The elderly urge to comment on this thread

Reminds me of talking to a tech bro excited to give Google more information so his ads are more accurately targeted to him.

Prissy little programmers

I remember BBSing on my XT w/ CGA graphics and piezo sound in my youth, jealous AF on what kinds of downloads these two had available.

I used to work with a guy who grew up in the rural American Midwest, used chew, knew how to drive a tractor. He was crazy about Scrooge McDuck and Huey, Louie and Dewie comics. I guess I just assumed there were people who were fans here?

“POV Centrist”

I have enjoyed Gaiman’s writing, also the Sandman show was excellent, but I am glad that in this era that I’m not the type of person to be a fan of anybody. I guess it is natural to ascribe virtue and look up to people who create thing you resonate with, but there’s no reason to think someone who wrote a book is worth praising or emulating other than in the book you liked.

Thrn you realize that alien invasion stories are a (often unconscious) metaphor for colonialism from the point of view of the colonized…

Oh, darn, I guess my social cred in Lemmy has taken a real hit.

Ah, obscure reference humor , definitely not my thing.

How is this a joke? It’s literally just a weak book/movie reference.

It’s time to get those parts to build an EMP.

I miss Jimmy :(

;)

It was the late 80’s, I saw Robotech which used to play after school on a local UHF channel, and also Speed Racer. Probably the first more typical Anime was renting the Super Space Force Macross movie on VHS

C64 Basic, Yggdrasil Linux. I wanted to install Minix, in the pre-Linux times, but it was beyond my abilities

Old enough to have bought a new C64 from Toys R Us

I don’t love musicals in particular, but aren’t anti-musical, and I felt the same. The songs weren’t memorable, the numbers were a bit dull, and nobody really danced much except for extras that they hired that were clearly dancers. If you’re going to pull of a musical, gotta go big, SNW didn’t go big.

So, the time has finally come. I want to mention that I’m not a huge fan of musicals, this translates to that tend to only watch them if external circumstances push me to watch one and I only enjoy if they’re really well done. Well, circumstances have pushed me, and… it was meh.

I thought the songs weren’t particularly memorable, the productions were a bit underwhelming and the dancing nearly non-existent.

That moment was when the show lost me, it was ridiculous. It reminded me of those old Art Frahm pinup posters where they depicted, against all physics and plausible circumstance, a woman’s underwear suddenly dropping down around her ankles from under her dress in public.