The 2010s — an overview

[Orange Rhymer]

Amazes me that there are still drolling exceptional individuals in *current year* who think that the holocuast didint happen

Attempting to bait, while making that many errors in one terribly formulated sentence.

Exceptional, in the truest meaning of the word.

(you know, there is a spell check)

 

[A Logging Company]

The 00's was objectively a horrible decade

• Dot-Com Crash
• 9/11 Terror Attacks
• Iraq War
• '08 Financial Crisis that bled into the following decade

But you know what, the culture was much better. And its not like it was a great decade culturally either, just relative to now. I'm seeing people bring up smart phones as a main cause . Lets not forget the "apps" that came out around the same time: twitter, facebook, instagram, ect.

The best person to describe the problems of this decade is the great Canadian professor Marshall McLuhan. While his work was largely describing the effect of radio and TV on society in the mid 20'th century (he died in 1980), many of the observations he made then make more sense now, than the analyze he originally made observing the hippie youths raised on the boob tube. There are a lot of his lectures and interviews on Youtube, I highly recommend listening to a few. He largely spoke in quick aphorisms, which was by design (again, predicting the "Twitter" mentality back in the 60's), here are his most well known:

The medium is the message

The user of the electric light -- or a hammer, or a language, or a book -- is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.

One of the things that happens at the speed of light is that people lose their goals in life. So what takes the place of goals and objectives? Well, role-playing is coming in very fast.

Instead of tending towards a vast Alexandrian library the world has become a computer, an electronic brain, exactly as in an infantile piece of science fiction. And as our senses have gone outside us, Big Brother goes inside. So, unless aware of this dynamic, we shall at once move into a phase of panic terrors, exactly befitting a small world of tribal drums, total interdependence, and super-imposed co-existence.

Oh yeah, its not like he didn't predict the whole god damn internet back in 1967:

The next medium, whatever it is—it may be the extension of consciousness—will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form. A computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual's encyclopedic function and flip into a private line to speedily tailored data of a saleable kind.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

The 00's was objectively a horrible decade

• Dot-Com Crash
• 9/11 Terror Attacks
• Iraq War
• '08 Financial Crisis that bled into the following decade

But you know what, the culture was much better. And its not like it was a great decade culturally either, just relative to now. I'm seeing people bring up smart phones as a main cause . Lets not forget the "apps" that came out around the same time: twitter, facebook, instagram, ect.

The best person to describe the problems of this decade is the great Canadian professor Marshall McLuhan. While his work was largely describing the effect of radio and TV on society in the mid 20'th century (he died in 1980), many of the observations he made then make more sense now, than the analyze he originally made observing the hippie youths raised on the boob tube. There are a lot of his lectures and interviews on Youtube, I highly recommend listening to a few. He largely spoke in quick aphorisms, which was by design (again, predicting the "Twitter" mentality back in the 60's), here are his most well known:








Oh yeah, its not like he didn't predict the whole god damn internet back in 1967:

Good point and examples. I would beg to interject Edward Bernays. His lessons and messages seem possibly more poignant.

 

[A Logging Company]

Good point and examples. I would beg to interject Edward Bernays. His lessons and messages seem possibly more poignant.

Bernays is one of those guys I've heard about but never actually read, and usually people don't have a good word for him. I'll reserve my judgement of him until I take in more than Chomsky and Adam Curtis' screeds, but I get the feeling he was a figure firmly rooted in the 20th century. But before I talk, I should read a book.

A guy to look into who has a good description of what has been happening, and is still actually alive is John David Ebert, with his hypothesis that we are living in an era he terms "Hyper Modernity." He also has an active Youtube channel, largely giving detailed summaries of wrinkly brain books and analyzing art.

 

[Dom Cruise]

2010 was a great year, it really seemed like things were moving in a better direction, I had very high hopes for this decade.

But very quickly in 2011 was when things started getting weird and the 2010s as a whole turned out to be an utterly fucking horrible decade, just a complete nightmare.

The only things I will say about this decade that I actually like is that at the very least, one thing that really changed in 2010s culture was people gained an appreciation for the past like never before, retro became cool, I love the revival of synth music for example, especially in film scores, which I actually predicted, I remember back in 2007/2008 listening to a lot of Tangerine Dream and other synth music and really loving it, so I was actually ahead of the curve on that trend.

