I am a millennial in my late thirties. I didn't get to experience the before times like the 50s or the 80s that people rave about. But I feel like growing up as a 90s kid I got to experience the death of what made these eras "good".There is virtually no reason to willingly leave your home. There are no video/gaming rental shops like I loved at a kid. It was amazing getting a great deal on a handful of Sega Genesis carts and playing for the weekend and paying virtually nothing. Now I have to wait for a sale every 3-12 months or shell out 70+ dollars on Steam. Most game stores are just GameStop and people hate them. We replaced rental shops with a literal box with maybe 10 games in it. Gaming magazines told us shit we had no other way of really knowing because the internet wasn't big, and demo disks were a big deal because download speeds were shit.There is no mystery anymore, the internet taught us everything we want or need to know. We learn about zebras and shit we will never fucking see in real life. Why visit Africa? Why even walk down the street when you can pull it all up on Google Maps and see in 3D?Libraries used to be an interesting meeting spot too but no one goes there and no one fucking reads. Its completely obsolete. I remember being a kid in the mid 2000s and loved the mall. I met a ton of people and now malls are fucking dead. There is no reason to go out to the movies because of Netflix. Finding a cool CD at the mall, thrift store or goodwill is pointless because 99.99 percent of music is free online. There is basically nothing to "discover" anymore.Any other millennials and older feel this way?
Before cell phones people connected more, if just out of desperation. Once Facebook took over and phones became little computers nearly all human interaction takes place on a screen. So even if you manage to find someone who isn't distracted by their phone to talk to you, they already have posted or read everything online about their favorite topics all day. There is no reason to ask anyone anything because they already know.The only thing left is utterly pointless small talk or talking at people about your own interests and getting less stimulation or satisfaction from typing random shit to anonymous strangers online. TV is also obsolete and pointless too. At one point people used to patiently await the next episode of their favorite show, now they have to fumble around with 15 different streaming platforms if they even own a television. And a lot of the time all the episodes are released at once. Our brains aren't meant to live like this.Think of the drip feed that life must have felt like in the 1970s or before where even the slightest thing could be engrossing, like simple words on a page. Now we have full on photorealistic VR and people's dopamine centers are all fucked up from goon sessions. On that note, this applies greatly to porn as well. It used to be a lot harder to find or see. Our brains are constantly under and over stimulated at the same time
>>535333540Computers or at least Internet and smartphones crippled society. It enables the laziest and most selfish of us.
And now AI is phasing out the need to even interact with human beings at all outside of maybe sex, which no one is having anyway.
>>535333540No, leaving the oceans ruined society.
>>535334056I remember my brain functioned differently before smart phones. Around 2006 or so I remember phones were getting more advanced. I didn't end up having a smart phone for years later. I remember printing out pages to figure out directions to where I am going and actually remembering where to go. Now my brain can't even do anything without consulting the lightbox. The world as it is is just much less engrossing than the lightbox. I can see, or simulate doing basically anything with a machine even if its subpar to the real thing. You go outside and everything costs money and time and energy and skills. There was at one point, I would say in the 1990s a good relationship between people and machines. But now its way off balance. The world just feels a lot dimmer and pointless and mundane.
>>535333540I got my first cell phone when I was 30 (pic related). I created my first email account a few months later (still 30) when I got hired for a data entry job in which I had a cubicle with my own computer and phone (a work environment very much like the movie OFFICE SPACE). My first desktop PC at 31. My first laptop at 34. I created my first social media account (MySpace) at 35. For what it’s worth I first visited 4chan (/b/) in the summer of ‘11, I can date it pretty clearly because Zyzz had just died (it was all new to me: goodnight sweet prince, foul bachelor frog, spiderman memes, lurk moar, rule 34, rules 1 & 2, pool’s closed etc. etc. etc.). Well now that that’s out of the way, what I’ve seen is pretty much what experts have been saying about the internet: that instead of “connecting” people through “understanding” that it’s actually “divided” people into “flocks” or “tribes” that are pretty much “echo chambers” that value “conformity”, of various sizes. So for example you have the trans community, which is percentage wise to the general population a pretty small community, creating its own terms (terfs) and changing boundaries (it used to be you were anti-trans if you hated them or assaulted them but you can be kind to them and fair and wish them well but if you say “I’d rather not date a trans-woman” you’re now “transphobic” and have committed a “hate crime”). Racists, sexists, anti-semites, perverts, degenerates, celebrity worshippers, everyone has a way to connect to people who think just like them. My own thoughts are that things are going to get worse and are never going to get better.
>>535335776Yeah that is a big change. At one point we all were forced to normalize to the monoculture. At best there may have been a few subcultures which shifted out every 5-10 years. Now theres basically no subcultures but thousands of communities with their own confirmation bias thinking they are right because they only engage with their own content
>>535333540>self destruct
>>535333540No, even when I had videogames I would still play with physical toys. Most toys were cash grabs anyway.
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29yo zillenial here, I caught the slipstream of the twilight of 90s culture growing up. I can still remember when mall arcades were in that brief transition period where they had EVERYTHING, every console and game to play before it became financially impossible to keep up with Wiis/360s/PS3s just keeping kids home. I thought it was weird nobody wanted to go out back then and its only gotten worse now.
>>535333540We traded our souls for minor conveniences. By the time we could really comprehend what we were exchanging, it was all long gone. The inconveniences forced us into all of the good things about society. Now everything is worse, no one goes outside, nothing is colorful, no one makea anything new, and no one is happy. We all know this, but the only retort I ever hear is>but you would have to go outside instead of just pressing a button on your phone!!!!
>>535333540>pedo swirl
Boomer here, the pre-911 world is just more fun. But a lot of people would be going to prison if the standards were the same as today.
>>535333540Technology all but makes society; the term should be defined a lot narrower
>>535336684Everything just had more value the farther you go back. When I held a VHS tape or an NES game in my hand, that was a physical artifact that took up space that I could feel. Its quality ranged from damaged to pristine. If you had a product in the packaging it had an allure to it.When you bought it you had a memory of going to a store and possibly talking to someone at the store about it before you purchased it. You had to physically move it from where you bought it to your home. You placed it in your home like furniture.If it becomes damaged it breaks and you need a new one, that means you put a certain amount of energy into protecting it. You are aware of it more because its physically in your home and you can see it when you look around the room.Now we just left click on a title or scroll through Netflix.
>>535336412feel truly blessed to have enjoyed a memorable childhood between 1994-2001. I started hitting puberty around 2002-2003, so it was a very fitting transition into the war on terror era as my body was waging its own war on terror against my sanity. vidya was unbelievably comfy between oct 2001-2005. felt like a hideout where all outliers of society expressed themselves. shit just got gayer and gayer ever since, but I did enjoy 2006-2013 as it was still intense with normal and hopeful political activism. 2013 onward has been a free falling nightmare. western world is demonically possessed. if you choose to stay and fight in populated areas, god speed. woods or move abroad if you want to keep your sanity in tact.
>>535333540>At best there may have been a few subcultures which shifted out every 5-10 years.Exactly, I saw mid-70s punk rock become late-70s/early-80s new wave, become early-90s grunge become late-90s britpop. From Mohawks to red sunglasses to plaid shirts to track suits they “shifted out” every 5 or so years. (There were other subcultures like disco, metal, raves etc. going to of course). I can’t think of ONE THING that young people are into except video games, superhero movies, pizza and porn (inb4 that’s 4 things, u know what i mean). Sad.
Before Uber, you could ask a coworker what part of town they live in and offer them some gas money for a ride and they'd just take you, maybe you have something in common with that person and make a friend. But I'm not a fag like OP so I don't really care lol having friends is gay
>>535333540I'm Gen X but my wife is a millennial. We both experienced the "death of America" and imo it's less a function of "there's no mystery anymore" and more "everything is too fucking expensive" and even supposedly "good" jobs don't pay shit. I seriously don't know how people making $60-$75k are making it. There are no "third spaces" and the ones that do exist, expect to drop $200 on 4 hours of "fun." If you have a family? multiple that by at least 3. This is why we need a New Deal but that's never going to happen with the current oligarchy. Consider the fact that the New Deal arts program paid artists to beautify the country, write plays, make art and (most of all) gave young people & families cheap/free shit to do that wasn't nigger bullshit but actual art. We desperately need something like that now but we can't even fix our roads and bridges anymore.
>>535336684I recently saw (most of) CLIFFORD (1994) for the first time. >a fat woman gets called “wide load”>Clifford uses his dinosaur toy to spy on a hot woman taking a shower>He purposely almost causes a commercial airplane to crash It’d probably be seen as “problematic” today. Anyway I liked it, made me chuckle more times than not, I’ll finish it as soon as I’m able.
>>535338348Please keep us all updated on your Clifford experiences. We are all painfully awaiting the conclusion of your analysis of this intriguing film.
>>535333540It was COVID. You've got every streaming service. You can watch anything. You can download every game onto your computer or console. You can have food from any restaurant delivered to your home. Talk to your friends on social media. Only thing missing is exercise. But many don't do that anyway. Everyone turned into neets for a year at least, and realized how comfy it can be.
