• FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Not enough is done to thank them for their service

      Even though Hollywood celebrity Rich Evans is kind enough to grace their miserable lives with his presence

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    11 months ago

    Thankful was used to pirate HBO in my house, somehow the old analogue signal came in without us having to pay. ofc the cable company had no clue so it owned. Saw so many movies as a kid and shit I shouldn't have seen like Real Sex and Taxi Cab Confessions anti-italian-action

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      Yeah we had a pirate cable box we inherited from my grandfather. Saw so much great shit for free until the damn cable companies changed shit up to make the tech obsolete

    • DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      My dad had a descrambler box in the early 80s. Skin-a-max wouldn't come along until much later with their one of a kind late night programming, but holy shit did I watch a lot of HBO in 1981. For a while, I think HBO had Star Wars on a constant loop. That and Chariots of Fire, which theme is burned into my memories like a cattle brand.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Did that start under trump-moist ? I lost track in the spreading circus fire.

      • motherofmonsters [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        My understanding is that it was part of a tax bill that allows a company to write off depreciation immediately by reducing the usable life of a product instead of taking a percentage of a loss over multiple years.

        When I looked into it, there are a lot of “well ackshually” articles about how destroying Batgirl was not tax advantageous

  • mar_k [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    '03 baby but grew up poor with a box tv, nobody else my age knew what VHS tapes were. The Land Before Time and The Little Toaster were dope

    edit: I had both worlds eventually, when I was like 8 my parents got me a janky android tablet with netflix, so for a big part of my childhood I was switching between cable, VHS movies, and streaming

    • flan [they/them]
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      11 months ago

      The Little Toaster

      you have sparked an extremely vague and deep memory

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      I swear I dreamed the entirety of The Little Toaster the night before I saw it for the first time. Then I saw it probably 40 more times. I have almost no memory of it now.

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Went to the library and borrowed Star Wars: A New Hope I don't know how many times before my mom finally just bought a copy

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      That scene where the one lady is yelling at the unicorn, asking the unicorn why she didn't visit 20 years ago, 10 years ago, back when the lady had more innocence and hope. She starts crying but the unicorn nuzzles into her face, accepting her as she is. It's the best scene.

      • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        I didn't get it as a kid cause I didn't know unicorns and virginity etc. Means a lot more with age.

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          11 months ago

          oh, I had never connected it to virginity, although that angle works too. I just thought Molly had lost hope in ever seeing something magical. She had childhood imagination about magic, unicorns, fairies, etc but grew up into being a mundane normal sort of woman. The unicorn's answer is so good, "I'm here now."

          Also, "Beware wousing a rizard's wrath!" lol

  • Wheaties [comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    This ignores a very important factor in decades that are defined by new technology: money

    Doesn't matter what the latest gizmo is, if you grew up in a household that was strapped for cash, your childhood will have more in common with the previous generation than with your peers.

    • TyMan210 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      This was definitely my experience. I was born in '95, but we were still buying VHS tapes (from Goodwill) well into the late aughts. I still had a small collection of them up until I moved out, but I didn't bring them with me

  • cricbuzz [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Sadly they won't be able to watch "Aliens for Breakfast", a made for tv movie we watched over and over featuring Sinbad

  • charlie
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    11 months ago

    Not a lot of people know what I'm talking about when I bring up BeetleBorgs. They'll all know Power Rangers, but the BeetleBorgs are King.

      • charlie
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        11 months ago

        BEETLEBORGS METALLIX!

        I was about 28 when I realized that Jay Leno was not, in fact, in BeetleBorgs.

        • MerryChristmas [any]
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          11 months ago

          I somehow always forget about his character even though he's like the main plot device initiating the whole thing.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      I'm still mad at that show for exactly one episode. The actress who played the Red Beetleborg gets replaced in episode 39. I'm not mad at her getting replaced, just the contrivance of the plot. She gets hit by some kind of space beam that makes her look slightly different (because it's a different actress now). And the episode's plot is about trying to make her look normal again. But all they manage to do is make her look normal to most people, but the audience and main characters will still see her altered appearance.

      Just replace the character, holy shit. Make a new red beetleborg how hard is it

  • NeelixBiederman [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    My family loved "Nothing But Trouble" and watched it all the time. It wasn't until last year I learned that the movie is almost universally panned as Akroyd's worst movie

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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      11 months ago

      Watched Robin Hood: Men in Tights for the first time while baked out of my mind and thought that movie was hilarious. On sober rewatch, it's kinda mid.

  • JamesConeZone [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    Same with old games in the $5 bin. Whatch y'all know about fucking Zoop for SNES and Glover for the N64

    • Owl [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Zoop for SNES

      Pretty cool. My mom liked it.

      Glover for the N64

      What a mess. I'd rather be playing Chameleon Twist.

      • JamesConeZone [they/them]
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        11 months ago

        As a kid, I legit was like well we have no money so I should try to enjoy this game mom bought me because be it was thoughtful. A disaster of a game

    • Moss [they/them]
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      11 months ago

      Don't worry, theres an enormous amount of slop available for under a tenner on the Nintendo store

  • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    I had Secret Adventures where a babysitters imagination takes her charges into some cartoon adventure once an episode, it was nominally Christian but I think they only added that at the last second so they could dump it direct to vhs after no one bought the series lol. You can watch it all on youtube, but what kid is gonna do that when they can watch a tiktok of someone breaking milk jugs in public with half the screen covered by scooping rainbow colored sand.