I still feel like it's still 2013. I was really into transhumanism and singularitian bullshit during early 2010s so I was excited to think what kind of things will come as years went by. But my internet addiction made my sense of time weird so I stopped having sense of time flowing after 2015. About 10 years ago I thought we would be reviving mammoths by now but nothing cool like that happened.
This decade will probably be remembered as the decade when the new cold war and the Moore's Law came to an end while the climate begins to significantly worsen. But we can't really see this a certain time period objectively when we are in it.
Thinking about what would come in the future feels weird as imagining myself in situations that comes out from sf novels or post apocalyptic novels just feel so alien. I wonder how everything will turn out on this piece of rock for next few decades while the industrial civilization does some wacky things.
*This decade will be remembered as the decade when the new cold war began and the decade when the Moore's Law came to an end while the climate begins to show signs of catastrophe. But we can't really objectively talk about the 2010s while we are living in it as prejudices cloud our vision for now before we move past.
I always thought that life extension technologies will come by now since I was in elementary school so that my grandparents could live forever eventually. It was my way of coping with the fact that everybody will die one day but all kinds of promises by "futurists" never really got fulfilled on this decade. When I was in elementary school I was really into Singularity is coming and other books related to transhumanism and other bullshit fantasies written by people who don't have expertise on what they are talking about.
Transhumanism and singularity allowed my more abstract childhood fantasies and ideas like fear of death and fear of the unknown to be coped or be synthesized into my worldview at that time. I often fantasized myself becoming all knowing all powerful entity that was harmonically with all other humans and life form at that time period. I was also obsessed with surviving the Great Freeze as I thought humans will obviously have to become supermachines that nothing except the Great Freeze will stop them. It's a pretty stupid idea but it drove me into reading other books like Before Big Bang when I was in 6th grade that made me even fantasize about machine intelligence(me inserted) getting to eventually even control the death of universe itself. My primordial desires of knowledge and fantasies of overcoming my fears of death and existential fear was all synthesized with my new worldview.
But I later realized how retarded those "futurists" were and how they were actually people who didn't know what they are talking about like how Ray tries to unsuccessfully argue that somehow you can see "exponential growth" by seeing the museum when it's obvious that that's merely because human bias plays a huge role and as it doesn't really tell us about anything relevant. But when I was young, I thought there is not even a single chance that humanity would not become machines as it is a historical imperative. I also thought any crisis can't stop my eventual religious singularity when that singularity didn't even exist.
Did anyone else try to cope with death in the same way as me?
I really liked transhumanist related books or books by Michiu Kaku who used to do Discovery Channel. I was absolutely obsessed with transhumanism that I used them in all of my roleplaying games with my friends.
In the games that I invented to play with my friends called the "draw game", me and my friend always imagined grand cities after drawing buildings like civilization 5. I always named my country as "Technocracy" or "Collective" which always eventually became eternal machines.
I even made a note where I collected my ideas on nanobots colonizing things and other crap when I was in 4th grade elementary school. But the sad thing was my idea of nanobots at that time was influenced by one outdated book so all of my ideas are totally worthless. That book described nanobots as some weird magic thing that does everything as it was written decades ago. Even through something like that is possible but nanobots are still not like magic thing that can do anything as they would be similar to human cells and bacteria.
I also fantasized about going on a spaceship on the middle of nowhere in the Kipper Belt with my family and living there because of reasons that I don't know. I actually drew that lots of times. That spaceship used nuclear fusion to move and it would refuel by going around the sun and gaining the fuel from the sun like ramjet.
It would also be pretty interesting if the future decades see the re-emergence of communism also. As it has been few hundred years since capitalism began it's establishment and consolidation across the world, interesting things might happen in the following decades.
People will probably miss fortnite and all of "zoomer" things like discord in 10 years.
I wonder how much the internet will be morphed in just 50 years and how it will evolve. There is nearly no way to even see how it will change in few years. As nearly all of the world(including africans) had gotten access to the internet, the effects of the web on children would be very interesting as those children become the adults.
>>160492 I picture everything will slowly become globalized, everyone whether you are a russian or a american or anything else will be using the same memes and all have the same jokes and culture
>>160493 The so-called "globalization" is already complete as capitalism and liberalism took over the entire world into a single economic bloc.
For example, different social modes of production like feudalism, slavery, primitive communism existed across the globe but nowdays, everywhere is under the influence of the market as all of those non-capitalist societies were integrated into the global market.
But cultures can still exist even without geography defining them. The one world culture is also impossible in a world where nation-states exist.
>>160488 >>160487 Global warming is bullshit. The climate naturally changes over time, it's not getting worse in any way that our ancestors haven't survived fine. But they can't even decide how it's getting worse, we're told everything from ice ages to eternal hell levels of heat. Same old bullshit that never comes true and they swear this time they have the right computer model.
>>160491 >the soviet union wasn't communism Kill yourself faggot.
>>160493 >>160494 >>160495 >>160496 Commies with zero education or history background love to spew bullshit like this. They think some how the world is going to turn into a generic brown blob and that'll just be it. But it won't. Ethnic loyalties don't just vanish because you redraw state lines. The British tried this in the middle east and it did nothing but increase conflict and tribalism. If the world did become a single state then tribalism would grow to fight over the state, like how you see ethnic battles happening in multiracial societies already. You don't decrease conflict you increase it. It will be a constant state of fourth generation warfare globally. Todays school shooters won't even seem special at that point.
Capitalism cannot die because it is how reality works. It's like wanting gravity to stop working. You can jump but sooner or later you have to come down.
>>160502 Its so easy to get right-wingers to admit humans can change the enviroment. Just ask is China changing its enviroment, is China warming the enviroment?
Once they say yes, the Chinese can do it. They've already admitted the concept in principle. Industry can change and warm the enviroment.
>>160506 Correlation does not equal causation. You're not God, you don't exactly know how everything works in the entire universe. You conspiracy theorists think world is going to end in 10 years but if you pay a carbon tax and vote in the Green New deal for these communists, it now it will save us? >Taxes cleans the and ground
>>160506 >Can humans change the environment Yes, Humans can nuke the entire planet and make it an unlivable nightmare world >HA! SEE GLOBAL WARMING EXISTS JUST LIKE I SAID!
See how stupid that is? The point has always been that none of these predictions or models are accurate. Every 5-10 years they change the dooms day scenario because they have no damn clue what's going on. How many times do liberals get to cry wolf before it's obvious there's no damn wolf and they're making a profit off of selling anti-wolf spray?
Global warming makes a shit load of money as an industry. It gets handed millions probably billions of dollars every year. People making a profit on a scam are going to keep running that scam as long as they can.
If you want to go into a real conspiracy then how about the pollution credits? Rich countries can buy credits off of poor countries who weren't going to pollute shit any way. So you're funneling western money into yet another third world shit hole over and over again.
But no it's just "lol ur dumb, I saw a youtube video on it".
It was too fast, I feel like music isn't getting any better like it did in past decades. Like how you can tell the difference between 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's music. After 2000, everyone is just stealing from everyone else, no one sounds super original anymore.
