What was cancelled or discontinued that you wish wasn't or that they brought it back?
Anything: Series, video game, book, food, old toy from childhood, service, etc. Also, any series which you wish did not end, etc.
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headphone jacks in phones
Moto 5g stylus has both. I just bought my daughter one for Christmas. The downside is using a moto phone which have gone downhill imo since the Nexus 6. But my daughter is 10 and just wants a phone with a stylus for drawing stuff and it was only $99 with my fi plan so why not?
Nexus 6 was released October 2014. That same month, Moto Mobility was sold to Lenovo. So its not just "in your opinion" that was the start of the reduction in quality of the Moto brand.
Did not know that. That makes sense.
I still prefer them for work phones. Gestures to open the camera or turn on the flashlight are a lifesaver for me.
I def miss the twist for flashlight. I have a pixel now which I hate but it has a feature to tap the back twice. I use it for my flashlight but it doesn't compare
Twist is camera, chop is flashlight.
I mean, the workarounds for SD cards is just USB-C drives, or USB-C microSD card readers. But I agree, just as headphone dongles are dumb and don't suit all needs, so is external storage.
I'm surprised you even thought this needed to be said. Of course external solutions aren't the same as internal. I never said they were. I simply said that just like dongles are the workaround to no internal headphone jack, they are for storage as well. The compromise is obvious and internal would always be better.
How much girth does the SD card have? 👉👈
Yeah I have to use an adapter now
Just servicability in consumer goods in general.
Why? The quality was always shit. I’d rather keep the data port (Lightning/USB-C) and use an external DAC. For calls and meetings where audio quality is trash anyway, Bluetooth doesn’t necessarily degrade it enough to care.
Well that's great because you could still do that even if they included a jack.
But I would never use it and it would just collect dust and pocket lint 👎
This depended on the phone. The HTC One M8, for instance, had a surprisingly good built-in DAC.
Mandatory Firefly comment
Also Pushing Daisies, Better Off Ted, Jericho, My So Called Life, Dead Like Me, Freaks and Geeks...
I'm here for Pushing Daisies.
Martin Starr is too cool now lol. Freaks and geeks might be hilarious with all the same actors now.
I imagine Bertram Gilfoyle is the adult that Bill Haverchuck grew up to be
I actually know Martin in real life and worked with him for almost a year and he's almost exactly like his Guilfoyle character. He probably was Bill as a young person lol. The only difference is he's super sweet but still has that dead pan sense of fuck you humor.
Lol that's awesome
Last Man on Earth, too!
Why would Freaks and Geeks need another season? It ended fine.
Some shows are great in part because they knew where to end. F&G, AtlA, The Good Place all for example.
Better Off Ted had so much potential :(
Seems all the more relevant today. They should revive the series, as long as Phil and Lem are still around.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
Better Off Ted and Dead Like Me, yeah
Every time somebody mentions Firefly I automatically think of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Bruce Campbell in a steampunk cowboy romp across the old west?
That show ended way too soon.
Dark Matter (the SyFy show), it was just getting good!
I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the original series from me.
The title has two questions and this one only fits one of them.
Wish wasn't cancelled, yes!
Wish they brought it back? No, it was a long time ago, and they made Serenity to close off the story and tie things up. It's likely that bringing it back would do more harm than good.
Man, that show was so likable, but I could never get over the pro-Confederate vibes, even with all the staff denials.
Call me crazy, but if I was going to bring back a series doomed by its association with Joss Whedon I'd give The Nevers another shot. I thought it was fun and then the Whedon thing happened and Covid happened and people seem to just have agreed it wasn't worth it and gone home.
There's talk of a reboot, and that's not what anyone wanted at all....
If they did another series they could do it without rebooting, just a different set of characters in the same ‘verse. Maybe meeting the originals at various times.
I have zero interest in that either. Those specific characters were the whole appeal to that show.
As long as we're on cancelled sci-fi shows, Babylon 5 spinoffs. The entire setting is more or less dead and it hurts.
(Yes, I know about The Road Home. It's not the same.)
Problem with that is that almost everyone who was interesting is dead. Actor wise.
Yep. (Mira Furlan was a real punch in the gut, particularly.)
The show runners for The Expanse claimed that they ended the show where they did because the show had reached a natural conclusion, the books took a giant time leap, and they felt the rest of the story would be better developed into a sequel series at a later time.
I really hope they work out a way to do a time jump series later on with the same actors who are all actually older (though logistically speaking it would be difficult)
Well, IIRC, the next phase of the story has mostly different characters. Only one or two carry over.
