ITT Post something you miss from 2000's

Various subcultures weren't completely tainted by terminal leftism. I used to hang out and had many friends with people who liked to skate, bike, make music, or were generally 'alt' and cool. You could have a good time with these people without politics coming up at all.

Now it seems anyone who is slightly outside of being 'normal' insofar as culture is a complete bleeding heart faggot for whatever the current thing is. Imagine being a metal head for instance, and conjuring this tough guy, hard drinking, rough lifestyle for yourself, but supporting trannies, niggers, and sundry other faggot causes in the same breath. Nigga, that is pathetic.

I no longer associate with anyone like that anymore, as I'd imagine at this stage it's completely fucking exhausting.
 
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Flavius Claudius Julianus said:
Various subcultures weren't completely tainted by terminal leftism. I used to hang out and had many friends with people who liked to skate, bike, make music, or were generally 'alt' and cool. You could have a good time with these people without politics coming up at all.

Now it seems anyone who is slightly outside of being 'normal' insofar as culture is a complete bleeding heart faggot for whatever the current thing is. Imagine being a metal head for instance, and conjuring this tough guy, hard drinking, rough lifestyle for yourself, but supporting trannies, niggers, and sundry other faggot causes in the same breath. Nigga, that is pathetic.

I no longer associate with anyone like that anymore, as I'd imagine at this stage it's completely fucking exhausting.
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This was probably my favorite aspect of the 2000's and other earlier decades, tbh. The lack of politics being shoved everywhere and into everything. You could actually be in a hobby or a subculture without being preached to by some zoomer faggot about muh LGBT trans rights or whatever. Back then, there was actually places you could go to escape from politics. Nowadays, not so much
 
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appa said:
when times were so much simpler
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Mmm Avril Levine

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Webshots, Dontstayin and that period of MySpace - photo-sharing sites where everyday college girls would upload countless pictures of themselves scantily clad, drunk and shamelessly whoring it up - back when people actually went out, and before the cancer political correctness.

Webshots in particular was often better than porn.
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Goddamn right.

I remember when getting DSL at home made you king shit if your friends still had dial up. I vividly remember my Mom forcing my Dad to get DSL because Dial.uo clogged up the phone line and it was slow as shit.

I remember GTA 3 on PS2, renting games at blockbuster (RE4 was so goddamn good I literally stayed up 28 hours straight to beat it)

Getting a PS3 a bit after release (the OG one with PS2 backwards compatibility) and finally getting online in COD4.

The internet was more fun back then, not everyone was on Facebook or worse, Snapchat and TikTok.
 
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I miss getting answers in text format. Now if I google something like "what kind of clear coat to use" the results are all 10 minute youtube videos. I used to be able to look for something and have relevant results from sites like This Old House
 
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This is hyper specific, but I'm sure someone remembers.

I had dreams of moving to Japan when I was a teenager in high-school, and would frequently read the old gaijinpot forums back in 2005 - 2008. Man, that was some solid gold, honest to god, platinum level content.

I recall the old forums were available to read until like 2013, then they vanished for good. I still remember the old timers like kurogane, paulh, and those other crazy cunts. If anyone knows a way I can read that stuff now, either by way of an archive or other database, let me know.

Truly the wild west of the Internet.
 
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Dance Dance Revolution games were fucking great in the early 2000's up to Extreme. The home ports were also fun, but were starting to stagnate a bit with more inclusion of mainstream shit. In The Groove 1 and 2 were good substitutes for when Konami decided to go M.I.A. for four years before they farted out SuperNova, which IMO was the start of the downfall of the series.
 
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SSF2T Old User said:
In The Groove 1 and 2 were good substitutes for when Konami decided to go M.I.A.
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Those were the ones made in Korea by Andamiro I think the company was called? Pump it Up they called it, but they made different edtions with new songs on them. I always thought pump it up was better than DDR. The songs were cooler imo and I liked the way the steps were diagonal and how they had a 5th step in the middle. There were like 4 arcades within 20 mins of me that had machines and it was 50 cents a round, which was cheap from what I've heard. I remember going to a fan website back then and people in other parts of the country were paying at least 75cents to a dollar a round, IIRC, and were jealous that we had some many pump it up machines and they were so cheap to play.

I'd still play that if I had a machine for my house. Years ago I priced them but they were very very expensive. It's still kind of a big deal in Central America I think, so that probably keeps the price up. I'd love to have one though, would be good exercise.
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Him trolling that 40 year old Nintendo Power autist (Mark Discordia) was some funny shit. Loved his old website back in the day.
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I thought that was douchey, even back then. You have a mohawk dyed blue and a chubby baby face, and you're gonna shit talk some weird plumber guy who likes Mario? It was try hard and corny to me. It might have been a little more acceptable if Shawn himself didn't look like such a tool.
 
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Those were the ones made in Korea by Andamiro I think the company was called? Pump it Up they called it
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PIU had the 4 diagnols and middle panel.
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In The Groove was made by Roxor and looked like this
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It was basically a fancier StepMania since you could also do 3-4 arrows at once and had to avoid mines that fucked your shit up.

Eventually the songs from ITG 1 and 2 would wind up on one of the PIU games due to Konami fucking their shit up with a lawsuit.
 
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SSF2T Old User said:
PIU had the 4 diagnols and middle panel.
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In The Groove was made by Roxor and looked like this
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It was basically a fancier StepMania since you could also do 3-4 arrows at once and had to avoid mines that fucked your shit up.

Eventually the songs from ITG 1 and 2 would wind up on one of the PIU games due to Konami fucking their shit up with a lawsuit.
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Ah, okay. I thought "In the Groove" was one of the many different iterations of pump it up from over the years. They'd all have subtitles, like pump it up MX, or pump it up fiesta, pump it up christmas edition, and different shit like that. I never saw one of those ITG machines before. Interesting, though I always liked the 5 steps setup of piu than the ddr layout.
Falcos_Commisar said:
I remember when getting DSL at home made you king shit if your friends still had dial up. I vividly remember my Mom forcing my Dad to get DSL because Dial.uo clogged up the phone line and it was slow as shit.
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I was playing Ultima Online back then, originally with dialup for a year or two, until one day my dad got DSL at the house. It was awesome but bad in a way because that's when I got really, really into it. Staying up all night playing with my friends during the week was not conducive to a productive school day.
 
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Caesare said:
I never saw one of those ITG machines before.
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ITG was intened to be the "hardcore" DDR-ish game for those that found the songs/steps on the DDR games to be too easy or not that challenging. It followed the same beginner-easy-medium-hard-challenge levels but having a 12 bar rating rather than the 10 bar, but the ratings were the same as DDR (like a 7 hard on ITG was the same as a 7 hard on DDR pre-X).

The challenge difficulty (or "Expert" as they called it) were the main selling point of the game because you wound up with charts like these:



Konami caught wind of it, and the only reason why they attacked was because when ITG1 was making its first appearance in arcades they were being installed into DDR Cabinets instead of having their own cabinets made, which is a big no-no apparently. Eventually they did make their own cabinet's but by the time ITG3 was announced, Konami went full "shut it down" mode, so ITG3 was never released. ITG2 was also supposed to have a PS2 release like ITG1 did, but that got canceled as well.
 
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