>>535333540niggers ruined societysocial media ruined womenCOVID ruined the internet
>>535333540>>535333956>OLD SLOW GOYSLOP GOOD>NEW FAST GOYSLOP BADNigger be grateful you live in an unprecedented time where quality information and culture is freely avaliable and at your fingertips without a jew dictating what you can consoooooom.
>>535336565>We traded our souls for minor conveniencesI didn't willingly trade shit, that was all forcibly taken from me against my will
>>535333540imo yeah. we evolved over millions of years living much simpler lives and are now expected to work in offices and abide by "laws". we are animals and like any other animal, we do better when outside and competing for resources.
>>535339738Which explains why video games are so popular. They let you simulate being an "animal" by killing and fighting over resources (like the game Rust).
>>535333540>millennialFunny way to spell genY retard op.
>>535333540Jews fear technology, because it can be utilized to identify them. So whenever they detect it they swarm the society and attempt to destroy it before the technology brands all the jews permanently as impossible to deal with.
>>535333540no anonjews and their worship of mammon and moloch ruined everything
>>535333540The death of the “third space” doesn’t get talked about enough.>malls>skate parks>DIY baseball fields >arcades>movie theatersWhen I was growing up, the internet was barely a thing, so my only option for entertainment was to actually go outside and find some friends to hang out with. When I was young, I would basically spend all day playing with the neighborhood kids until the sun went down. We did stuff like play baseball, BMX, lighting firecrackers, catching frogs at the creek, etc. We would literally spend entire days just driving around in our cars for fun. Just driving in loops around town, every now and then we’d pass by one of our other friends and we’d show off our girlfriends in the back seat. Getting laid as an average guy was so easy, because it was a small pond, and women didn’t have access to Chads from other towns.I have kids now so I know first hand, they spend most of their free time inside, because there is nothing to do outside anymore, and there’s nobody outside to play with. All the places me and my friends used to hang out 20 years ago are literally gone now, as in they’ve been shut down, paved over, and replaced with apartments or empty lots.
>>535333540the 90s, and the early 2000s were the climax. yes, degeneracy had started to creep in, mainly with media and uppity feminism, but it was the last time where you still had to leave the house to get anything done. a perfect mix of tech and analog. millennials got to witness the seemingly overnight shift to chronically online life. it's as if the west tried to mimic the east asian tech culture, but only managed to half-ass it. instead of high-speed rail, hot food vending machines, and robot janitors, we got insane-nigger-infested public transportation, trannies posting online, and cars that get worse fuel mileage than in 1989. If I go outside, literally NOTHING is recognizable from pre-2010 life.
Pic from a Nintendo Convention from ~1990. Notice the players are mostly children, except for some random creepy guy. Now it’s all random creepy guys. Talking about technology changing people. Once upon a time very few “men” played video games. Is it a legit adult male pastime or a hemorrhoid causing time suck? Idk.
feminism ruined society
>>535333540k-b toys was one of the few widespread stores that had the japanese model brands like Tamiya.
>>535333540Technology? no technology did not ruin society.Social Media and the ability for humanity to share vast amounts of information with one another ruined society. The average person can not handle the amount of information that is presented to them in a given day via technology, it basically fries their ability to reason and think. This is not technologies fault its the way it was used.
>>535341213>early ‘10s slutwalks>led to onlyfans>led to trans women are women>led to Caitlyn (Bruce) Jenner “Woman of the Year”They played themselves
>>535341060You are missing a large part of the picture. Video games were initially rather shit like atari and there was a massive video game crash. They looked like garbage and couldn't tell a story or deliver the same kind of experience you get from a show or film.Then Nintendo came out and addressed some of those things. Now you had actual characters with charm with tie in shows and movies. The thing is though that Nintendo marketed the NES as a toy and threw in a robot so naturally there would be a lot of kids interested and promoted to.So a lot of us who grew up as kids in the 80s and 90s were raised on this stuff and they were memorable. Those characters still exist and they keep getting new iterations. Meanwhile all the atari players probably gave up on games because Atari was shit and computers were complicated back then.Gaming surpassed film as both a story telling and money making medium years ago. Average age of a gamer is in their late 30s.
>>535341359Social Media is technology. I would argue that high speed internet combined with the cell phone is what destroyed human society. People stopped having a desire to interact.
>>535333540As someone around in the 80s I feel like there's more people now, it feels like everyone was catering to you back in the day to have a good time, now its everyone catering to companies and whoring themselves out to "make it". What ruined it was the late 2000's, I would even say before that and during the Clinton era, strange how people praise Clinton, but it was the start of the end. Technology back in the 80s and even 90s was fine. Humanity just lost its way once they saw the money that could be made with it and sold itself out, then comes social media and all that other garbage and its all downhill from there. Ill say this about AI though, this feels different, I think a lot of good will come out of it, at least better than what the last 20 years has had to offer. Also strange how the left is against AI, and when I say "the left", im talking about the ones who hijacked occupy wallstreet and any real grassroots and turned it into trannies and pedophilia.
>>535333540My local Mall is still up and running. Lots of teens go there too. I am always shocked. Only reason I go there as an Unc is cause it's one of 2 remaining local movie theatres
>>535341060vidya addiction is more of a symptom than a cause. I will admit that even extroverted and social people can become addicted too, but the far more common thing is for people to just say "the real world is shit" so they decide to stay in and play vidya. still not a good thing to do all the time, but there aren't a lot of alternatives these days unless you like the outdoors and related hobbies. there isn't much "social" shit to do irl these days unless you are a dumbass normie who gets drunk and fucks disease ridden whores. especially true if you are in your 30s or older. people that age kind of get set in whatever life they have and don't seek out a social life with new people their age.
>>535340314What the fuck does this have to do with kikes bro?
>>535341796AI is the final nail in the coffin. It will be the closed door where we suddenly stop associating with humans at all. The question becomes whether our brain can adapt and trick itself into thinking that this is normal.Sometimes I think about how fucking antisocial and lonely I feel but then I realize I am constantly "going places" online and "talking to people" in the form of online messaging or "visiting events" by watching youtube videos or "going out to the movies" by streaming a movie.Our society just changed and our brains have to catch up and accept that this is just the lonely future but we aren't alone. We are connected and we are actually doing things, we are going out and living our lives its just not physical anymore because we agreed we don't do that. We aren't really as withdrawn and socially isolated as it feels.
Enjoy the decadence, and write about it. Keep a journal, take physical pictures, write a physical record of your experiences today, and contrast them to times and experiences of old. It's a way to stay sane and provide future archeologists evidence of spiritual death of a civilization that precedes the physical death of a civilization. In this way, at least you are providing some type of value to the world, even if minimal.
hey there squirtgood job with the lawn workgeee it's so hot out today and I'm sure you're worn out.come in for a nice, cool lemonade.
>>535341877Even if you hate video games its pretty much the only way to bond with anyone anymore. You find out their Discord or Steam, you send memes back and forth, see what games they own and join one of their gaming lobbies. Now you have a friend. Good luck finding a way to do that as an adult. There simply arent enough public meeting areas or events and just asking another man for his phone number probably comes off as gay in today's climate.
>>535341796Yeah, OWS was wild, literally telling the wealthy “this is unfair” and forming anti-rich mobs, THAT’LL never happen again >when I say "the left", im talking about the ones who hijacked occupy wallstreet and any real grassroots and turned it into trannies and pedophiliaTotally, it was like some clever sleight-of-hand *taps the top hat* “you will now focus on politics, identity politics and a black woman is talking listen and learn type bullshit” poof, and here we are, with 10 year old used cars going for 5 figures and gas averaging $4 a gallon, “they” really are better than us and play us like puppets on a string
>>535336082Imagine a sissy hypno fag trying to find validation 60 years agoWhat a nightmare
For me it was EB
>>535333540>Did Technology Ruin Society?No, it was jews.
>>535333540Tldr... Myself and others don't leave the house (much) because those "times" sucked (besides the distractions) and not much has changed from the escape hobbies, depending on the perspective.. A meme flag such as myself is extremely fatigued (from everything) and moving on in life... But to each their own Anon
>>535342404for me it was circuit city. the better version of what we have now (best buy)
>memeflag>namefagfor fucks sakes we know you don't have your foreskin. just give it up and show flag.
No. Jews ruined society.
>>535342357When are they going to deport the members of the 93% who don't belong here?
Just putting this here technology has completely destroyed monoculture. This is even more pronounced in my country, where people are becoming increasingly individualistic and have less and less common ground.Take soccer as an example. We've always been stereotyped as a nation of soccer lovers, but that was because it dominated TV programming. Since everybody had a TV and watched the same channels, they had shared experiences to bond over.But now that we have the internet, people are discovering new concepts that didn't exist here before (mostly from the US and elsewhere), and suddenly people have NOTHING to talk about. Nobody has any desire to engage with others because no one around you likes or cares about the same things you do. So you go online and stay there.Basically, online socialization is making physical socialization obsolete. This phenomenon might be even more extreme in Western industrialized nations, but I wanted to share this as a small example.
