/v/ - Video Games

>>15338258

Which is basically anime.

>>15337066

>lasagnacat

How fucking raw was that revival, huh? Literally sat on three different accounts for YEARS just to make ten videos.

>>15338297

I was actually very surprised to learn he started in like 2008.

This kind of 'weird and kind of creepy meta-ironic humor' is par for the course for the Internet culture of the late 2010s, but is a completely foreign element to 2008.

Powerful

the 00s were blandness incarnate. just make a boring sterile game and voilà. ur done

>00s

Except nothing fucking happened in 00s, this is the single most boring decade, fuck that shit.

>>15337066

you could bring back the 00s by making games that are actually fun and aren't shallow bland garbage designed to squeeze money out of stupid children with all the dlcs and lootboxes

>>15338322

I think most people living in the 'current decade' would think it's nothing particularly noteworthy, because not enough time has passed to put it against a historical background.

Maybe 10 more years are needed for 00s to become en vogue.

>>15338328

That could as easily apply to 80s or 90s, though.

In fact, probably even more so, since the downfall began in the middle of 00s.

In fact, I think right now we are much better off in terms of general variety of cool games than we were in 2006-2012, but that's just my pov.

>>15338329

2010's are looking to be a lot busier than 2000's, actually, and you can tell before the decade even ended.

One recent retro game I've played I can describe as being very 00s is A Hat in Time, small things like the menu design etc. are just very early 00s about it to me even though I can't really put into words how

>>15337066

>At first it seemed fresh and exciting, but by now lost its edge and sheen a long time ago. At least, for me.

What? Only a few games that are somewhat know have done it. The rest of em are shovelware crap that the majority have never heard of. Hell even Hotline Miami could be considered obscure since most normalfags have barley heard of it.

>>15338258

FACT: NEWGROUNDS WAS FUNNY WHEN WE WERE ALL 12 LIVING IN THE SUBURBS LISTENING TO LINKIN PARK WATCHING DRAGONBALL Z DRINKING PEPSI WHILE PLAYING HALO CO-OP ON THE EASIEST SETTING DURING WHICH WE CONSUMED DORITOS AND LOOKED AT PAINTBALL GUNS ON EBAY IN INTERNET EXPLORER CONNECTED THROUGH AOL ON A 56K MODEM BEFORE HOPPING INTO OUR BALDING FATHERS' LATEST MIDLIFE-CRISIS-IMPULSE-SPONSORED JAPANESE-BUILT SUV TO HEAD TO THE MALL AND GET MORE SKATEBOARDING SHOES AND THIRD-RATE IRREGULAR LEVIS AND MOUNTAIN BIKE PARTS BEFORE HEADING HOME, VOTING DEMOCRAT AND MASTURBATING TO THE LATEST SEARS CATALOG WHILE HUFFING PAINT IN YOUR GARAGE BEFORE TALKING TO PEDOPHILES ON AIM PRETENDING TO BE WHATEVER CAMWHORE THEY'RE RANTING ABOUT ON MYSPACE WITH A MATRIX QUOTE/ANIME CHARACTER NAME/TRIPLE SIX-ASTERISK-PARENTHESES-SURROUNDED SCREENNAME BEFORE HEADING TO YOUR SUPPOSED "GOOD SCHOOL" IN THE MORNING TO BUY MORE POT TO SMOKE DURING YOUR COUNTER-STRIKE LAN PARTY WITH JIMMY AND THE REST OF HIS FRIENDS TAKING RITALIN AND ADDERALL AND PROZAC EIGHT TIMES A DAY BEFORE TAKING A CASUAL PASS AT LOCAL, STATE OR NATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL FIGURES, LEGISLATURE, OR STRUCTURE TO APPEAR EDGY AND INTELLIGENT IN FRONT OF YOUR BUDWEISER-SNEAKING, LIMP-WRISTED, NEAR-TO-COLUMBINE SOCIOPATHIC "DEEP" FRIENDS WHO PLAY THE VICTIM WHEN THEY START LOSING ARGUMENTS SIX DAYS BEFORE THEIR BOTCHED SUICIDE ATTEMPT SIMPLY BECAUSE SCHOOL TRAMP NUMBER TWELVE WOULDN'T GO UNDER THE BLEACHERS WITH THEM TO LET THEM GET TO SECOND BASE BEFORE THEIR THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY.

>>15338355

Even years later, this is still the best run-on sentence in internet history.

>>15338349

Hotline Miami 1 and 2

Far Cry: Blood Dragon

Katana Zero

Narita Boy

Furi (mostly music and some of the visual design)

Kung Fury game

Double Dragon Neon

Neon Drive and other similar driving games like it

Crossing Souls

Desync

Hyper Light Drifter (kind of)

Hypnospace Outlaw

PUSS! (more of a vaporwave game)

Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion

That's just off the top of my head.

Yeah, most of it is 'obscure indie shit', but there's still oversaturation.

And don't forget, while normalfags may not play most it, it's still a cultural zeitgeist, because of all the fucking retrowave music (which I saw even normalfags blasting in their cars) and movies like Kung Fury or Drive. It's still very 'in' right now, all because of Drive and HM, and I find it's wearing itself thin.

>>15338389

Oh, and also that Blood Dragon spin-off on a motobike or whatever the hell that was.

>>15338402

Well, I don't play those kinds of games at all, so I don't even stumble upon then and I guess I'm biased.

My point is more along the lines of it being a very strict and confined genre for it to produce much variance.

Even your 'battle royal' example while may be shitty, is still a very general description, so potentially many very different games could fall under that moniker. Doesn't work that way with highly stylized era-piece genres.

>>15337066

>most of us were in early-mid teens

>>15338389

God I would kill to have another (good) game set in the actual 80s like GTA Vice City

>>15337066

>what about the 2000s

>which was the mindless consumption of technology by normalfags

>versus the gleefully happy cocaine highs of the '80s

>the "fuck there's no cocaine time to kill niggers to bad bass" '90s

Hope you like cyberpunk, nerd.

>>15338555

>which was the mindless consumption of technology by normalfags

Which is much, much more accentuated today and is only going to get worse.

really nostalgic for that late 90's early 2000s late night style tbh

You guys should go check out /y2k/.

>>15338831

Thank you for the post, man,

>But I think the era of idly looking to the past and thinking about how much better things used to be is almost up, and people are going to start taking active steps try and make their era better.

Would you elaborate?

>>15338297

garrett hunter, 28

Imagine a game with 2015 aesthetics. Would be rad and retro.

Why aren't there more games set in the 1880s?

>>15338339

It's probably because it's inspired by Super Mario Sunshine.

>>15338322

9/11, The War on Terror, the Axis of Evil. The 2000s were very eventful. That's the problem. And these problems never really ended, people just got used to them, and when they did, when they took them for granted, SJWs rose up in reaction to the neoconservative rule of the previous decade, only they actually believe in many of the same repressive policies, such as taking away our video games, spying on you, and considering people guilty until proven innocent. Only at least the neocons of the 2000s were reacting to people actually dying, while SJWs are just reacting to their own mental illness.

'90s were the most boring decade due to the relative peace and prosperity between the Cold War and the War on Terror, when the most we had to worry about was Y2K, which everyone knew was actually just an excuse to get drunk at the best New Years Eve party in a thousand years, and really just reminded us that we were about to be living in the futuristic world of The Jetsons, which was reflected in the style and aesthetics of the later part of the decade. This continued through the year 2000 and the start of 2001, but 9/11 then made everyone realize that large portions of the world were still literally populated by cavemen, and our futuristic fantasy was over. The fact that the '90s were boring allowed us to focus our attention and energy on frivolities, like mass media, and we got a ton of great tv and video games out of it. We might get some relative peacetime again in the future, but without the excitement of the end of a millennium, the feeling that we're about to enter the future, I don't know if it will be quite as good.

>>15337066

Just play the Tony Hawk series. They're the most 2000s you can possibly get, even at the time. I've been playing them again recently, and the stuff that I took for granted at the time now certainly feels like an incredibly distinct snapshot of the time. It's also interesting how it evolves with each game. The style of the first game is incredibly different from the style of something like Underground 2, but they're still very distinct to their era. And yes the first game is '90s but it's late and a lot of its style became more popular in the 2000s. Going from the ska of the first game to the hip hop of the second to the buttrock of the third, and then basically just having Jackass in game form. They're pretty different but all 2000s.

>>15338831

>Kids today won't be nostalgic for 00s movies, because 00s movies were made to appeal to 80s kids.

The '90s and early 2000s were very nostalgic for the '70s. The '80s and '90s were very nostalgic for the '60s. The '70s were very nostalgic for the '50s. The 2000s being nostalgic for the '80s is nothing new. I might argue that it's gone on for a surprisingly long time, though. We're only getting early '90s nostalgia media now, with a lot of '80s sticking around, while normally I'd expect us to be hitting late '90s nostalgia media by this point. Note that I don't mean just people being nostalgic for it, but media being made specifically to capitalize on that.

