Thread 11935280

You can emulate and collect all you want, if you weren't around back then - you'll just never know what it was like.

You can emulate and collect all you want, you'll never relive your youth and the good times will never come back.

Gen X, Millennials and Zoomers alike... We can't truly go back bros.

Every "bros" poster is a fag.

k got it

>>11935284
Bros can never be gay, faggot.

>>11935280 (OP)
noone cares this isnt the nostalgia board this is a video games board

>>11935280 (OP)
One day all of us will be dead and none of this will matter beyond historical implications. Do you really think in 200 years people will be playing Zelda on NES?

i don't want to go back. i enjoy learning and growing every day. and during my downtime, i play retro games. suck my dick, nihilist.

>>11935280 (OP)
I'm glad I'm not going back to my uneducated mom shitting on the floor and screaming about 10 year old me booting up the Gamecube, little bro...

>>11935280 (OP)
Nihilism thread posted from Israeli IP. Herbs.

I play old games because I enjoy them, not because I want to "go back". I mean I do want to go back, but that's because I was a teen and unaware of how shitty the world was, but video games aren't really relevant.

Oh fuck, OP, you're right.
I can't ever go back to wasting 10 hours a day on public school and the mandatory busywork they handed out.
I can't ever go back to living according to the whims of shitty parents, who arbitrarily decide what you're allowed to do and when.
I now have to suffer through a world where any piece of media I ever knew about is now freely available to me, in addition to content from around the globe that I never heard of.
A world where I can watch what I want, play what I want, and have any meal I can think of delivered to my front door with no effort at all.

Life sucks, bros...

Original country & language, release day/1st location test only. Only bought via mom & pop stores or newsstands.

Anything else is gyp gaming made through manipulated memories by a postiche person. May you go bald.

>>11935280 (OP)
>We can't truly go back bros.
I just finished a playthrough of CV4 in a loaded diaper less than an hour ago. There's no where for me to go back to, because I never left :^)

>>11935314
>it took him 10 hours a day to handle school
jesus fuck are you dyslexic or something

>>11935298
>Do you really think in 200 years people will be playing Zelda on NES?
Not on the original hardware, but people will still definitely play the game through other ways

>>11935338
8 hours of classes and then 2 hours of homework, what's the problem?

>>11935342
>he spent 2 hours a day on homework
lol holy fuck. legit, do you have some kind of learning disability?

>>11935280 (OP)
Kek, imagine trying to gatekeep old videogames.
Get real nigger, take off your nostalgia glasses

>>11935284
They're lonely and reminiscing. They're just human. Don't be a bad guy.

>>11935338
Notice how only people with terrible parents and childhood don't want to go back. That or tryhard "self improvement" larpers like >>11935303

Every normal human being born post 1950 that had a decent to good childhood, looks back at their youth fondly because it was a simpler time, with more freedom. Other than school, what other responsibilities did one have?

My childhood up until I was 15ish was playing outside or vidya with my family and friends, going to the movies, going to the mall, experiencing all the new tech and significant changes in the world, discovering and exploring places, just enjoying life.

After 15 I got into shitty relationships and teenage love stole a lot of time I should've used with family and friends and I missed the final chunk of my childhood focusing on pussy.
After that, the feeling wasn't the same and I dropped out of college and had to get a wagie job to get by for years.
My life is better now, but besides the first 15 years of my life and maybe the last 2-3, the remaining 15 years were fucking cancer.

You're damn right I'm interested in /vr/ mostly because of nostalgia and wanting to go back.

>>11935280 (OP)
For me it was getting a modded PS2.
We didn't have good internet back then in my third world hellhole so you had to buy burned games with badly printed covers from the local stores.
So it was similar to the legit way only cheaper and with extra steps.
Now I can download and burn whatever but its not the same.
At least I didn't grow on gacha and live service trash like zoomers so cant complain.

>>11935280 (OP)
is that stadium hes playing?

>>11935396
Cultured kid. I wonder what he's doing nowadays.

>>11935280 (OP)
>you'll just never know what it was like.
I'm not concerned with that.
Your response?

>>11935381
Brazil?

>>11935419
Central America.
That picture reminds me of how PS2 stopped getting WWE games after 2011 but you had 2012, 13 and even 15 on PS2 via people modding badly done models of current wrestlers.

>>11935415
ignorance is bliss

>>11935298
>Do you really think in 200 years people will be playing Zelda on NES
Yes, some people will have to to pass their ancient video game history class

>>11935303
> i enjoy learning and growing every day.
This is illusion
>suck my dick, nihilist.
Nice freudian slip, idealistic faggot

>we can never go back bros :(
I was just there, come rip it in my time travelling caddy

>>11935298
>Do you really think in 200 years people will be playing Zelda
People in 2025 still read the Iliad and Moby Dick and watch reruns of I Love Lucy, so yes probably. Zelda is so ingrained into modern media culture that people 200 years from now will probably remember it.

I'm just grateful I got to experience the old world

>>11935579
Only normal take in this whole thread

>>11935280 (OP)
I never experienced the good times in my youth to begin with, so nothing has changed.

>>11935303
What a fag lmao

Watch less youtube

>>11935280 (OP)
>you can never go back
I never left

>>11935280 (OP)

80ies were cool computer wise but the mid 90ies(fast 486/early Pentiums) were the best to me. I was never a gamer but experiencing the PlayStation during its heyday was awesome - reminded a bit of the C64's software explosion... lots of quirky and interesting titles.

Another blogpost thread that's not about games but actually OP's personal therapy scheme

>>11935352
Wait... Do you think those word searches and matching pictures of farm animals to their names that you got was what everybody else had for homework too?

>>11935379
Nice blog you fag, so what's your conclusion?
That people that didn't have your rosy childhood should just hung themselves instead of going on and enjoying the fun they can have in their adult years?
>chasing pussy
>playing vidya
>having friends
>doing stupid stuff
All things you can do at every age with people of every age
>but I have to work
As a kid you wasted 8+ hours of your day at school, work is the same but you get paid for that.

>>11935280 (OP)
I was alive back then, however I spent most of my childhood reading books. Now that I'm financially independent I'm enjoying the vidya of my childhood years like a kid for the first time.

>>11935379
Aww do you want a prize for having a cartoonishly privileged upbringing?
The difference is that the people who had shitty childhoods are doing better than they were then, while you're left chasing the dragon forever.

>>11935379
>I'm pathetically miserable now, and people happier than me had shitty childhoods or live in self-improvement delusion
Congrats I guess

>>11935717
>cartoonishly privileged
the fuck? he described a perfectly average suburban millennial childhood. like, as normie as it fucking gets.
if that comes off as "cartoonishly privileged" to you, you must have grown up in dirt-dick poor rural Appalachia or some shit.