Why do Wizards even need to feel invested in denying climate change?
Normies want to trash this planet, and then pretend they will have something to hand to their kids. So they have all this cognitive dissonance, that pumping billions of toxins into the air should have zero consequences. It goes against the usual conservative principle of "no free lunch" and "unintended consequences".
Also the fact that there is natural climate cycles, doesn't mean that the heat increase since the industrial revolution is natural. That is like saying because there is a natural cycle of sleep, going 10 days without sleep is natural.
I believe Wizards can be intellectually honest and still oppose the Green movement. Yes we are milking this earth dry and wont be leaving shit for our grandkids. But "We" wont be having grandkids.
Let the normies do the the intellectual backflips. As for us, let us proudly use up this earth for the last generation of Wizards. Lets use up all the resources, burn the skies, and leave the children of sexhavers nothing.
Will we ever see the current cultural trajectory obscured? Is humanity doomed to just maintain the banal culture that's existed for this decade and the previous?
>>160502 Why do you love shareholders so much anon? Do you happen to be one of those retards who browses /biz/ and think your shitcoin infestment will make you a millionair any moment now?
>>160508 I hate this person. Theres always someone asking "who are you quoting" if a thread survives for long enough with green text anywhere on the internet. >not understanding why people use greentext
halloween 2018 (the movie) was good. sicario day of the soldado was good. world of warcraft classic was good. shin godzilla was good. captain underpants the movie was good. creed 1 and 2 was good (not really, i couldn't even watch them, i'm just glad sylvester stallone is getting some real acting work and that rocky is continuing). creed got the best VR boxing game ever as well which was good. uhhh bloodborne was good. "firebrand" from ghosts and goblins and demon's crest finally got an action figure that's really good.
>>160525 Can you show that there has been no significant change in average global temperature since the industrial revolution? (compared to the natural rate of change in the centuries post Ice Age) >Nice attempt at changing the argument to people who consider global warming to be suspect should be considered intellectually dishonest.
Well usually people (yourself included) who deny global warming, do so because they don't like the policies implied if is a fact. What I'm saying is that Wizards don't have to be attached to that. We wont have kids. So if our current policies will doom the planet in a century, fuck the planet. >But no it's just "lol ur dumb, I saw a youtube video on it".
I think its anti-global warming people who are more likely to learn their science from red text youtubers not books
>>160558 Being written in a book doesn't make something any more valid than being in a youtube video. Especially not in an industry which constantly lies and uses misinformation. So my point is proven by your post. You don't know shit, no one has any clue what's going on but because you read it in a book it must be true.
I don't care about decades of human culture, international politics, conspiracy theories, state of the internet and fucking transhumanism. Just trying to live another day without much pain.
>>160486 It started ok, got as bad it feels anything would have ever got for me, and then lead me up and kicked me around a bit. It was 10 years alright. I take things week by week, looking any further is useless even when something could happen you may need to prepare for. Everything could change in a day.
>>160558 "global warming" and "climate change" are just memes to distract you from the chlorine, flouride, birth control hormones, and micro plastics in the water supply. the government controls the weather, or at least they can disrupt it enough to make you think the world is changing. notice how no one talks about actual pollution as a whole, they only talk about "emissions."
I could write pages upon pages on the 2010s, but what bugs me about them right now is the way they were simultaneously ultra-feminist and yet the herd acted like it was the opposite and succubi had it so difficult.
There has been this amazing hijacking of history and putting succubi on such a pedestal it's difficult to even see them anymore. Things like "1 in 17 men reproduced" where the implication is that succubi didn't allow most men to reproduce, when what really happened is that there was a lot of war. Basically, feminists have rewritten the entire image of history such that succubi were simultaneously oppressed to the nth degree, while somehow making all the sexual choices and the men were simultaneously oppressing them and going along with the succubi's superficial crappy choices.
>>160597 went go to google and searth it up. The conclusion was that a few men accumulated lot's of wealth and power and they reproduced passing on their wealth to their sons etc etc until it even out. They say it wasn't like it was a mass death of males they were still there. I ask myself how do they know that . How do they know that there wasn't a case of mass deaths of males caused by things like war for example. It's strange that they don't consider that as a possible explanation.
>>160597 >There has been this amazing hijacking of history and putting succubi on such a pedestal it's difficult to even see them anymore. Things like "1 in 17 men reproduced" where the implication is that succubi didn't allow most men to reproduce, when what really happened is that there was a lot of war.
I don't see what the big deal ideologically is, if the narrative is that succubi were very picky or because some alpha warrior was taking them all as sex slaves in his harem, maybe a combination of both
Also what you said about the 2010s being treated as a gender dark age. Reminds me of how the Florida AG said he didn't prosecute Epstein in 2008, because in the dark times before MeToo no one would believe teengirl victims.
I feel as though we're going through some sort of turning point due to this decade's civil riots almost matching up to 60s riots. Whatever happens, I'll just keep telling them to get the fuck off my homestead.
I miss the 2000s so much. Far less censorship, no retarded culture war bullshit, and anime was still decent (although in decline since the mid 2000s or so). The 2010s has been nothing but social media bullshit, witch hunts, lame "ironic" or "post-ironic" memes, and "journalists" using their power to bully tech companies to enforce more censorship. Not to mention anime completely went to shit, and it's nothing but the same recycled plots and character types. This is to speak nothing of the absurd amount of "fan service" shoved into everything to the point where it's borderline porn and normalfags with a shallow interest in the hobby beyond ironic memes and perversion ruining the hobby forever. >>160487 I got into transhumanism in the 2000s, like my freshmen year of HS. I fell for ray kurzweil's quackery. His predictions for 2020 are going to be way off but he'll just stretch the truth and pretend he was right. I thought 10 years ago that by 2020 we would have much better AI and true virtual reality rather than just a lame headset. That shit is probably 50+ years off. >>160506 I hate how bringing up China's influence on global warming is now a right wing talking point. If saying that China and the exploding population in much of the third world is much more of a problem when it comes to global warming that westerners who eat meat instead of bugs is some "right wing conspiracy theory" then this world is doomed, which it probably is honestly. >>160636 >Reminds me of how the Florida AG said he didn't prosecute Epstein in 2008, because in the dark times before MeToo no one would believe teengirl victims. The rich and powerful are much harder to take down for obvious reasons. Regular guys are completely fucked by this witchhunt metoo era. I speak as a guy who was falsely accused of groping a succubus (literally never happened) in high school and am now a registered sex offender for life. Then again in my case it lead to a series of events that lead to me seeing a psychologist, getting committed several times, and getting SSI. Kind of a double edged sword in my case, but either way the witch hunts, the cancel culture bs, and the like are just objectively bad for society. Also I was falsely accused and got convicted many years before the metoo movement was a thing, so i can't blame that for what happened to be specifically.
>>160821 > I thought 10 years ago that by 2020 we would have much better AI and true virtual reality We do have much better AI, but it's being used for the most evil fucking bullshit. http://txti.es/wintermute >I speak as a guy who was falsely accused of groping a succubus (literally never happened) in high school and am now a registered sex offender for life Jesus. Well, at the very least you make me feel lucky in my life.