Happy Days is a show about '50s nostalgia made in the '70s and early '80s.

The Wonder Years is a show about '60s nostalgia made in the '80s and early '90s.

That '70s Show is a show about '70s nostalgia made in the '90s and early 2000s.

It runs in cycles of slightly over 20 years, but it's been getting a little longer over time.

>>15339331

It would just be SJW stuff. People will be nostalgic for it the same way people got nostalgic over hippies in the '90s. Hopefully we at least get something as funny as Austin Powers out of it.

Speaking of which, Mike Myers needs to get his act together and make a new Austin Powers movie. The premise can be that he was frozen again after the last movie, and when he wakes up now, he's a relic of the '90s, just like how in the first movie he was a relic of the '60s.

>>15339334

Because The Order: 1886 was shit.

It's still far too early for nostalgia for the era to form into a cohesive gel the yids can market. Give it another 5-10 years. They aren't very creative.

>>15339870

As has been pointed out, though, Vice City was set only 16 years in the past. By that metric, we should be having 2002 nostalgia right now. But nobody wants to be nostalgic for an era when the biggest happening was sandniggers chimping out, and a president who openly stole an election creating a completely false pretense for starting a war with unrelated sandniggers instead of the ones that were actually chimping out.

Also, the Adam Sandler movie The Wedding Singer came out in 1998 and was already all about '80s nostalgia. So '80s nostalgia started earlier than most eras of nostalgia, and has also lasted longer than most. The interesting question is why.

>>15337066

>nostalgia for an era less than fucking 20 years ago

Underageb&

>>15339902

>Vice City was set 16 years in the past

>Vice City came out 16 years ago

>San Andreas was set only 12 years in the past

>San Andreas came out 14 years ago

You could argue Liberty City Stories, set only seven years in the past, wasn't really about nostalgia for 1998, but San Andreas was certainly about 1992, and it was released closer to 1992 than now.

>>15339951

The rise of industrial rock, school shooters, anime, and flash animations, don't forget that. I'm sure there's a good handful of people still lurking around here that came from 2004-05 Newgrounds.

>>15338831

>sidescrollers

>fundamentally flawed

fuck you faggot

>>15340224

anime is still a thing now.

I guess you mean once it really hit mainstream and everyone tried to copy the superficial elements of anime

>Kappa Mikey

>My Life Me

>Serenity

>flash animations

>you will never go back to the old days of early 2000's flash animation where it was impressive you even had a mic

>>15337066

>aughts

So you mean emo kids hanging out at 7-11 updating their myspace profiles and reading reviews of Harold and Kumar movies on their Razrs? That's exactly why that decade isn't worth revisiting

>>15340454

>people actually having internet on their phone in the 2000s

naw

So the peak of crazy frog and ringtone commercials, shovelware, cell phone games, cheap ugly chinese everything, empty failed technology pushed with zero passion.

Yeah I really can't think of a positive nostalgia view of the 00's

>>15340474

You could make a good dystopia setting out of all that.

>>15340474

Everything you said is just the same as now except for crazy frog and ringtone commercials.

>>15340488

>Still going on

Yes, but that was the beginning of the cheap shit decline.

>>15340474

Depends on if you mean the early 2000s or the late 2000s. Shovelware was always a thing, but if you're gonna argue the 2000s was bad for it, it would be the late 2000s with the Wii. Cell phone games? A non-issue until the iphone, in 2007, and have only gotten worse over time. Cheap ugly chinese everything? Again something that just continually gets worse over time. Empty tech with zero passion? Again something that just keeps getting worse and wouldn't be specific to one era.

Crazy Frog and ringtone shit though, sure.

>>15340450

>>15339593

The wost thing is that people don't even remember how good things used to be. I do because I'm from a shitty poor country where being able to easily get a six figure job, sustain yourself and a family and get new cars and houses without debts for life was never a thing, so I looked up a lot to Western countries. It's scary how short people's memories are, the decline of gaming is only a microcosm of that.

My country's economy still isn't great, but ironically nowadays the average milennial here is more likely to retire later on in life than the average American.

>>15340560

One thing I've come to realise is that almost everyone I know has horrible memory. Most people can't remember something you told them a week ago. I'm starting to think actually remembering things is some kind of autism that only a minority have.

>>15340592

I'm not that old but I find it shocking what people my own age consider a long time ago. They talk about things only three or four years ago as "a long time ago," and when they recall things from being about 12 or 13, they act as if they were babies in their stories. They just plain can't remember anything from before they were 10. I thought it was common for people to have strong recall to about the age of 4 or 5, and I can remember some things vividly from as young as 2 or 3. Hell, the best years of my childhood were when I was about 8 or 9, but people my own age act like they can't remember that era at all.

>>15340614

A friend recommended I watch a certain movie ten years ago. I still haven't seen it, but I remember the title, the director, the premise of the film, and what he told me about it.

Most people will respond in an utterly confused manner, if I ask them if they watched that thing I told them about a month ago. And if they have't just forgotten, sometimes they actually think they were the ones who told me about it, or they confuse something I said with someone else.

Fucking everyone I speak to seems to be like this.

>>15340650

>>15340614

>>15340592

I'm somewhat similar, though I do consider things from my early teenage years to be eons ago. Being able to remember specific things is a double edged sword, I'm overly bothered by stupid things kids have told me in school or harmless rejections when I was 16 that shouldn't be bothering me at all, especially when I realize they probably hardly remember.

>>15340660

The fact that they don't remember is what makes it even worse. You were crushed, but to them, it wasn't even worth registering.

>>15340674

>remember 15 years ago, when I was dumb enough to believe an urban myth was fact, and people laughed at me

>beat myself up over it

This probably isn't normal or healthy.

>>15340708

>every day get hit with flashbacks of being friendzoned in high school. Sure it's happened other times, but this one in particular bothers me much more

>then I remember it's been ten years already

I used to tell myself it would stop when my life got better. It hasn't gotten any better.

>>15340650

If they have done a lot in life it will seem like longerm if you havent done a lot then is wont seem long at all.

>>15340763

People forget things I told them days ago though.

One spergy example of people not being able to remember vidya well: I remember watching a YouTube vid showing how "great" the PC version of Spider-Man 2 was (as in the horrible linear game that was completely separate from the console versions and not a port at all because it was made during that kind of era) and many folks in the comments completely missed that little facts I just mentioned, and were posting comments like "wtf I had so much fun with this on ps2 as a kid was it really that bad???"… even though their good memories were on point, because they weren't playing the game presented in the video at all. Again, it's a microcosm, I suppose that's how propaganda works in real life.

but The Prodigy was a 90's band and Techno in general was a 90's aestetic.

>>15340775

People are willing to trust random youtube videos over their own memories. Really says a lot about the world.

>>15341014

> coming from the millennial side of things

Why don't you fuck off.

>>153405924

>I'm starting to think actually remembering things is some kind of autism that only a minority have.

I don't like admitting it but I can answer this, drugs. It's the drugs okay, and for some especially weak willed folk masturbation too cause of the constant dopamine hits. One thing everyone overlooks about that stuff is that it fucks with your memory, I literally think yesterday was last month, last week was yesterday, and sometimes I think tomorrow already happened in hazy dreams 6 months ago. I can go day in and day out on a routine and only remember things that stood out as having happened and the rest is a foggish blur of the same routine blending together.

I'm almost to the point that I think I'm repeating the same day over and over again but I'm not cause different things happen which shows time is actually passing.

>>15341205

wojak is a newfag and retard icon, faggot

>>15341291

According to you newfag

I think we are mixing the "mechanics", the events, and the aesthetics of the 00s. Movies like Drive adopted the aesthetics of the 80s, but Drive isn't an 80's movie by any means. When I think about 80s movies, I think American Hero action movies, like those where Schwarzenegger always starred, maybe movies about things happening in visually pleasing American residential areas, or the more refinated stuff, like Blade Runner, but not Drive. Drive is shot much differently, according to modern movie "mechanics", but it grabbed the 80s core aesthetics and modified it to make it more palatable to modern tastes. Taking Hotline Miami as a example, we can all agree the core idea of its aesthetics are 80s as fuck, but it is clearly a modern game, gameplay mechanics wise. We put our mechanics on it, then we put the 80s' aesthetic kernel on it, then we modernized it.

In fact, this is basically all synthwave is, as it just grabs the aesthetics of old 80s, and then applies modern music production techniques and rythms, sometimes based off genres that didn't even exist by then. We are just grabbing the "aesthetics" of the 80s and basing ourselves of that modernized image we have of them, which isn't bad by any means.

What I am trying to say is, you are nostalgiafagging over what made the 00s good, which were a lot of things, but you are mostly talking about stuff that happened there, and how stuff worked, while neglecting the aesthetics. And for good reason, because the aesthetics of the 00s sucked. It was kind of the baroque era of tech design, but done with absolutely no artistic sense whatsoever.

