I miss playing vidya as a kid
>>719385594>Pokemon romhacksAh yes, the start of my pirating journey
>>719385594
>>719386115Lolis play video games?
>>719386401I guess you're recluse. they like video games. I used to have them over. now, my little sister brings her friends over to play with my ps4.
>>719386115>playing easy to install CD-ROM games alone in your Dad or Mom’s office because they brought you to work but have nothing to entertain you with For me it was creatures 3.
>>719385594The trick is to have children of your own and play with them.
>>719385594>uncle gives me a chipped ps1 and 25 pirated games for my 6th birthday Shit was good
>>719386682I think that ship sailed.
>>719385594Man, I remember when Pokemon R&B just came out here in Europe and a friend of my dad brought a floppy disk with Pokemon G&S in Japanese. Nobody of my friends or other children knew about it or heard about a new Pokemon version. This was literally magic.
>>719386756>pirate uncleOne of the better archetypes.
>>719386842>europeDon't care
>>719386779Literally me
>>719386115>Digital Camera>UNRADNES VYPALIS ZKOPIRUJES>2HD AI Slop. They didn't have digital cameras and HD in the 90s.
>>719386842Good times where everybody wasn't as connected as today and rumors spread by word of mouth.
>>719386682How to do this without segs with stinky hags?
>>719386931I would not even recognize anyone from my family. I haven't seen some of them for 20 years or more. Just a symptom of degradation of the family structure.
>>719387004I dunno about the random words, but on the right shelf they have imation CDs. I doubt an AI could even know about old brandsUnless this wasn’t 1 shotted and the maker intentionally edited it to put old brands to fool people
>>719387004Retard.
>>719387004They're obviously rich post-communist kids. Besides if you've been here long enough you would've seen this pic before the AI age.
absolutely bamboozled by the concept of foreign languages lol
>>719387004>AI Slopmeds. that image has been around way before the AI slop was mainstream.it's a lithuanian word "NE UKRADNES VEPALIS ZKOPÍRUJES "meaning you don't steal copy. as anti piracy message of pirating music
>>719386682That would require surrendering my freedom, my living space, my mental and emotional health, my wallet, and 60% (minimum) of all my worldly possessions that I currently, and will ever, own, to someone who has had at least twenty black dicks in every single orifice.No thanks. I'll stick to my single player games.
>>719387415ok chud
>>719387405>LithuanianAh, I thought that was Czech. I can actually understand everything. Lithuanian sounds very similar to Slavic languages. Like Slavic and Latin mixed together.
>>719386756>>719386863>you ended up on /v/ as a resultI bet your parents regret exposing you to 'pirate uncle'
>>719387565I doubt my uncle gave me autism, kek.
>>719387602Mine gave me chlamydia
>>719387971lol
>>719386779Soul vs Soulless
>>719388389This is exactly how I feel inside as well.
Can we go back, bros?
>>719387004>>UNRADNES VYPALIS ZKOPIRUJES*UKRADNEŠ VYPÁLÍŠ ZKOPÍRUJEŠ. Throw it in any translator and it will make sense. (NE = NO/DON'T).
>>719387004>They didn't have digital cameras and HD in the 90s.They absolutely did. Digital cameras have been sold much longer than you think. Olympus Camedia, the brand visible, has been sold since 1996 though I can't make out what exact model that is.As for HD ("high density") diskettes, those have been around fucking forever.
>>719388976>The Game
>>719386863Pretty sure he ended up stealing money from his workplace for gambling and he got fired for it so yeah definitely a pirate
>>719386038OOPS!
>>719386559jedi knight 1 lan party on the office network
>>719386038It's kind of cool that they finished the decomp. You can even play it in a browser now: https://isle.pizza/
>>719385594I remember playing Smash Bros on project64 at school with a friend, one of use would use the wasd side of the keyboard and the other would take the number pad
>>719386115I had that printer
>>719392178was it poorly coded?
>>719391148Holy shit this made my morningBig thank
I dipped into some old Amiga games and they are too basic now. Good to grow up on tho, even now.