From what I remember most of the main cast carry over except for
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Avasarala who died because old :::
It’s a 3 decade time jump
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Even Avasarala is there for the first part of it. She died after Duarte took over. :::
Oh you mean Holden, Naomi, Amos, Alex, Bobbie, Clarissa, Ghost of Miller, and Avasarala?
Honestly, I think they did the right thing. The TV show was great for what it was, but the last book was just so different than the rest of the series, I don't think it really matters that they left it out.
End the show on a high note instead of possibly spoiling it.
I so want more travelers.
I'm so torn. On one hand, absolutely. On the other: it was a decent end and I fear that they would have removed too much mystery with more seasons
Actually yeah. A reboot of travelers would be amazing. Because you could go in any direction….
Redo to series as is. Redo it where since so many things went wrong, we’re gonna reset the timeline.
Hell yeah 👍
I loved the expanse, maybe more than books. But even the books just got drawn out and I lost interest. With how closely the show followed the books I'm worried the show would just fall off for me like the books.
Democracy 1-4
So what they actually did was basically flawless from start to finish.
But give me 100 more episodes of the Good Place anyways.
I agree but at the same time I'm happy it got an actual ending instead of being drug out because of its popularity.
What they did was perfect, and there's no way they could have just added stuff and had it be the show it was. They stuck to the vision and nailed the fuck out of it.
But I could also sit and watch a lot of episodes of reboots 2-5000 or whatever. The chemistry of that cast playing those characters with that writing was all magic.
Oh yeah I could not get enough of that show
Light pickup trucks.
How about things that never were but have always existed? Been waiting my entire adult life (I’m 42) for GRRM to finish Game of Thrones. My kid was 2 when the last book came out and now he’s driving lol
I was gonna say Patrick Rothfuss' King Killer Chronicles series. We're never getting Doors of Stone. I loved his writing, but dammit, I've just given up on it at this point.
Oh wow I forgot about that series. It’s been like a decade lol. I didn’t even realize the third never released. What’s with these good writers not finishing their projects
The stress of success, many eyes watching, and not publishing is less crushing than publishing a shit ending that ruins the trilogy and wipes out all interest in the first two books.
It’s a shame I don’t find Sanderson books all that interesting because that guy puts out books like a Gatling gun.
I’ve literally tied myself over with several series of Sanderson’s while waiting for the final book in the Kingkiller Chronicle series.
I guess there’s always the reassurance that Sanderson will probably pick up any major series that needs finishing haha.
Way of Kings did nothing for you? :o
Nah not really. It’s well thought out and all that but it just seems kind of “clinical” to me. I like a lot of grit (cormac McCarthy is my favorite author), so I lean more towards Abercrombie or mark lawrence.
Steven Erikson is another I wish I could get into but I find myself rereading the same stuff over and over until ultimately giving up.
I think he painted himself into a corner with just how much he needs to resolve in the last book. Hell, we don't even know what king is killed.
I think he could do quite a few things to make it more than just a third book. He could hand wave away some parts as "well that's already well known, go talk to X for that story." And then put that as a separate book.
Or just say to properly tell the story he needs more time than expected and give himself more than 3 of the in story days.
Gonna have to start fantasy book series just like Netflix these days. Not gonna start until the book/series has an ending!
And Matel still hasn't released hoverboards
Inside Job. Canceling a series when there's a cliffhanger should be illegal!
Also, Windows Mixed Reality, my VR headset is going to become a paperweight when I'll be forced to migrate off Windows 10 in a year.
Firefly! We need more seasons of that amazing show!
I used to think like you, then I saw some sit down with joss whedon and the rest of the cast where he talked about where the series would have gone if it hadn't been axed by Fox after the first season, and man it was a WEIRD talk. Joss started going on about the eventually fate of Inara and not only was it super harsh, but Joss kept giving Inara's actor the creepiest looks and I sware on me mum the whole table got skeeved out.
Honestly made me appreciate Serenity that much more as the cap to the series
I'd have taken that chance.
Do you remember what that interview was? I'd be interested to watch it.
I don't remember specifically but iirc a lot of clips are found when you search for "inara firefly fate" or "inara firefly ending"
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for sharing.
I was wondering if Firefly being the immediate de facto response to this had lived its life. It appears not.
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Not "technically" discontinued, but almost
Buying products and owning them.
Buying products and getting full repair manuals and electrical schematics
Cathode ray tubes
Overbuilt refrigerators and washing machines
Clothes that last and are repairable
Houses built with full bricks and iron with actual straight walls and unbroken woodwork
Better off ted. Fantastic show.
