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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 2, 2020 14:57:37 GMT -5
You know what rocked? Polio. I miss me some polio.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 2, 2020 15:19:56 GMT -5
You know what rocked? Polio. I miss me some polio. Presidents with polio were really something, that's for sure!!!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2020 15:31:41 GMT -5
I hope I’m not being dense and missing a joke here, guys. (My life has been one long pattern of, “Can you explain/repeat the joke?”)
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 2, 2020 15:51:23 GMT -5
I hope I’m not being dense and missing a joke here, guys. (My life has been one long pattern of, “Can you explain/repeat the joke?”) Mostly it's that I really hate the idea that the past was always better. Were some things better in the past? Yeah. I'll certainly take the Warren Court over what we've had...pretty much ever since. But a whole passel of stuff was a hell of a lot worse in the past.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2020 16:16:47 GMT -5
This is why I try to be nuanced. My grandfather told me how he had to receive gas to be put to sleep prior to a dental operation. He said it was horrible. Yet when I had a polyp removed, I had the thinnest needle ever, I barely felt it (injected into my gums). That’s certainly progress!
So I’m glad to say the past wasn’t better in that respect.
But I do wish I could go back to a time when there weren’t, 234,675,899 different TV channels and 400,000 streaming services.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 2, 2020 16:27:10 GMT -5
But I do wish I could go back to a time when there weren’t, 234,675,899 different TV channels and 400,000 streaming services. Why? I'm not being facetious. I can't imagine why. I'll generally always opt for more choice.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2020 17:18:38 GMT -5
It’s the decisions. I hate having to make them. At least when there were four channels (80s), at least on terrestrial TV, you didn’t have to spend hours making a decision. I have often spent half an hour browsing Netflix. Not good.
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Post by tarkintino on Dec 2, 2020 20:07:02 GMT -5
Everything was better in the past except the tech. But the tech has us fighting with each other all the time. I wish sometimes I could go back to the 70’s. Where superhero comic books are concerned, I believe its rather easy to claim the medium (as it stands today) has not become progressively better than peak periods of--for two examples--the 1960s and 70s. What was once an ever-growing canvas for innovation and taking characters to creatively satisfying levels has become...what? An industry in freefall, where companies have embraced ideas and/or agendas next to no one is asking for, or its pushing endless rinse-and-repeat "MAJOR events", arguably a plot device that reached its zenith in the 80s, and should have stopped at that point.
Long before the excuse that cultural changes, competing entertainment sources, etc., hurt the industry, the superhero genre was doing everything it could to drive readers away with one inane book or character after another (a serious problem in the 1990s). If there's a perception that comics (again, I'm focusing on superhero comics) were better in the past, there's certainly enough evidence...about modern day books that support the perception.
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 3, 2020 13:40:34 GMT -5
File under things that have gotten better...
Recorded music products got better and better over time, the pressings went from cylindars to shellac discs to vinyl discs, mono single mic/channel to ribbon mic to stereo/quad/surround and multiple mics/channels, maximum three and a half minutes up to 77.8 minutes on a CD, cut direct to disc to magnetic tape to digital computer file, ultimately to where the physical medium can be done away with (but look how many do want quality vinyl after all, I think comic books will be the same).
The music itself is debatable in terms of quality. Personally I start to lose interest in any broadly known artists somewhere about a couple decades ago when I was still buying current music CDs by a variety such as say The Mavericks, Stereolab, SWV, Magnetic Fields, The Strokes and Delerium.
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Post by badwolf on Dec 3, 2020 14:13:24 GMT -5
There is still great music. Some of my favorite bands have released the best albums of their careers in recent years. But you do have to dig for it.
I can't read books by authors that have come up in the last decade or so. I find the quality of the writing and characterization to be quite poor. Publishers' and editors' standards seem to have fallen. I also think we are seeing the result of a society where everyone gets an award, no one is told they should do something else instead, and people who can't write get published anyway. There are exceptions of course, but generally I stick to authors that have been around a while.
There are probably some gems in comics these days but again, you have to dig for them, and I don't have the patience I once had. Especially since I don't buy monthlies any more. I did try the collected editions of a recent series because I like the artist, but the story was very disappointing.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 3, 2020 14:52:50 GMT -5
It's honestly easier to find quality art (music, comics, books, etc.) than it has ever been before. Between YouTube, Spotify, Pandora, etc. it's never been easier to find and listen to quality new music, as opposed to hoping it might come on the radio. It's far easier to find reviews of comics, books, movies, TV shows, etc. and have a good idea if you'll like them that at any point in the past.
If you can't find stuff you like it's because you're not trying.
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