Is the 90s and 2000s nostalgia based on reality, or is it a psychological phenomenon every generation experiences?
>>23535612Both
it's just nostalgia, things are WAY better now
>>23535612Life had a great soundtrack, since then the soundtrack of life is droning mumble rap and mind numbing 'beats' meant to destroy your soul.
It really was better.t. early 40s.
>>23535612They mix nostalgic feelings with reality because they are low IQ.
>>23535612if you're asking if picrel looks like the real thing, yep that's pretty much what it looked like
>>23535612little bit both but fact is there were less joos, poos, troons and other degenerates back then in real life and on internet
>>23535612I turned 25 in the year 2000. The 90s were really great.
>>23535612This girl gained like 400 pounds
>>23535612yes girls was skinny had thigh gap and nice bubble butt i see zoomers outside and it's all brap man
>>23535612The impossible return to innocence
>>23535612It's based on being a stupid kid with no responsibilities.
>>23535622>thigh gapthis is a turn off, not a turn on.if you like thigh gap you are into bestiality.it's irrefutable science.
>>23535612It was fucking tops, literally the last of the "good times" before the boomer/early genx rugpull.I'm sorry most of you poor cunts missed it.
>>23535612Life was genuinely better, but every generation pines for 20 to 30 years ago. In the 90s/2000s, 70s nostalgia was huge. Likewise with the 50s in the 70s/80s.
>>23535612Sometime in the close future the last person to be alive before the internet will existed will die.
>>23535612I remember the girl on the picture very well. Her name was Jenna and she was the slut in the trailer park! She let all the boys finger her while we were playing Mario Kart and smoking weed! I remember i got my whole fist into her once on my 17th birthday and didnt wash my hands for 2 weeks because i loved the smell lol! That feels like a century ago now. Nostalgia hits hard :(
>>23535629thats vile AF. You gonna get hand cancer
It was better. It was comfier. It was more peaceful. Why? Jews and leftists weren't trying to take over media and games. Culture was cool, edgy, and eXXXtreme. Every movie and game was cool. There was a feeling that it will only improve after that and that we were born in the best era possible.>nooo it's your nostalgia!No. I have no nostalgia for any year after 2014. It's 2014 when Jews started pushing leftist narratives and woke shit. August 2014 (start of Gamergate) is the end of the past era and the start of the Culture War Era that has lasted for 11 years now. And for the last 11 years, I have had kike fatigue.
>>23535612everything went to shit after 9/11
>>23535612niggers were nigginnnogs were nogginpogs were pogginno one was slammin & bangin, except the mail man & ur mom
>>23535612Any "woman" whos a quentin tarantino fan needs summary execution. Same with men.
>>23535632Yes/noPatriot act was a massive stripping of rights and occupy should have shoad the fed. The 00's were a weird "dusk" before this night known as "clown world" started. The only real plus now is the JQ is now out and open. Also sexbots. If anything women are just as big of whores as ever....now they just monetised it and any chud can look up their past. Its literally never been easier to get pussy... But easy pussy =/= good pussy
>>23535612>ai slopI can spot it a mile away
>>23535612Pre-9/11 world was objectively better and no amount of iphones and tiktoks can change it.
>>23535619I don't know if using Biff is the best idea, considering he was an attempted rapist and attempted murderer (actual murderer in the Almanac timeline).
>>23535636apparently you cant. that pic has been around for 4-5 years and has no signs of AI. you can read all the posters and titles of videos etc etc.
>>23535612it was real, but it was also already shit compared to 60s and 70s
>>23535612nostalgia is a thing until it isnt anymorei stopped feeling nostalgia for 90s and 2000s shit
>>23535612the 90s and for my generation the 2010s seemed to be cheaper and easier our biggest problems were skandals and Kim flexing his temu missile But honestly mostly psychological rose tinted nostalgia and all
>>23535612This picture is not from the 90s. It’s zoomer larping.
>>23535612It's just nostalgia and this is coming from someone who still uses CRT monitors and TV's. I probably wouldn't feel the same way if I didn't grow up with them
I miss her so damn much..She took my soul and happiness with here.I am a walking corpse.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zLmspcgrYrY&list
>>23535612I never wanted a girlfriend like that and if you did, youre a fucking faggot.I'll take my girlfriend dressed in traditional Czechslovakian regalia serving me pierogi and kolaches whiles she makes beeswax candles to sell when I take our cattle to market. She lives for me, not fucking celebrites, video games, and hair dye. In that picture, I only see jews.
>>23535646It's just a Nintendo 64 dude
>>23535646>t.
>>23535647>>23535646JEWTENDO 64 SHECKLES
>>23535649Did you prefer the Playstation? Or the Sega Saturn?
zoomers: "millennials are cringe"also zoomers: pretending to be millennials from 20 years ago
>>23535650for me the PS1 was the best from that time. Genesis was the best from the previous generation.