Also, Re: Censorship, there's been a growing movement of curated webrings of actual websites instead of social media. If you go there, there's a lot less cancel culture and things just feel a shitton better. I know that doesn't reverse a lot of what you said in your post but…well, look, I'm trying to at least have an ounce of positivity.
>>160825 Interesting website, very 90s or early 2000s vibe, especially the websites it links to. Did you make this? I don't think things are as conspiratorial as the website makes things out to be. AI used for behavioral modification exists but it exists in plain sight. Tech companies like twitter and google use it to throttle or derank content that promote ideas that go against their own beliefs, or content they otherwise don't want you seeing. Likewise they use it to boost content they want you to see. Google basically admits to doing this under the context of deranking "conspiracy theories" "extremist content" and "hate speech", which are all very subjective and nebulous concepts. Such AI is far from advanced though. All it does is make a lot of fairly basic connections and amplify or throttle based on that. I was expecting AI that could carry a conversation, appear to have a personality, and do moderately complex tasks without it having been programmed specifically to do them. I didn't expect human level by now, but far more advanced than Alexa or Siri is.
>>160826 >Interesting website, very 90s or early 2000s vibe, especially the websites it links to. Did you make this? Thank you. I did make that. Txti.es is nice because it forces you to design websites in a very simplistic, text-heavy style. Nonetheless, I've tried putting together an Onion service to put all of this together: lwur3kl63omajev4tnwu52razltyvsfvlsaxtd35g2t23rgkd4oybvid.onion .
I don't find anything else disagreeable in what you said. I will say though, that to a lot of people this is "conspiratorial." And also that to a lot of people Alexa/Siri is "very advanced AI." Even though it seems stupid to people like you/me. This is the main reason for the site. Even though I get what you mean: it's no Hal from 2001.
Who knows, maybe the folks at /robowaifu/ are going to make a breakthrough.
Even so, car bombs or double-entry accounting are 'primitive,' but incredibly effective. Likewise some of these behavioral algorithms. Especially after I watched that video of what all the Selfish Ledger could really do.
It was mostly disappointing. With the internet becoming more and more popular, all the niche interests got infiltrated and infested with normalfags, leading to them becoming more and more unwelcoming to people like us. Humor died, morality died, and the notion that humans should be measured based on what they say rather than what they do got strengthened further and further. What do I mean by this? You could be as immoral as a person could be and yet if you had a good position in the status quo and if you conformed and virtue signalled hard enough people would let whatever bullshit they did slide. Conformism and consumerism amplified each other to death. Nobody even cares about ideals anymore, the society has been superficialized to death by the gigantic heap of dopamine-chasing normies who would do anything to achieve better social status. The boomers have destroyed education,governmental instutitions,healthcare, job market, economy and so on, making it so that our generation is left with nothing but scraps, leading to property ownership becoming nothing more than a pipe dream.
The 2010's were bleak fucking times. 2020's are going to be even bleaker. Honestly I've already stopped consuming media and I'm going to try to cope with the fact that the internet as I knew it is nothing more than a shell of what it used to be.Even this site is infested with normies,trolls,idiots and flamers. Having good discussions about anything was so easy and fulfilling back in the day; internet culture was new,fresh, original and humorous. Now it's nothing but the same unoriginal "humor" tropes that have been beaten to death and normalfag internet "celebrities" just virtue signalling constantly. >>160821 >The 2010s has been nothing but social media bullshit, witch hunts, lame "ironic" or "post-ironic" memes, and "journalists" using their power to bully tech companies to enforce more censorship. Not to mention anime completely went to shit, and it's nothing but the same recycled plots and character types. This is to speak nothing of the absurd amount of "fan service" shoved into everything to the point where it's borderline porn and normalfags with a shallow interest in the hobby beyond ironic memes and perversion ruining the hobby forever.
This wizzy has nailed it.
Now the question remains, where do we go from here? It's every wizzy for himself obviously, the damage has already been done and is irreversible, I am going to start reading classics on my own to at least take a breather from the insanity of the modern world, as for the internet, I don't use any other site/app that involves human contact other than this site. And even wizchan has been quite disappointing for some time. I'm kinda lost really. I have nobody but myself on this journey and it is hard to make sense of everything with no input other than my own.
>>160833 >Honestly I've already stopped consuming media and I'm going to try to cope with the fact that the internet as I knew it is nothing more than a shell of what it used to be. The Internet was fun because it was obscure, and because the vast majority of sites you did not discover by having an algorithm decide what you should see whether that be a trending tab or a search engine. Likewise, the fun internet still exists, but it's obscure, just like it always has been (even though it seems like everyone in this thread forgets that, and it seems everyone's standard of how much new content they have to be fed has gone up tremendously). You have to go to where sites are not listed by search engines, you have to go where things are obscure. Go to the deepweb. Go to sites that only exist on curated lists made by actual posters and by word of mouth. There you will find freedom. As you go further in this journey, it'll be easier to find new such places and avenues and go even further beyond.
>>160835 I don't know how to go on the deepweb, nor do I have any friends to teach me or tell me the new cool stuff through "word of mouth". I feel like if there was anything worth my time I would have already found it. Maybe you're right and there are some places out there that are obscure enough to keep normies out, but I have no way of reaching them.
What experience do you have regarding the "obscure" places on the deepweb?How did you get started? Are they really promising at all?
It will be remembered in a similar to how we remember the 80s.
Politically, the 2010s was a time of right wing, populist resurgence, from Trump in America to the Italian populists to the brazilian populists, there was a clear trend after the refugee crisis towards right wing politics. The refugee crisis will be remembered and representitive of European politics for the 10s, it's semi-forgotten about now but it will be remembered as one of the defining moments of the era, similar to how the Cuban Missile Crisis is remembered for the 60s.
Culturally, things like mumblerap, Marvel and new sincerity television will make this era appear one of positivity and excess. Just as we remember the 80s for excess, we'll remember the 10s for excess. Media was a lot more cynical in the 00s and grimdark, Marvel has given stuff a lighthearted tone and popular shows like Rick and Morty are just fun and zany.
Zoomer shit will be the remembered shit. Lil' Pump, Mumblerap, the retarded face tattoos, Discord, Pewdiepie, that sort of crap.
I speculate that Trump's Election and the growing animosity between the US and China at the moment will only worsen, and we'll enter a new cold war between the two countries. 2016 will be remembered like 1946, a time of growing tension but no one wants to be open about it.
Was pure suffering. I hope find courage to kill myself before I turn 40 yo as NEET or beggar. I'm really thinking about be a catholic monk since I don't want live on this fucked up society anymore.
It started out decent enough, and I'd be willing enough to say that apart from a few blemishes early on (mass domain parking with that annoying blonde backpacker bitch, the financial collapse), many things were at their peak around 2010. Unfortunately, that was it. To best describe how this decade felt like, imagine pushing a car off a cliff. A few bumps to start off with, nothing major, then it gets some air and it's all downhill from there. Each successive jump causes the car to careen down the side of a cliff faster and more erratically until it predictably hits the bottom and explodes. That was this decade. At the moment, we're just waiting for said explosion.
