/retro/ - Y2K

>>4967
>>4968
As an avid player of Doom and Doom II seeing that just give me the urge to take my double barreled shotgun and spray up some guts. Yes, especially for this big mancubus pus bag.

>>4969
Super shotgunning Mancubi is very satisfying, especially with the sounds they make. I'm more uncomfortable with the presence of that Arch-vile though. :^)

>>4970
>Arch-vile
Damn I hate this mother fucker so much.

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>>4971
Total Arch-vile Death.

been playing halo 2 again on the hueg and forgot how fun it was. playing it on hard instead of legendary since the latter is just painfully unfun. never realized how easy it was to go out of bounds in just about any level and walk around. still never found a single skull though.
it's also very much into the metalheart aesthetic, especially with its menus and UI. if you haven't played it something is wrong with you.

>>2653
As far as I know it's kind of a neutral zone. Sure, there's trannies and furries all over the front page, but there's also a site for a /pol/ podcast and one from a self-proclaimed incel, and they've been around for a couple years. I'm not sure if it's because the admins are apolitical enough not to care unless you're spewing "NIGGERNIGGERNIGGER" or making legitimate threats, or if they only come down on you when you start criticizing trannies. Or if no one's reported them yet and I've probably jeopardized both sites by mentioning them.

>>2655
The last blogpost is from 2019 so it might be on autopilot, could be tested by violating the TOS with a burner and reporting yourself from another burner.

>>2659
How about no? There's absolutely no need to push the site admins' buttons like that. Neocities is most probably running on autopilot so let's keep it that way.

>>2640
fc2 looks like the only half-decent one and its like 80% either bots or indians

>>2627 (OP) 
>>2640
anyway, nekoweb is the only alternative to neocities i have ever encountered, but if neocities is too woke for you then i doubt youll prefer nekoweb

theyre individual websites, its not like you can get cancelled and tossed like its twitter

>>4265
>>4266
I have made progress; when I was in high school and university I was spending at least an hour jerking off every day and these days I can go several days at a time without having much or any desire to do so as long as I keep myself busy. I just wish that I could have enough self-control to stop myself when I get into these deranged benders that take up an entire afternoon.

One thing I have noticed is that my tastes have seemed to become gradually less and less extreme, especially over the last couple of years, and my fantasies are now mostly focused on a single woman or myself and a single woman.

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>>5 (OP) 
In a few ways I do, I'm fond of the stuff I grew up with, at the same time I feel it was bad for me to have access to so much stuff from such a young age with the internet and all, it made my brain less sensible to this stuff, to the point where when it was time to finally do it for real, I suffered from ED for months, even now I'm still not perfect, though I'm a lot better, and when I want to make sure I'll pull it off I just use some medication, which back then barely worked because my case was so bad, now it's a treat. Anyways, besides the ED, I feel like the constant need for more stimulus made me develop unrealistic expectations, and fetishes I don't feel proud off, but can't get rid off no matter how long I stay away from all kinds of pornography, I should've used it less.

It's a double edged sword for me.

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>bring up some good old fashioned hentai
>look over the pages robotically
>no longer horny
>imagine having a gf
>instantly very horny and very angry and very sad
Could just be me getting older, but when I was younger almost everything got me fired up really easily. It takes a lot more to titillate me these days.

I focus on AI these days with very carefully curated text erotica it can be great but only when I really manage to get immersed and don't end up writing stupid shit or the AI slopped everything up. I don't think I have changed much tbh, it's just that everything that's out there is so crappy. 70s and 80s porn and 00s early internet amateur kind of stuff was often pretty good and still is if you look at it now. If I open any regular pornsite nowadays I just get disgusted. The people are ugly and what they do is gross. I don't think it's me, either.

>>4996
genAI porn is like having a bottomless pit in your brain. It's truly going to be the distinction between people who can control themselves and people who can only be led around by surges of brain chemicals.

Getting my mind back took years after I'd spent formative years training myself on "regular" porn. Having infinite media that looks 85% close to your mental image will do horrible things to the human mind.