>>11935280 (OP)
This feels like a /vr/ flavored demoralizing post you'd see on /pol/. Entropy, dipshit. Nothing lasts forever, things change, I got to enjoy the good times, I still engage in all the good things I did back then. Having regrets and longing for better days isn't new, you're not unique for feeling like that, it's human nature.
Learning to live with it and weaving through life without letting it consume you is a burden you have to carry until you pass, make the most out of your time because the end will be the same.

>>11935284
fpbp
template posts are low effort cancer

>>11935379
>"self improvement" larpers
Have you seriously done nothing with yourself since high school?
That's not supposed to be normal.

>>11935280 (OP)
I'm very much aware

>>11935762
Why do you post on /pol/?

>>11935280 (OP)
for underground millennials the motto always was FIGHT THE FUTURE

I mean, making a culture out of living in the better past today, or in the most lite terms, consuming media from the past. Every true cinephile will mostly go to pre-70s movies for example. Happened to 80s indie musicians also. Don't even get me started on tango culture in south america.

I was around from the NES onwards and there's a lot of ways to share that with zoomies or aoomies now wether be emulation or collecting. The later is for me the best option. There's something about looking, browsing and touching all that colorful cardboard and plastic before enjoying the games. A little extra that makes the experience complete.

>>11935792
You sound quite stoned my dude

>>11935717
>cartoonishly privileged upbringing
wtf? being a normal kid middle class kid is privileged?

I know we're on 4chan and we all have to larp as autistic losers that are above normies and their "life style", but if you didn't do the things >>11935379 lists as a child, that's totally on you and most likely you were a faggot that no one wanted to socialize with.

>>11935816
Every anonymous here is either the most oppressed victim ever or the biggest col guy around, there's no inbetween.
I always read "I'm ugly and had the worst life ever" or "I'm rich and having a perfect life".
You never read "I had some good days, some bad days, I'm a nobody like everyone else, life could be better but also worse".
It's either black or white here.

you don't need to quote yourself just because nobody replied in 8 minutes

>>11935284
Sometimes I wonder what it's like to be so devoid of a personality that you make a pretend "bros" post to drag other people into your gravity well of misery and parasocialness.

>>11935284
Fpbp, op sucks nigger dicks

>>11935280 (OP)
Go talk to a therapist about it

>>11935280 (OP)
I play these games because I genuinely enjoy them, the nostalgia is just a sweet treat on the side.
A lot of the time I'm playing games I didn't even play as a child.
I'm grateful I got at least a few glimpses before this era ended, but I feel no longing. I like doing fun adult shit like having sex and drinking.

>>11935832
You expect people to focus on the minutia and nuance of the in-betweens of their highs and lows? I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to act like that in most contexts to be honest.
Most people operate on a big-picture scale, especially when they are speaking anonymously.
The minutia just isn't relevant to people who don't know you personally.

>>11935697
>wagie acting like hes proud of being such
kys

>>11935850
Well, misery loves company, but I'd rather "bro" buy me a drink and stroke my thigh before trying to drag me into reminiscing about their woes.

>>11935816
>>11935832
>>11935850
>>11935886
>>11935894
you need to stop replying to yourself, it's getting too obvious

>>11935919
wtf are you talking about you schizophrenic bitch?
Next you're going to say you're being gangstalked?
Go larp on /x/

>>11935379
Dear diary faggot

>>11935978
way too obvious

>>11935978
Brother, they are literally baiting everyone they replied to.

>>11935379
Kind of sad how simply suggesting that you, personally, had a nice childhood instantly mobilizes the bullied/abused/neglected/molested squad.

>>11935280 (OP)
Stop pretending you are an oldfag, you aren't, just because you have some stuff on your collection you just want to show off but you never played the games and will never do.
Emulating and playing the games is great and a fun way to get anything, if you aren't enjoying and want to pretend you relive shit you are a lying piece of zoomie shit and nothing else.
How arcades worked in the past
>you were the frail nerd that gave money to older guy so he won't beat you up.
>you were the older guy escaping from chores and reality playing games.
>you were the drug dealer in the corner selling drugs to anyone in the arcade.
>you were the little slutty girl owner of the toilet that was sucking cocks for pocket change.
That was the common thing on arcades and i doubt someone wants to relive that past.
The console owners well.
>son of rich family that had latest console so got lot of visits from people that took advantage of him.
>lonely guy that didn't had friends so was playing alone on his room with turned off lights to scape reality.
You are fooling yourself if you think someone wants to relive that (until this day people of my age are still afraid of me and won't give me a job because i beat the crap of lot of people when i was a kid at the arcades).

>>11936023
Some of us went to arcades in prominently white neighborhoods.

>>11936023
>t. average afro american middle aged man
sorry boy, I don't understand all that talk because I socialized with whites and spics that tried very hard to act white

>>11935379
Vagina is always distracting and never worth it.

>>11936016
>simply suggesting
It was a weird accusation, a bitter jab at people happier than him.

>>11936029
This. Also, in America, video games where for white boys exclusively. We didn't need to deal with tits or diversity.

>>11936059
Yeah, all of those replies were clearly typed by very happy, not bitter people.

Young zooms want to go back and buy games for the MSRP without insane coomlector markups.
Boomers don't want to go back and keep paying $0 for games.

>>11936083
You have to talk down to an idiot's level so they can understand you.

>>11935735
>>11935816
If you genuinely believe that what you described was normal, it's just that you're completely out of touch. Your first hardship ever being a girl in high school not liking you? Get a fucking grip.

>>11935816
Constantly going to movies and the mall and getting all the newest tech isn't middle class.

>"Being an adult is awesome"
>"I want to go back to the past"
Why are these mutually exclusive? You think I want to be a child again? Fuck no. I don't want my helicopter mom deciding what I wear, what I eat, how my hair should be cut, and frantically driving around looking for me if I dared wander off from the culdesac only to scream at me later. Yeah, I definitely missed all of that, and the hordes of shitty fairweather friends I had over the years, or the kids who made fun of me in school, or the various dumb cunts I swapped spit with who never amounted to anything... Why the fuck would I miss any of that? Being an adult is awesome.

But does that mean I'm not nostalgic for the things in my troubled adolescence that were actually good? Absolutely not. I don't play old video games and watch old DVDs on a CRT because it takes me back to some amazing time in my life, I do it because A) I enjoy this stuff compared to modern alternatives for various objective reasons, and B) because it reminds of the good things I had in an absolute sea of miserable adolescent experiences.

I'll grant you that dudes who entomb themselves with old Nintendo Power magazines and plushy dolls and toys and all of that shit... yeah, they're mentally ill. For me, I see no harm in saying, "Wow, I really enjoyed playing my N64 on that little buzzy tube TV back in the day... I should do that again", and then proceeding to do it. I'm not trying to avoid adulthood by doing this, I'm just reliving something good from the past. Reliving the past is not a problem, the problem is when you use it as a replacement for the present. The modern world is incredibly cucked and there's plenty I hate about it, but there's also plenty I like it about. I'll continue merging the best of both worlds until I achieve some kind of gnosis.

