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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 537535" data-attributes="member: 7394">It was actually in the '90s that our favorite game almost went belly up. WotC purchased TSR in 1997 because it was almost bankrupt at that point.Aside from that, it was a decade of mostly good TV and mostly horrible music. I was lucky enough to have seen some pretty awesome bands of the '90s before they became important. I saw Soundgarden in the cub ballroom (The cub being the student union building at WSU), the same place Alice in Chains played a few months later. In fact I witnessed grunge music in its formative years before it was even known as grunge - before it became all huge and commercialized.That was pretty much the coolest thing I remember about the '80s was being alternative in a time when it wasn't cool to be alternative. Things I hated: early Madonna, Michael Jackson, New Kids of the Block (the predacessors to the boy bands of today), Vanilla Ice, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Dirty Dancing, hair bands, The constant threat of nuclear annihilation.If I had to choose a decade to live in forever, it would definitely be the '90s. We had emerging computer technology, improving video games (3D rendering...?), a good economy towards the end of it, much better music than we've had before or since, the "party" president, better fashion, techno, and some decent movies. I'm still trying to figure out that the zeroes are all about, other than being freaked about terrorism.</blockquote>

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