The first sign of trouble was the whole Chic-Fil-A bullshit that segued from or into gay marriage (can't remember and can't be assed to look it up). This was among the first cases of SJWs permeating the masses. Then came the Zimmerman trial. Next few years followed what >>160597 said to the letter; narratives which contradicted or opposed the events they concerned.
Now we're long at a stage where just about anything that can express a person's individuality is being ceaselessly and mercilessly attacked over a long period of time until it is homogenized. Games aren't good unless they have 100 protagonists with their own genders, races, and ulterior motives. Movies aren't good if they show concepts of vigilantism (i.e. Rambo 5). ICE-powered cars are the devil. Everyone should own a portable 5G surveillance tool.
I sense that mass-murder or civil war will be the only viable option to preserve an individual's liberty. Savejames convinced me that the trans agenda is alive and real. G-gate and P-gate taught me that all evil is connected, and that all old media is equally untrustworthy. Over the next 2 - 3 decades, I will watch as everything I love goes away forever.
>>160608 >TDLR Texas Official Government Meeting On Weather Modification >https://www.bitchute.com/video/38c2kDdiYuHP/ be it local or global, they know it's possible, so they do it. so you can stop being pathetic and grow up, otherwise you end up being pathetic, which needs to grow up, like a penguin, which resembles your patheticness, without a need to grow up, so he doesn't get caught.
>>160833 >It's every wizzy for himself obviously no it is not. you are just sick.
This was the decade I began to die both spiritually and physically. On a personal level, I've lost friends and family to drugs and illness. I've come to the realization that I can't hack it as a normal person working normal jobs. I can't interface properly with other human beings and memory issues have lead to embarrassing awkward conversations. What few friends I have left understand my problems, but there is money and distance between us. I've also said hurtful things while abusing alcohol that I can't take back. My mom was in the hospital again earlier this year and I know she will not be here in 2030. My survival instincts have kicked in and I'm preparing myself for life after her death. If I can't find steady income working solitary jobs, I will be in a homeless shelter, jail, or dead in ten years.
>>160502 > Ethnic loyalties don't just vanish because you redraw state lines. The British tried this in the middle east and it did nothing but increase conflict and tribalism. That was the entire reason why they drew state lines that way across Africa and the Middle East. They weren't trying to create stable countries, they were trying to create weak countries who were hostile with their neighbours so that they'd be easy to control.
Not that it's relevant to what you're trying to say, since globalisation relies on stabilitym uninterrupted trade and constant flow of goods and labour.
I feel like the 2010s was the decade corporations truly achieved full control of practically every aspect of human life, and people began willingly modelling their behaviour around this corporate-curated model, with a thick, thick layer of irony and pretence on top of it, as if to hide this fact, or prove that they still have the autonomy. The 2010s was also the decade the world became more connected than ever. As different ideas on various topics began to spread and interact with each other they lost their potency, becoming confined to the Internet plane. The 2010s was, in my opinion, the decade of dwindling originality, even among independent creators, which is a consequence of the first point I made. Art and culture now thrive on pop-culture references, throwbacks, media personality worship, controversy, drama and memetic engineering. That's not to say that everything above is something novel, it's that the extent to which these tactics are being used nowadays has an unprecedented size and scope. Then there's also the New Cold War, environmental problems becoming a major concern (not just among environmentalists, but among politicians as well, which is not a good sign) and other problems which I honestly don't care about much. All in all, the 2010s was an okay-ish decade, especially when compared to what's to come. Then again, I make for a shit clairvoyant.
>>161489 more like 3 because you did not really 'see' the 80s, you grew up in the 90s. you also won't have seen the 20s yet until it's over. 3 decades closer reflects your actual age too.
how do ya'all feel about late 90s, early 00s nostalgia? good old mmorpgs, free - not censored internet and a lot of unique internet cultures and subcultures
>>161537 Mine goes like yours 2011 - 14: kinda ok 2015 - May 2017: worst period of my life May 2017 - May 2018: best period of my life, at least I thought I had friends June - December 2018: anxiety and hypochondria like you wouldn’t believe. 2019: just a replay of 2k11 - 14 period.
Personally, I find 2011-2014 to be the best year of my life. But afterwards. Its hell. in General I think 2010s is the most cancerous decade. Everything felt artificial, hollow and meaningless. No worthwile memory at all. Just empty
>>160486 i've always been weird and shy but my life was pretty good untill 2015, 2016 was alright, 2017 i started being miserable, 2018+ i want to off myself
This thread has been a very enjoyable read. Especially these posts put in to words many concepts which I've been unable to. >>160821 >>160845 >>160833
I think that this decade has unequivocally proven that the normie masses couldn't, can't and will not handle the internet. The exact reasons and culprits are too numerous and complex for a post like this (or a poster like me) to describe. But one fact is as clear as day. We knew they were different from us, and we were right. I just don't think anyone of us could have predicted exactly how fucking retarded the rest of the population truly was.
A personal negative thing about this decade has to be the (already mentioned) diffusion of "borders" between different internet communities. I've lurked so many interesting sites, boards and such but the incredible diversity has been almost completely lost. Why are they so keen on sharing every single inside joke or interesting event with every other community on the web? Can't they see how destructive that is?
Not at all, they believe in a faulty kind of diversity which actually aims to make everybody the same. They are conditioned to be ashamed of noticing any issues with this.
>>161646 >Why are they so keen on sharing every single inside joke or interesting event with every other community on the web? Can't they see how destructive that is? It's literally because they can't be assed to follow more than a single website. Centralization is good because it means they never have to look beyond their social media content treadmill of choice. I've seen several people say the same thing straight faced and I remember it being a big concern earlier this decade when Twitter, Facebook and their ilk still had to compete with Tumblr and a bunch of other failed platforms
The music in the 10s seems more plastic. At least the popular stuff does. I like how streaming is taking off, though. I can listen to as much underground (or at least "not super mainstream") music as I like without spending hundreds of dollars on CDs a week, and all from different decades.
TV and movies seem to be shittier. I'm not under any illusions that 80s, 90s or 00s programs were all masterpieces, or that everything made this decade is automatically shit. Still, it seems like the bar is getting lower for "good programming" lately. It's all Rick and Morty, capeshit (more than even the 00s), or normgroid movies.
Video games are starting to become more political. People are complaining about how there are too many/not enough minorities in them, instead of complaining about the quality of the games themselves. Gaming quality is taking a dip, too. Everything is either cinematic bullshit, NHL 2K19, or walking simulators. Less creative.
Also, everything seems to be political in a different way from the 00s. It seems like it's all SJWs vs the alt right, to put it vaguely. I can't articulate it properly, but it just seems like both the left and right yelling at each other over stupid bullshit.
The internet culture is weird. I was hoping it would be a last refuge for "weirdos". Everything seems to be geared towards normgroids. If you aren't using Facebook (or whatever social media is popular nowadays) or keeping up with the latest eceleb and their personal drama, you're met with contempt.
