Oldfag question

Did you guys know how good you had it, or did you take it for granted and think that the future would be even better?

My older brother is getting married and he gave me his PS2 collection and I'm sort of amazed how good video games were in particular back then. But it's not just that, the music, television, day to day life, having a culture that revolved around the interests of young white men. Even as a zoomer I can appreciate that.

We thought it would be better because nobody saw Truekike coming. The pajeet swarm wasnt here, we had a few pakis in stores from the 70s and they were generally peaceful in tiny numbers. Niggers existed, and their gangs but they were contained to the cities. Like the Ledbury Crips in Ottawa, who are actually Lebs.

We took it for granted and genuinely expected things to keep getting better. The obvious red flags started at the very end of the 90s but most of us were oblivious. By the late 2000s the western world had completely changed yet most continued to ignore it

If we're just talking about entertainment things are still good for me, they still make exactly the same kind of anime I have loved since the early 00s in Japan. I have always gotten at least 1 new show that caters to my interests every new anime season since 2006.

Took it for granted. Feels fucking bad man.

You have the memories. That's more than my generation will get.

No oldfags here anymore, except for a very few. Anon Babble was normalized a decade ago, get over it.

There was nothing I could do, the people that were capable of changing the system became part of it, to keep themselves and their families in a state of financial stability. Most civilians who had an above middle class lifestyle knew that things would change for the better, as long as their "guy" became PM. Problem is that when you are a financially ruined country and you produce jack shit, the government can give you only so much financial relief even if you are a long lasting member of the party in power. We all got fucked because we wanted to not lift a finger. We sold our children and our grandchildren for a few bucks, and we continued to make things worse for less. Why? Because we were jealous of our fathers and grandfathers and wanted to prove that our lives were better than theirs.

It was shit. People dressed like slobs and most abused hard drugs.
The video games were boring and had crappy graphics.
The PCs were shitty but expensive.

People idolized Kurt Cobain and were fans of the Simpsons.

damn, that's one hot yenta

nice teefs too

I expected some degree of decline, but I figured it wouldn't start in earnest until I was in old age. What would've been at least a few decades from now.

how big she can open her mouth

DAMN GIRL

My childhood kinda sucked. I’m glad im an adult
YMMV

I was a teenager in the 90s. We sincerely believed that we would be living in a 'Back to the Future 2' type society if the world didn't end in 2000. Instead, we are getting every worst case secenario all great science fiction writers could think of rolled into one. Fuck this gay Earth.

Yes, and I was pissed that our political elites were destroying it with immigrants and woke.

I had been homeless and was scraping by for a while. I didn't thing things could possibly get worse.

They're worse now. I am just waiting the next lockdown or war or disaster

i finished german high schook in July 2001 and it seemed like you can do your thing no questions asked. No gifts but no obstacles either. You can travel wherever you want. Peace for everybody is on the horizon. It was plausible then:

when 9/11 was happening my dad said : everything will be going fucking downhill from now, enjoy it while it lasts

tfw when he was right :(

yeah fuck 9/11 broke everything

I was a teenager in the 90s. We sincerely believed that we would be living in a 'Back to the Future 2' type society if the world didn't end in 2000.

This. I was too. The future seemed so bright. 9/11 knocked one leg out and the financial crisis the other. But 9/11 was more impactful. Unless you lived in the world before it's impossible to understand how much everything changed. Went from jubilation to anger and paranoia just like that. Here's my example story. I grew up outside DC. Before 9/11 on July 4th people would ride the metro with coolers and trashcans full of ice and beer and have a giant freewheeling party on the national mall. Right outside the white house and fed buildings. There was barely any overt police presence. After 9/11 there was a security cordon that frisked you, you couldn't bring anything and cops of all stripes were everywhere. That happened all over the country

Then to realize it had beem planned for a long time.

Alex Jones is a joke, but he absolutely predicted 9/11 down to minute details.

I don't know man, I was focused on consumerism back then. Every dollar I made from my teenage jobs I put into DVDs. Best Buy used to have this massive DVD section. I wanted to be this movie nerd guy with a massive library of everything.

Most of the content was forgettable bullshit like in every era though. Remember that movie Fear.com? Yeah neither does anyone else. Remember Underworld with Kate Beckinsale? Some CGI vampires fought werewolves or something, who even knows, that whole movie was a fever dream. They weren't shoving ugly and/or black women in our faces like they are today, but cheap generic TV/video content was still common and overuse of cheap shitty CGI was still rampant.

Video games were kino tho, Sid Meiers was still making strategy games like Civilization and this Railroad game. While there are some good strategy games today still, the early 2000s were a golden era.

for the real oldfags:

remember how you used to be able to ask the stewardess as a kid to see the cockpit on flights? Literally every flight I took when I was younger than 12 I'd ask, and never remember them saying no.
I remember the pilots letting me push buttons and shit and explaining how the radar worked. My dad always came too because he was just interested in planes, pilots seemed to love explaining shit too.

You missed Marathon: Infinity, Escape Velocity, Myth 2 and 1.6. I had no idea how good it was. But the biggest thing is that there were no hand phones. People walked around with their heads up and looked around. It weird how different interactions are now.

My buddy and I flew by ourselves to see a fren that moved away. We were nine. They showed us the cabin and sat us in first class. Big feels.

