Uncs thought this was peak gaming
>>738393514I might never have experienced that era, but I wish I had. I was born in the wrong generation.
Why do people on /v/ have to run every single slang word into the ground?
>>738393514>Literally coolest thing ever>"This fucking sucks actually"
>Jump on game console display>Random kid runs up and hops on player 2>You just met your best friend This is why I pity the new generation
"Unc" is the sound someone makes while getting face fucked.
>>738393514As a califag that actually went there many times, you could walk up to the "bar " and request any PS1 and later PS2 game to play for free for as long as you wanted. There was also another floor with a massive arcade as well as a Microsoft store with a dedicated PC gaming area and you could play Mechwarrior 3 among other thingsSo yes, it was peak gaming
>>738393514ahhh. the good old days.
>>738393514And they were right
>>738394558No, I think your mom said it more like "oink" last night.
>>738393514stop using negrobabble>>738394558It's just 50 year old White dudes trying to sound like negro teens
>>738393514
>>738394558It's the sound I make while I Bond burger your sister.
>>738393514>>738394293>>738394558>>738395381the millennials who lived through this are all fat obese basedboys now
>>738395460Good times create weak men.
>>738393721Desperation to fit in, zoomers have no irl friends so they desperately try to look cool online but they do it on anonymous websites because they are also retarded
>>738393514you crave big unc cock
>>738395460At least they’ve had gfs and sex. Bet you make threads seething over girls only liking chads like a fag while you live at home with mommy
>>738393514It was. I was there.
>>738398489>cotton budJust scrape the gunk off with a fingernail. Fucks sake
>>738393514nah senpai... that's some faggoty modernization of boomers/gen X arcades. Real millenials uncs know the real shit was lan parties. (You) zoomers faggots cannot even fathom how PEAK it was. Just thinking about it, I feel a little sad for (You)...
>>738399182>he doesn't go to LAN parties anymorepitiful. LAN parties are the best thing ever still>all my friends just play CS even in a LAN partyFUCK!!!
>>738399182>and not a nigger/brownie in sight. we had it good, didnt we?
>>738395460>projection projection buzzwordTry a little harder, lil zoom zoom. Maybe spamming these words one more time will make you forget how you're an impoverished incel with dogshit media to escape to.
>>738399327I'm 42 and going to a LAN party this weekend actually haha had to put the wives and children all together elsewhere so cant do it as often as when I was 14 sadly... we WILL be playing quake II on The Edge, that's for sure.
>>738399550>quake II on The EdgeBased Q2DM1 enjoyer!
>>738394972Nice joke anon, you really got him there
>>738399550Fucking based I remember pissing off my friends hogging the rail gun on that map.
>>738399927yeah that railgun spot in the water is pure ludo. this map is PEAK INCARNATE. nothing ever came close to it in any fps.
It was a kinoer time. A more civilized age.
>>738395460>fat obese basedboysI wish! I'm still skinny as fuck while pushing 40. Except I'm bald and have 2 kids now.
>>738393514Today zoomies and gen alpha buy their games from Costco and Amazon. I’d rather take this any day over what we have now.
>>738393514There's nothing more pathetic than Zoomies trying to denigrate the past just because they weren't there and have nothing like it anymore.
>>738393514>Uncs thoughtIs this just the current meta for actual uncs to discuss their unc memories? No zoomer/alphoomer would naturally come across this image and topic.
>>738393514>>738400484>>738400538kino...
I'm literally an uncle and I don't even know what that is.
>>738393514>fetus opinionThank you so much. Very valuable stuff.
>>738400710 playstation store at the san francisco metreon building
>>738393514>Uncs thoughtIs this just the way we're framing nostalgia threads now?If you want a nostalgia thread just post it sincerely, without the retarded bait.
>>738400596I had the same thought. It's fucking weird. It's either engagement bait, or OP is afraid of being called an unc so he calls himself one first. Cuck behavior desu
>>738393514Looks cool
>>738400789Pretty cool apart from being located in the gay poop city.
>>738400825It's not bait. We have legitimate mouthy kids trying to shitpost because they don't fit in with the typical autistic wizard anon.
>>738393514Yeah.
I didnt really think all that much. I just had fun.
>>738401036>brat centralShow me their butts. I don't believe you.
>>738400995for better or for worse, most of this stuff was gone before the the terminal enpoopification of sanfran, although it was definitely always the epicenter of flaggotry movements
a starfox thread died for this
You uncs know that eveyone here using unc is a trolling millennial, right?
>>738401483One wasn't nearly enough...
>>738395369You have never met an old black dude, they have been using unc and neph for literal decades. This is a term that just resurged like “kinfolk” did a few years ago, and “foenem/familydem/partnerdere” after. It’s just a different language in the South honestly. You can talk to an 80 year old Chicago native, talk to an 80 year old from Memphis and you won’t have a fucking clue what he’s talking about.
>>738393514It was
>>738393721Irony poisoning
>>738393514Simply put, it was an era where both sides of the business were running at max capacity. You cannot overstate the growth the industry saw during this time. The business’ were really good at making money back then, so that meant the developers got a lot to make their games, but not so much that everyone got a blank check and the scope would creep until the game was shelved. People back then in the industry had one singular almost supernaturally-possessed drive shared unanimously across the industry, and that was to create, because the tools had never been so powerful, so plentiful, and also painful (Looking at you PS2). They wanted to MAKE SOMETHING so BADLY they NEEDED TO MAKE THINGS. It was like God came down from heaven. This was the last true era of growth without convoluted stock fuckery.
>>738401524>4chan culture leaking out of twitch/tiktok>i-it's the millennialsOkay. I believe you.
>>738400512lol same brother except for the kids part haha ):
>>738393514>Three vertical screens???
>>738400538>>738393514Browns really do ruin everything.
>>738402365don't look!!!
>>738395381God, put me back here. Please. Just one more go, that's all I need. Please.
>zoomers thinking they can have a real gaming experience by pushing one button and beating the game after all their quality of life adjustments and yellow paint>they desperately try to feel like it's challenging and meaningful with forced dodgesloplmao
>>738401851SEXOOOOOOO
>>738394427It extended well within the 360/PS3 gen.>hops online>says hello>makes 10 new friendsZoomer gen by like>says hello>silence>everyone in their discord
>i was too young to experience it and i will hate it because you remember what it was like
>>738401524>w-we actually aren't retarded
>>738402989>say hello>someone reports you because of your tone>never speak in game again
>>738400710Same sis. Neither of my nephews ever called me unc and they are the 67 Mr Beast iPad generation so I can only assume unc is a ghetto hoodrat word
>>738401524Yeah, just like /pol/posting has been ironic for over 10 years and (You) can stop anytime, right?
>>738403183>the 67 Mr Beast iPad generationo lawd my cousin next door has a 6yo and he's had a tablet for at least a year or more. Unsupervised too like playing Snake minigame with a multiplayer chat. I assume her 13 year old was raised the same way but at least he spends time going fishing and playing sports now. These are the closest things to kids of my own that I'm going to have.
>>738401524Honestly I've been assuming it's zoomers who are rapidly approaching 30 and are terrified their life is over.
>>738403252B-b-BIDEN WAS OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD IN THE BRAIN
>>738403343no it's like 20yo zoomers obsessed with youth lobbing it aggressively at anyone who is approaching 30. t.29yo been called unc several times by 18-22 yos.
>>738395381>two shelves dedicated to Sneakersit wasn't even that good
>>738400484Are these the famed canadian suicide pods?
>>738404002Suicide? This prime real estate. 10 mil each at least.
>>738393514Zuncs zonking out over superior gaming, shakin my head nigga
>>738394558Yeah, that's what the zoomies sluts I facefuck say.
Oh look, a generation war thread. Fuck off. Fuck you. Faggots.
>>738399550Based, “go home and be a family”. Enjoy the LAN party bro
Don't look, forbidden tech
>>738403119>millenials are failing as teachers>this is gen-z's fault somehow
>>738404634>build up a thousand year tradition of knowledge transfer>zoomer shows up
>>738402365What a strange place to bring up race. Why don't you post in one of the political threads on /v/ instead?
>>738393514I wish I could go back. Gaming was so much better during that time period. Look at how much soul that image projects out. Modern gaming can never ever. Its not even just about the PS1 here but everything about that setup looks like its meant to immerse you into fun. If this was these days everything would be all square and boring with minimal color and just no effort whatsoever.
>>738393514I miss living in a high trust society.
>>738404887To be fair didn't (((someone))) change learning words from phonics to guessing the context?
>>738405221That and the new quik mafs is got to be some sort of long form troll. True.
>>738394787Was this the Metreon? There was also a huge Games Workshop store with a bunch of tables set up for playing little warhammer skirmishes. And god that sandwich place was good
>>738404634this exact post is why I didnt become a teacher btwfuck being blamed for brown hordes destroying literacy while being paid 30k a year
>another universe>incredible universesad that i can't really find pictures of incredible universe, just the outside.
>>738393514>>738400484>>738400538>>738400621>>738400706What is this aesthetic called?
>>738405041It was fun for fun's sake.
