The 90s really were the best, why can't we go back?

Jan 16, 2023 2:59 AM

Thing about the candy cigs, they were filled with powdered sugar so when you blew through them it looked like smoke was coming out.

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#6 fucking legends

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#14 there was a 'boy' version of this where the launchers were dragons, and that somehow made the spinning dolls enough.

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#15 one of my employees is a 20 year old fashion major who unironically wears JNCOs.

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#12

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#15 Fuck yes. Hate how high waist jeans make everyone have a long ass.

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The dude who created Hamster Dance actually tried to monetize it at one point, putting it behind a paywall. Which spawned free copycats.

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#1 man it hurt sitting down today, and I played with the castle.

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#1 It used to hurt, still does, but it used to too

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#1

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#15

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Mom jeans went out of style for a reason.

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I am a frigging fossil. ?

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I feel ya Momster from a grandmomster pov.

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#10 problem with Invisalign is you need “pretty people teeth” If you are the “before” ad in a clinic, it’s useless

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#17 ... and 80's. And 70's. And probably earlier.

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Beach 75% / Fish with aqua background 25% (sometimes you gotta change things up)

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#1 the castle obviously, and it's not my back it's my neck

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That pink camera is from 2011... If you had a digital camera in the 90's that could manage ONE megapixel, you were doing really well.

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Millennials wouldn't have been clubbing in the 90s. So yeah 2011 sounds about right. Phone cameras were pretty terrible in the dark then.

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Yep. I'm Gen X, and I wouldn't have been able to go clubbing for most of the 90s.

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It wouldn’t be 16 megapixels either. Sony Mavica with 1.44mb floppies if you were lucky

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Yep, and those were $700-$1000, not adjusted for inflation.

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Kodak invented the digital camera and then did nothing with it.

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Kinda like Sears inventing the mail-order catalog and then failing to translate it to the web.

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The 90s are just, like, 10 years away or so and y'all getting nostalgic?!

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#12 https://www.webhamster.com/

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You know, I often enjoy another kind of hamster website myself.

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Thank you :D

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#17

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Candy cigarettes are not a 90's thing. We had those in the 60's. Apparently, they were introduced in the 19th century.

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They were in Ohio. They slowly started calling them candy sticks as I got older, but they had the red end that looked lit up and everything.

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BUT they were removed in the 2000 (or late 90's) .. so only people older than 2000 know them. I loved them, never loved "true" cigs

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They were called Fags in Australia

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You can still buy them too. I had a couple packs recently.

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#1 makes me super sad bc windows used to have this awesome game, and now the windows games require internet and make you watch ads?! Fml.

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Ever played Hover on the PC?

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Encarta for the win

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No. I don’t know what that is.

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THANK YOU! A neighbor had that game, but I never knew the name of it until now. Any idea where I can find a copy to play today? :D

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You’ll need to add the ! Or copy and paste it to see the wiki article

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#15 I've been seeing a lot of bell bottom jeans lately

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bell bottom yoga pants round here.

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Cool, I'll just keep wearing mine then

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Fashions recycle every 20-25 years, bell bottoms were popular in the Mid-late 90s (again) and they're coming back again.

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#6 Fun fact Matt Stone and Trey Parker were tripping on acid in this picture!

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I think you're confused. When people say fun fact it's not usually followed by a fun fact.

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Tbf most of the people there were probably on some kind of drugs. Celebs love drugs.

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Gen X here. Fuck all these high-rise jeans and leggings. I hate having the waist up to the bewbs. Fight me. Miss low rise.

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I long for low rise to come back. I loathe high rise. So uncomfortable (and hurts my 2000s rebellious belly bar)

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Why not, and hear me out here, regular rise jeans? That sit comfortably around the hips and also cover your underwear?

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I have a short torso, so regular mid rise is still too high to be comfortable.

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Millennial here. I don't really care about low/high rise jeans since i don't like wearing jeans at all.

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Sweats and leggings? That's what I wear, but dangit, I don't want to pull them up to my neck with ma belly in there...

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Preach! Short and fat Gen Xer here. These high rise pants and leggings are so uncomfortable. They remind me of the godawful jeans from 1

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growing up. Low and mid rise forever!

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I'm Gen X and fucking hated low-rise. Where are you finding pants up to the boobs? Because I have an extremely high waist and have never /1

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found a single pair of pants that actually reached my waist. And I've looked!!! Seriously, what brands? Because it's so uncomfortable /2

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wearing pants that don't match your body. They go in at the waist... but my waist isn't there. So they're just squeezing my organs. /3

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Low rise is so that all your guts can hang out unsquished bc the pants are at your hips.

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Yeah but that feels horrible too. The pants almost push them out when I sit. Not to mention the plumber's butt.

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palm tree was the best solitaire card, hands down

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Face down.

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Rainbow shell but I liked to mix it up. Cool to see shout outs for all the cards though!

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rainbow shell was also good. Lotta haunted castle lovers out there!

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You guys are all nuts. It’s fish with dark blue background

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Everybody look at this psycho here!

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there needs to be some kind of psychology test/assessment that's based on your card back selection.

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Robot forever!

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It's kinda neutral isn't It?

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I have no strong feelings one way or the other.