Nigga those first two games, hh.

imagine asking now if you could see the cockpit, there would be an emergency landing and a swat team waiting for you lol

It's interesting to look back on movies like the ones you mentioned. Lots of 2000s culture didn't really survive. I remember my dad's ringtone was the CSI Miami theme. He had every 24 season up to the late 2000s on DVD. I have a portable DVD player somewhere and I'll have to ask my brother if he kept his PSP and UMD movies. He had that Chappelle stand up special on it from the early 2000s and that skateboard movie with Heath Ledger.

we had a real feeling that the future gonna be bright and relaxed, that we were on the road to become an "utopia" the ancient dreamt of many times in their writing. all was possible. the timeline wasnt hijacked yet. you have no idea how it felt to get close to the millennia change and the promises our culture and ancients gave us.

the real problems were known. the internet was coming up. peeps finally had the chance to come together on a broad scale unlike their ancestors who were depended on corporate lies and local actions.

racism-shitshow wasnt a thing. we had tons of successful blacks in the media, the companies and the arts.

troons and other perverts were also around but didnt harrass us with their retarded lifestyle propaganda. they flocked to their clubs and music. no one had a problem. most of society was pretty relaxed and open minded anyway.

and now we are in all this shit cause we let retards and rich assholes make the critical decisions. starting (officially) with george w. bush and his 911 coup d'etat of the us neocons...

project for a new american century

never let your enemies hide and flock together in the shadows or they gonna destroy all your dreams with batting an eye.thats the lesson i learned the hard way.

the bigger her mouth, the larger her hole. symetry-law of biology.

Back when I was a kid. I think I was born in the wrong era. I wish I was living during the crusade... In all actuality, I got what I asked for. This era IS the crusade.

There is no greater times I can ask for to be a warrior.

We were constantly told by the greatest generation just how great things were going to be for us, how lucky we were. They all believed the movie Back to the Future would be real, and since we were kids we did too.
The warning signs were there though. The entitlement of women was everywhere. They already had birth control so most were spending at least their university years riding the carousel, laying the groundwork for divorces and ruined families. Carmen Electra & Dennis Rodman was the Kim Kardashian & her Nigger Du Jour of the era, so there was plenty of jewish propaganda as well. Porn was hard to come by and the majority of young women hadn't seen it. Imagine dating a girl who had never even seen a BBC before, let alone suck one, it was par for the course for us.
Almost everyone was asleep, so we enjoyed the dream. The oldfags you see reminiscing here are just guys like me who once had a good dream we remember fondly.

This could happen today the issue is kikes have a vice grip and gatekeep all culture. It's not normal how in the 90's you had rap, rock, boy bands, metal, female pop singers and all kinds of diverse music in pop culture and its all now rap and a few female singers here and there. Kikes are gatekeeping what music is popular

Oldfag isn't a reference to age, it means someone that started using Anon Babble in its glory days

Either way, the answer to both is " do you realize how good you have it now, or are you taking it for granted"

Took it for granted, bro.
It's like grains of sand falling through our fingers, isn't it?
It's was everything, wasn't it?
Everything and nothing.

Like tears in the rain.
As I am now you'll be one day.

I watched a lot of Tech TV/G4. Back then there wasn’t youtube, if you missed something it was gone unless it was recorded. Torrents took days to download, dvds were $25, games were $50 ($70 on Nintendo). Guess what I’m saying is I prefer having everything from back in the day for free and streaming on the internet now, makes it easier to be a cheap fuck

Fucking gaiafag

same basically, could have been 2005 even. I was 14 or 15 at the time, 34 now. Pretty much been a daily visitor since then

It was precisely now I heard that the titty-girl I ogled on TV used to date a nigger about whom I hadn't even heard in the 90s. How do we return to that blissful cultural isolation?

Electric playground is the shit. Vic is still on YouTube and uploads old episodes

Everyone was blissfully nieve, more or less. There were a handful of people who saw the social trainwreck coming, such as Pat Buchanan, but the mainstream didn't believe stuffy old squares. Then you had the dotcom bubble bursting in 2000, the 2008 bad lending crash, hyper promotion of anyone but straight, white men and most recently Covid. Looking back, securing a house all to my self when I turned 18 would have been the smart choice. Instead I had a lot of fun and ruined a lot of good chances. It's hard to explain how optimistic most people were pre dotcom crash. There was a sense that time had stopped and the good times were here forever. I saw an apartment in a complex I had once rented sell for over 4 times in 2023 what it could have been bought for in 2001. Even by 2006 one guy sold the one his Dad had bought him for double the original price.

Did you guys know how good you had it

Yes,the early to mid 2000's were some of the best years of my life. Literally every day I was happy and had something to look forward to. Now everything is super boring, sterile and overpriced.

Did you guys know how good you had it

During the PS2 era, at the time, i actually thought video games had gotten really bad compared to how good they were on the SNES/Megadrive/PS1.

Looking back, it's obvious that PS2 games are a LOT better than the crap we have today. But at the time, for me at least (i wasn't a kid i was in my 20s) i noticed that PS2 games and the industry in general were starting to get really bad with too much focus on """story""" and cinematics.

It's all relative though - there will no doubt be people 15 years older than me thinking "man the NES was crap, Atari 2600 games were way better".

I was just surprised by the quality of some of the games that aren't talked about all that much. I-Ninja, Pac-Man World 2, The Punisher, Shadow of Rome, GUN etc. An abundance of 7/10 games. Everything now is a 125+ hour masterpiece or a 3 hour pixelshit allegory for taking load.

Every Saturday at noon. It's good stuff. I love Zoe Flower.