This! loved playing flash games whenever I was at school with friends at the time, Still a shame that flash came to an end because of security reasons or some shit like that
i think the difference is just the reminder that capitalism is at the door. being asked to pay for everything is exhausting--bots and emotes and packs--compared to when you'd see a lone donate button on install
High effort traps didn't exist in the times I'm referring to, this is the pre linetrap era. Fake pics and profiles could easily be verified by camming up and using voice chat, only retards would fall for a g.i.r.l. that refuses to vc or cam up. It wasn't hard. I don't know if you're a zoomer or if you're one of those guys that actually fell in love with some dude pretending to be a girl kek, I certainly had no problem getting nudes. Sucks that you missed out
I used to browse almost 20 different websites per day now it's only four chins, google (mail and youtube), libgen, my private tracker and my bank, nothing more. Centralization surely made the internet less interesting
I miss how when you'd visit a website about your favorite game, there'd usually be a sidebar with links to other fan websites about that same game, whether it be dedicated to mapping, clans, server tracking, mods, or general news and discussion.
>
This reminds me of when I was a kid, I used to hate flies so much that I'd stun them with a cooking pot's lid against wherever they were, then pick them and remove their wings with a pair of tweezers and set them free in a new life as wingless flies.
It's was really easy to just jump into games and make friends. I met guys on Xbox that I talked to and played with for years, one dude I kept gaming with for over a decade. These days everyone is terrified of using a mic because they all have gay retard disorder and get scared that someone will be mean to them, and the only time people seem cool and actually want to game again and friends list they are always burnout weeeeeedfags who can't even remember who you are the next week
>These days everyone is terrified of using a mic
Everyone's afraid that someone's livestreaming or recording and if they say something cringe, it'll be clipped and uploaded to YouTube for everyone to see.
yeah but if everyone is uploading them to youtube then it doesn't matter that much unless you're an exemplary lolcow.
I see modern griefing vids with those sort of recorded discord calls and they only get like a couple hundred views despite the effort put into it.
that and devs are desperate to ban as many of their paying customers as possible for "toxicity" "hate speech" "harassment" etc for shit that in the late 90s Romero, one of doom/doom 2s devs who deathmatched all the time could have joined in and shit talked you
Tryhard competitive meta gaming wasn't nearly as common. There were always a few OP weapons/tactics in every game but it wasn't every single person and your team didn't bitch you out as often for not using them. Plus with dedicated servers they could ban something if it was truly overpowered and annoying everyone.
I gave up playing Overwatch when I was getting screeched at in unranked games by zoomers for not picking meta heroes/
>what if........i put a letter in front of "oomer" and edit a wojak to go with it then spam it incessantly!
its depressing that this is how its been for years on years now
They're lower effort and get more replies. Same reason people try to make each other horny everywhere. It's easy and effective clickbait ,quality, originality, and concern for the hobby be damned. WE EATING GOOD TONIGHT DOPAMINE ADDICTS!
I just want a break.
I just want a fucking break.
But there's nowhere else to go. I'm afraid I'll give in and end up back in /misc/ like my tourists days and join in with the mindless rabble just so I don't feel so isolated.
my biggest issue is what it's done to humor
you cant quite find anything 'organically' anymore
I remember listening to my dads comedy cds
but these days, every other youtube is some lame comedian cosplaying as funny asking an audience if they have good sex and calling it crowdwork with a link to the show in the comments. it's absolutely mental.
compare that to finding dane cook on myspace and the wild ride that shit was
"We" threw out a logically structured society for likes on social media, spurred on by hugboxes that don't like how challenge and confrontation helps you grow.
my biggest issue is what it's done to humor
you cant quite find anything 'organically' anymore
I remember listening to my dads comedy cds
but these days, every other youtube is some lame comedian cosplaying as funny asking an audience if they have good sex and calling it crowdwork with a link to the show in the comments. it's absolutely mental.
compare that to finding dane cook on myspace and the wild ride that shit was
mobile posters and by extension most of the 3rd world didnt have internet access, memes were fresh and not just wojak variation #112846 the internet wasnt serious business and the normals and schizos didnt use it
From 2006-2009 I had a pretty isolated life outside school because I guess my dad got off on that. Only real choice of games I had was wow, gw, and cod4 so I was able to be social more than I would otherwise.
Being able to just let myself get absorbed into a game because I didn't have the stress and responsibilities of adult life gnawing away in the back of my head.
