!!! 80s vs. 90s.. which is the FUNNER decade? !!!
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I voted for the 80's. The 90's was the beginning of too much self-awareness, irony, cynicism, smugness and attitude problems.
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uhhh, are you sure heroin was a 90s thing?
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Oh yeah, especially in the earlier parts of the 90s.
Everyone knows cocaine was huge in the 80s.
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I have no idea. Type the words 'eighties lingerie tumblr' into Google Image search and you will find that image and many more images of babes from the eighties.
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The 80's had a lot of great vision and creativity. In aspect of artistic inventive purity they probably win. Movies and songs were very unique and inspired and original.
But 90's had a LOT more stuff to do. In the 80's there were very few tv channels and you had to wait weeks or a month for anything fun to happen like a good show to come on, maybe a movie on tv every 3x a year. In a large way, this helped creativity by giving all that daydreaming time for more inventiveness (not just to consumers but those producing it). That wait made things feel more appreciated when you got them, too.
But the 90's was the full realization of 80's dreams of being surrounded by future tech living. We were finally getting deluged by the vast variety and incredibly large new output of shows, cartoons, toys, edgy rad snacks, and sweet technology we had yearned for in the 80's (but only got some of), which only started mobilizing and materializing quickly in the very late 80's.
The 90's also left all of the hollow 70's-tainted staleness out of the equation (unlike most of the 80's, which was tainted till about '88 or '89), kept the tastiest part of the 80's everyone liked (the late technological explosion and sleek-sharp future design boom) and multiplied it times 20, so instead of dreaming we were actually living surrounded by an electrifying immersion of cool stuff we could hardly keep up with, there was so much of it.
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90's for me. It took the pristine vision of the 80's, extracted/multiplied the most indulgent parts of it and dirtied it up with some ugly doses of realism (and better looking hairsyles for the girls). It truly had something for everyone.
But 90's had a LOT more stuff to do. In the 80's there were very few tv channels and you had to wait weeks or a month for anything fun to happen like a good show to come on, maybe a movie on tv every 3x a year. In a large way, this helped creativity by giving all that daydreaming time for more inventiveness (not just to consumers but those producing it). That wait made things feel more appreciated when you got them, too.
But the 90's was the full realization of 80's dreams of being surrounded by future tech living. We were finally getting deluged by the vast variety and incredibly large new output of shows, cartoons, toys, edgy rad snacks, and sweet technology we had yearned for in the 80's (but only got some of), which only started mobilizing and materializing quickly in the very late 80's.
The 90's also left all of the hollow 70's-tainted staleness out of the equation (unlike most of the 80's, which was tainted till about '88 or '89), kept the tastiest part of the 80's everyone liked (the late technological explosion and sleek-sharp future design boom) and multiplied it times 20, so instead of dreaming we were actually living surrounded by an electrifying immersion of cool stuff we could hardly keep up with, there was so much of it.
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90's for me. It took the pristine vision of the 80's, extracted/multiplied the most indulgent parts of it and dirtied it up with some ugly doses of realism (and better looking hairsyles for the girls). It truly had something for everyone.
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I was born in 1981. I remember the 80s somewhat, but I'm definitely a 90s kid. The 90s was very prosperous, there was a lot to do, it seemed like things were changing for the better. The tech boom, the internet, the strong economy. Looking back, we had it good.
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I wasn't around to experience the 80s but coke and pop music seems cool.
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Can I pick 1985-1995? 'cause that was the best decade.
But of course the right answer is the 80's. it's always the right answer.
But of course the right answer is the 80's. it's always the right answer.
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I still associate the 90s with arcades because I used to go to one damn near every day in the early 1990s, plus a few years later, two of my favorite arcades actually opened. Maybe arcades were bigger back in the 80s because they were newer and whatnot, but I still remember them being a big thing in the 90s.
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology_and_learning/the_arcade_and_the_university
http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N54/goodtime.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/cmc/mag/1995/mar/jason.html
http://techland.time.com/2013/01/16/the-tragic-world-changing-loss-of-the-great-american-arcade/
As far as I can tell, arcades didn't really start dying until the 2000s. That said, there's still a pretty popular arcade place where I live now, so even today it's not totally dead.
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That 80s big hair though is a turn off. Otherwise I agree with what you saidI voted for the 80's. The 90's was the beginning of too much self-awareness, irony, cynicism, smugness and attitude problems.
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Arcades definitely go to the 90s, don't know what that guy is thinking. Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Tekken, Soul Calibur, Metal Slug, Sunset Riders, Simpsons, TMNT, etc. weren't around in the 80s. I don't see how Galaga and Frogger can really compare.
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80s kid checkin in. Loved the big ass aqua velva hairdos and synthesizer of the 80's...and cocaine, even though I brought some of that in to the 10's with me (the coke). For me was just a more fun time, pre helicopter parents kids like me played outside all fucking day.
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