Ahh hells yeah
My name is Earl.
Loved this series so much. After finding out how they were going to end it, I would have loved to have watched it play out.
Master and Commander should be several movies and an MMO game.
Hear him, hear him! A glass of wine with you, sir. Killick! Killick there, light along with the Madeira damn your eyes!
A super niche one: the 2000s show "John Doe"
A guy wakes up with amnesia and doesn't know who he is
But he basically knows everything else.
Weird mystery that ended on a cliffhanger and basically no questions answered (although the show creator later revealed the later plans and plot)
I still think about the episode where John walked into his stock trader and randomly bought rights to some kind of seafood (shrimp, I think), explains why, then sells it -- at a huge profit. It was this little moment that explained why John could just "do stuff" and didn't need a job.
Also, it made my hate working forever, but I don't know enough to not have to. Yet.
S tier TV Shows cancelled by streaming studio fucks:
Raised by Wolves (Max), Little Demon (Hulu), Archive81 (Netflix), Scavenger's Reign (Originally Max, then cancelled, bought by Netflix, then fucking cancelled again. Clowns)
Archive 81 was great. I’m surprised it wasn’t picked up by another channel.
Easily one of the best scifi horror-ish shows to come out in recent history.
Fuuuuuckk i had forgotten about Scavengers Reign :(
I recently watched it. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen in my life. I haven't felt existential dread like that since finishing SOMA.
Awww, thanks for telling me, but... FUCK. I didn't know any of that. I need a drink.
I need a blunt.
Coyote vs Acme
The movie is already completely finished, but some "genius" thinks that they'll make more money by shelving it and claiming it for a tax-writeoff.
Scavengers Reign
Santa Clarita Diet.
Just needed one more season to wrap things up. Damn you Netflix
GLOW! A travesty it never got a fourth season.
Surge soda. They bring it back every once in a while but the demand isn't there.
I had no idea that was actually a real thing
bk had it in their freestyle fountains, but the ones around here went back to normal ones and they don't have it.
They're going back to the normal soda dispensers!?!? That is on my list of things to bring back. The freestyle ones are good in concept but seem to make all soda taste like a mix of flavors.
Treat it like collecting a
urineengine oil sample: first start the stream, then interrupt it with the cup. That should sufficiently purge the residual flavors.I'll give it a shot.
I tried one can.
I have a few:
Choco Tacos: some places have been rumored to have brought this back
Mountain Dew Pitch Black. Reintroduced and limited.
Heroes franchise/series. Creator is rumored to be bringing it back.
'I am not okay with this' Netflix series based on a grophic novel.
Wish I had tried Pepsi Blue. Grew up in the 90's but never tried it.
Edit to add: The OG version of GTA San Andreas uncensored. My buddy had a copy we would play but I never got my hands on a copy of my own. If owned this would be a collector'd item.
Never heard of Pepsi Blue but I remember Crystal Pepsi
Pepsi Blue was actually in 2002 era. But as someone born in the 90s I should have at least heard of it. It was berry flavored they discontinued it 2004 which sucks. It would def make a good comeback.
I remember pepsi blue existing but I don't remember ever wanting to buy it. I did probably try it at some point, but neither of the restaurants I worked at during those years carried it.
Also the limited time Dr Pepper Dark Berry for Jurrasic World. Closest thing. When that came out I looked up sodas/colas that were berry flavored and discovered Pepsi Blue.
idk if it's the same thing but in the UK we had a limited run of "electric" pepsi a few months ago that was dyed blue, everyone I know assumed they were just trying to shift a bad batch as a limited edition drink.
Was t crystal Pepsi just reg but clear. Did it taste different?
It was sweeter. Like, you were expecting lemon-lime of Sprite or 7up, but you got the sugary caramel of Pepsi. Almost like clear cream soda, but without the strong vanilla flavor.
Tastes the exact same as regular Pepsi if I remember correctly
Same, IIRC.
I remember it tasting just like Pepsi, but it was a little less syrupy in it's consistency. I loved the stuff as a kid.
God, yes! I don't actually know what any of the numbers are, but I'm convinced that if this hadn't come out during the pandemic we would have absolutely gotten more.
I originally didnt know it came from a graphic novel. But the whole story just ends on a cliff hanger....
Pitch Black was my jam!
I prefer the original over Pitch Black II. But both are great. PBII tastes more like Baja Blast. The original was a lot more sour.
