Tulpa

3 hours ago, fcgamer said:

As a noob collector in 1997 or so I was.

Well, I guess you got past the teenager part.

11 hours ago, fcgamer said:

Strongly disagree about most of this. I got dunked on plenty of times, but that was for acting like an idiotic teenager rather than for being a new guy. 

You're still a teenager?

1 hour ago, spacepup said:

Rocko's Modern Life was mentioned in this thread - now that is one that I absolutely LOVED.

Rocko was even more subversive in some respects. I'm still amazed that the local fast food place was called The Chokey Chicken. 

I think that one holds up better today overall than Ren and Stimpy. 

8 hours ago, Sumez said:

This is pretty much exactly what I figured! 

Not selling it to me, sorry 

What, you didn't fart and try to make your little bro puke as a kid? Or as an adult?  

It was really a product of its time, but when it came out in 1991, it hit like an atomic bomb. Nothing outside of underground cartoons had anything like it been seen. With all the imitators coming out, it doesn't seem as groundbreaking, but it was a shock to see it when it first hit. 

And it really did break mainstream cartoons out from the stuff that was cool in the early 80s but by the late 80s had grown stale. Granted, the gross out cartoon got stale, too, but it just shows that these things go in cycles. I'm always appreciative of things that shake up the status quo, even if it isn't universally acclaimed. 

26 minutes ago, mbd39 said:

You should watch some of the earlier episodes such as Space Madness and In The Army. They're genuinely hilarious and ahead of their time. The show got much worse when the original creator was fired.

Yeah, there was a wry, subversive sense of humor that was lost on younger kids but did give some Fridge Brilliance and Fridge Horror moments for older kids and adults. 

2 minutes ago, DarkKobold said:

The timing on this post is beautiful:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/1bkydpr/which_one_of_you_bid_on_this/

 

*thinking that u/nebulaastromer is Gulag Joe's reddit account*

Yeah, Rugrats and Doug were positively wholesome compared to Ren and Stimpy, though Rugrats occasionally had a dose of gross out jokes here and there. But Ren and Stimpy was the one with all of the imitators.

Good point about YCDTOT. It's amazing that the green slime from that show is still a Nickelodeon icon, even though it's pretty much divorced from its original context. I wonder if any kids today are even aware of where it came from.

3 hours ago, Sumez said:

Not gonna pretend it looks particularly appealing

It was a very ... deliberately repugnant show. So it fit well with the 7-13 year old demographic. Fart jokes and gross out humor turned up to 11, and paved the way for shows like Rocko's Modern Life and Cow and Chicken. 

It was also one of the shows that I noticed a very marked change from the squeaky clean cartoons of the 70s and 80s. All the moralizing and setting good examples for kids was replaced by "how can we get the audience to projectile vomit." 

It had its moments. I remember the show about the tooth fairy was one of the most effective PSAs about brushing your teeth. I still shudder at that one. 

13 hours ago, TDIRunner said:

Never seen it, but I feel like I probably should some day.  

Eh, only if you're into stuff that's weird for the sake of being weird. It's a much different experience in a crowded theatre. 

The Meatloaf cameo is a highlight, though. 

Yeah, Frankie only sings on the bridge, the part of "Oh, I-I-I, got a funny feeling..." The drummer sings the verses and someone else does the random falsetto "Oh what a night!" parts. 

25 minutes ago, JamesRobot said:

Also better than the original.  

 Knnnyock knyock knyockin' on heaven's dooroor!  Ow how how! 

I think you just have an unrequited love for Axl.

He's not going to call, James! He's just not!

2 hours ago, JamesRobot said:

Live and Let Die's saving grace is that it's a James Bond tune.  The GnR is better than the original.

That reminded me of the time I was on a message board where someone said "I found this awesome song! It's Bob Dylan doing a cover of GnR's Knocking on Heaven's Door!" 

And everyone was like "WTF? Did you think GnR did the original?"

He was like, "Yeah ... didn't they?"

And then the whole board went apeshit.  

3 hours ago, RH said:

I never could quite get into The Beatles like, oh, everyone else in the world since 1960 but I definitely enjoyed a lot more of their music when they split up and started doing each their own thing.

I actually kind of feel the opposite. Their solo careers to me were their flaws that they compensated to diminish when together suddenly put out in the open. John was always so in your face, Paul started getting too sentimental (that John would hold in check in the 60s), and George/Ringo would occasionally have a banger or two, but overall just weren't on the level of Lennon/McCartney.

That being said, I did give Live and Let Die an 8. 

I was never a huge fan of the Traveling Wilburys, so I went 6.

There are better Lennon songs. 4 for Beautiful Boy. 

7 minutes ago, nrslam said:

FWIW, the stage version is even more fun as the actors usually play along with the audience. We go every time a local troupe puts it on.

That's the main thing to remember is that this movie started as a stage show with a live audience to interact with. The movie obviously lacks the direct interaction aspect, but a large group watching the same thing has an energy that sitting at home in your Laz-E-Boy doesn't. 

Unless you're drunk enough.

Trump can't pay the piper.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/trump-464-million-dollar-bond/index.html

"Former President Donald Trump can’t find an insurance company to underwrite his bond to cover the massive judgment against him in the New York attorney general’s civil fraud case, his lawyers told a New York appeals court.

Trump’s attorneys said he has approached 30 underwriters to back the bond, which is due by the end of this month.

“The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude,” Trump’s lawyers wrote. (Trump himself was ordered to pay $454 million; the $464 million includes the disgorgement for his adult sons Don Jr. and Eric.)

An insurance broker, Gary Giulietti, who testified for Trump during the civil fraud trial, signed an affidavit stating that securing a bond in the full amount “is a practical impossibility.”

Potential underwriters are seeking cash to back the bond, not properties, according to Trump’s lawyers."

Probably because his properties are all leveraged beyond the breaking point.

22 minutes ago, MrWunderful said:

Fraud isnt a crime in Canada? Thats wild lol

Seriously. A former president got slammed for $355 million dollars for basically what Code Monkey just described.

Half past (((6^2 - 24) + 20) / (3 + 1)) + (25 % 2) - (10 // 3).

1 hour ago, TDIRunner said:

I like it, but I would prefer each number having a different equation all around the clock (like using 3² for the 9 o'clock spot).  

I was thinking of that, too, but it might get kind of clunky if you're trying for a unique equation for each one. 

42 minutes ago, Sumez said:

Have you ever tried Super Burger Time? Sounds like a similar deal.

I haven't, but it does look like a lot of the improvements over the original are in both games. 

Burgertime Deluxe on Game Boy. I know it's kind of a Donkey Kong 94 situation, but it's closer to the original Burgertime than DK 94 is to DK. The music is better, the levels have more variety, and the controls are much smoother. 

WANT!

It's one of those that's better in the movie theatre at midnight with a bunch of rowdy fans that know the cues to do the wacky stuff than home viewing.

I love Schumer there going, "Well, sucks to be you, Mitch."

*finding that www.megamansage.com is registered to Code Monkey*