>>738393514It was fun at the time when almost every major retail store had a playable video game display. Walmart, Target, Sears, Blockbuster, Macys, McDonalds, all had those tvs with a snes, psx, ps2, xbox....
>>738394293Keep living in the past aged faggot
>>738393514I can smell that image
>>738393514Gamestop used to have soul
For all our faults millennials are the last generation that had fun. Everybody is a joyless cunt now.
>>738406091> Stop remembering that things were better and accept this broken present without judgement or hope for improvement
>>738393514Why is no one allowed to like anything any more? Now no one is allowed to have liked something decades ago either.For some reason everyone is required to be a joyless faggot that hates everything, calls it cringe or problematic and then pivots to politics shit.
>>738406549>Stop living in the real world and pretend it's still 1997 like the rest of us!!!! I'm not a bald fat virgin piece of shit!!! I'm a cool hip teen that does cool thingssssss!!!!!!!!
>>738393514Yeah, seeing this place with the customers will totally change the opinion of it. Just fill it up with about 15-20 fat, foul smelling, unbathed loser fucks that want to talk about pokemon and Star Wars and you have a disgusting shithole that needs to be burned down with everyone in it.
>>738406696>y-you're not even looksmaxxing AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Maybe get a gripperino little zoomerino
>>738406091>>738406696embarrassing outbreak from a literal underage
>>738406636I think OP is lashing out having been born after the end of the golden age.
>>738406696bro your cortisol is spiking...
>>738400895>>738400789>>738400706>>738400484>>738400484>>738400538Why does this look like the future instead of the past
>>738400621>literally just a Target nowRIP the 00's Metreon
>>738393514bratty zoomies making fun of oji-sans... have to be corrected...
>>738404634Oh yes, no accountability, everything is everyone else's fault
>>738406696You're a fucking adult dude
>>738395460obesity has only gotten worse though
>>738408464millenials who are all the chefs now did not make yummy dindins with balanced nutrition so we are all fat now
>>738393514This is not just a gaming thing, this was pretty much all public spaces were maxed for entertainment and spectacle. It was an era where people genuinely tried to make their places look fun and exciting. It's weird to everyone in 2026 since now all businesses are made to look like a boring bland coffee shop.McDonalds and other fast food restaurants also tried extra hard to look interesting for kids. Stores went much harder on the look of the place to have big flashy signs, overly decorated walls and displays, playable demos, listen stations, and they ornately designed the desks and counters. Everything today looks like a bus station with plain walls and cheap seats.
>>738408635>t. boomers most favorite retard
>>738407490Because that was the general idea. They wanted things like electronic stores and arcades to look like the backdrop of a scifi movie. It always had to look like a space ship.
>>738393514That place probably smelled like old rotten candy and fat guy sweat at all times.
>>738402906
Why is one anon constantly bringing up fat people unprompted?
>>738393514it was and you missed it. lmao.
>>738408882It's part of zoomer culture to be roided up.
>>738395381fake as shit. notice how the consoles aren't locked up behind glass? this is obvious AI.
>>738408719The person who grew up seeing the top designed the bottom. Isn't that messed up?
>>738402989I think the tipping point for this was Xbox Live party chats and its a double-edged sword for me. On one hand, XBL party chats I firmly believe directly contributed in keeping my main friend circle, whom I consider my brothers beyond blood together for over 15 years now, but at the same time, I only met those friends through public 2fort lobbies on the Xbox version of TF2. I don't think the conditions to meet the people who will be the best men at my wedding would have existed if TF2 did not release before Xbox party chats.I truly pity later generations who have not had such organic opportunities to meet and bond with people who can help one another grow into better people. It genuinely makes me sad to see what happened and I hope we as a society can find a solution to claw some of that back.It's why I support proximity chat in games, by making the very act of speaking publicly in-game an active part of gameplay by creating scenarios where your own self-expression can enhance the play experience I think is a perfect way to get people talking organically with other people and I hope it helps people find friend groups like how I found mine.
zoomer girls are for millennial uncs.
>>738410289Why would a millenial settle for a 25 year old hagoomer?
>>738410356settle? who said anything about settling? those girls get pumped and dumped for a happy meal.
>>738409751It almost feels like they are lashing back in the most extreme way. Like they are sick of everything looking like a Disneyworld attraction and they demand all things look like the DMV.
>>738410405They fuck for a buck.
>>738407490>>738405942Y2K
>>738406636Liking things opens you up as a target and zoomers are some of the most vicious faggots around so they've all learned to never like anything ever or else their peers will mercilessly shit all over them.
>>738404410>filename
>>738404634>I can't figure out anything>this is someone else's fault, somehow
You guys do know nothing is stopping you from having a LAN party right?
>>738393514>>738393714i was alive during this era and never saw any place like this, regular game stores looked exactly the same 25 years ago as they do today
>>738406636We live in a world where being hateful is profitable and actually being passionate about something is cringe. This was intentionally designed by the way, to reduce social trust to as low as it can go without there being full blown unrest.
>>738393721Nobody reads anymore, so there's an entire generation (or two) who can only communicate through the template phrases and slang they see on social media.
>>738393514it is, youre just wrong
>>738409751They design the bottom because the older property owners demand their buildings to be intentionally bland and generic so it could fit the mold and layout of various different franchises in case one shuts down to be replaced by another.A McDonalds today is not built to be a McDonalds, it's build to be a modern McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Burger King, and Panda Express all at the same time. Nothing is built with the intention of any roots because they treat the brands as disposable and the owners responsible feel zero obligation to directly invest and enhance their local communities because they are granted to exclusive privilege to live as effectively global citizens with no regard for their fellow citizens they are supposed to be united with under the flag of the nation they're supposed to support and represent. Notice how we stopped seeing rich people do shit like build libraries, museums, or stadiums in their name in their neighborhoods? They didn't do it back then only out of kindness in their heart, they lived like regular citizens and as a result wanted to help make sure that the cities and neighborhoods they lived in weren't shitholes.
>>738410661Very curious that the adults aren't dropping their meal prep to do the son's job too. I am very smart.
Peak gaming was counter-strike with bros at an internet cafe.
>>738410784>using arrow keys for movementit was a different time
Just take the 90's pill, pretend times are still good, ignore the decay of modernity.https://youtu.be/uWu3JqLMImY
>>738395381It may be hard to believe, but every item in this screenshot didn't actually exist. It was created just for the show.
>>738406636Because that's how you get weird shit like Bronys, Disney Adults, and Hazbin (literal!)fags.Fandoms are a fucking cancer. Also kill yourself.
>>738410850>they lived like regular citizens and as a result wanted to help make sure that the cities and neighborhoods they lived in weren't shitholes.that's a somewhat generous interpretation of 'if we don't spend some money on STUFF, people will only demand the government take it away anyway .... may as well build a building with my name on it'like *range man and the '& john f kennedy' nonsense, or that business where he was demanding an airport, any airport, be named for him. completely failing to understand how that whole thing was supposed to work
>>738406636Because that makes you a fanboy faggot?
>>738410784Me and my friends are all adults now with jobs, partners (some with a wife and kids), living in different cities and some live in different countries entirely now.Organizing my original group is a hellhole even for a casual get-togethers like going to a bar for a drink or two.Atleast we meet every summer for a BBQ party and we talk semi regularly online.I don't think I could keep in contact with my friends as easily if I were an adult 20 years ago.
>>738410850I have heard it has more to do with the property being more valuable than the franchise. So it needs to be as neutral as possible so that the company can repackage or resell that property as easily as possible.
>>738398489>obsolete CDs>I miss those!>lan parties>I miss those!>big box PC games>I miss those! >AIM/IRC>I miss those!>ball mice>.... >quake and starcraft >I miss those!
>>738399182>the one guy with the iMac G4
>>738393514Orange lights good.
>>738406696fuck i feel bad for zoomers having fucking noting to reminiscence too, this is how they revolt
>>738409073there was less “diversity” back then so not everything had to be locked up
>>738411381I miss AIM and MSN.
>>738411381>>lan parties>>I miss those!The zoomers will never understand what this was like, and I wish they could.
>>738393514I cant believe how badly tech corps fucked everything. It is insane how much worse life became and I can only imagine actual boomers feel the same, its a never ending spiral.
i miss going outside and being unreachablethere was a time when the only way to find someone was to see them or ask someone else if they had seen them unless you had some cia spy satellite or something and almost no streets had cctv or other surveillance cameras
>>738393514was previous generations this volatile over people enjoying nostalgia/things that are actually good, only time i can remember is the boomer spam that happened in the late 2010s but that was just a shit ass meme that gone too far
>>738398489Literally nobody did that. I only ever opened the mouse to play with the ball, it had a nice hefty feel to it>>738399046Exactly
>>738411381I'd rather have a solid ball mouse than the planned obsolescence double clicking after a year piece of shit mice they make today.
>>738393514>three screens on top of each otherso this is the 3DS
>>738393514>Uncs thought this was peak gamingBecause it was. The world has become a significantly more soulless place as I've aged.
>>738412612They got it in their head that the need to fight millennials for control of the internet because they think they're the tough shit generation, unironically. It's pretty funny actually it's why they're obsessed with roids and mogging.
