No.283642
>>283620Can't wait for this thread to be filled with zoomer nostalgia.
None of you have memories of Mega Drives or Super Nintendos? (Or the failed competitors?)
No.283644
flash game websites, pokemon, counter strike source, mid 2000s 4chan
No.283645
>>283642I remember most of the past being shit so I am not nostalgic about much.
The stuff I feel nostalgic about is more about the Genius loci from locations related to my childhood.
The feeling of finding a abandand playground half taken over by plant life.
The few quite places in a busy city.
The feeling of red brick warmed in the sun on a spring day that stated out cool but warmed up as the day progressed.
The smell of burning leaves in the fall and the taste of warm apple cider fresh from the farmers market during apple season.
Shit like that get my memories going.
No.283659
>>283642In a way. Early phone games were often ripoffs them, and yes zoomers are nostalgic for Java.
I wish i were born 2 years earlier and be a part of the superior millennial tribe, then i wouldn't have to type this sentence.
No.283660
>>283659wish i were born never and had been a part of the superior never-born tribe, then i
really wouldn't have to type this sentence.
No.283663
i remember my dad bringing a snes and a bunch of nes cartidges home from work. these were the only games we had for like 6 years, aside from some built in stuff on our windows computer. things like the early final fantasy games. i miss the booklets that came with them. i remember the final fantasy booklet having screenshots and tips and being packed with information. same with super mario world. i fucking hate jrpg and platformers now but there wasnt much else back then, i didnt even know where games came from or how to learn about upcoming games. i remember at one point suddenly everyone in school just had gameboys with pokemon red/blue. and then suddenly a pokemon tv show. i think it wasnt until i was almost finished with grade school that i learned where to find games. we didn't have a walmart or big store or game store, so we had to go to a video/pc store to see games and they didn't have much but it was incredible seeing a wall covered in games. i miss being ignorant about a lot of stuff. everything is new and confusing and everything learned is this amazing discovery. i get nostalgic for simpler times when there wasn't much option for entertainment and the experience was technically shitty but you just didn't know any better and so everything was valuable. i get nostalgic when i see low poly games and the limitations imposed on games by old hardware. before i had access to internet and infinite entertainment and porn. even reading books was awesome at times, encyclopedias were incredible. i miss everything about my childhood apart from school
No.284277
>>284276Zone streams on twitch now
Kind of wild
No.284278
I can’t enjoy nostalgia. Though it’s kind of funny in a way, the word literally means pain, yet it has become a word for fond remembrance.
No.284279
Nostalgia is weakness
No.284287
>>283632Wow, lots of things we have in common. I’m surprised. Did you grow up in the UK by chance?
No.284294
Recently learnt about the new "Tolkien" series by Amazon. Good lord it made me feel nostalgic about the 2002-2005 Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings universe. How much I hyped for the movies, the games, the books.
This was particularly good:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36.The_Lord_of_the_RingsAfter 2005 there was still some stuff coming out, but the golden age was done for me.
Hope the new series doesn't turn out to be a total shite
It will, probably No.284335
>>284294>Hope the new series doesn't turn out to be a total shiteHave you not been following anything that's come out about it so far?
The creative team is literally saying "Tolkien's work is boring and noninclusive. We're writing stories from aspects of Middle Earth that Tolkien ignored"
So basically they're making up nonsense power fantasy stories for an all-black cast of good guys against pesky white rogues. Remember that Tolkien's living relatives were very outspoken against what has been proposed by these goons up until their deaths, which Amazon took advantage of by greenlighting this disaster immediately after.
If you liked the LOTR films, these will only be similar in name alone. The direction, cast, writing, and format will be more like something from the MCU.
No.284336
Stick animations
Stickpage
No.284338
>>284336Good memories, man. Do you remember this game? Pic is some iOS remake though
>>284335Thanks, I didn't know. Been digging a bit about it; all my opinions aside, I can't logically understand how they plan on linking it to the old LOTR trilogy, considering that in the old ones there was no trace of "sub-saharan like" people, at most "persian like" Haradrim and Easterlings. Only thing that I can think of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanqueamiento No.284344
>>284338They won't care if it's inconsistent. Like RK Rolling and her nigger Hermione. They can retcon anything they don't like and just ignore the clashes in between.