>>11936126
that IS normal. Just because your parents were deadbeats or drug addicts or left you around uncle handsy who diddled you from age 4 onwards or whatever doesn't change that.
you're the one with the weird childhood here if what that anon rates as anything other than perfectly ordinary, never mind "cartoonishly privileged"

>>11936201
lol this nigga eatin beans

>>11936328
*farts on you with stinky gas*

In all honesty, the "authentic" experience was often kind of shitty, and emulation is a god send.
In PAL regions, the authentic experience is you paid full price for a game that ran slow.
The authentic experience of many old games was being stuck with ridiculous localisation changes, or just bad or less than perfect control schemes.
On top of that, the PC gaming scene has always just laughed in the face of the idea that there even should be an "authentic experience". You want your games to run good, fast, and your way. Not "the right way".

>>11935280 (OP)
I don't want to go back. Despite it's flaws, there's a lot to like about the modern era if you have self discipline.

>>11936153
It was until 2008

>>11935284
Bros... not like this...

>>11936562
>PAL
>Authentic
Pick one, you can't have both. Third world countries don't count.

>>11936562
You need foresight to know the games ran "slow", not hindsight.

>>11935379
>I'm a miserable cuck in my adult life, thats why I idolize my childhood
People whose lives as adults doesn't suck exist, loser
>waaah waaah muh responsibilities, I wanna go back to school
Sucks to suck. Just because you can't enjoy life as an adult doesn't mean nobody can
>If you don't think exactly like me you're BAD or have bad parents
seems like you never left your childhood, champ

lol @ DODfag pretending to be asleep still while he drives to work. bet he posts some pictures with fake timestamps to pretend like he's still at home later after he "wakes up" lmfao

Everyone in this thread is cringe. Including me for bumping it just now.

>>11935280 (OP)
Doesn’t matter fagget

Even if I can’t go back I will never be sexually attracted to men like you and your disgusting family. Your efforts are all for nothing you gross piece of shit. Go back to Faucis gross gay aids infested mansion

Fag

>>11935280 (OP)
>Gen X, Millennials and Zoomers alike
Zoomers know fuck all.

>>11935558
>People in 2025 still read the Iliad and Moby Dick and watch reruns of I Love Lucy
One of those three is not like like the others.

You get enjoyment from kid shit when you have your own kids and their happiness brings you happiness. This doesn't make you happy because you aren't fulfilling you purpose in life.

>>11935379
>drop out wagie
Opinions discarded in perpetuity. Get back in cagie

>>11938180
Yeah. The Iliad wasn’t written in English originally.

>>11935379
The responses prove /vr/ is full of third worlders just getting the PS2 and not people who choose looking for old school quality vidya.

>>11938225
>you can only get one console from one generation in the 18 years you're a kid and that's it
you're getting older and fatter and that makes you irate

>>11936880
>there's a lot to like about the modern era if you have self discipline.
Such as..?

>>11938231
The fuck does that have to do with anything he typed?

>>11938251
Inflation.

Chrono Trigger is an overrated piece of shit and all the boomers frothing about how “I cAn NeVeR uNdErStAnD” or “yOu HaD tO bE tHeRe” aint gonna change my mind about it.
Before you @ me I think FF4 is a masterpiece. Eat shit faggot

>>11935280 (OP)
im pretty sure i've been there with all the 4th-6th gen consoles when i was a kid but goddamn, it's only when im a grown man with some disposable income to afford them used is when i'm reminded how much they used to suck sometimes. i don't miss the fucking dualshock analog sticks breaking, i don't miss disks getting scratched to shit and carts not functioning until i have to blow and clean them up, i don't miss having to set them up and fiddling with the AVs with a CRT that weighs like a rock. and i definitely don't miss the nightmarish cable management. but somehow i enjoy playing and collecting the games for older consoles and i don't even mind playing them on an old piece of shit TV. hell, i played Dark Cloud 2 with a fat PS2 on a small CRT and it's somehow more enjoyable than olaying the port on PS4. chalk up half of it on me being a masochist, maybe but nostalgia's one hell of a drug

>>11935314
Not all of us had a shit childhood like you anon

>>11935284
Someone didn't get invited to the broshower.

>>11938270
Personally, I enjoy giantess content.

>>11938279
FF4 is just as linear as Chrono Nigger.

>>11938279
wrong thread, anon

>>11938283
I will take all of those "inconveniences", over the modern world and its "online verification required" mindset for technology, even in things that have no damn buisness utilizing the internet.

>i want to go back to the past to play video games
As if you wouldn't put all the money you spent on video into investments based on your foreknowledge of the future

>>11938343
I want to go back to 1980 and upon reaching 2010, I get sent back to 1980 again in an infinite repeating loop.

>>11935280 (OP)
Who the fuck cares, the 90s were awful, boomers betraying their wives to eurodance music.

>>11936023
>bullet holes in the machines, bro selling crack rock in the corner, and having to choose between inserting coin to continue or spending it on getting your dick sucked by the bathroom girl
SOUL

>>11935304
>shitting on the floor
Your mom had more problems than being uneducated

>>11938352
Phaggot zoomer, the 90s were BASED. The last free decade for white people.

>>11938251
Having all media that existed when you were a kid available at your fingertips.

>>11936023
>le heckin arcaderinos were hecking diddly dangerooski
christ not this shit again

>>11936023
Another New Yorker I see. Im sorry anon, this was actually not the standard experience. that being said, these fags will never get to experience walking into a laundry mat and finding bootleg machines, or seeing the drug dealer getting snatched out of the arcade and the guys who did it gives you a $20 to keep your mouth shut. 80's newyork made arcade gaming an experience all its own and I miss it a lot to be honest.

>y-you play old games because of nostalgia!
No, I play them because modern games are fucking terrible.

>>11938487
I am born 1990, shut your mouth, nostalgic cunt. Wasting hours and tons of money to get third class information about stuff was awful. Listening to boomer crap on worksite while they skimmed through their shitty newspapers was torture.

>>11935280 (OP)
I spend a lot of time looking at games I cold not afford or get or did not know about, I spend a lot of time doing things other than playing games, like...work and have a huge amount to enjoy plus finishing games I started but never had dtie to play.

It is fucking great.

Love it,

>>11935280 (OP)
>We can't truly go back bros.
I did. It is great jump on it
Rules
1)No emulation
2)Physical media
3)Sterring wheels, lightguns and the best controllers
4)A lazyboy chair

>>11939503
>I am born 1990
your balls have not even dropped young one
>>11938857
>No, I play them because modern games are fucking terrible.
Its only in the last ten years that most movie and games have become too shit to bother with with very very occasional ok thing and the last five years that civilisation ended. I always liked old arcade games and coomputer games as much as the latest good thing though.

