Reply To: Hobby Weekender 08/03/19 – Slightly Forward to the 90s

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Happy weekend all!

@mage thanks for hosting once more. I’ll try and be a bit more communicative this week but flu still knocking me around a little – has run a bit of a number on me I must confess. Still, a few days of downtime now should help 🙂

90’s eh? Since you kicked off with Firestarter I’ll respond with the song that the sample came from (mainly as the Breeders were high rotation on my mid 90’s playlist…)

No good is one of my favourite video clips of all time – well selected 🙂

Kicking off with question responses to ensure I answer them this time… 😉

1. What do you miss about 90s pop culture? Im trying to make this a tad different to the more 80s themed predecessor thread.

I miss live music venues where actual bands could play in real life to an engaged audience. I miss gaming stores getting spammed with 2nd ed AD&D supplements. I also sort of miss how to find out about bands you had to have a friend or someone put you on to them or actively seek them out and go to the trouble of ordering a record (anybody remember those?) or CD (anybody remember those?)  from a bricks and mortar music shop (anybody remember those?)  and how things weren’t sort of just spoon-fed to you based on an algoithm and your past listening preferences. Sorry that might come off as sounding a little elitist but it was nice when you met someone and found out you had shared interests and could swap recommendations.

Oh and speaking of elitist – I miss the internet before everyone was on it. Way back when yahoo was a physical list of websites, webcrawler was the search engine of choice and everyonne was excited about thr release of Netscape Navigatior verison 1.02 beta, and you had to load your own packet drivers and TCP-IP protocols. Hrm, might be nostalgia goggles a little…

2. What was a bad thing about the 90s? Try not to let this one get too political.

Oh that’s easy. ‘Megamixes’ where parts of 3 early techno songs were beatmixed together and repackaged as a new song. Also hypercolour t-shirts. And Alien 3. And Predator 2. And has anyone mentioned the Spice girls yet?…

3. Technology Question: What is your opinion on the following mantra with potential dangerous, albeit for the moment mainly theoretical technology: if we can do something, should we do it? Kind of an Isaac Asimov Question.

Difficult one. I guess there is the caveat/ratinoale that if we don’t do it then somebody else will. If I ever had to make such a call I’d be really grateful for the combined wisdom of ethicists, professors, theoretical thinkers and philosiphers. ie, subject matter experts who have devoted a significant component of their time and intellect to working through the chain of events that may or may not unfold.

4. Technology Question: What piece of technology are you enjoying using or is due to be released soon that you look forward to? This can be anything from an early 90s printer to VR gaming, or anything going off in a tangent.

Has the screw-top egg been invented yet? No?… Oh well… Seriously, I’m lucky enough to presently have a 3D printer, which means as long as I keep feeding it filament it will print me gaming components. This week it’s been Viking longboats. Last week it was eastern european styled multi-storey half-timbered houses. Next week will be dwarven fortifications. The technology is getting better/faster/cheaper with time so I imagine these will be really prevalant (more so than now) amongst the hobby community in 3 years, and with the general populace within 5.

Pledge this week is work on my Middenheim army. That’s probably enough pledge to keep me busy 🙂

Edit – pledge Point 2: also need to clean a bunch of mins that have been soaking in stripper…