/retro/ - Y2K

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I've been rewatching Malcolm in the Middle over the last couple months and it's aged like wine. Not only is the whole vibe and aesthetic completely bang on for the late 90s/early 00s Y2K era, the cultural foundations of what good and bad were had yet to completely rot away. Malcolm is a gifted kid who hates his family but also wants to escape them because they act like idiots, his older brother Reese beats him up and wears too much hair gel, and his parents are both working shitty jobs just to make ends meet.

Francis, the oldest son who caused the most trouble, starts the series in military school, then hitchhikes to Alaska, then gets married to an Inuit woman, gets rich from a land buyout and drives down to somewhere in the desert and finds an eccentric German man who owns a dude ranch, gets hired as foreman with zero experience, and goes from being an immature whiny bitch ranting into a phone receiver to a man with a job who has real responsibilities. His character arc is incredible, funny, and genuine - and he's not even the main character.

I'm six seasons in now and there genuinely hasn't been a single bad episode, which is more than I can say for many other long-running series. One thing I'd forgotten about the show is how cartoony and out-of-left-field a lot of the jokes and story beats could be. You get a good mix of wordplay, visual gags, and dramatic irony in almost every episode.

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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.

>>4612
>>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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Does anyone want to do this? I'm ambivalent about interboard events.

>history
We're a bunch of 30-50-year-old guys who remember when the world used to be better and the internet used to have cool stuff on it. We used to be hosted on anon.cafe but came here when that place decided to shut down.

>memes
Anything you have kicking around in your reaction image folder from 20+ years ago should do it.

Mods are asslickers
That Christmas board is stolen from the original organizers and is being run in bad faith. Original organizers are on 8moe.

>>4607
>is being run in bad faith
>says the markchan shill from a literal honeypot 
That's cute. Now fuck off.

>>4608
The guy is not wrong. I hosted the /christmas/ event back on 2022, I moved it to 8moe last year because it would get more visibility there and it would be easier to set things in motion among other reasons. The current owner of trashchan's /christmas/ is just one guy who took over the board last minute and later moved it here, which is not wrong, that's totally fine by me, what I do think it's not okay is that he pretends his board is the only legitimate continuation and steering shit to any other alternatives and the same time, pretending I'm the one taking over a project last minute when in reality it's the other way around. Therefore it's run in bad faith.
That being said, I don't have any personal grudges against that guy, I'm just making things clear.
>>4606
It's fine, the point of the event is to set aside our differences for a couple of hours and have fun, imageboard communities trend to be too hermetic IMO, therefore I think it's a great idea to set something like this in the spirit of Christmas, just for a couple of hours every year, that doesn't sound like a lot, does it?

>>4594
LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!

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I don't have time to go into too much detail, but Atlyss released a few weeks ago into Early Access on Steam. It's a one man dev project making a game taking a lot of cues from 6th gen game aesthetics, MMO worlds, and kemono/anime aesthetics with solo offline and multiplayer online play. The character creator is really robust and you have five playable races (dog people, kobolds, bird people, rat people, and midna imps) with a lot of customization including boob, ass, and even belly sliders. There are jiggle physics where you'd expect, but they go beyond simple fetish fuel since your characters' ears and tails will actually be affected by the armor and items you equip. Also, there's a /taunt emote where your character slaps their ass.

The dev is a NSFW artist who initially started the project as your typical furry ERP vaporware, but he shifted to a suggestive-but-SFW style partway through development. It seems to have worked out for him. My only real problem with the game is how literal it is about MMO style world and quest design, for although it can be a lot of fun to explore these vast empty worlds filled with cartoony enemies, the questing leaves a lot to be desired. I'm a former WoW addict and I can say confidently this game reminds me of the numbing brain fuzz I felt while I played WoW.

>accept quest from quest giver in hub area
>teleport to dungeon
>get gear checked and die
>try dungeon on lower difficulty
>goal: collect 10 skeleton bones, kill 5 ghosts, acquire 15 mushrooms
>reality: 8 skeleton bones, 4 ghosts killed, 13 mushrooms
>run dungeon again, getting different layout
>finally finish quest and turn it in
>immediately presented with the same quest again; flavor text is "well, those undead are quite a nuisance, aren't they? seems you may have to clear them out some more..."
>desire to play game deflates

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>>4601

>>4601
Your link was busted, fuzzball.
That aside, making into a straight game was probably a better idea. Balancing the porn with gameplay is a rough task, and honestly far from necessary.

>>4604
So use a different invidious instance like inv.nadeko.net or something, or use yt-dlp to download the video. I don't post direct links to YouTube. Fuck YouTube.

>balancing the porn with gameplay
Yeah, by having gameplay first in the same way that old (actual) games did, the dev clearly demonstrates that he wants people to take it seriously instead of just being a pandering porn game. Furries making porn games have a tendency to make things hypersexual but not titillating, and Atlyss accomplishes the opposite by being incredibly horny but not explicit.

>>4539
Bold to assume that degree of sex-positivity will be permitted in public debauchery.

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>>4545
Yeah, ahead of its time

Yes. We actually live in really prude times now and people don't seem to be aware of it. The 80s and 90s were sexually a lot more open. The pearl clutching started in the late 90s and accelerated in the 00s.

>>4516 (OP) 
Browsing Negrogrounds and what the fuck happened? Since when it was fine to accept the crayon eating tards at Deviantart with open arms? Both sites were the opposite of each other and now they're the same shit?