>>23535612Nostalgia is a false GodDo not fall for the lies from the cult of the malcontent The past as it is presented never existed
>>23535612Films were being shot on film.Music was still memorable.Games were evolving.Internet was fun.The days felt longer.Good enough for me
>>23535648Whiter than you cucksuckerAnd I reiterate what I said, you video game playing faggots disgust meThe 90s were shit, you were just too stupid to realize it. It's not Americana, it's jew worship
>>23535612pros>Society was less fucked up>Gays and trannies were disliked by everyone including democrats>People actually went out and did stuff in real life>People weren't poisoned by online "culture"Cons:>Internet was slow as fuck>Everyone watched the same shit on TV over and over again>Extreme boredom was a normal thing that people experienced daily
>>23535647Yeah dude don't have even the slight discernment of poison. Just eat goyslop, fuck nasty whores, and worship jew video games your whole life.Go inject yourself with more test your hypogonadal fuck
>>23535656>>Extreme boredom was a normal thing that people experienced dailyoh fuck off with that. it really is true that only boring people get bored, and also dont mistake constant agitation on social media with not being bored. everyone is bored and they try to hide from it by endlessly scrolling on twatter etc. theres more boredom and idleness than ever before because no one has any actual hobbies or interests since its all been subsumed by the omnipresent Phone
>>23535656I would lock you in a sound proof closet until you stopped talking like a fucking faggot. There is no such thing as boredom. Stop sucking kike cock and your creativity may return, your honor, however, is lost forever.
>>23535612As a German:90s - cope00s - realityThe 90s were pretty shit and boring, kinda proto-2010s with feminism, weak men, puritan society and so on. It was not a fun time to be a teenager. Fashion was shit, music was shit compared to the 80s, women were frigid and cold.00s were much, much better (until Obama that is). Bush's unapologetic jingoism and leftist butthurt created a romantic era that zoomers cannot even imagine. Yeah, there were problems but they were laughable compared to what we have now, like a kid complaining about bad grades in maths.Maybe it was different in the US?
>>23535612What are Gen-Z going to look back on fondly? Doom-scrolling on their phones their parents handed to them so they didnt have to actually parent the little shits?
>>23535658bump leaf fren
>>23535653t. butthurt he has to live in bad times and never experienced good times
>>23535658Anytime I've tried to do a hobby it's literally just men and women claiming I'm invading their "safe space".Kill yourself.
>>23535612Definitely reality but also reality now sucks so much that I don’t care enough to explain why it was once reality
>>23535664you need other people to have a hobby? maybe you're just over socialized and cant focus on anything properly.
>>23535661The oldest zoomers were born in the mid 90s, so they'll have nostalgia for the 00s and 10s.
>>23535661same as millenials, products, media, etc. there is no culture anymore
>>23535664your only hobby is making up gay stories on the internet
>>23535612Nostalgia is a thing when things are shit. That's why people have been nostalgin' for 15 years now.You think people had this yearning for the 60s in the 80s, or for the 70s in the 90s? Nobody gave a shit. But now, things are so bad people want to go back to better times.
Remember what they stole from you
I believe a lot of generations believe their younger years were better than the current age. But yeah the 90's were better. The advent of the internet fucked everything up. It got it's tentacles into everything, even the refrigerator and the washing machine... not to mention the video games. They dangled something useful in front of our eyes, made it more powerful, and then used it against us in almost every way they could. People paid attention to the world around them in public because there were no smart phones that monitored everywhere you went. The culture was more organic. People were less socially stunted. The digital age sucks.
>>23535670yes
>>23535619Turns out that if you have a proper father in your life, he will stop the degenerate behavior of the kids. People had respect for their families and didn't want to be known as the town slut. Back then you were not celebrated for being a furries and allowed to do whatever you wanted.
>>23535667>>23535668Yet you fail the name a single thing to actually be nostalgic about.
>>23535612Everything about modern society gets worse over time so of course the past was better. There was nothing special about the 90s its just that the jews hadn't destroyed society as much then as they have now.
>>23535663I was there, my little German fatty, and I am here now.
The 2000s pre-Obama was the tits. Obama era made everything fucking gay
>>23535626Rugpull? It was the Gulf wars, but mostly the second one. The first one was a credible way to cook off a lot of unneeded cold war ammo. The second one was just Bush Jr. and his secret deals to distract people from 9/11. Mostly the elder boomers who dying off now....and times were not that great. Reagan and Bush Sr. created their recessions like all Republicans do.
>>23535629She's larping, you stupid fuck.Also even if that was her room, all her VHS are in spanish so there's little choice you knew her.
If I am nostalgic for anything, then it is for the internet of the late 90's and early 00's. Completely free, full of weird shit and nobody but me and a few other nerds cared about it, since nobody really understood it's immense potential. Then big capital recognized this and it was over, the smartphone was the final death knell. Now it is almost as gay as television. I want to go back bros.
>>23535612Almost every week a new, and much better, source of entertainment was released.Music, games, movies. Everything was improving.Now?Everything is getting worse. It's not nostalgia, it's current suffering.
>>23535629Jenna never did any of that
>>23535612It was before 9/11 and COVID so...
>>23535681it was pretty nice back then. slower obviously but really that was part of the charm. things took time and effort to get hold of and had value because of it. my internet is maybe 350kbs even to this day and it still feels incredibly fat and easy to get a movie or whatever. i really dont want it any faster.