The wy I see it with this digital only, must be connected, you donlt own it, dlc world is that I have all this stuff no body wanted that I really enoy, I must have 5000+ video games, movies, TV series as well as consoles, TVs, cotrollers, computers, light guns, wheels, joysticks etc etc. I have something like 2000 books as well. I got it all for very very little at one point you could buy used games and DVDs by the lb or kg when all the rental stores shut down. For *me* it covers 90% of everything good every produced in games and media and all the literature I want. I even picked up my top 500 albums on CD although music is just about the oly thinng I also keep in digtal format on computers.

>>11939503
I agree with you about newspapers and radio but I think READING is the best knowledge and that was never free on the internet anon.


>>11936023
>How arcades worked in the past
>>you were the frail nerd that gave money to older guy so he won't beat you up.
>>you were the older guy escaping from chores and reality playing games.
>>you were the drug dealer in the corner selling drugs to anyone in the arcade.
>>you were the little slutty girl owner of the toilet that was sucking cocks for pocket change.
I spent my summers in arcades as a kid and never had any thing like that happen to me. It sound slike you come from a revolting place.
>>11936023
>(until this day people of my age are still afraid of me and won't give me a job because i beat the crap of lot of people when i was a kid at the arcades)
You sound like an arsehole to be honest and I suspect also weak.

>>11938857
There are two distinct camps of /vr/ posters. People who replay the same 10 games they are nostalgic for (and "play" is often generous), and people who enjoy old games

>>11935280 (OP)
AI generated image.

>>11935280 (OP)
Yes and that's ok.

>>11935280 (OP)
Why did he put the computer and keyboard on the side of the desk without a keyboard tray

>>11939503
Tobacco stench everywhere, every restaurant, I cannot emphasize how shitty the 90s were.

>>11939565
I agree with everyone on games, but most stuff was shittier.>>11939603

>>11939603
That's the best you got? Smoking sections?

>>11938509
That was never really an issue. If there was a game I was interested in, I would just buy it. Unless we are talking about games i wasn't aware of that existed at the time, which means i wouldn't have cared anyway.

>>11939603
Living in a shit hole is going to be shitty regardless of the decade.

>>11939607
Didnt exist back then. It was completely normal that people smoked in every restaurant.

jokes on you imma xennial

/v/-tier thread, exactly the same as >>11931454. You're supposed to be better than this, /vr/.

>>11939917
wtf the universe is scary

>>11939905
Retard.

>>11939905
yeah... in the smoking section.
way to out yourself, zoomer.

>>11940156
Maybe in US. Not so in Germany.

>>11939954
Kill yourself.

>>11940160
nobody gives a fuck how things worked in irrelevant poorfag nations.

>>11936023
You must be black lmao

>>11940172
Germany was top economy before the US in the 90s, you dumbfuck.

>>11940848
There was never a single point in the 90s where Germany was the world's top economy lol take your head out of your ass

>>11938487
Did you get this opinion through some greek statue-guy pinterest?

>>11935280 (OP)
You can create those memories now, in this very moment. Because 5, 10+ more years, you'll look back into this very moment how fun games were back then.

>>11938487
>Phaggot zoomer, the 90s were BASED. The last free decade for white people.
I'm 35. Maybe it's just me but the 90's fucking sucked. The games were still fun though.

>>11941375
you just had a shitty childhood. the 90s rocked if you had caring parents

>>11941401
Whatever fuckface. Like you had one any better. Dumbass nigger.

>>11935280 (OP)
This nigga playing Pokee man Stadium.
Living the dream

>>11935280 (OP)
Why would I give a shit?

>>11941693
Bet your ass I did lol. My parents were happily married and they put my needs before their own in all things. It was the 90s so gaming was consistently amazing us with advances, culture was nearing its peak, the economy was strong, and we struck the perfect balance of riding bikes or skateboards around the neighborhood and going to someone's house for a round of Goldeneye or later Halo.
Looking back I had the ideal childhood for a middle class suburban kid. As such, I look back on the 90s with great fondness. Sorry your childhood sucked, I can't imagine how rough that must be.

>>11935280 (OP)
I don't necessarily want to, the main appeal of older tech and games is being able to properly experience something I either wasn't alive for or too young to properly engage with. All of that still works without needing a time machine, and there's plenty of other enthusiasts around to make it a fun social experience also.

>>11941719
>ideal childhood
>didn't grow up on a farm
ngmi

>>11935280 (OP)
Who cares. I don't emulate to go back. I emulate to enjoy now. Obviously yes CRT filters are good because it makes it look better objectively.
But the point is still... well... right fucking now. We're doing it. Play dem games ffs.
You won't get the same experience, but you'll get AN experience, one you can enjoy. Hell toss on the retro 80s and 90s musics and have a good 2025 summer even if 2025 is dogshit.

>>11941719
Culture in the 90s was dogshit and the economy was not strong, it was breaking. The internet bubble grew and bombed but industry had largely left. Jobs were harder to get in the 90s. By 2000 rent was high, and jobs were scarce.... that didn't happen when y2k rolled in, it was happening in the 90s and if you watch 90s TV... or 80s TV or 70s TV... you noticed... a lot of complaining about cost of things... and even advertisements in the 1950s. Because getting to the anomalous decent economy of 1950s was because the U.S. basically robbed out Europe after the war. People were still dealing with the poverty of the 1920-30s... 1940s gave a manufacturing boost and we used Europe to make money and steal their intel and research... by the 1970s wages and productivity decouple and things are downhill with all the union busting... Economy gets worse and worse each decade until we're back in the normal of the 1920s era oil/rail baron oligarch shit that the U.S. has basically always been, except it's tech ceos now holding all the internet railroads. The short prosperity only happened because the unions had a win in the 1930 and then failed to follow through and we spend the next 100 years ripping that win apart.

>>11941763
>Culture in the 90s was dogshit
objectively wrong
>the economy was not strong
oh, you're just making shit up because you don't know what you're taking about
cool, I can ignore the rest of your 1000 weird essay lol

>>11935280 (OP)
Why would I want to go back? I already lived it and had a great time. Maybe there's a couple things I wish I would've done back then while I could, but I'm not sad about how I lived my life.

I want to see what happens next, not go back in time.

>>11941763
nigga are you actually dumb enough to believe we were worse off economically in the 90s than in the motherfucking 70s
holy god you're stupid

>>11941787
reddit-tier cope

>>11941794
Y;all know your family could buy houses in the 70s with part time jobs and shit right? In the 90s fuckers be having shit wages and 300-500K houses. Yer dumb. Virtually everyone born in the 1950s who graduated in the 1970s are better off today than people who graduated in the 90s, factually.

>>11941794
>>11941781

>>11941824
>300-500K houses
>in the 90s
you're just making shit up out of thin air lol

>>11941846
>here look at this irrelevant graph
hey cool thanks. hey riddle me this, what good is it to have a bigger slice of a smaller pie?
lol fucking dumbass

>>11941850
>>11941859
Here's your post Alphababies.