No.284355
>>283630I still have my account from 2005. So many forgotten stories happened in that hotel now lost to time. All people know about it now is the pools were closed meme.
No.284356
remember when websites would change your cursor
No.284357
>>284356I remember that big program from the banner ads that had a huge list of custom cursors for the desktop. It had guns, Jesus, swords, smileys, flame swords (my fav).
No.284358
>>284357Those gaudy cursors were so fun.
No.284535
>>284357>>284356Remember the ad that was all about downloadble smileys and there was one that was like
"Omg! No waay!" And would dramatically fall over? I can hear it in my head perfectly.
Does anyone remember the website that was like "click here for a free cupholder!" And when you press it your CD tray popped out?
Sigh.
>StupidVideos>Totse>Newgrounds>YouTube when it used the star system >Neo pets>Runescape>AngelfireThings that aren't internet related:
>Rollerblading>When it's one of those perfect late spring days. When the humidity is just a bit higher than normal but not too high. When the sun is setting and the world begins to cool, and the sky turns that perfect shade of blue/pink. And everything starts to get a bit quiet. You know what I'm talking about. No.284536
>>284535I miss albinoblacksheep.
No.284556
>>284358you still see those on tumblr pages, I know it gets hated on a lot but it’s the only site where you can find peoples amateur web dev crap, lots of odd pages that take a minute of two to figure out because they’re just put together by some kid and stray so far from what’s normal these days
No.284577
Cable TV channel surfing with my bedroom CRT.
My favorite channels are TCM, HBO, and NatGeo.
No.284602
>>284577I miss cable and airwave. My local cable had a TV guide channel that showed the next 90 minutes of programming on all stations as it scrolled through them. They played local business ads in a small box up top with audio and much of their jingles and promos are ingrained in my memory. I'd fall asleep to the sounds of these businesses asking me to enjoy their services but by the time I was old enough to go out and do that on my own, they were all closed down. sleepless nights of anxiety about the upcoming school day, starting at the guide hoping for some cartoon or movie to pop up so I could distract myself from imminent socialization. I can't remember my SSN or today's date but after 20 years I remember Discovery was channel 43, SPEED was 51, Teletoon 52, Comedy 54, Family 56…
TV in general absolutely sucks so hard these days. No local stations. it's easier to get the other hemisphere's college sports recap than it is to see what's going on in our own town.
No.284603
>>284602You could get an antenna for your TV and search local stations that way.
It's certainly not the same as what it used to be but it's fun seeing really local news.
>Box fans >Tapestry>Incense >The smell of wet concrete No.284606
>>284603>You could get an antenna for your TV and search local stations that way.Nah, my country replaced all TV with digital. It's still free, but the stations still aren't really local. The high school's AV club doesn't have funding for a 480v digital transceiver to broadcast their interviews with the elderly with. I think the airwave TV frequencies were redesignated to HD music broadcasts. My local news station, before being bought up by the big red TV corp, would broadcast from a 600m tower as it was one of few that displayed weather information for the very northern regions so it needed the reach. The last broadcast I saw was recorded by a guy in another country 2000km away. He identified it and was lamenting that a foreign station was interfering with his local stations. The name of the station was just 2 letters that when searched bring up a bunch of videogame stuff so I'll never find that video again.
>Tapestry>Incense yes, many childhood days going to visit the estranged family members and studying the art and scents while the adult caught up over cigarettes. The county flea market had a huge incense booth with 1000 varieties, a bunch of giant smoke-breathing dragon statues, and a real neon tube RGB system. Crazy to behold as a young kid. the old succubi who ran it is probably expired by now.
No.284607
>>284603>>284606Incense is such a great thing for being so cheap. The smell just bring instant calm.
No.284617
>>284602This sounds uncannily similar to my situation, even the Tv Guide channel with ads.
Where are you from?
No.284618
Back then the world felt real, nowadays the world feels like a bad copy of some dystopian world, what happened?