>>535342719The documentaries about the fall of CC is so fucking jewish that it'll make you anti-semitic
>>535342726what does this mean?
christ can you imagine being born after 2010? that generation is going to have the highest suicide rate of any because they never got to experience the peak of humanity and can't reminisce any good times in society to cope during the bad. all they'll ever remember is the spiraling downfall of humanity even during their childhoods
>>535333540you stupid lying fake faggot, sega genesis games at new were always $60-70, $50 if you were lucky
>>535342665I don't even want to share hobbies with total NPCs... I don't even want to coexist with many types of "people" nor be ruled by a police state / Jews, blah blah blah ... I remember the video games and hobbies in my life more clearly than the people and "people" that have came and went in my life... Eventually common ground is more important to have in common rather than interests or do-pidities otherwise it's just motions
people dont want to interact with namefags or memeflags you fucking faggot.>>535342781checking it out...
>>535342896These current "times" have a lot of necessary hate and I appreciate the counter culture... I can still appreciate the creative works of those with completely different politics than mine but I can't coexist with them
wow I just realized>namefag>memeflag>samefaggingunreal.
wow I just realized>namefag>memeflag>samefaggingwhat a faggot
>>535342856No, I am talking about going to a local rental shop and renting a handful of games for the weekend, or as the stock got older you could get stuff for dirt cheap when N64 or later games came out. I used to have a massive Genesis collection (and later others, but then sold it all eventually).I remember the games themselves were expensive but there effectively is no way to rent games anymore. You can go to redbox and they might have the game you want, or you can use gamefly but thats inconvenient and only for consolefags. Now that we have DLC and patches renting games like that doesn't really work as well as it used to. I don't want to rent a game for a weekend, spend an hour updating it and have to pay 10-15 to experience the full game.Blockbuster and places like that were a really cool place to hang out. I wish I could have experienced doing that in the 80s as a teen/adult. Instead of the 90s as a child.
>There is virtually no reason to willingly leave your home.Why would you? There's angry monitorities and weridoes who can whip out their niggertech and record whatever transgression you may be committing. Who needs that in the era of legal weed and doordash?
>>535341060You're clearly above video games but not above shit posting... Stfu NPC Anon
>>535343190What people to hang out with tho? Lol... That's the problem... Many types of people aren't my people and vice versa, natural separations are happening in every sense Anons
>>535333540It's been downhill since the invention of electricity
Everything is free on the webz brah, with a large enough storage you never need to leave your houseI am disconnected from any and all social media, if people want to be my friend they have to call or text and see me in person.
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffe- ring (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the si- tuation. It will certainly subject human being to greater in- dignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psy-chological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries...
>>535333540>Did Technology Ruin Society?No, jews did. Technology is just a tool.
>>535333540I miss going to block buster with my dad and brother and getting movies videogames and snacks. I knew that weekend was gonna be lit. I miss the 90s and my dad.
>>535341493there is nothing more common than the disgusting black haired goth slut with dingey tats and a fickle attitude. how alternative to be mass produced and Godless
>>535333540One thing you haven’t addressed is how the changes in technology have changed people’s personalities, not just isolating them. No one can sit still or wait for anything, everything needs to meet instant gratification, and social functions are entirely performative. You go on social media and everyone is trying to present an image or otherwise advertise themselves; no one is interested in nor has tolerance for human connection that doesn’t directly correlate towards a perceived sense of status increase. We have all the social problems outlined in the dystopian society of Brave New World only without the pod people; it’s grim.
>>535341493(((NPCs and / or / then "I'm not like other girls")))"poser goth""strongs and independents"(((Liberal and / or./ then Neo Con "TRAD"))) " take that, daddy"Basic Bitch starter pack girlfriend... That's a pass for me...and speaking of technology... Post Roastpocalyptic Robocunts will replace those also :)(If the Robocunts come pre-installed with Roastie OS: Jewish Niggerized NPC Cringe Edition... Then right into the fucking GARBAGE they will go with the "real women")
>>535343837Things were rushed in the past too, along with my time being completely wasted... I'm patient but I don't let people waste my time anymore... Reading and browsing and walking away from mutually incompatible people starts to make sense though ... My opinion Anons, to each their own though
>>535333540The '90s were a terrible time for gaming -- as far as value is concerned, that is. $50-$70 -- IN '90s CURRENCY -- for a game that you can beat in a single sitting?!!?!?Other than that I strongly agree. Music sucks. Obsession with and over-reliance on computers and AI. The general culture. Everything just fucking sucks. We need to build a time machine and go back to 1992 and stay there.
>>535333540Op, your post is ridiculous. Do you realize if this was the 1900s your childhood, from the time you were 9, would've been spent working in a factory. That is if you survived childbirth, infection, polio, etc. You would probably be dead by 45 from inhaling toxic mercury vapors in the factory you were a slave of. Life has never been better than it is today. Go to one of those Pentecostal churches if you want to meet people.
NPCs are usually insufferable... This place as a "containment zone" also makes sense... Niggers, niggers... Piggers, piggers... I'm not allowed to be myself and / or troll because of repulsive hypocritical "fellow whites" and Jewish niggers, niggersVideo games should only have online optional modes, I socialize on my terms... This is social enough for me lol
>try to create a white race>destroy your nations, heritage, unique identity, genetic diversity>turks are now whiter than greekslmaoits over regardless.
Vidya is great still though, I've met many people from all kinds of places, talking about random shit. The drama, the lore, the characters - it is very 90s/2000s. I hate to be around normies, I don't want to be around normies. I feel just pure curse and dread interacting with them. It is all 100% about status and money, nothing else, everything is for these two things. Being around normies is like being in a cloud of curse and poison. They feel bad all the time and NEED you to feel bad too. And they hate me too.
>>535333540>There is no mystery anymoreGoogle earth is missing geospatial data from 85.04-90 N and S? And you say there is no mystery? Im sympathetic its destroyed most novelty though and for the first time most have scene enough to actually understand more money more problems is mostly true and so the mimetic race is dampened. But id retort in proclaiming it only removed the vainglory, revealing opportunities to aspire to new things, like being the guy uncorruptable through debt or interest
>>535333540>9/11They approved data centers, torture, and mass surveillance on 9/12. You deserved to be wiped out, along with malls and Wal Mart and the EBT fucks who shop for slop and Chinese plastic. Your family and friends could be raped killed and thieved in the room next door you wouldn't mind as long as Britney Spears was playing and young forever as your own crush. Faggot go die.It's no longer nostalgia its a Dunning Krueger reddit thread.Die.
>>535333540New video games were never cheap. Hell the reason the Panasonic 3DO failed was because it cost $699 in fucking 1993
>>535344478I call them NPCs... And yeah they have zero personality... but want to "brain pick" and judge an individual with a life... tries to paint the individual with a life as a "do nothing" or "loser" or "insert assumption" because they have no life outside their programming, social status, routine, money amount, current thing, current image, etc... Fuck (((them and / or those and NPCs))) Anon
>>535333540>Any other millennials and older feel this way?No, you are just a lame loser faggot who is nostalgic for his lame nerd childhood.1989-2000 was peak Pax Americana, but it was NOT because of fucking video game rental stores and shopping malls and libraries. >Finding a cool CD at the mall, thrift store or goodwill is pointless because 99.99 percent of music is free online. Back then if you wanted to listen to music, your ONLY options were to turn on a radio and listen to whatever commerical slop the DJ and ClearChannel decided to play, or turn on MTV and watch a bunch of shitty videos for shitty commercial slop songs, or play a physical record/tape/CD that you owned.If you wanted to listen to a particular song whenever you wanted instead of waiting on some DJ or VJ to play it, you would have to go across town to the record store, pay somewhere between $15-19 for the CD (the equivalent of $35-40 today), and then get home and probably realize the CD contained that one song you kinda liked and 11 other shitty filler songs.
>>535344679I've learned to turn the "brain pick" into hate speech and the petty judging into judging their asses in return ... Lol... They don't like it
>>535344622Reddit spacing faggot detected
>>535344666Nice trips. But I am talking about renting games for cheap not buying them. Renting games back then made more sense because they were usually shit and pretty short anyway
>>535334169>outside of maybe sex, which no one is having anyway.Women are, it's just you and the other 80% of males (Pareto principle) who aren't.
>>535333540I leave my home for nicotine, food, and buy stuff at home depot.
>>535344835Found the faggot flag cringe roastie, cringe roastie Back to redit with you Anon
>>535341060These creepy guys you mention playing games now WERE those kids playing games then. Once a gamer, always a gamer. The kids playing now will also be adults playing videa games in the future, if ww3 doesn't kill us all this is.
>>535333540>There is virtually no reason to willingly leave your home.this resonated hard with me. 39yo millennial here. there's just nothing to do out anymore. people are nuts, we have so many niggers and whatever else there's no feeling of belonging outside anymore, i can do everything via a screen and whatever company i try to interact with i get to go through some ai/robot bullshit. i'm locked up in my home because it's the only place i feel any sense of agency or meaning anymore. it's like we killed whatever sense of meaning we have. and yes, i miss the 90s as fuck. things were ok until like 2003-2005.
>>535344725>No, you are just a lame loser faggot who is nostalgic for his lame nerd childhood.don't agree with this. my net worth is nearing 2 million, i sold a company pretty early in my life which gave me a good start (but back then tech wasnt valued as insanely as today). my life has been great, i've had girlfriends, sports cars, companies, financial success, have two bachelors and, going back 10 years, was really muscular in my build. in the past 5 years, everything just fucking died down and is pointless.
