just never got any traction. I don't think I will tell you about it though as woke SJW trannies likely will ruin it like they ruined the white race.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I wasn't old enough to appreciate it.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

This is my favorite anime.

Picture boxes weren't a thing, so you had to use your imagination to create the animation.

 

[Not Really Here]

Free PizzaHut for reading books in the summer, 99 cent Whoppers at Burger King, gas so cheap you could drive 60 miles to the beach, buy pizza for lunch and go home all for under $20.
Good times.

 

[BayView]

I miss the early 2000s. I lived in the south and I was the only indian kid in school and everyone treated me well. Now things are hairy between non-whites and whites and I just keep to myself.

 

[Aqua Panda]

Depends. The early 90's were generally good for me and I remember them fondly. I generally regard the period of 1990-1994 as pretty top tier. Obviously, shit like the LA riots, Ruby Ridge/Waco, and Columbine happened during the 90's so it wasn't all fun and joy. IMO the later part of the 90's started to go to shit pretty quickly. 9/11 was just the bullet that finally put the decade down. Columbine was a big warning that something was really starting to rot in society though. It has gotten worse the last 20 years.

The early 90's (outside of the LA and other riots) had this really nice optimism to them I don't think we've seen in Americana since. People still had places to hang out like arcades and other amusement parks that just don't exist today. Inflation was up compared to the 70's-80's but overall costs were still quite low for many. It was still quite possible to only have one breadwinner and still have a relatively nice house and things. Especially if you lived outside major hubs. The economy was firing on all cylinders and if you were in the right place you could make it doing just about anything.

If you were dating/sexually active, herpes existed but wasn't quite everywhere just yet and AIDS was still more or less only in the male gay community. The pill was at this point everywhere and it's the only time I've seen such little condom use since the hippie/swinging era of the 60's. I remember more than a few friends, both male and female, admitting they rawdogged constantly with their partner without pulling out. (This was in pretty stark contrast to the 80's when teen pregnancy and unplanned pregnancy was a LOT more common.)

Film wise we got a ton of classics here. Tons of big action movies and films were you could see the money in the sets. It was the last great era before CGI and set extensions made everything look fake in film. Even bombs like Waterworld were at least fun and had fucking amazing sets. You actually had some nice variety between the different genres. You could actually have violence, nudity, and sex when the story required it. (Stuff like the Tim Burton Batman films and Neo-Noir thrillers like Basic Instinct couldn't get made today.)

Fashion was kinda interesting here. Especially for women. Shorter hair and skirts were more common. (Through formal attire still had those God awful shoulder pad things.) Men usually could just wear pants and a polo shirt and would look sharp. A lot of the general trashy looking stuff didn't hit until '96.

 

[Red Hood]

The 90's ended on December 3rd, 1999. That day we lost our brightest star.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Free PizzaHut for reading books in the summer, 99 cent Whoppers at Burger King, gas so cheap you could drive 60 miles to the beach, buy pizza for lunch and go home all for under $20.
Good times.

Whopper Wednesday and Pizza Hut BookIt was the best. My parents almost never took us to Pizza Hut, but when we had those BookIt things, we got to go. It always tasted better there, too

 

[Fentanyl Floyd]

I think @Dom Cruise could tell us all about the 90's

 

[naught]

Fuuuck, the 90s had some good anime. Guys, I know of this super underground 90s Anime that will change the Anime game forever, trust me bros. Its weird because this anime should've been the new Cowboy Bebop but it just never got any traction. I don't think I will tell you about it though as woke SJW trannies likely will ruin it like they ruined the white race.

The search for the mythical kino continues.

 

[L50LasPak]

Being a little kid was kind of shitty, so, no, actually.

 

[Haim Arlosoroff]

Commander Keen​

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[Clem Fandango]

Well that, plus once the 2000's hit, everything from fashion to music has been flash frozen. The 2000's and the 2010's have no identity for themselves unlike the past decades. Technology has gotten better, but everything just keeps getting stale and worse.

