Post the best games from the good ol' days

That year will be the coldest year from then on for at least 1000 years.

Unironically somewhat true. I remember how sunny days used to feel back then, but it wasnt scorching either.

To be fair that year was literally in early highschool for me, so it might just be teenage brain with little experience viewing the world in an embellished way

>>715752985 (OP)
2006*

>>715753164
You can look up the stats
It was better

>>715752985 (OP)
Remember when the Sun was a warm yellow-white glow instead of a screaming bright white LED in the sky?

>>715753164
>2016
>early highschool

>>715753164
I genuinely remember how much orange hue sunlight had especially up to about 2005-2006

it vanished after, I talk to people who were kids AND adults back then and most of them confirm this...idk what's to make of it, maybe I'm just emotionally sensitive to low sun rays idk

sunlight now seems...sterile...like a white tint

>>715753321
was literally typing it out as you posted it, more of an orange white imo

>>715753360
Now that I think of it, might have honestly been my first year of highschool not just early highschool. I think the reason Im confused about it, must be because I went to summer highschool before highschool, but I dont know if that was in 2015.

Anyway, all I know is that that was the year Pokemon Go was a crazy phenomenon, and I couldnt participate in it because I couldnt participate in it let alone have the data to be connected to pokemon go constantly outside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr8Hba-WAB8

>>715753481
I miss when night time was yellow so fucking much.

>>715753164
>>715753481
literal rose tinted metaphorical glasses

>>715753149
Oh well. Ice caps on mars are shrinking too so no matter what we'd the sun has the final say regardless.

But we could always kill polluters.

>>715752985 (OP)
2016 was the year my life went to shit

>>715753481
I too remember the warm color tone sun, much more pleasing than the cool one. I think the ozone got worse, and I blame China/India.

>>715753696
This. The days were less hot, for sure, but pretending the light changed color? It's the damn same. You are just becoming deluded.

Esl garbage

I peaked in 2016
:(

>>715753606
Isn't not even just for looks. LED light has melatonin suppressing blue light in it, and the beam is more narrow/blinding.

>>715753606
Sometimes I go to my window at night and use my hand in front of my face to block out the night sky, only focusing on the driveway that's illuminated by LED streetlights, and it quite literally looks the same as if it were noon. It blows my mind how anyone thought this was a good idea.

2016 was one of the worst years in gaming

>>715753814
probably...could also be the smartphone screens doing long term damage forcing our eyes to readjust and thus fucking up our perception of sunlight

>>715752985 (OP)
>zoomgroids are nostalgic for 2016
grim

>>715753606
>>715753912
>>715753912
Yes, so that people don't fall asleep while driving at night.

>>715753481
Your lens gets thicker and yellower. I know rich guys that get them swapped out with artificial ones just to see childhood color again

>>715753814
The ozone is almost completely fixed

>>715753945
my town is run by hippies who care about "light polution" so we actually get very atmospheric nights and roads with good night skies and seldomly illuminated streets

the cons are niggers from nearby city come to do crime and it's annoying to search for parking near your friend's house at nights

>>715753945
it's unironically a conspiracy to disturb our circadian rhythm and induce sleep depravation

>>715753481
Part of it is because of >>715753606 and part of it is literally just because when you get older the yellow receptors in your eyes get worse

>>715754109
ty for the info

noted

>>715753606
Would you like a side of LED headlights to go along with that?

>>715753736
>Oh well. Ice caps on mars are shrinking too so no matter what we'd the sun has the final say regardless.
Bro, Mars is completely uninhabitable. Not a good comparison.

>>715754079
if im so tired that im at risk of falling asleep, im going to fall asleep regardless of if the streetlights are yellow or white. this is abullshit excuse. same with lowering crime, making people feel safer, whatever. it creates an antihuman antisoul sterile enviornment, who cares if some freak accidents are lowered by half of a percentage if the entire atmosphere of outside must be reduced to the same feeling of a hospital? why the hell is reducing the occurance of freak accidents by half a percentage more important than the general healh and wellbeing of literally everyone?

>>715754079
No the use them cause they consume less power and have to be replaced less often. Personally I'd rather take tax dollars from some useless programs and go back to traditional lighting.

>>715753981
It wasn't that bad. 2014 though, now THAT was a shit year.

YEAH WE GET IT THERE WAS A MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE IN WHICH YOU WERE 14 OR SOME OTHER AGE WHEN EVERYTHING WAS GOING RIGHT FOR YOU

2016 was a good year
we had overwatch in its prime

luv me 2016 games

>>715752985 (OP)
2016 was fucking miserable for me. Maybe the worst year of my life. Things are marginally better now

>>715753481
Same. It's like all the afterschool anime clubroom scenes. I used to play track in HS so I remember that orange hue well, particularly in the fall season when the leaves change and the temp starts to go down to the 70s. Then I'd go home and play MGS3/Halo2/RE4, then finish all my homework. That time period was like the last hoorah before college. Still get that feeling around the autumn season.

>>715754391
>it creates an antihuman antisoul sterile enviornment

this needs to be discussed far FAR MORE, "social aesthetics" or even "biosocial scape design/engineering"

I'm so sick of the pop sci "muh walkable" it means jack shit really, we need to be focusing on far more pression issues that go beyond whether or not you driivng or walking, who cares if it's not soulful or even worse forcebly soulful (like neourbanism you see on panflets)

>>715752985 (OP)
>>715753910
I'm around the same age and I don't understand having rose tinted glasses for 2016. That's more how I see 2007. Did you guys just forget what being a teenager was like?

>>715754178
I have a hard time believing environmentalists, they've lied so much. They freaked out over the miniscule by comparison pollution the west was putting out yet are dead silent against those 2.

>>715752985 (OP)
2016, 2017, and 2018 were the best years of my life. Finished school in early 2016 and those 3 years were just me chilling without any care in the world. Forget tertiary studies. That was in mid 2017 and even on the "worst" days, I still had the time of my life.
I fucking peaked back then and there's no way I could ever get those years back :(

>>715752985 (OP)
The funny thing is that back in 2016 normalfags were going about how 2016 was le worst year ever. In fact, it started the trend on how every year was the worst year ever.

>>715754379
How the fuck would man made global warming affect Mars?And yet, its globally warming.

Face it, the sun is going Hothouse like it did in the Permian Period.

>>715754730
the lightning looks great (so much better than the modern unreal slop) but the environment is terrible, it literally doesn't sell you on itself instead of a well designed city it's a "this environment is designed for you to sneek through and do game mechanics"

third person action games suffer this the most but this is also another example

picrel is how its done properly

I really don't get having rose tinted glasses for teenage years or your twenties. Isn't that supposed to be for when you're 4-7 years old, or was I just precocious? Fuck dude, my preteens were complicated.

>>715754945
It's just getting exponential now. 2000-2006 was worse than the 90s, 2007-2012 was worse than 00'-06', 2013-2016 was worse than that, 2017-2019 same deal, and then 2020-onward has just been a blur.

>>715755073
Most people dont remember pre-teens

>>715754809
>It's like all the afterschool anime clubroom scenes

ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY

also 2000's movies with scenes set in the late afternoon, after work rush hour

by the time I was in high school (early 2010's) it was gown unfortunately, so I assume you were in hs when I was in early middle school, that checks out.

>>715753360
whats wrong with that?

>>715755202
How could you not remember your pre-teens if most people's earliest memory is from like age 2?

>>715755291
Google it
Most people dont remember pre-teens

>>715755032
>How the fuck would man made global warming affect Mars?
Exactly. Not sure why you're bringing up mars.

>>715755173
I get confused when people group 2007 and 2012 as one era. 2011-2012 still feels somewhat modern to me whereas 2007-2008 feels like classical childhood and like typical 2000s years. 2009 is kinda weird but definitely a childhood year for me.

2012 was the last soulful year
>no LED lights
>Gangnam Style and Party Rock blasting on the radio
>Nobody cared about politics or the news
>100% white neighbourhoods; Jeets still lived 10000km away on the other side of the globe
>everyone happy and having a good time
Send me back

>>715755202
I remember being 3 years old in the late 1990's pretty well, then there is a gap until 1st grade, then another gap until the 4th grade

>>715755073
Mine aren't about age, they just fall in line with what everyone else has begun to notice about the downfall of society, culture, and media/entertainment. I don't think it's subjective, I think there's an objective truth. Sure there will be some people in the future that will be nostalgiac for the early 2020s, but nowhere near as prevalent as early 2000s nostalgia is now.

>>715752985 (OP)
>2016
are you fucking serious, these dates get later and later. 2006 fits this image better, and that's at the latest.

