Does anyone else genuinely miss the 2000s?

[mario if smoke weed]

Of course I miss being an optimistic kid with no idea about the horrors of the outside world and the grim realities of life. Beats being a depressed, jaded dickhead.

 

[Cool Dog]

I don't know the guys situation at all when I said therapy, bit anything is better than sitting around wallowing in what might have been. You know?

And I totally get you about when things happen that are out of your control, but that's almost worse to sit around regretting in a way. Then you're just hating yourself for shit you couldn't do anything about, and that's no good.

Just don't beat yourself up over it is all I'm saying.

Not beating myself just hate the situation I ended up in thats all.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

I miss ABC's Lost.

 

[Odnovo]

I miss ABC's Lost.

That show was over-rated in a lot of ways, but it was still better than most of the garbage that is on today.

 

[Super Sad Smile]

As a worthless consoomer, I feel so out of touch with everything I loved as a kid.

I remember going to youtube and learning about new games from reviews and lets plays, learning to pirate/emulate them, and then finding more from forums. I remember thinking how cool it'd be if gaming channels got more popular. That was definitely a Monkey's Paw for me the more widespread the internet got. I found it harder to find people having fun talking about games they have strong memories/knowledge of and instead keep finding randoms wanting to be famous by talking about some recent game to astroturf their popularity. Fuck those 2 hr game essays yt keeps recommending me.

New releases also went to shit, I think back to this Bunnyhop video a lot and realizing not much has changed since it was made.

This cycle keeps happening and we still haven't learned our lesson. Gacha, Lootboxes, Early Access, preorders, it's such a joke how bad practices keep getting accepted. If it wasn't for the CRPG revival and Stardew Valley, I'd be doomering harder.

I stopped checking out new anime after the LN adaptation flood. Anime fans also had this noticeable undercurrent of wanting anime to have progressive values, despite the fact that most fans got into it for being Japanese and not like what was on tv.

I'm tired of people talking about the latest "cause" to support. It's nonstop and you're expected to nod your head or sleep with the fishes.

Green apple skittles replacing lime made me drop my habit. Replaced them for sour patch and never looked back.

All the wrong lessons from the 2000s were taken and I'm a firm believer its only downhill from here.

Sorry about the rambling, I've been having this same feeling of nostalgia for a while.

 

[Billy Beer]

This cycle keeps happening and we still haven't learned our lesson. Gacha, Lootboxes, Early Access, preorders, it's such a joke how bad practices keep getting accepted. If it wasn't for the CRPG revival and Stardew Valley, I'd be doomering harder.

Now the cycle repeats again with streaming. We were pushed in to digital because "you don't want to have to keep changing discs". Digital has been a blight on the industry. Now we're told "Streaming won't change anything. You don't want to keep downloading big games do you?"

What's funny, is that the traditional gamers were sold out for COD bro's, now the COD bro's are being sold out for the mobile crowd.

PC gaming died after 2005. Console gaming died after 2011.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I miss when Wii was the latest Nintendo console.

Remember that "Everybody Votes" channel?

(also it was backwards compatible with GameCube so GC was still relevant)

 

[Never Scored]

I miss when Wii was the latest Nintendo console.

Remember that "Everybody Votes" channel?

(also it was backwards compatible with GameCube so GC was still relevant)

Switch might sell better to people who actually play games, but I don't think a console will ever be as popular with grandmas and little sisters again.

 

[VIPPER?]

You are human and humans make mistakes.

You say that but any casual look at any career site shows that even if that's true, it's not what anyone expects.

 

[Dom Cruise]

When I say "I miss the 2000s" though to be specific I'm talking about the wider "turn of the millennium" era, from about the mid 90s till 2007.

And I'm talking specific things, namely video games, it truly was a peak time for gaming, it's much like the way rock n roll had it's peak in the 60s and 70s, I'll always be thankful I got to see a medium at it's peak firsthand, I'll be an old boomer talking about video games the way you have boomer waxing nostalgia for bands like The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd today.

I'm also talking the rise of anime fandom in the US, the "Toonami/Adult Swim" generation and the rise in popularity of nerd culture in general before it went Woke.

I'm not necessarily talking everything, just mainly those specific things, it wasn't a great time for movies (although there were still plenty of good ones, like the Lord of The Rings trilogy), it wasn't a great time for music (at least as far as pop goes), I did think it was a cool time for fashion though, people tried to look sexy and cool back then, not like ugly retarded like today.