I reminisce about Wolfenstein's multiplayer often. Phenomenal maps that were huge for its time (but not too huge) thanks to the modified Q3 engine, both official and custom. Fast and fluid objective-based teamplay with fun modes like the first ever Payload mode and Base Race. I also think the whole "photo sourced texture filtered graphics with baked lighting" look that this era had has aged like wine.
Most information being from word of mouth made some pretty interesting myths at the time. I think the most famous one is the 'find mew under the truck'.
>unearth my old ipod >it's filled with old music and videos >some of which are probably no longer on the internet >manage to buy an old fapple charger >bring it back to life >connect to PC and browse the files >smell something funny >look at ipod >it tripled in size because the battery expanded >immediately yank it off the charger and throw it inside my laundry bin
It's been 4 days and I'm still too scared to check
It was easier to find the truth. Now it just feels like a landfill of bullshit. I pity people who get trapped in the surface layer like social media, Google and MSM.
I miss some things, the biggest being that there wasn't even a hint of this 30 layers of irony shit that's been going strong for 12+ years now. Also a lot of my favorite multiplayer mods like quake 3 prison break not being completely dead.
In the mid-2000s I posted on a somewhat niche message board about anime and video games. There were only 200 registered members and maybe 2-3 dozen were active posters
Yet I still remember their forum names. I still mentally associate their forum names with avatars, along with their personality, their posting style, their signatures, their favorite games and shows, their side hobbies, likes and dislikes. I remember their nationalities, their position in life, their career or education goals. I remember which one had the Ford Taurus that blew up. I remember which one got fired from Blockbuster. I remember which one got lost in NYC for 6 hours on the way to NY comic-con 2007. I remember which ones were militant atheists and christian apologists, and which ones were indifferent. I remember the ONE girl. I remember filming a vlog-style video on my flipphone while working a graveyard shift, addressing the forum by name, while doing a tour of the empty amusement park in 60-second bits
Since then I've only discussed video games on Ganker and reddit, and over the past 10 years I can't identify a single person that I've interacted with. I've argued with so many people, upvoted them, dropped trivia facts to demonstrate my obscure knowledge, but not a single fucking person who's name I can remember or that I'd ever want to hang out with irl
Nobody gave a flying fuck about politics, Liberal or Conservative and nobody was trying to break down our willpower until we give in and pick a side to "fight for".
Gamergate was a fucking mistake, and Ganker is a shithole because some of you homosexuals can't just move on.
At fucking least TRY to be funny about it. Most of the OPs are just cycling through the same questions, every single day because some shitskin nagger from india that thinks he's a neo-nazi or fucking whatever, thinks (you)s are some kinda currency.
And I hate it all because there's no other place to actually discuss video games.
Can't even properly discuss anything without being told you're something, because god help them if I or anyone else tries to ruin their sick idea of "fun" by turning this place into just /b/.
there really is no place online to talk about games.
this board is all scripts. theres always 6 mario threads. always at least 4 bethesda threads. never discussing anything about the games, just existing to take up space.
AI and bots are bad, but all of this started once the internet became common for everyone, used to be "using the computer" was only acceptable for white collar workers who were actually at work, but once it became common then all the shit flowed in with the valves wide open
so god damn shit
wish we could go back to when using the computer caused the overwhelming majority of the population to be replused by you, hate you, recoiled from you as you walked down the street and old ladies had near heart attacks frantically dialing 911 to report to the police a computer user was on the loose
that and you didnt have every fucking swarthy 3rd worlder shitting up English speaking websites from their fucking iphones
>Nobody gave a flying fuck about politics, Liberal or Conservative and nobody was trying to break down our willpower until we give in and pick a side to "fight for".
The 2000s were extremely polarizing. Leftists were still butthurt about Gore losing despite getting more votes. 9/11 turned a bunch of people crazy. You had to support the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan or you were with the terrorists. While the Bush administration was objectively incompetent and destructive, liberals hated Bush for the wrong reasons ("He's only invading the middle east to STEAL all the oil!"). Michael Moore's films broke box office records and dominated current political discourse. Terminally-online people accused George Lucas of injecting anti-Bush talking points into the star wars prequels. Jack Thompson was being taken seriously by the mainstream media, they were coming after our vidya.
There were stupid political flamewars on EVERY message board. Remember Fark?
Here's the thing: it only fucked over most people because the media told us it fucked us over. Unless you knew someone who died or lived in the NYC metropolitan area, it didn't impact you. Kids in school were making jokes about it AS IT HAPPENED live in front of them on whatever TV. The reaction was very much "Oh sh*t....will we get an early dismissal?"
