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[diablos991]

Can I go back to 1995?

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Chrono Trigger.

And Yoshi’s Island.

Also, it was possibly my best year in school, rivaled only by the year 2000.

 

[segasonic]

 

[Insane Metal]

1995 had a ridiculous amount of classic films released

1995 Top 50 Movies

My 50 favorite films of 1995 (US release).

www.imdb.com

Holy shit that's a nice list.

 

[Mobile Suit Gooch]

1995 was bad year for WWE.

 

[Scotty W]

Well I got married in 95 so yeah, in my universe it definitely exists.

Absurd. There is no way I could be posting on a forum with a person who got married in a year that doesn’t exist, ipso facto, you are refuted.

 

[MetalAlien]

I realized today that I cannot remember anything that happened in 1995. Now I just happened to be reading about the fake movie Shazam recently (starring Sinbad, the actor) and I realize that 1995 is one of these fake memories that people think they have.

Think about it, what happened in 1995? You don’t remember. Sure, you can go to Wikipedia and post a fictitious post facto list of what happened, but it is bullshit.

So what is supposed to have happened in 1995? Donkey King Country 2 and Doom 2. Two reskins of their predecessors, which, bu the way, I do not recall playing until 1996. Can you name a film that was released in 1995? I know you think you can, but it is all part of the mystery. The film you were going to mention, Strange Days is a cult classic for a reason. No one saw it in 1995, because there was no 1995. In a very subtle way, James Cameron tried to warn us about the dastardly deed that was taking place. Strange Days is about a fake, constructed reality. The warning this film tries to convey is about the construction of our reality. Okokok, so Immanuel Kant says that we perceive reality through space and time.

With this insight, it all becomes clear. They are using the fake memory of 1995 to manipulate time. If you control time, then you also control the other aspect of reality, which is space. In space, you have the world.

It all becomes clear. They invented 1995 for world domination.

On the one hand this is good for many of us who were born before 1995 because it means we are a year younger than we thought. On the other hand, it becomes very bad, because now we don’t know if there have been other years that have been created artificially. Perhaps all years have been artificially created.

Now I know a lot of people are going to be wondering about the Playstation and Saturn. Well, the Saturn was actually released in 1994 and the PlayStation actually quite a bit later than that. Actually if you go back and look at the journalism from around that time, you can see them laughing as they retroactively create 1995, talking about a FUTURISTIC game console which was, drum roll please, literally from the future.

Anyhow, I think that clears things up nicely. The practical takeaway from all of this is that it is actually 2019 until we discover some other lost years. Conduct your lives accordingly.

I couldn't afford a PS1 or Saturn so I rented them from Game Proz in Houston TX off 489 Uvalde rd. It used to be where this ladies clothing store is now.

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I rented Panzer Dragoon and a Clockwork Knight for the Saturn but the PS1 games were all rented out so I rented the demo disc because I wanted to play Wipeout so bad. I recorded all that on VHS and still have that tape.

Christmas 1995 I got a PS1.

 

[Scotty W]

Well as I said, MetalAlien , a lot of work has been done retroactively to create a fake memory of 95, and it appears that you are in on it. It makes sense- Metal/Mental alien. Alien ideas, alien years. Fake years, controlled time, space, world domination.

 

[MetalAlien]

Well as I said, MetalAlien , a lot of work has been done retroactively to create a fake memory of 95, and it appears that you are in on it. It makes sense- Metal/Mental alien. Alien ideas, alien years. Fake years, controlled time, space, world domination.

But now that you know... i'm afraid i'll have to.... ****************

 

[Scotty W]

But now that you know... i'm afraid i'll have to.... ****************

I? Do you mean... WE???

 

[MetalAlien]

I? Do you mean... WE???

 

[Scotty W]

MetalAlien took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, he kept fanning himselves all the time he went on talking: ‘Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!' And he began thinking over all the children he knew that were of the same age as himself, to see if she could have been changed for any of them.

`I'm sure I'm not CyberPanda ' he said, `for his hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm sure I can't be Kev Kev , for I know all sorts of things, and he oh! she knows such a very little! Besides, he’ he , and I'm I, and--oh dear, how puzzling it all is! I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is--oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate! However, the Multiplication Table doesn't signify: let's try Geography. London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome--no, that's all wrong, I'm certain! I must have been changed for Tesseract ! I'll try and say "How doth the little--"' and she crossed her hands on her lap as if he were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but his voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do:--

`How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

`How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcome little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!'

`I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor MetalAlien , and his eyes filled with tears again as she went on, `I must be Cunth after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! No, I've made up my mind about it; if I'm C CrocMother , I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried MetalAlien , with a sudden burst of tears, `I do wish they would put their heads down! I am so very tired of being all alone here!'