>>715755291
Most people's earliest memories from 4-5. Almost nobody remembers when they were 2. My earliest memory is from when I was 3

>>715755202
if that is you then you should probably get checked out, i don't mean that in a meme way, there might actually be something wrong
most people have quite a lot of memories from 6-12, before 6 it drops off pretty quickly, but many people have memories from when they were 5 or younger

>>715755412
>>Gangnam Style and Party Rock blasting on the radio
>>Nobody cared about politics or the news
This is just a really good way to out yourself as having been born later than 2000

>>715755073
people who reminisce about their teenage years and twenties are still, accomplishment wise and maturity wise, teenagers and twenty-somethings

>>715755397
exact same, in fact even 2009 clusters like 2009-2012 era for me

completely different vibes, fashion, music even, smartphones hell digital cameras became dominant in the cinema around 2009 too so it makes sense

>>715755537
NTA but your recollection of events from your pre-teens will usually be pretty spotty. Of course it stands to reason the further back you go your recollection gets worse.

Where the fuck do you people live? The sun is the same color, summer days aren't much warmer than they were back then, and
>>715753606
nighttime in the nearby cities are certainly still this color for me

>>715755624
I was born in 1991, you faggot.

>>715755412
Gangnam Style was always a sovlless forced normie meme and also just plain sucks as a song. Party Rock Anthem is kinosovl though.

>>715755397
You're probably right because it wasn't until 2012 that I began to notice things were really different. That was when Windows 8 came out and kickstarted that disgusting trend of minimalist flat color design. By that time, smartphones were officially a part of every day life as well, whereas back in 2008, it was still relatively niche. 2012 or 2013 was also when I began to notice that no one took privacy seriously on the Internet anymore.

>>715755382
>>715755509
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210614110824.htm

It was my second of year of college and games were shit since I was in high-school too. No wonder zoomers look dead when I interact with them outside my job.

>>715755202
That's very odd because all my friends remember the video games and cartoons we enjoyed in elementary school.

>>715755646
while you saying in bad faith, this isn't necessarily a wrong take

people who get easily nostalgic/sentimental (like myself) in fact I'm probably an exteme case live average life

if your life was awful you won't be much nostalgic for anything, if it's literally 12/10 then there is no point in being nostalgic because that was just life, and every day for you is better than the one before

so yeah in reality if you do get nostalgic somewhat often - you live an average life

you are still a nigger for putting it that way though "muh success" lol suck a dick, I don't care about buying stupid shit, it doesn't make me happy

>>715755397
2007 is when the Internet started degenerating due to smartphone adoption and social media. 2011-2012 is when the process completed and fully killed off all vestiges of the old Internet. In terms of politics and the news you probably just don't remember but there was tons of retarded shit being reported still, don't you remember all that crap with Arab Spring, Obama, Syria, and Benghazi?

>>715754079
Yup, same as the nightlight function on pcs/phones.

>>715753809
For me it was 2020. No it wasn't because covid.

The whole 10s are the dark ages. The economy never recovered again and games were turning into soulless husks.

>>715756078
>Arab Spring, Obama, Syria, and Benghazi?
Yeah and nobody cared about that shit except for losers

I'm a 2001-born and I see 2007-2008 as the peak of my childhood because life had a magical feel and it was before the recession REALLY hit. My core would be 2006-2011 probably. I never took the shift to 2010s culture all that well.

>>715752985 (OP)
This does not apply to a single day past 2012.

>>715756078
smartphone cancer didn't hit until much later around 2012
i had the first htc g1 android and there very little useable programs on it and the only use I had for it was IRC working from anywhere on 3g

>>715756078
Early 10s is when I noticed web sites started catering to phones by going diagonal instead of horizon. There's so much empty space on the side on websites now.

Games peaked in 2005. The 2010s have nothing to offer except Portal 2.

>>715755412
It was alright

https://youtu.be/l-TaaIQ2_1A?si=8PE9Z8vL_prD1khr

20010-12 were the best years for E3

>>715756185
media during those years was objectively fucking ludo, and most people get their entertainment from media

there is also more people and nature is cluttered with retards, on top of that there is less sense of wonder because everything is already prepackaged and on top of your finger tips

it's a shitshow now

>>715754109
>rich guys
anyone with decent medical insurance can have cataract surgery done for no additional cost lmao.

>>715756238
This shit killed my desire to do web development because I can't stand the way modern websites function and look.

>>715756315
not him

but it's not cataract he is referring to you doofus

>>715756078
It could just be from the eyes of a child but I thought 2009 was the shift back then rather than 2007. iPhones were a novelty item rather than an everyday object in 2007. Culture started transitioning as a whole to gay minimalism upon Obama's election.

>>715756362
>lens gets thicker and yellower
yeah it is, retard.

>>715756338
2006 everyday inconspicuous peak aesthetic and functionality non bloat eye candy kino

>>715752985 (OP)
>how x looked like
ESL retard meme

>>715754639
Overwatch in its prime was unbalanced bullshit, and people getting banned from the game for light trash talk.

>>715756286
WHEN YOUR STEPS
MAKE.
THAT.
MUCH.
NOISE.

>>715756238
Going back and browsing old gaming websites on the Wayback Machine is when I realized it was simply better when web design was catered toward PCs. In fact, every time I'm reminded that something like 92.5% of YouTube's web traffic is smartphones/tablets, I get the wind knocked out of me a little bit.

The world ended on December 21, 2012. Everything since has been some gay, retarded simulacrum

>>715755416
>I remember being 3 years old
No you don't

>>715756570
I'm pretty sure most of 4chan's traffic is from mobile users too.

>>715756570
Holy shit this is exactly what serebii, roblox and neopets used to look like

You just gave me flashbacks

>>715756627
I do albeit not in vivid detail

>>715756580
I don't understand this viewpoint either. It makes way more sense than pretending 2016 was sunshine and rainbows if you werent a little kid during the time but gay 2010s culture was in full swing by 2011. Occupy is where modern woke got into the mainstream. 2007 is too early to pinpoint a downfall in culture because that's a peak internet year. 2008 too. So 2009/when the recession peaked might be a good middle man.

>>715756657
>For 4chan.org (the main site), mobile devices account for a whopping 82.8% of all visits.

Today marks my 5th year on feminizing HRT

>>715756861
visits=/=posts

>>715754329
I need a way to combat this. Is there a way to program a little robot to hold a mirror and angle these extra bright LEDs into the face of the driver??? People literally drive around with their high beams on at all times. It's ridiculous.

>>715756861
jfc i thought it was only 50%

>>715752985 (OP)
>2016
>good ol' days
Election tourists and zoomers have been making this shithole even shittier for almost a whole decade. What a terrible world

>>715756808
When the fuck did I say anything about woke you retard? Anyway you're either too young to remember or just have shit memory but wokeshit didn't gain mainstream appeal until around 2014.

>>715756967
These lights come standard on new vehicles so unless you're driving a shitbox from 10 years ago you probably have them

>>715753816
nigger why do you think the sun is the color it is? from the air retard

>>715756919
Probably more lurkers on phones, but still, you can reasonably deduce from this data that a majority of posts are from phones or tablets, which makes it much harder for a post to be of high-quality.

>>715755202
Get checked for Alzheimers, memorylet

>>715757075
I can attest that this is correct 2013 maybe though (lived in a blue state)

>>715753606
I've gotten into multiple fights with people that defend LED lighting on this site. It's always an argument about them being cheaper to run, as if that's a metric that should matter when we're talking QoL

>>715756919
>yeah, all those phone posters are totally lurking respectfully. They dindu nuffin.

>>715756431
Seconding this as someone who had cataract surgeries at 26. They're called intraocular lenses and everything has never looked sharper. Only thing that sucks is I went from nearsighted to farsighted. Reading books without glasses was more comfy.

>>715757145
How is you junior high school summer break going?

>>715752985 (OP)
>Pokemon go and SM, overcoom (not inherently bad, but definitely stoked the flames of the now toxic gaas genre), uncharted 4, rollslop 3, just to name a few
2016 had some decent games, but well outnumbered by garbage, especially in retrospect

>>715757165
Gamergate was 2014 and troons really became big that year. It was my first time hearing terms like CIS, heteronormative and non-binary.

>>715757383
better than 2015 or 2017-2021

Battlefield 1
Battleborn
Dishonored 2
Doom (the good one)
Stardew valley
Overwatch
Deus Ex


2016 was best of the 2010's behind maybe only 2011

>>715756808
Occupy movement was the last remnants I remember where inequality was primarily a class-based issue, not gay, divisive identity politics.