Videogames had that feeling of discovery.
I remember when my friends at school told me there was a Spiderman cheat for Tony Hawks 2, I didn't believe them and then we went to my friend's house and he showed me how to unlock Spiderman. It was cool to find little secrets and easter eggs like that and share them with your friends. Nowadays a game isn't even out yet and some homosexual will upload the full 100% walkthrough with everything unlocked and every secret discovered. That sense of "what if that secret is true?" is forever lost.
>looking for bigfoot in GTA:SA >nowdays a dataminer will have ruined everything 2 days before release
its all so tiresome
that and games are not fun anymore, they are mostly just corporate commissions demanding games follow the latest trends, in the 2010s it was color washed chasing the CoD audience, more recently it was battle royals and seasons/games as a service now its remaking games that arent even 5 years old
I miss Sega and the arcade style edge their games had. Nintendo and Sega have a lot of common in terms of eccentricity. But Nintendo games often exist in large part to self perpetuate. It's why their marketing is so good, but their games have a routine quality about them. Sega had a wildness and a willingness to explore what worked that we don't see in modern gaming.
I also miss old Square. They absolutely refused to miss. Square should have kept working on The Bouncer as an IP--it would have kept them from turning Final Fantasy into an action game, and kept all these other companies from making final fantasy clones.
I'm trying to think, but I can't escape the fact that the majority of my nostalgia there is from the 90's. Very early 2000's internet still had some of that wild west feeling of discovery, but would only be a few short years before it turned into what we recognise today (minus all the social politics cancer). We also still had dial-up or an equally shitty connection roughly 10 - 20 years ago, so I completely missed the golden era of multiplayer console.
Culture, flash. Internet was more laid back. I hate it now but there is no where else to go. I browse smaller chans too and it's nice but I miss it. I'm ok with never getting it back but it could be way better than it is now.
tracer tong was right
emp right now, what happens?
we slowly rebuild
eventually infrastructure returns, but you can bet people would make sure they still had their consoles and hard media, and you can bet they would protect their safe spaces to discuss said media and keep it alive, instead of resubbing to Facebook 2.0 once it got back online
Flashgames
Seconded.
Just roll up to Kongregate or Newgrounds and you'd have dozens of fun free games available on demand.
This! loved playing flash games whenever I was at school with friends at the time, Still a shame that flash came to an end because of security reasons or some shit like that
To be fair, flash games were dead loooong before that
Wait, I can't play flash games anymore!?!?! Wtf. I haven't in 12 years but I was just thinking about finding some old gems!
You can, all the big sites just run an emulator on their website
Forever my steam profile.
blessed
I wonder what he's doing now
He died of COVID, bro.... There were threads about it in here.
You jest
Nope, it's real.
flash overall
internet being actual internet where you had to know where to find the good stuff
no normies
you could pirate everything easily
dedicated servers, server communities, coming home after school/work and seeing the same dudes around, drinking beer, talking shit and having fun
My friends and I still have that on Discord. You just have to be careful about who you invite.
i think the difference is just the reminder that capitalism is at the door. being asked to pay for everything is exhausting--bots and emotes and packs--compared to when you'd see a lone donate button on install
>women didn't exist
they did. emo girls and MMO pinay sluts were kino
hate to break it to you anon, but those weren't women
they were only fake women if they didn't have a myspace or use a mic
oh, anon...
High effort traps didn't exist in the times I'm referring to, this is the pre linetrap era. Fake pics and profiles could easily be verified by camming up and using voice chat, only retards would fall for a g.i.r.l. that refuses to vc or cam up. It wasn't hard. I don't know if you're a zoomer or if you're one of those guys that actually fell in love with some dude pretending to be a girl kek, I certainly had no problem getting nudes. Sucks that you missed out
I miss irc
I miss roger wilco
I miss somethingawful and funny photoshops
I miss when flash was jank
I used to browse almost 20 different websites per day now it's only four chins, google (mail and youtube), libgen, my private tracker and my bank, nothing more. Centralization surely made the internet less interesting
I miss how when you'd visit a website about your favorite game, there'd usually be a sidebar with links to other fan websites about that same game, whether it be dedicated to mapping, clans, server tracking, mods, or general news and discussion.
What were the ~20 websites before, forums for specific interests?
imdb movie boards
Uncyclopedia and rageface comic websites.
Gotta control the flow of information.