 

[Tschumi]

I remember 1995, fucking awesome Halloween spent trick or treating around the US owned mansions in the NATO neighborhood in Brussels

 

[MetalAlien]

 

[Yoboman]

All of you naming 1995 movies like you know you didn't watch them in 1996 on VHS

Some blatant lies happening ITT to cover the truth

 

[Scotty W]

I remember 1995, fucking awesome Halloween spent trick or treating around the US owned mansions in the NATO neighborhood in Brussels

I have done a lot of reasearch. Many people have isolated memories of specific events that happened in 1995, but cannot remember anything else outside that. Tell me, do you remember November 1st? Or November 9th? What did you wear, what time did you wake up? What were you wearing?

The fact that you cannot remember proves my point. All you have are isolated digital insertions, or mislabeled 96 memories.

 

[West Texas CEO]

I remember 1995 quite well

 

[Rickyiez]

Wrong number to represent 2020

 

[Tschumi]

I have done a lot of reasearch. Many people have isolated memories of specific events that happened in 1995, but cannot remember anything else outside that. Tell me, do you remember November 1st? Or November 9th? What did you wear, what time did you wake up? What were you wearing?

The fact that you cannot remember proves my point. All you have are isolated digital insertions, or mislabeled 96 memories.

You're either being kinda sorta funny or really dumb.. most people can barely remember a day by day from a month ago let alone x years ago. By your logic last May didn't happen for me~ by your logic there's nothing amazing about 95 because the same qualifier you are holding it to happened to every other year in the 90s~

 

[Scotty W]

You're either being kinda sorta funny or really dumb.. most people can barely remember a day by day from a month ago let alone x years ago. By your logic last May didn't happen for me~ by your logic there's nothing amazing about 95 because the same qualifier you are holding it to happened to every other year in the 90s~

Absurd. My methodology is so much stronger than your strawman. Just cuz you don’t remember a few days doesn’t mean you can toss out all logic and rigor.

 

[Tesseract]

the mind can only take so much damage

 

[MetalAlien]

All of you naming 1995 movies like you know you didn't watch them in 1996 on VHS

Some blatant lies happening ITT to cover the truth

I was 24 in 1995. There weren't many from that top 50 list I saw in theaters but there are a few. Die Hard 3 and Demon Knight for sure.

 

[Scotty W]

This song goes out to you 95

 

[Aesius]

Christmas 1995 was the greatest one my brother and I ever had.

We got Chrono Trigger, a PlayStation, and a computer with the brand spanking new Windows 95 (with 56k modem and a CD-ROM!).

 

[deafmedal]

right here right now is all there is, don't get lost in nostalgia traps and other such things

I wrote a banger dealing with this sort of shit. Drums suck though, I need someone to write some sick beats for the tune. Alas.


Man, 95 huh! Got mad first taste of tang, first big boy concert, first car wreck, first time a bird shit on me, first time I heard TOOL, RAtM... good year all in all.

 

[V1LÆM]

Toy Story came out in 1995

shit, i remember going to the cinema to see that when it came out! my dad took me. i was only 5 at the time. all i remember from it is shouting out "NO! RUN WOODY!!!" and hearing people laughing. i can't remember what part of the movie it was.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Probably the most memorable year of my life.

You know, for actual... life stuff.... not movies and video games.

 

[Sub_Level]

 

[Coolwhhip]

My ex was born in that year, bitch.

 

[lock2k]

I couldn't afford a PS1 or Saturn so I rented them from Game Proz in Houston TX off 489 Uvalde rd. It used to be where this ladies clothing store is now.

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

www.google.com

I rented Panzer Dragoon and a Clockwork Knight for the Saturn but the PS1 games were all rented out so I rented the demo disc because I wanted to play Wipeout so bad. I recorded all that on VHS and still have that tape.

Christmas 1995 I got a PS1.

That's an awesome story. Do you have the footage in digital?

 

[TheGrat1]

Released in 1995:

Look in the mirror and slap what you see, OP.

 

[Delf]

I was 16..

I was getting shit for 'wearing rap clothes and skater clothes together' while listening to my Korn, Deftones, Nas, and Redman CD's...
Buying DJ clue mix tapes and being stoned out of my gourd trying to find my way of my buddies friends basement while Becks 'Mellow Gold' blasted in the background.

Doing 'at home' facial piercings with an ice cube and sewing needle to our eye brows trying not to give ourselves permanent bells palsy face by hitting a nerve.

Buying straight up CAUSTIC type chemicals at Sally's Beauty Supply to dye are hair...yellow...

Did it exist tho? I mean, it was a haze due to the copious amounts of acid I was doing while drinking Mickys 40oz'ers..
But God damn it was fun!