>>719385594No one here was a kid when R/S/E came out>>719386115Man I loved Jazz Jackrabbit. Thanks for reminding me of it, I'm gonna replay it.
>>719385594>i miss playing vidya as a little retarded faggot that didn't have any idea what he was doingMany such cases. Sad!
>>719392691I was 11-13 when they came out.
>>719386682Yea...i dont think thats gonna happen for some of us.
>>719387004Thats AI? Holy shit AI is getting good. Its pretty much passable now.
>>719388436that was the joke, retard
>>719394290lol imagining the thought process where this video was storyboarded inside her head. thing -> reaction -> thing -> reaction etc.
>>719385594I bought crt and gaming sucked me in like I'm 12 again. It just felt RIGHT. I don't know how else to explain it.
accidentally getting someone else in the shot and having to re-do the 'holding my hands to my mouth in shock' part
>>719392691>No one here was a kid when R/S/E came outWhere do you think you are? Similarly to that anon getting G/S gifted on a floppy, I gifted a classmate the nip version with the emulator burned to a CD as part of some Christmas gifting thing. I must have been around 12 at the time.
>>719394561probably the radiation lol. have your genitals noticeably withered and shrivelled away lately?
>>719394520Are you alright Anon? Why so serious?
>>719394532You give her too much credit. She just copied what she's seen others do without any further thought
>>719394561what's all that shit hooked up to that TV?
Ima build a time machine
>>719394704>anime reaction imageShut up, fucking tard faggot
>>719387415>envisions every single female specimen he encounters as having fucked at least 20 black menYou are literally living a doujinshi.
>>719387210>Just a symptom of degradation of the family structure.No, that's just you being anti-social.Also, the past was filled with people who just left their family entirely and never saw them again. My grandfather died having not seen any of his cousins, uncles, aunts, or grandparents since he had been 20 years old.
>>719390878YOU HAVE TO PUT THE CD
>>719385594No you don’t bro
>>719385594the only thing i miss being a kid is the excitement.
>>719385594>8-18 is about enjoying vidya for what it is>19-24 is about learning to enjoy vidya on a deeper level>24-30 is about being nostalgic about how good vidya was and how good being a kid who played vidya was>30+ is realizing you're nostalgic no more, and that vidyas lost their appeal.
>>719396802It's really sad to see people fail to reconcile with this fact.The world moves forward, and you eventually stop being a child, and ergo, stop being the demographic that gets appealed to.I'm always reminded of the reactions to Michael Bay's Transformers and had a fascinating discussion about them back around 2010 with a guy who got fucking pissed at them, hated every moment of watching them, and just came to the realization that he was old and that this was the shit kids liked now.Probably how midlife crisis' get started.
>>719391148Holy crap, thanks
>>719397008To be fair, I have never met anyone of any age who likes the transformers movies. I don't disagree with you overall, but Transformers is a terrible example.
>>719397008For me vidyas and anime porn was enjoyable exactly until my peers started having kids.That's when I realized I shouldn't just be reveling in these things because it's ultimately hedonistic and irresponsible, and that's why most of it is stupid and made for kids.We've lived in a very strange time these past 5 years especially, where it felt like movies, games and entertainment was trying to age with its growing audience. All the classic companies like Nintendo, Sega, and even porn artists being well into their 20s trying to take child-favorite franchises and adulting their appeal for the near-30 audience.And then it started to slip as adults were over 30 and actually moving on, trannies everywhere, making it apparent that never having a "Puff the Magic Dragon" moment makes one mentally ill, like Sonic fans.Then Sonic became more for autists only.It became more apparent that adults who like Sonic are always autistic manchildren, or very young kids who aren't really "fans" because of the movies that they'll quickly, and have already, grown out of.Increasingly you're left just with bread-crumbs of what used to be, as you're all done eating, but you kept sitting.Waiting for more slop.Buying a Switch 2.Nobody else bought one but you.Trying to make some loli appeal out of a character that's clearly made to appeal to young girls with her "Frozen" appearance.35 year old /v/ users are typing.>PLEASE GOD LET ME SEE HER HYMEN>PLEASE GOD LET ME SEE HER HYMEN>PLEASE GOD LET ME SEE HER HYMENYou realize, you're a mentally ill person, on 4chan, in a crowd with the rest of you, who failed to move on, and get a fucking life.Rewatch Peter Pan. Listen to Puff the Magic Dragon Again. Take one more hard look at Sonic The Hedgehog, and realize it was never supposed to be for you, for your entire life.At some point, you ate up everything except some breadcrumbs. And there's no more slop to consume.