And I gotta say, despite some faults of it's own and SJWs best effort to ruin it, I've enjoyed the 8th generation of games a lot more than the late 7th, video games really started to get pretty lame around 2009 to 2012 with only a handful of exceptions, is you ask me gaming got a lot more interesting starting in 2013, again, despite all the culture war bullshit.

But that's about it, other than a handful of things the 2010s really has been awful, I hate just how flat out evil so many people have become.

 

[A Logging Company]

But that's about it, other than a handful of things the 2010s really has been awful, I hate just how flat out evil so many people have become.

OMG just fucking neck yourself you bigoted, SJW, White Supremacist, Ablist, Cuck, MAGApede, transphobe, Israel loving, anti-white, Pro-Cop, TERF, Truscum, reactionary piece of shit. If you don't fall 100% lock step in line with my autistic world view built by an incoherrant mishmash of memes, outrage events, and constant social media exposure, I'm going to have to disown you forever!

 

[Syaoran Li]

2010 was a great year, it really seemed like things were moving in a better direction, I had very high hopes for this decade.

But very quickly in 2011 was when things started getting weird and the 2010s as a whole turned out to be an utterly fucking horrible decade, just a complete nightmare.

The only things I will say about this decade that I actually like is that at the very least, one thing that really changed in 2010s culture was people gained an appreciation for the past like never before, retro became cool, I love the revival of synth music for example, especially in film scores, which I actually predicted, I remember back in 2007/2008 listening to a lot of Tangerine Dream and other synth music and really loving it, so I was actually ahead of the curve on that trend.

And I gotta say, despite some faults of it's own and SJWs best effort to ruin it, I've enjoyed the 8th generation of games a lot more than the late 7th, video games really started to get pretty lame around 2009 to 2012 with only a handful of exceptions, is you ask me gaming got a lot more interesting starting in 2013, again, despite all the culture war bullshit.

But that's about it, other than a handful of things the 2010s really has been awful, I hate just how flat out evil so many people have become.

Agreed. 2010-2012 was a pretty decent time and I agree that the decade started out with some major positive energy despite the fact we were still reeling from the aftereffects of the Great Recession in many areas until around 2013-2014.

2011-2012 is when things started to get weird, especially with Occupy Wall Street and the rise of Tumblr culture, but a lot of that seems more disturbing in hindsight than when it was actually happening.

I think the 7th and 8th Generations of video games both have a similar trend of sparkling gems in a sea of trash. Some of my favorite games from the 2010's would be Fallout: New Vegas, Mafia II, Red Dead Redemption, Final Fantasy XV, and the remake of Resident Evil 2.

I'd say that last one is the best of all, and the one that I'd say is most important. It's hard to believe that Resident Evil 6 and the RE2 remake came out in the same decade, but the fact that not only did RE2 get remade, but it was awesome and true to its horror roots.

Capcom is slowly getting better and I think 2020 is also going to have some potentially good upcoming releases like Doom Eternal, Cyberpunk 2077, and the remake of Final Fantasy VII.

I suspect we'll see video games get better in the 9th Generation now that Anita is no longer a looming specter over the gaming industry and woke culture is sinking many AAA releases. I suspect that VTM: Bloodlines 2 will be a major flop and will be held in similar contempt as Mass Effect Andromeda.

Sony's censorship policies have yet to be overturned, but that could change depending on how it affects the sales of the Playstation 5 or if a non-woke Western developer like CD Projekt Red or Rockstar can help sway the Sony execs.

I think once the last of the late 2010's AAA games get released in the 2020-2022 window, we may see the return of sexy characters and other "problematic" things.

 

[A Logging Company]

@Syaoran Li

I think one of the reasons video games have turned down the knobs on the tittie and ass of characters actually has to do with the male audience. With excessive porn everywhere desensitizing average guys, it takes a lot more than big giggling boobies to entice male viewers. So all you're really doing is rubbing the women who staff various parts of the supply chain the wrong way (I'm counting game "journalism" and "criticism" as a part of the supply chain). May as well just have female characters with more "tasteful" body proportions.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I'd say that last one is the best of all, and the one that I'd say is most important. It's hard to believe that Resident Evil 6 and the RE2 remake came out in the same decade, but the fact that not only did RE2 get remade, but it was awesome and true to its horror roots.