>>23535612The reality was that if you were a kid who lived near your school, you likely had friends that lived nearby. You can get out and go socialize with them easily. Your social experiences were limited and the troubles of the world were easy to shut out. Your parents worked less than you do now for relatively more pay and benefits in that the dollar stretched further and owning a home was much, much cheaper. There were still financial crisises, there was still conflict and unrest (Rodney King riots happened in the 90s). Also you were a kid with less knowledge and responsibilities. You got all the benefits while experiencing everything as fresh and new without the baggage of knowing what's happening, where things come from, and what you would be doing for work. If you would ever stress about having, starting, or not starting a family.
>>23535612One-click on-demand porn in our pockets ruined us.
>>23535612To some extent every generation has rose-tinted glasses. But all forms of art and entertainment were objectively better back then. The people were still shit, but not quite as in-your-face with it.
>>23535614>we are slavesI think if min wage in gold hits <0.000, we are officially the slaves of slaves. What do you call a slaves' slave?
>>23535687it really had some big effects for sure. we used to just hang around on bikes or skateboards or whatever and practice stuff while talking about whatever, for hours and hours most days, drifting from place to place, maybe buying a coke etc, working up to something we wanted to be able to do, perhaps some girls would hang out for a bit sometimes or we'd head off for some more distant location for a change of scenery etc etc. i cant imagine that happening with all the fucking phones going all the time. totally ruins your focus and just simply being with your buddies.
>>23535631Yeah a big part of the culture shift is the fact that things are no longer made cool for the sake of coolness. Nor is there any interest of telling a good story for the sake of a good story.
it is better now>homes are unaffordable for normies>AI slop destroys everything>most young girls are e-hookers>most young men are virgins>birth rates collapsed>war between russia and ukraine where millions dieFUCK HUMANITY hahahahahahahahah
>>23535612The vast majority of media being analog made for a very different world. News moved slower, quality tv and movies had more staying power, since every new release wasnt instantly available to binge watch - there was less 'flavor of the month' releases that got quickly forgotten. Thats not to mention social media. People are objectively less human than they were back then. Everybody receives psycho-software updates from their phones now. If some big news thing happens over night, most people are reading about in bed on their phones, being instructed about what their stance on it should be by vloggers and influencers and by the time they step out of the shower that morning, they've got a fully formed, carefully administered opinion about the thing that they're ready to argue about. People were much less vitriolic about politics back then. Unless you were involved in it or a sophmore in uni going through an activist phase, you probably would be unlikely to disown a family member over who they vote for.
>>23535612the downfall began with the replacement of lightbulbs
Its real. Young people dont like to admit it but it was better in the past. Boomers really did have it better than anyone. Genx had it better than millennials etc....
>>23535693>Unless you were involved in it or a sophmore in uni going through an activist phase, you probably would be unlikely to disown a family member over who they vote for.What we're seeing now is Divide and Conquer at work. To the point that many people have simply opted out of talking about it. But if it's brought up, it's often like popping a cyst. All the anger and nasty shit comes out.
>>23535612If anything it's understated just how much better things were. It was a completely different reality. I was actual utopia compared to what we have today
>>23535612I cannot imagine anyone feeling nostalgic for the 2020s
>>23535698or 2010 nothing changed since 2009 besides bigger screens and faster internet only new thing we have is AI slop
>>23535612tech was cool back then cuz nothing was tracked.
>>23535693yeah agree with all that. theres definitely something to be said for a slower pace of things in general and the value which we attach to them. We want more and more and faster and faster but in getting that the value of each thing in itself decreases...and perhaps because the producers of stuff feel the need to produce more and more and faster and faster the value decreases on that end too.
was 100% frfr. It's actually under represented. Could hang out with frens at lan or magic the gathering/D&D parties. Anime was still fringe but you could still find like minded fren's or nerdy goth girl's on myspace or mmo's( if you weren't a thirsty creep ). Was a golden age for Nerd or Himbo chads; l weep for the youth.range ban 3rdies frfr.
>>23535699I can easily see people being nostalgic for 2010s if mainstream media and internet in general gets flooded with slop like literature seems to be getting
>>23535631>Jews started pushing leftist narratives and woke shit.that's called cultural revolution, typical commie shit. unfortunately it won't get any better for 20 years from now
>>23535693>The vast majority of media being analog made for a very different world. News moved slower, quality tv and movies had more staying power, since every new release wasnt instantly available to binge watch - there was less 'flavor of the month' releases that got quickly forgotten. Thats not to mention social media.Very important point. This meant that those involved in politics, voters, needed to consider important failures, successes, or controversies rather than getting lost in the sauce of constant overstimulating information and news flow through the internet. That's what makes Trump perfect for this; he's a product of both our brain damage but also our justified disillusionment with government and "the establishment".
Reality.
>>23535612it's mostly fantasywomen have never really been into vidyaI remember women kvetching at me for reading vidya magazines in middle school, because it supposedly was alienating people from real you-man connections (in hindsight, one particularly wanted the dick, and I should have asked her what she was proposing instead: but as cute as she was, she had a particularly horrible personality anyway, on top of me hating misplaced arrogance)
You can only have nostalgia if life or parts of your life were or are good. I love 90s Nostalgia, the curiosity, the imagination, the simplicity. You dont miss things that sucked. Life is good.