I prefer the current times, you Jewish niggers, niggersI can still enjoy retro shit anyway :)
>>535344831considering most games back in the day were story-driven singleplayer, people would trade them in fairly quick after beating them. privately owned small video game stores were common before gamestop. I went to one as a kid where they would give you a punch card linked to your name, and every 4 trade ins got you one free used game of your choice or like 25% off a new game..when you traded a game in, you barely had to put any cash on top also to get a different game, wanna say it was less than $10. gamestop and the likes ruined those businesses.
>There is virtually no reason to willingly leave your home.Excellent.
>>535340573>family buys house, I’m 15>within days of moving in some boys show up, introduce themselves, “wanna play football with us?”>play touch football on the streets, sometimes older guys in their late teens and early 20s, tease us about girls and what not (good natured)>one of the kid’s dad is a sheriff >let’s us use his garage, he keeps garage door open and has weights, encourages us to be strong>shows us crime scene Polaroids, first gore I ever saw was a shot dead black male teen lying in a pool of blood>friends & I stay late as sun goes down and street darkens shooting the bull about girls, sports, movies, and joshing each other You can literally get all this online, friends, gore, etc. but it just doesn’t feel the same. We genuinely need third spaces. Especially guys.
>>535345098The racism, sexism, antisemitism, and homo intolerance has only begun
>>535336184we get it youre a retard, no need to gloat about it
>>535336082there are basically no subcultures? lmfao. clueless.
>>535336565bruh do u even go outside
>>535336684it was only more fun because it was more white. it the same people were alive today you bet your ass it would be way more fun. unfortunately niggers fentanyl and blackrock are a hard faggot to stomp. the highest demographic of Massie supporters is Millenials btw. GenX and their shitfaggot kids are the real problem. tired of everyone collectivizing us by skin paleness.
>>535344113>childbirth, infection, polio,you're too pussy to enjoy all of those things
>>535333540read old booksnothing has changed
>>535337134youre a dumb faggot if you think physical items are better. do you have any idea how much silicon rare earths and advanced manufacturing that requires instead of just electrons and copper wire. fuck youre stupid
>>535345363reddit discussion groups don't count as subcultures.
>>535339489women emboldened niggers to ruin society. men created social media and sold it to women. covid was irrelevant to the internet if anything it improved it. youre just a retard
>>535335776Zyzz died in 2011?
>>535345551If it takes time to create and you can hold it, it has more real and sentimental value. Are you a zoomer?
>>535333540no, tech is great. you just can cope with change and want to repeat your old fresh experiences. If tech just stayed the same you'd be upset too.
>>535335776why are you here if you're 60+?
>>535338348before I google this cursed alternate univers movie you posted, is that clifford the big red dog? the little guy is dressed like how I remember emily elizabeth
>>535345674Actually he’s still alive… in our hearts (no homo)
>>535333540No, jews did
>>535345943Fpbp /thread
>>535345900lol no, it’s 40 yr old Martin Short playing an obnoxious 10 yr old boy named Clifford, it’s no Citizen Kane but it’s close
>>535345818>he doesn't knownobody tell him
>>535333540>Google Maps and see in 3D?you mean VR, but you are correct, millenials are a transitional generation, as such they ended up suffering out of both ends
>>535345968>>535345943
>>535345818Why are (You) here?
>>535344622actual schizo psycho post
>>535333540>Why even walk down the street>Libraries used to be an interesting meeting spot too but no one goes there and no one fucking reads>There is no reason to go out to the movies because of Netflix>Finding a cool CD at the mall, thrift store or goodwill is pointlessI do all of these things, you've simply accepted soullessness like most people
>>535345818Taking a break from sexting ur grandma
>>535333540No. Globalization did. The internet was fine before it became more widely accessible. Great even. Videogames were fantastic for awhile and fantastic outlets for creative expression of art, music, storytelling, and programming. The technology itself isn't what did the damage. It's the international market and the control of the markets that emerged.
>>535344093>The '90s were a terrible time for gaming
>>535333540>life in the 80shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieJuxIbYwmM
>>535333540Yes. If nothing else, it atomized everyone and deleted lots of everyday interactions.>Hey, do you have the time?Don't you have a phone, faggot?>How do I get to--Phone, faggot?>Where's a good place to get--Phone. Faggot.>Do you have the phone book? I need the number for--Faggot. Telephone.Not to mention that buying shit means fucking around in echo chambers and watching unboxing and shit, so you never experience anything for yourself without prior approval/exposure.And good info is no longer convenient, or even expected. Used to be that you'd go to a library and read a book by an actual professional that dedicated a lifetime to a topic. Now, it's AI blurbs that just graft a bunch of heavily-updooted faggotry and wiki bullshit. There's a part of me that thinks the villain Bill Gates was born of granting humanity access to all knowledge, and then watching them twerk and do their nails instead of enlightening themselves.
>>535333540fs, you should have been there in the late 70s-80s; it was even better. But you're right, there's nowhere to go shopping anymore. I can only go to Home Depot so many times, and it's not like they have anything interesting.No record stores.No video game stores.No video stores.No toy/hobby stores.No Radio Shack.No bookstores, except B&N and they keep changing more & more floorspace to toys.Everything is just women's clothing stores.Why tf do they even need so many clothing stores if there's no reason to leave the house?We need to ban women's clothing to stop this madness.
>>535347354Oh, yeah, and I forgot: no computer stores. Best BUy pretty much just has tablets and laptops, but nothing for the serious tech person.
>>535344093PC gaming peaked with MS-DOS. N64 cartridges were fuckomg expensive even back then but that's what Blockbuster and friends were for
>>535333540Women's rights ruined everything. Denial of this fact is pure cope.
>>535342719>for me it was circuit city. the better version of what we have now (best buy)this store was coolbut felt very depressing the last few times i was thereabsolutely nobody was insidejust like the picture shows
>>535347541All of them were good. We didn't realize what we had until it was gone. I'm even fine with H.H.Gregg.
>>535344093>Music sucks. Obsession with and over-reliance on computers and AI.i mainly listen to bands who rely on as little studio help as possiblejust playing their instrumentsreal amps and drums are so much fuckin betterjust much more raw and realthey aren't young thothey've been doing it for decadeswhich is why it doesn't suck
>>535342719first it was radio shack and circuit city, now its digikey.
>>535347788yeah, compusa was asl fun.....
>>535343440>if people want to be my friend they have to call or text and see me in personHow's this working out for you?
>>535347317Zoomer here (20)I think the pandemic is the thing that really changed everything. For example, when I was in Junior High prior to the pandemic, there were many WHITE Senior girls that were pregnant. There were MANY couples.When I graduated, none of the girls had pregnancies, there were no couples or anything. Girls literally just played on their phones and talking with them would give you a cruel look by them if you would ever attempt.Granted, it's a "shitty" metric to talk about teen pregnancies as a terms of quality of life, but it shows how much shittier dating has gotten.I remember my brother (10 years older than me) going on many dates and going to Dave and Buster's and crap with friends and his girlfriend in HS. Now none of that shit exists and "going out with a girl" is essentially a foreign concept for most zoomer guys except for the more well-off, good looking ones.
>>535347317>>535348113Not to mention all the retards on this very same site>Google it, faggot
>>535347317>>535348113I remember Radioshack. I remember when Harbor Freight Tools actually had deals. I remember $5 footlongs from Subway. I remember all of this shit.For me, the 2010's were essentially the last normal decade ever. Now we are headed for Cyberpunk dystopia
>>535345943>>535345968>>535346075Guys look at what i posted, you should really (you) me more or im leaving 4chinz
>>535333540Broadly speaking, technology is a miracle and improves our lives immeasurably. However, there are individual technologies that have been bad for mankind. The most poignant example of this right now is social media. The algorithms are creating emotionally validating alternate realities for people to live inside, unchallenged. It's eroding critical thinking skills, like we've seen with MAGA.
>>535333540Not reading all that, but yes. Uncle Ted was right. I will say, though, the 90s-00s was the perfect balance.
>>535333540Physical spaces for renting requires floor space, additional employees and constantly growing expenses via utilities, rent, wages, etc.Digital while expensive to setup is cheap to maintain outside of hardware upgrades every so often. Lower workforce headcount but higher pay. If you make it just comfy enough then you will not have crazy turnover either besides community managers you pay a few bucks above fast food workers.Just for context I am a "zilleneal" or a 31 year old boomer but smartphones are where I recognize a stark contrast. And it really is simple. People might have done something stupid and it might have been recorded before smart phones. At best you ended up on America's funniest home videos. Otherwise it just was played at holidays years later. Now any faggot can record you and post it online out of context which can lead to you being fired from job, excommunicated from communities and family or result in your death because you pissed of niggers or spics. This simple fact is what leads people to fear strangers more than we did 20 years ago. It was slow at first but I think the early 2010s with SJW movement made most normies aware of this and caused a mass social change which is why some people attribute the change to this time instead of 2007 when smartphones came out.The internet is just a Pandora box. It enabled a lot of neat things like me being able to call you a nigger faggot. But it also enabled a self censoring society. Perhaps this was the goal from the start when the government started funding initiatives for running internet to rural areas. Or the modern fiber push by government before datacenters started to become common in rural areas.