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>>3285
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>>3282
>Do you know of any good reading on the subject?
If you want some good material on early science fiction, QuQu did a pretty quick dive into the subject on "what happened" (With sources to other material that go into far more detail): https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=WZ3pbxp3QKU

>>4924
Hey, they aren't gooners, they're shortstack appreciators and men of culture.

>>4925
>blue furry avatar talking at camera
Hmm.
>from a tiny channel with 2K subs whose last video was 7 years ago
Okay, it's probably legit then.

>>4925
I think I saw that even before I even made that post, but thanks anyway for posting it. I couldn't remember what the video was called.

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The artist behind Studio Tanuki who made Bunny Maloney (AKA Pinpin Le Lapin, AKA Lupin III if he were a horny French rabbit guy) has made a new website:
https://studiotanuki.com/

There was a pretty big resurgence in Bunny Maloney interest from some viral video essays a year and a half ago, so the creator has been trying to ride that wave. He's quite active on Twitter and Bluesky, mostly Twitter, and he's been trying to contact the networks to ask if they can take the hard drives with the lost episodes out of storage, or to otherwise confirm who actually owns the series and what can be done with it.
https://x.com/studio_tanuki_
https://bsky.app/profile/bunny-maloney.bsky.social

>wtf is bunny maloney
Animated show from the late 00s with a Frutiger Metro aesthetic. It was broadcast in a bunch of different languages but its lasting impression is the dichotomy of looking like a young kids' show but having humor and characters that would fit in a show for teens. There are a lot of dick and sex jokes, bodily fluid jokes, and references to surprisingly old anime. In the original PinPin Le Lapin Flash animation there's 

>>4976
Kinda similiar design to Groove Armada music video

Could you enable anonymous posting on usenet if you had a server with a single user whose name and password are public knowledge (e.g. anon; anon)? I mean, I see no technical reason you cannot do it right now, but I am not familiar enough with the technology and culture to decide if it would be a good idea.

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>>168 (OP) 
Vrchat , webXR, fediverse
>>176
ipfs recently been hosting dynamic dApps chats, forums with Orbitdb
https://hashchan.network 
https://plebchan.eth.limo/#/
https://plebbit.com

>>371 
we had local city wide wan ethernet 20 years ago. not much anymore.
>>4237
kewl
>>168 (OP) 
yup
>>4746

I see problem of bubbles.
Like boards/chans/webring bubbles, that are hard to escape.

thoughts:
- try non-web, p2p protocols. (dApps today is pretty wild west). Nothing scary about blockchain, or holochain. Just review the source and compile it locally.
- I'm not interested in yet another entertainment brainrot web page. I want to see project management systems where communities collaborate, create, work together. 

ah, https://radicle.xyz/ btw

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>>4943
I don't know anything about stuff like this, but Plebbit and Plebchan look interesting. How do they plan on dealing with illegal content, exactly? If it's a peer-to-peer system, wouldn't that that be a legal liability for users if unscrupulous characters decided to shit a board up with cheese pizza or whatever? I know people have mentioned that being a problem with torrent-style frameworks for imageboards and such in the past.

I can't say I'm a fan of the name either. Reddit will always be Plebbit to me.

>>4945
Never mind. From what I've just read, their way of getting around that is that they don't actually host images themselves.

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>>4612
The subtle background continuity for each of the characters had great payoffs in later seasons.
- Malcolm goes from middle school to high school to considering college and potentially getting into foreign exchange programs.
- Reese discovers he's an incredibly gifted cook, but has more fun beating up nerds so he squanders his potential.
- Dewey gets put into a class for emotionally stunted kids and turns to music in order to have some kind of emotional vent.
- Hal's company gets investigated for CEO embezzlement and everyone conspires to pin the blame on him, but because he's been such a bad employee over the years he physically couldn't have done what he's been accused of.

I think the only real exception to this is Lois getting pregnant and having another kid, although I suspect that was due to Jane Kaczmarek having a kid IRL.

