The unpopular opinions thread (Hawaiian pizza is great)

I realised that when all my favourite music started cropping up on classic gold radio stations.

No it wasn't.

You've...you've miscalculated.

You're using octal or some shit.

It wasn't.

So there.

I think TV and pop culture in general really isn't helping on this, given that they've been insisting any period between 10 and 30 years ago was "the 1980s" for a while, and pretending the '90s didn't even happen until very recently (Ryan Murphy is the only showrunner who seems to be willing to admit that the '90s existed). That and the first decade of the 21st century was pretty dire, culturally (the 2010s I'd argue were less dire), aside from longform TV and the odd videogame (but even there, the rise of MMOs helped turn it into a bit of a blur), which made it a bit of a trackless wilderland.

It is pretty funny to see TV shows struggle with this though - they make a character 40 and want to flash back to his teenage years in the '80s, and it's like "Nah mate, dude was 7 in 1990, his teenage years were solidly in the '90s".

Anyway point is I think it's harder to move on from the '90s when most pop culture has been trying to pretend they didn't happen, and it just went directly from like 1989 to 2005 or something.

Is it just a new century makes numbers confusing thing or is something else causing us to feel like time is wibbly wobbly now?

For some reason when I think about the 2000s I always think of Limp Bizkit's Rolling video, and there's a certain amount of disbelief that it actually happened and wasn't some kind of horrible fever dream.

The terrorists were probably listening to it on the flight.

I've still got a weird affection for Limp Bizkit. Like I know Fred Durst is a fairly a shit vocalist, but the rest of the band are pretty decent. Borland does sound creative stuff with his riffs and the rythym section are pretty tight.

But it would be really weird to hear their music without Durst's terrible rapping.

I think the 00s has formed an identity now - everyone was scared and there were tits everywhere.

I still think we're trying to wrap our heads around what the 10s were, but I'd say it was smart phones, dating apps, being less afraid but considerably less tits.

The 20s are already forming a pretty indelible identity. Not a good one.

90's style is fairly subtle, but when you see actual pictures from that decade, or watch a 90's show, it's pretty easy to recognise. Like Friends. Clothes are a bit baggier (without being hugely baggy. Except for JNCO jeans.)

It's actually pretty much the era that current trends seem to be aping. I'm only vaguely aware because my teenage niece's are still "with it", but there seems to be a trend for baggier jeans and slightly muted colours which all feels a bit 90's.

As a Nu-Metal fan in the late 90's, the combination of traditional "metal" clothing and sportswear was a marker in time. Thanks for that, Korn. Baggy jeans and wallet chains.

I might try and bring wallet chains back.

Speaking of which, Monster Hunter World is terrible.

Like playing an 80s game.

That was in no way intended as a defence of Horizon, which I think is bang average.

But everyone seemed to be creaming about MHW, which was my first attempt at the series and I was a bit gobsmacked. Gave up during the first return to the base camp.

Its got a steep access point and I understand why a lot of people don't get on with it as its mechanics are stuck in the past. However a lot us played it on PSP years ago so MHW seemed like a god send compared to that. If you have friends all at a similar level you can get some serious enjoyment out of it, but it doesn't make it easy for you or even explain how to get into it properly.

I'm pretty sure anyone that had a wallet chain always stank of BO and cheese.

The deftones are probably the only one of those bands that's still listenable.