OG Pitch Black was my favorite. They had it at a local gas station: Wawa near me last year not the second but the original. I loved it so much as a kid. I cut out the wrapper and the plastic from the bottle and flattened it and glued it to a magnet. Lol.
Heroes had a lot of potential. They should reboot it and take inspiration from JoJo's Bizarre adventure
Punching Nazis
Google Reader
The Old Reader is pretty close.
Command & Conquer series as a whole, no releases in 4 years, the last new release was a mobile game in 2018, and the last proper new entry was 2012.
The fan community has (at least) two really high quality mods still undergoing active development, with an actual release in the last two years. Giving this series the Sonic Mania treatment would be incredible, and probably make EA a lot of money, but also is very unlike their usual business practices.
Man, they won't even remaster Tib Sun and RA2. You know fans would go absolutely bonkers for those, even moreso than original C&C/RA.
I'm particularly bitter about the unreleased FPS shooter. Seeing the Scrin as actually in-person terrifying monsters, plus a more empathetic Brotherhood of Nod, could have made for some great stories.
Yep, I put hundreds of hours into Red Alert 2 as a youngun. I would absolutely play the shit out of a remake, provided a map maker was furnished or created by the community. I fucking loved custom RA2 maps.
Isn't there aome kind of openC&C thing that basically remasters it, adds better modding support and modernizes the controls, similar to OpenTTD? 🤔
I swear I fucked around with something like that a while back because I wanted to get down on some Tiberian Sun but I couldn't even get my discs to install on Windows 10.
Openra? Or something else
TIBERIAN SUN!!! Now that's a name I haven't heard in forever. I looooove the artwork and style of that game
Yes!
The whole game's aesthetic was fantastic. Nailed that kind of grungy, late-90s cyberpunk aesthetic in a voxel RTS game in a way that I don't feel any has since. Something about the style made you feel like fighting in a world being strangled by Tiberium.
I would happily shell out $60ea for remasters of RA2 and Generals. Improved graphics, proper modem compatibility (64 bit, Proton, ARM chips), maybe a modern vs original balance mode? I'd be happy as a clam.
Renegade had some interesting gameplay ideas as a shooter, and a new C&C FPS has so much story potential. It's a shame they cancelled the one, but a future release still has that potential. If they do it.
Ah man, Renegade. Definitely had one of the more interesting multiplayer match concepts. The closest thing I've maybe seen was Planetside, and, uh... well, Planetside 2 has plenty of its own issues.
But still. Good memories of shacking everyone into a flame tank, or running around like madmen trying to figure out where the hell that nuke beacon was planted. Have you seen the Tiberian Sun Renegade efforts?
Command and Conquer 4 was not as bad as people say and now here we are.
The remastered collection was so good, though. I wonder if people just didn't buy it, because you'd think they'd have given that team permission to just make a new one, but it hasn't happened.
I recommend you check out Tempest Rising.
This is extremely cool, thanks for sharing! It's now on my Steam wishlist
Megaman Legends 3
Our boy is still stranded on the moon!
Worst thing is that they had a nearly complete demo of it for the 3DS, and released some video of the demo and testing stuff in-engine during development, then like a day before it was supposed to drop they cancelled the whole damn thing because supposedly not enough fans participated in their fan forums/events.
They could have at least released the damn demo! It was already finished! Would have cost them fucking NOTHING.
And then the series creator Inafune fumbled making a spiritual sequel to Megaman when he Kickstarted Mighty No.9, so when he tried to Kickstart Red Ash as one for Legends it failed to meet the goal.
Still frustrates me.
Altered Carbon.
I know: the book series is very hit-and-miss, and they chose the hits.
I know: they changed the actor; but Joel Kinneman needs more time with Mireilla Enos, so you're gonna have to bring him back.
Raised By Wolves. Stargate Universe.
Wah. SGU is a hot take. What did you like about it?
Everything. Great cast, interesting concept, nice mysteries and cool discoveries. It was a fun show.
I’ll add the Terminator TV series with Lena Headly to my list of “bring it back” as well.
Sarah Connor Chronicles was top tier.
I couldn't even say if I liked it or not. I couldn't see anything because it was so dark
Yeah my primary memories of that show were everything was dark and nothing on the ship worked.
I thought it was pretty boring at first. They were just on the ship the whole time and I wasn't really interested. But it got better towards the end, and I was sad that they cancelled it. Though I can't even remember what happened now, it's been so long
I feel like RBW was just starting to get good, and then they cancel it.
They should make Stargate Ancients
Firefly.
ReBoot and Beast Machines
1899 on Netflix - Season 1 was great and ended on a really intriguing moment. And then they cancelled it. Sigh.
