TV had a strange quasi-golden age in the mid-1990s. I'm not sure why it happened, but the quality of popular programming had definitely improved since the previous couple of decades. It's gone disastrously downhill since then or else I've just gotten old and gotten interested in other things.
I have a TV and use it, but I find myself watching old shows off the TiVo and DVDs, and avoiding major-network prime-time programming (except for Futurama, which is a walking-dead show, cancelled with many episodes in the can).
I'm completely out of touch with video-game culture, but once somebody left a 1997 copy of some game-developer magazine (Game Developer, maybe?) in the toilet stall at work, and I started flipping through it and was amazed at all the dumb titty-and-innuendo-oriented ads, as if only young developmentally-arrested men could develop video games. I idly wondered if anything had changed since then. Fortunately the pages were not stuck together.
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Date: 2003-12-05 11:26 pm (UTC)I have a TV and use it, but I find myself watching old shows off the TiVo and DVDs, and avoiding major-network prime-time programming (except for Futurama, which is a walking-dead show, cancelled with many episodes in the can).
I'm completely out of touch with video-game culture, but once somebody left a 1997 copy of some game-developer magazine (Game Developer, maybe?) in the toilet stall at work, and I started flipping through it and was amazed at all the dumb titty-and-innuendo-oriented ads, as if only young developmentally-arrested men could develop video games. I idly wondered if anything had changed since then. Fortunately the pages were not stuck together.