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[–] 86 points 3 months ago* (19 children)

When I was a kid in the 90s, I kept thinking about the Power Rangers and how they were kind of gay, and I felt kinda gay, but they were kind of lame, and I didn’t wanna be lame.

So I got really into Star Trek in computers instead. I’m 47, and I’m confident that I made the correct decision. Star Trek definitely made me feel pretty OK about being gay, that’s for sure.

Ad Astra Per Aspera

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    I have seen people do this unironically when they fart.

    Ghouls

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I'm 42, and I felt like I was too old for power rangers after Season 1.

    You would have been close to 18 by the time the show debuted. I think I was 12 when it debuted, and outgrew it almost immediately.

    Maybe that's why they felt lame to you. It was a kids show, and you were old enough to be in the Gulf war at the time it was happening.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    It was a long time ago. Difficult to remember. Plus, I was on a lot of drugs by then…

    Edit: hold on, the show came out in 1993, when I was 14. So that’s not at all as creepy as you implied. maybe you caught it on reruns? Or you’re not in the United States, and it debuted years later in your country?

    Ah, yes… 1993, the year I discovered the joys of smoking…

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  • [–] 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    And it summoned an ancient robot dragon that happened to be living ten meters off Angel Grove Harbor.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Someone’s bot going haywire in here

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    This is the part of Power Rangers that breaks verisimilitude?

    Not the smoke ghost living in a glass tube or the creatures made out of actual putty or the seemingly endless supply of cities to destroy while also apparently saving them?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I only now just realized the problem with trying to play a flute wearing a helmet. I will never unrealize this.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Oh man let me see if I can remember this...

    Does it go "Baaah ba-baa badada dadaaaa"?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    He played the katamari damacy song?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Well his zord just keeps getting bigger and zordon threatened to chuck me into space while he wandered around drunk in pants that left absolutely nothing to the imagination. You know what? It's gone. I have no imagination left zordon killed it.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Cause Tommy was OG bad ass.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    If you look at pictures of it, it has a few valve buttons on it, exactly like a trumpet. So, why he plays it sideways like a flute, rather than like a trumpet from the tip, I don't know.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Red ranger I guess you can be leader and then just sitting there watching him get, flute dagger, dinosaur, shoulder pads, white on gold, sick snow tiger.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    And none of us questioned it, we just knew cool shit was about to happen.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Your not meant to think to hard about it

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    What a great way to discover you have ADHD!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Well, presumably they'll be able to breathe with the helmets on too

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Clearly a MIDI.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I used to go hard on the green zord summoning song

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    I hated that show and everyone else loved it. Drove me crazy. I liked xfiles instead lol.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I liked it and the xfiles too...

    I've recently been watching the super sentai series it's based on and it's been a fun journey.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    I was never into X Files, and it wasn't until recently I realized why.

    It's because the show encourages people to be Mulder.

    Lemme explain, the show is pure UFOlogy propaganda. You can be Scully and have a skeptical mind who wants hard proof before you'll admit an outlandish idea is worth looking into.... But then you'd be wrong, because the skeptics are just ignorant closeminded saps! Unwilling to look at the evidence that's all around us!

    Even though in real life, the believers jump to the conclusion and work backwards from there to "prove it", whereas it's the skeptics who actually consider the evidence and go where it leads... Which has never in the history of anything been supernatural.

    90's Television and Movies had this problem in general, the skeptic is always wrong, and the believer is always rewarded for their faith. The skeptic is always portrayed as ignorant and stuck in their own ways, while the believer is shown as open-minded, full of wonder, and just a delight to be around.

    It absolutely had a negative impact on me growing up, always believing in magic, believing it only wasn't working because I wasn't doing it right, or because I didn't believe hard enough.... That's gotta be it, because skeptics aren't good people, the stories all say so!

    It's only as an adult that I realize skeptics are bitter and angry for a damn good reason, people keep believing in nonsense and making it the problem of those around them. The skeptic would love for magic to be real, but that's never where the evidence points. Because magic isn't real.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    I didn't hate it, but it was very much not my jam and I was also the odd one out in school being one of the only kids that wasn't obsessed with it. I'd listen to the theme song, then change the channel to like Hey, Dude or Salute Your Shorts.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    And it summoned a giant dragon mech.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Thanks. Now I’m not going to sleep.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Ah, thanks for the core memory unlock. That dagger was my favorite toy for a long time

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    now this is some food for thought!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    He needs to battle against Link on the ocarina. No fighting, just breath control and sick finger work!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    One of those Rangers was hot af, was it red. I remember my little brother use to watch it, and I got sucked in watching it just to see her.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    "And he blew into it with his helmet on"

    How is that weird? If one of the weapons you have requires blowing into it you make it work with your helmet on.
    It's just so fucking dumb to think that doesn't make sense. It's like calling out a chef for having a knife to cut things with.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Are you saying that this is a specially designed flute players helmet?

    If playing a flute were just about blowing air then I'd be agreeing with you. But a flute needs lips. Is the player forcing some super extending lips through a hole in the helmet?

    (How can i draw this illustration? )

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