>>11941787
>i want to see what happens next
If you are white, nothing good.

>>11941873
>no argument
I accept your concession.

>>11941882
>>11941850
>>11941859

>>11941881
I can't wait until people like you are bred out of existence :)

>>11941719
>Sorry your childhood sucked, I can't imagine how rough that must be.
You're such a fucking asshole holy shit. What's it like being a psychopath?

>>11941984
what a bizarre response lol

>>11941991
How is that bizarre? The guy is being a fucking asshole, for what? He literally went up to me and said I have a shitty childhood. He basically goes on stage and buffs his chest out saying he had a better life. What kind of bizarre shit is that?! you tell me!

>>11941719
>culture was nearing its peak
>in the 90s
Fucking embarrassing.

>>11942021
he said you had a shitty childhood because you clearly did lol
then you got all assmad about it and basically dared him to assert he had a better one
this is all on you lol

>>11942026
no you're right, 20 straight years of capeslop is so much better lol

>>11942029
So it's ok to insult people? I never admitted it. But him assuming something that isn't untrue is fucking bizarre. I dare you to just say this to random people outside the Internet and lets see if yall finna keep the same energy :)

>>11942034
It astonishing how historically inept Americans are.

>>11942039
people who had good childhoods aren't this touchy about the quality of their childhoods lol

>>11942050
OK, Lets say I'm lying. That doesn't make it any better. Do better. Treat others the way you want to be treated. It's called being a good person./

>>11942042
I'm talking about pop culture not the fucking Sistine Chapel lmfao

>>11942053
you're on the wrong website lol better take your soft ass back, we clown in this mf

>>11942063
Whatever. I'm fucking done. I'm here to talk about video games that gave me memories despite the struggles. And all I get are fucking psychopaths who have nothing better to do than to put people down. I'm actually shaking. Have a good one. Hope you feel better about yourself on what you just did.

>>11935280 (OP)
I liked growing up in the 70's and 80's, but honestly life is better now and I probably have at least as much fun or more playing games emulated now than as a kid.

The things I actually miss about my youth are summers not being heat waves of drought and being able to go down by the stream and look for frogs and salamanders. I take my nephew into the woods to look for citters and it's so depressing how different things are

>>11942069
>literally shaking
lmfao yeah go back, you're too soft for 4chan

>>11942131
At least I got a heart. And a life. Something you lack. I hope you find your humanity.

>>11942142
I hope you find yourself a set of nuts and a sack to put em in lmfao

Psychopath. Absolute psychopath.

>>11942021
>>11942069
By the way he attacked you because clearly it looks like the 90's was the best time of his life which is now gone forever and he's bitter about that (probably OP). So because everything else he has in life now is shitty, he can at least try to make himself feel better by lording his better childhood over yours. Yours turned you into a person with compassion though, where as his clearly turned him into a ragetard. Go figure.

>>11942150
you don't know what that word means lol
anyway man up, quit being such a pussy

>>11942159
i'm not even mad lol i'm just trolling. it's what people do here. where did all you soft ass mfs come from lol what happened to this website

>>11942159
>>11942069
>>11942021
Extremely obvious samefag

>>11942169
You are the kind of scummy children who ruined this site. Thinking the entire point is to troll and get out as much impotent rage as possible. And it's clear you're doing it because deep down you're pissed off and unhappy.

Unironically, you are the one who doesn't belong here.

>>11942198
This. So much fucking this. Thank you.

>>11942198
>>11942203
holy fucking reddit lol
nobody ruined shit, this is literally always how 4chan was, and it's weird how you keep projecting your impotent rage on lighthearted goofing lmfao
it's the internet, don't take it so seriously

>>11942069
I routinely ask myself what makes the common man so full of putrid hate, wasting their entire day stirring pots on 4chan over matters they have little passion for. Just perplexing behavior.

>>11942213
Hey Dad, this isn't the 00's anymore or even the 2010's. People have grown up, had children and got married. Have a successful career and a home. If you seriously think this is the place to just be an asshole for the sake of being edgy I got bad news for you. Grow up.

>>11942215
you're taking this all way too seriously lol
my job has a lot of sporadic, short-term downtime so I fill it on 4chan busting balls, simple as

>>11942217
go back lol you're too soft for 4chan

>>11942220
You sound like your life sucks.

>>11942053
Is this your first time using the internet?

>>11942198
>thread is clearly a fucking gas station toilet from post 1
>"nooo why are you shitting in here!"
Why do you keep popping in here to begin with if not to contribute to the collective septic stew?

>>11942198
>>11942203
>>11942215
>>11942217
As a homosexual man, this is the gayest larp I've read in a while.

>>11942235
nah you're just projecting lol. I have a pretty easy job that pays well enough for me to own my own home and provide for my wife and kid. and during my work hours I get to tweak brittle retards on 4chan and laugh at the melties. oh man it's so awful. lmfao.

>>11941797
>i'm on 4chan so i have to be miserable about everything
Lighten up bro, life isn't so bad

>>11942213
I've literally never been on Reddit, but I have been here far longer than you and yes, you are the immature trash that use thos place as a dumpster that have tried so hard ruin it. Tantrum away :)

>>11942406
lmfao. I was duckrolling people years before you ever heard of this place, junior

>>11942419
What are the oldest pics in your 4chan folder?

>>11942437
>pretending he was a phoneposter in 2003
you tried too hard and gave away the game, zoomie. ask your parents when the first iphone came out.
better luck next thread

>>11942406
>use thos place as a dumpster that have tried so hard ruin it
4chan has always been like this, newfag
Pic related, it's probably older than you are

>>11942419
It's called Rickrolling you fucking newfag

>>11942474
>>11942479
Yeah obviously I haven't had this device for over 20 years. Slow claps moron, it looks at the original save data. Anyway the rubs on you because I actually do remember. And it was great. Before the raids, before the Habbo and especially before the Stormfront, that's what changed it all.

>>11942491
>doesn't realize phoneposting wasn't even a thing in 2003
>still pushing this dumbass larp
it's over, zoomie

>>11942491
>it was great
4chan was never anything different lol. I guess the racism wasn't as sincere back in the day

>>11942502
Show me your eye then if you're not just a teenage coward troll projecting ;)

>>11942508
You had to be there.

>>11942502
Ohh yeah and while I'm at it, you clearly didn't seem to recognize this gif >>11942198 which I have been posting on this board hundreds of times in threads for well over a decade. So no matter how long you're attempting to claim you've been on 4chan,you are clearly very new to this board.

I am the reason Babbage's Gramps trolled himself into getting his trip permabanned.

lol the newfag zoomer is having a meltie

When I was a kid I never got a PlayStation. The other day I was playing GT2 and CMR2 and I thought about how much I would have enjoyed them at the time, that made me sad

>>11942512
Imagine admitting to being this old and still using 4chan. Worse, being here over 20 years. I believe I'd kill myself.