And people by and large just had such better attitudes back then, nobody took everything 100% deadly seriously, people still had a sense of humor, people weren't just so incredibly hateful and bitter like so many people today.

I will make no apologies for missing that era, it was better than now, that's all there is to it.

Now the cycle repeats again with streaming. We were pushed in to digital because "you don't want to have to keep changing discs". Digital has been a blight on the industry. Now we're told "Streaming won't change anything. You don't want to keep downloading big games do you?"

What's funny, is that the traditional gamers were sold out for COD bro's, now the COD bro's are being sold out for the mobile crowd.

PC gaming died after 2005. Console gaming died after 2011.

2005 seems too late, PC gaming really seems to have died after 2007 with the release of Crysis, never again was there a AAA PC exclusive that tried to push the envelop so much technology wise.

 

[Billy Beer]

When I say "I miss the 2000s" though to be specific I'm talking about the wider "turn of the millennium" era, from about the mid 90s till 2007.

The best era

And I'm talking specific things, namely video games, it truly was a peak time for gaming, it's much like the way rock n roll had it's peak in the 60s and 70s, I'll always be thankful I got to see a medium at it's peak firsthand, I'll be an old boomer talking about video games the way you have boomer waxing nostalgia for bands like The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd today.

Difference is, i can enjoy and appreciate pink floyd. Can the yewff of today go back and appreciate Sonic 1? They can, but they won't.

I'm also talking the rise of anime fandom in the US, the "Toonami/Adult Swim" generation and the rise in popularity of nerd culture in general before it went Woke.

I'm not necessarily talking everything, just mainly those specific things, it wasn't a great time for movies (although there were still plenty of good ones, like the Lord of The Rings trilogy), it wasn't a great time for music (at least as far as pop goes), I did think it was a cool time for fashion though, people tried to look sexy and cool back then, not like ugly retarded like today.

And people by and large just had such better attitudes back then, nobody took everything 100% deadly seriously, people still had a sense of humor, people weren't just so incredibly hateful and bitter like so many people today.

I will make no apologies for missing that era, it was better than now, that's all there is to it.

Everything was better and people had more laid back attitudes.

2005 seems too late, PC gaming really seems to have died after 2007 with the release of Crysis, never again was there a AAA PC exclusive that tried to push the envelop so much technology wise.

Let's be friends. I said 2005 because i thought that was when Crysis released? If it was 2007, then i change my answer to 2007. and yes, nothing has tried to push PC gaming since Crysis. The PC master race fags are pathetic nowadays. They champion the PC as it isn't just a place to play console games @60fps. It's sad, really sad.

 

[A Grey Cat]

This may be more appropriate for the thread in multimedia about dvds (and blu rays) but I miss how when the format was new you had things like interactive menus, with animated backgrounds and little intros would play when you hit play, scenes, bonus features, ect.

Granted this was on the good dvds that actually put effort into their releases and packed in actual bonus material, there were indeed bare bones dvds even back then which were little more than glorified vhs tapes and you have gotten the movies trailer or sneak peeks of other movies if your were lucky. But with streaming on the rise it feels like every DVD and blu ray is just a bare bones release. And that's especially sad in blu rays case.

The format got its start just as the decade was ending and in addition to 1080 HD video one selling point was they usually promised to pack in a shit ton of bonus features often as much as a DVD would put on a second disc.

 

[Antarctic Hellbeast]

When I say "I miss the 2000s" though to be specific I'm talking about the wider "turn of the millennium" era, from about the mid 90s till 2007.

And I'm talking specific things, namely video games, it truly was a peak time for gaming, it's much like the way rock n roll had it's peak in the 60s and 70s, I'll always be thankful I got to see a medium at it's peak firsthand, I'll be an old boomer talking about video games the way you have boomer waxing nostalgia for bands like The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd today.

I'm also talking the rise of anime fandom in the US, the "Toonami/Adult Swim" generation and the rise in popularity of nerd culture in general before it went Woke.

I'm not necessarily talking everything, just mainly those specific things, it wasn't a great time for movies (although there were still plenty of good ones, like the Lord of The Rings trilogy), it wasn't a great time for music (at least as far as pop goes), I did think it was a cool time for fashion though, people tried to look sexy and cool back then, not like ugly retarded like today.

