Defeners/Le 90s Kids

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telegramsamo said:
This mentality is really common amongst "classic rock" fans. Look up any popular rock song on YouTube. You will see a comment just like this, "I love this song and I'm only 15. All the other kids in school are busy listening to Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga. Modern music sucks! The 60s/70s/80s were king!!!!"

I cringe every time I see a comment like that. Not only is it really annoying, but they are so blatantly fishing for a compliment.
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Eh, not really. Sure those comments are annoying, but it least it shows some teens these days have taste. JB and Lady gaga are truly annoying
 
Konstantinos said:
I feel like the whole 90's kids phenomena is just another example of the way people romanticize the past. There have always been people that are nostalgic for the past, even if they didn't necessarily experience it. I imagine that it's just something that's intrinsic to people. The past can look enticing due its general mystique and how much it differs from the present.

I don't have much patience for people who make the claim that only old music is good. Dadrockers have never sat well with me. Tastes in anything, be it music or vidya, are ultimately subjective. That being said, I like to have this chart on hand.

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you're picture is not big. I think you might need to reupload it.
 
WanderingVagabond said:
Is there a rehashing going on in the literature/publishing industry?
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Yes, there's a lot of "find already established writer to continue the works of a dead writer" happening (Sebastian Faulks writing Jeeves and Wooster, Eoin Colfer writing Hitchhiker's Guide, Jill Paton Walsh writing Lord Peter Wimsey, everyone writing James Bond).

Plus the endless mashups like Pride and Prejudice with Zombies, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer, and soon.

Interesting filter there!
 
Kamen Rider Black RX said:
I'm a fan of the 80's myself. Love hair \M/ETAL and synthesizers, the shitty horror movies (...and The Breakfast Club), and my god. The hair. But the thing is, the 80's I've been exposed to tends to be the cream of the crop. Especially with music. For every great song I know, there are about a dozen that are better left forgotten.
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You forgot to mention vidya! You can't forget to mention vidya!
 
fridgesrants said:
The 90's nostalgia especially on social media sites like Tumblr and youtube has gotten out of hand in the last few years. I am tired of seeing post about how current cartoons, music, video games, tv, movies, etc. is trash and the 90's had better media. They are just looking at the past with rose tinted glasses. There was alot of garbage back then but people only remember the good stuff from that era.
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Superman 64 anyone?
 
MrsFrizzle said:
Yes, there's a lot of "find already established writer to continue the works of a dead writer" happening (Sebastian Faulks writing Jeeves and Wooster, Eoin Colfer writing Hitchhiker's Guide, Jill Paton Walsh writing Lord Peter Wimsey, everyone writing James Bond).

Plus the endless mashups like Pride and Prejudice with Zombies, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Gayer, and soon.

Interesting filter there!
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What hasn't been done yet in literature?
 
WanderingVagabond said:
Is there a rehashing going on in the literature/publishing industry?
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Yes, at least it would appear to be the case to me. Because the publishing industry has experienced such a tremendous change with the advent of e-books, the rise of Amazon, and the closing of several box stores, big publishers are taking less risks. It's an exacerbated problem, not an altogether new one. Goosebumps sold a billion copies in the 90s, and out came Shadow Zone, Deadtime Stories, Chiller, etc. Hunger Games has Divergent and Maze Runner; Bone Season is basically Harry Potter, Twilight, and Hunger Games in one package. And that's just children's lit.
 
Oglooger said:
Le 90's kids doesn't just end with Music.
it also applies to Video Games and probably movies.
I've seen kids on youtube claim that they wish they were born in the 80's/90's when video games was better and punched kids in the face for thinking that "Halo is better than Kid Icarus"
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As much as how the 80's and 90's did have good games, these kids wouldn't know about the crap games that also existed. I'd like to see them play Wizardry and say it's fun without their 80's/90's bias. The Le 90's kids will probably go further in saying cartoons from the 80's and 90's were better. What will be next, saying internet from those times were better? (As far as I know, the connection speed from those times would be much slower than what we have today).
 