>>11942512
Based old timer, I salute you

>>11942307
I've seen this sad larp so many times before. Yawn.

the biggest thing i hated about the late 90s was the awful booming bass all the wannabe gangstas had to have in their cars. i remember driving with my friends and feeling like shit from their systems. seems like that's calmed down now.

>>11942698
you're right anon, nobody has a good job or a good life. everyone is just as miserable as you

>>11935558
>and watch reruns of I Love Lucy
Based Ricardoenjoyers
BABALU!

>>11935280 (OP)
>Gen X, Millennials and Zoomers alike... We can't truly go back bros.
Yea, but I don't care. I don't care what you think. I don't care what anybody else thinks. Why does anybody care? It's about control. And you're not going to control me.

>>11935280 (OP)
>...if you weren't around back then.
I was around though.

>...you'll never relive your youth and the good times will never come back.
I don't want to relive my youth, I just want to play video games.

>>11942512
This mentally ill homeless guy again.

>>11942758
by replying, you've already submitted to control.

>>11942743
Nah, just the way they type it out, it's clear they have none of those things.

>>11942841
you sound like a retard lol

>>11936201
only good post in this shit thread

>>11942703
Its gotten much worse in my experience, but im also forced to live around brown people.

I miss this time period not just for games but just for the older world in general. The 1990s and 2000s feel like such different times compared to today that it basically feels like an entirely different world. it’s like we hit the 2008 financial crisis and everything stopped and pivoted and by the mid 2010s we had entered some weird bizarro world alternate future timeline. The optimism and energy of the 2000s in no way felt like what it was leading up to was the world we got post 2012. I have NO idea what the fuck happened. When I think of how much simpler and more calm people seemed in the 2000s from today, it’s almost like hearing about the 1950s and how simple life was back then from the perspective of the 2000s. Shit really seems to have changed THAT much. Socially economically and in just about every other way. But people will argue things are better today because we have Amazon prime uber eats more powerful computers, and whatever other shit. the trade wasn’t a net positive.

>>11943025
The issue, in part, was civilization on a whole began migrating online. It's fine when the internet is just a seperate tool, but when the bulk of your population now lives in a hyperconnected state, without the discipline to use it properly, you get the state of existence we are in now, and corporations fucking love it.

>>11943080
Yeah I don’t think we ever needed to have 100% of the population using the internet regularly or a daily basis. Until around like 2007 or 2008 I’m pretty sure like 30% of the population didn’t even have home internet. The charts are out there. I don’t think people were ready for it. If the internet had stayed a thing were you use it for a few hours a day, no social media or at least it not being a thing like today. There were simpler forms like MySpace. It could be different. I’m rambling point is ppl are exposed to too much on a daily basis and I think it negatively affects them. Maybe if data speeds didn’t ramp up so fast so you couldn’t stream a video every minute like today.but the brain rot of society is real.
One of the main examples I use is the gym. I’m 2007-2017 recording yourself with tripods and shit was basically unheard of. You could go there and lock in and just do your thing without being in someone TikTok video. People were pretty open and chill more so than most other places. Now you have a bunch of guys saying they refuse to use public gyms because of women thirst trapping trying to “catch” guys looking in their direction to post online for social media points. so you’re paying membership fees to actively avoid retarded shit like this while you just want to lift weights. All aspects of society got fucked by the mass adoption of the internet imo. same with dating. young dudes say they don’t want to get turned down and made fun of on social media, so they don’t bother flirting or talking to women. Women get upset saying guys don’t approach them. But then post “creeps” on their social media who so flirt with them. Again I’m rambling but now people say gen z doesnt even date and it’s because of things like that. The internet being used by every single person has not been helpful in any way. We just have a more paranoid self conscious depressed society.

>>11943080
Social media 2.0 really was like Eternal September raised by an order of magnitude.

>>11942217
>had children and got married.
wrong order lol

>>11942512
>Fuck CRT's
Based. I think CRT's in the current day is just a zoomer fascination at this point.

>>11942882
>muh brown people
Like tuning your car with shitty parts isn't the most white trash thing ever

>>11942512
I wonder how the older based guys on here cope with how retarded the world is today compared to what they grew up with. Even in the time I’ve been alive I can’t believe it sometimes and my frame of reference is shorter.

>>11942090
Weird my dad told me the past was way better than the last decade and he was always a super happy optimistic well liked guy so it surprised me how much more fun he said the 80s and 90s were. Was uncharacteristic for him to ever be negative about stuff.I really don’t understand how people make the case that today is better unless they simply do not want to be around other people or ever leave their home in which case today is probably pretty kino to some people who can order everything and live online.

I remember when I was a kid catching a frog or toad or something outside and not understanding it needed high humidity and lots of water more than a lizard or something, and I put it in a bug catcher box and forgot about it for a day and it died. Still get sad thinking about that toad but I was only in middle school. I caught it before going to church and when I got back forgot about it and my dad found it later asking me about it.

>>11943928
That is primarily a brownoid thing. Have you ever drive past a junkyard?

>>11944129
>I really don’t understand how people make the case that today is better unless they simply do not want to be around other people or ever leave their home in which case today is probably pretty kino to some people who can order everything and live online.
Yeah the modern world is a paradise for shut-ins.

>>11944363
As a someone who has been a shut-in for around 13 years now, I have to disagree. The world sucks for us, too.

>>11942647
As shitty as it is in comparison to what it once was, it's still better than most places. It's a fine time waster at work.

>>11944094
The way I see it, if I were born 100 years, I would have been born in the midst of the Victorian era, would have seen the worst war in history so far and would now be looking around at the roaring 20's. Culture changes over time, all things considered it could be worse. I know I'll never stop working to make it better.

>>11944129
There was certainly a real carefree fun to the 70's and 80's that seemed to fade away in the 90's. You would get up on a summer morning, head off with your friends all day just doing whatever, no tracking device in your pocket or having your parents micromanaging. Even though the world was more dangerous in many ways, it was more laid back.

The change to the environment is the biggest, most awful thing and the saddest thing is that many younger people don't understand because they don't remember how different things used to be. There were toads all over the place here, almost any window well would have several in the summer. When you went on even a short drive in the country you had to clean the car off from all the bug on the windshield. That part now is really fucking creepy.

I feel like the world would be better if people could stargaze again.

>>11944887
>The change to the environment is the biggest, most awful thing and the saddest thing is that many younger people don't understand because they don't remember how different things used to be.
I'm only in my late twenties, and even I notice some pretty big differences. A different species of squirrels migrated North and pushed the ones I remember from my childhood out. We have lizards and praying mantises now, two things I never saw as a kid. About 20% of the trees in my hometown are dying due to a longer dry season. It's pretty sad.