No.284625
>>284617Ontario Canada, greater Toronto area. Back then Toronto was separated from York Region by farmland, forest, and lake. Now it's all one big metropolitan nightmare designed around the SUV.
No.289205
>>284564No need for TENCHI
No.289233
>>289216When you constantly live in your shadow, things only get darker.
No.289241
>>284623>BaudrillardNot him but I have been reading a bit of Baudrillard, plus a bit of Mark Fisher and Guy Debord. (And relating it to geekdom going mainstream. We have "geeks" who are now more "geeky" than the real geeks.)
No.289275
>>289241due to how easy and fast media consumption is nowdays there are now zoomers who watched more anime and played more niche video games than me even though ive been watching/playing for entirely of my life
shit sucks ass real bad bros
No.289281
>>284287I did, yeah. A lot of what I mentioned there was readily available merchandise, or aired locally.
No.289286
>>289280>effect of hollowing out what was once perceived to be meaningful or substantive until it's just an aestheticI'm missing the part where this isn't a bad thing.
It's funny, I see geekdom, with the way it's turned out, as a microcosm of certain things and processes; gentrification, commodification, isolation are a few things that come to mind.
No.289289
>>283620An old chans and minecraft alpha.
I really miss this shit, like nothing else.
No.289291
>>289284Or you just ignore nearby easter eggs.
No.289294
>>289289did you by chance find out about minecraft from 7chan in 2009ish? that was when i saw it and it was just a building block game then and yet everyone had fun together building things
No.289302
>>289282I think wanting to go back but being fully aware i can't is most of the feeling i'm so poorly describing. Like you, i think the current era blows but mentally living in the past feels bad as well. Wanting to move on but having no hope for the future is like living in purgatory. But As i said, i still like a lot of stuff from my past like games,movies, tv,anime,manga but thats just because i think they hold up (at least to me). I think most of the stuff that will make you feel like this is all the peripheral stuff from your formative years. Like listening to songs you weren't fussed about at the time that would play on the radio ad nauseam. Feels nice and awful somehow. Sorry if this isn't making much sense.
No.289345
>>289322You are not alone, I have that same book (and another 2 dozen of the same collection), I have almost the same tetris but in grey and I have my original he-man action figures in a box under my bed and a shit tone of Tentes (lego's clone) and the Playmobils pirate ship on top of my library with a disgusting amount of dirt in it because I'm too lazy to clean it.
No.289346
tintin sucks tho, as everything that's ever come out of belgium
No.289348
That flash game where you fucked Midna from Twilight Princess was good.
No.289445
>>289282>everything about the current era has an inherent wrong-ness to it.Have you seen what they did to Star Trek?
No.289452
>>289445One line from a review that sticks in my mind:
>Here's the thing, like it's not just Star Trek either, I think it's like science-fiction in general lately, but like it used to be the domain of nerds; people who actually loved science and science-fiction. And now "nerd culture" has been kinda taken over by the jocks.I'd change "jocks" to "the cool kids" since jocks are a subset of the cool kids.
No.289453
it always was a bad literary genre meant to popularise techno science and appeal to the lowest common denominator. what's with the elitism? it's like saying they ruined soap operas, maybe they did but the bar was pretty low
No.289454
>>289453You have no idea wtf you talking about, you know you don't and still you had to post some nonsense, didn't you? Are you that bored or just stupid?
No.289455
>>289453I take it that you're the sort of retard they aim sci-fi at now?
No.289456
>>289455hardly. i hate it.
>>289454is it wrong though? sci fi always was all about social engineering and not very subtly promoting ideas, products and projects to the general population. think of something like space exploration in the pulp novels of the 20s to the 40s.
No.289466
>>289456>sci fi always was all about social engineering and not very subtly promoting ideas, products and projects to the general population.What? Sci fi was about thought experiments and exploration of the unknowns.
No.289490
Gen 1 Pokemon
Lord of the Rings movie trilogy
Star Wars Prequels and Knights of the Old Republic
Classic Simpsons
Ocean dub of Dragon Ball Z
Turkey Twizzlers
Jackass
Sam Raimi Spider-man and also the 90s cartoon version
almost anything released between 1997-2007 gives me bittersweet nostalgic pangs
No.289554
>>289539>Yeah, they're furries, and became trannies(shocker)They were "fine" when they were still considered freaks.