Personally, the 10s are a mixed bag. A little better than the 90s and 00s. I'm not picked on incessantly like i was in school. The job I have now is miles ahead than the one I had for the first seven years or so of the decade.
Speaking only to my own personal situation, it's been a largely alright decade for me. For starters, the 2010s saw my physical well being improve quite drastically with me becoming the fittest/healthiest I've ever been. Conversely, my mental health took a sharp nosedive midway through the decade as I suffered a mild nervous breakdown and began to develop what is now acute depression, along with fairly intense bouts of anhedonia. Really the only thing I miss from the 00s, or even the early 10s, is that sense of my self before major depression & anhedonia took hold and made my life a near constant struggle & daily endurance test of agonizing dullness. This is also the decade that saw most of my living standards improve dramatically so, again, there have been some pretty good things that have happened & there have been some really bad things that have happened. I'd hesitate to call it all a mixed bag, since I feel the good slightly edges out the bad, but, even so, that's probably the best description I could give for my own situation in regards to the 2010s.
As far as how society & the globe at large has changed throughout the 2010s? Meh. Everybody else here has essentially driven themselves hoarse haranguing, circle jerking and banging on about the supposed unmitigated awfulness of it across the board. Mostly in relation to, among other things, losing this oh so precious sense of the "internet", being this special & wondrous place free from the dastardly influence of those pesky normans. In this regard, whether it's the 90s, 00s, or 2010s, it's all the same to me. No sense getting worked up over the minutiae of differences amongst them culturally or politically and acting like your hair's on fire due to some perceived decline therein. As far as I'm concerned, the internet has always been a nasty, diseases ridden back alley overflowing with nauseating fecal matter, even going back to the early 00s, so this nostalgic opining & mythologizing for something that, at least to me, never fucking existed is both surreal & funny to witness from those whom, I'd wager, were probably near kids themselves in the 00s.
Having said all that, I feel that this post >>161490 serves as the most unbiased analysis of the decade in question and I largely agree with it.
For me, my only concern going into the 2020s is major societal disruption, bordering on total collapse, due to a combination of both environmental catastrophe & civic unrest. Anything else is peanuts compared to that. The fact that the 2010s weren't the decade to have this sort of thing happen is itself enough to make them a success in my book and something to be looked back on fondly. >Then again, I make for a shit clairvoyant.
Trust me when I say that you certainly don't need to be a psychic to be able see the myriad of cataclysms that await organized human life in the not so distant future. Only a functional brain stem & two working eyes is required.
>>161718 I imagine many countries and cities will have large polders systems at some point in the future like the Netherlands and cars as a way of private transportation will become a thing of the past. I don't see a collapse as well. Either way I'll be dead way before any of this becomes a thing.
>>161718 People had been predicting the weather for millenia but they didn't start to get it right until they built scientific models which could aid their predictions. Trying to point to erroneous predictions from the past that were based on nothing to try and disprove predictions based on decades of rigorous science and data collection is just stupid.
>>161723 Notice how I said decades, and not millenia. I am aware of modelling and data science. And still, global warming will not cause a collapse. Maybe something akin to a dark age or plague, but most life will adapt and go on living. This does not spell doom for life on earth or even most of humanity.
>>161724 you have no idea what you're talking about if you think the climate scientists have been making predictions that haven't come true. If anything they all overestimated the amount of time we had left.
Sounds like normalcy bias if you ask me, but you're free to delude yourself into thinking whatever you wish. The faith that most people, even wizzies, put into the supposed invulnerability of civilization, when the opposite is true, is frankly astounding to me.
>>161719 >Either way I'll be dead way before any of this becomes a thing.
If you're in your 20s, or early 30s, it's highly likely you'll live to see the disintegration of organized human society. This of course meaning, among other things, no grid-tied electricity, no gas at the pumps, and no food at the grocery stores, across large swaths of industrialized, first world entities with no hope of a nation wide recovery, both due to worsening environmental extremes, resource scarcity & global economic collapse, in addition to general global unrest, armed conflict and extreme mass migration. Not just from Jamal from Africa or Jahgmeed from India if you're in Europe, but from Jimbo & John who live in places like Florida or New Orleans flooding up into other states, or Canada, due to sea level rise. So even if you're American or Canadian mass migration is still an extremely disruptive issue. In all this, will there be the odd resilient community or two eeking by and having a go of it regardless? Yeah, probably. You or I certainly won't be part of their in-group however, given that we're wizzies and thus anathema to the normans of the world.
>>161724 >And still, global warming will not cause a collapse. Maybe something akin to a dark age or plague, but most life will adapt and go on living.
Human life might go on for a little while in isolated pockets & communities here & there, but any form of technological or industrialized civilization will forever be a thing of the past. To think otherwise is just pure fantasy. >This does not spell doom for life on earth or even most of humanity.
Never said it did. Who the fuck wants to live on a planet without the amenities of modern civilization though? I sure as hell don't and I can't imagine why any other wizzie would want to either, especially given how unlikely our individual survival would be in such a dreadful situation. As far as I'm concerned, the end of industrial civilization is the equivalent to the end of all life on earth.
>>161726 >We have unlimited time left. There is no deadline.
Not true. Factors like a worldwide economic collapse are very much on the horizon and are part of the deadline associated with industrial civilization's quickeningly depleting lifespan. A BOE in the Arctic (blue ocean event) is also highly estimated to occur within the next couple years which will have profound effects on civilization as well and will essentially be another deathblow for it to reel from. >There is no apocalypse. Shit will hit the fan in some places, but life will mostly go on.
Like I said already, permanently losing industrial civilization is what is essentially the equivalent to the apocalypse. Life might go on in the wreckage afterwards, but it'll be brutish, ugly, short, and utterly merciless to wizards, far moreso than what you might believe to be the case now.
Yes, that's the ticket wizzie. Bedtime stories really are the best medicine to the horror & dreadfulness of this ghastly predicament we all face. As you say, civilization will survive. Even if it's demonstrably impossible for it to do so, it just somehow has to. Hold me tight and whisper it into my ear each night, as if your my wizmom tucking me into bed, since I want nothing more than to believe it. Reality be damned.
It's insane how fast this went decade went by, I feel much the same as OP. The most insane thing is how at the start of the decade I thought so much would change and here I am, basically in the very same position I was in at the start of 2010. Literally nothing has changed.
And just think about it, a couple of more decades and death comes knocking on the door. It's not like I won't embrace it, it's just insane how short life is and how I did literally nothing with it.
>>161745 it will go by even faster from now on, less likely to change as the years go by and getting more accustomed to the monotonous routine you do everyday. The days will just go by faster and faster until you only fully realise when its too late.
>>161746 But I already realized it's too late. I'm just kinda baffled that this is the end, this is probably as good as it gets for me unless I win the lottery.
Yeah. Certain things might have occurred here or there (my opinions grew & changed, my living standards & health improved, various moments of fleeting melodrama I had to contend with, etc.) but, by and large, it's like nothing's happened at all. An insanely brief slideshow of nothing. I just woke up one day to suddenly realize it was near the start of 2020, only to still feel as if if 2008 was only a couple years ago. Just the same, one day I'll wake up to it being 20, or 30 years later, with me as a then decrepit old geezer, attempting to digest & come face to face with all the things I've already known for so long now. That life, and especially my life, was nothing more than a useless waste of time with, perhaps, my only regret being that I never managed to kill myself or die sooner to save myself all the needless hassle endured. Life's so short it's not like it matters either way. A couple blinks of an eye and it's gone. Good riddance.