And people by and large just had such better attitudes back then, nobody took everything 100% deadly seriously, people still had a sense of humor, people weren't just so incredibly hateful and bitter like so many people today.

I will make no apologies for missing that era, it was better than now, that's all there is to it.



2005 seems too late, PC gaming really seems to have died after 2007 with the release of Crysis, never again was there a AAA PC exclusive that tried to push the envelop so much technology wise.

I miss the consistent march of progression in terms of tech available and the improvement in quality of games. That were never death marched out in under a year like the last fire emblem game. They were given 2-4 years on average and had plenty of polish to make them worth full price for the few you actually cared about.

There were (and still are) only two genders and instead of Orange man bad it was some bullshit about "muh gay marriage" for the entire fucking decade.

 

[Dom Cruise]

The best era

To be fair, 2008, 2009 and 2010 were also pretty good, I didn't appreciate them enough at the time, which I regret.

But the start of the recession and the election of Obama did change a lot of things quickly, it's just that there was still just enough holdover of turn of the millennium culture that sadly only becomes clearer with hindsight, but it all started getting scraped away for good around 2011 and 2012.

Difference is, i can enjoy and appreciate pink floyd. Can the yewff of today go back and appreciate Sonic 1? They can, but they won't.

The barrier for entry for old video games is definitely higher than it is for music.

Everything was better and people had more laid back attitudes.

The change in attitude over the last decade has been the most shocking thing, Americans went from a people who liked things easy and laid back, who liked to have fun, have a good time, to a people who are entirely hateful, spiteful, rioting in the streets all the time, get pissed off over the littlest things, the sheer amount of hate Americans have for one another now is terrifying, hatred for their perceived enemies and the desire to see them destroyed is what motivates a large number of Americans today, not the desire to have a good time.

Just, what the fuck happened? Where does all this anger come from? We're are suffering from society wide mental illness, a large of number people today can only be described as mentally ill.

Let's be friends. I said 2005 because i thought that was when Crysis released? If it was 2007, then i change my answer to 2007. and yes, nothing has tried to push PC gaming since Crysis. The PC master race fags are pathetic nowadays. They champion the PC as it isn't just a place to play console games @60fps. It's sad, really sad.

PC gaming is still worth it because if you're going to play a current game, you might as well go with the highest quality, but it is a shame PC no longer has AAA exclusives.

There's no telling what could be done with today's hardware if you made a AAA PC exclusive, Cyberpunk 2077 is a clear example of a game that should have released on PC first, then ported to the next gen consoles later, like how it worked with Half-Life 1 and Deus Ex back in the day, it had no business being on PS4 and Xbox One.

I miss the days of Halo 3 up to reach's launch and people actually taking the online community seriously in any meaningful capacity.
As well as the consistent march of progression in terms of tech available and the improvement in quality of games. That were never death marched out in under a year like the last fire emblem game. They were given 2-4 years on average and had plenty of polish to make them worth full price for the few you actually cared about.

There were (and still are) only two genders and instead of Orange man bad it was some bullshit about "muh gay marriage" for the ENTIRE fucking decade.

Halo 3 was the game I played the most online, those were some fun days.

 

[Dom Cruise]

That culture practically disappeared overnight when 2012 came around and the repealing of the smith-mundt act made all the Orange man bad bullshit and political propaganda legal again for the first time in about a century.

2012 and bullshit like Kony 2012 (pure social engineering experiment) and the media manufactured controversy over the Trayvon Martin shooting is indeed when things starting going to shit, but even 2012-2015 was preferable to the nightmare that has been 2016 and onwards.

The thing about 2008, 2009 and 2010 was at the time all you could see was the changes, I mean going from Dubya to Obama alone was a hell of a major change that really changed the tone of American society.

But there was still a lot of holdover of the culture I liked about the 2000s that only with the benefit of hindsight is that clear, I wish I could have realized that at the time, these days 2009 and 2010 absolutely seem more within the cultural zeitgeist of 2005-2007 than they have in common with today, despite the changes that had occurred in 2009 and 2010.

The only way I can describe back then is it was a more "mellow" time, yes there was problems, yes there was controversies, but we seem to be a stone's throw away from Balkanizing and people just slaughtering each other in the streets today given the amount of hate that's going around, it just wasn't that way in 2009.

 

[The Last Stand]

I miss when the Internet wasn't corporate and sanitized. Everything is connected nowadays, you have to be careful where and what you post on.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I'm also talking the rise of anime fandom in the US, the "Toonami/Adult Swim" generation and the rise in popularity of nerd culture in general before it went Woke.