That's the perfect example of how gaming got better, RE6 was hot garbage, RE2 Remake was great.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Hmm, well, YMMV but I think that around 2010 was a good time in my life, but one that was wasted, I had some real issues in the later half of the 2000s, so it was a bit of a fresh start for me. Culturally, it was starting down to the woke era. Ignore the elections, this was Obama-mania's remains staggering on, doubling down on outrage culture, etc. They were being opposed by the Tea Party at this point, which had a chance to be something, I guess, but was quickly being co-opted to just mean "conservative." Its funny, thats a dead term now, isn't it, its all about the alt-right these days. I feel as though the last baggage of the previous decade was being shed this year, with things like Iraq fading into memory. I think this is also when we got UBL? People say that every decade but it just seems to have lined up at this time, it took Obama only two years to spell an end for whatever Bushism was. Only one cycle ago was the high water mark of the GOP using Gay Rights as a wedge issue (the Cali Prop) but it was already done with by this point. The Tea Party was into financial issues and cutting government, not on Adam and Steve.

2011 was me realizing that I was going to have trouble that year getting out of school. The culture war mentioned in the previous year continued on, very one-sidedly. At this point the Tea Party was turning into a joke. It didn't stand for anything, its leaders were grifters, its political candidates were of questionable intelligence, etc. This was about the time that smart phones stopped just being the thing for early adopters and started becoming, you know, the default.

I wasted 2012, nothing was accomplished in that year. Politically, it wasn't too different from the modern era. I'd argue the forces that elected Trump were already in play, but Romney and Obama certainly weren't going to be utilizing them. Cord cutting had been an ongoing thing for half a decade at this point, but I think this was around the time I realized that terrestrial TV lacked a long-term future. Netflix, Youtube, Twitch etc. That wasn't nerd stuff anymore.

2013 I got a job, not a good one but at least it was something to do and also money! And with money came spending, and still a little hope of getting a job in my field. I am pretty sure this was when GTA V was being hyped up/coming out. What a big event, for a game that is still being played today no less. I think we might have been getting the Avengers around this time too? I remember this year and the next one as sort of being a wash, politically.

2014 was me feeling like a vet at work with my one year of experience (what a fool I was.) Sort of set aside career advancement for awhile. I remember the 2014 elections being total bullshit, being decided by issues like ebola and how bored and dis-interested the electorate was. If Ebola was coming, then that means that Gamergate was too. Culturally, it was new console time, I suppose. I remember thinking that people would just stick with their 360s since games were already pretty great, boy was I wrong. People were chomping at the bit to own a PS4, I even remember one guy at work being super excited about the new Kinnect....

2015 was the start of my one hour each way commute, which has left me bitter and hateful to this day. With it sucking up more and more of my time, I spent less on stuff like TV. I was also in constant physical pain during this time, also due to work. Gamergate continued through this period, Trump announced he was running for president and NPR used it to talk about how much money his pageants would lose due to his horrible racism (one of those articles that seeks to drive the story, instead of report it.) I was not a Trump fan and assumed he'd be losing, at the time. Opposite Trump and GG, Trannies started crawling out of mental institutions and into national institutions. A match made in heaven except I liked and still like early GG. Anyways, its formation lead to a permanent divide in nerd culture. I feel that it is the left who left us, back in the day everyone would be united in a good old games journalism is a joke bash-fest, now I feel like saying that comes off as a political statement.

2016 was the year that 4Chan won. I got promoted at work. Switch came out. I joined Kiwifarms. Shit was good. Fracking and pipelines were in the news. Unfortunately, I believe this was the year of the Adpocalypse, when Google caved into a random trial lawyer and his peddled articles in the British tabloids and started heavily censoring Youtube. Pandora had opened the box and its effects are still ongoing to this day. If you want to know when I think the modern battle over free speech began, it was here.

2017 is sort of a blur. Trump turned out to be simultaneously more normal and weirder than anyone thought. The media attacked him relentlessly. It was the reverse of 2016, all of its gains were being back-slid.

2018 was the year I got fed up with work, but kept doing it. It feels pointless to list cultural events at this point, they are all too recent to have really stood any chance of time. A decade from now maybe we'll be talking about Amazon Echo and Prime Day, or maybe we'll just chuckle about them along with Google Glass and the aforementioned Kinnect.

2019, still actively looking for better jobs. Fell into a sloppy mess over a girl who didn't care for me. Had a bout of near-depression at the same time. It feels like the clock is really ticking on my life (you do only get so much time, how much have I wasted doing nothing...), started hanging out with people more. This was in my personal life a bitter year where I feel that everyone lost, despite everyone giving their best. As to politics? Its finally time to figure out if the Obama and Trump small re-alignments are going to solidify into a new normal, or if we will be going back to the Reagan-Bush coalitions. The Democrats have the chance to cut a bigger tent than Trump here, but their base is increasingly ideological and extreme. While that does not necessarily mean they will lose, I feel like we might be looking at 1980 all over again, where previous years might as well not even be mentioned when talking about the political situation. Culturally, you know, whatever. Subscribe to Pewdiepie!

