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Your "Hipster" (thing you did before it was cool) Moment
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Been a Persona fan since Persona 3 was announced back in 2006, so I guess that's my contribution. Also played SMT Nocturne back when it released in NA. I also got Drakengard for my ninth birthday and loved the original NieR. Those are probably the only hipster moments I've had.
Haha same shit...traded mine in for a bunch of comics. Was dumb...while the cards wouldn't really be competitive nowadays, it would still be nice to have them around for sentimental value. A few of them might actually be worth a few bucks, too.
I was a capitalistic bastard at a young age, charging kids for extra slices of pizza and for cheat codes. I once almost made a deal for $40 in 5th or 6th grade to teach a friend to dupe in Diablo, but our parents found out and weren't happy.
Same here. She's the reason why I got into comics a long time ago.
I wish I could say the same about Persona, but I only got into the series when 4 first released. :( Was thinking yesterday how I'm surprised the game will be ten this year.
I bought 3 bitcoin in like 2012 or something
Been a Persona fan since 2
I was a Deerhunter fan way early
Been a Persona fan since 2
I was a Deerhunter fan way early
I bought and played Fortnite regularly long before it had the free to play BR mode.
I played a massive amount of multiplayer Call of Duty 1/2 before the series exploded with MW.
I used to support Chelsea as a child, back when they were terrible.
I played a massive amount of multiplayer Call of Duty 1/2 before the series exploded with MW.
I used to support Chelsea as a child, back when they were terrible.
Yeah, DB and DBZ were on Saturdays on my local UPN station, me and my best friend were talking DBZ well before it really blew up here.
I've always been pretty ahead of the curve with cartoons; I recall watching the very first Nicktoons and Toonami blocks, I taped the very first broadcasts of Adult Swim and evangelized it to my friends. Pretty sure I did the same with the debuts of The Simpsons, The Critic, Duckman, South Park, Family Guy, and Futurama across the years (My dad taped a lot of sports events, so there was always a ton of blank videotapes around). Recall first seeing Beavis & Butthead on a late night watching Liquid TV. Watched Home Movies when it first aired on UPN. Recently, I was into Rick & Morty right as it started, almost seemed like a little secret then. I recognized the brilliance of Dexter's Lab, Spongebob, and Powerpuff Girls immediately when everyone else my age was lamenting then-modern cartoons as trash compared to our cartoons in the day, and am still eye-rolling at young adults spitting the same dumb refrain in the face of great stuff like Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, and Steven U.
Also, I've always greatly appreciated Freakazoid, which seemed particularly under-loved until fairly recently.
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-I purchased Apple stock back in 2004/2005.
-Played Tower defense, DOTA, and many others when they were first developing on WCIII into what we know today. I was friends with a few of the major map makers at the time. Similar thing happened in Unreal, where I ended up playing with several of the semi-pro players, my shit got kicked in hard.
-I was apart of the IGN, OCGN,(Eventual Socom Battles to Game Battles) and other groups for Socom players from nearly the start. I joined two top 10 teams and did play in the old IGN games with players that would go on to be the World Champions.
I feel like I came at a lucky time for online game, because anything before Quake III, CS, Unreal 99 just came too soon to really blossom into something special, but much of the foundation now is built on those late 90s, early 00s years. This is just what I recall, but there was bound to be more interaction. I recall getting the last copy of GTAIII the week it came out at target and the only reason I knew it existed was a small article in like PSM or something. Or DMC back when Circuit City did there 10$ off + Guide for new release. Or getting one of the most pathetic bare ass names that are always taken day one now, but had it as your XBL since the start.
-Played Tower defense, DOTA, and many others when they were first developing on WCIII into what we know today. I was friends with a few of the major map makers at the time. Similar thing happened in Unreal, where I ended up playing with several of the semi-pro players, my shit got kicked in hard.
-I was apart of the IGN, OCGN,(Eventual Socom Battles to Game Battles) and other groups for Socom players from nearly the start. I joined two top 10 teams and did play in the old IGN games with players that would go on to be the World Champions.
I feel like I came at a lucky time for online game, because anything before Quake III, CS, Unreal 99 just came too soon to really blossom into something special, but much of the foundation now is built on those late 90s, early 00s years. This is just what I recall, but there was bound to be more interaction. I recall getting the last copy of GTAIII the week it came out at target and the only reason I knew it existed was a small article in like PSM or something. Or DMC back when Circuit City did there 10$ off + Guide for new release. Or getting one of the most pathetic bare ass names that are always taken day one now, but had it as your XBL since the start.
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A very large chunk of Gaf did, I know it was the most imported title since Jumpstars and Phoenix Wright.
It was that buzz that got me to do it, i believe there was a really positive Gamespot article too.
I remember loving the song Mr. Blue Sky before everybody started using it in commercials and movie trailers.