>>738398489i do not miss male micei got in trouble in 7th grade for saying "the girl mice are on their periods" 'cuz they shined red light
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>>738412974build dif
>>738412974>2003World of Wowcraft beta?
>>738412883and imagine how soulful it used to be before we were borni hate boomers generally but i also empathize with them a lot because holy shit they had it all and lost it
>>7384129741994 to 2007 looks like a total anomaly, things are just returning to the old trend. I wonder if its a coincidence that it aligns with the golden age of gaming.
Obligatory posthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_progression
>>738400706>Ever GraceEver Based.
>>738393514why are you zoomers so fucking scaredlike relax lmaothe world is utterly too dog shit to be stirring more shit into it
>>738413382WIKIPEDIA NO
>>738413260>things are just returning to the old trendNaw. Notice the big increase starting around 2013? That's when people started using the word "incel." If you look up statistics broken down by demographics, you'll see it's incredibly disingenuous to say "teen and young adult suicides." It's teen and young adult MALES exclusively that are on the rise. Women aren't killing themselves more. It's also mostly white men who are killing themselves more.Obviously this doesn't exactly support certain political narratives which are used to give preferential treatment to certain groups of people, so of course you're never going to hear about it in the media.
>>738402365The “rich” convinced cucks like you that everything that sucks now wasn’t their fault and you ate it upCrazy>>738405664Bonus points here
>>738412768>ball get stuck>move mouse>nothing happens>slam the mouse>randomly yeets to the corner of the screen>does this 3 times over a minuteNo you wouldnt. Using the internet used to be a punishing experience>fucking around with all of this while you load a 128kb web page for 3 minutesCool! Sign me up!
>>738412974>>738413260I'd personally argue that by 1994, the internet has become viable and spread to middle-class households and not just companies.It early internet was a new wild west and being talking to others anywhere from anywhere did wonders to loneliness until it got massively adapted by the mainstream and commercialized beyond recognition.I personally draw the line at the death of flash.I love how people just made entertainment for literally zero monetary gain, they made stuff for just the hell of it.
>>738393514they were right desu, I wish these displays still existed, pure soul
>>738413629>is clearly about fossil fuels >/pol/ rotted gooner brain has you thinking about race mixing Yikes
>>738413795>I love how people just made entertainment for literally zero monetary gain, they made stuff for just the hell of it.That's why it annoys me so much when zoomers justify the bullshit monetization with>Well if it weren't for that, no one would make any content!Yes, motherfucker, they would. We did exactly that before dumb fucks ruined the internet for everybody.
>>738413923I'm pretty sure anon was intentionally making a joke.
>>738400402>3/4 baldingand retardos say it's a current day issue only becaus le jew chemicals or whatever
>>738413928To be fair only like 1/6 -1/3 of Gen Z knows about this era the rest has been fucked over by touch screen, predators and the worst. Some have been living in hell for all of their conscious lives
>>738413963 I know I’m just trying to keep the thread alive
>>738413653>rich people import brown people for cheap labor>"nooooo you cant be mad at brown people">"you can only hate 1 (one) group of people!"No thanks.
>>738414109The amount of suffering those small people do should be the focus as it would improve things greatly for everyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA
>>738400402>the multitapAlways wanted one as a kid. Never got my dad to buy it for me.
>>738414109>Rich people do thing>mad at someone elseRetard you said the thing. You just said it.
>>738406091>keep living in the best of timesOk
>>738410790Fuck no they didn't.
>>738414201>you cant hate blackrock AND illegalsWhy not?
>>738414507Because immigrants actually help the economy, but outside of that they didn't cause any of this shit. That's like being mad at a chair for stubbing your toe instead of the guy who slid the chair into your path.
>>738406696So which [x]maxxing scam did you fall for this month?
>>738400621If I was a rich, I'd run an arcade. I wouldn't care if it wasn't profitable.
>>738414762>non food analogyNewfag>sit at a restaurant >about to eat>corporations pay someone to break in>steal my food>I get the bill anyways>"theyre actually helping you!"Illegals are immigrants in the same way that armed robbery is a career.
>>738412974>5th gen comes out>suicides massively plummet>6th gen comes out>suicides remain low with a small spike before trending back down>7th gen comes out>suicides start to rise again>8th gen comes out>suicides spikeVery interesting.
>>738410790No they fucking didn’t. They had far more displays, stations, and interactivity. You are 10000% a zoomer.
>>738415146funny it spiked when 2012 happenedmaybe the mayans were right
>>738400538I remember gamestop and walmart having a station you could test games out on but this is next level. Is this in Japan?
>>738415085Even on welfare they pay into the system by using products and services which goes straight into your paycheck by increasing consumer demand and gdp Imagine the ones that have jobs which is the majority. I am sorry to hear that you're such a cucked little victim so scared of your own shadow that you think these people broke in at gun point to jack your shit. Try pulling your head out of your ass see if that helps.
>>738413795smart phones for me. there was a device called the Sidekick, decent keyboard for your thumbs, tactile buttons, AIM pre-installedeven though we all had flip phones, those cost minutes in some cases, t9 was terrible if functional, but the sleek touch screen keypad with wifi won
>>738406636What the other anon said. Zoomers are forced to hide every single feeling they have in like 10 layers of irony. As a result they talk shit about literally everything, they are constitutionally incapable of just being themselves, speaking openly and honestly, and overall engaging without a constant air of pessimism.
>>738411242Liking something makes you a fanboy faggot? You zoomers are fucking retarded holy shit.
>>738411381I do not miss ball mice, I fucking hated them. But I do miss the others quite a bit.
>>738410790>regular game stores looked exactly the same 25 years ago as they do todayBullshit faggot, where's the consoles set up with a game you could play as a demo?
>>738411209It's not an endorsement of the practice, but it's clear that there is a difference in how the ultra wealthy of 100 years ago conducted themselves and chose how to spend their wealth for their vanity (that just happened to lead to at least some tangible net benefit to society) and how the ultra wealthy of today who can travel the world without risk dying of some ocean-borne disease locking them down. >>738411337That's exactly what I was referring to, you're on the same page. It's more valuable to keep shit bland because if a new business owner needs to pay to demolish a closed McDonalds that was built with the iconic golden arches in the building design because it's too distinctly McDonalds to be passed off as a Dairy Queen it hurts the property value for the property owner (who is usually only renting the space out to the business owners)
>>738412606If you did, you would just not carry a phone with you.If you care so much about cameras, it's clear you want to kill somebody and I hope they catch you.
>>738411187>s-stooooooooooooop liking what I don't likeDo zoomers really?
>>738416080>if you’re not committing a crime then you shouldn’t care :^)I will only agree as long as all of these cameras are completely publicly accessible at any time by anybody. The government should not be the only one allowed to see everyone else without normal people having access to the same information.
>>738407490you are now painfully aware and have gained understanding on the concept of enshittification
>>738416080newfags really say the most psychotic shit. this behavior is not going to work well for you in meatspace
>>738412961Kek
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>>738417202kek
>>738406636the goywashing workednow no one cant enjoy anything, only endlessly work boomers lines up
>>738413095whatever they lost they sold, including things they didnt own
They want things so simple and clean. Thank hitata ukaru
>>738393514holy kinothey took this from us
>>738412606You know, I asked my mom out of curiosity the other day. She is quite the worrywart even though I'm an adult, have lived alone for a while now.I asked whether she was also worried as often as she is about me before I got my mobile phone (before it was a thing with kids) and she just sat there for a good five minutes and said>no, you know I actually didn't, I just accepted that I can't reach you anyways so you'll be home before dark or if there's trouble you'll call via public phones or one of your friends would call meI think that for her, the idea that she can reach me whenever opened some sort of a floodgate with her.Can any other old anon also confirm if their parents were more loose before cellphones?
>>738417729Now ma can text me "i heard sirens are you okay?"
>>738417729note to self: don't put "mom" and "out of curiosity" in this exact order next time, it can be interpreted differently than intended
>>738393514Uh, no you fucking retarded zoomer. Peak gaming (stores) was the early 90's with Software Etc and Babbages.
>>738393514I've visited a place like this in my dreamsthere was a psp displaythey were showing off patapon if I remember correctly
Uncs are honestly prehistoric now
>>738418259So uncslop is just some of the best games of all time? Weird insult desu
>>738418259>I've carefully researched the uncs>heh gottemGood job.
Now this is gaming.
>>738393514> OP is vague posting again as bait> sucks a rage baiting.The pic rel is of the Playstation Store, the one and only, that Sony opened at the Sony Metreon in 1999 in San Francisco (search for it). When I went there a few times it was, in its entirety, a marketing operation via retail pretense. With using architecture similar to that of Dan Weil ("The Fifth Element") using architecture cues straight out of a comic by French comic authors Jean-Claude Mézières and Jean Giraud. So the reason that this was "thought" to be peak gaming was merely because this was at a time when the industry, as an industry, without needing to ask permissions to some government attached commissar or some internal focus groups, went all out in order to do marketing and flex run just about around when the Playstation 2 launched.This was something memory making that to this day, despite my reservations about the store itself for what it was along with the rest of the complex at the time, that proves that the industry today is total shadow of what it once was. Full stop.Again the entire experience - if you want to know what this store was like, you just have to go to any Apple store today - any single one - and it would be the exact same experience: it's part showcase, part store, all marketing.An aside: I sometimes notice that Zoomers copycat their Gen X parents who like to pretend to be "above it all" anything that is sincerely appreciated by people that were more fortunate to have nice things; Gen X did it to Baby Boomers and now Zoomers do it to Millennials. Monkey see, monkey do.
