The Accurate Thread For Children Of The '90s

Central Avenue

This thread title popped into my head while I was eating peanut butter by the spoonful. I have no idea what it means.

And that just bugs me.

Anonus

I thought this was going to be making fun of nostalgia.

But yeah, everything sucked after 2000.

[Deleted User]

Not everything... there's always Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Anonus

Besides that.

Remember when Cartoon Network used to be good? Remember when Nickelodeon, scratch that, the entire portfolio of old Viacom used to be good?

Central Avenue

I thought this was going to be making fun of nostalgia.

Out of curiosity, what did you think "The Accurate Thread" meant?

Gelzo

Adventure Time might be my favorite cartoon, and that's including all the ones I loved to watch as a kid.

[Deleted User]

Now, which was the best 90s cartoon? It's a tough pick between Gargoyles, Beast Wars, and Shadow Raiders. But then there's X-Men and Spider-Man, too... and probably some other superhero shows I didn't watch.

Anonus

Cow and Chicken.

:P

[Deleted User]

...get out.

Gelzo

I liked Hey Arnold. Angry Beavers was good too, but I don't think I enjoy the humor as much anymore for some reason.

Invader Zim deserves mention, too. EDIT: ...except it aired in 2001. Shit.

inkblot

Everything from my decade is amazing. The stuff from decades before are old, backwards things enjoyed by old, backwards people, and the stuff afterwards is proof that kids today have no taste and our culture is sliding towards Idiocracy.

Anonus

12:34AM

Indeed.

occono

This topic needs more accuracy.

Anonus

Wait.

This could be like The Totally Radical Thread For Crotchety Old Bitches.

Central Avenue

It could, but...can this forum actually support something like that? We hardly get any activity as-is.

Anonus

It should be a hybrid between PYRT and Fetishes.

[Deleted User]

This forum "hardly gets any activity"? You guys have been spoiled by TVTropes. We would kill for this kind activity over at Wars Central.

Central Avenue

Wait, are you saying TVTropes is a fast-moving forum?

Admittedly, until recently TVTropes was the only forum I participated in, so I don't really have a point of reference.

[Deleted User]

TVTropes is an insanely huge and fast-moving forum. Why do you think Fast Eddie started purging old threads?

This forum has what I would consider to be an average amount of activity for a web forum.

Central Avenue

Oh.

Like I said, I was using TVTropes as my only point of reference.

I guess I have been spoiled.

Anonus

I've been spoiled too. Now I feel Toon Zone moves at a snail's pace, and before TVT that was my hangout.

Also Eddie purges threads because he would rather use the space they occupy on more wiki pages, not just because people make 7000 a day.

[Deleted User]

Yeah, but he wouldn't need to do that if they weren't taking up so much space, which wouldn't happen if they were made at a slower pace.

And yeah, most forums are the kind you check one or twice a day and respond to a few topics idly for a few minutes, maybe an hour. In TVTropes, you can hang out for several hours at a time because by the time you finish reading a topic (and, optionally, leaving a reply), every other thread will have moved, and there's a decent chance your current thread moved too and your post just got ninja'd.

Anonus

Why does TVT move so fast, anyway?

[Deleted User]

Huge member base is a start...

Central Avenue

Sometimes I think TVTropes must be a "bigger" (as in, more well-known and more populated) site than I tend to think of it as.

[Deleted User]

Another reason TVTropes moves so fast is the ridiculous number of boards, each with it's own culture and regular posters. Counting the secret mod section, TVTropes apparently has allotted space FOR FORTY FUCKING FORUM boards. Compare to the number of sections over here, which is 6. Most forums don't have more than a dozen or so sections. And some subsections, but TVTropes's megathreads are analogous to those.

snowbull

Yeah, tvtropes is the fastest forum I've ever seen. The first forum I ever went, I could reasonably expect to read every single reply and reply to every topic ever made on it, since I got in early.

Anonus

^^Toon Zone has a shitton too (though they don't seem to have any board-specific cultures) but it doesn't move that fast.

On the rare occasion that someone posted a minute before me, or at the same time as me I was always surprised.

Gelzo

My roommate posts on a music forum that I am convinced is faster than TvTropes.

Of course, I might have only been looking at the Fetish speed ones. Who knows.

Longfellow

I've never had the impression TVTropes moves that fast, though maybe it's because I spend so much time on the slowish Video Games rather than the Mach 2 Yack Fest. I remember some of the big boards on GameFAQs and IGN moving faster than Yack Fest though, such that when you post, the thread's already most of the way down the page when you check the forum listing.

Central Avenue

Well, the other day, I bumped one of the YF megathreads (you can guess which) after 5 minutes of inactivity. That's when I realized I do have unreasonably high expectations of speed.