Or the sudden realization that shared media experiences actually ties us together as a society
When you’re growling along to a song on the radio and the dude in the next car is ripping an air guitar solo - you both look over and give ‘the horns’ -? Don’t lie, that’s almost spiritual
Hard to do when most people are plugged into their personal streams everywhere these days…
Yeah that was exactly my thought.
I don’t miss commercials at all (and am annoyed they appear to be creeping back) but I do miss the mono culture quite a bit.
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Things boomers are nostalgic for:
❎️ the ways things actually were better.
✅️ inconvenience.
as an Xer i played video games for years before they invented “save game”
i’ve spent exactly 0.00 nanoseconds since then missing those pre-save-game days
And for retro games, emulators have left even that in the dustbin of time.
Sick of the last RPG save happening 20 minutes before a boss fight? Save at literally any moment with save states.
That too much work? You can rewind the entire game.
Remember the C64 cheat cartridge? Saved off your game / reloaded it whenever you wanted.
I wanted one so much, but I never got one 😔
Me either, but I would have wanted a Fast Load cartridge instead, but we couldn’t afford that either.
"You found a ‘tape’, with it you can save once "
Yeah , what a bs thing.
I sometimes wish manual save was a thing. Autosave is nice, but dont take away features please.
Like in expedition 33. I didnt realize you could only fight the last boss 1 time, so i went and did endgame after the story. Now i cant see the ending(s) without doing a full play through or watching someone else do it on youtube.
I started NG+ lol
Remember popping in a CD?
It could hold up to like 15 songs!
Nostalgia is good & nice but nah I don’t need artificial limits on stuff today.
CDs can’t be erased on the cloud, to then either push other songs on you, or the “remasters” (cough-cough In Flames), and otherwise most digital albums still hold this “artificial” limit. Even worse is when they limit it to 2-3 minutes nowadays, because Tik-Tok.
songs have been 2-3 minutes for decades now
Remember popping in a CD?
It could hold up to like 15 songs!
And remember paying $20 in 1996 for that 15 song CD, and remember your heartbreak when you listen through for the first time and find out there was only the one song you knew that you really liked and maybe two others that were just okay?
Dark days indeed.
what about when they started to make cd players that could read a data disc full of mp3s? what a time to be alive. no need for a changer in the trunk!
Ha ha yeah, around the time where 128MB mp3 players got accessible!
I feel like this can still happen if they are watching live streams. Like Twitch stuff.
Well we went full circle. YouTube and Netflix killed the tv because they were young rebels that challenged status quo and had no ads, and ads on tv went very long. Now YouTube, Netflix and all others just went to shit because of annoying and long ads, or paying extra to skip ads, gathering of usage data, spying on users, selling data, censoring, and building huge monopolies. Time for the next thing.
What arrrr we looking forrrr?
Well we went full circle. YouTube and Netflix killed the tv because they were young rebels that challenged status quo and had no ads, and ads on tv went very long. Now YouTube, Netflix and all others just went to shit because of annoying and long ads, or paying extra to skip ads, gathering of usage data, spying on users, selling data, censoring, and building huge monopolies.
I don’t think your gripe is with Netflix on this. The reason they were able to offer mountains of commercial free content was because content owners didn’t think “streaming licensing rights” were worth very much, so they sold them very cheaply. When content owners saw their DVD sales dry up and the started looking where their audiences went, and found them subscribing to Netflix. So when the content licensing contract renewals came up, the content owners jacked up the prices to high heaven. Netflix had the choice to either drop content or raise prices. They did a chunk of both, then again at the next renew, and again, etc.
Scripted content is generally expensive. The alternative is the dirt-cheap-to-produce “reality TV”. If you wonder why you’re seeing so much more “reality tv” this is why.
Or getting in trouble and missing an episode of your favourite show, which happened to be the most crucial episode to watch that season.
Or always missing episode 1 and have to figure out everything yourself.
Or the one time you happen to be able to watch it, it’s an episode like “the great divide”
Yep, still mad I missed the final episode of Season 6 of Stargate SG-1
I’ll never know if Pepper Ann made it to school
Except Netflix has ads now, too.
and netflix ends thier series have 2-3 seasons as a way to get tax benefitis and subscription numbers.
Not in their top tier which is more expensive
Not in their top tier which is more expensive
Is it only their top tier (4k+more simultaneous streams) now? Last time I was subscribed it was only the lowest tier had ads. Middle tier was ad free.
Don’t worry, Netflix planning to add interstitial ads to their low tier plans
Me, who never had a Netflix era but still never experienced this.
Hmmm. Favourite show only on 2 times a year (Season), 2nd is replay of the same episode . Lots of unstoppable ads. No other way to watch it later. This went on for a couple decades.
Less TV’s and no one had a device. The battles for who got TV time were epic between my brothers and I.
Then VCR’s showed up. Recording show with commercials was the only way. You could fast forward but annoying.
Then Netflix and other streaming services would have no commercials and you could watch anytime. Golden age.
Now ads are back even if you pay. Guess we are back to cable era again. Regression sucks.
You don’t have to obey the law.
I was a pirate before there was even Pirate Bay. Was just talking about the state of things now.
ONLY CHILDREN NEED NOT APPLY
In the 90s you had to be careful not to touch the Nintendo while playing or else the game might crash. It was still better than today because you didn’t need an internet connection to play your games.
Now the ads are 60sec? instead of 2.5min. Right now the time pressure to do your business is the hardest its ever been. Until they increase the ads again.
You could always keep an empty plastic bottle on hand. Start while in your chair and then finish up in the bathroom. Of course this would require some acrobatics if you are a female
The moral of the story is: no rusty banal or shitty memory is banal or shitty enough, for these postmodern kids nowadays to NOT commoditize it as “nostalgia”. EXACTLY like their boomer parents with their own rusty banal or shitty items in their memory bank.
“I look around me, and the horizon seems to be at the same distance everywhere I look, therefore it must be obvious: I am at the center of the Universe.”
Kids not having the Saturday morning ritual and being disappointed because golf.
The joy of when that Big Screen movie that you never got to see finally comes to the TV. With ad breaks. You absolutely didn’t care about the ads because they were normal at the time. And you had to be there on time to watch it, and make sure nobody else in the house was going to try to watch something at the same time. While I appreciate the huge variety and the ability to binge some great series today, it’s still the same old shit even with all the streaming services: A lot of bad TV, lots of uninteresting TV, with a few bright spots and plenty of ads.
Here in Mexico channel 5 used to play trilogies on Saturday afternoons that’s how I saw the Indiana Jones trilogy, Back to the future and Star wars to name a few when I was a kid.
