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Why was Generation X like this? What was their problem?

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We still have these movies, they’re just called “Everything Everywhere All At Once” and are about the nihilism of one’s “true” self being contained within a construct insistently telling you every sacrifice has been made that you have infinite choice and opportunity to individuate, yet the individuation happens to be quite limited by social sanction, overwhelming one toward a radicalism that is a false response. The difference is the 90’s film put the postmodern twist at the end- reality is a subjective and false frame, but now films are metamodern and right out the gate presume reality is multiversal and can be hopped around at whim.

What was a rule in your house growing up that seemed normal but later, as an adult, you found out was weird?

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We all had to all fall in line for cadet review when dad blew a bo’suns whistle downstairs, which I thought was a boomer thing forever until I started dating and found out no one else has that happen

Finally got around to watching Oliver & Company. WTF Disney?

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Finally got around to watching Oliver & Company. WTF Disney?

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Name two of your favorite movies from back in the day. One that has aged like a fine wine, and one that we no longer speak of

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Exactly. Every since the fall of Spacey every still from American Beauty has been used to suggest the theme is “Hey, Mena Suvari, despite being in high school, is the real American Beauty and gosh darn it the heart wants what the heart wants and so here’s good ole Kevin Spacey’s middle aged character teaching America how to lust by constantly dousing her in rosepetals at and all of that is Just Awesome because 1998”

Since I’m old and boring now, I wanna hear some rebellious stories of our youth. Come on you little hellions what’s the worst thing you ever did when you were a teenager?

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Once I was in one of those coffee stores with barrels of coffee beans and I took a scoop of columbian supremo and mixed it into the arabica and vice versa when the authorities weren’t looking

You got a riiiiiiiiiiight to say no

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Whoa! I never saw the extended version with full speechifying from, is that a corvette? As a ‘74 I always waver if I should be following Xennials. But I was 13 when this ad came out, which definitely captures the full specific awkwardness of my year.

Be honest, how far did you get before running out of quarters?

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This was my proudest moment. Princess Daphne was looking at me like the total smokeshow she was in that medieval thong after I collapsed the roof on that dragons bead and and everyone was gathered around chanting my name— …I think i was strangled by vines and had one more dollar to spend and then died playing hopscotch on some tiles and then I played Time Pilot

Whatever happened to crop circles?

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There are only so many times aliens can try to communicate this way and if humans can’t decipher it by now than maybe this is not the “aliens problem” and maybe humans should try to make more crop circles because its actually hard and look orbiting aliens are not just made of crop circles.

Turkish Delight is such a disappointment

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Between CS Lewis’ irrational nearly epistemological-destroying love of Turkish Delight and Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I’m getting a sense that post-war Britain was really in a bad place when it came to the candy situation.

what comes to mind when you hear 1996?

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Did you watch the episode where David the Gnome and his wife Lisa die? They randomly aired this before school in the 1980's... That was not a good day lol

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Soooo, what happened to our gen Y label? Haven't heard that in a while...

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Just remember the alternative they were bandying around at the time was “Baby *Busters*” referring to the lower birthrate of the mid-60’s.

MacGyver and son.

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We always had a running joke as kids “So I was down in Bol-Panama…” as one of the ludicrous made up place names MacGyver frequented. Im impressed he made it to a real country.

Steve Buscemi doesn't get enough accolades.

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I was heartbroken to hear he has gone full MAGA. He used to be so awesome. Just kidding! He didn’t do anything like that at all and remains awesome. I just wanted everyone to have that Friday boost of uplifting “phew!” after being “oh no oh god what now” for a split second. Also, he was a very cool firefighter.

Young Einstein (1988) - This movie crossed my mind the other day.

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The search engine is not a direct reference to the star? ![gif](giphy|26ufdipQqU2lhNA4g) I just assumed it was an “Ask Jeeves” concept

Did yall watch”The Critic “? I was obsessed a elementary school cinefile🤷🏾‍♀️

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Every day we get closer to a real-life V.I.C.K.I., and honestly, the idea of one in the hands of grown men is… deeply disturbing

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You know with all the love in the world I think this is probably one of those posts that did not 100 percent *have* to be furnished to r/Xennials

As a kid I didn't understand these were 3 separate people

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I can’t [add](https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvYWQ2XC8zNTE0LTEyNDY5OC0xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJmaXQiOiJjb3ZlciIsImhlaWdodCI6MTgyLCJ3aWR0aCI6MzIwfX19) the picture, but I’d put Chef Paul Prudhomme in the confusion mix for me as well.

Most annoying characters?

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If only Kolrami could look at the post-post-ColdWar geopolitical order of 2025 and hook up some wires to his fingertips he could strategically jiggle us to a new and prosperous century.

The Excelsior is in active service in TNG?

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What did you think of this when it first came out?

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Sub Rosa: Directed By Jonathan Frakes

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Advice from Guinan

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that is indeed awful, but what is even worse is writing Guinan as someone who would say “teach them to listen to their inner child”. It is as if Rush Limbaugh had been asked to write “dumb stuff Guinan would probably say” and dipped into some half-remembered episode of Family Feud from 1982 where the category was “New Age Bullshit” to generate that line.

Let the Yo Mama jokes commence

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I have recently learned of the famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma. His name is amusing. When I attempted to greet him, I said, ‘Hello-Yo Ma.’ He replied, ‘It is Yo-Yo Ma.’ I concluded that if one more Yo is added, it will activate a toy.

How do you think the rest of tng could have continued with jellico instead of Picard?

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I want to see the episode of Star Trek: Jellico where Jellico goes to the Home Depot to purchase some spanish tile for a pool house he’s building as a summer project. Needless to say, a dispute with the uninformed staff ensues.