>>715755412
>>Gangnam Style
in retrospect, that was likely the first big gook astroturfing work

>>715755412
>>Gangnam Style and Party Rock blasting on the radio

>>715757474
I said there were a few decent games, but what I was ultimately inferring, we already agree
>2016 was best of the 2010's behind maybe only 2011

>>715757395
I'm pretty sure this was the exact moment the zeitgeist changed forever regarding trannies.

>>715757621
If you didn't like Party Rock Anthem you are a FAGGOT

>>715755202
>he doesn't remember babbling at his mom and then pooping in the tub
Are you even trying?

>>715756967
you fight fire with fire, they want to run eye searing led high beams at all times? upgrade your lights on your vehicle to as bright as possible, then when they blind you you throw the power of a thousand suns at them for a second and watch them turn their highbeams down.

>>715757659
I could see it coming before that. It was all over /pol/ and /v/. Remember this guy?

>>715753481
your perception of color changes as you grow older. It could be that, or the sun is doing some weird shit, idk.

>>715753164
get out of the city, the sun is fine out in the middle on nowhere

>>715754884
Thats because environmentalists are just a useful idiots that the GEF use to promote the great reset

If I could press a button to shut down and delete the internet and brick every smartphone on earth I would do it in a heartbeat. I practically salivate over the idea.

>>715752985 (OP)
postal 2 ( the only good one )

>>715758257
The problem isn't the internet but social media.

>>715758257
>>715758412
the problem is mobile internet first and social media 2nd

>>715756412
From what I remember, the minimalism stuff didn't start showing up until around 2012 and wasn't in full swing until the following year. Gradient look was still popular before then.

morrowind

Seriously though, why is the sun white now, though and why doesnt it blind you? Fake projection/illusion/light source? Life cycle of sun (whats the likelihood of a human easily seeing a physical change of the course of 20 yrs)? Chem trails altering the light temperature? What is it?

How oblivious is the human population to not demand answers, or is it just white people who have the sentience tom see it?

>>715753360
This is going to shock you anon
>I was 12 in 2016

>>715755385
retard
>>715756184
complete retard
>>715755412
underage retard

>>715756135
2020 was the best year of my life

>>715753481
It's in your brain.
t. autistic hoarder of photographs and photography equipment and familiar with how much hue sunlight actually has (it was never orange, it's actually closer to blue)

>>715758676
faggot

>>715757754

>>715757140
Not really. New cars have regular lights but the mindless goycattle consumer thinks the lights aren't on because the normal headlights only turn on a small LED strip and the retarded normies think that isn't enough. So they turn their brights on, which illuminated the entire headlight assembly which produces the searing, blinding light we see everyone driving around with.

In hindsight, the Clown World meme was wasted on 2016

>>715758765
>we're now in current year+12....
Bros...

>>715758752
Well yeah if you keep your brights on you're an idiot plain and simple. I'm pretty sure even normalfags will agree. It's universally seen as a rude and stupid thing to do.

>come home from school
>see this
>feels good man

>>715753910
Mine is 2019, dont think that my life would ever reach that peak of happiness had I get the chance to feel another happiness in this life

>>715758765
>Every year after 2010 or so is the worst year yet
It's not coincidence or hyperbole, it's a trend. Those that don't see it are either explicitly choosing to be oblivious to it, or are part of the problems (way more than just one)
Appreciate the things you can appreciate, anon. Unless you're in one of the aforementioned 2 categories, it's never gonna get better

>>715758934
School ended at 8pm for you?

>>715753606
I fucking hate white lights
they ruined my street

>>715753360
Check this shit out:
2025 - 18 = 2007

>you now have to put up with zoomers who such a fucked up perspective that they look back at the fucking 2010s as some sort of golden age
Grim.

>>715759029
You're a retard that can't do math.
2025-18=2001

>>715752985 (OP)
My only happy memories are when I'm alone. Protip: don't have alcoholic parents.

>>715759087
It's not their fault you're a loser whose life has sucked for the last 15 years

>>715758752
you're close. the searing effect is inherent to LEDs regardless of running lights, low beams, or high beams. it's the natural result of a very small, very very bright light source- or several of them- shining in your direction (not even necessarily AT you) and then refracting through the air/the glass/your eyes/rain/et cetera. it's usually referred to as a 'dazzle' effect and they know goddamn well it hurts your eyes which is why so many tacticool flashlights have beams and settings specifically to dazzle and confuse. previous headlight types didn't have this problem- halogen bulbs reflect the output light forward but not the shape of the bulb itself (think about how an older car's headlights look like they're glowing when viewed from even a slight off-angle, but aren't actually shining right into your eyes even in the beam itself), xenons were cool but expensive, HID lights have a signature sort of 'glowing orb' (not the same as angel eyes), but LEDs are both cheaper to produce en masse and yet monstrously expensive to replace because fuck you, they set the prices.
>the mindless goycattle consumer thinks the lights aren't on because the normal headlights only turn on a small LED strip and the retarded normies think that isn't enough. So they turn their brights on
this is actually backwards, you have a lot more people driving WITHOUT headlights these days because they assume all cars have automatic headlights (they don't) and even if they do they're often set wrong, so they think their daytime running lights are actual headlights. in the past you could tell by whether your gauge cluster was lit up or not even in the absence of a headlight indicator light, but ALL cars have giant digital clusters that are permanently illuminated and digital screens these days so that doesn't work anymore
t. light autist

>>715759161
Anon, you have to accept the fact that people who were literally 9 years old in 2016 are now 18

>>715755730
there's a pretty big difference between having patchy memories and having no memories at all

>>715759282
People are noticeably angrier, more anxious, and more depressed now.

>>715759457
Yeah but maybe that's what that anon meant? Otherwise yeah that's pretty weird.

>>715758638
Pollution. In the 90s it was mostly particulates (dust/smoke) which made things more red. Now it's much smaller aerosols and chemicals which make it dull white. Go to a third world shithole and it looks more red.
I live in a very isolated area (offshore wind currents and far from any cities) and the light has always been the same, it's changed dramatically in cities over the last 30 years.

>>715759282
I guess you can't complain about things being shitty now because somewhere out there there are kids having the time of their life.

>>715752985 (OP)
>>715759215
My "good ol days" memories include melee, halo 2 lan parties, ddr extreme and itg 2 at any arcade worth a fuck, jamming out to the intro and subsequently enjoying all of ffx, enjoying the novelty of spawn and link in sc2, spidey antics in thps2 before capeshit became capeSHIT, mvc2 for that matter, and the original fable
God damn gaming went to shit wii/ps3 onwards

>>715756684
it's a design that just werks, a case of convergent evolution
when i was making my personal website i made it quite because it just makes sense for a content focused page

>>715759518
As long as you don't notice those things coinciding with the boom of internet connectivity; social media; smart phones, and all the modern shit plaguing gaming, everything will be fine

>>715759303
To add to this: Brighter lights are supposed to be angled downward but most people never adjust their lights and most shops won't unless you ask, so newer lights are designed to be sharply bright but aimed below eye level but are all pointed straight forward. This not only means they shine into oncoming cars, but drivers can't see the road right in front of them well and switch on brights (which have a wider illumination) to get the light to shine lower.
This started before LEDs back in the mid 2000s when xenon lights became a fad.

>>715758934
I've lived in the same house for 31 years and for about a week in the summer, there's this one time of day where the sun sets just right on the horizon that it shines through one window, through that room, a doorway, a hallway, cuts through a back to back bend just right and goes down THAT hallway, and the whole fucking place turns orange. It still makes me grin.

>>715759518
Stress.
Every moron stressing over dumb shit.

>>715759770
Oversocialization is a bitch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5m2oKe9-sE

>>715759539
you're quite right, that's entirely possible, i still have a bad habit of jumping to conclusions T_T

>>715759572
Because shitty is subjective and entirely dependent on your own quality and viewpoint of life. What is more likely: the entire world has been shit the last 20 years or your life has been shit for the last 20 years? You can be happy again you just have to try. Exercise, stop watching porn and slop, eat healthy, go outside, talk to girls, fix your dopamine addiction. Eventually you might be able to see the world the same way you once did when you were young.

>>715754225
Good, fuck early birds.

>>715759803
yeah light angle is a big problem too, a lot of lights don't really have cutoffs now (something else those other fancy types of lights had, sometimes it was a physical lever moving inside to block part of the light as a shutter) and in general vehicles are tall as fuck now and it's not just the vehicles but how high the lights are mounted since everything is a crossover. so susan in her CUV thinks she needs the high beams to see further down the road rather than having the lows adjusted and there's basically no goddamn standards to any of this other than NOT allowing things Europe has had for decades like lights that auto-dim or auto-aim only on the side of oncoming traffic (in burgerland it took us until the 80s to stop using sealed beams for everything and that only stopped because Ford of all companies asked the highway administration to change the law)
also if you drive anything other than a modern crossover or truck you're basically getting literally blinded from sundown to sunup because of those brightness and direction related factors since everyone's headlights are now literally at your eye level or above

>There are anons posting itt who weren't in their 20s in 2016.
I don't know what I expected, honestly.