>>535348049Working great since I'm an introvert. The couple of friends I have are of great quality. I used to struggle managing a bunch of shitty friends
>>535348450Facebook and TikTok are really fucked up. Facebook forces all of these ads and TikTok like videos on you that have retards and deformed people and attention seeking women. TikTok forces you into a creepy hole where it plays the same kinds of videos over and over.I uninstalled TikTok yesterday after it kept playing videos saying that I was being stalked. It was like directly intended to scare schizophrenic people or something.
>>535348113I have a relative who just turned 18 in Jan. He had a normal upbringing, soccer, music lessons, he’s a tall (about 5’11) relatively good looking guy, owns a hand me down mid-10s Honda sedan. yet he’s never had a gf or gone out with a girl. His mom asked me to house sit while they went away for a week, I had to feed his pet lizard that he keeps in his room: very dark heavily curtained room (no wonder he’s pale as a ghost), a few Lego sets, huge double monitor gaming system, it stunk like he had a closet full of crusty (if you know what I mean) socks. No books, no media (vinyl, blu-rays, etc), no magazines, what a life. “All he does is play video games” says his mom to my mom, well no shit. At least he doesn’t collect Funko Pops thank fuck.
>>535342404>For me it was EBnot Babbages? kys nigger
>>535348558This also doesn't touch on dopamine issues related to instant satisfaction. I believe this also is a reason for the decay in youth. When you and I were kids and we wanted to rent Tony Hawk for ps1 we would talk to other kids at school and hear rumors about the game or how good certain parts were and waited weeks before parents would be able to take us by the store. Now kids can think the same thing and go buy the game in their app store or computer and have a video walk through on the other screen or split screen on phone. Endless feeds in short form content also creates a loop of small dopamine hits to keep scrolling to keep feeling good. Leads to plenty of issues like low socializing, indoor more often, less sunlight, less active, etc.I honestly wish day of the pillow happened a decade ago. The government should have put a leash on early internet. The government should have put a leash on smartphones. On AI. On datacenters. But we do not because the US economy is centered around always being cutting edge with technology meaning regulations cut profit. But this no guardrail mindset is causing vast societal issues that boomers are too retarded to understand.It isnt going to get better on a politicial front as corporations have worked for decades for the ability to bribe politicians legally so your representative is more likely to listen to a company than to you or your fellow citizens.People that came before us simply put a poor system into place and enabled the abuse of that system just so they could live an easier life at the expensive of those who came before and those who came after. And I do not see a majority of congress and senate ever being elected to overturn this system, especially considering the changes to the voting system that have recently passed or are being proposed. We just have a slow decay and browning nation to look forward too. Previous liberties and daily interactions we took for granted are gone. Cope and seethe
>>535345621go to missouri, oregon, and new york and tell me they all have the same culture.
>>535333540>There is basically nothing to "discover" anymore.That's where you're wrong kiddoAll our institutions have been hi-jacked and taken for a joy-ride. Find books written by Europeans before ww2. You will discover the true "occult": what has been nefariously hidden from your vision. People are scanning these suckers and uploading them, but they will certainly be censored as heretical to "progress" before long. We have to pick up where those people left off. When I was a kid I had no access to these books some written in foreign languages such as German. Today all this knowledge is at our fingertips. But people are too busy watching SHOWS
>>535346443are u really pretending this game didnt suck? lmfao.
>>535348982Thats a culture, not a subculture. A subculture is something like punk, goth, hiphop, hippie.
>>535348637AI is now an element of all of this too. Now everyone has a personal robot that prioritizes the user's snowflake emotional validation no matter the totality of the brain rot they throw at it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot_psychosisAI is already causing people to go into psychosis. Like, normal ass people.
>>535346443I recently finished yet another port of that game. Again, only the value was shit.
>>535333540Humanity is nothing more than technology, it's the quintessence of our species.
>>535348821Yeah, if I hadn't looked for a foreign girl from another country (Peru), I would still be a virgin too.The US is EXTREMELY hostile to young people. Everything is built for old fucks. When I go to see her though, I see average young guys with girlfriends EVERYWHERE there. It's pretty much just the US that's dealing with this. Even Europe doesn't have it this bad (the Euros on here are exaggerating)
>>535333540Game stores were great, I used to love picking a nice big box filled with manuals and posters and stuff. I bought Falcon 4.0 when it came out, admittedly it took 20 years until we could all play it properly but that just speaks to what ambition used to look like in vidya games.
Imagine how fucked you 35-40+ year olds will be when you hate late 50's early 60's and your health is deteriorating and you have to deal with the worst part of your life and you never had a wife or kids. Does that keep any of you up at night? Serious question don't just deflect to zoomers does this bother you and if not why and no cope be honest.
>>535349287Something hit me a few days ago about how so many games are lost because they are only released digitally. Even if they had a physical copy all of those patches and DLC could very well be lost to time. Thats like a famous novel losing significant chapters. Like the Apocrypha.
>>535349350I'm at peace with it.
>>535349011None of this really matters. And I mean this. Stuff like The Catcher in the Rye doesn't work because there is no single youth culture or whatever. The US is essentially already living in Cyberpunk with NO historical precedent. It's also why Boomer "wisdom" would have worked for even millennials to a point, but is total trash BS for Zoomers and the coming generations.
>>535349011Why do conservatives keep using this strawman framing of equality
>>535349350Looking at the trends, that is happening to an awful lot of people our age and younger.
>>535349409Very easy to say until you get there like when edgy 20 years olds casually say they will kill themselves when you ask them what they will do when they turn 40
>>535333540So the problem with capitalism is money doesn't care what society wants. Money cares what efficiency can provide cheaper, so even if you had this great aesthetic in a mall store front, a combination of cheaper competition online and the absolute fucking Judaism that was mall rent put everybody out of business. We have whole malls shutting down and repurposing into housing complexes. These massive store fronts went warehouse only and online sales and cut costs by 95% because now they have 1/50th the overhead and fill orders with a team smaller than a single retail operation.
>>535349582>but zoomersjesus christ it was a simple question and you couldn't follow instructions
>>535333540It killed mom and pop shops megastores like Walmart already gave them a crippling blow when Amazon came it was the end for most stores.Now the streets are empty only stores that exist are from big brands or discount shops half stores are empty in my city.
>>535349622If it's going to happen, then it's going to happen whether I sit around scared about it or not.
>>535349654I guess what I am saying is, not really, it is what it is. Its going to be a collective societal adaption.
>>535349703Shit is going to get real for you the moment you need assistance to get by. You have no idea how bad shit can get if one day you can't walk anymore and no one is there to helo you>>535349808>no answer again just dodgeas expected
>>535349847>Does that keep any of you up at night?I responded: Not really
>>535349653I spent like 5 years trying to explain to MAGA that the woke panic was basically just them being mad that modern mainstream movies and video game industries were falling into more streamlined formats and profit models, often shallowly pandering to various minorities.they wouldn't have it. to them it's all cultural Marxism, or whatever.
>>535349441>The Catcher in the Rye>1951jewish degeneracy, wtf i said pre-ww2. everything after ww2 is fake and gay, the jews won and shit everything up and i mean everything
>>535349897Not really is not an answer and I also asked if you say no to explain why.IMO many of you are still separated by at least 15 years from reality and your tune will change then
>>535347354>Why tf do they even need so many clothing storesbecause they are fat
>>535350013>and I also asked if you say no to explain why.Why would it? I either need to take an action, or don't need to take an action. Neither of those require me to feel a particular way about it, or stay awake instead of sleeping.
>>535350127Your response is basically you in denial refusing to even think about it so when you are forced to face it, it will hit you like a ton (not tonne how you faggots talk) of bricks
It was a better time, though I do admit some of it was ignorance. To use pizza hut as an example: the child friendly gathering place was great, but the pizza was slop.
>>535349901> modern movies and video game industries were falling into more streamlined formats and profit modelsalot of those movies/games were unprofitable thoyet they kept getting fundedthat was kinda the point
>>535348113>Zoomer here (20)>I think the pandemic is the thing that really changed everything.Zoomers are fucking, absolute fucking retards. You didn't experience enough to know anything had changed you fucking dog.
>>535350191I didn't say I don't think about it. I said I don't feel a particular way about it. It's not denial to feel emotionally calm about things you have no control over lol. That's just being mentally healthy.What is there to gain by shivering in fear?
>>535350306>alot of those movies/games were unprofitable thoThe vast majority of them were extremely profitable. Many "woke" Disney films from the past decade are some of the highest grossing of all time.I'm not saying they're good. Frankly, I think they're all shit. But claiming they weren't largely profitable is out of touch from reality.
>>535350324So you don't think about it got it. The worst trait all millennials have is apathy which is synonymous with cowardice IMO but eventually that catches up with you all
>>535350391>So you don't think about it got it.Work on that reading comprehension.
