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The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced

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Re: The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced

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Post by thomassmith65 »

toyg wrote: post #5
rhelz wrote: post #2

Ah, the 90's. Bill Clinton raised taxes, which eliminated the deficit, which made interest rates go down.....My biggest problem in life was wondering which company which was trying to recruit me had the best stock option package. There are a few things which have gotten better. Gay marriage. Marijuana legalization. But Entshitification is real and for the last 25 years has been relentless.

And let's be honest, that is also partially Clinton's legacy. Him and Tony Blair, with their "Third Way" triangulation bullshit, effectively moved the Overton window to the right for good. And here we are.

Anybody who remembers the last century knows that any Democrat left of Clinton would have resulted in a President Bob Dole. And at least the Clinton administration tried to give Americans Hillarycare.

Re: The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced

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Post by mna_ »

davesque wrote: post #39

There are two shows I still watch from start to finish every few years: The X-Files and Star Trek: TNG

For me, it's The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Simpsons and Malcolm in the Middle. Those are the shows I watched as a kid and I'll love them forever.

Re: The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced

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Post by InsideOutSanta »

RajT88 wrote: post #52
layer8 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might just be age and experience, but the world felt bigger in the 90s than it does now.

It felt bigger because of a few things: 1. The world felt farther away. It was much harder to learn current events about far away places, and talk to people there. 2. The number of websites you spend most of your time on has shrunk. Facebook/Insta/TikTok is a lot of people's entire internet diet.

Yeah, the internet felt more like an unexplored place then. Now it feels like a service to access some other services, but back then, it felt like a real world that could contain anything.

Re: The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced

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Post by miiiiiike »

dingaling wrote: post #178
miiiiiike wrote: post #171

I was a huge X-Files kid growing up. I was 10 when The X-Files (and Brisco County Jr.) debuted and I watched "Encounters" on FOX in the years before. Are we talking about the same 90's? There's no one like you in your area? I hope you like sitting in your house alone. You saw half of a movie late at night? Heard a song in a show? Hold onto it, it might take you a decade to finally track it down (it was Land by Patti…

"You live in a fantastic world with instant access to everything in recorded history" I hear this a lot, particularly from Millenials, and it's entirely incorrect. There are vast amounts of information still only available in books, or on the shelves of archives. Sure, the Internet might provide 99% of pop-culture information, but don't mistake that for 99% of knowledge.

Name an important archive that isn’t in the process of being digitized or an unimportant one that’s likely to crumble before we get around to snapping a picture of its contents.

But if we look under the hood you can see where you’re taking an obvious exaggeration literally. See it? Right? That’s what’s making the thunking noise.

Over there on the left. No, your other left. There. The point is over there.

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Post by kstrauser »

CamelCaseCondo wrote: post #179
kstrauser wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't speak to the FBI, but I was in the military at the time and almost no one had a personal laptop. Our department got one in 1994 that we could share around the office. I would be gobsmacked to hear that the FBI were given the budget for laptops and cell phones back then. Remember also that 2G didn't meaningfully have data until the very late 90s. Its first "data" offering was SMS, which was pay-per-message. No…

This strikes me as weird. In 92/93/94 I was on packet radio, a ham equivalent of digital lora which used hopping to get you to neighbouring countries. Most had 1200 baud, some 9600. I downloaded executables from bbs’es over the air and chatted with likeminded folks. Around that time we also had the first guest lectures about software defined radio with proof of concepts. I find it impossible to believe that a bunch o…

I absolutely believe it! I’ve seen exactly one packet radio in my life, a giant rack mounted thing on a US Navy ship. It was neat tech but you’ve gotta admit it was far from ubiquitous. I think the modern analogy would be surprise that they don’t issue Meshtastic radios.

First and foremost, Mulder and Scully worked for an enormous federal agency. They have some pockets of incredibly high tech stuff. They don’t procure cutting edge gadgets for the average employee. Think of it like going to work at IBM or similar, where you get issued exactly the set of tools that your job description and organization say are required for your job. If that still says you need a Pentium 4 desktop and a BlackBerry, guess what’ll be in your cubicle on your first day at the office.

Re: The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced

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Post by Scroll_Swe »

Yes it is peak TV. Also sad how young people are. I was a child though. But am rewatching it. Yes no modern TV comes close. And the remake... I suspect HN aggress with the casting but I wont speak on it or I will be banned.

But yes I mostly rewatch 00s and 90s TV only

Re: The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced

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Post by Scroll_Swe »

saltcured wrote: post #90

I think it's pretty funny to call out the clothing as stylish. As far as I remember, Mulder's suit was meant to look like the cheap and ill-fitting suit that a low-level, young government employee would buy for a dress code and because he didn't want to think about clothing. And so much of the environment was slightly strange to US viewers, I think, because it was mostly filmed in the Pacific Northwest and Vancouver,…

>As far as I remember, Mulder's suit was meant to look like the cheap and ill-fitting suit that a low-level, young government employee would buy for a dress code and because he didn't want to think about clothing.

1000% times better than what people are wearing today.

Today is so hoodified you have office workers in sneakers.

The white shirt, suit and trench looks so good. ALSO people where not as obese. This has of course an effect on the fit.

Re: The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced

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Post by Scroll_Swe »

dingaling wrote: post #178
miiiiiike wrote: post #171

I was a huge X-Files kid growing up. I was 10 when The X-Files (and Brisco County Jr.) debuted and I watched "Encounters" on FOX in the years before. Are we talking about the same 90's? There's no one like you in your area? I hope you like sitting in your house alone. You saw half of a movie late at night? Heard a song in a show? Hold onto it, it might take you a decade to finally track it down (it was Land by Patti…

"You live in a fantastic world with instant access to everything in recorded history" I hear this a lot, particularly from Millenials, and it's entirely incorrect. There are vast amounts of information still only available in books, or on the shelves of archives. Sure, the Internet might provide 99% of pop-culture information, but don't mistake that for 99% of knowledge.

>There are vast amounts of information still only available in books

You can get every book ever realeased in PDF or ePUB on the web my guy. Hello?

Just because your internet is just TikTok on your phone...

Re: The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced

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Post by AlecSchueler »

Scroll_Swe wrote: post #187
saltcured wrote: post #90

I think it's pretty funny to call out the clothing as stylish. As far as I remember, Mulder's suit was meant to look like the cheap and ill-fitting suit that a low-level, young government employee would buy for a dress code and because he didn't want to think about clothing. And so much of the environment was slightly strange to US viewers, I think, because it was mostly filmed in the Pacific Northwest and Vancouver,…

>As far as I remember, Mulder's suit was meant to look like the cheap and ill-fitting suit that a low-level, young government employee would buy for a dress code and because he didn't want to think about clothing. 1000% times better than what people are wearing today. Today is so hoodified you have office workers in sneakers. The white shirt, suit and trench looks so good. ALSO people where not as obese. This has of…

> Today is so hoodified you have office workers in sneakers.

I'm not sure if that was intended as a dog whistle but you might want to consider that it's coming across as one.

Re: The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced

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Post by Scroll_Swe »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #189
Scroll_Swe wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>As far as I remember, Mulder's suit was meant to look like the cheap and ill-fitting suit that a low-level, young government employee would buy for a dress code and because he didn't want to think about clothing. 1000% times better than what people are wearing today. Today is so hoodified you have office workers in sneakers. The white shirt, suit and trench looks so good. ALSO people where not as obese. This has of…

> Today is so hoodified you have office workers in sneakers. I'm not sure if that was intended as a dog whistle but you might want to consider that it's coming across as one.

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