>>715759968
Oh and most importantly get off this faggot ass website. Everybody here is miserable and gay. I hate you all.

>>715759553
I live in China and this is absolutely the answer, the sunset looks fucking wild on smoggy days.

>>715760091
Anons who were 9 in 2016 are now 18

>>715759924
imo, gaming died in part because of that
Sure, the dreamcast/ps2/xb gen was the first to kinda somewhat utilize online in a substantial way, but it wasn't part of the financial infrastructure, not like it is today. But the masses just see it as a window for instant gratification, so they don't/ won't/ can't care
The ps2/xb/gc gen truly was the last great gen for games FOR gamers, when most of the talented and passionate old guard were still around/ active

>>715758991
In the winter that's what 5pm looks like. Used to be completely dark if my afterschool activities ran long.

>>715759968
>the entire world has been shit the last 20 years or your life has been shit for the last 20 years?
The former caused the latter.

>>715760389
Plenty of people live happy lives. Why can't you?

>>715759968
>What is more likely: the entire world has been shit the last 20 years
I vote this one.

>>715760030
> got a giant truck for my job
> have to go to san francisco area 2-3 times a year
> always adjust the lights in the parking lot of the hotel in the night before I get there to blind people
> change them back before leaving
I love blinding and menacing smart car fags it's the best thing about those trips

>>715760458
That's the mentality of a fatalist and a loser.

>>715760176
Thankfully they are too busy with social media to pay any attention to this shithole. I doubt anyone younger than 25 even bothers with this site anymore.

>>715760451
I guess some people just have higher standards. Good for you that you're fine with settling for garbage. I'm really happy for you.

what games let me YELLOW?

>>715757998
H

I legitimately thought this was a shitpost but no, we have an almost 200 post deep thread with nostalgia for the fucking 2010's.

>>715760629
I'm a loser, but I'm happy and living in accordance with my values. I was also never the type of person that would say "things were better back then", but the more you notice certain things, it all adds up to the confirmation that things have progressively gotten much worse in the last 15 years or so.

>>715760901
nah man it's fucking real and it is a calculated effort to make our lives gradually worse

>>715760629
There's no "likelihood" involved, you are too underage and stupid to remember life before things went to shit so you think everything was always this way. It wasn't.

You should genuinely be permabanned if you ever admit to not having been on /v/ by 2005 or earlier.

>>715760901
>>715761084
As a 96 zoomer, I must say the early 2010 were pretty bussin'. The latter half not so much.

>>715759518
a bit of a retarded statement
Yes, its unequivocally true, but its much worse in the last couple years than it was during the middle 2010s in the first place. so naturally a lot of people will miss that era, specially those that just so happened to be in places where it was already as hwappy as the 2010s

not everywhere is the same shithole, my languages' internet was basically the early 2000s internet during 2014~. Of course that comes with the downside of the enshitification being much more rapid leading to the current era

>>715753912
>LED light has melatonin suppressing blue light in it
Based racist LEDs.

>>715759518
a bit of a retarded statement
Yes, its unequivocally true, but its much worse in the last couple years than it was during the middle 2010s in the first place. so naturally a lot of people will miss that era, specially those that just so happened to be in places where it still as sane as the 2000s

not everywhere is the same shithole, my languages' internet was basically the early 2000s internet during 2014~
Of course that comes with the downside of the enshitification being much more rapid leading to the current era
>>715760901
see above

>>715761290
lel

>>715761290
lmao based dyslexic anon.

>>715761376
>my languages
Why is this thread full of zoomers and third worlders? Why are you not being permabanned?

>>715755412
Yeah basically.
While people blame 2007/2008 for the little economic dip and social media, shit was still fairly great up to 2013.

jesus fucking christ I am decades older than most of this board at this point

>>715761484
Would you like to take a guess as to what that anon's first language might be?

>>715758412
>>715758506
This, also brown people. Like jeets. And jews. They should have their own containment internet like the chinks so nobody else has to deal with them.

>>715761253
>>715761376
If you're going to go through all the trouble of fixing your post the least you could have done if get rid of the furshit.

>>715759518
>People are noticeably angrier, more anxious, and more depressed now.
Yeah society's in a bad place right now, but its unacceptable to speak out or say how you really feel or talk about anything so everyone fakes being happy and nice enough to each other, just so they can get their day over with and get high in front of their phone at home.

the world's gone to shit but im the happiest ive ever been

>>715761376
Well yeah, but broad strokes paint the fence faster, I'm assuming we're all talking about the Western first-world as a whole. I'm not the same anon that the person I was replying to was replying to either, I think the 2010s are less shit than the 2020s, but definitely a tier below the 2000s.

>>715761540
2001 was when everything started to suck.

>>715761671
Based nepo baby living the life with a comfy office job in which he does absolutely nothing and a nice, big, cozy apartment on the last floor of a luxurious building in the middle of a 99% white city in the safest of first world countries.

>>715753481
Theyre spraying something for sure. Not even schizoposting. It used to be brighter outside

>>715761670
>their phone at home
Why does everyone purposely use an inferior device even in a setting where they're not forced to? A computer is so much better for almost every task, it's not even funny. Just what is wrong with people?

>>715761819
holy projection nigga

>>715761873
Normalfaggotrons are allergic to PCs.

>>715761819
this is unironically how I live
got an apartment that I own in a rich part of Sydney with an easy government job

>>715752985 (OP)
In this instance just say "used to look"
Hope that helps Mr ESL

>>715761916
How else are you supposed to be happy?

>>715762000
nothing i tell you will make your loser ass happy, you've already resigned yourself to misery

>>715761956
Based Chinese-Australian anon.

Vidya went to shit with the 7th gen and the internet, and the world with it, went to shit around 2010 when normalfaggots all gained access thanks to everyone getting tard friendly smartphones. If you weren't posting here to experience all of this, don't reply, just shut your mouth and go back.

What year did it ACTUALLY go to shit? As in, "yep that's it. That's the year?"

>>715752985 (OP)

>the good old days is 2016

>>715761873
I think you over estimate how many people actually own a computer these days.

>>715762107
2008. Thanks, Obama.

>>715752985 (OP)
Any year after 2012 is soulless.

>>715761819
Well, when (you)'re shit, you belong on the bottom of the toilet.

>>715762190
Boomers always say, "it all started with Obama."
Is this true bros?

>>715762047
>t. posting as he gazes upon the plebs below from the panoramic view window of the living room of his 20 million dollar condo.

>>715762190
>Bush supporters actually think this

>>715762107
2007. That was always the cutoff for being a true oldfag and the start of Eternal Newfag Summer.

>"going on the internet" used to be an actual, designated and specific task

>>715761820
yeah, pretty obvious. Clouds all look like limp dicks now

>>715762274
Based indian anon.

>>715762107
Internet-wise, 2007 was the beginning of the end but 2012 with the Kony psyop was the turning point. Feels like everything changed by 2013-14.

>>715762190
>>715762279
>>715762284
The real answer is Lincoln. You know why

>>715762067
Chinese don't work government jobs

>>715762404
>the majority of modern /v/ were in diapers or not yet born when this happened

>>715762389
I'm not Indian. But the anon I was replying to is.

>>715761769
2001 was kino
>Melee
>Shrek
>release of Gamecube
>classic shows like Samurai Jack and Invader Zim
Aside from 9/11 it was a great year for pop culture.

>>715756861
I post from both my PC and phone. Right now I'm posting from my phone as I'm taking a shit.

>>715762469
Sure thing, sir.

>>715755715
2009-2010 feels more old-school to me than 2011-2012. 2009 and 2010 weren't full-on "HD" years yet. I agree with all the people in this thread saying 2012 was the last good year though. The Mayans were right.

>>715755202
I do remember. I thought it was normal to remember stuff.
Not saying I remember 100% everything or such, but lots of random and influential stuff for me. The more I focus the better I remember as well.
I feel bad for your mom if you can't remember her cooking or baking.

>>715762486
All that tuff was developed before the shadow of 9/11, so obviously all of that still has soul. Kind of like how your hair and nails still grow for a while after you die.

>>715762190
This

I miss the early 00s and 6th gen.