>>719396393I hope you get your problems fixed.
>>719387004zoomer retard
>missing living under the boot of the how dare you disagree with me generation No.
>>719385594I miss this little fucker like you wouldn't believe
>>719398082Isn't that every generation?
>>719386682the long game
>>719397223I've seen a lot of recent nostalgia for them and people talking favorably on their visuals (when I remember a lot of hate for that as well).If you want other examples.>original X-Men got a ton of shit for not being like the cartoons or the comics, now a fondly remembered superhero film>Fantastic Four got tons of shit by basically everyone in existence, kids who watched it grew up and are now saying it's the best F4 film (it's not, the 1994 one is the best one)>Doctor Who's Matt Smith seasons basically killed off a lot of longterm investment the revival had created, but in turn had gotten a large new audience into WhoStuff like that. I also used capeshit because it is a good benchmark for this- like, compare the 60s Spider-Man cartoon to the 90s one, and then to the Raimi films and later the Disney films.All completely different iterations of the same guy and the same antagonists, all popular and beloved by their respective audiences, and every newer one getting tons of shit from existing fans (yes, even Raimi, which got shit from the same fags who didn't like X-Men for comic lore inaccuracies).Probably the most famous example of stuff being done for a new audience is Star Wars, because retards here will defend it and not see the irony.The prequels are the way they are because Lucas was focused on appealing to the then modern millennial children. Was he successful? Considering we have daily prequel threads on several boards, I'd say he was.
>>719397223I liked the first one. I saw it when I was like 15 and it had prime Megan Fox in it, as well as dweeby shia labeouf that i could self-insert as. I didn't give a shit about the plot.
>>719386682i tried and she killed my baby and now i feel like an empty husk of a person
>>719386682still waiting on mine to be old enough. almost there>>719398447sorry anon that's fucked, I would have killed her
>>719387415Damn no wonder Incels are so grouchy they are literally living in a made up hell world lmao
>>719398329Revenge of the Sith is kino I will not hear a word against it
>>719396947No, 30s is when I realized games are ultimately too shallow to be a real hobby. Just a timesink. But having accepted it allows me to play without the pretense of recapturing my childhood
>>719397408>It became more apparent that adults who like Sonic are always autistic manchildren, or very young kids who aren't really "fans" because of the movies that they'll quickly, and have already, grown out of.People were making fun of Sonic autists 15 years ago. See the Sanic meme
>>719396947>>719398746The reality is that a generalized medium cannot be a hobby."Gaming" is not a hobby. Your hobby is not "video games in general", that's a pastime at best. "Anime" can be a hobby, "RPGs" can be a hobby, but anyone who goes "Gaming is my hobby" is, in all likelihood, an incredibly boring person.
>>719386682This desu. I'm playing Chrono Trigger with my daughter and she complains about the graphics, but likes the funny voices I give the characters. Her party is Chrono, Robo and Ayla because "It's the past and the future at the same time!"
>>719398972>Her party is Chrono, Robo and Ayla because "It's the past and the future at the same time!"Your daughter is, unfortunately, a 40 year old Japanese game commentator.
>>719398972It's child abuse to force your media tastes on your children. My parents used to force me to watch Forrest Gump as a kid and listen to the Grateful Dead and I hated them with every fiber of my being.
>>719399137I love her anyways
>>719396067looks like it's all an old cctv setup.
>>719399227>My parents used to force me to watch Forrest GumpLike, more than once? Sounds like you had shitty hippie parents. Sorry anon, but I've told her she can dip out whenever she wanted. She's stuck with it and we just got the rainbow shell.