You will never get to experience peak gaming.2001 E3
>>738412974>teen and youngEveryones suicide rates are highest on record.
>pictures from shill conventions with poor camera good>pictures from shill conventions with good camera badYou are so simple creatures.
>>738419080>Shill convention during probably best year of gaming ever>Shill convention during literally the worst year of gaming currently happeningGee I sure wonder what people prefer.
>>738398489those sucked ass I'm glad they became obsolete
>>738406636Anon, you have to get out of this mindset of permissions.There's too much of this idea (even this entire website has fallen for it)where you have this idea of "I'm not allowed by public opinion to like something"you can like something regardless of what someone thinks or says.Case in point: I like SOTN not because it's popular, I like SOTN, because it was afun game, with lots of memories attached to the experiences when I first played itthe first two, three times earlier in my life.OP is just doing this ragebait thing of dismissing things that were once there that people had the chance to experience that they never will.But I often think to myself, in the case of the Playstation store, I was there,many times, and knew that it was neat, but it wasn't as much what it was cracked to be, but it was nice to have around at the time. But the very fact that I could recall and give some celebration to such things of my time,of my youth, has to be "allowed" or not is so stupid as it is an attempt to make youself-censor yourself from within your own thoughts using perceived (The Internet Is Not Real Life™) electronic social peer pressure as a way of social engineering and training you to think in terms of allowance or disallowance.It's why I think this board is a joke now. But hey, Zoomers are going to Gen X.
>>738393721so you don't have fun with themyou are welcome
>>738393514I hated PS1 genugly ass games aged like milk
>>738393514Home....
>>738393721socialism.
>>738418585The world is wounded. It cannot heal. Only bleed, only die.
I wish someone would degauss my life
>>738418259cant wait to see what uncSLOP looks like for the super zoomers of today. It's going to be nothing but live service slop like roblox and fortnite
>>738406636Nigga you on /v/, this place has always been like that, it's always sucked
>>738419781It will be just like what every WoW faggot among Millennials who want to recall the game and have evidence of its existence today where you can't really recall it in any material manner to show evidence of its existence except through third-party coverage and whatever videos are out there in the ether that is the Internet.WoW is the basis for every ZoomSlop today.Expect a glowing retrospective on "Uncle Kotick" as a "revolutionary figure" in video games.
how does humanity turn this around?
>>738418293I once fucked up my screen with some industrial neodymium magnets (family friend nicked them from a job site and passed them out to my siblings and me) and it took like 20+ degausses over the course of an hour to get it back to normal. I was still impressed that it managed to fix it because god damn did those magnets to a number on it. Pretty colors, though.
>>738420524The chronic boredom from the next Carrington Event will respark human creativity however the economic turmoil in the years following will downsize our bloated carrying capacity, resulting in mass amounts of human death until the population restabilizes
>>738420524maybe when all the boomers finally die off but it will be too late
>>738419536I refuse to believe this. We can build a world like the one we lost. If they can destroy what we had, we can destroy what they have now.
>>738420561did the same thing with a giant subwoofer magnet
>>738420524There are generations of kids raised in an environment of corporate oversimplification. When they get older, they will demand that things are overly simplified because that's their "nostalgia". It's an unbreakable cycle.
>nostalgia thread Yeah I miss 25 years ago when the youth didn't worship black people and loved big boobs...
>>738419167>everyones best years were always when they were teensoooooooo
>>738420524We need creatives. You know how all games and movies are really desaturated, washed out, colorless, bland? We need to make things that aren't like that.
>>738421597Literally every series that companies are dragging the corpses of today had their best games release in the 2000s. Its not even a debate you fucking retard
>>738412606Put your phone on silent and don't apologize for it. It's easy.
>>738393721>people on /v/this shit is an issue everywhere on the internet. People constantly reuse memes because it's easy likes/upvotes farm. They get off on it while being creatively bankrupt.
>>738422204It wasn't always like this, and I fail to see why you would still behave this way in a place without a button to click to indicate preference. I see kids talk like this in public for fucks sake, to their parents or anyone who would listen.
>>738422473lol i forgot about video game porn threads. so many great ideas lost to the same deluge of template and/or outrage spam for replies.
>>738415372No, retard, it's an old picture of their once-stood store at a mall in San Francisco
>>738420692>Carrington EventOh hey, you don't hear about this very often among people.Are you in the space industry too ?
>>738400706Evergrace, my beloved...
How can we undo modern flat design corporate memphis minimalism faggotry, bros?
>>738393714You can’t experience the culture, but at least the most important artifacts of it (the games themselves) are preserved.
>>738410790You fucking liar.
>>738408719>reeeeeeeee why does the place I go for cheap, quickly prepared slop not look like a daycare!?
>>738422869an acid/cocaine renaissance Put it in the weed shops ezpz.
>>738393721it's engagement farming everyone is doing it nowno one does anything for the joy of it anymore, everything is done in the name of money
>>738395460UH OHHH, ZOOMIE HAVING A MELTY
>>738399046that's how you get nail fungus
>>738411381>Hating lan partiesNo friends loser
>>738416080>If you care so much about cameras, it's clear you want to kill somebody and I hope they catch youI can't wait for the system to rape you slowly while you cry in confusion cause you were a good little goy
>>738393514Why does 2026 no longer have soul like this?
>>738417729i watched a bunch of these psas a while ago. the ones with mr. t are kino.
>>738422763Nah, just a space-case that knows that he's on borrowed time.
>>738414109don't bother arguing with these retards. browns and the rich are functionally the same corrosive entity and retarded liberal goyim will never understand.
>>738393514I thought this was a screenshot of space rangers 2 from the thumbnail
>>738394427Fuck I forgot all about these moments. Happened all the time at places like Chuck e' Cheese on games like 4-player TMNT, X-Men, Simpsons, the 2-player Jurassic Park arcade games, etc.
>>738393514It was. Whatever that store is, is extremely peak.
>>738423435Neat, always nice to see how many are interested in space.Don't forget to remove all batteries from your electronics when it ultimately happens for the increased chance to save your stuff before the event.
>>738423685lol BITCH
>>738424183
I remember. I used to live near San Francisco. The Sony store at the bottom of the Metreon where you could sit at the bar and play any PS1/2 game as long as you want. The side theater that they put the PS3 in, where I played Killzone 2 on a huge screen and it blew my mind. On the second floor next to the movie theater was Tilt, a massive arcade. Next to that was a Games Workshop with Warhammer figures. On the top floor was a massive Where The Wild Things Are area that I had like 3 birthdays at.What’s weird is all the hobbies I loved as a kid are now objectively more popular than ever, but these places all got lost. The building is just a big Target now. How is that that possible? Shouldn’t these spots be more in demand than ever?I have a wife and 2 kids now. I’m in my 30’s. What the fuck.
>>738409073>2001No there wasn't
>>738393514Uncs are into something
>>738413928I remember when I first started learning to make websites being excited to contribute something to the Internet I loved so much. The thought of making money literally never entered my mind. I wanted to add something to the archive of knowledge for the future.
>>738398489im a full on retro/vintage fag and these are one of the things that i am absolutely glad are gone. ps/2 is the chadest of all ports but being in the middle of a game and all of a sudden your mouse hangs up feels like absolute shit.
>>738424621ya ur mom
>>738400789diversity is our strength btw
>>738424349They tend to not be all that profitable, especially with the insane costs of rent now. Now add into the mix the growing elements of low trust society and the costs to maintain such places explode. Even if it were expected to operate at a loss, there aren't enough wealthy people willing to subsidize the fond memories of future generations.
>>738401036>We have legitimate mouthy kids trying to shitpost because they don't fit in with the typical autistic wizard anonWe do, but this thread isn't that. This is a stealth nostalgia thread with a phenomenally retarded framing.
>>738401851didn't they put her on Women's Ninja Warrior or whatever it was called and she could barely get past the first obstacle
>>738412612Zoomers have nothing of their own. They inherited the Internet and pretend Millennials had no say in creating the very spaces they dwell in
>>738401582>You have never met an old black dude, they have been using unc and neph for literal decadesI bet they don't use it in the terminally online irony poisoned way the younger ones do.The modern language meta is to try and sound as much like a nigger as possible, and it's as tragic as it is disgusting.
>>738415243They certainly were. We're living in a dead world. People thought it would be an instant thing for some reason
>>738413653Nigger the rich imported the browns
>>738414049Zoomers don't deserve a fair shake because they're so fucking hostile and refuse to listen to anything said by anyone older than them
>>738414762I hope your family gets raped by jamal
>>738400538I think i miss the soft lighting the most. What was the distopian reason to change to the bright lights we have now?
>>738426168Shut the fuck up you retarded fucking mon-keigh.