WEB 2.0 BABY
letting a handful of companies consolidate the internet was the biggest fucking mistake followed by smartphones and 3rd world internet access
whats crazy about the consolidation is it's all the same shit it's always been.
youtube is videos. tiktok is easier videos. snapchat is even easier videos without having to curate. it's absolutely insane.
don't blame centralization for your mediocrity
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This reminds me of when I was a kid, I used to hate flies so much that I'd stun them with a cooking pot's lid against wherever they were, then pick them and remove their wings with a pair of tweezers and set them free in a new life as wingless flies.
But why? It's not their fault they're flies :(.
It's was really easy to just jump into games and make friends. I met guys on Xbox that I talked to and played with for years, one dude I kept gaming with for over a decade. These days everyone is terrified of using a mic because they all have gay retard disorder and get scared that someone will be mean to them, and the only time people seem cool and actually want to game again and friends list they are always burnout weeeeeedfags who can't even remember who you are the next week
>These days everyone is terrified of using a mic
Everyone's afraid that someone's livestreaming or recording and if they say something cringe, it'll be clipped and uploaded to YouTube for everyone to see.
yeah but if everyone is uploading them to youtube then it doesn't matter that much unless you're an exemplary lolcow.
I see modern griefing vids with those sort of recorded discord calls and they only get like a couple hundred views despite the effort put into it.
that and devs are desperate to ban as many of their paying customers as possible for "toxicity" "hate speech" "harassment" etc for shit that in the late 90s Romero, one of doom/doom 2s devs who deathmatched all the time could have joined in and shit talked you
That's one big ass fly, fr
Tryhard competitive meta gaming wasn't nearly as common. There were always a few OP weapons/tactics in every game but it wasn't every single person and your team didn't bitch you out as often for not using them. Plus with dedicated servers they could ban something if it was truly overpowered and annoying everyone.
I gave up playing Overwatch when I was getting screeched at in unranked games by zoomers for not picking meta heroes/
I miss when Ganker had memes
ya don't like 'jak #4958589 and #4958590? They're the hottest memes since 'jak #4957936
>what if........i put a letter in front of "oomer" and edit a wojak to go with it then spam it incessantly!
its depressing that this is how its been for years on years now
I remember when Ganker was the progenitor of all internet humor. Now we just get twitter and tiktok scraps.
They're lower effort and get more replies. Same reason people try to make each other horny everywhere. It's easy and effective clickbait ,quality, originality, and concern for the hobby be damned. WE EATING GOOD TONIGHT DOPAMINE ADDICTS!
I just want a break.
I just want a fucking break.
But there's nowhere else to go.
I'm afraid I'll give in and end up back in /misc/ like my tourists days and join in with the mindless rabble just so I don't feel so isolated.
"We" threw out a logically structured society for likes on social media, spurred on by hugboxes that don't like how challenge and confrontation helps you grow.
my biggest issue is what it's done to humor
you cant quite find anything 'organically' anymore
I remember listening to my dads comedy cds
but these days, every other youtube is some lame comedian cosplaying as funny asking an audience if they have good sex and calling it crowdwork with a link to the show in the comments. it's absolutely mental.
compare that to finding dane cook on myspace and the wild ride that shit was
mobile posters and by extension most of the 3rd world didnt have internet access, memes were fresh and not just wojak variation #112846 the internet wasnt serious business and the normals and schizos didnt use it
Everything was edgy and stupid but you could call out stupid posts instead of letting unfunny spam overrun every page
From 2006-2009 I had a pretty isolated life outside school because I guess my dad got off on that. Only real choice of games I had was wow, gw, and cod4 so I was able to be social more than I would otherwise.
How is your social life now that dad is gone?
Being able to just let myself get absorbed into a game because I didn't have the stress and responsibilities of adult life gnawing away in the back of my head.
What’s he listening to?
Indestructible
based grindcore enjoyer
nigga that's black metal. this is grindcore
>Games with forums and active communities
>Flash games websites
>Newgrounds
>Habbo Hotel
>MU Online
>OT
>Wolf ET
>MSN
>Rekt videos on YouTube
I reminisce about Wolfenstein's multiplayer often. Phenomenal maps that were huge for its time (but not too huge) thanks to the modified Q3 engine, both official and custom. Fast and fluid objective-based teamplay with fun modes like the first ever Payload mode and Base Race. I also think the whole "photo sourced texture filtered graphics with baked lighting" look that this era had has aged like wine.
