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  1. Storm Earth and Fire

    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    Found this video in a tweet lamenting that young anime fans wouldn't be into it. It's an interview with a guy who started one of the first anime licensing companies in the US, part of a long series of interviews with people who were big figures in the US anime industry. I always love hearing...
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    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    Around the 2000s and early 2010s people made anime and video game wallpapers with a particular look that makes them look aged whenever they come up on my computer. It's usually official or fan art with elaborate effects applied, edited onto a background, and/or with cool text added. Another...
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    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    This video is a little old but I've only got to it recently. Great breakdown and opinion piece about a show that's incredibly iconic in America even if it's really not a great show. So the whole thing make me pretty nostalgic (Elfen Lied's ending song evokes similar feelings for me) but the...
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    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    Looked up some info about a guy who used to host a Magic podcast I listened to and found his personal blog on WordPress. The blog has been deleted and the last entry was 2016 which I found on the Wayback Machine. I specifically was looking for the entry where he talks about getting and leaving a...
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    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    Along a similar vein, Cartoon Network had Cartoon Cartoons around the same time featuring a lineup of all-time greats. That got me thinking about watching Adult Swim in the early 2000s. They're still around and still doing well, but I can't believe they put together such a good mix of Western...
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    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    I had a copy of Lego Island from a book fair. It's an ambitious game thinking back on it. I'm not sure there were open world adventure games aimed at children back then. It ran pretty badly on the family computer though (it did not run well on most computers in 1997) so I never finished it...
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    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    Saw another video that got me thinking again: Tech kinda stopped being exciting at some point and I may have touched on it earlier here. At some point the Consumer Electronics Show stopped being exciting. Last thing I remember was thinking the foldable OLEDs were cool. Consoles stopped being...
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    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    This video came across my Twitter feed, more good stuff that makes you pine for the old internet It was weird to watch because my old roommate did some games journalism and wrote for some Gamurs Group sites, most notably Destructoid. Well, he eventually got laid off from Gamurs after the...
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    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    Okay so some of my friends and some people on Facebook started talking about it recently so I'd like to see if anyone here has some thoughts. There's was a great Facebook post last month after E3 died. Here's a screenshot of it. There's definitely something missing about games culture nowadays...
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    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    A MtG cosplayer asked for 5 video games that changed your life on Twitter, and aside from my other 4 (RollerCoaster Tycoon, Football Manager, Dance Dance Revolution, and Street Fighter IV), I wasn't sure if I wanted to list Pokemon Blue or Pokemon Silver. It's like, yeah Blue launched me on a...
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    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    There's probably a lot of peculiar reasons the American market just went differently. I was born in 1991, I can't say for sure aside from what I hear from older people. For one, when you're a cultural juggernaut yourself I can imagine it being harder to bring in foreign shows. We have Disney...
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    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    Probably gonna continuously drop some thoughts here that I'm too shy to post on socials about (hey a callback to an earlier post) A long time ago I watched hazel's video about America's Greatest Otaku, Tokyopop's goofy reality show. It's great, I recommend it (the actual show maybe less so)...
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    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    One of my friends got a bunch of recommendations for video essayists and one of them is hazel, who mostly does anime videos. She has a video about video game and anime fansites if you want more Web 1.0 goodness: She shouts out TRsRockin at the end
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    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    One of my favorite writers wrote a great article about nostalgia and the erasure of Web 1.0: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/404-page-not-found-wagner
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    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    Doing some necro because someone on twitter shared a screenshot of Pokemon Crater, where I frequented a forum for the first time ever. Truly a life changing experience that sent me down a path that led me here. Funny thing, Magic: the Gathering has kind of the opposite problem. The magicTCG...
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    What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

    By the mid 2010s the internet consolidated around the enormous pillars we're all familiar with, Twitter, tiktok, reddit, Facebook, Instagram, and such, which sucked everyone up and ended what now seems like a real wild west period of the internet, when people congregated around personal...
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