>>738418792>That spoilerInsightful observation
>>738419080Your own generation are paying for overpriced old cameras to get this exact 'vibe' in their images lmao
>>738419536No one ever wants to acknowledge the decline in graphic design over the years. I wonder why it happened
>>738420524Mass extinction. Too many indoctrinated and bad faith people to fix it
>>738413079
>>738393514I was alive through this era and I have no idea what the fuck this is.
>>738423605If all we end up with is fried electronics we are extremely lucky.
>>738419536>>738418585I really miss the original wow community site.
>>738394558Tags: Father/Son incest questionable_consent rough_sex facefuck
>>738420524meh idk, I dont think any generation will ever be as demoralized as the WW1-2 vets n shit seeing young people through the 60s/70s. they were probably FUCKING devastated. then the 80s happened. just pray lol
>>738404634I’ve seen more than a few comments online and on reddit about how teachers are struggling to deal with the severe attention deficit among current younger generationsdue to their use of phones from a very early age, especially watching reelsTheir attention span is significantly shorter, so teachers need to find ways to reward them with small incentivesThe average attention span of a young person today before they become completely distracted is 1 to 3 minutes
>>738426210LED lights are far more efficient, they use about 1/8 the power of incandescent while putting out more light.More recently though there's been even further advancements in the way LED bulbs actually look, some coming very close to the old incandescents, so you can still achieve the old look. however the establishment in question has to 1. know the option exists and 2. not be cheap asses
>>738393514Yes roughly that time. 6th gen years was good too. 7th gen was where it all fell apart and everything stopped being exciting. It was this short duration of years that everything good happened in. Where you would walk into a store and there was always a game that would have been a wise decision to purchase. Or if you didn't want to buy it you were probably unaware that it was likely good anyway. All i do is play games from this era. 'New bad old good' is practically truthful in saying because the industry sucks shit now. They don't make anything i want to play anymore.
The time that malls were built with the assumption that families would come and spend all day there so they were built to be comfortable and entertaining was too good.
>>738426732Unless you are actively using any electronics when it happens you're fine. Only people who got injured are those who used the telegraph systems or were really close to a utility pole at the time in 1859 (death or burns of varying degrees).Well, when it happens it would likely cause world-wide panic nowadays so you're most likely to be harmed due to a mob of people rather than the storm itself if you'd ask me.
>>738418792samefag here.I meant to say that it was Sony's time to flex around and market when they opened the Playstation store along with the Sony Metreon complex.But the industry itself, was also doing flexes here and there in their own ways so this was an emblematic moment in the industry where things were good, strong, and seemingly unending because there was a lot of money going into Sony's Playstation division's coffers.>>738426976Yeah I have come down to, I think since 2018, to a point where I really seldom like a new game - I think I was recommended "Divine Frequency" when it was a Doom mod and then later I bought the game proper when it came out. But I usually play old games - I even built two MiSTer FPGA consoles just to play old stuff when I can't use software emulators. Because to me, sure you can say "old man ramble", but I don't like the outright theft in the industry: if it's not hearing stories of government subsidized games like "Dustborne" to consultation firms from Canada or Canadians mucking up a game, it's always something. You can't trust streamers, you can't trust Youtubers, you can't trust even very board (of course who would? Who ever did?) so you go with what you know and only consider opinions of people who are serious about video games.And you save money too! That's a real benefit and additional source to peace of mind.
>>738404634Can't fix stupid gen z anon.
>>738393514Yes it was.
>>738427182>loads of stores of various kinds>minigolf>5 different options for food, 2 are sit-down restaurants>grocery store>movie theatre to top it all offcity of 30k people in the late 90's/early 00's. always busy.now that building is half offices and half stores held hostage by contracts signed years and years ago
>>738426757Websites used to have so much soul. The internet never felt more alive.
>>738428339
>>738427634Nature is capable of a lot more than that.
>>738410537Take me back, bros.
>>738428339>>738428446I don't even care if a website looks nice. If you gave me a soulless minamalist corpo art website that had the layout of the left instead of ads and sponsers and forced premium log in I would love it.
>>738428339Websites also used to just load fast because we had the server optimize what was being fed. Now we just dump 10mb of javascript on you and have the client do it slowly instead and also self-report its analytics back to the server.>>738393721To ensure no one actually uses it unironically. Locked & keyed.
>>738407490Because it was, this was the future that was stolen from us.
>>738393514>>738400789the incandescent lighting is doing the heavy lifting
>>738428446Infinite scroll is the real problem with any website that has it. It instantly makes any site unusable. Whoever invented it needs to be flayed alive in public and pelted with vegetables.
>>738428828I wouldn't mind it as much, but it's so rare to come across a site with infinite scroll that annotates the current "page" in your browser's URL bar so you can refresh back to a certain spot when you click out.
>>738428828https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza_Raskin
>>738428339Why is nothing on the internet allowed to be fun and/or look unique anymore? I don't want to go full schizo and say it's intentional demoralization but god damn it looks that way.
>>738428992Don't even need to check early life
>>738429046>He isn't full schizo yetC'mon bro, what is it going to take?
>>738428339Japanese websites still look like that.Real web 1.0 kind of stuff, although I do hear a lot of complaints from others (non-japanese) that websites are bad and not user friendly, but I like them.
Lots of styles/design languges on this site.https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/channelsMetreon stuff falls under y2k but there is bleed from others. For me it's frasurbane.
>>738393721Fuck you and fuck your stupid nigger slang.
>>738402740and with the actual funds to indulge in all that shit
>>738398489were you really? because i was
>>738410871I'm sure the troglodyte recording him for reddit upvotes is also too busy cooking
>>738398489The ball mice felt good to use but were a total pain in the ass because of that image. I never played on one competitively though. How people managed to play Quake on those in comps or even in online death match is beyond my comprehension.My first online game i got to play aside from Counter Strike was RTCW. So by that point i think i might have had laser sensor. I eventually played an arena by Quake 3 but by that point i was also on laser.
>>738410661Didn't even occur to bro to turn it 360 degrees and walk away. grim
>>738398426>At least they’ve had gfs and sex.hahahahaha
>>7383953816th gen was the last good gen before the catering to normalfags and dudebros really kicked off.Halo sucked dick though.
>>738410184>It genuinely makes me sad to see what happened and I hope we as a society can find a solution to claw some of that back.We won't. This society only goes in one direction. It will only change after it hits a wall and crashes. But then it will be a different society.
>>738393514>>738393514No, we thought hooking up our computers with our friends computers and playing games like Quake and Command Conquer was peak. Also GTA while taking turns.
This is my favourite thread since the one about posting oldfag memes.>>738395460zoomers arent the cause of the decline, but they are 100% going to bucketcrab any attempt to reverse it.
>>738400895soul
>>738410184https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC5rlq8LXY4
>>738429046Beyond anything else it's mostly because everything is designed for smartphones now and the retards who rely on them.
>>738429139>>738428992>Raskin coined the phrase, "freedom of speech is not freedom of reach"Amusingly enough, his Early Life section was removed...
>>738430289Theres a comment chain on youtube for a video about chips where:>initial comment complains about the price of the chips>reply says that he's take one look at the chips, turn 360 degrees and walk away>hundreds of replies across 3 years of zoomers correcting him about what turning 360 degrees would do>still gets people to this day.They literally cant imagine turning 360 degrees and walking away.
>>738393714tbdesu part of me wishes i started gaming with a ps2 instead of a gamecube
>>738410790LYING SACK OF SHIT FIGHT ME AT THE MCDONALD'S KIRBY AND CRYSTAL SHARDS GAMESTATION
>>738400538>>738400621>>738400789looks like pre-rendered backgrounds
I wish malls hadn't died and the smartphone hadn't been invented. I miss when they were the cultural mecca everyone assembled at on the weekends. The one near me had a small theater in it and I have this fond memory of seeing Mortal Kombat with my mom and then getting cinnamon buns afterwards.
>>738431096yeah, all those people on the BLM movement during nigger floyd death were zoomers, sure.kys retard.
>>738431452My local mall had a small theatre in it as well. I couldn't remember anything I've seen and I had only went a few times. The mall got absolutely destroyed during a 2018 hurricane.
My memory sucks dick but if any other Amerifats remember either of these:>a video outlet chain that sold anime, one of the few places I was able to get it in the 90's, think the name was Sun something, remember it always being dimly lit inside, cool underground atmosphere>this one other chain that would have a ton of random shit on tables everywhere, basically a huge open air pawn shop, but the specific thing I remember about it was it had fake leaves and Greek statues everywhere, like an old temple
i miss when stores would let you try out games because it was one of the easier ways to market towards kids.
>>738431370kek eternal internet summer
>>738420692We've had Carrington Event sized solar storms recently and nothing happened. Either they didn't measure it properly (very likely) or all electronics are properly shielded now and it will never be an issue.
if you didn't grow up raving in your bedroom to all the electro pop of the early 90's then don't fucking speak to mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfQ98A-6mG8
>>738431559First one is Suncoast, I think. We had one of those at our mall as well. No idea about that second one.
