Does anyone else genuinely miss the 2000s?

[A Grey Cat]

Oh yeah, Dead Rising is a great snapshot of the mid-2000s, even down to the fashions some of the female characters wear.

i think that game perfectly captures the middle of the road/ awkward transitionary time of that decade going from the 2000's into the 2010s perfectly. The closest that probably does the same for the late 90s going INTO the 2000s would be the first max payne game and gta III. The first one captures that late 90's just before 9/11 feeling (release date july 23rd 2001) and gta III actually WAS affected by 9/11. it's the reason why airplanes as a vehicle got cut, why the cop car colors were changed, and why a few characters were cut or missions were scrapped.


HEll rockstar around this time was an unstopabble powerhouse. they had original hits like max, gta, bully and manhunt and even made some decent licsened games too like the warriors. Now while s till an ok company they barley make any new games at all i think gta 5 and red 2 are the only notiable releases they made in the 2010s and so far further ports of both are the only thing on their horizon that we know of.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

crosspost from "2007 ruined the net":

The time in America after 2007 to the New Normal® was a blur to me.

First there was Occupy, "euphoric" fedora'd Libertarian neckbeards, "Rapture will totally happen in October", and of course, the December 21st doomsday scare.

Early "woke" started spreading like cancer on the Internet, as social media took off. The GamerGate shitshow circus also happened, an omen of the insanity to come.

Trump was elected, "woke" went mainstream and even crazier. Big Tech started heavy censorship and "social engineering".

Then the coof was treated like "airborne ebola-AIDS", "woke" was ramped up to 11, the election was stolen, and the USA is closer than before to another civil war. The elite are really pushing to turn the world to a cybernetic hive of soy bugmen.

That first part with Occupy seems recent to me, as if it was last year or so...

It's almost like 2009 was followed by a year or two of growing insanity, and then BAM! "Face masks" and "social distancing".

 

[Wuornos]

No. I miss the 90s.

 

[Dom Cruise]

i think that game perfectly captures the middle of the road/ awkward transitionary time of that decade going from the 2000's into the 2010s perfectly. The closest that probably does the same for the late 90s going INTO the 2000s would be the first max payne game and gta III. The first one captures that late 90's just before 9/11 feeling (release date july 23rd 2001) and gta III actually WAS affected by 9/11. it's the reason why airplanes as a vehicle got cut, why the cop car colors were changed, and why a few characters were cut or missions were scrapped.


HEll rockstar around this time was an unstopabble powerhouse. they had original hits like max, gta, bully and manhunt and even made some decent licsened games too like the warriors. Now while s till an ok company they barley make any new games at all i think gta 5 and red 2 are the only notiable releases they made in the 2010s and so far further ports of both are the only thing on their horizon that we know of.

Yes, Max Payne is weirdly 90s despite coming out in 2001, like the whole X-Files flavored conspiracy theory element of the story.

crosspost from "2007 ruined the net":



It's almost like 2009 was followed by a year or two of growing insanity, and then BAM! "Face masks" and "social distancing".

Everything since 2007 had been one big crazy blur to me as well, I have memories from 2008 that feel so scarily recent despite it being well over a decade ago.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Yes, Max Payne is weirdly 90s despite coming out in 2001, like the whole X-Files flavored conspiracy theory element of the story.


Everything since 2007 had been one big crazy blur to me as well, I have memories from 2008 that feel so scarily recent despite it being well over a decade ago.

max payne started evelopment around 97 but wasnt finished until liike 2000 and it stiil took like a year to publish ironically because 3D realms was anticipating the relase of duke nukem forever around the same time and look at how well that turned out (still enjoy it though but it could have been so much better)

a lot of stuff from the early 2000's like max payne were still holdovers from the 90s. Nickelodeon still had game shows in Orlando like double dare 2000, slime time live and u pick live in NYC, but it wouldn't be long before dan "get in the van." Schnider's sitcoms would become the norm. cartoon network still had cartoon cartoon fridays and their original programs were still known as cartoon cartoons, video stores like block buster, hollywood video and even west/east coast video hung around for a few good years. they didn't really start to die off until of course netflix, gamefly, then later streaming and digital downloaded games got their starts, god hard to believe it's been like a decade since the only thing we used netflix for was ordering dvds in red envelopes by MAIL

Speaking of remember the time after cartoon network dropped the "powerhouse bumpers?" as they where called and started using the city bumpers?

