The stuff you miss

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Being able to smoke a cigarette without practically getting arrested.
 
I miss Blockbuster. I feel as though I would have enjoyed it a lot more as an adult than as a kid. There's nothing like walking into a store and just browse. Especially now that I love to watch so-bad-it's-good movies. That's a feeling you just don't get with streaming services. Yeah it's a hell of a lot more convenient but it doesn't feel as special somehow.
 
I miss when pop music was unashamedly commercial, manufactured and was laser-focused on delivering three minutes of aural candy floss that stuck with you for years. Then popular culture shifted towards selling the public the idea of 'real musicians, real instruments, real talent', hipsters got into production and started cross-pollinating with any genre that would get them a decent write-up on Pitchfork, and by the time identity politics demanded that we need to talk, right now, you fucking Nazis, Pop music became a endless Spotify playlist of beats and synths, fronted by fuccbois with punchable faces and icy insta-thots.

This current generation needs to grow old as soon as fucking possible.
 
I miss when summer seemed to go on forever. One summer in elementary school felt like it lasted as long as the entire rest of the year. Now I'm an adult and it feels like the warm weather and the sun come and go in a snap.
 
I miss the days when people cared more about the quality of gameplay, and not "SEXISM / RACISM!", "THEY REMOVED WAIFU PETTING!", "THEY MADE SAMUS' BOOBS AND SNAKE'S ASS SLIGHTLY SMALLER!", and any other kind of BS like that.
I also miss the days when Fire Emblem was a niche series that wasn't known entirely for being "tactical waifu simulator" that's getting whored out by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems with more terrible games, spinoffs, and Smash fighters.
I also miss Ike's old voice in Smash. The wooden voice acting added to the character's charm; now he just sounds like another generic anime guy.
 
I also miss the pre-9/11 world.

Somehow it seems the world changed that day, even outside the USA.
 
I miss the smell of salt water mixing with old flight gear and jet exhaust. I do not miss the smell of student's farts hotboxing the cockpit
 
browsing the sci fi/fantay/comic section of Borders (read game of thrones years before the show thanks to Border's recomendation)

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the 90s sitcom smart guy? kind of a mix of Big Bang, Fresh Prince and Saved by the Bell. About a genius nerd black kid in a family of normal/dumb cool kids and the adventures they get him into trying to use his smarts.

i miss my old girlfriend showing me her "cheap even for 2002" PC in her room (she was the first person my age i knew who was into the internet) and telling me excitedly about her Harry Potter fan fic, and how the other fans on the website "flamed" her for hating Snape, and her laughing at me when I thought flamed meant they were really mailing her bombs or something. I never got that much into HP, but I miss her enthusiasm for it.

the excitement of finding out that all those forgotton but hilarious shitty 80s action films like American Shaolin, No Retreat, and King of the Kickboxers are in stores on dvd

early 00s alternative rock was cool. Strokes, White Stripes, Tenacious D, Yeah yeah yeahs, pre-pop-rock heavier Kings of Leon, Mars Volta, Queens of the Stone Age getting big...my brother was into emo ish stuff like My Chemical Romance and the Used, and even that sounded cool. Not saying it was great music, but the kids seemed to be having fun and it looked a fun scene to be part of.
 
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