>doesn't have to wipe dead bugs off his windshield anymore
>this is creepy somehow

>>11944951
poor little low IQ subhuman. you lack the higher-order thinking required to understand the world around you.
How would you feel if you didn't have breakfast?

>>11945132
>He's still going at it
There's something seriously evil about you.

>>11944887
A cool memory I have of my dad was in the early 2000s he bought some sort of praying mantis egg from some store, not technically an egg but what it was called, and you put it in your backyard and later you would have praying mantises everywhere. So for a while anytime I went in the backyard there were praying mantises you could find everywhere if you looked hard enough.


With how tightly everything is regulated now I wonder if you can even still buy stuff like that? I’m pretty sure he just bought it from Home Depot or some kind of store like ace hardware or whatever from the gardening section. always thought praying mantises were super sick and loved them. Fun to let crawl around on your hands. I had a friend in 4th grade who was super terrified of them for some retarded reason and he treated them like they were toxic spiders when he saw them. Weirdo moment.

>>11945425
am I supposed to know who the fuck you are or what you're talking about lol

>>11935280 (OP)
>We can't truly go back
I never left.

>>11942647
Youll probably still be posting here in another decade if the site lasts that long. Either way the way the internet has changed this is basically one of the best websites you can go to. What’s the alternative? if anything I would make fun of people who are still using twitter after 20 years which I would argue is even worse for you.


NTA btw but I only started coming here regularly afound 2007 or so, and only came here a few times before that with my friends. back then the internet in general was a lot more easy going fun and light hearted and there were many other fun places to be than here. Today things have changed so much that this is more or less the only place I go regularly. (And even still I will sometimes go weeks or months without coming here) I appreciate the fact that I can read peoples unfiltered opinions here and I can share mine. it’s a good place to learn or teach other people about whatever it is youre interested in. Reddit is fundamentally flawed in a variety of ways like if someone disagrees with your opinion they can scroll through your page and look for some kind of gotchya or whatever because you said this or posted that half a decade ago. Or the fact that even if you are right you can still get downvoted if your thoughts go against popular thought, and the same opinion you have will get a high amount of upvotes posted in a different subreddit which isn’t as biased. I’m rambling I just enjoy the simplicity here it’s the best system.

>>11945474
I like the anonymity and simplicity too, but on a larger scale 4chan is too easy to manipulate with organized propaganda and shilling. There's no effective defense against it. But for smaller topics like retro games, it's great.

>>11945497
I understand what you’re saying and I’ve considered this as well but the same stuff happens everywhere else. When some bullshit idea seems like it’s getting major traction on some other website like twitter or Reddit or tumblr or fb or whatever I think it starts with a bunch of people pushing some narrative super hard until people start climbing on a bandwagon and then those people start spreading it until it becomes “new thing” and from there a bunch of NPCs just agree with it because it’s the new established talking point. there is a ton of shit people have gotten super weird about over the last decade or decade and a half that I think all started because some weirdos on tumblr pushed some crap super hard in an echo chamber until it got traction and from there it spread to sites like twitter reddit fb etc and became shit that no one would shut the fuck up about for years


There is a general pattern I’ve seen where a lot of people reposting or climbing on a bandwagon don’t bother doing it until a “thing” has been slowly gaining traction for years that came out of nowhere. I’m speaking vaguely of course because it’s happened with lots of stuff and it’s the dynamic of it that’s interesting to talk about and not a specific incident since its the mechanism or pattern behind it that’s interesting or weird to me. Something is a weirdo talking point or some chronically online opinion for a year or two and five years later everyone is supporting it

>>11944937
Yeah I saw my first opossum when I was 25 or so. It scared the shit out of me at first cause I'd never seen something that looked like a rat the size of a raccoon with a weird bald face. At first it was just the odd one you might see, now they're about as common as raccoons and skunks. Our winters have gotten consistently milder and milder which is why they can survive now.

Which is another thing that sucks, it used to be pretty much consistently cold from December to early March with snow persisting pretty much the whole time and we'd make ice rinks in our backyards and that's pretty much a thing of the past. Sometimes there's a cold snap for a week or two, but generally winters are more green than white now.

>>11944951
It's not that wiping bugs off the windshield wasn't gross, it's that globally there are about 50% less off all insects and a lot of other life that was supported by them like the toads, salamanders, lizards etc than there were when I was growing up.

It's fucking creepy. It's like Thanos wiping out half of all life, but he just wiped out half of all non-human life meanwhile the human population literally doubled. Except it's not a comic book sorty, it's something I've seen unfold before my eyes.

>>11943928
Nobody likes brown trash urbanites.

>>11944901
I don't get city people and their culture shock stargazing.

>>11945619
Cities are hives of misery.

>>11945456
I remember in elementary school, my mom and me found a mantis egg sack in our yard on a stick. We put it in a bug container and i brought it into school and my teacher let me keep it on a shelf with a bunch of other nature stuff. One morning we came into class and the sack hatched and tiny mantis were everywhere, having climbed through the containers ventilation holes. Me and the teacher and a couple other kids gathered them up to put outside, but I remember some other kids (girls) absolutely freaking out and staying huddled on the far side of the room.

>>11945771
>freaking out and staying huddled on the far side of the room

pathetic weaklings

>>11945783
That's we fuck them and not the other way around.

>>11942512
never knew Cranky Kong posted on /vr/

>>11945132
yea cause, the old feller is saying that there's been subtle but major changes to the environment around us, and of course that's off-putting.

>>11935379
Wow the college dropout is sad about being a failure and blames it on other people, I’m shocked.
>my life is better now
You’re essay on being a depressed loser says otherwise.

>>11935379
>Every normal human being born post 1950 that had a decent to good childhood, looks back at their youth fondly because it was a simpler time, with more freedom.


Yeah, that's called childhood. Most people with good ones grow up and look back on their youth with fondness, but not a desire to literally go back. That's a sign of stunted development.

>>11945256
>>11947925
>>11936613
>>11935989
>>11945147
>>11940142

>>11935280 (OP)
>I need my cardboard boxes and manuals with info that should have been in the game in the first place :(

>>11946921
>Some obvious homosexual makes a post on 4chan.

>>11935280 (OP)
eh i just do the same thing ive always done - quietly play SNES and N64 on CRT, it will always be untouchable and perfect, air-gapped from the soul aids of the internet.