>>535349901It's why we can't have nice things anymore. It's more profitable to design more expensive cars and offer them on a 72 month high interest rate loan with subscription costs on half of the "features" you thought came standard with the car. It's more profitable to sell DLC to an unfinished game or sell in game shit like Bethesda and EA and Microsoft do. Instead of fun, a game has to be profitable. We have this gacha shit and MOBA/arena FPS and that's all big ticket studios make. They wonder why Concord flopped so hard, because Sony only cared about how it was going to make them money.
>>535333540>I've taken to hanging out with homeless people. Most of them don't have phones or if they do aren't on them all the time making them live in the real world. They have no where to go and nothing to do most of the time so they are always down to hang out. They usually hang out in the same spot every day so easy to find. They have there own economy of cheap cigs and stolen goods (can buy steaks for half or less the price, new clothing, jewelry, etc.) They all enjoy my company and tell good jokes. Hobos make for good friends especially if you want to feel like its the 90's again.
>>535350309Except it had. My brother who is only 10 years older than me had normal teenage years. Mine were absolute dog shit, consisting of Discord and 4chan posting. There are very little stores around anymore compared to back then.This is the average Zoomer male's experience with life by the way. Sure some zoomers have girlfriends and shit, but of those ones, most are from well-off families.My brother made more per hour starting in 2013 than I did when starting to work.
>>535350447I can read clearly.
>>535341213now when going to the public bathroom they might see a traaaaannie
>>535350535Ah, so you were just purposely lying about what I said.
>>535342782It's a gay pneumonic device for remembering jewish fairy tales. Ignore it
>>535350530That still doesn't mean you know shit, and your brother is a fucking zillennial. A fucking proto-zoomer.>>535350474It is psychotic how the younger generations have accepted bullshit practices.
>>535350575Nope you are just a coward holding off the inevitable. You know the other trait you and boomers share? Arrogance where you can't admit you fucked up
>>535350653>you're just afraid of being afraid, so that's why you're not afraidOkay.
>>535350732ah here comes the come images right on schedule
>>535344666nobody bought new games back then retard you waited for a price drop or bought them second hand
>>535333540No. I think a higher technological state saves more lives. We just need to rid ourselves of tares especially Edomite "Jews." They hold back our progress and they murder our scientists stagnating our progress setting it back decades. Edomite fake "Jews" are the Devil. Niggers also set us back decades and hold back our progress.
>>535350652Let me guess>Well akshually, everything changed after 9/11Lol. People who were teens in 2005 had very similar lives to ones who were teens in 1995. Compare that with 2015 vs. 2025 and it's a whole other thing
>>535349350No it doesn’t. Why?>College degree (B of A)>Zero debt (Not even student loans)>VG Credit score>5 figure saving account (no pension or stocks or anything else though) >no home or car but don’t care (live with elderly relative do errands and stuff in exchange for room and board)>Healthy>Normal BMI>Don’t drink (used to a little), smoke (used to a little) or do drugs (never got into drugs).>No illnesses, blood work results always good>Chill, content personality >Have had 2 long term (over 1 year) gfs, several short term/casual relationships, have enough memories to last the rest of my life Things are as good as I can expect them to be. Health is everything to me.
>>535350848>People who were teens in 2005 had very similar lives to ones who were teens in 1995.Yeah, that doesn't include you or your brother.
>>535348821>“All he does is play video games” says his mom to my mom, well no shit. At least he doesn’t collect Funko Pops thank fuck.parents are such fuckin garbage and it's been that way for decadesyou can only learn things either on your own or in your friend groupparents absolutely fuckin stopped passing down anything long agoand since there are less friend groups irl now >>535348113, more kids get groomed online and just become useless to themselvesit all starts with the parents...who are fuckin garbage.... so, kids just have to learn on their own, which takes motivation and there's little to be motivated for in this shitholeso, nothing will change...it will only get worse
>>535333540More like technology was ousted by AI. There's nothing technological about it. It's a shitty algorithm that steals people's work and pretends it's something it's not. A mass surveillance tool. A killer of curiosity. The literal Antichrist.
>>535350926shit can do a 180 quick out of nowhere. My uncle was an athlete into him early 60's then out of nowhere got brain cancer and died. Shit like that you can't detect unless you have brain MRIs regularly
>>535351087>More like technology was ousted by AI.Shit was going down the drain before LLMs really took over.
>>535350936I know, but all of the 40 year olds on here like you will say that 9/11 was the defining moment or the Great Recession was.Lol, neither. Job market is worse now than during the Great Recession. Everything is online as opposed to back then.This was all caused by THE PANDEMIC where everything went from analog and manual procedures to ONLINE such as shopping, dating, getting a job, etc. Like in 2013, my brother did PAPER applications had McDonald's. Now all of that shit is online, so don't bullshit me.
>>535350539there were trannies in the 80s too tho
>>535351144Yes but you could sequester yourself from social media and smartphone cattle. With AI the cattle just spams ersatz shit to every corner, forever. I am looking for a way to decouple myself from work that requires any online presence. I believe our lives will be spent under panopticon drone dystopia, but then the power will run out.
>>535333540I pretty much completely agree except I would suggest traveling, especially internationally, it is much better in person and can recapture that feeling of wonder and human interaction. Was never interested until I turned 30 and I visited Florence and since then I have been all over and basically just want to quit my job soon and travel. The only other thing I think could be as enriching is starting a family.
>>535333540no, people ruined technology
>>535351157>but all of the 40 year olds on here like you will say that 9/11 was the defining moment or the Great Recession was.>This was all caused by THE PANDEMIC where everything went from analogThis is why you shouldn't open your mouth. All of that, ALL of that, was happening way before the pandemic. Early 10s is where this shit went into overdrive, this is just the home stretch.>>535351304>I believe our lives will be spent under panopticon drone dystopia, but then the power will run out.Probably. Hell awaits us. I honestly thought the collapse would be another lifetime away.
>>535351304Dude, most zoomer guys wish that social media would get nuked and girls would actually want to talk to them.It's women that fuck around talking to 40 guys on their phone and posting pornographic bait of themselves on Tiktok. And they will shit on you or be disgusted by you if you ever so dare to start an in-person conversation with them. Think of them as like employers nowadays (you MUST apply online) so they can ATS filter your application. For example, there's WHOLE Tiktok channels for le girls to ask about what excuse they use for when guys try to ask them out.Men just use the internet for porn and anime because what the hell else are they supposed to do.
>>535351157it's just an exponential problem that gets worse over timea lot of millenials come from single parent(mommy) homesnowadays people aren't even getting marriedfamily structure is grotesqueit might as well not even existat this point, we'd be better off with some government takeover of raising kids, like North Korea tierAmericans cannot raise kids....just absolutely worthless at it
It's the jews, not technology.
>>535351580>And they will shit on you or be disgusted by you if you ever so dare to start an in-person conversation with them.If this happens to you with every woman you speak to in person, the problem might not be with the women.
>>535351464I don't think we'll see the collapse and in any case it will be even worse hell than what we're about to witness. Maybe in 300 years or so there will be a nice post-apoc society somewhere.>>535351580Tiktok is just the next step in human devolution, people there communicate with screams and act like monkeys in heat for algorithm's whims. Plus it's aimed at people who don't know the world before it, just like AI's real goal is gen alpha.
>>535351597what a boring contribution in a thread full of people saying genuinely interesting things.
Yeah I went to a big mall the other day. Entire place was boutique luxury 'streetwear' wigger shops and zara. The toy shops were 'pop mart' and popmart knockoffs and a lego store. Mall kiosks were phone repair. Even Spencer's and zumies had nothing but y2k reprint shirts in their front window. America is dead.
>>535351645>t.jordan peterson crying, clutching onto his benzos in one hand and jewess in the other
>>535333540>smartphones>social media>netflix>amazon>steam>pitbulls>niggersI really can't blame anybody for not wanting to leave the house except for the occasional hookup, but even that will stop once Japan makes a realistic amd affordable robowaifu.Humanity is kill.>new captcha is the faggiest shit this site has ever done
>>535351730Man you have some weird shit going on in your imagination.
>>535336684Pre 911 laws were far more lax the fuck you talking about, everything is criminalized now
>>535351365I'd say lowering of the tech barriers is a large, LARGE part of it. You could feel something was changing in between the years of 2008-2012.
>>535351309Most of the world, especially places like Latin America and SEA, aren't aren't anywhere near as fucked as the US is.Going to Peru to see girlfriend is like going back in time 20-30 years where even loser teenage guys could get pussy and drink. It's the only place that I know where newspapers, malls, and help wanted signs still exist and are relevant lolol.It's like they use modern technology to enhance their lives, not change it. Smart TV is for family movie night, not bing watching slop to stop thinking about the pain of your shitty life.
>>535349350It's a complete crapshoot. If anything you're more likely to have a wife that takes half your income and kids that make your life miserable than the good ending where they help you in your time of need
>>535342719I got a 36 inch CRT from this place and played GoldenEye 4 player split screen on it. But the Shack will always be my favorite. I nigger rigged so much shit thanks to Radio Shack
>>53534935037yo with 30yo wife and 3 kids and 4th on the way. The combined amount of children for my close friends (3) and close coworkers (32) is 12. I feel like Noah as the rain is pouring down. I'm sure my kids will be willing to help an older family friend or two when they're grown up, but there's no way they can help 20+ childless single retirees...