I would kill for a time machine ☹

 

[raduque]

95 definitely exists. It was the year my parents bought me Windows 95 for our family computer. Picked it up, in person, at Sears the Saturday after launch, August 26th. We lived in Alaska at the time.

 

[MetalAlien]

That's an awesome story. Do you have the footage in digital?

Sorry I missed your reply Mr Lock. At the moment I do not.. sorry about that. It's just game play video BTW. I just hooked them up to my VCR so I could watch the game play even after I returned the consoles.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

Windows 95 was such a huge deal. there was the famous commercial using the Rolling Stones "Start Me Up" to promote the GUI's new Start button.



this was the year my mom got remarried and i moved out of the house to live with my dad instead. mom and my stepdad got the house and had extra money so they had cable and consoles and stuff. my dad to this day foregoes cable for over the air TV, cos he is a lovable cheapskate. anyways this year is big in my mind, mostly because it was the last year i had MTV and VH-1 to watch every morning before and after school.

this was the year i discovered the Flaming Lips and first got into indie/alt rock and non-Beatles music in general. from here it was just a few years before Allmusic and a lifelong Pixies/My Bloody Valentine/Bowie obsession. Clouds Taste Metallic was the album released that year, and it is one of the best psychedelic noise pop records of all time. the song "Bad Days" was featured in the film Batman Forever to soundtrack Jim Carrey in his crazy lair inventing the Riddler and instantly i fell in love with the weird Beach Boys X country & western X noise punk vibes. to this day one of the greatest songs. it is iconic in it's imagery. there is something mythic in what he is singing about here. "You have to sleep late when you can, and all your bad days will end" is a true message of hope in a dark, cynical time.

Also, this happened. And many other classic songs and albums were released.



What a glorious year.

easily the best Garbage song ever. my god Shirley Manson was so hot. i was 14 years old. that song and that video.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

1995 was also a landmark in the Japanese indie rock Shibuya-Kei scene. the first Kahimi Karie album was released:



Shibuya-Kei elders and master Pizzicato Five had started releasing their work in the US on Matador Records in 1994, and continued with their second release The Sound of Music in 1995, which was accompanied by promotional singles and music videos. songs like "Twiggy Twiggy" perfectly demonstrated the genre's nostalgia-happy mix of '60s "easy listening" and modern drum n bass/dance music production styles.





1995 also saw the debut of the experimental pop musician Takako Minekawa, who released a full length album as well as a Christmas EP that year.





finally, there is Keigo Oyamada AKA Cornelius's landmark release, 69/96, which rocketed him from teen pop tv stardom to stadium-filling album producing world-touring superstardom. this album is easily one of the greatest of the 90s. he was called "The Japanese Beck" due to his crazy mix of genres, hip hop and heavy metal, psychedelic, hawaiian, orchestral, it's all there. this album featured players from the whole Shibuya-Kei scene, including members of Buffalo Daughter. Cornelius later married Takako Minekawa and produced many albums of hers and Kahimi Karie, as well as Pizzicato Five.

 

[lock2k]

1995 was also a landmark in the Japanese indie rock Shibuya-Kei scene. the first Kahimi Karie album was released:



Shibuya-Kei elders and master Pizzicato Five had started releasing their work in the US on Matador Records in 1994, and continued with their second release The Sound of Music in 1995, which was accompanied by promotional singles and music videos. songs like "Twiggy Twiggy" perfectly demonstrated the genre's nostalgia-happy mix of '60s "easy listening" and modern drum n bass/dance music production styles.





1995 also saw the debut of the experimental pop musician Takako Minekawa, who released a full length album as well as a Christmas EP that year.



finally, there is Keigo Oyamada AKA Cornelius's landmark release, 69/96, which rocketed him from teen pop tv stardom to stadium-filling album producing world-touring superstardom. this album is easily one of the greatest of the 90s. he was called "The Japanese Beck" due to his crazy mix of genres, hip hop and heavy metal, psychedelic, hawaiian, orchestral, it's all there. this album featured players from the whole Shibuya-Kei scene, including members of Buffalo Daughter. Cornelius later married Takako Minekawa and produced many albums of hers and Kahimi Karie, as well as Pizzicato Five.

Man, I love Twiggy Twiggy what a great post!!!!!

 

[#Phonepunk#]

damn, i forgot to mention Cibo Matto had their debut in 1995 as well!

 

[Droxcy]

People born in 1995 are 25 fking years old now

Also :

Basically me jesus...

Minus the vape and Tool lol but 25 feels like 35 at this point in my life time

 

[Gp1]

Now Cob!

 

[The Pleasure]

I got kicked out of high school in 1995. Also joined the military in 1995. But now that you mention it, both of those seem like they happened to somebody else... Actually most of my life/memories (from any year) don't feel like I actually lived them myself, only watched them.