>>715762681
Okay well Sonic Heroes was both developed and came out long after 9/11 and that game is peak soul even though it's not a very good game. People seem to remember the 2000s only for the war on terror and recession while ignoring that the 2000s was a lot more similar to the 90s than it was to the 2010s because it was mostly pre-iPhone. Even 2009 felt more like 1999 than it did 2019.

>>715762404
>Kony psyop
I remember my teachers would wear t-shirts of it and quickly say before class started why it we should support it, but I never really knew what it was. Wtf was it, why was it a psyop, and why was it so important?

>>715757659
Caitlyn Jenner is a far-right Trump supporter.

>>715759971
Retarded nigger.

>>715762358
No they don’t. Do you even look up at the sky maybe more than once a week when it’s overcast for manual confirmation bias of your conspiracies so you can mentally jerk yourself off to your addiction to anxiety? My desk is in front of a large window. I frequently take mental breaks and just stare out at the beautiful blue sky. Clouds are as fluffy, white, magnificent things as they have ever been. I often find myself choking up at their grand beauty. Huge clouds are a humbling thing. I find them incredible, and whenever they are in the sky I make it a point to look at them when I am able. Clouds are only “limp dicked” on dreary days, and if I remember correctly dreary days have existed as long as humanity has been conscious enough to take note of their dreariness.

>>715762801
Heores fucking sucks, dude. Its the 9/11 of the Sonic franchise.

>>715762107
At the risk of people rolling their eyes that I'm shifting it forward 5 years, I'm getting to the point where I think it's 2012 that's the fork in the road year.
>Windows 8 and iOS 7 marked the end of skeuomorphism
>Websites now fully being designed with mobile-first responsive frameworks to account for the boon in modern mobile devices
>Twitter, Facebook, Instagram reached cultural saturation
>beginning of "cancel culture" due to virality and everyone having their real name attached to their online persona
>corporatization of the internet was in full effect leading to homogenized user experiences and the end of the wild west web, everything commercialized and algorithmic

>>715762864
I don’t think it was a psyop I think it was just one of the first examples of viral internet virtue signaling that plagued the 2010s

>>715762970
I already said it's not a good game, but it's vibrant and has a banging soundtrack. It's proof that optimism did not die with 9/11, but rather with the advent of iPhones.

>>715763049
You now remember the 2012 Mayan calendar conspiracy. It was real, it was very real. It really happened. The soul of humanity died in 2012

>>715763049
So let's me get this straight.... when skyrim came out, youtube looked like that?
Idk why but that's crazy to me for some reason

>>715763049
I'd say it was 2010-2012. Everything you wrote about 12 is true but I distinctly remember 2010 being the year when the internet was suddenly full of newfags everywhere and media started pushing fag/tranny shit everywhere, my sister was watching crap like Ugly Betty and Glee.

It was 100% over by 2016 though. November 2016 was the first month that mobile connections to the internet surpassed desktop ones, and it has never reversed.

>>715758991
Lad was doing detention, please understand.

>>715762965
Blessed cloud man.

>>715763171
>2012 Mayan calendar conspiracy
All you had to do was flip it over to view the next century's calendar.

>>715763171
It was the end of a 5,126 year long era that began in 3114 BC, so pretty much all of recorded history. The reason nothing feels right anymore is because it's a completely different plane of existence.

>>715763098
>I already said it's not a good game
And I'm saying its more than "not good". A candycoating of shallow optimism is not enough to redeem it. Not sure why I'm even bothering with arguing over matters of taste with a person who unironically says "banging".

>>715762341
When's the last time you heard the term "surfing" the web? Probably been a while because surfing implies being active in what you're doing. Everyone just plugs into the algorithm and doomscrolls.

>>715761110
I'm 35 so likely older than you are and I'm miserable. The difference is I'm not a complete loser who can't accept responsibility for his own actions. Your life sucks because you allowed it to get that way yet you blame the world around you for it. If you want to blame anyone but yourself blame your parents for raising such a whiny faggot

>>715760562
hello? based department? I just found your new supervisor!

>>715762458
I was 6.

>>715756549
>NOOOOOO STOP STACKING WINSTON VS TORBJORN STOP HAVING FUN NOOOOOO
>MMM YESSS 5V5 WITH MIRROR MATCH TANKS DECIDING THE WHOLE GAME MMM *SLURP SLURP SLURP* YES GIMME MORE DADDY ACTIBLIZZ
Kill yourself, dumb nigger.

>>715753481
This literally happens as you get older, your eyes get worse and everything gets less saturated and colorful. Things are brighter, harsher.

>wah, it went to shit in 2016
>wah, it went to shit in 2001
>wah, it went to shit in 1860
>wah, it went to shit in 476
faggots, THIS is where it all went to shit.

>>715763939
Based nuoverwatch hater. Still in disbelief they finally gave us classic and made it a 2 week fomo event. Blizzard can rot in hell

>>715760646
You'd be surprised.

>>715760714
Minecraft

>>715760115
>I live in China
Why tho?

>>715753481
>dude, when I was a kid, kindergarten used to be HUGE. Now you set foot in one, and they're all tiny. They must be shrinking schools for some reason.

>>715764305
This anon's onto something.

>>715761230
I read it "as a 96 year old zoomer" LMAO

Objectively speaking what do you think will happen in the future?

Aren't most latin American nations below replacement?

>>715762282
>go to PC parts thread
>get called a poorfag for shitting on shill's employ- I mean, favorite GPU manufacturer
>go to nostalgia thread
>get called nepo baby cushy richie rich boy

>>715764354
The boomer zoomer. 96-99 zoomers of marginally more wisdom

>>715755202
You don't remember trying to sell rock salt from the plow truck as "magic crystals" to the kids a grade below you? Or riding your bike without training wheels for the first time? Collecting bugs and frogs and snakes in a bucket? Getting pinched by a crab? Seeing a tweaker for the first time? Falling asleep on a road trip and waking up in your bed? Watching a kid shit himself in class and thinking "glad it wasn't me"? Seeing a new video game console for the first time and being amazed? Crying when you lost your first pet?

didnt a shitton of celebrities die in 2016, like prince and carrie fisher

>>715764174
My nigger (the good kind).

>>715764521
I'm 1996, I grew up on Pokemon, PS1/n64, PS2/GameCube/Xbox, Xbox 360/Wii/PS3, PS4/switch.

I can tell you that 2015 was the last good year for videogames.

>>715764617
Interlinked.

>Bust my balls for the last 4 years trying to get a business up and running off the ground
>Finally make over 1 mil AUD revenue/year (like 500K profit)
>Take home maybe about 150K AUD
>Best house I can afford in my city is 800K AUD which only buys a cheaply built piece of shit in a 15 year old development that leaks every time it rains
>House probably cost less than 100-150K to build when it was made
>Meanwhile my friend just bought a million dollar house because his parents helped him pay for it

Sometimes I question what the point of things is

>>715757531
True.

>>715764486
History will repeat itself.

>>715760714
One of the older Need for Speed games like Underground 2 or Most Wanted.

MORROWIND

>>715764052
This was the moment.

>>715760901
Dawg 2010-2015 was awesome
Born in 99

>>715764617
>trying to sell rock salt from the plow truck as "magic crystals" to the kids a grade below you?
are you Eddy?

>>715762107
2016

>>715764873
Seems like it.

What's scary about approaching 30 is that there is at least like 40 more years of this.
Where are we even headed? What's life gonna be like in 2030? 2040? 2060???
I can't imagine all the crap that would happen. Just think about all the crap that happened in the 20th century.

>>715760646
delusional

>>715765063
Unlike Eddy, I actually made $5 off of it. Then I got utterly smoked by two other kids who invented the "Yackybouncer," a pencil with two bouncy balls stabbed onto either end that bounced like crazy. They sold em for a quarter a pop and made $30 in a week before they got banned by the school. Try it, they're actually a lot of fun. Very destructive, too.

>>715755032
the permian period saw a shit ton of lava erupt, though, theoretically raising temperatures globally by 5 degrees Celsius, which could have caused a massive methane eruption.

where are you getting this sun stuff from?

>>715762107
I wanted to say 2008 but 2012 is the real year everything turned to shit
the Mayans were right

video games?????????

>>715764052
That snake looks familiar...

>>715765279
It's basically the great cleansing/reset.

It's not really a Mayan thing.

>>715753606
Zoomers will never get the snowy+amber light combo

>>715759029
no that... that can't be right. Why is my calculator agreeing with you what sort of jewish magic is this.

bros...2000 was 55 years ago...

>>715758992
LEDs can be in 2700K color warmth. Why they choose to use 5000k or 6000k like it's an office is beyond me. Those designers have no soul.