Getting a somewhat finished product for my money.
It's the simple things, you know?
you can still do that today
No politics or homosexuals, except OP.
Do birds even have ears?
How else could they fly, idiot?
Do cicadas even have ears? What a retard.
Why would they scream if nobody can hear it you fucking spastic holy shit
Trying to make a genuinely good video game was still mostly the main priority.
Most information being from word of mouth made some pretty interesting myths at the time. I think the most famous one is the 'find mew under the truck'.
You now remember GameSpy
all i remember from that is getting creamed by homeworld vets as a kid
The good games, the authenticity, the people, and this mouse.
Do bugs even have ears?
people made flash games and animation for fun
>unearth my old ipod
>it's filled with old music and videos
>some of which are probably no longer on the internet
>manage to buy an old fapple charger
>bring it back to life
>connect to PC and browse the files
>smell something funny
>look at ipod
>it tripled in size because the battery expanded
>immediately yank it off the charger and throw it inside my laundry bin
It's been 4 days and I'm still too scared to check
Either it wasn't the right charger or the battery had long deteriorated
Mobile posters not existing.
But they're exactly what you asked for. You just don't know it yet.
They were still hobbies primarily for nerdy whites and Asians.
Now every corner of the internet is crawling with retarded turd worlders and bots.
Lan parties in the school computer room. Capture the Flag in the first Halo with every guy in class was great.
It was easier to find the truth. Now it just feels like a landfill of bullshit. I pity people who get trapped in the surface layer like social media, Google and MSM.
p2p was wild
you never knew what you were going to see
Maybe you'd get that Linkin Park song, maybe it would be Bill Clinton again.
Lack of brown people online
I miss some things, the biggest being that there wasn't even a hint of this 30 layers of irony shit that's been going strong for 12+ years now. Also a lot of my favorite multiplayer mods like quake 3 prison break not being completely dead.
>IRC
>anime was made with love
>cute female otaku
>cute female gamers
>maplestory
>world of warcraft
>newgrounds
>gamefaqs
>myspace pages (playing/quoting music)
>internet forums (forum signature)
>cute myspace girls
>zwinky
>imvu
>habbo hotel
>second life
>lan parties
>PS2
>phantasy star online
>xbox
>MSN
>AIM
>Skype
>Ventrilo
we used to talk
no one talks anymore
>those forum signatures
fugg take me back
In the mid-2000s I posted on a somewhat niche message board about anime and video games. There were only 200 registered members and maybe 2-3 dozen were active posters
Yet I still remember their forum names. I still mentally associate their forum names with avatars, along with their personality, their posting style, their signatures, their favorite games and shows, their side hobbies, likes and dislikes. I remember their nationalities, their position in life, their career or education goals. I remember which one had the Ford Taurus that blew up. I remember which one got fired from Blockbuster. I remember which one got lost in NYC for 6 hours on the way to NY comic-con 2007. I remember which ones were militant atheists and christian apologists, and which ones were indifferent. I remember the ONE girl. I remember filming a vlog-style video on my flipphone while working a graveyard shift, addressing the forum by name, while doing a tour of the empty amusement park in 60-second bits
Since then I've only discussed video games on Ganker and reddit, and over the past 10 years I can't identify a single person that I've interacted with. I've argued with so many people, upvoted them, dropped trivia facts to demonstrate my obscure knowledge, but not a single fucking person who's name I can remember or that I'd ever want to hang out with irl
Not getting spoiled on the whole damn game before it came out.
World of Warcraft was still good and there was no wokeism anywhere.
Nobody gave a flying fuck about politics, Liberal or Conservative and nobody was trying to break down our willpower until we give in and pick a side to "fight for".
Gamergate was a fucking mistake, and Ganker is a shithole because some of you homosexuals can't just move on.
At fucking least TRY to be funny about it. Most of the OPs are just cycling through the same questions, every single day because some shitskin nagger from india that thinks he's a neo-nazi or fucking whatever, thinks (you)s are some kinda currency.
And I hate it all because there's no other place to actually discuss video games.
Can't even properly discuss anything without being told you're something, because god help them if I or anyone else tries to ruin their sick idea of "fun" by turning this place into just /b/.
there really is no place online to talk about games.
this board is all scripts. theres always 6 mario threads. always at least 4 bethesda threads. never discussing anything about the games, just existing to take up space.
the entire internet has become billboards
AI and bots are bad, but all of this started once the internet became common for everyone, used to be "using the computer" was only acceptable for white collar workers who were actually at work, but once it became common then all the shit flowed in with the valves wide open
sometimes I'll read a response and I cant tell if it's an esl, a kid, or a bot.