> Glossy buttons everywhere

> Oversized UI components that actually served no real purpose

> Saturated colors up the wazoo

> Unsubtle gradients

> Very dark environments, usually brown or red (sometimes green, which used to indicate you were in a poison/radioactive level), and unnatural lighting-only-shifting shading, rather than hue-shifting shading, which made everything look as if it had a black overlay, unless it was a cartoony game, in which case it had eyeraping high lighting, high saturation colors only

> Emo stuff

> Weeaboo stuff, but those badly drawn animus with excessively big eyes

> Angsty rock, Linkin Park tier

> Maybe it was just that my borderline third world country developed slower during this era, but cringey hip hop for kids was all the rage

> Hardcore. The bad type of hardcore.

> Everything about Gaia online

> lol u tk him 2 da bar, specially grown adults trying to imitate the "hip'n'cool way the kids nowadays write"

> Shitty gifs, usually with pink glitter all around it

Just think Tunngle for peak 2000 aesthetics, or all those Winamp themes, or the Fisher Price aesthetics of pretty much any desktop GUI designed in those days Windows XP default themes, I am looking at you, or fuck, the original Xbox's main menu. They were bad, and full of useless stuff no UI designer would dare to put in any modern GUI.

Maybe we will revive the 00s' terrible aesthetics in the near future, but hopefully "remastered" not to look like cringe incarnate.

>>15341427

Twas a very creative time, but for vidya it was a weird transitional period where a lot of modern shit started to root, but also a lot of good obscure stuff.

Also the unironic stuff is good. I'd rather have a sincere angsty teen talking about how he's a werewolf than any of the modern memelords posting low effort crap trying to really hammer in how the 'irony' is making it ok.

Hell the whole decade has sort of tinted with that authentic interest. Nobody gave a fuck if they were weird and did it proudly but without needing to flag 'Hey look I'm weird!'. I regret not learning how to animate and joining the fun

>>15342147

>Nobody gave a fuck if they were weird and did it proudly but without needing to flag 'Hey look I'm weird!'. I regret not learning how to animate and joining the fun

You can say that about the 60s and the 90s.

>>15342088 (Heil'd)

This games RP community was so comfy.

>>15342088

I unironically think that the early 2000s were superior to the 80s and 90s.

>>15339832

After reading these last few posts I completely forgot I was on /v/. I just want to play some damn vidya games. There hasn't been a thread this good on /pol/ in weeks. How do we reverse trends and get things back to the way they used to be? How do we make vidya good again?

>>15342257

Fixing society. The rot that is killing that has now spread into vidya. Cut the rot and things will greatly improve, how you decide to cut the rot out is up to you.

>>15342088

> 2000, 2003

The N64 and PS1 was released in 1996 and 1995 and their lifespan reached 2002 and 2006 respectively. it literally explodes from the late 90's into the early 00's.

>>15341014

If you have this much reflection and self awareness I don't think you're socially retarded, it's just that many social norms are currently retarded thanks to H*llywood. I think if you're on the high end of the bell curve for intellect, it's much harder to relate to most of society, but you'll eventually find a spouse who you can relate to. At least I suspect that's what happened with the MILLIONS of people like you who reproduced in the past

>>15340436

Yeah, the 2010's definitely started in 2008 or even 2009. The effects of the Recession are still felt today, and Obama won't be remembered just because he was the first black President, but because of how sharply he contrasts with Trump.

Of course, these are the most general cultural shift that are globally felt as they are the largest events, but image boards, for example, have their own cultural shifts at a much more rapid pace. This place, for instance, has had probably three shifts since it's inception. The first shift was obviously the GamerGate exodus, followed by the end of Golden Age of 8chan due to /baph/ exodus, /hebe/ causing controversy, and the crown jewel of Freddy leaving due to health issues and the fallout from Infinity Next. Simultaneously, Trump was running for office and cause a massive red tide to sweep over the site after he won election in 2016, another turning point. That tide has receded significantly since then, but now there's all this QAnon bullshit that has the potential to cause another massive cultural shift because it's getting even more attention than stuff like Chanology. This might be the year where it really all goes to hell.

>>15342088

Cartoons hit their peak in the early to mid '90s with the rise of more experimental and creator driven stuff, along with the acknowledgement that cartoons could be both for adults and for kids, and didn't always have to be toy commercials. Also the era had increased budgets. The Disney Renaissance, The Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy and the other early Nicktoons, Batman: The Animated Series and other high quality stuff coming out from WB.

Video games hit their peak in 1998 and everyone on /v/ already knows it. Cartoons and video games are pretty much the best thing about being a kid, so therefore the '90s was objectively awesome for kids.

In addition to that, Cold War was over and The War on Terror hadn't yet started. It wasn't the end of history, but if you lived in the west, it was easy to let yourself think it was. The new millennium was about to arrive and we were about to enter the future.

Also, the '90s culturally didn't end until 9/11. 2000 is still the '90s from a cultural perspective.

>>15342147

I hated that shooters and "grown up" shit became dominant in the early 2000s, and the 3D platformers that I loved became a thing of the past. I'm still butthurt about it. I want my 3D platformers back. We're starting to get interest, but the only good new one has been A Hat in Time.

>>15342410

Cartoon Network kept the ball rolling with cartoons in the 00s. Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ed Edd n Eddy, Dexter's Lab, etc.

>>15342535

All those shows started in the '90s and got worse in the 2000s. And if you're gonna list a show like that, at least talk about Spogebob Squarepants, which was pretty much the last good cartoon except maybe Justice League Unlimited and Batman: The Brave and the Bold. But then note that Justice League is a spinoff of Batman: The Animated Series from 1992, and Brave and the Bold is deliberately retro and largely based on specific comics from the '50s through the '90s.

Cartoon Network has always been shit, with its flat nu-Hanna Barbera style that eventually bled into everything else and took over the industry when Cartoon Network alumni like Seth MacFarlane and Butch Hartman moved to Fox and Nickelodeon. And now I know I praised Ren & Stimpy which had a somewhat flat style, and John K. was partially responsible for spreading it to CN, since they hired him to help develop their early Cartoon Cartoons after he was fired from Nickelodeon, but to argue that any of those shows had even a fraction of the quality of something as perfectionist and influential as Ren & Stimpy is absurd. And even John K. admits his flat style from that era is regrettable.

Cartoons hit their peak right around 1993, when the last John K. Ren & Stimpys were airing, Nick was getting more adventurous with things like Rocko's Modern Life, The Simpsons was nearing its peak, Batman the Animated Series was going, and movies like The Lion King were coming out. That's not to say these were the only good shows or movies coming out, or that the good era didn't last longer (I'd say the end of Spongebob Season 3 in 2002 is a good place to place the end of that era), but Cartoon Network wasn't part of what made the time good.

Also, for reference, I'm a Canadafag, and we don't even get Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network here. All the shows were shown on the same channel, YTV. It just so happened that all the shows that had shitty animation turned out to be Cartoon Network once I realized that they had different sources. And don't get me wrong, I still like a lot of them. But they weren't a high point for animation.

>>15342619

Courage > Spongebob

>>15342678

The part of me that is nostalgic for the stuff talked about in this thread likes the almost clipart look due to the early digital animation, but the show is not even close to as well animated or as funny as Spongebob, which is one of the best cartoons ever made, period.

>>15340269

>ywn pull an all-nighter with your mate playing virus

anyway 00's were more what you did as opposed to having a style for now at least

>making gay bleach vids with your faggy friends

>playing tony hawks splitscreen

>watching jackass

>actually playing outside in between all that

>splashdown

>>15339593

Another thing missing is that no one really cares to know anyone anymore. When I was growing (was born in the early nineties), most kids on the block knew each other, our parents knew each other, and at least within that group of parents-with-children, they'd look out for each other and their families. That was on the first block I lived on, and having moved around over the years since then, no one seems to know their neighbors anymore, and they don't care to. Kids don't even play outside that much; it's certainly a factor that it gets really fucking hot where I live, but back when I was young that didn't stop me and the friends I used to have, even on summer evenings. The only times I really notice anyone interacting is either halloween, when some people are outside anyhow, or maybe if they're walking kids to or from the bus stop. Aside from that everyone keeps to themselves and their own business. Doesn't help that the entire western world's getting diversified, and I can't blame parents, or just people in general, having a growing lack of trust for each other, and the biggest "community event" sort of thing I see happening here is that some school seems to do soccer practice in the park down the block. I even notice I don't particularly care to get to know the people around me either at this point, and if something's going on enough to catch my interest outside, namely someone moving in, I regard it with suspicion.

Just a few thoughts I thought I'd bring up.

>>15337066

people still use the source engine and play smash bros melee

>>15343026

Why bother settling for some room temp shitters in your neighborhood when you can meet friends that are like you online? I don't get this mentality. These relationships worked on mutual sacrifices of your true feelings so that you'd have something to do - they were purely practical opportunistic friendships and not actual friendships.

>>15343125

It's a fair point, I was mainly just talking about differences I noticed between growing up and now.

>>15337066

>90's

Are you sure about that? I don't see any games that look like old Nickelodeon cartoons with grunge soundtracks.