>>535352072i refurbished some giant radio shack 3way speakers from the 80's - 15"sub, mids and horn tweeterslistening to them right now...sound fuckin better than anything reasonably priced todayyou'd have to spend thousands to get the same quality
>>535349350>Serious question don't just deflect to zoomersWhy would any actual oldfag anon deflect? /r9k/ before it's destruction (and multiple other boards) have been talking about being virgins and wizardry since it's inception. The older wizards, the late gen X'ers, had it good because even if they never got a wife and kids they would have their hobbies and crafts untouched by normalfaggotry and the monoculture trying to extract it's value.
>>535338348Wasn't Charles Grodin the dad in the Beethoven the dog movies too? So he was completely typecast as the neurotic, put-upon middleage suburban dad in two different movie franchises about oversized dogs that cause hijinx, that came out a year apart? What a sad way to end a career
>>535333540>it's Technologies faultNo..The biggest difference between 80s and now is this mainstream "culture" would never be tolerated back then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQl58laBxmo
>>535352695Didn't his dad own a giant chain of movie theatres?(You could make an entire conversation about shit you couldn't verify before the internet became widely available. Now you just search it up and end a conversation before it begins.)
>>535352837Fuck off zoomer. Not even going click your link.
>>535352372I hated that it had a bad reputation for cheap parts. It was a legit source for all types of A/V components. I built a small PC for my trunk that had winamp and a few hundred pirated mp3's from the old FTP servers. Had a small display on my dashboard. It was all obsolete in less than 2 years but I had a fucking blast building it.
>>535333540That's what you do? Oh boy do you have a lot to learn.GoG + piracy + emulation is the way.
>>535352914because you are black
>>535352837>some random niche brand of music festival>mainstream culturemost people will never go to a music festival in their lives.
>>535351813Tech/the internet isn't worseit's just full of shitjeets & other retarded goyim nowso it caters to its customer base of the dregs of humanity
>>535353231That's literally what I said. However, pointing to jeets invading is disingenuous. They're just the current capstone of this continuous dive. I'd say the beginning was when normalfags started dominating the internet over the nerds, basically when the internet became retard-proof and easily accessible outside the house. When the smartphone became the main way people accessed the internet.
>>535353560>when the internet became retard-proof and easily accessible outside the house.another correct takethe internet went from being retard-proof to retard focused.I am consistently baffled at how abysmally retarded the average TikTok comment section is.I find it hard to argue with the tiny hat's conclusion that most people actually are just stupid animals
>>535352695I’m sure he was crying all the way to the bank>>535351103That sux, hopefully my good health holds out
Technology is fine when it isn't being used by Jews to subvert and genocide my people.
>>535348113Eh, this started breaking down about 2011 when anyone retard could do internet things by jut poking a screen; including dating apps, of course.Birth control was the beginning of the end. when i was in high school, it became fairly common for girls to g on the pill. that apparently only got worse as time whent on. smartphones and dating aps made it several times worse.I just don't give a shit. I recognzie now that all women are just prostitiutes, and I want nothing to do with them.
>>535348237Yeah, I just can't commit to it. Burner phone, and it stays at home most days.
>>535333956>Before cell phones people connected more, if just out of desperationnope, I was there. People just watched TV. Before TV they listened to the radio. Before radio they read books. Why are twitchy gen Z's always obsessing about the past it was shit.
>>535354339>all women are just prostitiutes, and I want nothing to do with them.Nigga u gay, or retarded if you fell for the Epstein group anti-woman gay op. Really, thats where all this fake woman hate online comes from. And you went along like the best goy that you are. Clown! Touch puss.
>be normalfaggot>be fine>see nerds having fun on the internet>want in on it as well>...>society goes to shitWell, can't say you didn't get what you asked for. But maybe you shouldn't have tried to become the people who you are not? Nerds used computers and the internet because irl was gay to them. We're still just fine btw. No problems on this end. It's just normalfaggots who can't handle it, because they weren't built to handle this kind of environment.
>>535349350The same as the first reply you got. Just bring it.
Wish we could go back to post dial up but pre smartphone world, everything afterwards has been a big gay waste of time with any potential benefits being far outweighed by the negatives, AI slop is a perfect example of this
>>535333540Unrestricted Warfare on all Israel and Judaism and all Christians and Americans who dare defend them in perfect vain. They are the murder rape of all of the 90's kids entire lives all the way. Since 1987 and before, the turn for the perverse, September 11 2001 televised, and the Covid Vaxxine Satanic Murder of the United States. Vaxxinating away all our good eyesight and good handwriting. They're the Globalist New World Order. You are destined to crushing victory over them all children and women first.
>>535354339>4 billion people are prostitutes>i know this because of all the women i talk to>this methodology is sane and has zero flaws.
>>535333540You have to find it. To be honest I was a homebody even in my adolescence during the 90s and 2000s but we still did have our neighborhood crew that went skating (inline + board).I still go out and play MTG but older sets like Premodern. I agree with you though there's been less and less third spaces.I think the internet is even more reason to go outside and "touch grass". People do not act the same way in person compared to how they would online.
>>535333540>Now I have to wait for a sale every 3-12 months or shell out 70+ dollars on Steam.Get a load of this no torrent nigger.
>>535354910What's stopping you from living your life a certain way? Every era had people wrapped up in dumb shit for that time. Remember the Furby, Tickle Me Elmo, Beanie Babies, and other crazes?Maybe it's easy for me since most of my childhood memories are games and I can easily play those from NES, Sega, PS1, N64, etc. For Win95/98/XP era you can easily put together a Core 2 Duo + GTX 9xx video card for cheap.You can live in your own bubble. Who is stopping you? There are plenty of other people who also want to or are curious about what they missed out on.My wife is 10 years younger than me and I constantly show her random shit that was before her era. She finds it interesting. So does my niece who is 11 years old.
>>535333540>We learn about zebras and shit we will never fucking see in real life. Why visit Africa? Why even walk down the street when you can pull it all up on Google Maps and see in 3D?Being there, not simply staying a day and some photos, but living in a place for several months is quite useful. I wouldn't do it in africa, but other parts of tge supposed 3rd world is significantly better than shartmerica. The only issue is you have to live around s bunch of foreigners, oops, you already do basically every place in zogmerica.
Suspect. Looks similar to the bl logo
>>53535503475% on the pill. That means they don't make babies and are prostitutes, as all resources go only to vagina and not to offsptring. I no longer care about the exceptions.
>>535354339a lot of girls were tricked into the pill for "hormonal reasons" to make "periods less bad" (which is false). Instead it just made most of them fat whores.
>>535355516>75% on the pill.Is this even true? Sounds made up.> That means they don't make babiesOkay, I'm with you so far>and are prostitutesYeah you lost me. You need to bridge the logic gap there.
>>535333540>We learn about zebras and shit we will never fucking see in real life. Why visit Africa?I always wanted a subscription to zoobooks but was too poor for it. The commercials made it sound so awesome.
>>535353129Anything from that era isn't even hurting any companies because they no longer exists, have been acquired and the IP dormant, or the game itself is delisted.So pirating anything from the 90s is essentially a victimless crime because the media is practically lost or abandoned. The remaining conglomerates that have absorbed it couldn't care less and have no interest in serving that market.
>>535333540the modern situation is principally from the railway and telegram anyone talking about cell phones is retarded. you don't even know what you've lost.
>>535353231The Pewdiepie vs. T-Series subscriber race heralded the onslaught of pajeets online.
>>535355657can anyone translate this schizo gibberish for me?
>>535355712basically everything was based in villages, local communities, and local languages. Mass media, the destruction of local languages/cultures, the destruction of regional food and everything were all a product of the railway and telegram. The social decay we are experiencing now is just downstream from that. Instead of things being locally managed they started to be managing at a national/international scale by governments and the national banks who own them.
>>535333540>There is no mystery anymorehaha that´s it the biggest mistake you are doing.there is much shit for discovering now that you would be breathless.don´t fall for current technology mainstream info, you are witnessing now in internet is just the same shit we witnessed in 90s with tv.they only release tech to the public when they have entire control of it, and they must have 30 years forward technology.this also goes for Ai. they had Ai on military in the 90s. we always get obsolete technology.they now have quantum Ai technology and i suspect they have time travel shifting timelines technology. but i can´t prove that entirely.what they can´t know entirely is how people will transform current reality(this is one of the reasons they shifted timelines a lot in the last 5 years).They even mastered now mind reading technology. They read everybody's mind now with smartphones and GWEN towers.they tried using Quantum Ai to control entire possible timelines to ensure their win, but God will remain absolute and they cannot control the variable to 100%, God will always rewrite rules or change physics or reality aspects when they go near absolute control with hopeless for people.
>>535333540Technology is all there is. It has subsumed "society" and will continue to break down culture, beliefs, religion, values, and meaning until there is nothing left but technology. Technology is already creating its own belief systems, even its own religion (AI, life extension). There are technologies of sex, technologies of how to live and how to live longest, even a technology of how to read. As the technological system has grown, it has subsumed the biological environment, soon it will subsume human biology as well until humans as we know them cease to exist.Technology is the mass extinction event with a mind and purpose of its own. There is no stopping it. It is inevitable. Resistance is futile.
