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What are the best 1990s period piece movies? (I.e., made after 1999, set in 90s)

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Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Comical stead
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Who even watches these anymore?
confused well-lubricated address
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I still watch Film
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Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman
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but yet you know nothing of it
Magenta Histrionic Goyim
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Massive Fragrant Indirect Expression
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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True Detective season one
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Best answer so far
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
hairless stage sneaky criminal
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There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman
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How to train your dragon
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social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Cruel-hearted garnet set jew
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman
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Speed
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Nigger Feet
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"period" is a gross word.
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The Diaper
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
gold stimulating affirmative action
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Deep Athletic Conference Love Of Her Life
  05/28/25
Good one
Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
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Road Trip
Fluffy Business Firm Sweet Tailpipe
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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Cruel-hearted garnet set jew
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
topaz telephone
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
twisted ocher giraffe station
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Im a Curator
topaz telephone
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Three Kings
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1999
topaz telephone
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
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Black Hawk Down
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this
Yellow Violent Box Office Sandwich
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Massive Fragrant Indirect Expression
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
red market newt
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I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman
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Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Yellow Violent Box Office Sandwich
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No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Fluffy Business Firm Sweet Tailpipe
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tyvmft
Yellow Violent Box Office Sandwich
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Silver Diverse Knife
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Harry Potter
contagious bat shit crazy nowag
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Motley Degenerate
  06/03/25
Good one
Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman
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twisted ocher giraffe station
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tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
irradiated mad cow disease
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Comical stead

Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1991.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: confused well-lubricated address

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Massive Fragrant Indirect Expression

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: lake meetinghouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Magenta Histrionic Goyim

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Massive Fragrant Indirect Expression

Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure I know about Film.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: Deep Athletic Conference Love Of Her Life

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: apoplectic obsidian toaster university

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted garnet set jew



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Yellow Violent Box Office Sandwich



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Light seedy theatre hunting ground



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: lake meetinghouse

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted garnet set jew



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: disturbing space

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: hairless stage sneaky criminal

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: confused well-lubricated address

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Impressive indecent brethren property

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: titillating chest-beating philosopher-king menage

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: bateful stag film



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted garnet set jew



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Fluffy Business Firm Sweet Tailpipe

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman

I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP’s criteria.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted garnet set jew

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: confused well-lubricated address

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Lime talented state voyeur

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: lake meetinghouse

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted garnet set jew



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman

I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about the vanishing future. The internet has made it so the 90s never left. There’s no clear break with the past like Nirvana ending the 80s. So the era continues to live on in the culture (e.g. Friends and Seinfeld still Top 5 tv shows by hours watched) preventing us from developing a collective Nostalgia for the 1990s.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: lake meetinghouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted garnet set jew



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: bateful stag film



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted garnet set jew



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: 180 friendly grandma

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: gold stimulating affirmative action

Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 90s.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman

Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their times (Clerks is great), but the 90s are massively underexplored by people from another, later time reflecting on the historical era and what it MEANS now that culture has some distance.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman

I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthetic and is based on Rogen and Stone’s high school years.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: Deep Athletic Conference Love Of Her Life

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: glittery underhanded den regret

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted garnet set jew



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: floppy national electric furnace



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman

Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly 90s

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Fluffy Business Firm Sweet Tailpipe

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: adventurous fat ankles digit ratio

this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our memories of problems in teh 90s. the late 90s movies (office space, american beauty, fight club) were all about the purposelessness of american life and culture.

kind of hard to reset a 90s film knowing what is going to happen

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted garnet set jew



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: topaz telephone

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: twisted ocher giraffe station

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: topaz telephone

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: bronze haunting casino tank

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: topaz telephone

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Violent Irate Masturbator

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: umber international law enforcement agency

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Yellow Violent Box Office Sandwich

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Massive Fragrant Indirect Expression

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: red market newt

the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux case.

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman

I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discussing

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Yellow Violent Box Office Sandwich

Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the tech used

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Fluffy Business Firm Sweet Tailpipe

No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using the number pad for texting. Also Alec Baldwins character mentions the Patriot Act

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Yellow Violent Box Office Sandwich

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Silver Diverse Knife

The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: contagious bat shit crazy nowag

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Motley Degenerate

The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - the drama with Cuba Gooding Jr. as OJ, not the documentary one.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: Scarlet Half-breed Patrolman

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: twisted ocher giraffe station



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: irradiated mad cow disease

tv show but derry girls.

wife insisted i watch it. i thought it would suck but it’s 180

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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: contagious bat shit crazy nowag

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: irradiated mad cow disease



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