I feel like a lot of adults wore these back in the day, though

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Ok you know so as a teenager who wore those very glasses back in the day, the idea was more to look like the commander of the los angeles class submarine in Hunt for Red October because he was awesome. No further questions at this time.

I’ve gotten sick of a lot of modern content, so decided to find something from the 90s. Did anybody watch Sliders?

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Ok- true- but you must know this: The first season is excellent, sly, smart, satirical and charming. In a very 90’s way, positing various kinds of AU San Franciscos (what if intelligence was treated as athleticism, what if the 60’s were only starting now, what if Britain won the Revolutionary War). And Sabrina Lloyd was a delight, I must add. Also: Jonathan Rhys-Davies. But then when the ratings hadn’t been stellar, the quality drop off happens *fast*: what if there were an evil subgenus of humans called KroMags after you at all times? What if primitive-CGI tornados happened a lot. It became the series that paved the way for Sharknado and all intelligence drained out instantly.

Uh, how does the viewscreen work?

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Ok. I have thought about this before. The viewscreen is somehow based off of subspace information that uses AI to interpret how to most cinematically render the angle of shot and adjust the FOV to the senior ranking command officer on the bridge. This allows for “dramatic cutaways” such as the revelation that never-before-seen-Romulans have commanders that possess Vulcan ears, information allegedly gained from tapping into the Romulan bridge secretly, yet presented as if by a director hoping to deliver dramatic impact.

Most likely where it all started....you know what I mean.

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I feel so many of our grandparents had large, full sized, sedans. Mine had the Mercury Grand Marquis. Did yours drive a proverbial boat??

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I remember my friend got in the back seat with me and kindly said to my dad “some people say these things are boats, Mr. Jericho, but to me these have always been luxury cabin cruisers”

What exactly does this part of the ship do?

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You bounce the graviton particle beam, Off the main deflector dish, That’s the way we do it lads, We’re making shit up as we wish, The Klingons and the Romulans, Post no threat to us. Cuz when we find we’re in a bind We just make some shit up.

What was the first R-rated movie that you saw in theaters?

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People who saw TNG when it first broadcasted, what was your reactions ?

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Pure, unadulterated delighted fascination. It was like a thousand easter-eggs all at once, in both senses of the word. Being 13 at the time, this was the exact sweet spot to be, when Encounter at Farpoint aired. Now, of course it is easy in hindsight to say season 1 was the worst season, which it was. I was at the time iffy on the “stretch and whip effect” of the Enterprise going to warp (unless that’s what transwarp was). I did not like “The Naked Now”. The sight of “old” style Trek ships still in service bugged me a bit. But all this was overlooked. I tolerated Wesley with mixed emotions. I liked the cast, but then it was “Conspiracy” that, for me, took the show to the big time.

What's back there

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Joke’s on the Enterprise families and crew. The shitter is an emergency escape pod, dual purpose so that this can never happen, and if Picard is ever *not* on the shitter but does face a no-win Kobayashi Maru situation, he can just excuse himself to the head to “contemplate options” and eject.

Did they ever find a way home? I have been wondering for over 40 years...

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Memes predated the internet. I wonder how many of the younger folks know this.

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The four horseman of the early 90’s late night advertising: I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up. Clap On. Clap Off. The Clapper. Ch-ch-chia Pet! Pearl Cream, ancient chinese secret.

I just realized something about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Thoughts?

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Buckle up, because this rabbit hole is a wormhole: That candy bar was specifically given to Charlie by that guy in the full knowledge it had a Golden Ticket. It was Wonka’s backup plan to have a rigged contest where he relied on the Candy Man to pick a solid non-random kid he liked, and give him the candy bar from the window display.

Boogie Nights (1997) Was A Period Piece Set In 1977-1983. If It Were Made Today, It Would Be About Events In The Porn Industry From 2005-2011.

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Somebody is living my dream life

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Truth

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I don’t know if anyone watched “The Book of Boba Fett”, but I was unable to process that in Episode 7 they had both Jerri Blank AND Meatman Stu (the Majordomo) No one watching with me understood why I was saying “EAT the BRISKET” “I doun’t WAUNT any Brisket”

Truth

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I don’t know if anyone watched “The Book of Boba Fett”, but I was unable to process that in Episode 7 they had both Jerri Blank AND Meatman Stu (the Majordomo) and no one watching with me understood why I was saying “EAT the BRISKET” “I doun’t WAUNT any Brisket”

The response to my Peggy Bundy costume makes me wonder: which characters on TV during your, uh, formative years did you fantasize about?

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My favorite was Hoosiers. ❤️ Crazy how old the movie is, and how old he was at the time of filming.

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So tired of the expression "cooked" as a substitute for Fuck*d. Any particular modern expressions that hurt your GenX ears?

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I particularly hate “my brother in christ!” as if one is the driver of a 12th century silk caravan encountering a bandit. It just irritates me to no end.

Is anyone else 'the last of your name'?

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Yes, but as I am not a samurai warrior from the 16th century I am not especially broken up about it. A name is a kind of random calling card ultimately. What matters to you, and to any line of ancestors you care about, is that you use the wisdom you have to live a good life, and evolve the world to what they might have enjoyed. Also, helps to know that with 9 billion people in the world you basically already either have a genetic clone out there somewhere, or we are about one generation from one.

Who do you remember most from The Hollywood Squares?

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I convinced my Gen Z kids to watch 'Dead Poets Society' and their angry reactions surprised me

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Do any of you think about visiting your worst school bullies, all these decades later?

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You wake up and it's the year 1998. What do you do?

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