Something I also recall, I loved The Nightmare Before Christmas when it was released, and oddly enough, almost everybody I knew didn't. They thought it looked stupid. Then years later, Hot Topic and shit, all those people I knew from back when in school who were all, "That's stupid kids' shit!" were all now, "I ALWAYS loved that movie, even back when it was released!!" poser shit.
Also, one of the OG FF fans, getting into the series at the first game, being a devoted fan BEFORE Final Fantasy VII hit the scene like a Meteor.
Something I also recall, I loved The Nightmare Before Christmas when it was released, and oddly enough, almost everybody I knew didn't. They thought it looked stupid. Then years later, Hot Topic and shit, all those people I knew from back when in school who were all, "That's stupid kids' shit!" were all now, "I ALWAYS loved that movie, even back when it was released!!" poser shit.
Also, one of the OG FF fans, getting into the series at the first game, being a devoted fan BEFORE Final Fantasy VII hit the scene like a Meteor.
The fan response and import, had Atlus make a deal. The shit came around the same time Best Buy had their great buy 2 get 1 snafu. Gaf, CAG, and others fucking ate that week. People were flipping shit like candy and Demon's Soul was one of the big new titles out. It was literally, "I brought two shitty games for 10$ and got Demon's Soul for free"
Not eat dead animals. It wasn't so easy growing up as the only vegetarian kid in the school in the 90s, now there are vegan fried chicken restaurants
Intermittent fasting.
I developed an eating disorder a few years ago after losing over 100 lbs by running and eating healthy. After I lost the weight, I slowly developed what I would think has to be considered an eating disorder. It wasn't until about 6 or 7 months ago that I learned my weird eating habits are essentially just intermittent fasting.
It's working for me, so I just roll with it.
I developed an eating disorder a few years ago after losing over 100 lbs by running and eating healthy. After I lost the weight, I slowly developed what I would think has to be considered an eating disorder. It wasn't until about 6 or 7 months ago that I learned my weird eating habits are essentially just intermittent fasting.
It's working for me, so I just roll with it.
Same. Lost interest before it got big.
Went to see The Room when it was still more of a small cult thing.
Played a ton of Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-powered Battle Cars back in the day. Burned out, lost interest. Repeated with Rocket League--the sequel--during and shortly following its beta.
I liked Drake back when he was still Jimmy Brooks.
I actually became a fan of Deadpool back in like 2004 with Fabian Nicieza's Cable & Deadpool run.
I got into Persona my senior year of high school back in 2007. I remember watching X-Play's (back when they were still a thing) review of Persona 3 FES and thought it looked interesting. Ended up really enjoying it so, when Persona 4 got announced, I decided to preorder it.
I actually became a fan of Deadpool back in like 2004 with Fabian Nicieza's Cable & Deadpool run.
I got into Persona my senior year of high school back in 2007. I remember watching X-Play's (back when they were still a thing) review of Persona 3 FES and thought it looked interesting. Ended up really enjoying it so, when Persona 4 got announced, I decided to preorder it.
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I mentioned this in the skateboard thread, but I had the first skateboard any kid had ever seen in West Virginia. This was the early '70s, a family friend brought it back from California. It wasn't a wide wooden deck, but a skinny clear blue plastic that looked like a surfboard. Kids thought it was weird and I was mocked for it, so I never became good at riding.
This is just me being bitter, not prescient. I was raised by hippies, so granola was always around. Real hippie granola was terrible. Dry, weakly sweetened. Then Nature Valley granola bars came out; I can't remember if I wasn't allowed or if I knew it would just make my regular granola seem even worse, but I didn't eat them. They were for sale at the Jr. High snack stand, and one day my friend offered me some. "Want some granola?" "That's not granola," I sneered. "That's a fucking candy bar."
I was the first kid in high school to get my ear pierced. Well, technically second since I insisted my friend go first so I could see how much it was going to hurt, but I was the one who came up with the idea and convinced him to go with me. We got hassled a lot in school over it. When it became popular I saw one of the worst tormenters with one and I reminded him he thought "earrings are for fags." "That was last year, they're cool now."
I had some cool friends who were into music so I learned early about bands like REM and Wall of Voodoo, and I was raised around hippie musicians so I knew about reggae before my peers did.
In college, my fraternity hired Dave Matthews to play a party, and it was the biggest crowd he'd ever played to.
This is just me being bitter, not prescient. I was raised by hippies, so granola was always around. Real hippie granola was terrible. Dry, weakly sweetened. Then Nature Valley granola bars came out; I can't remember if I wasn't allowed or if I knew it would just make my regular granola seem even worse, but I didn't eat them. They were for sale at the Jr. High snack stand, and one day my friend offered me some. "Want some granola?" "That's not granola," I sneered. "That's a fucking candy bar."
I was the first kid in high school to get my ear pierced. Well, technically second since I insisted my friend go first so I could see how much it was going to hurt, but I was the one who came up with the idea and convinced him to go with me. We got hassled a lot in school over it. When it became popular I saw one of the worst tormenters with one and I reminded him he thought "earrings are for fags." "That was last year, they're cool now."