I cant even imagine being a kid talking shit on this website. theres no point. plus youve got to enter a capcha every time.
so god damn shit
wish we could go back to when using the computer caused the overwhelming majority of the population to be replused by you, hate you, recoiled from you as you walked down the street and old ladies had near heart attacks frantically dialing 911 to report to the police a computer user was on the loose
that and you didnt have every fucking swarthy 3rd worlder shitting up English speaking websites from their fucking iphones
>Nobody gave a flying fuck about politics, Liberal or Conservative and nobody was trying to break down our willpower until we give in and pick a side to "fight for".
The 2000s were extremely polarizing. Leftists were still butthurt about Gore losing despite getting more votes. 9/11 turned a bunch of people crazy. You had to support the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan or you were with the terrorists. While the Bush administration was objectively incompetent and destructive, liberals hated Bush for the wrong reasons ("He's only invading the middle east to STEAL all the oil!"). Michael Moore's films broke box office records and dominated current political discourse. Terminally-online people accused George Lucas of injecting anti-Bush talking points into the star wars prequels. Jack Thompson was being taken seriously by the mainstream media, they were coming after our vidya.
There were stupid political flamewars on EVERY message board. Remember Fark?
9/11 has irreparably fucked us as a society imo over 20 years later
Here's the thing: it only fucked over most people because the media told us it fucked us over. Unless you knew someone who died or lived in the NYC metropolitan area, it didn't impact you. Kids in school were making jokes about it AS IT HAPPENED live in front of them on whatever TV. The reaction was very much "Oh sh*t....will we get an early dismissal?"
and most people are retarded hence here we are
Videogames had that feeling of discovery.
I remember when my friends at school told me there was a Spiderman cheat for Tony Hawks 2, I didn't believe them and then we went to my friend's house and he showed me how to unlock Spiderman. It was cool to find little secrets and easter eggs like that and share them with your friends. Nowadays a game isn't even out yet and some homosexual will upload the full 100% walkthrough with everything unlocked and every secret discovered. That sense of "what if that secret is true?" is forever lost.
>looking for bigfoot in GTA:SA
>nowdays a dataminer will have ruined everything 2 days before release
its all so tiresome
that and games are not fun anymore, they are mostly just corporate commissions demanding games follow the latest trends, in the 2010s it was color washed chasing the CoD audience, more recently it was battle royals and seasons/games as a service now its remaking games that arent even 5 years old
I remember when discovering hidden content in a game was a big deal, and you'd not really know if it was real or a very elaborated hoax.
I miss Sega and the arcade style edge their games had. Nintendo and Sega have a lot of common in terms of eccentricity. But Nintendo games often exist in large part to self perpetuate. It's why their marketing is so good, but their games have a routine quality about them. Sega had a wildness and a willingness to explore what worked that we don't see in modern gaming.
I also miss old Square. They absolutely refused to miss. Square should have kept working on The Bouncer as an IP--it would have kept them from turning Final Fantasy into an action game, and kept all these other companies from making final fantasy clones.
>What was your favorite thing about 2000s gaming and internet
How everybody lied about everything because it was harder to verify information
that I could favorite various servers in games and go to them knowing what to expect and playing with a lot of regulars
Oh I get it
>We're forced to listen to their music
>So force them to listen to our music.
I want to have sex with a cicada
The females don't make noise, just a tip.
I'm trying to think, but I can't escape the fact that the majority of my nostalgia there is from the 90's. Very early 2000's internet still had some of that wild west feeling of discovery, but would only be a few short years before it turned into what we recognise today (minus all the social politics cancer). We also still had dial-up or an equally shitty connection roughly 10 - 20 years ago, so I completely missed the golden era of multiplayer console.
i remember these old fucking apple headphones
Culture, flash. Internet was more laid back. I hate it now but there is no where else to go. I browse smaller chans too and it's nice but I miss it. I'm ok with never getting it back but it could be way better than it is now.
i didn't feel ripped off all the time and the internet was slightly less annoying
tracer tong was right
emp right now, what happens?
we slowly rebuild
eventually infrastructure returns, but you can bet people would make sure they still had their consoles and hard media, and you can bet they would protect their safe spaces to discuss said media and keep it alive, instead of resubbing to Facebook 2.0 once it got back online
No shitskins of any sort inc israelites/azns.