>>23535612I never knew how good we had it. Playings full pk full loot MUDs with my boys from all over the world, planning battles in mIRC - getting the russians to crash out. We even had a few Jews that were normal
>>23535689its called a caste system. a social pyramid with various levels. the engineers need someone at the gas station just as much as a truck driver, garbage man, and gardener. without people at various levels the system collapses. then you have american-democracy on top of it which allows monetary interests of different groups get in the way of working class people
>>23535709its overhttps://youtu.be/wRzqA6T0aJo
>>23535698There are people who actually enjoyed the pandemic shit. Even the lockdowns. They might not admit it, but they exist.
>>23535612When life becomes a burden, nostalgia only leads to despair. Stop looking back at what was lost or you will miss what could be gained.
>>23535619>Stockholm syndrome anon
>>23535619yes if you clasify calling someone a faggot bulyingsomeone who interupt teachers lessons and assault others physicaly should get lashes (permament, on back) by special shool guardswe had that when commies controlled shools in Poland, then we got free and teacher "abuse" was banned because anti communist sentimentthe violence and problem kids were on the rise since 1992 to 2020the only reason it does not grow is because low test
>>23535612I've just always missed the pre-mass-internet monoculture times, guess it's the general vibe of such nostalgia.
>>23535612The dollar was worth 2 reals, the internet had intelligent and fun people from all over the world, people were nicer, faggotry wasn't nearly as common or blatant, things were still being built to last, aesthetics were peak and technological/scientific progress was crazy fast.Around 2001 or 2002 I earnestly believed global peace was possible and that we'd overcome our differences to conquer the stars. Granted, I was like 9 but here we are now, regressing and degenerating more and more as everything plateaus.
>>23535612It was an amazing time to be young.
>>23535619Bullies apologists cry like bitches when bullying victims snap out and start school shootings
>>23535631Russia is mostly to blame for the world turning to shit though. While you were down everything was good. When you started to get up you started throwing money around to fuck up the world again. We should have put our boot on your throat and kept it there for ever.
>>23535612that's a male
>>23535612Scott Pilgrim etc. etc.
>>23535626same
>>23535612only the luckiest of souls in human history experienced the best human times also known as "the 90's"that was peak human experience. it's not cope, it's not nostalgia, they objectively were the very best human times, by far. 2000's carried a bit of momentum but started going down quicklyhttps://youtu.be/VV1XWJN3nJo
sometimes i wonder how did world looked like before the internet and computers everywhere i never got to see that
>>23535656>Extreme boredom was a normal thing that people experienced dailythis was a good thing
>>23535636Apparently you cant
>>23535631>Jews and leftists weren't trying to take over media and games.They actually were. They were just more sneaky with it. Like with video games localizations with them replacing Japanese voice acting with American dub , heavily censoring all "problematic themes", reskining anime games or anime-style games, removing all Christian symbols etc. Also we had localization companies like Working Designs replacing the original dialogues with cringe, quirky ones that felt like they were written by 10 years old kids.
>>23535612I got to see the rise and fall of vidya which was fun. Shame irs pozzed shit now
>>23535612this larp picture makes me genuinely angry
>>23535658this scrolling through internet and reading same boring shit is not fun at all humanity was consumed by this digital shit
>>23535724>born 1980Can confirm
>>23535731Just think about how reviews and google maps took the adventure out of everyday life.
>>23535664>i need people to have a hobbyNo you dont, go draw, learn an instrument, lift weights, cook, read, hike, camp ect.
Why don't you have a CRT with a Genesis/SNES hooked up yet?
>>23535707>women have never really been into vidyaThey were. But only to casual ones that aimed to female audience like Pac-Man, Tetris, Bubble Bobble etc. Maybe some popular Nintendo ones too at best case like Mario, Zelda and Pokemon. Even with special cases like female weebs they would never play any other jrpg besides Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts.
>>23535735Thats GAY. Nostalgia is painful but you cant go back. You had to be there.
Do you guys think anyone would real a le epic 90s AIM chat deadmall liminal spaces retro futurism nostalgiabait novel? Been wanting to write this cyberpunk type shit about a guy who has a manic pixie dreamgirl oneitis as a kid who partied and had colored hair and shit like OPs pic. Then she ODd on some drug, and he becomes a vengeful hacker attacking the megacorp that made it. Then he manages to basically bring her back to life through some matrix wizardry, and actually finds her really annoying and a dumb consumerist whore. Then he either kills himself, or copes with his nostalgia being fake and moves on. Idk if you can bring across that "deadmall" aesthetic in words very well. Its like, old signs and different fonts and styles. Like vaporwave but quieter colors.
>>23535612Sage, bot thread repost garbage.
>>23535692le edgy jew
>>23535738probably. i mean reading your post was like reading Ready Player One again and that was the same shit. Completely awful but people loved it.
>>23535735Because playing on emulators is better and more convenient. Also with emulators you can play fantranslations and uncensored roms. Can you do that with a physical console without using a flashcard? Because anti-emulatorfag larpbabout "muh original experience" and yet they use flashcards and modern reproductions (either bootleg or official ones).
>>23535741Yeah my goal is to be less fucking gay than Ready Player One so if you have any advice there that'd be nice.