At least their original series "Dark" was completed. Dark had the same slow build but man, it gets so good. I was highly anticipating 1899 to be even greater
Oh, definitely, I absolutely loved Dark!
Stupid Netflix. Just another of the many reasons I no longer have a subscription. Can’t get invested in anything there other than the played out “Stranger Things”, because it will just be canceled.
Mind Hunter on Netflix.
Also JC Chasez’s second solo album that got shelved. I’ve been on an *NSYNC kick lately and would have loved more music from him.
I'd like to see Sega come out with a modern console just to see what they would come up with
I heard rumors but couldn't find anything just the mini consoles they come up with.
knowing Sega it would be a POV Sonic game that makes everyone throw up rings.
Stadia. It was so easy and reliable.
Ultimately Stadia was an absolute win for those who gave it a chance. Google gave away those controllers like candy and when they pulled the plug, not only did you get a full refund for every game you purchased, they even unlocked the controllers so you can use them as Bluetooth controllers.
Stadia was good, but Geforce Now is just so much better.
This is asklemmy, not unpopular opinion.
It really was, though. Stadia was super convenient for playing games... anywhere really. I know a guy through Discord who played using it over Starlink. And it was free. 1080p60, any games you bought from their store where yours to play whenever. And Destiny 2 became Free to Play as well, without any payment required.
They kind of shot themselves in the foot by launching it paid. I saw plenty of launch coverage when you had to pay a subscription and also buy games but everyone knew they would shut down because it was Google so no one bought into it. This is the first I've heard of it being free and I had to confirm it but that would have really sweetened the deal on launch.
Venture Brothers. Taken too soon.
I'd like it if Joss Whedon could finish a series. Firefly? The Nevers? So much potential to just get thrown away after one season.
Candy bars when they were their original full size and before they adulterated the recipes to cut costs
Fun size? What is fun about less? Lol.
Probably showing my age here, but OK Soda. That stuff was great.
Close runner up was Josta, which was briefly the official drink of GWAR (at least according to GWAR).
Warcraft and StarCraft series not including World of Warcraft
Galavant, it was a show that only lasted
a season,two seasons, but was just kind of a medieval-era musical drama/comedy that didn't take itself too seriously.The songs were catchy, the characters were a little corny but grew on you, and the actors could sing fairly well. But,
it only got one season and ended on a cliffhanger, so we'll never know what could have beenI think it deserved one more season to bring some closure to some things. :/🎶Way back in days of old, there was a legend told, about a hero known as Galavant🎶
Edit: another user pointed out a few things I was wrong about, edited to correct.
There actually was a second season with an actual ending but it definitely deserved more.
Damn, you're right, I misremembered!
Welp, I still think it deserved one more, haha.
I super believe in you, Tad Cooper!
It was a great show. But Timothy Ormundson needed to recover from his stroke.
I’ll go withe some more niche ones
The boondocks
RIP pops
RIP John Witherspoon.
RIP Charlie Murphy.
There are so many great episodes to choose from, but Granddad's Fight (s1 e4) is still one of my all time favorite TV show episodes.
PT. A horror game from Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro and from the Silent Hill series? Yes please
I still haven't beat Silent Hill for the PSP. If I ever find my PSP, I might give it another go a decade later.
Sense8. We got a finale, but cramming 3 seasons into 2 hours showed.
Canadian here. Chocolate company Laura Secord made a chocolate bar called the Royale. Or Mint Royale? Something like that. Basically a "solid" mint milk chocolate bar that would just melt in your mouth. Those things were fantastic.
When I was 16 (now late 30s for reference) they sold off the chocolate bar to Nestlé Canada. Who immediately changed the recipe to use, I assume, cheaper chocolate. Maybe cheaper everything. It was never the same and after a year or two they just disappeared, never to be seen again.
My first experience with enshittification I guess.
Lays had some chocolate covered potato chips that would come out around the holidays. I didn't care for them myself, but my wife loved them and I miss buying them for her
Daredevil. I'm thrilled its coming back with the same cast.
It is? Nice!
Sarah Connor chronicles, Stargate Universe just of the top of my head, they weren't anything special but still enjoyed watching them and would have liked to see how they would have wrapped it up, a closure of sorts instead of leaving them in limbo like Half-Life.
Stargate Universe, Alphas and Dark Matter. All left on cliffhangers. Sometimes I wonder if the writers see the writing on the wall on the cancelation and pull this shit to see if people get a petition going to have their show come back.