>>15343125

As much as you ltry, those online relationships could never replace in person relationships.

>>15343181

How so? These personal relationships fizzle out and die the moment you stop having an entire day at your disposal they begin to reach their terminal lifespan (my average is up to 3 years). Just because you see someone's face, it doesn't mean you connect to them or that they will do anything for you. Take a look at this: how many friends that you made at your school education tiers, college and later workplaces are still your friends the moment you move onto next tier/place?

>>15343208

The ability to effectively read physical cues and social situations (even if school is artificial) is still a valuable skill and fulfills a more primal, human need that an online friendship can't. Its not about the loyalty or enduringness (losing touch with people is far more common than staying in touch), but learning to make friends, interact competently, and learning to move on.

>>15339951

explodingvan.gif, though I suppose "imageboards" might cover that already.

>>15341014

I'm from the same generation and had the same experiences. My parents never even had the idea that it would be better if I went through life easy and ended up in a career that wasn't a lawyer or doctor, if that meant I'd be happier. This too reflects the consumerist culture we live in because parents raise their children from day one with the idea that making a lot of money is the only thing that matters in this world and everything else is second priority.

I think it's because those parents from previous generations took things like marrying, having children, not divorcing and actually growing old with your partner among other things for granted. They were raised in a world where those things just came along, anyone could marry and if you couldn't find a partner yourself, you could always ask your parents if they knew a single person of your age. So, because they were able to experience those things and don't realise that you won't be able to get to experience that stuff anymore in this day and age, they want their children to strive for attaining shallow luxuries that they didn't have because they were too busy being happy for that when they were young.

8chan mods are autistic

>>15341427

The 2000's was a weird time to grow up in.

I was born in '98, and it was surreal seeing the internet evolve from an isolated thing you use to something that's integrated into society.

Seeing the cultural shift from everyone using usernames to having their real names on social media was truly surreal.

>>15344356

Remember to not tell anyone online your personal details!

>Why haven't you got a facebook account yet, anon?

>>15341014

>I don't have hobbies

What about vidya?

>>15344367

Thankfully I've never met anyone that actually gave a shit about me not having a facebook.

>>15344368

Not really anymore which is fucked up. I haven't enjoyed a game in years, even going back and playing old ones. Still keeping an eye on it, but most games feel more like a chore to me now.

>>15344417

The rot already started decades ago, mind you. In the recent decades, the new thing that set on was the fact that you can't afford a new house or a car anymore and you won't be able to properly retire, but before that by the 70s it already became much rarer in America for the husband alone to be able to support the whole household leaving the wife to raise the kids and take care of the house. Retirement is becoming now what the man being the sole breadwinner became back then - didn't disappear completely, but became only something a rich minority could retain.

>>15344417

It really has nothing to do with boomers as everything was lost before that. The "greatest generation" was tricked into going to Europe and killing their relatives to keep them from stopping the Jewish takeover of media, education, and finance. That same cancer was quickly imported to America after the war and a fight against it that has largely been erased from history (or at least not taught to you or ever mentioned in media) occurred and was lost. The Jews used their control over education to poison the next generation, the boomers. The boomers had parents who still held many healthy values and provided some resistance to the faggotry but gen X had no such input and was completely adrift. That generation's signature individualism was actually just the complete failure of healthy tribalism being passed from parent to child. The last bits and pieces of the culture are destroyed and the millennials emerge and announce, "white people have no culture".

>>15337066

Make your own future, faggot. Sick of the re-interpretations of other times. How are you different from a vintage hipster shopping for tibetan pottery?

>>15344483

I feel somewhat jealous of people like you. I wish I believed in a narrative that let me blame all my problems on everyone else.

>>15344518

Wash your balls, bucko.

>>15344530

Hey JP what time is it?

>>15344508

Even in Jew school they teach you that America had already decided to support the allies and they had stonewalled the Japanese delegation, don't they? Or is it now America dindu nuffin and was just minding its business when it was attacked for literally no reason?

>Except for the fact it was already here

No, they probably never taught you about all the post-war "antisemitism" and cities that had realtors instructed not to sell houses to Jews and huge protests over openings of universities that would bring in Jewish professors. I'm in San Diego and La Jolla was a poster child for that, there was a huge effort to prevent the opening of UCSD. And they were right, it poisoned the area and the kids and we have muzzies and niggers roaming the streets of what was once a white paradise. The former residents fled to Del Mar after they were defeated which is where I'd move if I could afford it. It's still quite nice. Few people here under 40 know any of this history as it was suppressed.

>>15344518

you're righ, ultimately it's about our own weakness and stupidity, trust a jew, and you'll suffer

>>15341014

Look up narcissistic abuse. Actually don't, the term has been co-opted by women who hate their moms. Basically your parents never gave you a chance to exercise your will and choice, so it never grew. It's probably why society is fucked in the first place, narcissism has been heavily encouraged in the populace, because narcissists buy more crap.

>>15341022

Fuck off faggot. This one provides more content than you do.

>>15344554

>America dindu nuffin and was just minding its business when it was attacked for literally no reason?

Yes, this is exactly what I was taught in school. Noone was wondering why someone would attack fucking america out of "nowhere" but hey we are not there to ask questions :^)

>>15344608

It's so fucking wierd all the splinter sites that used to exist.

Thank lord for the Internet archive's search feature but it still needs improvement

>>15344644

I truly wonder what the next big website design will be for counterculture shit like (non faggy) chans.

I think we might just stick with old outdated stuff anyway. The zeitguest is for retards.

And web development is a clusterfuck holy shit

>>15344518

Read more, speak less.

>>15344465

I agree somewhat, but when it came to retirement, boomers really were the big fuck you. Boomers had pensions where all they had to do was slug it out at their blue-collar shit-tier job long enough to be rewarded with a fucking salary until they die.

Gen-X was the first generation to not have access to pensions thanks to boomers killing them off and replacing them with 401k's. Yeah, Gen-X suckers… go save for your own retirement by throwing your money into the wall street roulette wheel that we'll crash for profit and let's not mention that while you're trying to save for your own retirement, you're also paying the boomers pensions so they can sip their monsters and grouse about how kids need to get off their lawn.

Oh, and by the way, we're going to import cheap 3rd world labor you can't compete with, destroy your industrial base, make wages stagnant for decades, blow up the housing market, bail out banks when the economy goes tits up, and push our out-of-touch hippy bullshit up your ass because we'll be long dead before our catastrophic social engineering comes to full fruition.

Boomers ate the fucking feast, left the scraps, and the bill, for Gen-X, and everyone after wasn't even allowed in the fucking restaurant.

Meh… fucking blackpill… I just wanted to play video gaems…

>>15344554

Of course they talk about "anti-semitism." It makes them look like victims, and they would never downplay that.

>>15344608

I'd say 2011 is the year SJWs really got to me. That's when they invaded the /co/ board on 4chan and then branched out to the rest of the site.

>>15344666

>I truly wonder what the next big website design will be for counterculture shit like (non faggy) chans.

>implying it won't just be controlled opposition ruled by normalfags

Hell, that's already what we have. The only reason I'm here is because it's as close as I can get to pre-ruined 4chan, and it's a far cry from that.

The only hope is that, as absurd as it sounds, people younger than millennials are actually far less cucked than millennials. Now remember that people born in the 21st century are now legally adults. In a year, people born after 9/11 will be able to vote. This is scary at first, but are they worse than the millennial generation that brought SJWism to the mainstream? I don't think they are, and surveys and studies have shown that.

>>15345020

No, that's the thing, they don't talk about that antisemitism even though it was a pretty major thing across lots of cities, they've decided to hide the fact that the US resisted them post-war rather than welcomed them and no one gets taught about that period at all.

>>15345086

>Society is like a pendulum

no it's fucking not, pendelum follows laws of physics, and makes sense, but moderns societies are way too big for humans to comprehend, and are just jerking around in suicidal chaos

>>15345138

True, but I'm more talking about it on a single axis. We got here after decades of people rejecting conservative culture but, it's getting to the point where the next generation are going to head in the opposite direction.

>>15338258

>Matrix

90's

>Katanas

Anime was way more popular in the west in the 90's.

The early 00's is bad skate-caps, shitty piercings through your eyebrow and Limp Bizkit-shit and cargo-pants. Throw in some Polo-sweaters with the collars popped and those golfing-caps but have them upside down and to the side to look "cool" and you got the ridiculous fashion of the early 00's. Atleast the women wore hotter clothes though, low-waisted jeans and belly-button-tshirts along with g-strings is what i remember.

>>15340708

I beat myself up all the time over cringy and embarrassing think i've done, i think it's normal.

>>15341014

Life's hard, stop bitching and start killing jews along with us.

>>15345192

Anime was way more popular in the west in the early 2000s. '90s had the beginning of the boom with things like Dragon Ball Z and various monster catching shows, but it took until the early to mid 2000s for tons of other trash like Naruto and Bleach to hit the mainstream. It took until the early to mid 2000s for shows like Avatar and Teen Titans to try to pretend to be anime.