>>23535737>You had to be there.thishttps://youtu.be/jrL_LzX5wv4
>>23535738>Do you guys think anyone would real a le epic 90s AIM chat deadmall liminal spaces retro futurism nostalgiabait novel?There are some adventure games like that but they're tumblr-tier fake nostalgia crap with tranny vibe. You know, like these Western crappy "retro style" games with "diversity" casting and ugly tumblr artstyle.
>>23535744my advice would be to make it shit and gay like ready player one. as many references as possible per sentence.
>>23535612What game is that?
>>23535747Like Scott Pilgrim?
>>23535736>They were. But only to casual ones that aimed to female audience like Pac-Man, Tetris, Bubble Bobble etc.that's not really being in to vidya, anon>they would never play any other jrpg besides Final Fantasynot even, at the time I'm talking about (late 80's/early 90's)most guys wouldn't even play those, lol (I did, and others like Phantasy Stars, Crystal Warriors, etc)
>>23535612every generation thinks times were better whenever they were in their teens or 20s.
>>23535748I think it's Mario Golf
>>23535750>that's not really being in to vidyaWhich part of "they only played a few casual games" you don't understand?
>>23535612No we really did have it good.
>>23535707>>23535736Women that were legitimately into vydia didn't make it their whole personality in order to attract a mate, they were just nerds like any other nerd.The later influx of women into the gaming sphere happened after gaming was becoming mainstream and chads started playing sports and shooter games, which prompted companies and studios to make more normie games.
>>23535753which part of>REALLY into vidyadidn't you, jewflag
>>23535750>not even, at the time I'm talking about (late 80's/early 90's)I was talking about late '90s and early - mid 2000s when anime started being the cool thing in America, mostly thanks to Pokemon. And when otaku culture started being mainstream in America.
>>23535612>every generation experiencesMillenials never yearned for the 70s. Yearning to "go back" to a decade before you were born is mostly a new phenomenon. It is only since 9/11 that people have largely felt we're going in the wrong direction. The 90s were the last time we still felt on track.
>>23535743me studying the AI controller
>>23535755>Women that were legitimately into vydia didn't make it their whole personality in order to attract a mate, they were just nerds like any other nerd.Pretty much. Same with female game creators/developers/artists/etc.
>>23535746Yeah they just released an update for Warframe that was all y2k 1990s nsotslgia bait, even with a little IRC text chat function. It was oddly comfy. I'd been considering this before that but it just validated my feeling that people are into that. Idk if that would translate well to writing though.
>>23535751woah hot take tyrone
>>23535615>life had a great soundtrackAnd rap was used for anything. Now every commercial is niggers and their music (with a white woman as the nigger's bitch)
>>23535742Yeah well I think I'm just gonna enjoy playing my original hardware and games.
What people don’t grasp is that during the 1990s the vast majority of people didn’t have the latest technology, clothes or cars. If you went back to 1995 in a time machine you would probably think you were in 1985 in most western countries because outside of the mega rich and the affluent parts of capital cities everyone was still years “behind”. It wasn’t like now when any normie can have anything they want on finance, you had to pony up the cash if you wanted something and shit was expensive. A street scene from 30 years ago would typically feature cars from 40-50 years ago and people dressed like we think people in the 80s didThe dumb shit nostalgia about toys and games is pointless. Most people didn’t have that or care about it. We were still using leaded petrol and a lot of people still had a black and white television
>>23535764>megamanjust hearing that makes me feel like im about 10 years old again lol. fucking megaman
>>23535627>in the 90s, 70s nostalgia was hugeNo it wasn't. I went the entire decade without seeing anyone dress, talk, or pine for the 70s.In the 90s, being a 90s kid was cool. We weren't jealous of any other generation. We didn't have nostalgia for anything. We were excited for the next cool thing
>>23535757>I was talking about late '90s and early - mid 2000swomen still never were really into vidya (party games are faggot shit, lol: always have been, always will be)>when anime started being the cool thing in America, mostly thanks to Pokemonhappened in 1988, here (Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, City Hunter, Hokuto no Ken, etc: all wednesday long on talmudvision, morning and afternoon; had even started a decade earlier, with such things Grendizer, Astro Boy, Ulysses 31, etc)and despite it all being popular as fuck that early, it still didn't make cunts really like vidya, ever
>>23535612Everyone yearns for their late teens early 20s and associates whatever was happening there with "the good times". Before the pains, aches, lowered healing speed, etc. I bet there were dudes in their 70s in the 90s that thought being literally in WW2 in their 20s was the good times.
>>23535765Just admit you were a poorfag in a poor area, nigga.
>>23535765we had a black and white TV when i was growing up. there was a newer color one in the main room but that little BW model, that had a tuner like a radio instead of buttons for the channels, was in the back room for guests etc. i used to watch x files on it.
I was a teenager in the 90s. It was great. The best memories of my life are from that era. The entire vibe was different. Imagine smoking a cig inside a shopping mall and just living. There wasnt all this uptight "stay safe" bullshit. We lived.