>>73841125320 years ago you pretty much immediately fell out of contact with all your friends after highschool and would only talk to them once or twice again in your life at your highschool reunion
>>738408875sweet jesus
>>738411253>every single last one of my old friends either got involved in drugs, got married, or both>stopped talking to any of the druggies because fuck getting anywhere near that shit>ghosted all the married ones because they literally did nothing ever except work and bitch about how much they hate their wives while also making snide comments about how I still don't have a girl>like 7-8 years since I've actually had a friend at this pointoh well
>>738431731https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymOjaaxRDLU
>>738401851G4 was always kinda shit but Unemployed Ninja has lived in my head for decadeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjIpXo-X0Pg
>>738420524Power through until a sizeable colony lives sustainably in space.
>>738431510Yeah, all those people at cville and the battles of berkley were zoomies, sureWhats next zoomzoom? You were there at the battle of the bulge? The alamo? You guys were frfr ang no cap flossing at over a bunch of dead tojos in iwo jima?
>>738430539>6th gen was the last good gen before the catering to normalfags and dudebros really kicked off.Yes and no. It was a transitional gen: You can clearly see the normalfaggotry becoming more and more prominent as the gen progresses
>>738401524This is the same board where people fall for the most retarded false flags ever just so they can conjure a scrape goat. If they want to believe anyone younger than them talks in ebonics and has an allergic reaction to everything they like then they fucking will.
There's something about all the nonsense plastic displays and entire expos that were purpose built just for one use that just really tickle the soul. Sure, they were commissioned by enormous corporations to tune into the *WHOA RADICAL* youth but the people they contracted out really seemed to get at the heart of what made the products exciting in the first place. That's what's missing not only in gaming, but any marketing franchise. It's either corporations don't want to invest in the aesthetic of their product or brand that heavily, or they don't understand what makes it appealing in the first place.
>>738399182>>738410784>that one kid who always hosted LAN parties because he's the richest and has a proper basement and fast intrawebs connection>that one kid whose parents didn't like any visitors>that one kid whose parents showered us with bottles of fizz, pizzas, burgers and every snack known in the late 90s>that one kid who has a sister hosting some kind of weird party upstairs/in her room while you're all playing SC1/CS>that one kid with a poorfag toaster and can barely run anything forcing him to just watch everyone>that one kid who brought his older brother's porn stash
>>738393721I still posit that literally 0% of any "unc" post online ever made by anyone under the age of 35, and I would bet hard cash that the average swings towards 45. It just feels like projection that they think everyone is going to get rage baited by being called old in an ugly way to emphasize the changing of the guards. It's like those really old guys that have full heads of hair who start running their fingers through it in front of anyone bald/baldling, like they think that being bald is a way bigger insecurity for most people than it actually is.
>>738431120I GOT A STACK OF BOOKS TO RETURNI WISH THAT THEY WERE BETTERNOW I'M SINGING IN THE LIBRARY AND TRYING TO FLIRTWHY'D THE JANITOR WALK THERE
>>738432853>It's like those really old guys that have full heads of hair who start running their fingers through it in front of anyone bald/baldlingLiterally me, get rekt baldies
>>738426235Hit the right nerve I see
>>738432969The weird part to me, and I'm speaking as a baldie, is I genuinely find it weird and bizarre that other men get so insecure about it. Like, caring for your hair is a womanly thing, isn't it? And I don't think I've ever had a problems getting dates after I started balding and shaving my head. So like...why the fuck do men care about it so much?
>>738426937I have led bulbs that can shit out any colour i want in my house. There has to be a psychological reason to move away from the dim lighting too
>>738433094For sure or I just wanted to call you a mon-keigh. Whatever makes you happiest. *forehead kiss*
>>738427634>Unless you are actively using any electronics when it happens you're fineWouldn't everyone carrying round a phone be a very very bad thing then?
>>738414183these people ruined it. should be hung by the balls. at the very least they were complicit alongside the boomers >don't mind me, zoomer kiddo. just unc drunk on nostalgia
>>738429046Part of it is cause it's gotta fit on a tiny screen now
>>738426926it's not only attention deficit which has caused even the highest level of successful students to struggle with simple tasks previous generations were expected to do without just checking out mentally, it's that students literally don't give a shit and there's honestly no easy way to fix it. if i was in school post covid i'd be fucked entirely, i would just use an LLM to think for me and call it a day any time i experienced any amount of friction. this total lack of friction causes your ability to cope with any problems in life to atrophy setting you up for a life of failure, anxiety, stress, and depression.
>>738410790Also alive during this era and at best game shops remained similar until around 2013
>>738433106You still want to be fuckable anon lol. Gym is a requirement for the Caillou afflicted such as yourself. I'd rather just have the hair.
>>738433369Like I said, I don't really notice a problem. It genuinely just feels like you're projecting your insecurity onto me. Are you really so sure that you would become unfuckable if someone shaved your head? You really have NOTHING else going for you? And then what about military guys? They're required by regulation to go jar head and they pull bitches left and right. Like, what is this weird cope? Are you trying to give ME cope? Like I actually do not understand what the point of this is.
>>738433106I was just kidding, but I agree. It's easy for me to talk because I still have all my hair but I really don't think I would care very much. I would just shave it or rock a skullet. I had a friend comment about my hair starting to turn gray and I just said "yeah, I'm old". I think all that shit is a demoralzation psyop, or marketing maybe. Your hair is not who you are. Like you are telling me ladies didn't want to bang Skinner from the X-Files or Jason Statham? It looks high T, if you are jacked.
>>738428476Oh absolutely, but I was referring to flares and coronal mass ejections (as the topic was the Carrington Event and thus by proxy Carrington class CMEs).>>738433215Yeah. Overloads in phones can and will also cause burns or small fires perhaps. When it happens make sure to take out the battery.>inb4 faraday pouch?It helps, but honestly cosmic/solar radiation can sometimes randomly penetrate that so just take out any batteries and you've done much more than most will do.
>>738432893>BOOKShe never touched the kid!!!!
>>738433610Jarheads? Those famously out of shape motherfuckers? All I did was offer you a different perspective one you said yourself that you didn't see and you took it as opportunity to throw jabs at me. Which is fair because I called you Canadian, but this cope shit is all you. If you want to talk insecurity look in the mirror. Just be careful not to burn out your retinas reflecting your dome
>>738433621Yeah, absolutely. Plus Bruce Willis started shaving his head and the dude was the heartthrob of the 80s when he had the least amount of hair.>I had a friend comment about my hair starting to turn gray and I just said "yeah, I'm old".Had a friend do that to me, and I said the same thing. Funny enough, one day many years later, he was sitting down and I was standing up, and I was like "Oh, hey, you got a baldspot." Guy went FULL denial about it for a month until I finally took a picture of it. He denied it still, but then like a week later he started to wear a hat around and never took the thing off lol. The crazy part is that his hair was still full and thick and he was pretty tall. You could ONLY see it from the top, yet he just went basically mental when I pointed out a spot that was MAYBE the size of a dime.Ridiculous.>>738433781Honestly you're trying too hard at this point. Scale it back a bit and it would have seemed more earnest.
>>738433859You're projecting a whole bunch of weird shit onto my intent, anon. It's shitposting on 4chan. Why are you taking it up the ass this hard?
you now remember gamecrazy/hollywood video
>>738434094I bought a psp there. rip
>>738434094Dollar a day rental was the shit.
>>738408719it's all about real estate value these days, make the space as easy to resell as possible to improve its value
>>738393514We used to have this and now we have locked up deodorants and lotions
>>738412974Early 2000s really was a better time.
>>738434181The spiritual degradation is just a bonus!
>>738393514I'm 35. I don't romanticize the past that much, but I can confirm that various retailers used to have more personality to their inner decor than the bland homogeneous shit we see today. I don't know why personality and variety got phased out of nearly everything.
>>738423480Lucky you faggot, I only went to Chuck E Cheese once as a kid and never went back because some autistic kid traumatized me. >be five>see some bigger kid playing the Simpsons game>notice there's an extra joystick and buttons>put a couple coins in>bigger kid immediately tenses up, scowls, then starts going "NNNNN NNNNN MMMMM NNNNN">he starts screaming "NNNNUH! NNNNUHH! NUH NUH NUH!" and slapping at the machine>staring at him in horror and the next thing I know he's hitting me and alternating between making those "NNNNN" noises and yelling "NNNUUUH!!">His mom comes over and pulls him off me and hugs him while yelling at me>my mom comes over and hugs me while I cry and stares in disbelief at the other kid's mom>both our moms start yelling at eachother, retarded kid's mom is calling my mom every bad name in the English dictionary>never go back to Chuck E Cheese>mom never even asks me about taking me to Chuck E Cheese>Every time a kid invited me to their birthday I'd freeze up and say I couldn't go if they said it was at Chuck E CheeseFuck 90s era arcades and especially fuck Chuck E Cheese.
>>738404634We're like acouple years older than you. Bpame your parents (gen x) dumb fucking zoomer
>>738406696alphies bitch and moan about looks as much as women do, it's so fucking over.
>>738409751Wrong
>>738395460Black people didn't, and still don't play video games. Women didn't, and still don't play video games. Black women despite making up 7% of the population make up 49% of the morbidly obese. White Americans actually have a lower obesity rate than the Finnish. 86% of Black Women are obese while only 24% of gamers who play more than 10 hours a week are obese. Gamers who play less than 10 hours a week are actually more athletic than the general population with 95% of them at a healthy weight.