I think out of everything i miss about the 2000's this version of CN was what i miss most of all. It was like disney's house of mouse or toontown from rodger rabbit, and it was such a delight to see between shows. It was that last great era before the stagnation of western animation in the late 2000's and especially the sjw or pandering garbage plaguing the network now (Steven Uinverse Thundercats Roar TTG powerpuff girls 2016 and those Adventure time spinoffs with bimo and marceline, anyway sorry to make a friggin essay on here but...i guess yeah it feels nice to talk about the days gone by...even if there's no going back

(though in hindsight...it is somewhat hard to watch or think about and not be reminded of chris and his "demensional merge bs)

 

[RollerGator]

More than anything. The music, the fashion, the slang, the dude bros, the blacks, the movies, the shows, the edginess, the cringey randum pre internet autism people, the video quality, bring it all back.

 

[Doctor Placebo]

In the 2000's my personal circumstances were shitty, but I didn't know just how good the world actually as. Now my personal circumstances are better, but the world has gone to shit. You just can't win.

 

[Syaoran Li]

i think that game perfectly captures the middle of the road/ awkward transitionary time of that decade going from the 2000's into the 2010s perfectly. The closest that probably does the same for the late 90s going INTO the 2000s would be the first max payne game and gta III. The first one captures that late 90's just before 9/11 feeling (release date july 23rd 2001) and gta III actually WAS affected by 9/11. it's the reason why airplanes as a vehicle got cut, why the cop car colors were changed, and why a few characters were cut or missions were scrapped.


HEll rockstar around this time was an unstopabble powerhouse. they had original hits like max, gta, bully and manhunt and even made some decent licsened games too like the warriors. Now while s till an ok company they barley make any new games at all i think gta 5 and red 2 are the only notiable releases they made in the 2010s and so far further ports of both are the only thing on their horizon that we know of.

Yeah, Dead Rising really does capture that "in-between" era from 2007 to 2012.

Really, 2007-2012 feels like it's its own distinct cultural era that's not really in line with what most people think of when they think of the 2000's nor does it fully jive with the "Current Year" mindset that we associate with the 2010's and 2020-2021.

2007 does have that "foot in each door" feeling the more I think back on it though.

When most people think of the 2000's, the common image most people have is from around mid-2001 to around the end of 2006.

Dead Rising came out at the end of 2006 but seemed eerily ahead of its time aesthetically when it came out and it perfectly captures the late 2000's/early 2010's zeitgeist.

Heck, video stores were still dominant in the late 2000's. It wasn't until 2010-2011 did Netflix start getting big and the video stores all started to close down en masse.

Even then, I'm wondering how much of that was due to Netflix kicking off the streaming service boom alone versus the Great Recession and its lingering after-effects.

No. I miss the 90s.

I miss both decades, to be honest.

 

[Never Scored]

boxy old cathode ray tube tvs next to what at the time where fancy new flat screen hd plasma screens

Ironically I upgraded from a CRT to one of those 720p "flat" screens with the florescent lights in the back in 2008 because I couldn't read the god damn text in Dead Rising on my 32" CRT TV.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

All the time. I hate to say it but the current gen of media, cellphone, etc is just ruining everything

 

[Governor Jeb Bush]

All the time. I hate to say it but the current gen of media, cellphone, etc is just ruining everything

It's all about trying to look cool for the moment now to slap on insta or tik tok and get likes, years back it was about looking cool for a moment that just so happened to possibly echo out across time if someone captured it as a photograph or video...