>>719399416I've probably seen Forrest Gump hundreds of times. I don't think anybody in the world hates that movie as much as I do. I've written essays on how much I hate it.The whole movie is just boomer self masturbatory shit, and nostalgia bombing so they can grin and nod about how they remember that. And if you're just a kid and not a boomer all the pop culture references in the movie mean nothing to you.
>>719399612You had a weird childhood, Anon, that's for sure. But that's no reason to call it child abuse when a parent plays a game with their kid
>>719398972Based I can't wait for this. I would love if my daughter enjoys jrpgs and I'm going to try my best to make it happen
>>719399227>It's child abuse to force your media tastes on your childrenThat's why I don't make it known I'm forcing them.I just only have the games I liked hanging around and made a fake set of TV "channels" that only show anime and cartoons I pre-approved.
I don't miss it, but I do treasure those memories. I got to see a fraction of the rapid development of video game hardware and software that older players did, but I still got to grow up alongside the medium to an extent.I don't really yearn for those times nearly as much as I do for a hypothetical future where I get to play games with my own children.
>>719399680A lot of millennial parents do the same thing nowadays. Like video games for example, their kids may not have any interest in videos games, but they're making their kids play the NES games they liked as a kid. Or they're making their kids play their favourite childhood games when the kid would rather play the games that their friends are playing.
>>719399856I always read this sentiment online but have never seen it reflected in real life, speaking as a millennial who knows plenty of millennial parents.
>>719399612>I've probably seen Forrest Gump hundreds of timeslmao what. My condolences if that's real. I've watched my favorite TV show like 20 times. It became something like a yearly ritual. And even that feels like insanity to me.
>>719399227i used forrest gump for EVERY single report i had to make in English, since most of the movie is just shit happening, i made it work for something like 10 different units.travel lit, historic lit, AV lit, war lit, crime fiction (had to really focus in on the black panther stuff and how it was illegal, but not immoral, because my teacher said my draft on the watergate 1 minute wasn't enough of a connection), i think there was a unit on growing up or something? or maybe it was inclusivity and i just waxed poetic about how forrest grew up despite his issues, thanks to his parents while jenny stalled out, due to her parents, i also cant quite remember if it was biz lit (we were meant to do gatsby) or something about nautical literature, but one report had a solid 2 minutes of listing off things you can do with shrimp, as a quote.my teachers said they hated it, but the way they all smirked while i was presenting, and the B+ average proved they at least appreciated the commitment to the bit.i didn't even like the movie at first, it was just an easy report for the first 2 units.
>>719396947cringe generalizationI'm older and I enjoy games just as much as when I was a kid.
>>719385594Fuck you guys are sad
>>719397408Sounds like shit. Why should I care that millenials have a new generations of zoomers or however they are called now?>muh peerslmao who the hell cares?
>>719397408>We've lived in a very strange time these past 5 yearsBeen way longer than that. Theyve been making characters old and ugly since street fighter turd strike.
>>719397408>sl*p buzzwordway to kill your whole post (it sucked btw)
>>719385594Guys what was your "Third Place"?
>>719399856Never met anyone like that. I'm sure there are plenty of bad parents out there, but you shouldn't let social-media cherry picking color your view of the world
>>719391148I don't want to play it on a browser, I want an .exe I can launch from my computer offline
>>719385594I really miss going to those huge indoor soft plays as a kid
>>719400428Have fun: https://www.legoisland.org/wiki/Main_Page
>>719400321>(it sucked btw)Just another one of the innumerable villainous monologue-style self-deprecating fart-huffing sessions you can read on this awesome website
>>719391148I saw this get posted in a thread that died under a hundred replies here a couple of weeks ago, and it made my morning then.I like that they went to such great lengths to preserve the original experience that the mouse cursor even shows the loading animation at the same times it did in the original game.
>>719399856Bro I dont force my kids to do anything. I simply boot up super Mario world and start playing. One will walk by and say "can I try?" and then before we know it, it's dinner time.
I still remember watching the Kingdom Hearts demo for the first time on a playstation 2 demo disk I got with a magazine
>>719385594holy fuck take me back please
>>719399856this doesn't actually happen but it should. maybe if it did roblox wouldn't have 41 million active players and the youth would actually have decent taste.