I had some cool friends who were into music so I learned early about bands like REM and Wall of Voodoo, and I was raised around hippie musicians so I knew about reggae before my peers did.
In college, my fraternity hired Dave Matthews to play a party, and it was the biggest crowd he'd ever played to.
Read Jojo... they were shitty, poorly translated screen caps of someone essentially scanning each page that I found on some website and just couldn't stop reading. And no one I suggested it to bothered to check it out until the David Productions series got to Stardust Crusaders...
Toonami hurt, I had football right when it started so I missed some of the first shows that aired. I still saw it as a positive because 1. Anime and 2. Others got to see anime. I also loved the cartoon cartoons, I was of the first to get Cartoon Network out of my friends because my father worked for the cable company at the time. I also remember staying up late at friends houses doing marlins, playing killer instinct on 64 and watching Spaceghost pre-adult swim. South Park all of my friends watched when it came out and I too taped it later on so I could show my family. The early days of shock cartoons. i also taped the adult swim special with the Daft Punk videos and Hellbent by Kenna.
It's amazing that your experience of that time is really close to mine. A lot of what you mentioned is similar to what I grew up with minus the nicktoons and Freakazoid (my wife loves freakazoid, but it wasn't my thing). Even the critic and liquid television late night on mtv. Loved mtv as a young kid. Music videos, spring break, cool cartoons like beavis and butthead, the head, aeon flux, and The State.
Ate Sriracha growing up and didn't think it was good. Still don't. Also grew up eating avocados and guacamole.
I distinctly remember getting shit for wearing hoodies, beanies, and walking around listening to music on headphones in my early-mid teens. This was 99-00s in the UK mind, I was just copying what I'd seen in American fashion from skate videos and music videos, but got shit. Only a few years later and everyone was into hoodies and listening to MP3 players and iPods, etc
Makes me laugh more than anything, that people are so into their music now when back then it was chart music or nowt. If anything I've stopped walking around listening to music with headphones as I wanted to take more of the world around me in and not knacker my hearing, everyone is on headphones now to the point of almost sadness
Makes me laugh more than anything, that people are so into their music now when back then it was chart music or nowt. If anything I've stopped walking around listening to music with headphones as I wanted to take more of the world around me in and not knacker my hearing, everyone is on headphones now to the point of almost sadness
I watched the pilot of Rick and Morty when it got put up on Youtube like a week before it released. I was really worried about it being cancelled back during the first season, which seems kind of silly now.
I jammed Pompeii by Bastille for a few months before that song blew up huge.
I was also day 1 for the first Run the Jewels album, because I got into Killer Mike and El-P half a year or so before that album came out. I only claim half hipster cred for that though because I know there's people that have been listening to both of them for a while
I jammed Pompeii by Bastille for a few months before that song blew up huge.
I was also day 1 for the first Run the Jewels album, because I got into Killer Mike and El-P half a year or so before that album came out. I only claim half hipster cred for that though because I know there's people that have been listening to both of them for a while
Man I was a Persona fan for a decade before 3 came out you will have to do better than that. Plus I have to undergo the indignity of you kids pretending like 1 and 2 don't even exist or aren't worth playing.
Oh yeah, I'm in Japan now and my local hobby shop has some of the (English version) dual lands like Badlands and Tundra for sale at around $200 a pop! I probably had a dozen or so of those.
I was in a doom metal band before the genre hit it's current popularity. Not quite as popular as it was in the mid to late 2000s, but it's still up there.
I was an H Jon Benjamin fan well before Archer/Bobs Burgers.
I was an H Jon Benjamin fan well before Archer/Bobs Burgers.
I've hated brands my entire life. Probably not the first, but I hear it's super common attitude among generation z.
Internet.
Before the internet I spent my tweens building BBS's with friends and running a national ANSI art club.
Before the internet I spent my tweens building BBS's with friends and running a national ANSI art club.
I'm kinda the opposite of hipster, I think.
I think everything I've ever been into was a result of it hitting mainstream, or other people telling me about it. Can't really think of a single thing I discovered on my own or before popularity.
Even the closest thing I can think of, Star Wars, which I've known about as far back as I can remember doesn't really count because it was huge by the time I got to it, I just didn't realize it.
Edit: Firefly maybe....I watched a few of the episodes when they aired, and really enjoying it...and as far as I was aware, no one was talking about it.
I think everything I've ever been into was a result of it hitting mainstream, or other people telling me about it. Can't really think of a single thing I discovered on my own or before popularity.
Even the closest thing I can think of, Star Wars, which I've known about as far back as I can remember doesn't really count because it was huge by the time I got to it, I just didn't realize it.
Edit: Firefly maybe....I watched a few of the episodes when they aired, and really enjoying it...and as far as I was aware, no one was talking about it.