>but there's something so genuine about their happiness. It has such 00's vibes to it as well.The 00s were the last decade where geek still existed as something to be derided by the mainstream.
No.289564
Why everything became so soulless, lame and stale, no this isnt just nostalgia, the world was a better place 15-20 years ago.
If you showed the current world to people in 2001 they would think that we live in a fucking corporate dystopia.
No.289566
well not to say loners havent benefited at all from the improved tech of the 2010s of course we have.
but the biggest improvement has been in minaturization, making the internet more mobile. replacing the desktop with phones. and for static sedentary neets that is no improvement at all. for us a iphone isn't a miracle, its just a shittier PC with a tiny screen and a pain to type on
so in relative terms normies have benefited much more from the tech of the last 15 years than neets have
No.289571
>>289565Nah, nah, nah, while I agree with your post somewhat, posting THIS video is a very zoomer move, even the comments in that video are zoomer-esque. Faux-nostalgia. Zoomers desperate to be a part of a lost time and trying to extrapolate the entire past from this video.
One youtube comment there:
>The good old days when you could talk to strangers at 2:30AM with little fear of being punched in the face for itI don't know where this nigger lived in the late 80s but where I lived, and in fact most the city, just randomly talking to strangers in the middle of the night there was a non-zero chance of being stabbed. Fast-forward to 20-30 years, it is far safer (though not necessarily better).
No.289598
>>289564I agree with you and I blame feminism.succubi ruined every form of entertainment and turned them non fun
No.289613
>>289564>If you showed the current world to people in 2001 they would think that we live in a fucking corporate dystopia.Do you remember what happened in 2001? Or weren't you born then?
No.289620
>>289613I'm not American, I wasn't influenced by their retarded anti terrorism bullshit really.
Still the world was way better back then.
No.289631
>>289620It might have been better but I've noticed a lot of nostalgia-related things *everywhere* go down this bizarre path where people who weren't alive then start making false claims and fake memories.
No.289633
>>289631Cause their lives suck now, and then they hear old people say that it was so much better back then, and they want to believe that. Cause the alternative is that the world has always sucked and will continue to suck.
No.289634
>>283620I feel like the world turned to complete shit in the 2nd half of the 2000s so I'd already be thankful to take anything back from before that.
No.289655
>>289565I really don’t understand how anything were better at that time? I really don’t agree with nostalgia but I’m not a progressive either I believe some things became much better but other things became much worse in the society.
No.289678
>>289633>say that it was so much better back thenAgain maybe it was true or wasn't (it was true, you missed out zoomers), but they never try to enjoy whatever piece of pre-zoomer media or artifact as it is, they either try to integrate themselves into it (the false claims and fake memories crap) OR they do this weird thing where they'll make the piece of media "more 90s than 90s", "more 00s than 00s", "more geeky than geek", etc. Like when they slap on a vhs filter on a clip of 00s media.
No.289714
>>289655Probably you had to have been there. It's like of like moving from one part of the country to the other and it takes you a while to realize that the people here are nice and everything is okay compared to where you came from because you were just so used to where you came from that you just got beat in to thinking that's what things are like everywhere.
No.289853
>>283620>phpboardsThe quintessential forum package of 2000s. Very rare to encounter them nowadays but I still smile if my search for some cracked software lands me in such a place.
No.289865
>>289678I wish nothing but ill will on those born after '91. They somehow tainted nostalgia.
No.290002
>>289678Literally the hyperreal
No.290334
I can't even remember my past clearly enough anymore to be able to feel nostalgic about anything.
No.290504
>>290002Baudrillard was onto something wasn't he?
No.292958
>>283620>things that make you nostalgicNu Metal
CD Burning
MP3 players with 256 MB saving capability
Gameboy Advance later Nintendo DS lite
Modem internet
not having a phone to my teens
shitty music my dad used to play but except i enjoy it now
Analog TV
Yu-Gi-Oh!