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>>4613
The webms only have background music and sound effects, no speech... Are they supposed to be like that?

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>>4614
Must be a browser issue on your end. They played fine on my machine in MPV.net and the opera.webm is working on LibreWolf when I play it here. 

joke.mp4 and eggs.mp4 don't load for me, either inline or when viewing the source. Perhaps these webms will work.

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They're all playing for me now.

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Just saw the Double Dragon film, and it was unironically a very etertaining movie. Yes, it was silly and extremely stupid, but it also had something "earnest" about it inronically enough. Much more so than all of the recent productions that try to "replicate" that cheesiness of 90's sci-fi and fantasy films.

>>4581
Newgrounds was losing relevance after the death of flash, so when Deviantart and Tumblr went to shit NG pivoted to being the "alternative" art website. Come to think of it NG was always full of degenerates so I'm not too worried about them, I would only worry about the censorship culture that permeated DA/Tumblr seeping into NG.

My mom watches this sometimes and she told me that they put a disclaimer before the reruns claiming that the show doesn't represent the views of the network airing it because of how "outdated" it is despite being edgy when it was airing.

>>4516 (OP) 
As others have already pointed out, Archie Bunker's character was written as satire, much like Homer Simpson.  That is to say that media provides prescriptive rather than descriptive depictions of society.

It's a relatively small group of people who decide what to prescribe as "real", so I wouldn't put any stock in the fact that such-and-such used to be considered kosher.

Well OP, people weren't such political correct pussies back then. This is how they could laugh at someone like Archie Bunker. Now that commies have politicized everything, you can't do anything but either propaganda or something like the Care Bears.

There was some of this, sure, but the bulk of daytime TV was squeaky clean, especially the stuff on network TV over the rabbit ears. After hours (8 or 9ish) this stuff came on, especially if you had cable TV.

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And with this the batch of retro wallpaper I have actually downloaded for future use is dumped completely. I had some other, but their resolution is not the best. The oldest ones are from spring 2008, which was exactly the time when 1080p became available to people with way too much money for a flat screen monitor. at the time, still had been using my old CRT monitor that I have autistically slapped full of stickers.

>>4895
Nice dump, Anon. Thanks!

>>4252
The most ubiquitous resolutions for mid 2000s was about 1024*800 or 1280*1024 if you went really crazy on CRT. The most common wide screen at the time was 	1440*900 and 1600*1024. Latter once again if your really went crazy. Full HD wasn't as quickly adopted for Computer Desktops as in the living room where CRT TVs were dying like flies. Usually due to wear or simply incompatibility  with HDMI which most media player and 6th gen consoles used for displaying sharper images.

>>4908
Thanks.

Just stumbled upon this page full of screenshots from around 2002:
https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/

>>4888
>digits
Interesting, thanks.

Linux mint, it just werks

>>4890
I use it for that reason, but I don't consider it ideal or anything.

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Why not the Amiga-OS ?

>>3639
One of my favorite shows, if not my #1 favorite. Like >>3640 says you'll either love it or hate it.

>>3634
I remember watching a few episodes of Lexx as a kid, didn't really gravitate towards it at the time. I remember a few years ago coming across streams on CyTube and thought about actually giving a series a try. Definitely love the link you provided. Going to have to back up my HDD and make space and download some shows from that period, starting with Lexx.

I wonder, is Inuyasha worth trawling for fics?

What are your top-3 fanfics ? The ones you enjoyed reading the most or that you keep coming back to

>>4863
I was never really on the edge of my seat reading fanfics, and "these were to my taste a quarter-century ago" is not much of an endorsement, but...

Some madman made a crossover of Duke Nukem and Neverwinter Nights.  I'm pretty sure it's lost to the ether now, but when I was grabbling FFN and AO3 archives from IA, it was the only thing I specifically sought out.

There was also a Diablo/StarCraft crossover, which is still up: http://theboojum.com/Tales/Dumptruk/HellCraft/hellcraft.htm