>>15345268

die.

>>15345233

Unironically this. The nostalgia fuels the memes to an extent, that's why GenZ fags love it so much.

>>15345272

people who are Gen Z should be killed tbh

>>15344356

>98

I bet you don't even remember a time without using search-engines to find sites my young friend.

>>15345282

he needs to die. kill him

>>15345282

Not really, no. I first had access to the internet in 03-04.

>>15345292

he's not human. dont feel for him

>>15344644

>People are so coached to respond to non-mainstream ideas as heretical

Didn't you learn anything from 2014's election anon? I think you look at it wrong, where all the normal people just said fuck you to the establishment and the media and all the mainsstream sites shilling against Trump. He had no mainsstream outlet campaigning for him but still won. That's why imageboards are raising in popularity too unfortunately, it's because it gives people that outlet of ideas and news that they are never given in established media and outlets.

Fuck, we live in a day and age where Alex Jones-show is the biggest political show in the states and had the president being interviewed. I mean, it's very obvious where things are heading and the proles are waking up.

>>15345268

No and how i know you're a youngfag in this discussion is that you forget just how big anime was in the west in the 90's, fuck half the population had shitty silky sweaters with japanese writing on it just for the sake of it. And you forget, Dragonball, Yu-Gi-Oh, Sailor Moon and a little show you might have heard of called fucking Pokémon was way bigger and an influence on society in the 90's than any of the trash you watched as a youngfag in the early 00's.

You simply don't remember the anime-fad of the late 90's in the west.

>>15345359

I know you're a youngfag because you think Yu-Gi-Oh aired in the west in the '90s. I specifically mentioned Dragon Ball, and I mentioned "monster catching shows" to indicate that, yes, Pokemon was fucking huge and we even got shows riding its success like Digimon and Monster Rancher. I didn't mention Sailor Moon specifically only because I figured I listed enough already. I didn't say those were the only shows popular in the '90s. If I'm gonna keep going I'll talk about Hello Kitty and then you can go back further to things like Robotech, Speed Racer, and Astro Boy, going back decades.

My point was that the 2000s was bigger. The boom that got biggest in the 2000s started in the '90s, but it took until the 2000s for the craze to get so big that a bunch of shows that weren't even good started getting super popular just because they were Japanese. It took until the 2000s for western shows to start purposely trying to pretend they were "anime." I didn't even watch any of the shit that came out in the 2000s, but I know they were airing and youngfags do talk about them all the damn time. Pokemon was Pokemon and was the biggest phenomenon in decades, but it started in the very late '90s, and the effect of making anything that was Japanese popular just because it was Japanese hit its peak four or five years later. Plus, don't forget that even things like Digimon only aired here in late 1999. It was barely '90s, and just feels like it because pre-9/11 still feels '90s. But then Yu-Gi-Oh premiered after 9/11.

>>15345192

>Matrix is 90s

>Film released in August 1999

>Four months before the millennium

>Most parody media takes at least a year or two to produce

You're not very bright, are you? Granted, '90s culture survived largely intact until 9/11, but at best The Matrix can be considered a product of the '90s, that is to say the culmination of everything that had been building up culture-wise since the fall of the Berlin Wall, rather than a product from the '90s i.e. Terminator 2, Pulp Fiction etc. People were still parodying The Matrix as if it were a relevant cultural staple well into the mid-'00s, and was only bolstered by the release of both sequels and the animated spinoff in 2003.

>>15345331

I was going to ignore that whole argument but you wrote it perfectly. What we saw was the very end. It was like eating the last slice of the greatest cake you could ever taste, wishing you could have more. It was like the wildest party you could ever show up to, only by the time we got there it was nothing but a bunch of whacked-out teens passed out on the lawns. You could sense what was in the air, but you could tell it was over. The best times had long since gone, and things could only go downhill from here. It's a feeling you cannot readily describe to people whose birth year begins with a 2, though they might get the gist from some of their own upbringing, particularly if they were poor or brought up exceptionally well. It gives you a taste for what those who were already familiar with the internet a decade or so earlier were blessed with on a daily basis.

I'm confident the only thing Eternal September did was bring the internet to the masses, and the only people who were affected by it were the OG phreakers that couldn't move on from the 1970s. Because the 10 years following Eternal September were and probably always will remain the best decade in the history of the Internet, ending right around the time Myspace started. It was the decade people organically turned it into a haven of their own, free from corporate manipulation. It was freedom of expression that today cannot come close to replicating. To do so you'd have to kill the top 1000 or so websites, both in terms of traffic and profit, and block off access to those who can pay for more than just server costs. You'd also have to blacklist entire countries responsible for shitting the internet up, particularly India.

>>15345473

>You'd also have to blacklist entire countries responsible for shitting the internet up, particularly India.

You'd have to ban every non-first world country. In fact, every country that doesn't have English or Japanese as a first language. And maybe even that isn't quite enough.

>>15343208

> how many friends that you made at your school education tiers, college and later workplaces are still your friends the moment you move onto next tier/place?

somehow I'm still incontact with my tight knit group of friends from High School, although it's slowley fading as I live 2 cities away, once went for the military and one is gonna start working extra hours to support his wife and I'm going to nag him every day to make more white babbies, god dammit

>>15341014

All I would ever get out of my mom was "everyone's different. Do what makes you happy. Don't worry about it", like she couldn't comprehend that all I really want is to live in a normal world that makes sense, and not to be some kind of gay hippy who gets blown up in a terror attack.

>>15345473

I would say the Internet died when MySpace died, but then again, by that time I didn't know English, so I had to visit Spanish speaking websites, which were probably infected much later. I remember spending my prepubescent years in PHPBB forums, the Nintendo of Europe forums (which were as ghetto rigged as they got, and I accidentally the entirety of official Nintendo forums by discovering some serious bug in the software the European forums used), and sending MSN Messenger Plus! shitposty SFX. The day the Nintendo forums closed were the beginning of the end of the Internet for me, but it still more or less kept having some gems (usually in the form of PHPBB forums). The day it definitely died was when Facebook became a thing. Didn't help I became paranoid as fuck about websites I didn't know of because of a sudden rise in browser exploits.

>>15339701

We're not getting peace any time soon, not with Israel mucking about

>>15341245

t.schizo

**you're not wrong though. fucking about on the internet doesn't help though

One of my favourite 2000's site was petesqbsite.com and various other qbasic sites. Anyone still have your old hard drives? It's a trip looking through them, I used to have ambition and passion.

>>15345611

Myspace died when Facebook took off, which was the real problem.

>all these people talking about myspace

I remember thinking myspace was normalfag shit in the first place. Facebook felt no different to me. It got even worse, but only because it survived longer. Any of the other sites nipping at myspace's heels, like friendster or whatever, would have become like facebook given the chance. Myspace itself would have if given the chance. It just so happened that facebook won, and due to the nature of lazy and stupid normalfags, and the fact that the entire point is socializing, having more than one network is redundant. Though frankly I don't get the point of any of them in the first place.

>>15347634

I wasn't going to reply to this thread at all, but I just wanted to say you're retarded.

>>15347772

We wanted independence, that's true

We wanted Mexico's land, that's true

We wanted Canada's land, that's true

"We" wanted greater federal control, Lincoln didn't really lie about that, that was a post-war lie.

>>15338355

FACT: 4CHAN WAS FUNNY WHEN WE WERE ALL 15 LIVING IN THE SUBURBS LISTENING TO VIDEO GAME OSTS WATCHING LUCKY STAR DRINKING MONSTER WHILE PLAYING CALL OF DUTY ONE DURING WHICH WE CONSUMED POCKY AND LOOKED AT IMAGE MACROS IN FIREFOX 1.5 CONNECTED THROUGH SHITTY DSL BEFORE HOPPING INTO OUR MOTHER'S HALF-BROKEN CAR SHE SWEARS SHE'LL GIVE US AT 16 AND HEADING TO THE MALL TO STARE AT THE SHELVES OF GAME STORES AND GET DRAGGED THROUGH JCPENNEY FOR CLOTHES WE DON'T WANT BEFORE HEADING HOME, VOTING RON PAUL AND MASTURBATING TO HACKED HENTAI GAMES ON /f/ WHILE SNORTING WHIP CREAM CANS IN YOUR BEDROOM BEFORE TROLLING PEDOPHILES ON YAHOO CHAT PRETENDING TO BE A 14 YEAR OLD GIRL WITH AN INTERNET MEME/ANIME CHARACTER NAME/JAPANESE-CHARACTER-SURROUNDED SCREENNAME BEFORE HEADING TO YOUR SUPPOSED "GOOD SCHOOL" IN THE MORNING TO PLAY YOUR GBA ALONE IN THE BATHROOM THEN COMING HOME TO PLAY CS:S ON THE PARTYVAN SERVER BEFORE JOINING IN ON RAIDS AGAINST FORUMS, CHATROOMS, AND MYSPACE ACCOUNTS TO APPEAR EDGY AND BADASS IN FRONT OF YOUR MEME-SPEWING, YUGIOH-PLAYING, NARUTO-WATCHING AUTISTIC "OTAKU" FRIENDS WHO CLAIM THEY WERE TROLLING WHEN THEY START LOSING ARGUMENTS SIX DAYS BEFORE THEIR BOTCHED SUICIDE ATTEMPT SIMPLY BECAUSE THE ONE HALF-DECENT-LOOKING GIRL IN SCHOOL WHO LIKED ANIME WOULDN'T GO ON A DATE WITH THEM BEFORE THEIR SIXTEENTH BIRTHDAY.