HBO’s Rome
I always thought discontinuing the 3ds series was stupid. Nintendo switch is good and all but there is something about this console
Jericho, I remember fans sent in tons of peanuts to the studio as a protest.
Pringles Schezuan BbQ potato chips. In the purple bag. Those were the bomb.
Hard copies of media. I loved my tape collection.
The Owl House and Odwalla Rocket Juice. HL2 EP3 in it's full form.
Photosphere. Fuck you Google.
Is it gone from certain phones? I have it on my Pixel 7 Pro.
Peanut Lovers Chex Mix; the regular Chex mix is just fine but Peanut Lovers was on a different level.
Muddy buddies?
I miss the peanuts in the cheddar Chex mix. I fully understand why they removed peanuts, but I still loved them.
Manual transmissions in the United States.
The Stargate series. They should make Stargate Ancients.
I really enjoyed Happy, and the ending was a little rushed. It's one of those classic shows that people seemed to like, but not enough people seemed to have watched to keep it going.
Alongside this, sugar versions of soft drinks in the UK. I have an intolerance to most popular artificial sweeteners, and as someone that likes fizzy sodas .y choices dropped significantly after cunting Jamie Oliver decided to ruin another thing I love.
Miiverse on the Wii U. Every games felt like a community. You could share tips, screenshots, etc… some games even had integrations like chat bubbles in Mario Maker. I always went out of my way to pick up a message in a bottle in Windwaker.
When they shut it down, the console main screen felt VERY empty and each players, very alone (You can spare the jokes about how we were alone anyway since it didn’t sell well)
Avatar The Last Airbender.
61 episodes was far too few. That show could have rivaled Simpsons if they let it.
They're bringing it back! I think the original creators too!
I just hope it's better than Korra. I personally didn't like most of that avatar storyline. Ang is the best haha
Compact pickup trucks. I got one of the last S10s made and it's older than the average Tiktokist.
Altoids Sours
Ginger Altoids
Carnivàle.
Anker Spirit X earphones.
For the longest time I thought a certain soda I used to drink growing up, Jones Soda, was discontinued until maybe a year or so ago. Found it in a store near where I live and am glad it still exists.
As for something that actually was discontinued/cancelled, my personal pick would probably be Batman Beyond because I really like the idea of the whole Batman of the future being a teenager who has help from an elderly Bruce Wayne and really like the show in general. I also absolutely love the theme song and animation that went with it.
Bit of a deep cut, but Schmigadoon! was utterly brilliant and I wish they’d been given another season or three to explore more styles.
The Logitech K800 keyboard. I swear by them, had 5 of them over the course of like more then a decade.
Super soft illuminated keys, super nice to work with, I have the last one here on my desk and I can't find new ones anymore.
They were quite pricey, around 80-100 dollars, but man it was nice while it lasted
I wanna say Freaks and Geeks but I also think it has the perfect ending and literally no show runner would be brave enough to do it on purpose.
I would have loved to have seen them produce 3-4 more seasons. After that, I think it would have run its course as a coming of age show.
Garbage Pail Kid cards.
I want Arizona to bring back their piña colada. Apparently they haven't made it since 2011.
The series that I really liked and wish it would have completed but ended up being canceled due to a writer strike was 'Pushing Up Daisy's' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925266/
Something I wish I'd bring back is the '90s style. Honestly so much was more interesting back then. All the colored gadgets, and the really cool ones where you could see sort of through the plastic see the components. Commercials were absolutely unhinged and wild. Things were just more fun and less formulaic. So many things today seem to have no real personality.
anyone remember 'good an fruity' candy? it was like 'good an plenty' except it was edible.
Yes! Somebody tried to tell me I was thinking of Mike and Ikes, but I knew I wasn't crazy.
Also Sen Sen candy which required a very specific palette
i only know of this product from a billy joel song, 'keeping the faith'... he mentions '... and a mint called sen sen'
Original Special K cereal. Not the Original they call original now.
Oh, I didn't know they changed it. Haven't had it since I was a kid. That sucks. Seems like everyone giving bad reviews on it. It was the only non-sugar cereal that tasted good dry.
How can you diss cheerios like that
Honeynut yes, reg no. But I used to have acid reflux as a kid so I would fill OG special K into baggies and take them to school. Helped a lot. Special K tasted sugary even though they didn't coat it in sugar, regular Cheerios didn't.
Made me think of the multi grain Cheerios that sound like they are supposed to be healthy but straight up taste sweet like honey nut
OG special K dry was the cereal-equivelent of crack.
I'm gonna channel my inner teenager and say Sobe Red Tea and the Jet Moto series of video games.