>>715762107
I'm from '87, in my opinion I would say that between 2012 and 2013 everything started to feel "weird"

>>715762107
>>715762190
Actually it was 2007

>>715763049
this. the ubiquity of smartphones is what did it. which is a shame. if you showed me a smart phone when i was a kid i'd have called it star trek shit. and it basically is

>>715755067
source game? which one?

>>715752985 (OP)
>people used to "rent" video games
>at one point, /v/ was organized enough to make their own visual novel about cripple girls and it's actually good
>LAN parties

>>715764861
While I think starting an independent business in Aus is futile unless it’s in construction, I have to give credit for you actually trying and making $150k first year. And that’s still better than me as a public servant making just under $90k a year before tax. As for the point of it all, perseverance in the face of all the crap life throws at you and, for me, spite has always been that motivating factor.

>>715765258
The average global temperature in the Permian was 30. Minus five for lava activity still leaves 8 degrees higher than now.

The sun's activity absolutely has an impact, as proven by Martian icecap shrinkage, and that, THAT, could easily explain this whole THE SUN ISNT YELLOW ANYMORE shit people want to freak out about.
The sun is whiter, the sun is brighter, because the sun is running hotter.

Also I think the climate change discussion is a waste of time while companies and countries pollute the oceans. Even if we prevent it the ocean is still fucked because the Indian septic tank is leaving into it.

>>715764993
2010-2012 were funny at the time but it's when the ironic meme format became very popular and got ran into the ground. I do have a soft spot for /v/ at the time because it was unbelievably retarded and the closest it ever was to "/b/ with video games".

The start of the 2010s is when games started noticeably worse, which I think contributed to the rise in shitposting on /v/. 2014 was one of the worst years in general for both games and the Internet. 2015 was a precursor to 2016 and everyone already knows how 2016 turned out.

>>715765632
This dude is correct.

>>715755385
Are you really that stupid or are you just pretending to not understand simple things?

>>715765907
once again, where do you get the SUN having any fucking impact on things?
the earths atmosphere had a very different gas mix ration back in that period.
heat retention was simply different.

>>715763208
zoomer...

>>715755202
I remember sleeping over at my friend's house and waiting until 2AM to put a bunch of nails on tire marks in the street so cars would run them over in the morning
I remember my friend throwing some rocks into a fenced in area with a dog in it then the dog eating them and never seeing it again
I remember a pedophile trying to get me and my friend to come to his house to play video games when we were out past curfew

>>715753360

>>715758676
>>715766017
What am I not understanding?

>>715759348
I'm gonna be sick

>>715765479
One day that will be true

>>715766590
Throw up on a 2007 born's face.

>>715757474
>Battlefield 1
Trash
>Battleborn
Trash
>Dishonored 2
Mogged by the 1st game
>Doom 2016
Mediocrity that only succeeded because of rock botton expectations and everything else being trash
>Stardew valley
Woman game
>Overwatch
Trash
>Deus Ex
Mediocrity

>>715766659

>>715766737
I didn't even think to update the filename because I still thought it was 2024 for a bit

>>715761873
I can't use my computer while taking a shit
and I got a nice heated toilet seat so I spend as much time as possible taking shits

>>715761548
feels bad man

>>715767082
I haven't been following current trends what is this meme? I've seen like 4 AI edits of it

>>715761548
Based soulful timeless gif
>>715767082
Cringe soulless slop mp4

>>715753481
>dude didn't fucking go outside TODAY of all days
was pretty fucking orange around sunset today, anon. you should try going outside

>>715767248
and me in your butt

>>715754395
>No the use them cause they consume less power
you might not know this, hell i know you don't know this, but they can make LED's the same color as the yellow ones from years prior. they don't BECAUSE IT HELPS PEOPLE STAY AWAKE DRIVING AT NIGHT

>>715767248
vocaloid is the slop of music

>>715752985 (OP)
>2016
>good old days
bait thread. 8/10, made me reply

!715753481
I miss 4chan before fucking frog shitposters

>>715767239
Security footage of Epstein's jail the night he died released by the DoJ to prove he killed himself except there's a very obvious 3 minute gap in the footage right when he died so people are filling in to show who killed him

>>715767469
It's pretty funny that they can just do that and literally everyone knows but nothing will come of it

>>715752985 (OP)
2016 still had retarded shit like brexit and the rise of those faggot MAGAs.

>>715752985 (OP)
Bro this was 1996 at the earliest

>I'm 27 years old with a wife and 2 kids
What the hell happened

>>715767897
that sounds... really nice, actually? im 29 and i've never felt the touch of a woman. grass is always greener, i guess.

>>715767962
Yeah, its pretty nice
I just can't believe it sometimes, I've spent over half my life on this website, I was 12 lurking on /b/, I was here for the shazbowl, I was already living on my own when the easter team event happened, its just wild

>>715763049
>>beginning of "cancel culture"
this shit actually started with somethingawful helldump faggotry back in the mid 2000s
most of the horrible shit that plagues the internet today can be blamed on somethingawful

>>715762107
2012. It all started with the fucking Trayvon shit.

>>715762107
2007, when normalfags got unrestricted access to the internet
Personally, I think that if you can't manually add mods to minecraft, you shouldn't be allowed online

>>715768343
2012 had many sparks for problems we're still dealing with

>>715762107
2012

>>715756967
they also love leaving their cars in parking lots with their brights on constantly flashbanging anyone unfortunate enough to be in front of their car

>>715753912
>melatonin suppressing
Gubmint tryin ta keep da black man down!!

>>715752985 (OP)
1996*

>>715752985 (OP)
>People are nostalgic for 2016 now

>>715759971
You could not become what you aspired to be, so you choose instead to hate those who have. Very based.

>>715762284
I miss the FOUR MORE YEARS posting...

>>715765696
neotokyo

>>715759968
My life is fine. But god help me I think zoomers should kill themselves, not because I have any disregard for them, but because the world they have been born into, raised into. The sense of what is normal and what is abnormal, the life they have been given, seems so disturbing to me that I think putting them down would be a small mercy.

Oldfags are alright. Thank you oldfags for letting us touch the past, if only for a moment

>>715769424
They don't know how better it could be so they're fine.

>>715769548
That is what is so cruel and inhumane about it.

>>715768152
Happy for you, anon. But also kind of not. In a way I enjoy this pain. You're missing out, sorta. Once I reach where you are the universe will damn be sure I earned it.

>>715759807
I NEED a place like this. I always pick rooms with atleast one window to the west preferably one to the south and one to the west

if I couldn't enjoy T H E O R A N G E - G O L D - H O U R life wouldn't be worth living

>>715769424
Hey anon, don't underestimate how much your views have been sculpted by zoomers and don't underestimate us. We are used to it. Literally born in the shit molded by it and all that

>>715753481
This is literally the effect of the vaccine.

>>715769589
The melancholy sure was comfortable, and I can't pay 8 hours a day anymore, but I'm doing way better mentally

>>715762404
>CHUD.com

prophecy
bottom left

>>715769749
>your views have been sculpted by zoomers
u fakken what m8
>We are used to it
Yeah that's whats so horrific.

>>715769769
Just raise your kids right. You got there bro. You really did it.

I'll be 25 tomorrow, just 5 more years.

>>715765216
I chose this comment to reply, as I've been thinking about this too lately. My sense of time is fucked ,plainly. After 3 meaningless decades I feel like I finished a main story but not feeling like doing the side quests. It was never good, but the shit ramped up the last few years, and unless I die in an accident or war, there is still 30 more years to go, at least.
What the fuck? Who designed this progression system? I'm having existential debates with myself every day, my body started to deteriorate in turbo mode, tired of work, tired of hobbies. It is simply soul-drainingly exhausting to be alive.

>>715764305
>>715764335
Shrinking class sizes is intentional to have teachers give more time per individual student. Less kids means more productivity. Bigger classes means more kids would be ignored due to being teachers being undermanned. When I was a kid most were around 23-26, I think now they're 20 tops in elementary school.

>>715769878
That's good. Its funny that every problem can actually be traced to the rife dysfunction of the process of child raising, chief being the way schools are run, and chief of that being the size of classes.
But I think the ideal size is probably in the realm of five or so students per teacher.

>>715769794
Yeah you shit on zoomers but don't realize the significance of zoomers. You know the upper end are 30 now right? Zoomers have had a big influence on literally everything even if you don't want to admit it.
Which is ok, I think millenials should get a break. There shouldn't be bad blood because at the end of the day we're in the same boat despite our differences.

>>715769862
25? I have a game for you to play

>>715764861
>Only works for 1 year
>Thinks he can start spending

Retard. You need at least 5 years to get shit rolling properly.

