Sexdoll Pioneer
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couple of questions about life back then:
1. since you mentioned video games, i've heard a rumor (a few times but not that much) that video games were considered dorky and anyone who liked it was bullied, yet it seems like every young boy back then was playing nintendo and it was normal, and even M-rated games like doom or mortal kombat were really popular. is this rumor true or false? seems like only D&D has a reputation for being "dorky", while videogames seem normal. or did you have to be obsessed with video games to be labeled nerdy?
2. do you live in the USA?
3. what bands did you like?
4. when did MTV stop playing music videos, because it seems like people have made that complaint even back in 1996, possibly before that. i found this one online forum (email chat) in 1996 where they complained about it, but it seems like even in the early 2000s, people used MTV to watch entire music videos. TRL only played it for 20 seconds (unless they premiered a music video) but it seems like people still managed to watch entire music videos.
1. The rumor you heard about people getting bullied for liking video games is definitely false. Just about everybody that I knew growing up (nerds, jocks, stoners, normies) played them, some groups more than others. Even those who couldn't afford them became "friends" with people who could - and then used them for their Nintendo/Sega/Playstation consoles.
2. I've always lived in the USA.
3. I started getting into music in middle school (1993-95). Back then I listened to metal, grunge, and alternative rock. Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Pantera, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Candlebox, The Offspring, Rage Against the Machine, and some others. When rock started to get softer in the mid-1990s, I switched over to rap and hip-hop. That was around 1996, right before I started high school. Rap artists and groups that I listened to included Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, Nas, Jay-Z, Notorious BIG, Tupac, Outkast, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Organized Konfusion, Gangstarr, and The Roots. As mainstream rap became more commercialized around 1998-99, I started digging underground for my hip-hop fix. The internet was a godsend because I no longer had to rely on MTV and radio to discover new music. I didn't get back into rock music until the mid-2000s, and didn't start listening to any sort of metal again until the late-2000s. For the past ten years or so, I've listened to progressive metal and djent bands like Gojira, Meshuggah, Mastodon, Baroness, Intronaut, Tesseract, and Periphery to name a few.
4. I recall MTV playing music videos on TRL as late as 2005. They sometimes would show music videos in the early morning hours as well. Not sure when they stopped completely because I stopped being a regular MTV viewer in high school. The best era of MTV was in the early-to-mid 1990s when Music Television lived up to its name with a good variety of shows like Headbangers Ball, Alternative Nation, Unplugged, and Yo Raps. Even Beavis & Butthead showed rock and metal videos with them playing the role of "couch critics".