MysticMisty said:
I love that game! But anyways, yeah, for every Aladdin, Rocko's Modern Life, and Star Fox 64 there are twenty Happily Ever Afters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happily_Ever_After_(1993_film)), Wish Kids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_Kid), and Superman 64s.
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And from the perspective of a guy who played a pc games that came from the 90's, for every Doom, there was a Depth Dwellers and other terrible FPS games for the DOS system back then. Speaking of DOS games, would these 90's kids enjoy a game like Daggerfall as it is? Unlike Skyrim and Oblivion, you can literally gimp your build if you don't use the character creation system properly (and difficulty can't be changed at any time). Unlike Oblivion, speech skills are totally unneeded compared to a combat skill like long blades. Unlike Oblivion and Skyrim, they will literally have to find quest items without some sort of compass tick that leads them to it (the dungeons are huge, not to mention the game has bugs that could literally render the main quest unwinnable).
 
Abethedemon said:
So there's a subreddit, /r/lewronggeneration that highlights the idiocies of people who wish that they were born in previous generations so that they could listen to Queen and the Beatles. They call these people defeners after a rage comic
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These people are against "swagfags" and think that music went downhill in the 2000s.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/lewronggeneration/
does anyone have experience with these people? They're all over Facebook.
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To be fair, a lot of things went downhill since the turn of the millenium. Still doesn't give these idiot kids carte blanche to act like some new-age hipsters.
 
because SOMEONE has yet to change the resolution in the Dadrocker's guide to music.
I found a version with better resolution.
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KingCasio said:
I know, right? A lot of people are like "the internet ruined music", but if anything, it's spurred whole fucking tons of good works.
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This is true. I've been able to listen to tons of classical music that I had no idea even existed since growing up my family wasn't really into classical music. Plus if I hear any song that I like in a movie/tv show/video game I can just search for it on the internet.

Anyways, as a 90s kid I just have to laugh at the people from my generation complaining about the internet. Do they not remember how awful dial-up was? I was born in '96 and I still remember how awful it was, trying to load up a horrible quality video or horribly compressed MIDI file and then suddenly have your parents use the phone. Now it just blows my mind that I can stream movies all day long in HD. And yet people who grew up in the 90s are still complaining? It boggles the mind.
 
The Knife said:
Fun fact: after you hit a certain age, the tiny bones in your ears fuse together and you have difficulty hearing higher frequencies, meaning that all new music really does sound like crap! The best way around this is to listen to as many different styles of music as possible while your hearing is still at its peak, so that once your high-frequency range starts to go, your brain will recognize sound patterns and chord progressions so that you can compensate for what you're physically not hearing.

Short version: the style of music you listen to when you're young will be the style of music you listen to your entire life if you don't diversify your tastes. Have fun, 90s Kids!
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Where did you get that info? I'm wondering because that sounds like an urban legend to me.
 
I love that subreddit so much, always cheers me up after a bad day... heh heh. Anyway, I might be in the minority here as I really can't stand most dadrock, well apart from some of Yes. When I was a undergrad, I got way into indie rock music and was at a gig nearly every week. However new the band, there would always be the le 90s kids complaining about how the band doesn't measure up to [insert 90's rock band here] plus they would always be drinking at the back, rather then say, enjoying the band playing. I'm thankful for the internet now, especially sites like Soundcloud, because without it I would not have discovered Tofubeats, De De Mouse and the output of Maltine Records. The "defeners" just have to look beyond the radio and Vevo to find that today's music is actually pretty fucking neato.
 
Whatisgoingon said:
Where did you get that info? I'm wondering because that sounds like an urban legend to me.
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It's kinda true; presbycusis is the word for normal hearing loss that accumulates due to age. Bones don't usually fuse, but auditory hair cells degenerate in the cochlea and hearing range decreases through life. (There are other factors too, like the membrane anchoring the hair cells becomes stiffer and less conductive, and degeneration of cells in the spiral ganglion that carry signals from the hair cells to the brain.) On average, age affects high frequencies more than low, and men more than women.
 
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