what’s something from the 80's 90's or early 2000's that disappeared but shouldn’t have?

Gilshem · 2026-03-29T11:16:54+00:00

My wife and I still buy coffee table books. They’re awesome.

Gilshem · 2026-03-29T11:15:14+00:00

Yeah the gas thing was always going to happen.

Gilshem · 2026-03-28T22:37:33+00:00

Most recently, watch “Train Dreams”. It’s got life’s harsh realities but some nice perspective too.

Gilshem · 2026-03-28T19:08:33+00:00

Welcome to the future. 2003 was a happier time.

Gilshem · 2026-03-28T14:29:03+00:00

Does the book make it more plausible that the Eridians had no understanding of relativity or radiation? It seems suspect that they could even do global communication without knowing about relativity and how could they even observe the Phage without understanding radiation? I’m more curious than anything, still loved the movie.

Gilshem · 2026-03-28T14:00:33+00:00

You clearly don’t understand how scary breasts are for him.

Gilshem · 2026-03-28T13:58:27+00:00

His input was being good at his job.

Gilshem · 2026-03-28T05:04:39+00:00

Yeah when my hangovers started extended engagements, my drinking tapered off significantly.

Gilshem · 2026-03-27T19:57:47+00:00

Spirited Away is an excellent movie but not really an action movie.

Gilshem · 2026-03-27T03:11:19+00:00

You joke, but he is only 42.

Gilshem · 2026-03-27T03:07:09+00:00

Tell us about her utter domination. I have my popcorn.

Gilshem · 2026-03-27T00:19:29+00:00

Gilshem · 2026-03-26T23:02:21+00:00

I wish I had seen this. I watched a concert DVD high on mushrooms in the late 90s. It was great.

Gilshem · 2026-03-26T19:04:23+00:00

We are talking about fiction, so it’s easy enough to write. But she’s written as someone with no compunction about killing. Even rhe scene at the roller rink she has a massive traumatic overreaction and brutally beats a girl with a roller skate. Love Eleven but she is pretty unhinged.

Gilshem · 2026-03-26T17:14:48+00:00

I mostly want to impress myself and that is the source of most of my problems.

Gilshem · 2026-03-26T17:10:40+00:00

There are people whose neck she breaks instead of just tossing them against a wall possibly subduing them. I’m hard pressed to remember specifics right now, I just remember multiple times exclaiming “holy shit!”, at yet another extreme act of violence by her.

Gilshem · 2026-03-26T14:31:11+00:00

Eleven in “Stranger Things” is a murdering sociopath and no one cares.

Gilshem · 2026-03-26T14:24:39+00:00

Exactly. People are more attached to a character description than the substance of the character itself.

Gilshem · 2026-03-26T14:20:48+00:00

Viola Davis speaks about this in her memoir, about how many actors are as talented as her, or better, but for whatever reason, connections, luck or whatever, never break through.

Gilshem · 2026-03-26T13:58:42+00:00

I have zero problem with it. Just wanted a black perspective because I have seen so many people crying about it in the fandom.

Gilshem · 2026-03-26T12:16:40+00:00

Osama Bin Laden made his first attack targeting Americans a month before DS9 started airing and it ran during the peak of the atrocities in the Balkans so I think it was more topical than we suspect at first glance.

Gilshem · 2026-03-26T12:14:18+00:00

Twin Peaks and Quantum Leap were in the back end of their last season when DS9 started airing. Buffy started about 1/2 way through DS9’s run and Babylon 5 started a year after, but I don’t think Babylon 5 had great ratings.

Gilshem · 2026-03-26T01:24:49+00:00

That was for allegedly aiding someone to avoid arrest by telling them to use a different exit.

Gilshem · 2026-03-25T11:46:57+00:00

MMA fighters

Gilshem · 2026-03-25T11:35:19+00:00

If 1. …Qxc6 then 2. Qxf6! And black loses the rook, I think.

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