 

[Syaoran Li]

A lot of good stuff happened to me personally in the 2010-2012 era, just before the malaise of "Current Year" truly began. I don't want to powerlevel so I won't go into specifics, but those were good years for me for a wide variety of reasons. 2010 and 2012 were both standout years for me in particular, and I think part of it was because the late 2000's sucked so much for me personally (and on a cultural level too)

2007 wasn't too bad, but 2008 and 2009 were awful for me. Especially 2009.

I have to admit that @Dom Cruise is probably one of my favorite posters on this forum as of late. We seem to see eye to eye a lot on things.

 

[Dom Cruise]

A lot of good stuff happened to me personally in the 2010-2012 era, just before the malaise of "Current Year" truly began. I don't want to powerlevel so I won't go into specifics, but those were good years for me for a wide variety of reasons. 2010 and 2012 were both standout years for me in particular, and I think part of it was because the late 2000's sucked so much for me personally (and on a cultural level too)

2007 wasn't too bad, but 2008 and 2009 were awful for me. Especially 2009.

I have to admit that @Dom Cruise is probably one of my favorite posters on this forum as of late. We seem to see eye to eye a lot on things.

Awwww, thanks buddy.

2008 was awful for me too, but 2009 wasn't bad.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Awwww, thanks buddy.

2008 was awful for me too, but 2009 wasn't bad.

2009 was bad for me due to the tragic and unexpected death of a very close loved one.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

The first half of the decade was awful for me. I graduated high school as an immature shit and blew an easy shot at my dream major. Bad relationship. Cringy Tumblr, homestuck, and pony shit, thankfully nothing au- I mean artistic/lasting. Became an SJW for a while.

The second half I managed to pull myself together and start to turn things around. Started working, left the SJW cult and my girlfriend, got my associate degree, got a somewhat relevant job. Now if I could just afford to move out. Nobody I could room with can either atm and I make double what they do. I hope this next decade actually improves. Im kinda hopeful but I'm also kind of a knee jerk pessimist. At least for me personally it'll probably be better.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Sony's censorship policies have yet to be overturned, but that could change depending on how it affects the sales of the Playstation 5 or if a non-woke Western developer like CD Projekt Red or Rockstar can help sway the Sony execs.

Rockstar is woke, they're just not stupid about it.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Rockstar is woke, they're just not stupid about it.

Eh, they're kind of schizo about their wokeness.

RDR 2 is sorta woke, but Grand Theft Auto is not woke and even the most dyed-in-the-wool SJW's aren't going to try and sanitize it. GTA VI can't go woke and Rockstar knows this. If Sony tries to apply their new censorship standards to GTA VI, Rockstar will fight back. RDR 2 came out in late 2018 before the new policies could really affect it.

Dan Houser himself has spoken out against woke culture (and the Alt-Right) and how SJW's have gotten so ridiculous that it makes a present day satire impossible to successfully do. He alluded to the possibility of making GTA VI a period piece to include "problematic" content without directly invoking the wrath of Woke Twitter and ResetEra.

I'd say that Take-Two is at least a little woke, but Rockstar is more indifferent than anything else.

Dan Houser has butted heads with Take-Two multiple times. GTA V was going to have single-player DLC's for the next-gen version that was forced to be cut out by Take Two's higher-ups. Micro-transactions for GTA Online were also a thing that came from the higher ups at Take Two and Houser has stated that he didn't want to implement them in the game.

 

[Marco Fucko]

I've pretty much never been happy my entire life so I don't really care what decade I'm in.

 

[The Cunting Death]

I mean I sorta agree but the way you worded it OP was completely fucking rètarded.

 

[XYZpdq]

2010 was when those space fags said we couldn't have Europa.

 

[FuckedUp]

2010-11: Good times, basically late '00s but with some new stuff

2012-mid 13: Bunch of shit happens, mostly unrelated to the rest of the decade

late 2013-early 15: Pretty much the best part of the decade, all the good aspects of it vastly outweighed the bad ones

mid 2015-2017: Real start of clown world, politics go to shit

2018-19: Basically the inverse of the late 2013-early 15 period; everything becomes a trainwreck in slow motion and all the good atmosphere of 2013-15 has faded away