Both were staples of the 90's for me.
10 cent Near beer, (NA beer today), available for us kids to buy on street vending machines.
Some of my best memories was being able to get into town in the evenings after all the chores were done and playing baseball with my friends on a hot summer evening. And when we were done, we would walk uptown to the one pop machine that had Hamms near beer in it. At 10 cents for a 12 oz bottle it was amazing. So cold and so refreshing.
People today would absolutely lose their minds over 9 or 10 kids standing around on a sidewalk drinking NA beer today.
The 4400 and Eureka
Camel Exotic Blend Cigarettes. Good times. cough COUGH ahhhh. Good times.
Hoy Fong Sriracha story is a hell of a ride, highly recommend checking out the wiki
Sunbeam honey buns and Sara Lee apple danishes. I have a bit of a sweet tooth.
Jodorowsky's Dune.
The actual film, not the documentary.
The joyful wonder and whimsey that lived in my soul and twinkle that shone through my eyes, or at least I think it was there. It's now just a faint memory of a memory, something that I yearn for but unsure if I ever even tasted it.
The Quest (2014). It was a random find on Netflix many years ago. My friend and I checked it out and ended up getting into it. We ended up watching 2-3 episodes back to back. It's one of my all time favorite 'different' TV shows.
"Fantasy meets reality as 12 contestants engage in epic challenges in the world of "Everealm", and compete to avoid "banishment" in order to become the one true hero that will save the kingdom."
Fritos original lime and Chile early 2k.
Noragami - too soon it was just getting good.
A bit of a weird one because it never actually came out, but I was really excited about the news that Michel Gondry was set to direct a film adaptation of Rudy Rucker's novel The Master of Space and Time. I really like both Gondry and Rucker, and their sensibilities would have worked really well together. The story is kind of a sci-fi three wishes fable. It's not my favorite of his--that's gotta be White Light--but it's really light-hearted and fun. And Gondry is terrific at getting bizarre, dream-like ideas onto film. I'm still bummed out that they cancelled that.
For something that actually did come out but then got cancelled, I enjoyed Disney's adaptation of The Mysterious Benedict Society. Then they threw that one down the memory hole for tax reasons, so there's no way to watch it anymore short of piracy. I feel like that shouldn't be allowed. Seems like they should add least have to provide the Library of Congress with a copy. It's weird that our cultural history can just be yanked away like that now.
original carrot sobe
Journeyman, The OA
I think a remake or sequel of Samurai Pizza Cats would be golden.
Mega Man Legends 3 - get Volnutt off the moon!
I can't believe they released a playable alpha and then .. cancelled it.
The Logitech G600. It had a 3rd mouse button for your ring finger, and 12 thumb buttons with amazing macro capabilities. Only the sensor kind of sucked so it was useless for FPS gaming
I’m very disappointed by the lack of ‘The Middleman’ here. A very fun show with a very spunky Natalie Morales. Based on the graphic novels by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Les McClaine, but the best part was that Javier Grillo-Marxuach was the show runner so it really didn’t lose that crazy fun factor of comic books nuttiness. Seriously rock eating aliens, zombie flying fish, boy bands trying to take over the world. It only got 12 Episodes and it’s still got 100% on rotten tomatoes and even over an 8 on IMDb.
I'm not a fast food person, but the McDonald's Arch Deluxe was amazing. I'd love to have one again. Also Pepsi Kona (coffee-flavored Pepsi) was really good.
I miss things having actual buttons instead of touchscreen - most commonly, car dashboards. But even my microwave's interface has a touchscreen feel. It's not an actual screen but the "buttons" don't need to be pressed so much as grazed, or sometimes my finger being near the button is enough to "press" it. So it ends up in a lot of false inputs that I have to clear out and start over. I have to be very deliberate which slows down my ability to use the stupid thing. And I mostly only use it as a kitchen timer, I can't imagine how annoyed I'd be if I used it more frequently!
So yeah, buttons.
The Hotline Miami game franchise. 1 was perfect, 2 was better in every single way, and right after dropping both entries within a year of each other to wild acclaim, the creators announced that they wouldn't develop the series further, which is a shame. I'd gladly buy a new entry every single year if I could.
What was that? Couldn’t hear you from offscreen but I’m gonna kill you anyway. You don’t get a chance to react, you don’t get to avoid it. You just need to memorize where I am. That’s not a bullshit mechanic or anything.