As an aside, I've always found the rather quaint saying that advises us all to, "not live too fast", to be applicable beyond what most people perceive to be the case. Even living as a boring old hermit for the past 12 1/2 years, I feel like I've lived my life in an extremely fast way. I just find that somewhat funny. Even sitting and doing nothing, one can still fall victim to the same thing that saying suggests to avoid. That being letting one's life slip through their fingers, despite the fact that such a thing is unavoidable no matter what it is we do. Whether one appreciates or utilizes their time "fully" or not, really doesn't matter. It leaves us either way and, as a result, we all have to, on some level, cope with the repercussions of its absence. In other news, the sky is blue. Just felt like mentioning it anyway.
Decadent decade. The Weimar allegory is too often used, but it fits. A beginning in economic ruin, followed by a progression into colorful debauchery. Internet is a shade of what it once was, now primarily a tool of social control. Hordes volunteering all secrets to the panopticon. All popular media degraded due to pandering; to advertisers, to shitty ideologies, to idiots, to succubi. Politics a joke as always. Democracy the perfect smokescreen to shelter the aristocracy from ire. At least the aristocracies of the past could be held to account by virtue of their visibility. Now they hide in plain sight. The economy, the great devil, sucking soul out of everything. More and more people withdrawing from it to save their soul. Still more being sucked into its orbit due to its gravity. What does not change is everyone wants what's just ouside of their reach.
Advanced society seems to be very delicate these days. New technologies are quickly accepted and integrated into the whole before becoming a critical dependency on which new systems are built. Perhaps in several decades the interconnected will be so built up and complicated that critical functions are comprehensible only by a handful of very intelligent autistics. Like a jenga stack, could the whole thing be toppled by exterminating a single committee?
>>160833 >The 2010's were bleak fucking times. 2020's are going to be even bleaker Sums it up
>>161535 I miss it so much…rampant piracy everywhere, individual unique sites unlike all the profiles hosted at big social networks, great browser games as you noted etc.
>>161759 >Hordes volunteering all secrets to the panopticon During the process of getting my neetbux, I told the clerk that I refuse to give my fingerprint and in response she said: "But everyone do that". You no longer need harsh and violent dictatorship to control the masses, all you need is mindless conformity and lazy comfort.
>>160486 Possibly one of the worst decades of my entire life. By this decade, I already finished high school and thought my troubles were over. Far from it. The moment I went into college, I hated every singe semester I endured. I was even more lonely than I was in high school. My health and sanity declined more as I ended up staying alone in a tiny dorm room for most of my education. At some point, I just gave up and eventually flunked out in debt. Came home to a bunch of angry parents who ended up splitting up. It's been 4 years since I dropped out, I am at risk at getting kicked out of the house by my mom. On top of that, I lost my car in an accident that injured me severely, so I am back to being stuck in my house all day. Beyond my personal life, everything else is just as awful. Politics started spilling off everywhere, succubi became more and more unbearable, and life just got shittier by the day. If I were to be kicked out by tomorrow, I would certainly die on the street. At this point, I am strongly considering just offing myself on New Years. I hate to see what the 2020s have in store.
I made a comic in 2010 where the person on the left swears vengeance via sleep rape towards the person on the right due to almost pouring pigs blood on her…
As the singer from the Arcade Fire would put it: "We take what we're given, just because you've forgotten that don't mean you're forgiven"
>>160835 >because the vast majority of sites you did not discover by having an algorithm decide what you should see
I agree, but throughout the mid and late 2000s, almost all of the interesting content I found was through search engines and algorithms anyway. The early days of YouTube were fucking magical, because the algorithm was designed to help people find content, not push bullshit on them.
This no longer happens, the social contract has been broken. All of the old hideouts I know are dead and I and a lot of NEETs the WWW over have no way of discovering anything new easily. Even the few normies who have been around since the early 2000s joke about being stuck in a loop of checking the same few sites over and over and therefore realize this.
Ironically the accessibility from 2000-2010 both helped find content without needing to know other people or be linked from some site AND made people dependent on the algorithmic hellscape we have now. Using Tor will get you put on a list and on the regular web stuff is either shit, impossible to find or dead.
>>161811 >The early days of YouTube were fucking magical, because the algorithm was designed to help people find content, not push bullshit on them. I agree. What saddens me the most about present-day YouTube though is the grave that the AdSense system is digging for the site and its content. It actively lures content creators into its trap with the promise of ad revenue and then promotes mediocrity. Videos are being shamelessly padded with vapid filler just to reach the ten minute mark and be allowed to plant even more ads into the video. Content creators avoid making videos about things that aren't popular or are considered "questionable", thus limiting their content in variety for the sake of increased ad revenue. It's utterly maddening to see that most videos are over ten minutes long nowadays. Videos that are ten minutes and a couple extra seconds long are particularly infuriating. Aside from the questionable "etiquette" and practices among creators that this program cultivates, I think it may be creating a vicious cycle of sorts. YouTube is overflowing with lengthy videos, which in turn requires more servers and maintenance expenditures, which in turn requires that more ads are being hosted on the site, which in turn requires that more lengthy videos are being posted. The whole situation is a mess, in my opinion, and it may get out of hand and require serious readjustments on Google's part in the long term.
>>161811 >I agree, but throughout the mid and late 2000s, almost all of the interesting content I found was through search engines and algorithms anyway. The early days of YouTube were fucking magical, because the algorithm was designed to help people find content, not push bullshit on them
You can still find a lot of interesting content if you play around with the filters, particularly filtering through number of views you can find pretty obscure stuff on the subject matter you're searching for. I don't see many people talking about the Youtube filter thing which is a shame, it's very useful.
i was 25 in 2010, at that point i disconnected from most of pop culture, tv, top chart music, etc. i feel liek my view of the era is too personal to have any relation or capability to generalize what the time period meant
>>161793 Name a better decade. All the past decades that an alive person might have lived today are lame and dull. The only real fun people get back then was drugs. Everything in the past centuries are infected with liberalism anyways so i dont really see the traditionalist argument you might put on.
>>161842 >Name a better decade 90s and 2000s until around 2005 >so i dont really see the traditionalist argument you might put on. None because I'm not a traditionalist my dude
2010s were so terrible I can't even think of a real top 5 list of "best video games" and that's before getting into the exponential increase in feminism and other antisocial "do whatever feels good" liberal bullshit.
>>161844 Emo was gay as fuck dude, and so was most of 00s music and pop culture I do have 00s nostalgia myself, but that's because it's the decade i grew up in as a kid/early preteen, before everything went to shit
its just a false flag to excuse for more taxes, regulations and controls on the daily lives of people by government and corporations. Its also the go to excuse they are putting forward in advance to justify the decline on living conditions and spending power the western working class will experience in the next decade.