>>719399856True
>>719386401kill yourself
>>719399856I don't think it's weird for parents to introduce things they loved as kids to their own kids. It only gets weird if they try to force it on them at the exclusion of everything else.
>>719402536thats just a comic anon its not even anecdotal
I really miss playing local multiplayer with my brother and cousins.
I miss the anticipation of getting home to play my games after being taken to one of those big stores like Media Play, Circuit City or Walmart to buy them, the comfy drive home while you sit in the back and try to read the back of the box or the game manuals.
i miss not feeling like my body is against me almost every day
>>719403118Are you 50 or something?
>>719403218Nta but once I'm 30 and started getting healthy by around 27, started exercising at 29 and I feel about the same way. Feeling discomfort or mild pain most of the day, even if it is light, is truly a sour experience in life.
>>719403118Microplastic moment
>>719403427I'm 30, skinny but in otherwise good shape but randomly my back will just go
>>719403040Thanks for reminding me>parents take me to some huge ass store right outside of the city>the best I'm used to at this point are smaller stores with barely any variety>they get me Banjo Kazooie>read the manual as we drive back home>hyped as fuck>play the shit out of it>two days later my mother's cunt friend comes to visit>is watching me play>she's constantly complaining>WHY ARE YOU PLAYING THIS>THIS HARMS YOU>IT'S A GAME FOR TODDLERS>etcI was 7 years old at that point. What the fuck, man. But at least that cunt ended up dying after becoming a heroin addict like a decade later, lmao.Thanks for reading my blog
>tfw cool parents were willing to get you a green alienware laptop before the company got bought out.Feels truely blessed to enjoy everything from windows 3.1 and onward due to my father running his own business so computers were a part of my childhood, i'd sit with him while he played Myst and that interested me way more than my older sister's nintendo with mario. PC for life, a lot has changed but it's still my number one. Assembled my first desktop freshman year of HS and have been going that route ever since.
>>719403040fond memories of ogling $30 anime VHS/dvds with 3-4 episodes on them and wondering why they were so expensive.
>>71940321831
>>719385594Did 9/11 really ruin everything?
>>719404956Maybe? The Iraq War was disastrous on so many fronts. You could blame either 9/11 or Dubya being President.
>>719403668Work out more and your muscles should help with that. Also make sure you drink enough water. It feels like such a dumb thing to say, but I swear it feels like half the population are regularly dehydrated
>>719386115Yo Jazz Jackrabbit was the shit
too bad we didnt realize how good we had it back then
>>719400340The mall.My city spent a shit ton of money to build one of those mega malls, and it was based. It had an ice rink that NHL team "practiced" at, laser tag, a movie theater, small bowling alley, arcade, and go karts. Think it even had a fucking skate park.When I got my driver's license, I'd pick up a couple of buddies in my junker and meet up with a couple other friends when the mall opened. And we'd stay until it closed just window shopping, playing a bit of Magic at the card shop, catch a matinee movie, and hanging around the arcade.Now it's all gone and apparently the whole is an industrial/business park.
>>719406913The early 2000s literally felt like it was just endless summertime and spring break vibes all the time as a kid, and that was largely due to the programming of Nickelodeon and MTV at the time.
>>719399856that's just called good parenting, imagine letting your kids do whatever they want to do
>>719400340Why do people even make bowling places now? Must be millionaire baby boomers. Nobody is ever at them, dead hobby.
>>719408209Dunno about where you live but long island NY the local place is packes out with leagues of young people on the weekend and randoms looking for a lane. Had almost a 2 hour wait one time at a 60 lane alley. I'm 36 and I regularly see people half my age there.
Its over
>>719400465This is the one genuine instance of something you can't get back, because you'd probably be arrested if you tried to run around one of these as an adult.
>>719399856>but they're making their kids play the NES games they liked as a kidThe people who grew up with the NES are in their 40s man
>>719413206society is BULLSHIT
>>719413313damn.
