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

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Heady prole
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
canary hairraiser weed whacker round eye
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Charismatic azure parlour
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
walnut fantasy-prone box office
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pea-brained bawdyhouse
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Heady prole
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
cerebral garnet market quadroon
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
walnut fantasy-prone box office
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Adventurous submissive karate doctorate
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
Appetizing twinkling abode
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aphrodisiac set
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
Heady prole
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Ultramarine Marvelous Hall Really Tough Guy
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sienna wagecucks
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tp
pea-brained bawdyhouse
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aphrodisiac set
  05/27/25
The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Heady prole
  05/28/25
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Sexy Patrolman Sweet Tailpipe
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Passionate gas station cuckoldry
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
alcoholic plum psychic knife
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Heady prole
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Charismatic azure parlour
  05/27/25
social network.
beady-eyed bipolar lodge
  05/27/25
Wolf of Wall Street
Motley French Chef Macaca
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Painfully Honest Personal Credit Line
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aphrodisiac set
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
Heady prole
  05/27/25
Speed
bat shit crazy wine hospital
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
Heady prole
  05/27/25
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aphrodisiac set
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
Charismatic azure parlour
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
slap-happy cracking main people incel
  05/27/25
The Diaper
pea-brained bawdyhouse
  05/27/25
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aphrodisiac set
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
Heady prole
  05/27/25
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pea-brained bawdyhouse
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aphrodisiac set
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Painfully Honest Personal Credit Line
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aphrodisiac set
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Racy arrogant boltzmann step-uncle's house
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Heady prole
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
sickened puppy degenerate
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Heady prole
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Heady prole
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Adventurous submissive karate doctorate
  05/28/25
Good one
Heady prole
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
underhanded cocky range pervert
  05/28/25
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aphrodisiac set
  05/28/25
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seedy forgotten rural area of central california
  06/07/25
Road Trip
bat shit crazy wine hospital
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
razzmatazz ocher house
  05/28/25
...
aphrodisiac set
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
pearl pit
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Supple athletic conference factory reset button
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
pearl pit
  05/29/25
Three Kings
Sexy Patrolman Sweet Tailpipe
  05/28/25
1999
pearl pit
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Flickering library
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
bateful indian lodge halford
  05/28/25
this
Ultramarine Marvelous Hall Really Tough Guy
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Heady prole
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
walnut fantasy-prone box office
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
laughsome generalized bond giraffe
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Heady prole
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Ultramarine Marvelous Hall Really Tough Guy
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
bat shit crazy wine hospital
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Ultramarine Marvelous Hall Really Tough Guy
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
emerald boiling water
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
hateful forum
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Cobalt Feces
  06/03/25
Good one
Heady prole
  06/03/25
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Supple athletic conference factory reset button
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Brother Peter Dimond
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
Pumonymous
  06/08/25
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Brother Peter Dimond
  06/09/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Heady prole



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: canary hairraiser weed whacker round eye

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Charismatic azure parlour

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: walnut fantasy-prone box office

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: pea-brained bawdyhouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: cerebral garnet market quadroon

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: walnut fantasy-prone box office

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48967267)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: Adventurous submissive karate doctorate

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Appetizing twinkling abode

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: aphrodisiac set



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Heady prole

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Ultramarine Marvelous Hall Really Tough Guy



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: sienna wagecucks



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: pea-brained bawdyhouse

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: aphrodisiac set



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Heady prole

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Sexy Patrolman Sweet Tailpipe



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Passionate gas station cuckoldry

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: alcoholic plum psychic knife

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Heady prole

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48964843)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: Charismatic azure parlour

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: beady-eyed bipolar lodge

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Motley French Chef Macaca

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Painfully Honest Personal Credit Line



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: aphrodisiac set



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Heady prole

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: bat shit crazy wine hospital

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Heady prole

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966424)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: aphrodisiac set

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Charismatic azure parlour

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: slap-happy cracking main people incel

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: pea-brained bawdyhouse

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: aphrodisiac set



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Heady prole

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966422)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: pea-brained bawdyhouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: aphrodisiac set



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Painfully Honest Personal Credit Line



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: aphrodisiac set



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Racy arrogant boltzmann step-uncle's house

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Heady prole

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: sickened puppy degenerate

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966568)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Heady prole

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966871)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: Heady prole

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966875)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: Adventurous submissive karate doctorate

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966880)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: Heady prole

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: underhanded cocky range pervert

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: aphrodisiac set



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: seedy forgotten rural area of central california



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: bat shit crazy wine hospital

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: razzmatazz ocher house

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48967167)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: aphrodisiac set



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: pearl pit

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Supple athletic conference factory reset button

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: pearl pit

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Sexy Patrolman Sweet Tailpipe

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: pearl pit

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Flickering library

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: bateful indian lodge halford

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Ultramarine Marvelous Hall Really Tough Guy

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Heady prole

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969956)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: walnut fantasy-prone box office

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48970015)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: laughsome generalized bond giraffe

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: Heady prole

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969800)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Ultramarine Marvelous Hall Really Tough Guy

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969841)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: bat shit crazy wine hospital

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969890)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Ultramarine Marvelous Hall Really Tough Guy

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: emerald boiling water

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969850)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: hateful forum

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Cobalt Feces

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48982587)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: Heady prole

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Supple athletic conference factory reset button



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Brother Peter Dimond

tv show but derry girls.

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48994100)



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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: Pumonymous

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Brother Peter Dimond



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