>>15345020

>I'd say 2011 is the year SJWs really got to me

I've been compiling a huge (not to mention highly disorganized and autistic) list of events over the past decade and a half that I feel were significant in regards to the internet. One thing I noticed is that 2011 was the year where shit started getting political. That was the year where Anita started her scam, where the Occupy movement began and the whole "i need feminism because" thing kicked off. I'm sure there's more similar events that happened during that year, too.

It's like 2007 in that it's a significant year in things going to shit.

>>15347634

>Germany during WWII was violating the independence of several European countries into an all-encompassing state, something which goes against the foundation of America itself.

Germany was invading land for several reasons. The first is that the land was part of Germany before the Treaty of Versailles absolutely fucked them in the ass. The Treaty of Versailles as seen as overkill even by modern historians who are all about hating nazis. The second reason Germany was invading land is because it was land that was contested for centuries, particularly on the French border. Germany and France were trading land on that border forever. The third reason is that the nation state was a new concept and Germany, as in a single state made to encompass all of the German speaking area, rather than having a bunch of tiny city states and regions ruled by other empires, was still largely in the process of forming by the time of WWI. They still wanted the rest of the German speaking lands, and the rest of the German speaking lands wanted to be with them. The only reason Austria wasn't part of Germany after WWI was because the allies, while in the process of drawing the map according to nation states, purposely divided the German nation state, keeping Austria separate despite the wishes of the populations and governments of both Germany and Austria, as a tactic to keep Germany weaker, since they were the losers in the war, and were blamed for it. Blame that, again, is seen as unjust by modern historians, who all hate Germany. The fourth reason, which is the only one that gets focus by people these days, is for resources, like most wars are about. The idea that they just wanted to take over the world and eliminate everyone else is a myth, it's cartoonish supervillainy by people who aren't thinking about this as being real history. But it's still the reason most people think of when they think of why World War II started.

Now I know plenty of /pol/lacks will rant about how Germany dindu nuffin. That's not what I'm doing. It just triggers me when people have such a shallow view of something that is honestly still quite recent history. Especially when they're talking about history and geopolitics as if they know what they're talking about.

Also, America doesn't care about violating the independence of countries. And I'm not just saying that to knock American imperialism. I'm saying that because following WWI, The United States and Woodrow Wilson took a leading role in redrawing the map of Europe, directly changing the dependence and independence of most European countries.

>>15341154

>>15341291

>>15341755

The fuck are you guys calling him Wojack for? Is Wojack what the youngings call the Feels Guy now?

>>15348124

there ones you posted don't even cover all of it, the stranger thing is many of the reboots got panned hard for playing it too safe or simply being boring but hollywood keeps trying it

>>15348124

Why did they make Miss Frizzle sexier

Dark foggy atmosphere similar to silent hill I’m already working on a silent hill inspired game thats derived from the early 00s era

>>15348152

> we aren't getting Tony Hawk and The Matrix coming back

Tony Hawk is still alive as a person but old, and no one needs a Matrix reboot while Keanu is still alive and productive with John Wick.

>>15347788

This, also checked.

>>15348209

Obviously I meant the Tony Hawk games. But then there's the answer, isn't it? Corporations ruined everything from the '90s and 2000s. Activision killed the original Tony Hawk franchise with cheapness, then they tried to reboot it with peripherals so you'd have to pay $120 for the game, then they tried to bank on nostalgia for the originals, even ignoring good games that happened to have a different subtitle, and it was one of the worst games ever made, shat out at literally the last second, with literally only a demo on the disc, and the whole game being an update that you can't even get because they lost the license.

So basically, jews, specifically the jews at activision, ruined everything. They ruined Crash and Spyro, too. They ruined the Spider-Man games. They ruined Guitar Hero so hard that it took Rock Band down with it. People talk about EA, but Activision is the worst company ever.

>>15348249

Hope you live like it's medieval times, faggot. Because everything since then is the product of western liberalism. Stop using the internet and anything else that is the product of the scientific revolution or enlightenment. And if you ever had any sort of medical procedure that potentially saved your life, then kill yourself.

>>15348464

>That'll be a sign of the end-times, when people start getting nostalgic about a copy of an imitation.

It was a cultural phenomenon. People are gonna be nostalgic for it eventually.

>Normally that's the argument you see thrown out in defense of social justice.

No it's not, because SJWs hate western culture. I love it, and I don't want to degrade it by bringing in backwards cavemen to drag us into the past. SJWs aren't liberal, everything they do brings about hyper-conservative tyranny. But since it's non-western hyper-conservative tyranny, they're okay with it. They simply hate white people and everything white people have ever done, including creating the best society that has ever existed by a wide margin. So they're willing to destroy that society just to spite white people. And I'm not even white.

>>15348464

> about a copy of an imitation.

I'd give matrix more credit than that, it expanded upon one theme of ghost in the shell, not just a straight knockoff. It obviously took from it but I feel it did it's own thing well enough, the sequels and ending of it really fell flat though

>>15348475

> SJWs aren't liberal

Oh, you're one of those.

In that case, the state that the west is currently in is just a part of the direction it has been headed in for a few centuries now and everything is as it should be.

>>15348492

>it expanded upon one theme of ghost in the shell

No it didn't.

It took a basic premise and turned it into a mix between baby's introduction to agnosticism/judaism and LA's fetish scene 101.

Why do you think the Watchowski "siblings of wildly fluctuating gender" never managed to recreate its success?

>>15348534

Don't worry, I will.

>>15348528

Judging people based on their race and gender wasn't a liberal value. These people would call MLK a nazi for saying that he dreams of a world where a man is judged not by the color of his skin, but the content of his character. Identity politics is cancer. It also used to be the point of 4chan, when it was still good, that the anonymity meant ideas were judged on their own merit, not on the identity of the speaker. Identity politics are antithetical to what we were about. But identity politics faggots have to ruin everything.

>>15348548

>Judging people based on their race and gender wasn't a liberal value.

Yes it was, what planet are you on?

Women and nonwhites couldn't even vote in the western countries that even held elections until the first and second halves of the twentieth century respectively.

>These people would call MLK a nazi for saying that he dreams of a world where a man is judged not by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.

At this point it's too well known that he was backed by communists for anyone to try and argue that he was right-wing.

>It also used to be the point of 4chan

The point of 4chan was to do it for the lulz, besides, look how well that worked out.

>>15348572

>Women and nonwhites couldn't even vote in the western countries that even held elections until the first and second halves of the twentieth century respectively.

Men couldn't either, unless they were a select class of rich men. The difference is that men fought and died for their citizenship and suffrage, which was basically a way to convince them that they got something out of WWI, while women were handed it for free.

>At this point it's too well known that he was backed by communists for anyone to try and argue that he was right-wing.

My point exactly. But if they weren't such masters of doublethink and hypocrisy, they'd have to acknowledge that the philosophy they deify him for flies in the face of the institutionalized racism and sexism they now make into law.

>The point of 4chan was to do it for the lulz, besides, look how well that worked out.

It worked out great until identity politics fags flooded into /co/ and /new/ and moot sold out to the ones that invaded /co/, so the ones that invaded /new/ followed us here, but only after he specifically fucked with their containment board, because they're spineless cowards who didn't care enough to leave before then, when everyone who wasn't cancer left months earlier.

>(1)

All this nostalgia because most of you 2ky dob faggots don´t make content. You just stay there, consuming and shitting. Contribute anything.

>>15348659

Women having to provide for themselves slightly more than usual due to the men that usually served them dying by the millions while serving them.

Feminists existed before WWI anyway. In fact, they were big proponents of the war, and big feminists groups would publicly shame men who were seen not being soldiers.

>>15348590

>Men couldn't either, unless they were a select class of rich men. The difference is that men fought and died for their citizenship and suffrage, which was basically a way to convince them that they got something out of WWI, while women were handed it for free.

So do you agree with universal suffrage or not?

The west is the west, unless you want to draw an arbitrary line in the sand and say "the west past this date is no longer the west".

>My point exactly. But if they weren't such masters of doublethink and hypocrisy, they'd have to acknowledge that the philosophy they deify him for flies in the face of the institutionalized racism and sexism they now make into law.

No they wouldn't, why would they?

He was a tool and they are leftists, there's no need for anyone involved to act with some kind of integrity.

>It worked out great until identity politics fags flooded into /co/ and /new/ and moot sold out to the ones that invaded /co/, so the ones that invaded /new/ followed us here, but only after he specifically fucked with their containment board, because they're spineless cowards who didn't care enough to leave before then, when everyone who wasn't cancer left months earlier.