>>4548
You forced faggotry onto others, they'll snap, it's an endless cycle of the weak destroying shit and future generations will redo their shit until hey get burned out.

>>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.

>download and build povray
>sudo make install
>installs
>can't find it
>can use it via terminal but no GUI
>do more reading
>there is no GUI
>it is all text-based
well there goes the fun I was planning on having. time to get an old PowerPC Mac and that software that Jurgen Ziewe used.

>>2473
I think you might be able to make stuff in Blender and then export it to POV-Ray. That POV-Ray artist in the "Modern /retro/ material that actually does it right" thread says he uses his own script, but there might be other options.  You might want to take a look at that thread again, even if you've read through it before. Maybe it'll help. I love the old Jurgen Ziewe art though.

>>2473
Hi, there have been GUI programs for POVRay in the past but they're all very outdated IIRC. The SDL (scene description language) may seem intimidating at first but is actually pretty simple and part of the fun personally. It's at least worth giving it a try.
>>2474
That's right, Blender has the ability to render with POVRay 3 using the included addon, though sticking to the SDL helps keep renders period appropriate in terms of scope IMO. Tutorial anon's script is a simple wrapper that sets the necessary switches for rendering, for scene creation he uses the SDL as in his tutorials.

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I just found out about the Xfire revival project, man I used it all the time to track my games and to find CoD 2 servers, I'm so happy it's back even though I can't stand playing on PC anymore 
https://www.xf1re.com/

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All my AIM friends moved on. It wouldn't be the same without them.

>>3634
Is that show any good? I downloaded a torrent of it a while ago but never got around to watching it.

>>3639
Looks wacky and unpleasantly perverse, but with some good points.

>>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?

Late 90s, early 00s, used to go to Chinatown, look at bootleg dvds, and anime merch from the shiftiest vendors. Good times.

>>3804
Bulls stuff was huge then. I've never followed any form of sportsball, but I think me or my younger brother might have had a Bulls sweatshirt or something when we were kids. It must be because of how big of a deal Michael Jordan was at that time.

>>3808
Yes, it was Jordan at his peak. However, the Bulls in the 90s were officially discussed as a Dream Team. Only sports news I have seen come close to how the Bulls were dominating in the 90s is Tom Brady and company in football.

I got one of those bart simpson gulf war shirts haha

>>4437
Remember where you bought it?

That really shouldn't be hard to believe. Give me a second.

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Here you go. T40 Thinkpad, Pentium M, XP SP3. browser is MyPal. I heard there is a new version of the browser which I'll check out but the one I'm using now mostly works.

>>4342
Thanks, that really brought me back. My desktop in the earlier years was about as cluttered as yours if not more, but as I grew older I came to prefer a more clean desktop.
By the time I got on Windows 7 my desktop only had the recycle bin icon, which I eventually moved to My Computer, leaving me with a completely empty desktop.
Fun times!

>>4344
I used to be a clean desktop person, with just one or two icons, and at some point, for some reason, I stopped. It was around the same time I stopped using most applications in fullscreen mode. Now, I normally have a web browser open in windowed mode so I can see my beautiful wallpaper(s) behind it, and I like having a few icons on the desktop. On my main Windows 7 computer, I purposefully left out shortcuts that have icons I just think look nice. It's almost like decoration. In a way I treat the computer desktop in the same way I treat my real desktop, as a workspace that I use, and clean up afterwards, but some things stay on top. 

I have a folder on my desktop that's like a miscellanous drawer into which I occasionally sweep random junk that's accumulated on the desktop. And when I'm working on something on my computer I just dump files on the desktop instead of making a temp folder. And then at the end I delete what I no longer need and file things away. Now that I'm used to the way I do things I don't want to change. My desktop will remain somewhat messy. It's home.

>>4368
>I have a folder on my desktop that's like a miscellanous drawer into which I occasionally sweep random junk that's accumulated on the desktop
I do that too, although my desktop is also filled with tons of other crap. It's a mess.

Just use >>536

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Nice selection. A lot of these look really cool.

>>4263
Nah. This is specifically for high-resolution images that would look good with desktop clutter spread all over them.

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Bliss, from a 600DPI scan of the film. Don't waste your time with 16:9 versions. the WTC wallpaper is one of my personal favorites.

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>>5 (OP) 
>you ever feel a sense of nostalgia for hentai you enjoyed from back in the day?
I'm ambivalent about it. I was growing up in the 00s so even a mediocre internet connection could get a young boy infinite pornography if he knew where to look. When I discovered SadPanda my life changed significantly and not in a good way. If we're just reminiscing about stuff that had strong impacts, then I think Asanagi's Victim Girls 3 defined most of my tastes.

One thing I do recall from my early years exploring erotic illustration is that the Japanese artists I saw tended to be a lot better at creating stuff with actual depth in it. Western comics seemed to be a lot more flat and dull by comparison, and I'm not sure if that was the result of worse art due to comics being mostly dead in the West or just due to different cultural values.

>>4250
>not in a good way
I know that feeling. It's a hard habit to break, but not impossible. Just scoured the tabs from my browser bar a few artbooks and a pair of (non-pornographic) stories. Think I'll keep it that way.

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>>4264
>It's a hard habit to break, but not impossible.
For what it's worth, I did so ~5 years ago, and the raciest thing I ever seek out now is
>a bunch of women with enormous tits running around on a beach

>>4265
Inspirational. Been doing that for a year and a quarter at this point, hope I can manage as long as you have.

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>>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.