Celedam wrote:People keep asking, how can a frickin' D&D game get a response like that?
I may have mentioned before but a friend of mine's ex-husband has a company that specializes in making gaming terrain pieces. At one point a few years back he ran a Kickstarter and in very short order raised $5 million and became an instant millionaire. (Unfortunately for my friend it was post-divorce.) Gaming is huge and nerds have a lot of disposable income.
Clicking on your link brought me to a nearby post from that time period:
Amped wrote:Watched the 1st season of "Stranger Things" on netflix. new favorite show. recommend giving it a try.
At that time I told Amped I would give it a watch, and I don't think I ever followed up. I did watch it, and it was great. Looking forward to S3!
About Stranger Things, you also mentioned back then:
Celedam wrote:Two things that bother me about Stranger Things: the music is wrong, and the slang is wrong....
I find that this is almost always the case with nostalgically evocative shows. Some of it I think is inadvertent, but I think it's mostly a deliberate choice. In part, there's the issue of selective nostalgia, that as the years recede into memory, certain events become emphasized and others vanish from the collective consciousness. So a meticulously accurate portrayal of a period of time would leave a lot of people mystified as to the allusions made. For instance, around the time frame of Stranger Things,
Adolf Hitler's previously unknown diaries were unearthed and published. It was big international news. Except, turns out the whole thing was a forgery, so within a couple of years it was completely forgotten. Unless you're really trying to be obscure you'll leave out references like that. Other things, you'll exaggerate. You can have "Africa" playing on someone's cassette tape machine and everyone today will instantly get the reference, even though it was only #24 for the year at that time. But if you play "
You and I" which at #12 was a much bigger hit in 1983, few people will recognize it and the nostalgia effect will be lost. But also, you don't want ONLY people born in the 1970's and 1980's to feel the pull of nostalgia, so you cheat and pull in a few artifacts from the 1990's so younger people can get catch some feels as well.
I do agree through, when it comes to dialog, it's very hard to get it just right. especially if a writer wasn't around to experience the specific slang of that time. Even if they were, they need to have a very good memory to filter the slang just for that period. For instance, I recently found out in the Klymaxx song "Meeting in the Ladies Room," the lyrics use the term "basic" as in "basic bitch" (but soften it to "basic woman"). In 1984!!! If you had asked me, I would have sworn "basic" didn't get used that way until around 2000 at the earliest. So if Nancy used "basic" in Stranger Things, I would definitely have accused her of being anachronistic, falsely.