Especially on a widescreen
Skill issue + "Roller Mobster" & if ur "Dead Ahead" time is over 00:04:45 then consider yourself an opp
I remember a blue Pepsi that was hella fucking good back when I was in high school. I miss that. It was a pretty sour berry flavor; might have been blue raspberry but it was also pretty unique and one of the sweetest, yet still tolerable, sodas I've ever tried.
I also miss Dr. Slice. It wasn't a Dr. Pepper knock off; it was an official mix of Dr. Pepper and Slice. Not sure if it was orange slice, but it was better than regular Dr. Pepper and I only ever saw it at one random ass restaurant in the small town I had lived in most of my life.
They should sell them on their official website. Any discontinued flavors could be sold on a made to order basis for a price.
The sour cream and chive flavored PastaRoni.
I want another Splinter Cell game.
But seeing what Ubisoft has become…maybe it’s for the best we haven’t had a new one in 11 years.
Too bad they won’t let someone else make a new game.
Same for Deus Ex.
Josta
Sour Altoids
Series: santa clarita diet. Weird humor, weird setting, but I liked it a lot… cancelled and ended on a cliffhanger.
Cornwell's Plum Sauce. I haven't seen it since probably 2001 and I still want it back. It was the best thing on Macaroni cheese. The closest alternative is Masterfoods BBQ sauce and it's great but it's never hit the same. I tried other plum sauces since there are hundreds but it seems Cornwell's take on it was really different to everyone else's in a way I can't describe so I don't know what to look for in an alternative. Even if I did find another plum sauce as good, the bottle design and logo are iconic for me and part of my childhood.
Xenosaga
Lodge 49
Yes! Such a fun show.
Chocolicious
Stoned Wheat Thins.
Cant fucking believe they stopped making the best cracker in the world
Orbitz! It was a flavored water drink with little balls in it back in the 90s.
Milk Duds that take effort to chew
G2 Grape Gatorade Drink
The mcrib in USA
Reese's banana cream peanut butter cups
Mango juul pods
Trader Joe’s Belgian Chocolate Pudding. It was really good with fresh strawberries mixed in.
Taco Bell Chilitos.
The show This Fool. It was absolutely hilarious.
Korgoth of Barbaria. Only ever made a pilot, it was made by the creators of SpongeBob and the whole thing was like a story from Heavy Metal magazine.
I wanted another season of American Vandal on Netflix.
First season was good. But while the second season started slow, it ended with what I thought was a pretty intense emotional pivot.
You begin with a poop joke, and end with a commentary on the illegal sharing of a persons intimate photos online and the harassment and blackmail that can come from that. It was really really good. I wanted to see what else they could come up with.
Taco Bell's Chili Cheese Burrito
Taco Bell's Frito burrito was also good.
Taco Bell seems to make a great new thing, then they gradually put fewer and fewer ingredients to where it's basically a tortilla and people stop ordering it. This is my thoughts on the Frito Burrito, black bean crunch wrap, chicken fajita burrito.
The Finder TV series had a lot of potential, but one of the main actors died. :/
Legends of Tomorrow I binged it and was digging it and then....
Ding How. Local place, amazing schechuan shrimp.
Star Trek Kelvin timeline
Half life 3
The rooster Sriracha sauce!!! ( They changed pepper suppliers a few years ago )
DC Legends of Tomorrow: I wished they didn't end the whole Arrowverse. When Flash wrapped up with that horrible last season, it was like a Potpourri of a season but not in a great way.
Doritos Mac and cheese bites and Pringles Tortillas.
The satanic panic. It made playing RPGs and video games feel so fucking metal.
The TV show Defiance.
I loved that show and the third season was probably the best one, and yet it still got cancelled. 🙁
Wouldn't mind seeing the game come back. Don't get me wrong, it was pretty shitty. But, for whatever reason, I kept finding myself coming back until there wasn't a game to come back to anymore. I guess I was charmed by it.
Lay's Wow Chips with Olestra
Need a colon cleanse I take it?
Taco Bell's black bean burritos.
Tropi burger
Oh I miss thee
7/11 in my country, kinda miss it, though probably just nostalgia
Dark meat Mcnuggets
Cherry NOS energy drink
There was an interesting show called The Society. I think that got cancelled on Netflix
Barbara Bui perfume.
The salad Panera used to have with salmon, oranges, olives.
Stick shift Honda Accord
tic tac gum, it's small and convenient.
Renegade Nell
Bk flamer. All day, every day
I have two cookies I’d like brought back, please.
Nabisco suddenly Smores
And (one I can’t find a pic of) Chiquita made banana shortbread cookies with chocolate on the bottom in the 90s, and they were great, too.