>>23535612I think this time around it's based on reality. We lived through the disconnect between analog -> fully digital. We grew up on landlines, nokias, and eventually the first smart phone. We had typing classes and CRTs while plasma screens were still out of reach for most households. We lived through dial up, basic wifi, and now everything hyper connected. I've said it here before, but I truly believe the iphone signaled the beginning of the end. As soon as internet and smartphones were no longer gatekept (and made readily available to the general public) everything went to shit. I like to meme gamergate as much as the next person, but everyone having equal access to the internet planted the diseased seeds long before GG did.
>>23535772everyone seems so fucking scared of everything al the time, like everything is about to kill them or get them arrested etc. its so fucking tiring. just fucking relax a bit,
>>23535770Despite what you and other kids now believe, the average home 30 years ago was not full to the brim with Nintendo products and Apple Mac computers and all the other stuff you fantasise about. I didn’t own a mobile phone until 1999 and prior to that it was the preserve of old guys with top jobs. We weren’t all running around with brick phones on our way to buy the latest cool product because it just wasn’t available. Car leases weren’t a thing. To get a credit card you needed to make a top 10 percent income. Most people were paid weekly in cash, you queued up for your pay and some woman on a big desk with a big ashtray gave you it and you counted it out in front of her. People were driving cars from the 70s. Everyone I knew had a manual job. Even when we went to visit family in the US, which was more affluent, the typical person was not spending their time playing video games or wanking off CharizardIt was not some nerd dreamland where you all got to use the cutting edge of technology all of the time. What you are doing is the equivalent of people in 20 years time thinking we all had Tesla Plaids, Ray Ban Meta glasses, hoverboards and gender reassignment surgery. Some people do, but it isn’t anywhere near a significant amount
>>23535773Yup. 2007-2008 is when the death spiral and its consequences began.
>>23535765>A street scene from 30 years ago would typically feature cars from 40-50 years agoand now you recieve: evslop and souvlless shit driven by immigrants and roasties looking at screens normalfag non car people care even less about their cars clarkson is right, cars now are just replaceable white goods
A bit of both. Life sincerely was better before the internet and social media completely destroyed everything, but a lot of the romanticization is based on unjustified nostalgia. It was still a fucked up time of decline. It was just more normal and sane, with moments of joy. Now it’s just a big soup of incoherent dog shit.
>>23535769>I bet there were dudes in their 70s in the 90s that thought being literally in WW2 in their 20s was the good times.delusional jeet
>>23535747What if I want it to have actual soul? I don't plan to reference a single business or brand that exists in the real world.
>>23535777I know that. But children now think everyone was driving mid 90s cars in the mid 90s because they have current thing brain and don’t grasp that people back then kept stuff as long as it worked and it when it broke, most of the time they fixed itNow every other car on the road is a year old or younger. And they’re mostly shit
>>23535612It's so funny to see a woman like this from that time and to know that if she were that age at this time, she would be covered in tattoos. Women didn't change. The fashions changed. Women always follow the fashions. I find this an unbridgeable gap between myself and them.
>>23535774i have the post right above yours, but it comes full circle. everything is recorded so people live in constant fear of having their embarrassing moments or fuck ups, even if funny, recorded. people's entire lives are lived online for the world to see now. you can't even say certain things without fear of retaliation now. shit, 4chan is my only "safe" haven nowadays since forums as a whole have pretty much died. I don't even know where to have actual discussions outside of 4chan now as it just turns into shitflinging or politics.
>>23535612POSTED IT AGAIN JEWARD
>>23535612Here, see this chart Notice the drop in religiosity directly correlates with not only body count, but drug use and average BMI as well
>>23535619We still have bullies they just got more evil and force kids to shoot up their school or kill themselves.
>>23535775The real childhood flex was having new consoles on launch and having a TV in your bedroom. And this nigga.
>>23535781everything is INSANELY GAY now, seeing american kalergi kids glorify r34 gt's (non turbo, non gtr's) when 15 years ago they were just a slightly cool commuter car you could buy for 5k aud that is just one example, i really dig deep to try see how anything has gotten better in the last 15-20 years
>>23535628BWAHHHHH!!!!!! THIS CAN'T BEEEE!!!
>>23535612There was a transition between pre-literacy and post-literacy but this process took thousands of years. And then a process between rare literacy and mass literacy, this took hundreds of years. And then a process for the development of radio, television, and telephones, but this took decades. The transition to mass internet use basically took under a decade, from around 2008-ish to 2018-ish. There is the natural nostalgia for the way society seemed when you were younger, but there is also a much greater nostalgia because society really has gone through a major revolution (not unprecedented, this has happened when governments changed before), but then ALSO there is this new nostalgia because society has also changed in how history and current events are described and recorded. A lot of stories have been about the transition to radio, television, and telephone, and how that interacted with print media, and that took longer and was arguably less severe. This is the first time a significant % of the population have all undergone this kind of transition in such a short time. We really haven't seen much in the way of stories about this yet, but it's subtext in almost everything.
>>23535783true enough. i live very rural but still keep thinking 'what if someone has placed trail cams around here' all the time as i walk around because that shit is cheap and can sit there for months at a time. tech is nice and all but fuck some aspects are bad. its like those scenes in the woods from 1984.
>>23535787definitely. a TV in your room was fairly high level.
