The Town of Odyssey

Check out all these thirty-plus years olds!

Carman was one of the few remnants of Evangelical pop culture that I would revisit every year or so and smile without fail. He was more my dad's generation than mine, but the inherited nostalgia was strong. He passed in 2021 after complications during surgery and I just found out today. :(

This was ...

An Adventures in Odyssey-based community that consists only of adults is going to be either very serious or very dead.
Haha, I love this summarization.

But the way conservative Christian families handle Internet usage is different nowadays. A few years ago, it wasn't so uncommon to let kids ...

Wow. 30,000 posts. What if you never posted again?

This was my absolute favorite thing when I was 16. I was obsessed with it.

Wayback Machine?

*dripping in FOMO*

I'm pretty sure that if you thought there was much to look at in bad company other than @Top making poop jokes, you'd probably be mistaken.

But then I come to my senses. There's no way that could be possible, I scoff, I know you all are real people and we have shared memories together! Like that time I met @jelly out in Saskatoon and we went out to dinner and...... wait.. no .

Okay but this made my heart beat quickly for several ...

But then I come to my senses. There's no way that could be possible, I scoff, I know you all are real people and we have shared memories together! Like that time I met @jelly out in Saskatoon and we went out to dinner and...... wait.. no .

Okay but this made my heart beat quickly for several ...

I had no idea this was in City Hall when I first posted this since I was viewing it in a faction sub-forum, but as a piece of ToO history I absolutely approve resurrecting it and any moderating forces who dare to lock it will be sent a stern letter from my attorney-at-large

I have vague ...

KBT! Seeing your name and reading all of this makes me super happy. \:D/


It’s kind of a unique camaraderie, I guess - commonality with others whose paths brought them through (or from) the same 90s Evangelical culture that AIO was so correlated with. Maybe that's why so many have stayed active ...

My wife and I both work with youth and young students. We watched it last night and openly wept. I haven't cried that hard at a Pixar movie since Inside Out.

Time will tell, I think, how well it "ages," and if some of the cultural references will feel overly dated a decade from now ("4-town," etc ...

I just checked this thread to see if @Marvin D. had posted his answer.

Some day I hope to be a fraction as cool as Marvin.

All physical media is old-fashioned.

Man, remember when Redbox was a thing?

EK wrote: Thu Feb 03, 2022 8:17 am I made 3 million dollars selling an NFT of Whit.

This wins, right?

Wait, same! I literally joined here half my life ago!

THANKS BREN

If Tom Bombadil is not in this, I'm not interested.

PRIME VIDEO

I'm screaming at myself not be cynical, but 90% of what's shown here has the same video game-esque plastic texture that the Hobbit did, which makes me sad and bored. The Hobbit was so bad.