>>738434921Well, that sucks.
>>738434921jesus christ that's awful
>>738407490We took a U-turn at some point in the late 2000s and now we're speedrunning back to the stone age
>>738434921Reminds me of a little while back when I read somewhere that Chuck E. Cheese had a reputation for being a place where brawls would frequently break out. I had absolutely no idea-- I used to LOVE that fucking place and never had a single bad memory from going there.
>>738410184insane how tf2 was so good for finding friends. im not joking when i say that 70% of every friend ive ever had was found through tf2100% of my boyfriends too
>>738408719it's insane how mcdonalds doesn't give a fuck about kids anymore when my kids are the only reason i ever consider going there at all. we almost never do
>>738435780I think it's funny that there are adult happy meals with a meal + toy now lol
>>738434921My mom would have whooped that other mom's ass.
>>738435780Isn't it the other way? All the whacky bright colors of the 90s were supposed to get you out of the door as fast as possible and this new "neutral" design is so you feel compelled to hang out. I guess it depends on what you mean by give a fuck about kids.
>>738407490i unironically think we're in that period of great decline that's talked about in the background of some scifi settings, that period right after humanity's golden age when everything goes to shit and doesn't really ever reach that former peak again.
>>73841326094-2001 is probably explainable as the people being the most prone to suicide and isolation (nerds) found a massive amount of community and purpose on the early internet. Interestingly, 9/11 actually caused more unification and social cohesion (shared enemy) and the trend continued downward. 2003 is when all the political faggotry and divisiveness started with the Iraq War so that might explain the unusual spike there.And then rather obviously in 2008 and onward begins with the recession, Obama era race politics and the rise of social media
>>738433106 You Type like a woman or a gay man. Maybe both
>>738401524This board was overrun by normies years ago, it's time to accept it, these days there are even literal 50 year old boomers posting on 4chan, even on /v/, because they are into Donald Trump and culturewar posting from TikTok etc., this is where the normalfags come to take a shit before going off to talk to their friends on Discord or Reddit.
>>738436221Horrors beyond human comprehension
>>738393721Because it's stupid, and we're purposely making it look uncool.
>>738395381Fuckin Master Chief what's up brooooo>>738400538Cool as iceI'm 22 and missed this but think it's nice. Cell phones fucking suck, man. It could just be my attitude. Maybe I have it better than anyone else did before and I just need to live in the present more and the use the technology correctly. But I just want to hang out man. There literally wasn't a fucking choice before. If you wanted to play with the bros, you were hopping in the car and going to do it in person. It doesn't fucking work man. Internet so cool with epic websites and memes and unparalleled access to everything. But early human brain want to play Halo with Josh on couch, fuck everything else.
>>738428509i wouldn't mind a revival of this architectural style.
>>738431612nigga. they still do that.
>>738436221Tell us oldfag. Spin us a yarn. Was there really more OC posted before? Was moot really a faggot?
>>738400484Fuck Microsoft and hell fuck Alienware too for abandoning this aesthetic for white printer paper corporate soullessness
>>738436480OC as far as the eye could see, and the faggotry was more ostentatious and flamboyant than anything even your zoomer brain could imagine.
>>738403183>unc is a ghetto hoodrat wordAs is bro yet we're not allowed to shit on bro so can't shit on unc either
>>738426926I don't really understand how the internet rapes attention span more than Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network
>>738436650Sitting down for 22 minutes to follow a narrative, even one full of constant animation and little jokes, takes a lot more concentration than clicking through an Ipad every 30 seconds, reading propaganda from every psychotic billionaire and third world government in existence with no understanding of the context for any of it, while talking to mentally ill freaks, furries, neo nazis, Jews, degenerates etc. and posting brain rot memes.
>>738436432Piracy doesn't count.
>>738436650Really? It's pretty obvious when you think about it. On top of what the other anon said about following a straight-forward narrative for 22 minutes, phone content is refined and designed to bombard you with the reward every 20-30 seconds, as opposed to a cartoon making a joke every 3-5 minutes + many of the jokes requiring you to pay attention to the full content of the entire episode to truly get. That plus you don't really get to control the content on CN or Nick. You might get 30 minutes for your favorite show, but then it moves onto the next show and it's a rerun of a mid-to-trash show that you hate, meaning you now lost interest and have to do something else for the next 30 minutes. Even if you flipped through channels back in the day and went channel surfing, you weren't liable to find something even remotely decent even if you sat there for a good 25 minutes doing it, and by then you might wind up turning off the TV.Cable TV had pockets of enforced delayed gratification. Mobile shit is engineered to hit you with gratification in a steady stream.
>>738404634>niggers>millenials being even worse parents than boomers>education losing funding in every aspectlike a shitty multiple choice question, all these answers are right but which one is more right?
>>738393514Remember what they took from us.
>>738428339basic websites like that were the bestfast loading, basic, easy to parsetake me back
>>738412768nigger what? i just went through a 1.5 year aoe2 sweatlord addiction with a razor deathadder and didn't have any issues
>>738393514nah we thought this was peak gaming
>>738393514It's not just the Metreon building. this incapsulated when San Francisco in general used to be a place of fun and wonder. Now it's just poop.>when there used to Wondercon>also visit the Pier, >general shopping, >Japan Townand the sight seeing in between.
>>738394972kids at the playground will love this one lil bro
>>738393721>>738401891This. It happened with Trollface, Ragecomics, Feels Guy, and Sadfrog.
>>738440431>Japan TownHad zaru soba at some restaurant in Japan Town then saw Dir en Grey at The Fillmore. Caught a guitar pick. Loudest shit I ever heard.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlTKdSdv9woTake me back
eyll yeh yboi hah
>>738440329gigasoulful taquerias goku energy
I remember going to the Xbox 360 launch at a smaller city because I was at my grandma's place. Wanted to ensure that I get it so we went there 30 minutes earlier to wait for the department store to open. I was expecting there to be others lining up for the 360 so I was a bit nervous about getting one, but what ended up happening was that I was the only person there for the 360 and the rest were a bunch bums waiting for the liquor store to open lmao
>>738398489>Putting my jawbreaker in there when it gets just the right size
>>738393514>metreon playstation storerecognized it immediately. I used to go play there every fucking weekend. Kino childhood.
>>738442153to add on, in middle school I could ride the subway alone and go play there all day. Now its all shut down and filled with roaming fent zombies through all of soma. That shite used to be tenderloin relegated and the blacks didnt fuck with you if minded your business and were a kid. Now everywhere is shit. Good work america, nice country you have made.
>>738394787arcade was expensive as fuck. Real niggas just loafed at the playstation store. They then started a rule of like 15 minutes and you had to get off.
>>738412575There is a silver lining. Tech oligarchs are accruing too much power at a time of massive societal change. During the first industrial revolution all the robber barons got together and realized that they are going to get french revolutioned if they dont do anything so they privately built massive public works from universities to libraries to parks.This new gen of tech oligarchs didnt learn their lesson and are busy being atomized psychopaths. They are going to get literally eaten in a decade or so. Its unironically inevitable.
>>738402906>krokodil sonicAt least he isn't carving up his face.
>gamestores where you could play games before you bought themOh yeah the horror, OP you are right we were so lame.
Gaming is unfixable at this point, same with the internet, we will never go back to the good times.
>>738393714congratulations /v/ we've reached boomer rock youtube comment levels
>>738432276>Never Obsolete
>>738432703>>that one kid with a poorfag toaster and can barely run anything forcing him to just watch everyoneThat was me. My big brother had the good PC while I was left with the older one (200mhz pentium 4). It could run Unreal Tournament and Brood War at least.
>>738436650One is longer than the other, retardkun
>>738439247How many times must we twll you retarded zoomer fucks. You were raised by GEN X not MILLENNIALS
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>>738407490Curious how 50s futurism looks very old and quaint, but 2000s futurism looks fucking rad.
>>738415434>>738414762>economy>gdp!they suppress the wages while shitting up the place you fucking kike. that’s their entire fucking purpose.
>>738414762ROFL. keep arguing against your own interests
>>738419536>this is the "le classic" freeshard hating corpo bootlickers told you about
>>738420524Solar flare hopers are hilarious. Not even the tenth of what you think will happen.>>738418293No. Small devices don’t have long enough wire to induce a dangerous current. It probably won’t even break. Only the power lines are really in danger of tripping. It will be bunch of blackouts. Not much more.
>>738406636We live in an era of low trust, insincerity and cynicism. It is beyond irony poisoning.It is industrial systematic depression.
>>738406636Trump is in power so you must hate everything as dictated by wokes
>>738429797Dominates the minds of zoomers everyday while 4chan is still stuck on based and tranny for the last ten years
>>738393721Just don't use it, and don't engage with people who do, you'll do yourself a massive favour that way. People should be able to articulate themselves with words outside of constant slang use, and if they can't they aren't worth talking to, to begin with/have no substance behind their skull anyhow.
>>738433106Hair makes up the bulk of your personality. Hair is who you are. No hair means boring/poor genes. Bitches love my flowing locks.
>>738434181>make the space as easy to resell as possibleWouldn't this imply they expect the business they rent the building out to to do poorly?