That's like arguing "liberalism worked out great until it collapsed in on itself in a state of nihilism, decadence and atavism".

You might as well start coming up with excuses as to why communism never works out well.

>Unregistered HyperCam 2

>Types slowly on notepad

>"Hey guys today I'm gonna show you how to X"

>>15348685

>and it's the only film of its contemporaries to even include religious concepts

You mean like every Mamoru Oshi film ever?

The same ones they imitated to make the matrix?

Don't compare it to its imitations, compared it to what it imitated.

>At the very least it provided a far better introduction of this sort of cyberpunk to the general public,

That isn't a good thing, it's just an easy way of repackaging things that have been done before as something new.

>>15348673

>The west is the west, unless you want to draw an arbitrary line in the sand and say "the west past this date is no longer the west".

I think that if a rare women were to be born with a mutation that made her an actual person with an actual personality and the ability for critical thinking, then she should be able to vote. I believe in judging people as individuals. Most women are shit, but I'll give each one I meet the benefit of the doubt.

The right to vote should require a simple test. Nothing subjective, just simple things, like say listing the last few people to hold the position you're voting for. Aside from that, I do believe in universal suffrage. Besides, soyboys are ruining things nearly as hard as women. At a certain point I almost want to let them kill themselves, since that's what they're doing.

Again, western culture is great. The problem is these faggots hating it while reaping its benefits, using those benefits to actively replace it with objectively worse cultures. I don't mind western culture changing and evolving, that will always happen, and it's not that our culture is perfect. But we're certainly better than the rest of the world, and shouldn't be replacing our culture with theirs. Nobody wants to move to their cultures, they want to come to ours, so in order to do so, we should at least encourage them to admit they came here because this culture is better than the one they fled.

Liberalism had a good 500 years of making things better. The very recent state of affairs in the last couple years doesn't change that. Because again, neo-puritan values aren't liberal, and importing hyper-conservative culture from theocratic cavemen isn't liberal either.

>You might as well start coming up with excuses as to why communism never works out well.

Part of it is because every time people have used the word and started to become popular, they were met with the armed force of all of the richest militaries in the world. So if they did actually beat those militaries, it was because their group had become taken over by military strongmen who then ruled as military strongmen. Later, after WWII, many countries would slowly introduce more economic reforms, slowly enough that the rich didn't use their armies to fight them, and the result was the most prosperous nations the world has ever known. Then the Baby Boomers who grew up with that prosperity got into power, took the prosperity for granted, and removed all the policies that gave them all of their advantages, ruining things for later generations. And now we're here.

>>15348659

the feminist icon in that image you have there was a real woman who worked in a factory for only ONE WEEK before quitting because her fingernail chipped, she later married a man who was rich so she didn't have to work.

WE CAN DO IT! LADIES!!!

>>15348736

Forgot to add, she worked long enough for her picture to be taken before quitting because of the fingernail incident.

>>15348700

>A test, a simple test

Have you read Starship Troopers? Not that movie bullshit, that's a deliberately shit parody. The book. The test of a man's ability to care about his nation more than his own immediate future is the simplest test I can imagine for this purpose.

>>15348813

the book is a load of horeshit

>>15348699

I'm saying compared to the other western films touching on virtual reality and simulation with decent budgets, opening worldwide, in the same fucking month, it's the only one to touch on those concepts and by far the best film over all.

You clearly didn't read my post.

I'd love it if Ghost in The Shell or Marmoru Oshi or what have you had brought these concepts into the mainstream instead, but if The Matrix hadn't Existenz or The 13th Floor would. And I'd rather have stolen good ideas being expressed than a complete cacophony of failure.

>>15348881

You didn't specify "western movies in one month", you wrote "contemporaries".

I read your post and it amounted to apologism for the best of a bad bunch of unoriginal films.

>I'd love it if Ghost in The Shell or Marmoru Oshi or what have you had brought these concepts into the mainstream instead

Why?

What difference does it make who introduces any of it to people too stupid for it to mean anything to?

I'd rather have original good ideas being expressed rather than a complete cacophony of unoriginality made by complete hacks.

>>15341205

>neet icon

>posts brainlet

go back to 4chan and dont come back

>>15339593

I live in Indianapolis, my dad tells me stories about how when he was a kid his family used to live in a, now, crime-filled neighborhood. He tells me that they used to have so much trust that they could keep the door unlocked while they slept, and that he used to hitchhike to school in order to pocket the bus fare that his dad gave him. Now, they live in a house with a gun on the outskirts of the city with an alarm system.

>>15348152

And Aut-Kike is also a CIA op to subvert the inevitable right-wing reactionary movement that would arise from the creation of the SJW. That is why is core demographic that it sells itself too are disenfranchised white males whom where former leftist and its operatives spend most its time criticizing the American right wing and encourage purity spiraling and radicalization. It's no different than how (((they))) created the mujahideen.

>>15349144

Nigger uploading your mind into cyberspace wasn't the theme of "a Ghost in a Shell".

Merging with a digital consciousness and continuing on as a new form of life, but you'd have known that if you'd read the manga that came out almost a decade before the movie came out.

I can't believe people haven't mentioned DDR, StepMania, In the Groove or rythm games in general. The 00's where full of them.

>>15349172

>spend most its time criticizing the American right wing and encourage purity spiraling and radicalization.

Come now, they've been trying to put the lid back on the lamp of that. That the state wants you to radicalize doesn't fit with milo and implicit dick being the heads of it. What do you think Jordan Peterson is? The mass alt-right was always a psy-op, but it was Kushner through his Cadre platform trying to get Trump in. GTKRWN is actual people venting.

Hell given obvious raid coming in and you saying that people pushing radicalization are Jews, I'd say you're here to put the lid on that lamp as well

>>15349172

Lies! Surely the degenerate gay media Jew with a black boyfriend is true to the cause of white nationalism.

>>15338355

oh god I was the Columbine kid. no I didn't shoot up a school but metaphorically. ofc HS ended for me in 2001.

>>15349172

not me, although I'm actually more Nazbol these days. I was a conservative since the age of 12 and that never changed. I just got more extreme.

>>15349269

>based niggers

The reddit component is still into PR faggotry despite having watched that self-destruct gamergoy.

>>15343896

What's the source of that picture?

Google isn't helpful.

>>15349341

>Being on an imageboard and not recognizing the style.

>>15349822

>AnCap.

>Posting goon memes.

Typical.

>>15343208

You're kinda right. In my case, our neighborhood was quite tight-knit - exactly like this post >>15343026 said, we and our parents knew and frequently visited each other, for playing vidya, outside, watching cartoons or just have some chow. Even though we've parted ways, we still meet each other every now and then for a few drinks (they're the only people I really even interacted with in the last dozen of years or so). Though, it shows that we're completely different people now and at this point we meet up just for the sake of nostalgia. As for online friendships, I had many, but only one of them lasted long - over 8 years so far. I guess it depends how you "click" with certain people, it's pretty much random.

>>15341427

>>15341940

The Internet was still very much a Wild West back then, with forums on pretty much everything, from anime to movies to UFO's and even fortunetelling were around. Those communities used to be tight-knit as well, just like how vidya servers were. Baiting and shitposting was much more enjoyable as well.

>>15344608

>>15339593

I think this is how all of this could be summed up:

In 2000, Deus Ex was a bunch of conspiracies. In 2018, Deus Ex is reality.

>>15340436

Makes me wonder what will define the coming decade. I can only hope our generation and the fuckers we complain about constantly who came shortly after us will have seen enough of this shit to work on making things better again.

Even normalfags have this constant underbelly feeling that things are getting hopeless. I'm positive that once people get a lucky break and a taste of how things used to be they'll be on it like rabid dogs trying to flee from the shit we're in now.

One day we'll be able to go back to not worrying about fucking everything bad in the world 24/7 and we'll once again be able to enjoy video games or other frivolities without worry. That is my hope.

>>15350313

It's a goon meme.

>>15350693

The problem is that even if people wake up tomorrow, there's 60 years of human debt we've built up in the form of children we've not had. That's going to be some severe shit to go through as we have many social structures that only work as a pyramid and it's going to be flipped upside down soon. That's a debt that takes time to repay.

>>15349822

>>>/facebook/

>>>/leddit/

who the fuck let you out of your containment chamber you undercover kike motherfucker

>>15340592

i've always had a pretty bad memory, then I bonked my head pretty good and that didn't help. Oh well

>>15348898

>the best of a bad bunch of unoriginal films.

The other films were worse than unoriginal, they were complete and total hollywoodisms, just nonsense.

>Why?

Because I believe the concepts of simulation and simulacra are important, and easily stands to become more important in the future due to the continued digitization of the world. I'd rather the mainstream perception of it be shaped by something that is at least coherent in regards to it, than something that is openly antithetical to it being understood.

>>15345473

>You'd also have to blacklist entire countries responsible for shitting the internet up, particularly India.