>>719400465I run these with my own kids :)
>used to share GBA games with my bros>scoreboards were nothing but them and their friends' names>alwys dreamed of the day I'd git gud enough to write my name alongside theirs>flash forward to adulthood>pull out my GBA for some old-school gaming>easily clear the previous highest score>do so again and again until I am the only name on the board>the others are gone, I am alone now
>>719404956It's demographics. I used to work at a restaurant in high school. I visited a few years later when I finished college and noticed there were Mexicans working there. I thought that was weird, because this was less than an hour from the Candian border. How did they get here? Why did they come? When my grandparents died, the entire place was run by Mexicans. The job paid for my first car, gave me an excuse to sneak off to my girlfriend's house whenever I wanted, gave me money for gas and cigarettes and beer and connections for weed and molly, and taught me how to work. The SS contribs I put in there meant I cleared the minimum contribution by 28. Kids these days don't get that cool stuff. At best, they're reading books for school to train for jobs which are also going away. At worst, they're trooning out. Look at this captcha and tell me I'm not being real
Loser containment board
>>719415229what's your story?
>>719385594My first experience with Pokemon was seeing some older kid emulate red on my computer class, that was a little before the anime started running.Good times.
>>719404956mmm i would say 2008 crash really fucked everything up. after 9/11 there was still a bit of hope to salvage it but 2008 just stabbed it in the back and left it to die. we are still feeling its effects
>>719396706UP!!!YOUR!!!ASS!!!
:(
>>719386115Their faces scream "we deleted your save file"
>>719385594I miss being happy though...
>>719419224My little brother did that the day after I caught Entei in Pokemon Gold
Do zoom zooms have nostalgia yet?
>>719421262very sexual incompetence
>>719396947I honestly can't tell if me being 30+ makes me not like game anymore or if games are just shit now.
>>719404956Everyone points to 9/11 but it didn't directly cause things to go to shit. Neither did the wars. The internet did which also blew up around the same time
>>719415494Nothing to talk about
>>719396947This is mostly true. As a 30+ anon, games do start to lose their appeal. At least the vast majority of the. Anything that takes 20+ hours to beat instantly sets off red flags, because there are honestly less than a couple dozen games ever made that actually deserve that runtime. I still play a lot of games, but most of them are shorter and can be cleared in 10 hours or less. The truth is that games as a hobby aren't worth the time, most of the time.
>>719413849The demographic annihilation of America and Europe is directly related to the cultural annihilation of the western world. The internet did the rest.
>>719423741jews blamed not the Nazis but the entire western Christians world for the holocaust and vowed to destroy us and they succeeded
>>719386756Here in Bongland I remember going to the car boot sale and picking up all the ntsc/jap Ps1 games that never came out over here. Used to be £3 a disc.I had all the good shit like Parasite Eve, Xenogears, Final Fantasy Tactics etc...Tekken 3 like a year before it came out in Bongland etc...
>>719422347I can still enjoy retro games, even ones I never played as a kid. And I enjoy some indie games as well.I genuinely think the gaming industry has gotten significantly worse in the past decade or so. There are maybe 5 triple A games of the 2020s that are actually worth playing
>>719421898Oldest zoomers are 27, did you not have childhood nostalgia at 27 years old?
>>719422982Lol I remember when you'd just show your tickets and passports at the airport and just jump on the plane.9/11 100% changed shit, you are deluded.
>>719422347Same, I hate being a 30+ boomer
>>719424954It changed shit like you just noted but the internet pushing all kinds of bad shit on society is why everything is shit now
>>719397408>until my peers started having kidsThat isn’t gonna happen for today’s generation, look at the birth rates, nobody is having kids anymoreI actually think this and the growing normalization of kiddie franchises (sanik, pokeymans, etc) as being “respectable adult hobbies” are strongly correlated. Nobody in our generation will ever really BE a real adult because the economy is dogshit and ai will take away all the jobs. Hell, few people in our generation even try to ACT like a real adult because what’s the point of trying to put on a ridiculous facade of “mature responsible man” when everyone knows it’s a lie and you’ll still be flipping burgers at mcdonalds or living off welfare when you’re 45.