>>738408719minimalism really is just repackaged brutalism. The commie jews won
>>738449052Hair makes up the bulk of your personality, if you don't have anything else going for you mate, because you're literally substituting something that should mostly be Funny/charismatic/interesting. If all you fallback on is "lookmaxxing" you fucked up, lmao.
>>738436139>born too late to be a humble farmer that owns his land and just plows his land and wife all day>born too late to experience emerging from the current worldwide tumult into a new bright age>born just in time to die miserably in an age of suffering, regression, suffering, and sufferingepic
>>738449312You retard. Looks ARE charisma. Being attractive IS interesting. Being bald is funny but not in a good way. You can't even argue, only cope.
>>738449384I fucked up this post beyond recognition, but I think you all know what I was trying to say. Life is gay basically.
>>738449471Checkmate lookmaxxing retard!Btw I have never seen ONE bald incel, they all have hair and they still cant score because (You) zoomers are the weakest generation ever. Thank god your zoomettes are culling your shit bloodline with w/e sugar daddies millenials/gen X they can find kek
>>738432276Things that tickle your soul are confusing and meaningless to the average consumer (read: the retards that shop at Target). That's why 2026 design is Apple Store grey with slightly greyer rectangles everywhere.Yeah, you could make your storefront memorable and delight maybe the top 20% of your customers, but in actuality for 80% of the people you just made background noise that may as well be a fucking Applebee's wall covered in garbage. Marketing research says aesthetics don't matter to the majority of troglodytes with a pocket full of cash.
>>738449471Sadly though, you are neither interesting or charismatic, since the only feeling I have thus far from your conversation is me wanting to blow my brain out with a shotgun, since you post the most uninteresting and vain dribble, dunno if you're compensating for anything or if you're just underage, and haven't realised yet that actual relationships go beyond just looks. You're not starting a family with someone who cares how tight your hairline is, or how "lookmaxxed" you are, because they are the first ones to jump ship when you are falling behind anyone else.Families you start with ones who care beyond the superficial layer, share your hobbies, your interests, have personality, and are funny, you know, the whole thing that keeps the romantic layer together. Looks are a bonus, no one wants a literal 1/10, but those rarely are common anyhow nowadays, but given you already associate all those qualities with just "looks" you genuinely are fucked and I can only hope for you that you grow up beyond those thoughts as you get older. >inb4 ur bald/don't have relationshipI have hair and I am married.
>>738431623They weren't that large. Most likely just some journo fluff. A real one would cause some terrifying damage. A good bit of modernized stuff might survive, but a large chunk of the world hasn't been able to afford to upgrade everything they've got. The biggest problem is gonna be the slowdown or sometimes outright collapse of supply chains. It'll look like one's limbs while they're undergoing hypothermia.
>>738433106It's the transition of balding that tends to look worse than either end of it. Granted, you can still make it work if you rock whatever you've got with confidence. Some people get too fixated on min/maxing that they forget to actually play the game.
>>738409751zoomers have this weird obsession with the idea that millennials somehow have infinite power despite being just as poor and irrelevant as themselves. It's the same boomshits and xcucks that designed both top and bottom, they just realized they could save in on designs.
>>738450029>I have hair and I am married.You just proved him right....
>>738413079War in iraq
>>738433369I went full bald at 19 thanks to my father's shit genetics and since then I've fucked more than 20 different women + dated about 7 of them. I have never gone to the gym ONCE in my life.Nowadays I'm 40 and married to a 8/10. We have 2 children. Lookmaxxing is actually "nu-incel" and it's not surprising it comes from such a shit generation as zoomers... I pity (You).
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>>738450768>There are no bald people with families/relationships.Okay brother, what I am trying to say is that Hair matters fuck all, and that's coming from me who has hair, I could shave my self bald, and be reassured that every other trait I have outweighs the hair I have on my scalp, furthermore there are about a thousand things more important in a lasting relationship then your hairline. If that message was lost on you, I don't know what to say.
>>738431917>fair-weathering all his friendsSounds like your "friends" dodged a bullet there! Let me tell you a secret, anon: If (You) are always surrounded by assholes, (You) were actually the asshole all along. May (You) die cold and alone like you deserve. Preferably sooner than later.
>>738393514The 90's was the last good decade, everything else after is soul crushingly dogshit.
>>738450951Hair does matter tho.>I could shave my self baldYou should do it as an experiment.
>>738449052>No hair means boring/poor genes.No hair actually means more testosterone. Having hair literally, scientifically makes you closer to a troon/faggot.
>>738451076I love how you are cherry-picking your response. Like totally ignoring this anon for example: >>738450778sounds like the insecure little bitch is... (You)!
>>738451076It matters in the same way basic hygiene does, if hair was the defining factor in getting laid/not, then the bald gene wouldn't spread would it? Hair matters only in the context of when you have nothing else to fill that gap. If you have absolutely nothing else going besides your looks, then yes, cutting out the hair part, is about 40% of your "personality" gone.
>>738428339Still updated, still going, still refusing to even move to https - http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/index.shtml
>>738451143I just got here and that was the first thing I read. I'm expected to read a whole thread?
>>738418293>degaussFree brain xray xD
>>738451216yeah motherfucking nu/v/ zoomerfaggot
>>738451159>It matters in the same way basic hygiene doesThat's a lot tho, that's the difference of people approaching you or running away. And hair will make you a lot more approachable I dunno why but it does. People are afraid they'll catch the bald
>>738407490Technology and progress is not a linear thing. The years 1980-2010 saw some of the most incredible and rapid technological development in human history. Since then we have hit a plateau and made no real great advancements, the models and architecture of our computing reaching their limits and being locked into place by corporate greed.
>>738451296>And hair will make you a lot more approachable I dunno why but it does. People are afraid they'll catch the baldOh, I see the pb: you are actually retarded kek
>>738451349You're the retard for not being aware of how shallow people are in current year. Yeah sure it's "your personality" whatever you say m8
>>738407490To look fondly toward the future requires hope and optimism.
>>738440329Few months ago while browsing internet radios (pages just for playing music) I stumbled upon massive cybercafe culture in Russia. It's still alive and kicking with hardware from early 2000s, games and everything.
>>738410661Unc here but TBF this is EVERYONE when they first tried to use the tool. I was like this at 5 year old at 1995 too. You have to actually learn it. And this is the easy one to use. The simpler one is just a knife / punch and you have to use leverage repeatedly to literally cut the tin off.
>>738451452>of how shallow people are in current year.again, that's a zoomers pb because you are a lost generation of terminal retards. I dont socially interact with you and never will (unless you are waiting my table). GL with your fellow shallow retards tho!
>>738451820People don't want to admit they were retarded children once too.
>>738439247Why is gen x such a blind spot for zoomies despite being responsible for 90% of the things they blame millennirinos for?
>>738452049because zoomers are the most retarded and uneducated generation ever so that's one more thing they cant get right.
>>738398489I dont miss these mice they were shit, i remember when i got my first "laser" mouse, god damn that baby could rip
>>738451076this kekLittle zoomer bitch won't though since he knows that anon was right.
>>738451820>unc here Ew, go away 20something zoom zoom. Actual old people don't use nigger slang
>>738451080Nah, this was debunked a long time ago. Don't have the exact studies on me but it was confirmed that genuinely high T people have fulller heads of hair, while effete cuck men are more bald. The initial confusion on this matter was because balding men had more of a 'fake' testosterone, basically making them closer to trannies than normal people, and certain(likely coping lmao) sciientists confused the two types of T
>>738451143that's not what cherry-picking means, you nose-picker
>>738453012yeah that doesn't sounds at all like (You) coping to the max, little gay faggot kekbtw the studies about hair loss and DHT (the actual "fake" testosterone as your illiterate ass calls it) never once made a connection between higher testosterone = fuller head of hair, so keep dreaming buttboy kek
>>738453231it's exactly what cherry-picking means, retarded zoom-zoom. go open a dictionnary instead of a twitch stream for once
>>738412461>in college>most of my dormmates (around 20 people) on my hall have never played halo before>have two xbox 360s and a few copies of Halo 3>set up a LAN for Halo 3 and introduce them to it>they love it so much they buy another Xbox and copy of Halo 3 just to allow more people to play when we do LAN partiesI may be a zoomer, but I'm trying to do my part. Not all of us are retarded
>>738453621It's not at all what it means, newfag. You're the type that unironically thinks /v/ is one person kek
>>738453824(You) are retarded, ignorant AND loud about itTell me anon, you are a nigger arent you? kek
>>738453560I'm not the one that has to cope, baldy. The studies and statistics are all say the same thing everyone thinks: That bald people are inherently low-quality, while people with more head hair are seen as more attractive, charismatic, and live better lives. You can disagree, but you'll just be living in a delusional world.
>>738453958You had to google the term and just ended up proving yourself wrong, holy shit nigger how stupid are you kek
>>738453991>The studies and statisticscool cope, bruh!show us a few studies then, should be easy right? oh wait, you cant? I should google them myself, right? because you cant be bothered to find those very common, very real, not totally hallucinated fake studies that would 100% prove you arent an absolute delusional faggot?holy kekaroo