>>23535614thats why the further back you go there bigger % of homeownership and babybooms?>cataloniaI swear all posters from there are all insufferable faggots
>>23535767I'm sure That 70s Show, the Scooby Doo revival, Austin Powers, and 70s days during spirit week at school must all be figments of my fucking imagination then.
>>23535793i think he was being sarcastic anon
>>23535612Public Life was cozier. The internet was fun. I grew up in the 80s/90s. Life personally now is better in a lot of ways because my area degraded hard and I moved somewhere a lot nicer but I feel bad for 20 year olds trying to start their lives and being blocked at every turn. In the 90s you still had a easy path to education, work and marriage.
>>23535618You can see it in old pictures of peoples eyes and smiles. Way brighter.
>>23535612Globalization and to a greater extent. this 24/7 always on everywhere at everytime to everyone shit is tiring. Things were bad before Covid but I feel like I’ve been living in hell since 2020. Technology was cozy back then because you could get away from it. Things were engineered and developed well because it didn’t cost fifty cents to make and you couldn’t push constant updates. College took effort to get into an wasn’t flooded with international students. You worked in kitchens with people that spoke English because we weren’t flooded with cheap labor. I’m 40 and I’m pretty sure despite making 50k more than five years ago it’s worth less. My small company has a thousand Indians offshore. There are maybe fifty people onshore.
>>23535612Have some fresh nostalgia pain>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKNV5AJOXGMcompared to now
>>23535796My cope is that education work and marriage are basically negative value in the current year. Conceptually they are all good things, but right now everything is pozzed.
>>23535799that opening is barely 13 years old by the wayin barely a decade it was all lost
>>23535612my dad is 66 and says 2000s were the best era cuz technology and culture
>>23535797i think so too.
>>2353562760s was influencing fashion of the 90s but 70s was always seen as a brown and dirty era.
>>23535612Both. I don't think it's rose-colored glasses either since my mom and dad both miss the 00s/90s despite being 70s-80s kids. Shit's just so bleak now.
>>23535800Education right now is at its peak overall, it's the institutionalized education that is the issue. I can watch Stanford University level classes on YT now.
>>23535806Nobody actually cares about how smart they are, it's all about how much money you can make and degrees have had a horrible ROI for 10 years now.
Boomers are retarded and have nostalgia glasses bc they cant cope with being old and irrelevant. Gaming, mobile tech and everything is measurably better than it's ever been.
>>23535808>that means everything is better
>>23535808>nerdy faggot copes with his new phone because no lifesick
>>23535806>Education right now is at its peak overallEhh I don't know about that, I had some really based male teachers and strict female teachers. Here at least education has become extremely lax and "inclusive" on top of teachers going extinct due to the horrible wages and disrespect from students. On top of the material now used more often than not requiring approval from institutions so it's guaranteed to be brainwashing.
>>23535675Because "nostalgia" is retarded and gay, and a product of jewish consensus manufacturing.>>23535673Why do all boomers write in this godawful purple prose. It's impossible to read
>>23535627We hated anything from the 70's, I grew up shitty brown shag carpeting left over from the 70's. >>23535663I lived in horrible conditions at the time but even still I am able to realize that those were in fact great times. I'm just thankful others got to enjoy themselves. >>23535743Kek
>>23535806>>23535811Also 0.01% of kids will actually sit down and watch Uni-level classes out of their own volition.
>>23535812ECKSHOOLEE, the author's Tom Vanderbilt, born in 1968
>>23535815"boomer" just means "people older than me" to brainrot kids, he doesn't actually mean baby boomers
>>23535808https://youtu.be/EPzoneQ5ezUMillennials and zoomers are driving this trend not boomers.
>>23535612Yes. The fucking 90s were peak. REAL goths all over small towns, guys that look average could pull and marry them with ease (I did it), and we didn't have all the kikesloppa social media.
>>23535612made for bbc kiss the popes ring worship the nigger feet
>>23535612>Is the 90s and 2000s nostalgia based on realityfuck no! the future is awesome!
>>23535625You are a confirmed faggot.
>>23535817i really do think that real buttons and things and move are better for you than the omnipresent touch screen. tactile interaction, with clunks and clicks and physical switches and stuff is superior.
i mean, i dont want to be the old man complaining about his lawn and bemoaning kids and their music these days, but yeah, it was better. pretty much every single aspect except internet speed.
>>23535786Cool it with the antisemitic remarks.
>>23535638so?where does it say the bully has to be a parangon of virtue?>>23535719>genetic dead-end revenge fantasy_wtf is that new captcha for lol
>>23535625being fat was in fact pretty rare until the 2000's
>>23535626>the last of the "good times" before the boomer/early genx rugpull.before 9/119/11 is a timeline shift, perceptibly
>>23535629that's the differencetrailer park girls hanged themselves on facebook livestream in the 2010sRIP Katelyn
>>23535797ThisPeople still had a soul
>>23535638I've got news for you, rape and murder are everyday parts of the natural order of things.