>>715769994
I am not talking about "influence" at all. Or "significance".
>Nothing ever happens
Is a good meme because its true.
I'm not shitting on zoomers. I specifically said I hold no disregard for zoomers. I said that zoomers have been brought up in such an unreality that their plight comes off to me as hopeless.

>>715765632
Akchually it was September 11, 2001. Everything else in our history is a reaction to that event.

>>715753606
>>715758992
>>715765396
>millennials unironically want to live with an ugly yellow mexican filter on all the time

>>715770142
Walk it back. Its following world war 2. The nations that acted out of imperialism (fundamentally selfish incentives) were wiped out as disruptive to the global economy. Everything else is an implementation of the plan laid out by the internationals to make sure nothing would ever again threaten global integration. The complete subservience of the human experience to the Faustian spirit.

>>715770095
Don't meme us into hopelessness (please). I just want us to get in and have a chance. Alpha, I wish the best for them too because that's even worse.

>>715769947
No, ten is probably the right number. Too few and they get too insular. When they're that young you want larger numbers to help stimulate socialization. There's a sweet spot somewhere between five and fifteen for kids to maximize learning and socialization, which is honestly the most important component of elementary schooling, in my opinion.

>>715770330
Education needs to be separated from the process of social acclimation. Children should not be learning to socially acclimate through the process of learning how to do maths, or write.

>>715770286
I'm a millennial and my friends are having kids now, and I told him it will be awkward when he has to go into school and explain why his child keeps calling everyone a nigger. He laughed out loud at the prospect.

>>715770418
I think zoomers will be looked at almost like boomers. The inventors of calling people nigger and pointing out Jewish power but too cucked to do anything about it. Still had somewhat of a society but too cucked to prevent it from going to shit.

>>715770393
I think they do, it teaches multitasking and prioritization of tasks at hand. Core memories are also gained in schools, you want them to be enjoyable for the children. Curriculum can still be taught without issue. Removing the social incentives to learn and learning from one another in classes can burn children out. Kids are simple, you want to keep them motivated, keep them amongst other children and get them to build each other up. When I was in first grade I remember my teacher asking me to help one of the slower kids learn how to read, and it helped him, and he figured out he liked reading once he figured out how to.

>>715766030
Nta but
>where do you get the SUN having any fucking impact on things?
The sun is getting hotter, you can look it up. To write off the sun as the thing which is causing the heat to go up is retarded bro

>>715770618
I don't know if you're a millennial but I think we're a hybrid of boomers and gen-x where we know how good things are supposed to be but are too fucking burnt out and jaded to care and are more content to let the shit stack burn down instead of fixing our parents' mistakes. Not pussing out and not doing anything out of laziness or fear, but being accelerationists. Broadly speaking as a generation, I mean. There are outliers. Most of my millennial friends are racist via exposure to blacks in adulthood. I don't know any zoomers IRL on a personable level to know how they feel about that stuff.

>>715770636
What I mean to say (to take a concrete example) that given the intent to teach children maths, they should do it in small groups of five, with the teacher being hyper focused on the needs of those five kids. This should make up a much smaller portion of a child's time than currently is used (because the focus here is on teaching maths, not also these other things, and also not with a lowest common denominator approach), with the now freed up time used for physical training regimes, learning skills that are more practical and relatable to those children (schools are woefully bad at this) and group exercises that are actually purposefully engineered to exercise cooperation and competition. The way that its all kind of just munged together creates adverse and chaotic results.

>>715770845
I'm a zoomer. I just know we aint it, so to speak. We didn't do shit, just like you didnt do shit. We taught a bunch of kids to be "based, " and that's our claim to fame. We were cowards when it came to doing anything we did nothing. I see zoomers shitting on millenials, and I think that's a retard move. We have far more in common than what we have in common with gen alpha that we taught and in turn were taught by you. We are all cowards who deserve the world we live in.

>>715771205
as the youngest millennial (who is literally about to turn 30) I do not hate zoomers at all and look down on people who do (99-01 are actually preferable to my generation)

keep your head on your shoulders, you have more gunpowder than the retards who are trying to blackpill you could ever imagine

>Things have gotten so unbearable, we are now having nostalgia for fucking 2016
>some form of global crisis every other month
>It will likely accelerate to meat the 2030 deadlines
Welcome to hell, Sunshine.

>>715771332
don't forget to snack on zer bug palantir counten each byten

>>715762892
He's still a disgusting faggot regardless of what stupid fuck he votes for.

>>715768214
Including this site that you're posting on.
Oh, the ironing.

>>715771049
I'll just keep rambling for a bit longer here..
I think the parents are much better positioned to teach these life skills (and create an environment for learning them). As a society we have more or less outsourced the entire process of child raising post infancy to schools so that the parents can work their 9-5 on dual income. Which is disastrous. Kids must learn to acclimate to society in school.. Why? What makes schools particularly well suited for this? Schools may teach children things that their parents cannot. But this is the sole advantage schools have over what parents can do.

In practice, how does this work today? Teachers are unable to create stable environments in their classrooms. It is a warped form of authority where the children neither operate in a kind of "survival of the fittest" jungle where the natural, innate processes of human interaction play out, nor in the very "proper" environment that their parents have both the power and responsibility to create.
Should a capable and responsible parent be able to punish their child as they see fit? Absolutely. Should an incapable parent be able to do that? Universalism says probably not, but I argue yes. Should a teacher, capable or incapable be able to? Absolutely not, and they do not. So we end up with an environment where conditions are emergent, but emerging from unnatural conditions, as opposed to either natural, or engineered. This is where they learn life skills. It is not learning, it is traumatizing.

>>715771305
I hope so, anon. I hope so. You can have the rank of honorary zoomer.

>>715771332
I'll continue to enjoy life as long as I get to keep having women pretend to be my anime gf online completely for free and with the increase of depressed desperate women with family issues that crave attention it looks like I'm gonna be good for a while

>>715752985 (OP)
In 2016 I was living with a crazy girlfriend and doing drugs, and I still think those were more optimistic days, lmao. World is fucked

>>715773012
Its kinda fun thoughbeit

>>715770647
dude, that process is so fucking slow its not even worth speaking of.
there is no cycle there.
Its NOT getting hotter in a way that matters XD
the sun is ever so slightly hotter than it was MILLIONS of years ago when the Permian period was around.
It didn't get fucking colder.

>>715765907
>>715770647
Where do you fuck asses get this shit.

>>715773346
Shut up faggot. Its worse.

>>715762107
2007 with the GFC if you mean the short term, although you can pinpoint where it went to shit at virtually any point in the last 150 years.
Hell, you could even argue the French revolution was where it "really" went to shit.
It all depends on what you mean by the negative characteristics of whatever society you're in.

>>715773464
awwwww is baby mad because it turned out he had no fucking point?

>>715765396
>"oh wow this looks a lot like my countr-"
>check license plates
Yeah, I miss having actual winter in Bucharest and not just slosh for three months...
>inb4 those are Alba license plates

>>715773403
>using schizo jewgle ai as an accurate source of info
Fucking retard

>>715773586
>"Just look it up"
>Looks it up
>"NOOOO NOT THAT WAY"
Now here's where I ask for a source, and you refuse, and I continue calling you a schizo retard because at that point, it's confirmed you are one.

>>715773572
So how much copper wiring have you stolen?

>>715773972
anon its all part of the conspiracy
big sun is secretly getting bigger and smaller as it pleases.
sacrifices to mecha-moloch, yo.
its hiding in jupitor's big red spot.
green lightning, yo

>>715773572
0 chance its alba, I've been there once and I can tell it's not

>>715752985 (OP)
Man, getting old sucks. People are nostalgic about 2016. I should have listened to the "it'll happen to you!" posters.

>>715754079
so why not use them on long stretches of roads between states/provinces? Im not gonna fall asleep driving 5 minutes

>>715752985 (OP)
We've been in a bad groundhog day since 2015. Every day being a worse version of the last with no end in sight. 2016 was not "the good old days" unless you're a literal toddler.

>>715770079
I dunno where you and the other anon got that I only worked for 1 year when I clearly stated I've been doing it for 4. I don't get that re-reading my post but maybe I wrote it retarded. This last financial year was the first time I cracked 1 mil in revenue though.

For the first two years I was living on savings and a pittance. Like $2000/mo for the first year, before tax.