This is totally true. I think it's summed up well by an advert for Lynx Africa that they show here in the UK (that's Axe body spray for the rest of the world I think).

The advert is meant to celebrate the fact that Lynx Africa has been on sale for 25 years now. So it shows this modern high school student getting sucked into a time portal and getting sent back to 1995.

"BOOMSHAKALAKA! WIND YOUR BODY, WRIGGLE YOUR BELLY, DIP AND GO DOWN IN THE NEW STYLEE..."

All nostalgic stuff from the 90s floats around. 1995. Wow, Sony Playstation! 1997. Baggy clothes, Britpop. Cool!

It gets to 2000, then just teleports him back to present day. So they basically couldn't think of anything distinctive from 2000-2020. And I agree with them! What was the cultural zeitgeist of the 2000s? Spongebob Square pants? What about the 2010s? Uh...Fortnite?

Everything is so diffuse nowadays. How can you even strike up a conversation at the bus stop? Did you see that show last night? No, nobody watches broadcast telly anymore, we're all binge watching our separate shows on one of 100 different streaming services. That latest pop song? Meh, there's no Top of the Pops anymore, Spotify just recursively feeds us songs we already like according to an algorithm. There's no common cultural ground anymore, hasn't been for decades

 

[Maurice Caine]

Stop with the whole 'does anybody miss X' threads and grow up. This is why shit doesn't improve, because you look back at 30 years ago and crave for a reality that simply doesn't exist anymore. Things were always changing and always will change and you gotta accept that.

This is totally true. I think it's summed up well by an advert for Lynx Africa that they show here in the UK (that's Axe body spray for the rest of the world I think).

The advert is meant to celebrate the fact that Lynx Africa has been on sale for 25 years now. So it shows this modern high school student getting sucked into a time portal and getting sent back to 1995.

"BOOMSHAKALAKA! WIND YOUR BODY, WRIGGLE YOUR BELLY, DIP AND GO DOWN IN THE NEW STYLEE..."

All nostalgic stuff from the 90s floats around. 1995. Wow, Sony Playstation! 1997. Baggy clothes, Britpop. Cool!

It gets to 2000, then just teleports him back to present day. So they basically couldn't think of anything distinctive from 2000-2020. And I agree with them! What was the cultural zeitgeist of the 2000s? Spongebob Square pants? What about the 2010s? Uh...Fortnite?

Everything is so diffuse nowadays. How can you even strike up a conversation at the bus stop? Did you see that show last night? No, nobody watches broadcast telly anymore, we're all binge watching our separate shows on one of 100 different streaming services. That latest pop song? Meh, there's no Top of the Pops anymore, Spotify just recursively feeds us songs we already like according to an algorithm. There's no common cultural ground anymore, hasn't been for decades

I don't know why marketers can't do something distinctive with the 2000s and the 2010s as there are quite some distinctive traits from both decades. Sure it's not obvious but it is there.

 

[Dom Cruise]

The 1990s is a weird decade to look back on today.

In some ways it was a downgrade from the 80s, basically after Jurassic Park, Hollywood blockbuster movies took a nosedive with shit like Independence Day, Armageddon, stuff just got really tacky and stupid, with only Men in Black and Galaxy Quest coming close to recapturing the 80s magic, Starship Troopers was pretty good too.

Stupid blockbusters of the 90s do have some charm today, I actually went back and re-watched Speed 2 in 2018 and had a surprisingly good time, but it set a bad tone, it dumbed our culture down, once upon a time special effects served a movie's story, then it got to where the story served the special effects, just totally ass backwards.

But it was a good decade for indie movies, think the rise of Tarantino and that whole wave of indie filmmakers, it was a good decade for animation too, both on TV and in theaters, with Toy Story 1 and 2 being some real standouts (my favorite movies from the latter half of the 90s as a kid) and it was a phenomenal decade for anime and the first time anime really made waves in the US.

