Oof. That movie was a hard watch when I was a kid. I added it to my collection recently, thinking that I was too young to appreciate it, but I still haven’t been able to finish watching it.
i went with friends to watch it in the second run theater back in the day. we did bad movie nights all the time and would make fun of them like mst3k and it was great. no one else was in the theater so we got to play mystery science theater in a real theater! it was great! we even brought a pizza and had ditched school, it was wonderful.
the movie was so bad we ran out of stuff to make fun of (like, we had to start repeating stuff to make fun of) after 45 minutes so we started playing tag. we had another hour of that theater being ours and we were going to use it.
Did you know that you can rent a theater? Back when I did it, it was relatively affordable: about $200 for 2.5 hours. I went with a small group of friends and we played Halo
it is very, very tempting but i’d rather sink the money on getting a better home theater.
great for a medium group of friends though, as long as they don’t mind me bringing in a cuban buffet (the shack i wanted to buy for my own and turn into an ice creamery, it is now a cuban restaurant i will make them cater)
Yeah, I rented the theater for my best friend’s bachelor party. But a nice home theater setup is so amazing. The living room at my house is smaller than what I had at my apartment, but that just means that the TV is larger in comparison, and the 5.1 surround sound that I upgraded from a used Sony to a used Yamaha fills the room that much more.
I think a big chunk of us are gen X. We used BBS forums, Usenet, then slashdot. Then it went mainstream. Move to digg. Move to Reddit. It keeps getting ruined. Now we’re here but I guess at some point we’ll migrate again. Nothing is permanent.
Hey now some of us are older Gen Z. But I grew up around a lot of old tech so I’m weirdly more similar to millennials and Gen X in some regards on that front.
I was raised by my grandmother, my biological fathers a rapist (I know from experience) and my mother is fucking crazy due to untreated bipolar disorder. Also yes TVs don’t get enough appreciation.
Kids show from the 60s. Very fitting for Melania lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Rocky_and_Bullwinkle_and_Friends
I think I saw a Rocky and Bullwinkle pinball Machine at an arcade in my metro area (Surrey Central City Fun Park)
It was also on Cartoon Network in the 90’s and Boomerang in the early 2000’s.
And a movie from 2000
Oof. That movie was a hard watch when I was a kid. I added it to my collection recently, thinking that I was too young to appreciate it, but I still haven’t been able to finish watching it.
i went with friends to watch it in the second run theater back in the day. we did bad movie nights all the time and would make fun of them like mst3k and it was great. no one else was in the theater so we got to play mystery science theater in a real theater! it was great! we even brought a pizza and had ditched school, it was wonderful.
the movie was so bad we ran out of stuff to make fun of (like, we had to start repeating stuff to make fun of) after 45 minutes so we started playing tag. we had another hour of that theater being ours and we were going to use it.
Did you know that you can rent a theater? Back when I did it, it was relatively affordable: about $200 for 2.5 hours. I went with a small group of friends and we played Halo
it is very, very tempting but i’d rather sink the money on getting a better home theater.
great for a medium group of friends though, as long as they don’t mind me bringing in a cuban buffet (the shack i wanted to buy for my own and turn into an ice creamery, it is now a cuban restaurant i will make them cater)
Yeah, I rented the theater for my best friend’s bachelor party. But a nice home theater setup is so amazing. The living room at my house is smaller than what I had at my apartment, but that just means that the TV is larger in comparison, and the 5.1 surround sound that I upgraded from a used Sony to a used Yamaha fills the room that much more.
Lemmy user base is older than i expected
I am so glad I missed this 60’s reference. That means I’m young!
It is also not really a reference that is widely known outside of the US (or North America).
I think a big chunk of us are gen X. We used BBS forums, Usenet, then slashdot. Then it went mainstream. Move to digg. Move to Reddit. It keeps getting ruined. Now we’re here but I guess at some point we’ll migrate again. Nothing is permanent.
Slashdot represent!
You should move to piefed next
I’m glad to find out I’m not the only one. I took pretty much the same path. Can’t forget many thousands of hours spent on IRC.
Hey now some of us are older Gen Z. But I grew up around a lot of old tech so I’m weirdly more similar to millennials and Gen X in some regards on that front.
next time you see your parents give them a hug for raising you right
also the tv. the tv doesn’t get enough hugs and i’m sure it’s sad.
I was raised by my grandmother, my biological fathers a rapist (I know from experience) and my mother is fucking crazy due to untreated bipolar disorder. Also yes TVs don’t get enough appreciation.
apologies, hug your grandmother. and your tv.
Ya couldn’t have known and I can only hug my TV. My grandmother ain’t dead, just driving to Idaho.
idaho? she might as well be dead i got family in burley and boise. that drive suuuucks and it’s wet today. give her my love too.
Even old farts can use new tech.
new tech is more user friendly than old tech, so i don’t see why not
WHY IS MY LEMMY BLINKING 12:00
That’s the signal to insert the Betamax cassette.
I DON’T LIKE BETAMAX I LISTEN TO STEELY DAN
Steely Dan was the best porn star I ever dated, Rock Hard Ron was the second.
IT KEEPS SCREAMING PC LOAD LETTER. I BURNED MY LAST PRINTER WHAT THE HELLS
“PC LOAD LETTER” just means it wants woke paper, but doesn’t want any if that nancy Euro A4 shit.
This was before my time. But there is a pretty wide range of users here, I’ve noticed.
Gen X local bar.
Have you ever seen the movie they made in like 2000? It’s interesting to say the least.
No! I’ll have to put it on the list.
They actually filmed that in the town I live. I still haven’t bothered to watch it though.