What have Indians done, precisely? I'm aware that the collaborative ask/answer sites like Quora, StackOverflow, etc. are full of retarded pajeets asking entry-level programming questions, and that lots of 3rd world shitters post on imageboards (many on 4chan /s/, for example), and of course all the facebook bobs penes vagene shit. Anything I missed?

>>15351818

>Just because it was LESS liberal doesn't mean it was NOT liberal.

Germany was actually the most liberal nation in Europe at the time, with the most liberal social welfare and voting system.

from hydewars 27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xpcILekPOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sePcGXcoXlE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD2gXY4piF4

>>15351980

God, I hate low IQ niggers.

>>15351504

Basically white kids getting into rap, and not realising how embarrassing that is yet.

>>15352215

What did they mean by this? Are they insulting 8chan?

>>15349235

AI AI YAAA

I'M YOUR LITTLE BUTTERFLY

Can someone screencap this whole thread before it's too late?

>>15356014

Well, can't you?

>>15356203

no

>>15351818

>murdock muhdick

get the fuck out of here with that facebook shit newfag

>>15350790

Let it happen. Eternal growth is a mathematical impossibility. The fact your money buys less every passing year coincidentally as the world population enters runaway growth rates is proof that the economy is a zero sum game, and humanity has proven itself to be absolute shit at distributing wealth. A massive die-off, a modern day Black Plague, is needed so more wealth is available per capita again.

>but what about spess

Not happening in this cycle as a race of science-incapable subhumans has managed to infiltrate all branches of science with themselves and other science-incapable subhumans for profit.

>but muh nigger growth rates

An anomaly caused thanks to deliberate external food aid. They haven't advanced past the Bronze Age and once the USA and others propping them up artificially crumble, so will they. If you're worried about your bloodline, start preparing and hunkering down. You'll be ahead of 90% of those who didn't and only need to be among the 1% who survive.

>lmao blackpill just kill yourself lol

You're not getting me to give you a head start in the death race, not like you would get far with that attitude.

>>15356369

Does it make you feel better or worse that I don't know or care who your psyop bogeyman of the month is and am only posting the content for what it is? Does JBP shitposting also get your trousers in a twist?

>>15356523

>as the world population enters runaway growth rates

Only in the third world. Not just Africa, but India, China, South America. Birth rates are down in the first world, and the stunt in economic growth is due to underpopulation of young workers to all the boomers living on pension, which all the governments say they'll solve by importing tons of immigrants (who will work for 3 bucks an hour and probably not even pay any taxes in the first place)

>>15349235

speaking of awful things the 00s were full of

>>15351818

>>15351877

Doesn't matter classic liberal =/= neo lib

>>15357221

Don't forget these ewhores

>>15360285

College degrees are only meant to familiarize you with the problems and show that you are willing to work on a long term project. Companies don't actually expect you to have experience, online ads come cheap. If you don't have experience you just have to scale down your salary, most likely outcome is that you will get hired anyway eventually. Companies will sometimes even mention that they will train you if you have no experience.

>>15351240

germany didn't have shit. their economy was fake and only propped up by cartels and banks. even today german industry is nothing more than a scam. honestly all germans should be exterminated

>>15360157

germany wasn't classic liberal you fucking retard. they were full blown degenerate fuck me in the ass liberal

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>>15371420

All these years and I still cringe just as hard at that pasta

>>15361123

stop posting this pic faglord.

>>15371431

At least she seemed happy, unlike the victims of the age of post-irony of today who only go on about their existence being suffering and memeing.

>>15348971

>60s

>Bad

Golden age in movies around the world and a lot of music genres, including Jazz

I want to go back

>>15339948

>Didn't have a happy childhood

>Pariah in High School, everyday was agony

>Past ten years out of HS has been a slough of despair

At least I am unhindered by nostalgia. Only a longing to travel through time so I can live in the 1920's: a time period that's long enough ago not to have television or internet but recent enough to have indoor plumbing and hot water on tap.

>>15337066

>MadnessReturns • 208K views 10 years ago

>10 years ago

It's cyberpunk back when coloring was flat and shading was done with gradients all in flash. It was a much simpler, far better time then with more opportunities to get your foot in the door and make it big.

I will never not be salty about being too late to the flash animating scene, because more likely than not there won't be another chance, a flash renaissance of sorts.

>>15340436

If that's the case, then what started the news '10s? What the hell is it gonna take to get out of it?

>>15371695

I do the same, usually to half my monitor size. Easier to read the less wide it is in the long run, but still not skinny enough to really be particularly friendly to phonefags.

>>15357221

Slick parody.

>>15385693

>>15385796

There were two different ones if I recall it right. One was about salmon and the other used chickens in replacement of humans but focused on the sperm+egg = babies aspect.

>>15385951

I remember the salmon one. The kids were in eggs and got jizzed on by a bunch of fish. Don't remember the chicken one, but they did go inside Ralphie's body when he was sick.

Classic.

>>15385796

>going to cuckchan

Fuck off.

>>15386206

>2007

>>15386807

>you will never spend days on newgrounds ever again

>you will never have pc upgrade and part swap parties with your bros ever again

>you will never login to Neopets at the public library ever again

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>15386807

>going through an entire cake of 500 dvds

Called the head jew in this thread to witness this culinary innovation.

>>15386842

I forgot to mention

>then finding out about OPL and loading your games from HDD and network

So many burned DVDs so many memories

>>15386807

I have a CRT monitor for vidya :^)

>>15386924

I do unironically want to get my hands on one, CRT contrast is unmatched and true blacks are gorgeous on them. I think I'm going to watch craigslist, since I'm between work right now.

>>15385969

>Maximum Ninja still has no conclusion to it

>All those flash animations with no resolution to this date

>>15337066

Go on VidLii

>>15338329

What I find ironic about this decade is that Trump is already written in our history books as the next Hitler while GWB and his crimes are not even brought once at all.

>>15385693

What medical condition is that?!

>>15386928

>you will never see someone in an entry position enjoy their job again

I cant even get work but yeah everyone is fucking miserable

I know this feeling anon. Like the world I was promised growing up was replaced with whatever this is.

>>15388880

meant for >>15386928

>>15384524

There really won't be another animation renesaunce ever again. Try your luck at story time animators if you can stomach it.

>>15389229

In my neighborhood most people were already 69'ing and doing ass to mouth by that age, I hate them because they never allowed me to participate in that wonderful degeneracy. I don't think it has changed much, the whole "younger folks are getting laid more rarely" shit is bollocks. Teenagers live porn star lives just as long as they have normal looking faces.

>>15389441

Come on man, Humungous Entertainment was great, The Zoombinis were great, and there were like a hundred different fun typing tutors to choose from. Also I'm 25 and I can still remember riding my bike down to the grocery store to get an off-brand soda from the vending machine for a quarter before riding the rest of the way to the library to pick up the latest entry in my new favorite series.

Man now I'm getting nostalgic too. Suddenly I'm wondering how that Bloody Jack series ended. Is it still going?

>>15390753

That's because you live in Britain, a nation of retards and degenerates.

>>15390857

Lol no I don't, I live in an excommie shithole. Britain is less lookist because they're uglier on average, I was there once and I was considered good looking there even though I'm considered to look like a chewed-up cauliflower at home.

>>15360954

Begin with Mark then.

>>15392442

"We were somewhere around Kalamazoo, on the edge of the forest, when the coughing fits began to take hold."

early 00's looks too similar to late 90's stuff and didnt really take off visually until 2003

>>15390753

>In my neighborhood most people were already 69'ing and doing ass to mouth by that age,

are you black or Hispanic by any chance?

>>15339593

>. For Millennials who aren't from well-off families, the idea of living the kinds of lives their parents had - a decent, well-paying job, owning a house and a new car, having a wife and a family - is just something that they've accepted will never happen.

Thank you Baby boomers for ruining our countries job market, housing market, demographics, future…..

>>15337066

When I think of the 2000's, I think of my indigo blue Gamecube with my favourite spice orange controller, playing Luigi's Mansion, Melee, and Wave Race. I wish I had cherished those moments more as they were happening.

>>15345192

>Atleast the women wore hotter clothes though, low-waisted jeans and belly-button-tshirts along with g-strings is what i remember.

Don't forget that they didn't have half of their heads shaved and or neon-coloured hair.

>>15349235

>unlucky for you pal, I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast

<you eat pieces of shit for breakfast?

>…no

>>15396528

Fuck off, nihilist.

>>15398265

I hope he didn't try to shoot it up with that pea shooter.

>>15398363

He tried, and only killed some girl, then he got shot in the arm, and then killed himself like a faggot pajeet that he was.

Not entirely related but this series of videos always manages to tickle something inside of me. Worth a watch if you have 4 hours to get comfy and do literally nothing better.

Where all the CRT displays and 4:3 ratio at?

>>15398265

Goths got subverted much like how punk was.

>aim noises

what's this weird feeling I'm having

>>15399506

What's wrong with not signing your drawings?

>>15400633

Heh.