This is the movie of your life!

 

[cryptoadam]

Epic backfire, or was this thread nostalgia bait?

1995 the mid point of the greatest decade ever. Maybe its nostalgia talking or maybe not but 90's was peak. Music/Entertainment/Gaming/Internet etc... The Cold War had just ended and it was looking like we were heading to a time of peace and prosperity. Many didn't know that a decade later it would fall apart and 20 years later it would all go to hell.

It was also this weired time where people were both nihilistic but happy. 90's songs have this distinct happy but melancholy sound to them that is unmistakable to anyone who grew up during the era.

 

[Yoshi]

Your hwart does not exist. Yoshi's Island exists since 1995.

 

[Evil Calvin]

I realized today that I cannot remember anything that happened in 1995. Now I just happened to be reading about the fake movie Shazam recently (starring Sinbad, the actor) and I realize that 1995 is one of these fake memories that people think they have.

Think about it, what happened in 1995? You don’t remember. Sure, you can go to Wikipedia and post a fictitious post facto list of what happened, but it is bullshit.

So what is supposed to have happened in 1995? Donkey King Country 2 and Doom 2. Two reskins of their predecessors, which, bu the way, I do not recall playing until 1996. Can you name a film that was released in 1995? I know you think you can, but it is all part of the mystery. The film you were going to mention, Strange Days is a cult classic for a reason. No one saw it in 1995, because there was no 1995. In a very subtle way, James Cameron tried to warn us about the dastardly deed that was taking place. Strange Days is about a fake, constructed reality. The warning this film tries to convey is about the construction of our reality. Okokok, so Immanuel Kant says that we perceive reality through space and time.

With this insight, it all becomes clear. They are using the fake memory of 1995 to manipulate time. If you control time, then you also control the other aspect of reality, which is space. In space, you have the world.

It all becomes clear. They invented 1995 for world domination.

On the one hand this is good for many of us who were born before 1995 because it means we are a year younger than we thought. On the other hand, it becomes very bad, because now we don’t know if there have been other years that have been created artificially. Perhaps all years have been artificially created.

Now I know a lot of people are going to be wondering about the Playstation and Saturn. Well, the Saturn was actually released in 1994 and the PlayStation actually quite a bit later than that. Actually if you go back and look at the journalism from around that time, you can see them laughing as they retroactively create 1995, talking about a FUTURISTIC game console which was, drum roll please, literally from the future.

Anyhow, I think that clears things up nicely. The practical takeaway from all of this is that it is actually 2019 until we discover some other lost years. Conduct your lives accordingly.

I got married in 1995. I had my 25th wedding anniversary this year. So it definitely happened,

 

[EverythingsOverrated]

You ever see that movie Dark City?

 

[Kazza]

I had my first kiss in 1995, so it was a fairly memorable year for me. Not that it was a particularly nice experience - it was on a bus full of other kids on the way back from a school trip. She was a little older and more experienced and I was kind of pressured into it . Looking back, it would have been much better for my first to have been with a girl I actually knew and liked, just the two of us, maybe somewhere nice like a park. Oh well.

On a happier note, I got a Saturn that Christmas, and all my friends got a Playstation (the story of that gen, ha!), so it felt really exciting, very much "next gen", with real 3D polygon graphics in the home.

Man, whenever I listen to that album it just brings back memories of going to my friend's house on a Friday night while his parents were out and getting drunk with alcopops (i.e. sweet alcoholic drinks for little underage punk kids too pussy to drink real alcohol). It was pretty much the soundtrack of that period for me. Unfortunately, one night I got so drunk that I ended up throwing up all over my bed after I got home. My parents thought I was on drugs and called around to all my friends' houses to find out what I had taken. They were forced to confess about our clandestine parties, so that put an end to our Friday night fun, and everyone got into trouble with their parents as a result. Needless to say, I wasn't the most popular person for a period afterwards!

I don't really feel nostalgic for that time though, at least not in the sense of thinking that it was some golden time in my life or anything. I wouldn't mind going back, but mostly to give my former self a slap and some life advice (that could probably be said about any year in my life though )

Sometimes I think too much about nostalgia, then it's time to get back to right here right now...

i think about that strange days scene all the time

right here right now is all there is, don't get lost in nostalgia traps and other such things

What's that movie about, and what is the context of that scene? Is it worth watching?

 

[Mexen]

Shinonome-chan, have you run out of pills?

 

[Deleted member 17706]

Can I go back to 1995?

Seriously. These 90s nostalgia threads always make me wish I could go back to that sweet '94 ~ '99 period.

 

[Master Of Illusion]

I was 3 so of course I don't fucking remember.

 

[Northeastmonk]

I remember playing Mortal Kombat 3 at Aladdin’s Castle and Casa Bonita.