Self absorption basically.

 

[The Last Stand]

Speaking of remember the time after cartoon network dropped the "powerhouse bumpers?" as they where called and started using the city bumpers?


I think out of everything i miss about the 2000's this version of CN was what i miss most of all.

2000s Cartoon Network was the highlight of American animation. You had a variety of cartoons to watch. Not all of them good, mind you, but had more character than just showing Teen Titans Go! all day.

Adult Swim with adult-centric animation and anime late at night provided some content. I loved the city bumpers back then. Combine all your favorite cartoons in one place; it was a child's dream come true.

That's what lacking in today's world: creativity and character. Everything has to be the same now.

 

[Cope or Rope]

I do miss the 2000's there were less normalfags on the internet, no plebbit, twitter, or faceberg. Socially people were less reluctant to parade faggotry, and other degeneracy. And economically we were thriving. Up until 2007 ofc. And pre-9/11 we weren't in some shitholes in the middle east fighting for fag rights. So yes i do miss the 2000's

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Everything since 2007 had been one big crazy blur to me as well, I have memories from 2008 that feel so scarily recent despite it being well over a decade ago.

At most, it seems like 2010 to 2012 is one year, 2012 to 2016 is another, and 2016 to 2019 is a third. Then time "slammed on the brakes" with the "New Normal" in the shitfest that is 2020.

So to me it's like "Make America Great Again" is still a recent meme. It's like "safe spaces", "transgender washrooms", and "soyboys" are all recent phenomenon from 2019. It's like the Wii U was this recent and short-lived system - like the Virtual Boy - even though it came out in 2012. Blu-ray seems like this newfangled trend. It's like the shitty flat style Western graphic design is obsessed with is the latest "artistic breakthrough".

And yet, 2010 was over a decade ago. Seeing 2010 as recent is like seeing 1990 as recent in 2001.

Everything has to be the same now.

Can't have a cybernetic soy hive of bugmen who Listen And Believe® in The Narrative® if people really followed the "Think Different" slogan.

 

[Maurice Caine]

i think that game perfectly captures the middle of the road/ awkward transitionary time of that decade going from the 2000's into the 2010s perfectly. The closest that probably does the same for the late 90s going INTO the 2000s would be the first max payne game and gta III. The first one captures that late 90's just before 9/11 feeling (release date july 23rd 2001) and gta III actually WAS affected by 9/11. it's the reason why airplanes as a vehicle got cut, why the cop car colors were changed, and why a few characters were cut or missions were scrapped.


HEll rockstar around this time was an unstopabble powerhouse. they had original hits like max, gta, bully and manhunt and even made some decent licsened games too like the warriors. Now while s till an ok company they barley make any new games at all i think gta 5 and red 2 are the only notiable releases they made in the 2010s and so far further ports of both are the only thing on their horizon that we know of.

I don't think R* had anything to do with the original PC release of Max, Remedy developed the first two games.

 

[A Grey Cat]

I don't think R* had anything to do with the original PC release of Max, Remedy developed the first two games.

ahh my bad got my details mixed up my point still stands...the 2000's weren't perfect for more than obvious reasons....but damn do i miss it

 

[LMFAOForgotPw]

You know things are shit when you wish we could go back to just post 9/11 patriot act times. In all seriousness I do miss that time period and not just because of or despite any personal things I had going on. It was really idk the energy of the time period? Fuck hope I never look back and think the start to the 2020s were awesome.

 

[KoldHardTruth]

Oh yes, do I miss the 2000s, especially since this whole fucking virus fiasco which is gonna make smartphone zombies even worse. As for the 2010's, 2010-2012 still had a pseudo 00's feeling to them, so I'd lump them in with the 00's.

 

[NeekJank]

I’m sad to not be ever able to go to a Disney park before the wokeness took it all over.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

1990’s to 2000’s was currently the best era for Generation Z.

Millennials love the 80’s and early 90’s.