Like I said, I miss when many Westerners weren't conditioned to get so triggered by anime, lumping it all together as "degenerate" or "weebshit" or "problematic" - a time when showing the slightest interest in the medium didn't automatically get one labelled a "weeaboo" or "wapanese". Maybe the powers that shouldn't be were behind the hate so that Western media under their control couldn't have competition...

Just, what the fuck happened?

The powers that shouldn't be are the ones who led America to 2020.

I think the '00s were a "sweet spot" between things being "too primitive" and "too advanced" - there was still real life (no smartphone zombies or mainstream "social" media), but corporations no longer had exclusive control over publishing and broadcasting. People could share stuff online fairly freely, without excess censorship. Also the thin-skinned people raised on "you're a special snowflake" hadn't really started running the show yet, so excess political correctness and chronic butthurt couldn't be mainstream.

Planting wokeism to derail Occupy was a crime against humanity, just like starting coronapanic.

 

[Delicious Result]

Spoiler: nostlagia

Remember the 2000s?
The 2000s were so much better.
Everything was better in the 2000s.
Here is the 2000s.
If you don't remember, you did not have a childhood.
You were not a child.
You retroactively did not exist.
Remember Invader Zim? It was a good show!
You're too young to remember.
It was a good show!
We had Bush. You don't!
Things were better then.
Now all is lost, Including hope, which is dead.
We had:
The Gamecube
McDonalds
Cartoon Network
Nickelodeon
Disney Channel
Amusement Parks
The Internet
Spongebob
iPods
480p Shadow the Hedgehog AMV'S
Silly Bandz
DVDs
YouTube
My Little Pony
Hot Wheels
Fruit Snacks
9/11
Shrek
We had Shrek. What does kids these days have? Nothing.
The 2000s are over.
All that's left is despair The day the 2000s died, all joy died.
This generation.
They don't know.
They don't know.
Kids these days.
Kids these days.
This generation.
They don't know.
They missed out.

 

[Sithis]

It's a tossup for me. What I really, really miss are the days pre 2001 when everything got gayed the fuck up post 9/11. I still remember reading about the attack on the USS Cole that preceded 9/11 and how I was so used to the relative peace of the late 90s and also young enough that I didn't even think twice about it. And every goddamn thing in life changed after that one day. I won't powerlevel and talk about my age but I was young enough that I still had some good years in the 2000s, don't get me wrong. But I was too young on 9/11 to really understand how much life was changing around me and how rapidly, too young to have really been able to enjoy life as it was in the old days before the all seeing eye of the glowing ones really began to creep into every facet of life.

But as for the actual 2000s as they were, yeah they were very good years for me. As I said I was still blissfully ignorant for quite a while, I was young and had energy and was in a whole new environment on my own for the first time in my life. I did a lot of stupid shit but I don't have any regrets, every bit of it was either enjoyed or a learning experience. TV was more enjoyable although later years have brought much better quality in how to enjoy everything online. The internet was still enough of an untapped frontier that as long as you weren't brown and wearing a towel or involved in some serious crime you could get by with a lot more than you can today. Social media hadn't made such an appearance and life was much less gay. Speaking of gays, don't ask don't tell seemed to work well for society at large. It was nice not having every single social issue become a nationwide debate that further divides everyone. I would also consider the decade 2000-2010 to be the last one where I actually enjoyed some of the more popular music of that decade. Now all the bands I liked then are old and either retired or should be retired, and new music all manages to sound like the same radio friendly garbage. Movies fucking suck these days and very few are willing to dare beyond the tried and true formulas that have been agreed upon by Hollyweird.

I think more than anything I miss the relative innocence of society. Yeah the 90s were gritty but after 9/11 there was a period where America really came together, and even though it didn't take long for protests against the dipshit Iraq War to start and terrorism to grasp every aspect of life, it still seemed kind of distant in the later half of the decade. People weren't quite as self involved as they are today. As much as I am guilty of using one myself, I feel like shit really changed for the worse with the advent of smartphones and social media more than any other technology in my lifetime.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It's a tossup for me. What I really, really miss are the days pre 2001 when everything got gayed the fuck up post 9/11.

It really does seem like 9/11 was like some demonic ritual to start the summoning of Clown World.

(whether you believe the conspiracy theories or the official narrative)