Like the German intro version of the Megaman TV series
Nah good things happen all the time, we’re just not kids anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars:_1990–2002
I’ve been slowly building a backyard garden with native plants to bring back local pollinators.
I’ve been making my good things happen.
so, like, I got laid sunday… and on saturday, I had been at a protest against trump with 200,000+ other peeps and had an absolute blast.
Seems so silly I’m hindsight, but it struck a nerve at the time:
Three of the biggest hit films of 1999: The Matrix, Fight Club, and American Beauty. The inciting incident in all three was, “Man, life is kind of boring…”
I fucking wish that was my problem.
“May you live in interesting times” is a curse, not a blessing.
I still believe that’s the reason many people voted for Dubya. Gore was dependable but boring. Dubya was entertaining.
What’s something that ages much worse than milk?
Meat.
For a brief, shining moment you had Animaniacs, XMen, and The Tick all on back to back on Thursdays after school
Oddly I’ve seen a lot of Animaniacs references recently.
So I downloaded an Animaniacs torrent to re-watch a bunch of stuff from the 90s that used to make me happy. Somehow it’s not as great as I remember. Or maybe I’m just old and miserable.
Like another comment mentioned, target age is a huge factor. To that I would add that Animaniacs went unexpected places with the humor in a way few cartoons (that I had access to) were doing. Tiny Toons by contrast was enjoyable enough but the humor was… idk “safe” I guess?
Nations of the World was just tightly executed and clever, for one example. “A clown will not bite me und throw me in the basement” is something I still say from time to time, is another. Both stuck with me because I had that “wtflol” moment the first time I saw them. Real “bologna in our slacks” energy which was hilarious at age 12.
Untrue I remember no good things
We had a completely different childhood my man.
That’s the thing, really.
We’re so caught up on the good times, we never realised the evil brewing underneath that.
We thought we were the characters in the epilogue, but the truth was we hadn’t even seen the start of the prologue.
The reason we don’t remember the bad stuff is because Power Ranger and X-men intro theme are just too good. And also Jumanji came out that decade.
But it can only good happen! /s
I feel awful for young people.
Wish they could grow up in the world we did. The woods we played in are now McMansions and paved over. The malls, video stores, and pizza party places are gone or empty. Friendships were made organically and if someone wanted to fuck with you, they had to do it to your face and take some personal risk.
We were out having adventures until the street lights came on.
Worst of all though, we had hope for a prosperous future. Young people don’t even get to have that now.