But it wasn't perfect, I feel like the start of the mentality that ultimately resulted in Woke had a lot of it's seeds planted in the 1990s and while we tend to think of the 90s as idyllic it had it's shocking moments of violence as well like Waco, OKC and Columbine, but they were a lot rarer and what I really remember as a kid in the 1990s was a far more mellow vibe than today, a feeling that humanity had mostly got it's shit together and the new millennium was going to be a utopia, what we had in the 1990s most of all and what has kind of been lost is a certain innocence and hope for the future.

For one random example of 90s culture that I think really illustrates things is the TV show Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, go back and watch that show today as I have and be absolutely flabbergasted at just how cheesy, ridiculous and profoundly naïve that show is, you might as well be watching something from the 1930s for how radically different than modern culture it is.

And that brings me to another thing that was cool about the 1990s is how many old timers from the old, old days were still around, my maternal grandparents who were both born in 1931 I spent a lot of time with as a kid, it's cool to think of spending time with people from back then, I distinctly remember a conversation I had with my grandmother once where she told me what it was like when she was a kid, sadly they passed away in 1997 and 2000 respectively as the vast majority of old timers have by now, which I think is a big reason why things have gotten so bad now.

All in all the 1990s was a great decade though, I miss them.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Apologies for the double post.

Yes. Early 2000s were still fine too. Everything kinda went to shit after that.

Yeah, people often regard 9/11 and the War on Terror as watershed moments, but there really still was a lot of cultural continuity with the late 90s. It's during the recession and the Obama presidency that things really started to pick up steam.

Post 2008 is when the world went to shit, we hit some bumps in the road but we very easily could have course corrected, the desire to correct course was there.

The recession and the election of Obama was the real poison in our veins and we've been slowly but surely dying ever since.

I know for me nothing ever really felt the same after 2008, but it was a half life effect, basically every handful of years things get significantly worse, 2009-2013 was tolerable enough, then things took a significant downturn from 2014-2019, now things have been taking an even bigger downturn since 2020, it doesn't seem like it's going to stop until we literally hit the apocalypse.

This has been going on since 9/11 almost 20 years ago, but the recession was when we really started to go into a tailspin because we still held out hope that things would "go back to normal" after 9/11, when the recession hit it proved that there wasn't really any "going back to normal" and it knocked the wind out of our sails.

Oddly enough I was speaking about this with my partner, and we were thinking that the experimentation done in the 2000s is probably what led to our music/media becoming stale and stagnated.
I'm not saying shit like Limp Bizkit or Linkin Park were "The Beatles" or the "Queen" of their time, but the heavy experimentation they were allowed to do is actually somewhat impressive even if most of it sounds a bit like shit. It's almost as if because they "failed" and were considered laughing stocks it gave a clear, but obviously negative call out to the corporate bastards who have the bigger hold in those industries.

"They didn't like the weird shit, so we'll continue to give them Britney style pop and whatever else that comes up."
I could also be wrong or not remembering enough to really have a better idea of the 2000s, but that's what has been on the mind lately.

What you're describing reminds me of movies and The Matrix, basically The Matrix was the last major time Hollywood tried to give us an entirely new blockbuster franchise that wasn't just a rehash of something that came before.

But everyone mocked The Matrix and Hollywood has in a fundamental way stopped trying to innovate ever since.

Basically the turn of the millennium culture was the last time people really tried to innovate and push the culture forward, but because it didn't always work out and lead to mockery, people started getting real self conscious and it lead to hipster culture, which was an attempt at recapturing the past while also draping everything in shades of irony.

A lot of the turn of the millennium culture, be it Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit or The Matrix, was pretty dumb, but hey, at least they were trying to innovate, which counts for a lot these days.

 

[Solid Snek]

I DO MEMBA PARTHIAN CHICKEN!

I actually made some a few weeks ago. Had no idea how it'd taste, and I had to custom order the asafoetida from Iran or some shit, but it's actually pretty good. Makes me curious as to how close asafoetida is to silphium, but I can't ask anyone, because all my friends from the 90s died prior to the Plague of Galen.

If anyone here knows any Barbarians who might have tasted silphium while plundering the stores of the Empire, please tell us about it!