Big sad
>>719397408Nuclear truthpill
>>719386779Kinda based for still playing retro stuff
>>719387415>thinks of a woman then immediately thinks of her fucking 20 niggersIts over for you. Quit the porn NOW
>>719397408>you WILL keep up with the Joneses (and die for Israel)
>>719399832Actually based. Im gonna do the same too. It fucking pains me when I see my nephews' only exposure to media being YouTube shorts and Fortnite.
>>719399227>"NOOOOOOOO You cant influence your kid's tastes and beliefs! Thats the job of the government and corporate marketing executives!"
>>719424510 Based boot sale warrior. I remember scoring a mint copy of Einhänder from some guy who thought it was "just another shooty game." That era was peak-the excitement of stumbling on imports you'd only ever read about in mags like EDGE or Official PS mag. We didn’t even care about translations half the time, just knew it played better than anything PAL-bound. Good times, man. Now it’s all remakes with $20 season passes.
>>719399832That's just called good parenting. You absolutely should not allow your kids to be exposed to the full force of the internet or modern social programming. It is frankly abusive to allow a child yo access the internet before age 18 these days. Too many groomers.
>>719385594Why? Because of the video games? Pretty sure you can all of those and more with a decent PC.
>>719396802imagine being a kid and never getting to experience a dedicated toy store, just the toy aisle at Wal-Mart (or not even that if you just buy everything off Amazon)nothing but toys and games and cool stuff as far as the eye could see, sensory overloadfuck
>>719419224My older and younger sister deleted my save file for Pokémon: Red Rescue Team when I was little. I had been trying to recruit Kecleon.
>>719398447What the hell happenedxjnx?
>>719399856based, that's why i just leave my baby outside and let it fend for itself in order to form its own opinions and hobbiesI *dare* not interact with it myself for fear of tainting its development with my own biased actions and thoughts; my baby will be a product of the NEW world, not the old!
>>719388976ps2 sisters... we're little girls...
>>719397223>>719398378Same. It's fucking braindead, but it has likable stuff in it.
>>719430748Amazog sucked the soul right out of humanity man. Fuck jeff bezos. It's not even a good product anymore, the shipping actually got slower and more expensive, while the storefront is basically all chinkshit now.
>>719385594Rumba of love is a great Pokémon soundtrack. Just wanted to say that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWXCbLF6y9w
>>719400118This is why I never deleted my livejournal. Whenever I feel nostalgic I read it to remind myself how depressed and shitty I felt in my daily life in the 2000s.
>>719399856Fake, milliennials don't have kids
>>719400340we had an internet cafe called the barracks.back when i was like 15 on weekends i would get my $5 pocket money, wait until 9am, to call my mate, walk the 20 minutes to his house, hang out with his little sister for 5 minutes while i got up and got ready, then we would walk 20 minutes into town to the cafe.$5 to the guy at the front counter would get you 3 hours of access (no idea how they made money)we would play this cool new game called warcraft 3, doing skirmishes against the PC for a round or two, then poke our heads over the top of the screen and say "hey anyone want to play a warcraft custom game?" and every fucking day, one of those other autists would say yeah, and we would play whatever their obsession was that no-one else would play with them.sometimes it was dota, sometimes it was an entire custom campaign about lord of the rings the siege of Gondor, my favourite was island troll tribes.once we ran out of time (depending on who was on the counter they would sometimes just let your timer run if you were in game) we would go out into the town, do some window shopping, check out the book store, see what was in the video eze, see if anything good had rolled into the revolution CDs second hand game store, check what movies were running Sunday (WOW, more starwars? i loved the first 3!), and just sort of existed around people.i went back the the barracks recently, its a gastropub now, but the bartender apparently used to game there on weekdays, so he pointed me to their new spot.it was depressing as hell, nothing but 50 year olds playing mmos silently by themselves, and every empty PC seat just mining crypto, when i asked the guy at the counter if people still did LAN events he said they'd had to split the network up because one of the regulars would keep installing keyloggers if they didn't.sad to see such a community minded place wither and die, but i guess its cheaper to just buy a computer and games nowdays.