>>161842 >>162540 I think it's true that many ways of having fun other than sex, drugs and partying were normalized this decade, and the world got a lot more introvert-friendly because of that (which is a good thing, fuck extroverts)
A decade where everything got serious. Or not really, the userbase of the sites I visit is just nearing that magical number of 30, that for us might mean wizardry but for virtually everyone needs a good dose of existential doubts.
It won't get better, all we're doing is teaching the new gens to feel scared of everything, but it promotes loneliness and doesn't bode for a meaningful life.
It was pretty forgettable and bland, I feel like there's barely any difference in most things when you compare for example 2012-13 to 2018-19, meanwhile I felt like early 00s and late 00s felt radically different. Just look at the internet comparison between let's say 2002 and 2008, social networks were still in their infancy back then, no facebook or twitter, no reddit, no 4chan, no youtube, no big livestreaming sites, etc. Then rewind just 5 or 6 years later and everything has changed. But now in 2010s, it seems mostly the same shit that has been popular at the end of last decade and beginning of this one still is popular.
But I'm slightly optimistic for 2020s, it seems like a lot of things that were "brewing" during this decade but never fully matured will come to life in this decade.
2010's were coming to terms with how shit life is for me. Went from hopeful to hopeless. Now I'm literally considering playing lottery because I'm out of ideas how to live my life, and I dislike it a lot.
I feel like a lot of energy that was otherwise channelled (due to a lack of alternative) into every day and the "real world", is now being corralled onto the internet which is entertaining, somewhat satisfying, interesting etc but ultimately does not provide any sense of intimacy, genuine emotion, confrontational experiences etc. It's partly why the "real world" feels so bland these days, as the internet now offers a safe and compelling sanctuary from it which itself breeds complacency, social isolation, self-absorption etc.
I am tempted to think that we (in the West at least) have pretty much tacitly accepted that the real world has reached its conclusion in many ways, and that because more and more energy, focus, attention and care is being directed towards the digital plane of existence (i.e. pure thought and ideology) there isn't all that much enthusiasm left for a world of heavy material objects, exhausting lengthy distances, disappointing social encounters, underwhelming jobs, and no real opportunity for adventure. Retail space is dying, highstreet shopping is dying, marriage and even friendship rates are decreasing, etc.
Finally (apologies for the long post) I would predict however that the internet is not in any way sufficient to hold people's attention for much longer. In essence, I'd say it serves as:
1. An archive of everything in the real world, similar to a Pokedex 2. A digital (i.e. non-physical) meeting place 3. A source of entertainment 4. A retail space
But what it doesn't provide is intimacy, immersion, and an experience beyond pure intellect. So with that in mind I believe that virtual reality will in this decade and coming decades, come to dominate much of day-to-day life to the point where introversion will be a standard human behaviour and life outside of work (which will itself become unstable due to AI, automation - although this was predicted to have taken place by now) will increasingly involve developing and experiencing our own solipsistic private virtual worlds, or forming relationships and experiencing things in shared virtual worlds with people we don't know IRL. So the "real world" will in time begin to resemble more and more a kind of moonbase or something, which we venture out into only in order to become reasonably educated and to hoard a supply of necessary goods, but even education may become a virtual experience. I predict that virtual reality will, in the next decade perhaps, become so convincingly accurate that laws will be introduce to form VR developers to automatically make users aware that the reality they are experiencing is not the reality in which their physical host (i.e. the body which circulates blood around their means of sustaining thought) exists, and that they'll need to log out in order to bathe, feed themselves etc. Reality Dissolution will be the theme of the 2020s in my opinion.
>>165375 It still feels like 2006 was just a couple of years ago to me. 2013/14 almost feel like just a few months ago. Hardly did anything in that time, especially.
>>165376 A lot happened, not much changed. I barely even look that different. Still do the same things in the same places now me and the internet is just older and shittier. It works better to see what unfolds as a bunch of cycles all interacting with each other constantly, time as a single line doesn't really work as perception to me anymore. It doesn't make much sense.
>>161856 Let's have a look at the top gaymes currently played on Twitch.
LOL, released 2009. Just Chatting, dominating on a "gaymen streaming" site proves that gaymes have become shyt and mediocre. DOTA 2, 2013 but based on the 2003 mod. RainbowSix Siege, 2015. CS:GO, based on a 2000 mod of a 1998 game, with minor additions. Apex Legends, 2019. Mediocre, even more diverse clone of Overwatch. Escape From Tarkov, early access. PUBG, 2017. Fortnite, 2017. In my opinion, this is the only groundbreaking game on the list. Hearthstone, 2014, card game in the vein of Magic the Gathering, etc. WOW, 2004, also includes WOW Classic, which further proves all new stuff is shyt. GTA V, 2015, based on a 1997 series. Overwatch, mediocre, diverse clone of TF2 2007. FIFA 20, minor improvements to a game made in 1994, sold again and again each year.
You all know who is behind the video gaymen industry becoming pure shovelware crap with no innovation. I don't need to mention it.
It was fun the fist few years. 2010-2013 was good. After that things began to gradually decline and become shittier. Around 2014/2015 the tranny fag shit came in full force and then 2016 was just a complete shit show. People thought a reality tv show host would be the savior of western civilization. That garbage permeated everything in the culture and even aspects of life. Normalfags and their political crap ruin everything. Things used to be normal before.
I'm kind of tired of people pushing their shit memes like a coming civil war or utopian technocracy but at this point that might as well happen. It sure would be a lot more interesting than the nonsense we have now. So yeah the 2010s for the most part were hot garbage.
>>168158 Only a complete shut in with zero world experience would think what we lived in was normal. It was a hellhole of a dying civilization where everything was (and is) being bought up by the Chinese. Communities dead, single mothers every where and there's less languages spoken at the UN then there are heard on the average street in Europe. It was FUCKED long before 2010s and if anything Trump should of woke you up to just had bad it had become.
>>168167 Why would a shut in wizard care about "a dying civilization" "dead communities" "single mothers" and chinks and immigrants? most people here don't give a fuck about the world in the first place.
I think of the 2010s much like raoul from “fear an loathing in Las Vegas” looks at the fall of hippie and acid culture. Particularly the speech about the wave rolling back. We experienced what many called the gold age of the internet. It was a new ground, like LSD. This applies mostly to the very early 10s of course, and mostly even before that. It had a special magic, like a Wild West. At this point sites like YouTube hadnt yet been filled by corporations and greed. Then it just got worse and worse until “the wave broke” and the magic was gone. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=az36k4-Hc94
>>160821 >I speak as a guy who was falsely accused of groping a succubus (literally never happened) Give me one reason you havent murdered this succubus in the most painful and gory way possible? For legal reasons thats an actual question not a rethorical, im not encouraging you to commit violent acts.
>>162048 >>162035 Don't know much about him nor particularly paid him much attention but remember he was pretty much demonized in media here, depicted as some lightweight version of a dictator. Italy didn't seem to be suffering more than any other european country wealth wise under his rule though.
