>tits and ass marketing
>booth babes
>"gamer" as a label starts getting astroturfed everywhere
>American superiority in everything (Japan is considered "weird")
>CoD4 and Halo 3 are the greatest games of all time
>"PCs are for dorks buy a 360"
>every other game is a GTA clone
I see a lot of nostalgia for the 2000s but is that not misguided ? The entire industry shifted in the 2010s because the dudebro slop era was such a cancer
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Why were the 2000s so comfy?
You would think that 9/11, the housing bubble, a recession, PC culture and the corporate takeover of the internet would be enough to ruin things. Make them uncomfy.
But it was the opposite of that somehow. Nobody under 30 gave a shit about politics. Being deeply into politics or social justice or racism in a 2005 high-school was considered deeply uncool.
I almost feel guilty for getting to experience the last of a world that catered to the tastes and interests of young white men. Nobody was worried about fentanyl overdoses or trans rights.
They had a captive boomer audience binge watching cable news who could've easily been convinced to make a hard pivot to wokeism. But they didn't and I don't know why they didn't.
But it was the opposite of that somehow. Nobody under 30 gave a shit about politics. Being deeply into politics or social justice or racism in a 2005 high-school was considered deeply uncool.
I almost feel guilty for getting to experience the last of a world that catered to the tastes and interests of young white men. Nobody was worried about fentanyl overdoses or trans rights.
They had a captive boomer audience binge watching cable news who could've easily been convinced to make a hard pivot to wokeism. But they didn't and I don't know why they didn't.