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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

I miss console ads being this weird

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I miss console ads being this weird

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works
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    PS2 is retro now? Damn, getting old really does sneak up on you.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      I found my Green game boy Pocket and saw the 1989-1996 copyright.

      It looks so pristine. 😭😭😭

    • 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I mean, it’s over 24 years old. it’s been allowed to drink beer for 8 years.

    • DUMBASS@leminal.space
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      Ps3 is starting to be referenced as retro now…

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        That one does hurt

        • DUMBASS@leminal.space
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          But also, people wondered why our generation loved taking drugs and being weird fucks…

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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        When ‘next gen’ (eg. PS5) becomes the new ‘current gen’, then the old ‘last gen’ becomes retro.

    • smaximov@lemmy.world
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      It has been for a long time.

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    Sovl.

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    deleted by creator

  • Jimbabwe@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Everything reminds me of her…

  • YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world
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    That’s a lot of ecstasy.

    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This is how the girl from that Mitsubishi eclipse car commercial started her night

    • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
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      Eh, not double stacked so it’s ok.

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        AKSHULLY that wasn’t a thing in the 2000s, just marketing hype. Rolls back then had between 70 and 120mg of MDMA, and 120 is a basal amount you want to take if you fully want to get rolling.

        Now it’s TOTALLY a thing, tons of rolls have 300-400mg in a single pill now. It’s insanity.

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          Worse than that, that one website dance something that would test pills found that a huge percentage of the “ecstasy” people took didn’t contain MDMA. A surprising amount didn’t even contain illegal drugs. Just over the counter speed.

          • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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            Curious. When I last looked (quite a while ago) most of the tested pills were MDMA, with many containing caffeine as well. I guess it varies a lot over time.

            https://dancesafe.org/

            https://www.drugsdata.org/

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              Dancesafe.org was it! I’m going back over 20 years to the late 90’s early 2000’s. I can’t comment on the state of ecstasy today, I haven’t rolled in over 20 years.

          • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Yah, there were TONS of pipers going around (BZP/TFMPP) when that was legal to buy. I’ve never had one because I could instantly tell when a pill was a piper (shiny, hard, outpress, or shaped.) I could also tell by the taste if I licked it. Headache city apparently.

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          Damn that is insane. My skin would slink off if I did 300+

          • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Recently did 400-450 each with my partner in a night but over the course of a couple hours… definitely not something to do in public hahaha. We were naked, quivering piles of hedonism, writhing in bed for hours in absolute insane, well, ecstasy. It’s aptly named, that’s for sure.

            For once, got incredible sleep afterwards and felt awesome the next day! Thank you, sleep.

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      It’s gonna be a fun night followed by a hard, sleepy day

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        Looks more like a few hours of cramping body and soul followed by 3 days of emotional hangover

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Ehhhhh so this was in 2000. Your standard ecstasy pill (we’re assuming they’re not pipers; these don’t look shiny and they’re not shaped or outpressed) have between 70mg MDMA and 120mg (if they’re absolute fire.)

          This would be about 400mg of MDMA total. While that is quite a lot, you’re not going to have a horrible time—I just wouldn’t do it in public because you WILL be a chattering mess. It’ll still feel amazing, though.

          Source: oldhead, last time I rolled it was a total of about 450mg but spread out over hours and I was absolutely not in public, just writing naked with my partner)

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            I was gonna add “these days” but didn’t

            • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              Oh GOD I fully agree in that case. Rolls nowadays have up to 300-400mg in a single pill (sounds like you already know that, but I’m just saying this for context in case another reader doesn’t)

              That’d be like eating a gram or more of Molly at once, and THAT is for sure not safe and not a good time.

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          Drained

      • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world
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        She gonna need some water

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          Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t believe ecstacy is actually dehydrating. Dancing at a rave for hours on end without drinking anything is though.

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            Just like SSRI’s, Ecstasy does interfere with your hypothalamus and temperature regulation. So, small energy expenditures creat oversized responses.

            You would still sweat heavily doing more than lying down with a fan blowing on you.

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              Yeah, another part of the problem is that you cannot tell that you are hyperthermic and or dehydrated.

              Thats how you get the people that dance all night and then just die, or go comatose or pass out.

              Your body stops telling you wow, i am way too hot and wow, i really need water.

              Sort of like that rare condition where you literally cannot feel pain, and children with it will break their fingers because it feels weird.

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    Welcome to the Third Place (David Lynch)

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      I like the PS2 ad that pretended to be a PS9 ad

      https://youtu.be/QP2wuDts3S4

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      What dpes that voice say in the end?

      Playstation two, the …

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        “…third place.”

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place

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    “Only Happy When it Rains” automatically begins playing in head

    • 🐍🩶🐢@lemmy.world
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      Wait, is that actually Garbage? That was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the picture. That Bond music video she did was awesome. World is Not Enough.

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    My cousin told me that she ODed so hard that they had to put her in an institution where she spends all day thinking she’s at a rave.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      Is that institution on a Spanish island?

      • Tja@programming.dev
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        Ibitha

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    There were some bizarre ads from around the late 90s to early 00s.

    The Dreamcast Barber comes to mind.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      https://youtu.be/YWmbUMStlGI

      https://youtu.be/9i1iNI7FIHA

      https://youtu.be/gqkNPcUMffU

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    I find this funny, since I used to hide drugs like mushrooms inside consoles. I figured it was the one place literally no one would think to look. Just unscrewed them, put a baggie inside in one of those empty spaces (there’s always a spot), and put the case back together.

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    SEGA!!!

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      I heard this.

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    Can someone make a version of this photo, but its acetaminophen and the girl is just up-aged to how old she’d be now?

    • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
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      thyroid medication

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    Not much can top the 3DFX VooDoo graphics card boxes.

  • craftyindividual@lemm.ee
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    We had this in the UK for PS 1

    • sonymegadrive@feddit.uk
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      Watching this gave me Aphex Twin vibes. Then I discovered it was directed by Chris Cunningham. So yeah, that’s why

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        Oh wow, that explains a lot!

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      Love it.

      “Hey, you know what would be a good way to advertise our system? Let’s just give children nightmares for about 40 seconds and then splash our logo on the screen at the end.”

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        It worked because I still remember it now ;)

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        I think most ads for consoles in the early 2000s were like that, at least for ps1, ps2 and the original xbox. Not necessarily nightmare fuel, just “weird” stuff unrelated to the console or games.

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    90s SEGA was the OG of this, we need 90s SEGA back

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      Coffee?

      Tea?

      SEGA!!!

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