>>535333540bullshit, just get out more to places you enjoy.
>>535333540The average person absolutely cannot handle instant communication without some kind of severe limitation. Technology in a fun and healthy way peaked in probably the 90s. Now that people can get instant information delivered to them 24/7 they just watch retarded YouTube Shorts for 9 hours a day.And it goes without saying that the internet was much better when it was only White and Asian men using it. Furthermore, women should not be on the internet at all.It's not a joke, this isn't hyperbolic misogyny just to be funny, this is the actual fucking truth. Muslims and the Amish don't let women use the internet for a very good fucking reason.
>>535355600They don't care whether investment in them is long- or short-term. In fact, they prefer short-term because long-term is OPPRESSION. They still act like biologically female mammals in that they are highly selective and demand resource investment, but it goes nowhere because there are no offspring. Therefore, the only benficiary is the female itself. There are and will not be offspring. Therefore, they are all prostitutes.
>>535355822I dunno, it sounds like you could spin this slippery slope narrative with any step forward humanity ever took.>the invention of the wheel set humanity on an unstoppable course to its doom. everything is downstream from the wheel.whoa, amazing lol
>>535355906as someone that worked in clas labs for the DoD, this is retarded. a current DJI drone today is literally science fiction to DoD R&D ten years ago
>>535355516>75% on the pill.The actual number is 13%.
>>535355600>Is this even true? Sounds made up.Not true. Number is 13%.
>>535355990the places I enjoy don't exist anymore. If they do exist they are a shell of what they once were.
>>535355990>go to public park>filled with schizophrenic homeless and violent niggers>go to art museum>"ew stacey what the fuck why is that guy even here omg what the fuck i dont feel safe he's creepy oh my god hurrrrrrrrr">go downtown>filled with schizophrenic homeless and violent niggers>go to pub>"ew stacey what the fuck why is that guy even here omg what the fuck i dont feel safe he's creepy oh my god hurrrrrrrrr">go to library>filled with schizophrenic homeless and violent niggers>go to some retarded fucking event set up by the city like "yoga and meditation with your dog" or whatever the fuck stupid shit some HR whore came up with>"ew stacey what the fuck why is that guy even here omg what the fuck i dont feel safe he's creepy oh my god hurrrrrrrrr"etcetera etcetera not to mention that if you exist next to a child by accident as a single man outside alone you have people looking like they're about to lynch youI don't know what it's like in your country but in mine everyone's a hostile neurotic sociopath, especially the women and niggers and homeless
>>535356002I'm torn on this opinion. I grew up with AIM, MSN, ICQ, chatrooms, and early dial-up era MMOs. We had instant communication and I remember the friends, enemies, and e-relationships I made along the way.I think what made it unhealthy is when people were able to share themselves so easily and freely. The era of the smartphone really fucked it, especially women and social media.You can laugh, but if women weren't allowed on the internet we wouldn't have this problem. Don't believe me? Look at your "algorithm" its all force-feeding of lust and clickbait of some chick with her pussy lips or tits half-hanging out on Youtube pretending to do something as if that's not the reason she's posting herself that way.I'm not denying that many men drool over e-pussy and that's why it works. That's why I want it removed entirely, it will save BOTH sexes from themselves.It was different when you were just an anonymous person with a simple username. No profile picture, not posting pics/videos. No way to share shit like that with someone else because the technology just wasn't there.
>>535356237it sounds like you have a problem with homeless nigger women
>>535356169why do they make up numbers and then think that's the same as a statistic?do they even believe the numbers they make up?
>>535353112coolyeah...i suppose it got cheap nearer the end, but it had enough quality for most peoplei hate this uppity culture that looks down on everything that isn't overengineered german quality, or japan as it were, in electronicsthese speakers cost me next to nothing, just had to buy replacement sub rings and i swapped out the mid speaker cos it was distorted to hell, but all-in-all, i've got some solid speakers and probably will never need to upgrade
>>535356237>my town sucks>guess i'll just stay in this town i hate forever instead of going to any of the other towns in USA
>>535356237housing got so financialized that now you have homeless in all your public spaces. congrats
>>535356002>The average person absolutely cannot handle instant communication without some kind of severe limitation.This is mainly a thing in the USA where McCarthyism still has tendrils in the culture that tell people critical thinking skills are communism.
>>535333540THERE'S NO GOING BACK :(
>>535342719I remember hearing that it was going under and was sooo confused like 'wtf everyone I know likes circuit city better than best buy how are they closing"
>>535356369yeah...because it wasn't monetizedpeople on early internet were just looking to communicate or share hobbiesnow everything is for profit
>>535356999checked and exactly this
>>535356237>not mentioning the pod peopleKek, niggers are always gonna nig and schizos are always going to rant and rave. It's in their nature.You may have noticed that the average, "respectable", person is a neurotic retard of late, the jew flu should have tipped you off to this fact, when a population that was more or less normal a decade ago is now made up of gibbering retards it's a far more concerning issue than nigs nigging.I would suspect the pulsed microwave emitters everyone keeps on or near their person at all times (the consequence for not haing one being social death) but I guess that's a bit too far-fetched so let's talk about niggers some more.Let's see. They smell like cabbage and their hair is like a sheep but somehow coarser.
>>535344666>>535356999This seems like a rare thread combo
>>535334455>Around 2006 or so I remember phones were getting more advanced. I didn't end up having a smart phone for years later. I remember printing out pages to figure out directions to where I am going and actually remembering where to go. Now my brain can't even do anything without consulting the lightbox.I've never owned a 'smartphone', for this exact reason. I saw how retarded it was making people around me, and opted out. >no social medias>no apps>no phone numberIt's like living in the 80s and 90s, feels good man.
>>535334428>No, leaving the oceans ruined society.This.
You grew up during the absolute peak of the American civilization.
>>535333540No, aggressive algorithms designed to addict you by creating the lowest common denominator slop ruined culture aka capitalism, not that communism would have done any better. Allowing technocratic oligarchs to take over the youth for a few extra bucks is what ruined culture, tech is fine Everyone is just retarded and humanity has no direction >Duh is it duh cellphone? No, it's what your cellphone does, it's a literal casino of lights and stimulation and we hand it to babies and talk about Elsa gate and Roblox predators and then shove our entire fists up our ass and blame the technology As retarded as blaming guns for violence Society is predatory by nature
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>>535341060imagine telling that guy he's le creep because he was distracted by camera flash while spending time with his kid
>>535333540KB toys was fucking awesome. Sorry you missed it, millennial bro.You're 100% right about death of toys, but you had some killer Internet shit us early genXers missed.Malls were even kinda awesome and niggers didn't chimp out as much.
>>535357780It was just toysrus at the mall
>>535339630Yeah, I only got a smart phone because work. I loved my flip phone. It had just enough Internet connection to see the weather.
>>535343190Man this thread is just pissing me off as an '87 millenia but only out of deep regret for how good we had it.> late stage blockbuster allowed you to rent dvds online (I'm sure Netflix still does) and directly exchange the dvds from the mail at the physical store. I ripped so many copies of movies for an entire summer this way. That's how I learned about the criterion collection. Now I lost all of that but I'm old and streaming is cheap. I can afford everything I lost for pennies. I wish I lost it all just for the memory. Stacks of burnt dvd/r's on a 100 disk blank spool from frys.
>>535358478>I'm sure Netflix still doesyou mean sending discs through mail?netflix stopped doing thati burnt every decent movie i wanted to dvd years ago, then ended the service before it got stupid, pouring money into producing their own garbage shows
>>535341359Technology did not ruin society.jews ruined society.Rising costs of real life activities has made it easier and easier for people stay "fuck it" and retreat to living online.CommonCore and NCLB further fucked everyone not in high school by '02-'04. Both programs are almost entirely jewish.All the woke bullshit driving people away from real life is jew driven.Covid was almost entirely a jew op, and divided society even more.
>>535341693Pong and Breakout were unironically peak vid.Though the Mattel handhelds with the mini LEDs were pretty cash.
>>535338532I'm extremely excited about the next Clifford update.
>>535343416Niggers not inventing the wheel were right all along.Niggers were the original proto-Kazinski.
>>535344113I dunno. Fapping to the girdle section of the Sears catalogue seems pretty cash.
>>535333540in the 90s and early 2000's there was hope, shit was changing fast, imagine telling people in the 90s food would holocaust 25 dollars for a steak at the grocery store, it's fuckedhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/-kMynDqizeU?feature=share
>>535345060Jealous, but proud of you, success - bro.Yeah, last 5 years very fucked.
>>535359356https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRc8v6rs5Z0&list=RDxcx8MUpAbJw&index=49
It was around 2003 when video games overtook toys
>>535357252>when a population that was more or less normalconservatives weren't normal a decade ago. they've always been gibbering retards. the MAGA movement is just american conservatism reaching its natural conclusion where they stop pretending to have principles and revert to their primal snowflake state.
>>535347354>you should have been there in the late 70s-80sPeak Radio Shack.Loved the store display TRS80. How many times did staff have to stop:>LINE10: PRINT: " I FUCKED YOUR SISTER ">LINE20: GOTO LINE10>RUN