>>160486 The 2010s truly was a shit decade. It had a terrible start because of the financial crisis, and it had a terrible end because of the coronavirus. Life became harder for young people during that decade, whilst old people just live off pensions. Also the 2010s had political faggotry, awful mainstream music and the rise of social media. All of this leads us to the turning point of the 2020s.
>>160486 I was a teen in the 90s. My parents were horrible narcissistic assholes. My 00's were spent on recovering from cptsd. Still, I managed to get a master's degree just by reading a lot every fucking day. "Maybe my life will get better now", I thought. I managed to graduate straight into the economic collapse and of course all the jobs disappeared.
It was the early 10s. There I was, a mentally unstable 30 year old without a job. I got into a programming training with zoomers. I liked the math and stuff and was decent at coding but of course I didn't know how to network with people and with the shit economy and all, employers didn't want to hire an already too old unstable antisocial person in a junior position.
Then my mother died. She was drunk, slipped on the porch, slit her face and froze to death. The next year my brother's liver failed. He survived with a new liver but lost all his muscles and will to live and became a recluse. My dad said fuck it, got a new lady and our family broke apart.
For some odd reason, I reached enlightenment in the end of 2010s. I finally saw my true nature and understood, well, everything. Then I got a nice inheritance from my dead whore mother and I calculated I'll survive about 10 years with it. Then I'll be about 50. So my 2020s will be just me neeting with my inheritance. I'll take it as a compensation for all the time which was lost because of my parents. Since modern popular culture is shit, I'll just listen to music from the 80s and 90s and play games from the same period. I don't even need to care about covid shit, since I'm almost completely insulated in my schizo world anyway.
>>172877 >Then I got a nice inheritance from my dead whore mother and I calculated I'll survive about 10 years with it. Then I'll be about 50. So my 2020s will be just me neeting with my inheritance. What will you do when the money runs out, wiz?
>>172880 Keep your slave collar sticker obsession to yourself. >>172887 Are you perhaps incapable of individual thought and/or introspection? Because this is pathetic. Think for yourself.
>>172882 I have time to figure it out. Anyway the next 10 years I can live just the way I like and finally enjoy myself and life. If the price for that is old age in misery then so be it.
The 2010s was my disaster decade. It was when every single thing in my life went wrong and I ended up fucking myself permanently, or getting fucked permanently.
>>160520 >Let the normies do the the intellectual backflips. As for us, let us proudly use up this earth for the last generation of Wizards. Lets use up all the resources, burn the skies, and leave the children of sexhavers nothing. I couldn't agree more. I do not recycle or go out of my way to "save the planet" for "their" offspring. Quite comical how emotional and aggressive people get over denying and mitigating climate change.
>>172877 I wouldn't say glad, but it's good to know the programming bootcamp thing happened to other people since I also got fucked for being asocial and not able to be bubbly to their expectations.
I wish I was as lucky as you to inherit shit.
Good to see some older people on here though. It's weird feeling old at 29.
>>160486 In 2008, 2009 and 2010 the internet was a really interesting place to be. Nick Bates, Chris Chan and another iconic characters that we remember today were born in those times.
>>173144 And wizards would prefer to not be born in the first place, thus working towards the extinction of mankind, regardless of how little one may contribute to it, is good. What's on your groidheads, seriously?
>>173062 generally speaking the internet was way worse for me than it is today. Today i can torrent anything i want or find it easy with high speed connection, i don't care if social media has "gone bad" because i never cared for social media and never wanted to be part of it. I never truly care about ibs too much either
Youtube was also shit, is the only big site i use often because now you can find long form documentaries and stuff, in 2008 it was only stupid short memes on 180p made by emo rawr lolrandumXD kids , it couldnt even be used for anything else.
there were a couple forums that were good back then, i think forums were better than what there is today but i entered forums to get the content i wanted to get and now i can get all of it more easily, i don't need a forum full of elitist normalfags just to get my comics or get artbooks of get tutorials on how to do stuff. I dont miss usenet shit either, all the hassle to find something with shitty speed connection where i couuld just get it with a simple search in any of the sites i have bookmarked.
The one thing i hate today is smartphones mean that everyone expects you to have them and if you wagecuck you are going to be bothered 24/7 and be stalked even outside office hours. Maybe i don't want to be online 24/7, so that is really awfull. But since i work very little now and on my own i don't care anymore and don't even have a phone line on my cheap smartphone, they cancelled because no one calls me anymore now that i dont wagecuck
If you have not been in social media everyday last decade was just a blip, pretty much nothing happened. Stuff most people remember is just viral shit from normgroid social media. Even technology is exactly the same today as in 2010 but better, same smartphones but now faster, same consoles, same games, same movies but now just a bit more powerfull tech. Literally i could be transported back to the year 2010 in a time machine and would feel exactly the same but normgroids live in the illusion is not because some memes on 4redditchan are different
>>175158 Yeah, site was stable and functional back then but the purging and censorship didn't start up. The main thing people bitched about back then was the dmca system being unfair.
Then 2016 happened and silicon valley collectively lost their god damn mind.
>>175158 >only 5 minute videos >180p >bunch of retards being angry at old videogames >some dumb memes and a million remixes >literally nothing else No thanks, youtube sucked balls, there was nothing there to search, even using it to pirate stuff was pure garbage as the quality was awful.
>>175165 The time limit was 10 minutes and longer content was broken into parts and bundled into playlists by competent youtubers. Pirating from there is just as bad now if not worse, because even though vid quality is higher, Youtube's piracy prevention methods are way better now. I'd rather watch a show in 480p or 360p, than one with mutilated audio and warped video to fly under the AI's radar. 240p sucks balls though. Torrenting was and remains a superior avenue for pirating content anyway. As for content quality, I way prefer the old stuff to the current mode of 20000 channels by soulless zoomer shills and massive media corps clogging all the top search results, intermingled with ads, combined with a dearth of search options hindering one's attempts to dig under the thick layer of crud. If you think the current censored content is better than the flowering of creativity and innovation that characterised so much of old Youtube I can't help but suspect you are either being contrarian or were not around to enjoy it.
>>175172 old youtubers would be shilling stuff for free on their own.it was just consoomer ners showing off their nerd cred reviewing items among their mountains of plastic.
>>175172 >>175190 Old youtube was better because there was no money to be made. If someone made a review of something it was because they wanted to do so, now you get people who make youtube a "job" and push out trash content they dont even give a fuck about.
>>175191 Its still some tard sperging about some toy, i don't care for it, never have. It was always trash. those youtubers are cancer, i don't need any nostalgia critic fag or mad raving videotoy nerd. That only debased hobbies even more.
It was wildly more difficult, and much more difficult to make money. If you had a big enough viewer base, you could make money off the site (ie, using your fame; things like Nigahiga, Fred, etc).
But by and large, creators wern't in it for the money nearly as much.
Remember newgrounds? Maybe there were elements of artists that were fame seeking, but the way the internet worked a lot of them understood that it would be difficult to monetize the medium and that wasn't necessarily the prime draw there, it was the art, or humor, or music, or w.e.
Now people treat the internet like a full time job, and that more artistic side, that I'm idealizing because it was probably rarely there, is gone.