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Tell my wife... hello

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No way, Spooky Castle forever

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^This is the way

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them's fighting words

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Spooky castle for sure, but robot gets an honorable mention.

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Yeah that’s true, robot is a very close 2nd

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As I understand it, time is linear.

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I thought it didn’t exist at all. It’s an illusion of our brains to help us function.

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It is real but not well defined, still measurable.

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Jeremy Berimy

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It's really a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff

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Incorrect, but an understandable misnomer.

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I don’t think it’s incorrect that they understand it to be that way

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It is if they think about it long enough, because then they'll start questioning what understanding even is. Or is that just me?

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eh, it's more of a flat circle

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Explain low-rise jeans being back in stye, then.

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Time is linear, fashin repeats. We'll be back to shoulder pads in no time, after that windbreakers!

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#10 if your orthodontia is bad enough for headgear, then you're not a candidate for Invisalign.

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I've literally never seen one of those things except on American TV shows

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When I was ~12 I had headgear for a bit, got fucking tired of it, asked the orthodontist to explain why I needed it. He couldn't come up ->

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My son's Ortho said they don't use it anymore. He had a Herbst appliance which looked torturous but was fine after he got used to it

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with an explanation better than "cosmetic." Fucker was shocked when I said fuck it, take it out. Even more when my parents agreed.

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additional context: Initially I had a retainer to make enough space so I wouldn't get TMJ, which my mom suffered from. That was a real ->

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need, we didn't question it. When he said I needed headgear my parents just assumed it was continuing the treatment to prevent TMJ ->

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but no, that had already been fixed. Fucker was just upselling.

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They've come a long way though. I was shocked by how much they can move your jaw with it. They use bands with small implants.

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Living this rn as a 41 year old. Had 4 yrs of metal braces as a teen. Now the Invisalign.

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Wait, so did the metal braces not fix it when you were a teen or did it... relapse?

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A little of both. Had an open bite, got top & bottom expanders, & did 4 yrs of metal braces. Got me 90% of the way but since my bite was (1)

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(2) never fully corrected, over the last 20+ years started pulling on my front teeth and threw things out of whack. Have never been able to

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Are you doing invisalign now?

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Yep, hopefully for just a year or so.

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Wow, i cant even tell, it's invisi--eyyyyyyyyyyy

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I was about to say. I had to have neck and head gear, along with 8 teeth pulled. No way invisalign would have helped.

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I hope you grew up and won some life lottery type things.

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I did not, but my teeth are not snarled like a monster anymore, so I got that going for me, which is nice.

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Ive also had 8 teeth pulled for.my braces. It's so weird to think of how many more teeth people have than us

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I think about that from time to time, too! What teeth I still have barely fits. It's crazy to think what 8 more would be like.

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#1 spooky castle for me, 95% of the time. Even young me knew the draw of darkmode, though I could not articulate it.

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Spooky Castle and Dark Vines for me.

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The flapping bats were cute

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Spooky castle was where it was at but everyone else in the family always switched it back to the island.

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I came down to the comment section just to say this.

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Spooky Castle ftw! About the same use percentage too

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the bats would move

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The hand, obviously, which had an extra card pop out of the sleeve every now and then.

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Always spooky castle

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really, I hated all of these. the least bad were beach and LSD shell, but they were all... awful on the eyes for me.

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Dark castle theme team unite! (Also my back is fine, it's my knees that are fucked up)

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It is the only proper choice.

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I rotated between that & the robots, they both were animated, which appealed to me.

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Spooky Castle, Roses and Dark Vines. Keeping it Gothy, always. My back is okay, feet are borked.

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I was always the three Nemos

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Life only had two moods back then, palm tree beach and spooky dark castle.

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I was too @wurth

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Roses for me.

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My people

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Absolutely this

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Nighttime fish here

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Team Spooky Castle represent!!! Now where's the Tylenol...

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Team Spooky Castle 4 lyfe! Also, that slow card explosion at the end.

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LET'S GOOOOOOO! It was also my favorite screen saver back in the day

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Saaaammme! Loved playing spider with a spooky castle

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There are dozens of us…

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Team light blue clown fish

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Holy moly we're in the same team!

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TEAM FISH! Because we are 2 of a kind.

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Team Palm Tree

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Yeah buddy!

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Did anybody else ever spot the little sun getting his smile and shades on?

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It was the only one that didn't blend together in a migraine inducing blur for me when stacked with just the edges sticking out.

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Castle in the colder months, roses in the warmer.

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Did they all have animations ?

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No, not all of them

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I almost always switched to that as well

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Team robot ftw

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I would die for The Robot.

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There are dozens of us! Dozens!

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Robot was the best because it had the most animations.

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Definitely

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Even young me knew the flesh was weak.

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I was team Goth Roses.

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Same. Dark enough to not hurt your eyes but didn't look dumb like the castle.

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Same and my back hurting wakes me up

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Excuse me? Do you not realize that the hand HAD A CARD IN ITS SLEEVE!

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i think that's just the shirtsleeve dude

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Naw, a card would occasionally float up or down from or into the sleave. I wondered if I'd imagined it!

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seems like other folks have confirmed your memory is right!

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The bats on the dark castle would move, and the sun on the beach one would sometimes spawn a smiling face.

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But lights in the castle!

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