>>719400118Just you.
>>719404956The creation of the federal reserve in 1913 was the first domino and 9/11 was the last domino that flung the shit into the fan
>>719407668our local mall was shit but it had a theater with an arcade in it. We would buy snacks and soda at the dollar store and "smuggle" them into the theater then we'd play house of the dead and shit at the arcade. Good times
you think you know crippling existential dread? you are like a baby. my existential dread was realizing corporatism had already long invaded every aspect of life and perverted it to some sick bread and circus routine decades before my birth. you miss old video games? the fundamentals haven't changed since their inception, just the coat of paint. they've always been dull half challenges designed as distractions for children. you miss the play pens? you mean stacks of piping with some colorful foam zip tied all across it? the ones they can never really clean and don't maintain and were condensed into tightly packed poorly air conditioned sunrooms, acting only as a way to bait children into being so incessantly obnoxious their parents have to stop and spend money? you miss big box toy stores? you mean the giant industry dedicated to spamming over-gained commercials to yet again create petulant children who will force their parents to spend money? the one that pumped out so many questionable plastic items designed to be manipulated by children? the ones that replaced small individual owned artisan stores? the ones that also existed on the same premise of wrenching money, but somehow got worked into a work-reward structure as training wheels for the protestant work ethic? third places? you mean entertainment venues whose proprietors only keep open for the sole benefit on profiting on the need for optimized windows of relaxation time?everything has always fucking sucked, fuck you!
>>719430748I miss K.B Toys
>>719419224Correction time
>>719387004I gotta try this with random pics I see on threads to get lots of (You)s. Thanks for the idea!
>>719435316My copy of Sunshine is from KB Toys..
>>719424510Car boot sales used to be great for that sort of things. Not sure if they still are haven't been to one in years
>>719396393Why are you so mad?
>>719385594>>719386115>>719386595>>719388976i wish i had kids
>>719387415>>719386682I don't understand why normalniggers come to this site. All these replies are obvious normalniggers from reddit/facebook and is clear indication that guro/gore posting should be a freebie to weed out normal niggers
>>71938559430+ boomer gamers unite!
>>719433069this was a nice read anon
>>719436650you're a retard living in fantasy world, no respectable white woman fuck black men for free
>>719402536>strawman>strawman>strawman>I AM SILLY!
>>719392691i was 7 when emerald released
>>719403949Thanks for blogging with us.
>>719385594>pokemondisgusting
It's over
>>719400340the sort of unofficial "town hall" we had, really it was just a glorified post office with a bunch of other connected rooms that would be rented out for events and various clubs, including a makeshift bar. you could kind of just walk in and do whatever during the day, my friends and our families would go during the week after school, our parents would just stay in the bar whilst we'd hang out in the other nearby rooms. it was gigacomfy because it was usually completely empty except for us, the rooms were really big and they had a PS2, so we could just kind of run around and do whatever.unfortunately it was filled with asbestos so it got torn down about a decade ago. naturally, some shitty housing estate got built over it.
>>719400340I never got to have a third place growing up and by the time I was old enough to be allowed to drive at NINETEEN, third places were already being phased out.I fucking hate the future.
>>719413723:(
>>719440123sounds to me like you're of the brainrot generation where your third place was facebook, or myspace, or AOL messenger.
>>719385594I miss being a kidEverything feels dull now
>>719440504Yep, MySpace.
>>719437835>respectable white woman
>>719387405>>719387482that's not lithuanian you retards
>>719397008>The world moves forward, and you eventually stop being a child, and ergo, stop being the demographic that gets appealed to.I would argue that right now one of the biggest problems is that mainstream society is NOT appealing to kids.Look at Disney trying to turn Marvel and Disney into girl franchises, every Cartoon being about brown girls. From a young age you're stuck with specific video games or anime to actually find stuff that appals directly, all the mainstream media spaces are boring as fuck.
>>719397408This is the worst post I have ever read on this website and I've been here since 2011. You should be ashamed that you are even capable of typing something like this out and have the balls to press submit.