>>23535673pretentious kike writing
>>23535612>be me >born in 1995>tail end of golden age born in safe neighborhood in dc area>be me>be 2004>move to shithole filled with liberals and niggers>mfw i was born on the tail end of a golden age just to watch the most vile stupid and evil people who in any decent society would be homeless or in prison live the lives we were all supposed to have cuz the govt ai determined they are stupid and evil enough to controlall i have to say is fuck godhe is not omnipotent and is evil as fuckmy life is 100% objective proof that you should not worship adonai/jesus/yahwehhe is a demon and the worst entity in ALL of existancei hate him more than his little butt buddy son lucifer
>>23535619>they think biff was the good guy
>>23535830just go back to india ffs
>>23535612The last decades where a mostly white America and Europe existed.
>>23535834Look at the state of the world, what do you think your odds of having a pure ethnic eruopean kid are if you don't forcibly detain a woman and make her produce those children?
>>23535832>adonai/jesus/yahweh>he is a demon and the worstwhiny faggot won't admit that he literally bought and keeps a cellular Satan in his pocket
>>23535719The vast majority of mass shooters come from middle-upper class households where they're never subject to any kind of violence. Being physically hurt and terrorized teaches you it's not a solution to social problems. Mass shooters are spoiled little shits flipping the board over because they can't win.
>>23535836i think i'd be in jail because when huwhite man commits a crime it seems zog tries WAY harder to punish them
>>23535836>Poo immediately resorts to rape because he's so stinkymany such cases
>>23535813Early millenials reflexively hate the 70s because it's their parents' style. It was objectively a great decade for music and white goods.
Everything after 2001 sucks. I'm going back to 1995!
>>23535950Nah the 3rd golden age of video games officially ended in 2007
>>23535712the pandemic was like the 90s because only very few people went outside and they were mostly white
the games were just bettert. still mainly play ps1 and ps2 games
>>23535612Reality. The economy was better, the dot com bubble hadn’t burst, White culture was normative, it was before the patriot act so government was all up in your face 24/7. Families were better off as a result. It was the “peak years” of Gen X parents.
>>23536095habit now scale ours teth would is a representative
>>23536095>>23536101*wasn’t all up in your face* I meant.
>>23536225kept does if y'all been crazy
>>23536239It started then with Waco n stuff but wasn’t omnipresent.
The 90s and 2000s saw some of the biggest leaps in technology of our species. These things were new and exciting. Now babies grow up with tablet computers.
>>23536244Modern race baiting shit started with Hart-Celler and the civil rights movement, but OKC, Ruby Ridge, and Waco were prominent inflection points.
>>23536225>>23536244>>23536318what a nightmare
Niggers
>>23538458nigger timewhat made you bump though?
I can't imagine the fellas lived through the World Wars really missed the old days. Not many soviets miss the times before the wall fell. If you ended the dictatorship of North Korea I doubt many NKs would pine for the 2020s. Things generally get worse. But sometimes, they get WAY better.
>>23535612its just cunts cherry picking, people in the 90's cherry picked and thought war times were better. we will continue to try and escape through nostalgia, its a coping mechanism the world is shit and it will always be shit in out life time
>>23536244atf been doing dirty work for a long time now
It's based on zoomers having no culture of their own.
Why would anyone miss living in a peaceful, prosperous, homogenous White society in which technology hadn't taken over our lives and normal people could afford owning homes and raising a family?
>>23538462This is an amazing thread Everyone should feel and know about the nostalgia I’m actually not really nostalgic all that much I kind of think things were better back then but I’m not 100% sure >I lived in a small town in the country>when I moved to the city it was around the time of the recession but it was a lot different then the country life I had known >recession seemed to affect things >but I think it might have just been Canada to an extent >don’t really like Canada >don’t have enough experiences to say what time period was better my experiences are quite limited and thus would probably be biased >I know it did get progressively worse here in Canada though
>>23538462tfw 2005 is now retrovintage
>>23535612They were objectively better in many ways
>>23535670Hey zoom zoomIt used to be known as the 20-year rule. People in the 80s were nostalgic for the primary color fashion of the 60s, 90s was big on 70s nostalgia, 2000s were all about 80s, the 2010s started 90s nostalgia, now people are nostalgic for the 2000s and the internet is simultaneously meshing it all together, so the 20 year rule doesn't seem to apply anymore as it once did
>>23541784That's not true at all but whatever helps you sleep at night is alright
>>23541821What about it is not true
>>23535612If you assume that everything was better when you were younger, and that the world went straight to hell in 2001, then it's a valid belief.
>>23541930The part where you ignore his thesis and talk about random old man shit.
I know one thing: before the era of high-speed internet flat rates (for me, that started around 2004), life was much more boring. You oooften just didn’t know what to do. Then later smartphones came along and pretty much eliminated boredom outside the house, too. And that really makes an incredible difference in quality of life - enough to more than make up for anything that might have been better back then.
Modern era is the era of forced isolation and glorification of loserdom. I wasn't really conscious in the 90s but the 2000s were much more lonely than the modern era. I had friends who something changed and you just had no way of following up with them. Its like they disappeared. MySpace wasn't really built for that. I didn't have a phone until high school and had a girlfriend who'd jerk me off but I didn't even really know where she lived and never talked to her outside of school.
>>23539796This ^. It’s all a net positive. Honestly 2001 before 911 was the peak. You had GameCube and Xbox levels of tech. That’s all humanity needs to be complete.
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