>>11945710
maybe yours is, mine has beautiful parks, a huge well stocked library, lots of art museums and nice aechitecture and is highly segregated as nature intended

>>11935280 (OP)
I have just as much fun now with games as I did back then. Maybe im just autistic? Only difference is I can memorize my times playing games as a kid pretty well, but when I beat a new game as an adult I dont remember shit about even 6 months later. But i still enjoy myself and its nice to be actually good at games now because as a kid most games were too hard to beat

>>11935280 (OP)
cool because i don't want to go back
i play retro games not for nostalgic reasons but because they are good games and I want to
you just outed yourself as a miserable cunt who doesn't actually like videogames

>>11938251
Aside from having everything that I enjoyed and did not get to enjoy from my childhood I also have access to some new movies I like, new shows, new videogames especially indie games, the internet, more social events in areas that aren't a complete backwater, new music and new shit in general .etc. Even simple things like the fact that I constantly find recipes to cook that I wouldn't have known existed otherwise without the internet. Hell, there is even a really nice ice cream place next to where I live now that serves new flavors like taro. Other than the environment, the economy and government being ran by idiots there is a lot to appreciate about living now as long as you aren't a miserable cunt. In fact I am living way better now than I have 40 years ago especially since back then I had to deal with all of the shit of being a kid in a shitty neighborhood.

>>11935341
>>11935449
Deluded

>>11935341
>>11949284
There's no reason to think our current technology won't be preserved & reproduced into the future, especially when it comes to widely published games. If we still read the Bible after 2000 years, there's no reason to think we won't play retro after similar time-frames. Ultimately it's all information, and we've gotten much better at disseminating it, compared to the days of scribes and parchment.

>>11935280 (OP)
I had fun in the time I grew up in. Its impossible to play anywhere near every game during that period anyway. Now its more about going back to basic good gameplay that modern triple As can't touch; and seeing what I didnt play growing up as a kid.

We just miss our young brains getting higher hits of dopamine from the screen anon.

What actually happened to this board?

>>11949321
word, son.
I've caught up with games I didn't have back then, like Punch-Out!!, Abadox, Battletoads, and more. There's always ups & downs.

>>11949323
same thing that happened to every board. it got infested with /pol/tards, depressed boomers who make everything worse out of spite (really genx, millenials and some genz who are really jaded) and retards

>>11949363
I don't think it was that exactly.

>>11949323
As with any of these boards, I blame moderation. They encourage some behaviors while banning others. And the rules for what gets you banned seems to change every week.
>>11949363
/pol/tards: depressed boomers who make everything worse out of spite (really genx, millenials and some genz who are really jaded) and retards
That's your definition?
You forgot about trolls who try to artificially inflate and deflate prices. Most of the people that scream about collectors and sellers are almost always resellers them selves.

>>11949307
how many popular songs can you name from the year 4 AD?

>>11949669
Ancient music is much more poorly preserved than ancient texts, and even the latter are fragmentary at times. There are notable exceptions of course, but for the most part, all we know is that it influenced polyphonic Church music, which in turn influenced Classical.
Anyway, as I was saying, we are much better armed against the sands of time than they were. Ancient sources are mostly transmitted to us via scribes and Christian monks, and we have much more powerful information technology than copying by hand. Even if modern society collapses, modern tech won't vanish, and we might even keep a more rudimentary internet going.

>>11949669
Things have been easier and easier to preserve with the advancement of technology. I can look on youtube and find videos of mundane, average people shopping in the mall from 20 years ago. If it were 2005, good fuckin luck trying to easily find something as niche as people doing that in 1985. Its easier than ever to preserve parts of our past, and is mostly the reason why our culture seems to have "stagnated" in a sense.

>>11949846
>>11950218
>surely hard drives and the means to read them will last forever!

>>11950218
Yes, preservation is horrible in many ways. As technology has advanced and allowed us to capture and transmit our thoughts more easily we've become more and more self-conscious about the nature of thoughts and reality. People exist within a web of lies as far as they are concerned, spun by more intelligent people, and they flee into strange spaces in order to get some firm ground to stand on. Cults and weird ideologies and identities will grow increasingly common.

>>11935889
>NEET with a superiority complex
Imagine being dependent on your mommy after 30 years lmao

>>11936201
This really. I honestly find it to be depressingly nihilistic to think your life peaks in your childhood. Of course childhood is great, but it most likely wasn't as perfect as you remember. Adulthood has its drawbacks, but I feel a lot of people who long for the past to this extent gave up on life as soon as it began such as longing for their friends, family, good video games, and other things that you CAN partake in as an adult, but forgot how to.

>>11950242
Tinkering, hard copies, redundancy, etc will all help with preservation. As long as there's computers & internet in some form, we can easily keep retro alive, especially since the older gens can fit within a handful of gigs.

>>11950271
This. I use tinkering for all my preservation needs. Hard drives, boiled eggs, used cucumbers. I just toss them in a jar with a bit of tinkering and they're good for decades.

>>11950242
The data will last as long as people are interested in it. It's pretty easy to find data preserved from 40 years ago.

>i am from the brazil and i like the sex and the ps2 chipaeda
>9/11 lolololololol
>lol so randumb pictures xD

>>11951394
lol @ u
You know what I meant -- dumping roms, creating new cartridges, that sort of thing. As long as we keep reproducing this stuff, we can stay one step ahead of entropy. Because ultimately, that's what all life does.

Nah, at one point you forget everything and it’s just you and the game. So worth it.

>>11949323
The take down destroyed moderation (we obviously lost our janitor) + it's summer

>>11935284
Brosisters not like this.......

>>11939503
You're too young to remember.

>>11942142
What a fag lol.

>>11944094
Having kids helps, plus just playing classic games and calling people gay and retarded.

>>11942169
Fuck off retard

>>11950242
There are more than just hard drives for long term data storage.

>>11944094
There are no girls or older based guys on the internet

>>11935284
kek, "bros posting" has become a meme
>>11935850
>pretend "bros" post to drag other people into your gravity well of misery and parasocialness
you've summed it up well

literally anything from childhood can be nostalgic, and if you want to get philosophic, we cannot go back into the past, nostalgia is delusional microdepression resulting from the inability to enjoy the present and refusal to imagine better things in the future kys OP

>>11939503
Did your script run out? Cause you sound mental as fuck.

>>11954984
>calling people gay and retarded
This adds days to your life. By taking that away is them trying to kill us. Which makes "them" gay and retarded.

>>11955070
Yes, everyone is a faggy little boy just like you.

>>11935280 (OP)
Zoomers have nothing. They never understand gaming. Most they can do is run around like a retard in GTA and scream into the mic on CoD. They never had anything to go back to.

>>11954979
it seems that anons comment about childhood really hit a nerve there.

>>11935280 (OP)
The world isn't in a state in which we can afford to live like this, unfortunately.

>>11955070

There is no one on the internet full stop. This whole board is Russian bots debating each other based on LLMs.

>>11957478
How I wish that were true. Sadly the stupidity on this board isn't Artificial Intelligence, it's Natural Unintelligence.

>>11943025
It's the fucking algorithms, everybody being online, short content made possible by high mobile internet speeds and the steering of public discourse by 3rd party actors from across the globe. Everybody and their mother is online now, especially people who you wouldn't be exposed in real life. Everything is possibly recorded, everything is content.

>>11935379
Holy shit, this post caused a nuclear meltdown from all of the third-worlders seething