>>715764617
>You don't remember trying to sell rock salt from the plow truck as "magic crystals" to the kids a grade below you?
No
>Or riding your bike without training wheels for the first time?
Yes, but I was much older. Most of my bike memories had them on.
>Collecting bugs and frogs and snakes in a bucket?
No never did that
>Getting pinched by a crab?
Never happened, used to be scared of crabs even when they’re cooked on a table.
>Seeing a tweaker for the first time?
No drugs here, but I remember seeing a drunk.
>Falling asleep on a road trip and waking up in your bed?
KINOOOOOOOOOOO
>Watching a kid shit himself in class and thinking "glad it wasn't me"?
Yes but with vomit, not shit.
>Seeing a new video game console for the first time and being amazed?
PS2
>Crying when you lost your first pet?
Yes ;_;
nta but thanks for the post and memories. Other anon is a stage 5 aphantasia retard.

i'm doing better this year than i ever have in my life. sucks to be you

2016 was the worst fucking year of my life

>>715766094
Lmao what a retarded dog.

>>715774684
nig you were prepping for four years and it sounds like the first year you were really starting to profit you started buying. if you would've chilled another four years, oooo weeee anon.

>>715770217
Not all of the time, only at night.

>>715753164
100% teenage retardation
The nigga posting about how nighttime used to look more SOVL is 100% correct however

>>715753164
>how sunny days used to feel like
More Rayleigh scattering over short distances = more (blue) light hits your eyes
>wasn't scorching
More Rayleigh scattering = more light gets scattered AWAY from the Earth
>>715753481
>orange sunsets
More Rayleigh scattering over long distances = less blue hits your eyes

((They)) did something to the atmosphere which reduced Rayleigh scattering. Either
>chinks finally destroyed the ozone layer
or
>chemtrails
or
>environmental engineering and we live in a huge experiment

>>715767469
The funny thing about all of these is his jailcell is far in the background, not the 2 ones in clear view of the camera

>>715753481
That was from pollution. 90s summers were pure yellow cinema thanks to that

>>715762107
2007, why? The first smartphone was released

>>715760714
The NFS (2016?) reboot title where its permanently rainy and nighttime has this vibe x100. Fucking sovl city

>>715762404
>#KONY2012
My friend circle used to ironically sperg out and randomly shout that back in the day, all I remember about that shit was the Tumblr pic of those cookies

>>715752985 (OP)
2016 was the worst year of my life. Change that to 2019 or 2021 and we're set.

>>715753149
Because people are treatlers who can't give up their cars, won't recycle, won't stop eating beef and won't stop using AI. We could have left a beautiful world but instead people will blame us for the water wars.

>>715753606
>>715758992
When they replaced the street light I could see from my childhood bedroom window with an LED it made me want to cry. This shit is malicious.

>>715761230
>>715764354
>>715764521
>>715764751
1996 is is the last year of Millennials. You're not a Zoomer, unc. Stop being cringe.

>>715777951
I know this is bait, but if every anon currently on 4chan right now lived on a tree, naked, eating only whatever grew on their branch and drinking rainwater for 10 years, we wouldn't be able to cancel out like 2 of Taylor Swift's and many other billionaire's 20 minute flights because they liked to eat cake in the neighboring city.

>>715752985 (OP)
>nostalgic for 2016
grim

>>715778229
People born in the early to mid 80's have nothing in common with people born in the mid 90's.

>>715778402
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

>>715778301
Very convenient that you can avoid personal responsibility like this.

>>715769878
I don't know where you're from, but here class sizes have only been rising due to a serious teacher shortage.
Raise their wages? Oy vey!

>>715777951
god i wish i could kill you irl
you don't deserve the gift of life

>>715752985 (OP)

>>715779152
This but unironically. The median person living frugally is, quite literally, not personally responsible.

>>715779152
You eat ze bugs and we will all take notes

>hurr what year did things go wrong

>>715779568
>This but unironically. The median person living frugally is, quite literally, not personally responsible.

>>715779906
I don't think you understood what I said.

>enter nostalgia thread
>such a gut punch
>feel like crying by looking at old stuff
they say its just the nostalgia and the 'good old times' but fucking hell I keep looking at it and it was indeed better times

internet being restricted to computers was were it should've ended
a gazillion forums for every thing you could think of (now its all lumped in the same 6 websites with the same no-wrongthink rules)
physical media
renting
Take me back
Even if it means my wife and son would stop existing
I want to go back

>>715753360
clock's ticking gramps

>>715780532
We can't and there's only one way forward.

>>715752985 (OP)
>2016
>the final year before trump became president
Yeah it was pretty nice.

>zoomers are. nostalgic about 10 years ago
lmo

I saw 2016 and remembered this vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBluYsydAVc
I wonder if the nig at the end has hanged himself yet.
Also 2016 was terrible for games, kill yourself.

>>715780741
For you
>be zoomer
>student loan debt
>impossible to buy own place to live
>no capital, no assets, doesn't own anything
>be boomer
>just own everything for free
>it also generates free money

>>715777076
actually insightful schizopost

the actual peak and its not even close

>>715782045
all shit games

>>715782348
>t. based FIFA, COD and GTA connoisseur

>>715755537
What is there to get checked out and does anything even come out of it? My long term memory is so fucking shitty in my 20s it's insane, I barely remember HS anymore

>>715782418
thanks, now THOSE are real games for real me

>>715753164
I started my first year of uni in 2016 and the weather was just better then. It was near perfect weather all the time, all the Vidya was good, people smiling on the street and almost no societal problems whatsoever, hell there weren't even any wars on at the time. Compare that to now in this post covid hellscape, war in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and maybe even Asia

>>715752985 (OP)
>2016
shit was already going downhill

>>715753481
>>715753164
Sun changed its frequency, space weather is changing, micronowa is coming

>>715754006
Yeah, I remember everyone in 2016 saying it was the worst year ever.

>>715784162
QRD on this?

>>715786983
climate change on earth and other solar system planets and moons is caused by change in Sun behavior(reason why it changed is not clear)
it may be prelude to big rapid changes on earth and in solar system

>>715752985 (OP)
Was 18 in 2016, thats when I entered uni and got my ps4 .... beyond that no idea why its a universal meme that 2016 was amazing. Dumbass me decided to become and engineer and it was all downhill from there (it worked out but damn)

>>715762107
07, at that point it was cemented that the golden age of videogames was dead and the 7th generation was going to be incredibly shit, 360 RROD issues, PS3 no games, and Wii wagglin galore.

>>715786808
it was
then 2017 was worse
and 2018 was worse than that
and 2019 was even worse
and so on

>>715787545
Is earth literally speeding up its rotation? There's no way

>>715771561
moot didn't invent imageboards and a better ran one would have come along if your 10bux paying ilk had been all aborted as they should have been.

>>715787545
>>715784162
what's the source of this image?

>>715787646
>Is earth literally speeding up its rotation? There's no way
dunno anon
https://time.com/7301379/earth-rotation-speeding-up-science/
I guess
>>715786983
>>715787646
also worth noting is that the problem/cause is not localized to Solar system but extend outside to nearby stars
>>715787716
>what's the source of this image?
sorry mate, don't remember
may be THE Earth Disaster Documentary

>>715753736
>But we could always kill polluters.
Very anti-Chinese and anti-Indian post, anon. Bit racist.

>>715787932
Jupiter please
Please calm down
You're not a little moon
Please

>>715788124
you want get struck by lighting?

>>715787634
Maybe in absolute terms, but in relative terms 2016 represented a massive cultural shift compared to the previous period. Regardless of where you stand politically, it signaled the death of optimism in the West that didn't even happen in 2001.

Videogames for this feel?

>>715788310
wtf is going on

how is this not still the case? i'm confused. i can look outside right now and it's bright and sunny as hell. today was a good day.

>>715788310

2016 was when election tourists killed this site.

>>715788198
thank you jupiter

>>715789996
>>715789996
>jupiter
I was a SUN once(and a god)

>>715765396
>>715758992
>>715753606
Imagine being some ancient person who remembers no lights at night and then hates the lights they put up.

This is you.

>>715790216
>no lights at night
what night?

>>715790216
ah yes, imagine... remembering the night sky, filled with stars
who would want that haha...

>>715790216
>no lights at night
Since the dawn of mankind, cavemen used fires to keep themselves safe
This is the color they would see before sleeping, the warm color of fire, that is why those orange lights feel so comfy since your brain is hardwired to make you feel safe

Unlike the white ones who just make you feel like is still daytime

>>715789851
It was also the year social media utterly dwarfed the typical basic website that wasn't an endless scroll page with nothing but links to more social media. The breakdown of Web 2.0 and the beginning of... this *gesture broadly at all the bullshit of today

>>715760901
name one good thing that's come out of the 2020s so far

>find a comfy nostalgia thread
>it almost reaches bump limit
Fuck. But at least I'll have a good browse.