I had to look at the date on this, because this is exactly how I still dress, except that it's been promoted to business casual and the dad-cap goes with baggy t-shirts and cargo shorts.
I'm getting old, and y'all will too.
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It's comfortable. I should've started dressing like this a long time ago.
Well, fashion being cyclical, people today are literally influenced by fashion companies pushing 90s fashions.
The tiny sunglasses, baggy pants (even jnco style jeans are back in style), 90s full bathing suits for women (when you almost never saw anyone under the age of 40 in a one piece a few years ago), 90s boy band haircuts, big platform Skechers-style shoes, white calf-length socks, the high waisted jeans…some day, the early 2000s fashion of low waisted jeans, body jewelry, massive sunglasses, trashy-chic look etc. will be back in style.
In the early-to-mid 2000s, we laughed at how bad the 90s fashion was. Just like people dunk on early 2000s fashion now. Pretty crazy what people in fashion manage to do. Completely change the way everyone dresses en masse. It’s pretty weird, honestly.
I found my style pretty young—or maybe I just never grew up into more “adult” fashion. It just doesn’t feel like me. But I still like a slimmer/normal cut jean, pretty much all black everything, band shirts, a flannel when it chillier, etc. My look will always be in style because I make fashion.
I'm not looking forward to it. Right now I just wear what I like and no one cares, but at some point I have to go through the experience of people saying, "Ew, why is that old guy trying to be fashionable?" a few months before people start saying, "Ew, look that old guy is a couple months out of date, what a loser!"
When did this become business casual? I'm still stuck with slacks and a polo.
YMMV. I've been working from home since 2018. Them fuckers are lucky if I wear pants at all.
When I work at home it is mostly pajamas.
But work at home isn't business casual. Business casual is what to wear in a less formal public setting, like a conference or office. While some people have started to wear jeans in those settings, I have never seen anyone in flannel shirts and broken in hats in a setting described as 'business casual'.
Yes, some offices don't have dress codes and that is fine to wear, but agsin they don't call themselves 'business casual' either.
I mean, it's not even really a "your mileage may vary" thing. If you're working from home, then you're completely disconnected from what standard "business casual" is.
But would you fight if you had a sword?
Yes, but not if Godzilla also had a sword
Fuck that, it breathes fire.
Maybe if I had a scaled up pistol, then yeah.
But you’d think some of this military equipment could do the same amount of damage.
Can godzilla flip kick ? Or fart fly ?
Holy shit is this real? I have to watch the old godzilla movies if it is
Yup, Godzilla vs. Megalon, which I saw via Mystery Science Theater 3000!
I did not expect to see this famous clip in the comments, but thank you so much for the pleasant surprise.
A regular-sized sword, or a big one?
One of those big final fantasy style swords
A battle of fisticuffs against a walking radioactive disaster would be problematic to the guy, let alone the city.
Tell that to Ultraman.
Tell that to Ultraman.
Actually, that makes me wonder if his suit is actually radiation protective? Or is that just his natural skin?
I'm actually not too well versed in the lore. I just remember him fighting large monsters when I was young. I'll take a look later today.
I’ll take a look later today.
Appreciate that, but don't do that on my account, I was just curious, and making conversation.
Same with me haha.
Edit: just did a quick search and couldn't find anything explicitly about radiation protection. But he did defeat some creature that was feeding on the Earth's uranium mines and potentially power plants?
Also it seems like the suits only have a small window of active time before they have to find another host or something. So maybe the radiation wouldn't matter on that short time scale.
I'm getting all this from a 5 minute search, so if anyone knows more than my shaky ramblings, please correct me.
Interesting read though. Makes me want to watch some old Ultraman.
I think the 98 Godzilla was unfairly maligned. It did everything I needed a Godzilla movie to do, and it didn't take itself too seriously. Solid film.
did everything I needed a Godzilla movie to do
This is kind of baffling, if I'm being honest. What exactly is your baseline for what a Godzilla movie "needs to do"?
That being said, I agree that it gets a bit more hate than it probably deserve...but not by much. There are a couple fun sequences, I particularly always liked the Madison Square Garden ~~raptor~~ baby Zilla bit, even if it has no business being in a Godzilla movie.
That's really what it comes down to. It's a passible Roland Emmerich popcorn flick at best, but it's a terrible Godzilla movie.
In my opinion, the best Godzilla movie was Shin Godzilla (I've heard Godzilla Minus One is GOAT but I haven't seen it yet).
What made Godzilla interesting was the subtext.
Godzilla outside of Japan doesn't make a lot of sense. Godzilla is explicitly a walking nuclear bomb.
In Shin Godzilla, Godzilla is defeated by a competent government, a fantasy we can all enjoy.
Also, Jean Reno and three voice actors from The Simpsons.
Wrong. No mothra.
But godzilla has nails and flaming hot mouth.
So does Chester Cheeto, but I ain't scared of him either.
You madman
What, you don't want to get swallowed whole or get your hand bitten off?
It's always the carpenters.
Say what you will enjoy this film, it was a wild ride. Sure it may not be pure Godzilla, but it never tried to be. I much prefer it to the 2014 version.
Sure it may not be pure Godzilla, but it never tried to be.
Except in the name
And I think this is the crux of the problem and where most of the hate comes from. You can have a good kaiju movie without Godzilla, but can you have a good Godzilla movie without Godzilla? I would argue that no, you can't. I would also argue that the monster from that movie wasn't Godzilla... it was Matthew Broderick. /rimshot
But seriously, a lot less people would have ragged on that movie had they given it a different name, but arguably a lot less people would have seen it if they had given a different name. 🤷
You're right.
I will always believe that it started life as a remake of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. It's almost the same film except for the Velociraptor rip off section.
I could be 10 times Godzilla's size and I still would't try to fight him.
Like I am not running around punching squirrels in my day to day, and if one came at me I'd apologize and offer him my lunch to get him to leave me alone.