I Lived a Day in the 80s at Planet Comicon Kansas City 2024

[@yogseventy-nine3460]

Hey, kid. What'd you do, jump ship? What? Well, what's with the life preserver?

[@ReelMisfits]

Gimme a Pepsi Free

[@We8lderio9]

Ugh, that looks awesome! Also, love whatever filter you were using with the footage for this! Very era-appropriate! 😁

[@ReelMisfits]

Thanks!! But it’s not a filter. I filmed the video on that JVC VHS-C camcorder I grabbed in the intro.

[@WrestlingMotions]

Omg, I was wanting to meet you and take a pic but I could find you 😂😂

[@ReelMisfits]

Aww, hopefully next time!

[@grendelmatrix]

I was there also, always a good time!

[@ReelMisfits]

The best!

[@decam5329]

Àhh, the 80s. What a decade!

[@ReelMisfits]

Wasn't alive but I definitely appreciate the tech and pop culture.

[@kingbeauregard]

Oh wow, you're posting again! You are a national treasure, and probably a universal treasure.

[@kingbeauregard]

... between you and me, the 80s are best remembered nostalgically, and not lived through. I graduated high school in 1985, so my teen years were about as 80s as you can get. My experience was, it was a decade where superficiality and selfishness were what we considered virtues, and entertainment was shiny but shallow. Our fears of nuclear annihilation were so rampant that Atari released a hit arcade game about all of us dying as ICBMs rained down on our cities. This is not even getting into the technology of the 80s. Today we are so spoiled, so delightfully spoiled, by computers and how far they've come. If you were lucky back in the 80s, you had access to a PC running an 8088 processor; if you were particularly well off maybe you had an 80286. It took until the late 90s before computers were doing more than 640k of memory without some gyrations (extended memory / expanded memory / etc). No Internet speeds to speak of, no Google, and there sure as heck wasn't any KZbin. Every era has its problems, but I think I'll take today over the 80s in a heartbeat. I think we're slouching towards something better, while the 80s really felt like the triumph of the worst in us but with a shiny veneer.

[@ReelMisfits]

Haha thanks!

[@Jamienomore]

Very Good Video. I have a few Video Cameras, don't tell anyone this but, I love my Sony Digital Handycam DCR-TRV130E the best. It has a 560x Digital Zoom.

[@ReelMisfits]

Thanks! I've been really loving older technology lately. Wouldn't mind switching back to a flip phone.

[@Jamienomore]

@@ReelMisfits Kirk to Enterprise.