Remember the days...

[TheVampwizimp_v1legacy]

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Remember the days when you could like something without people ruining it? Days when if you were into a thing, whatever it was, you didn't have to worry about half the world calling you a stupidhead buttface* for liking something they don't? When the internet didn't tell you to feel dumb for not noticing all the super-legitimate problems that for-real-ruin-forever your favorite past times?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

What do you remember?

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*approximation; edited/censored for the children

 

[Thaluikhain]

Eh, the king of England got in trouble for liking divorcees and/or national socialism before my parents were born.

OTOH, that was a bit different in that he actually had to abdicate, rather than had people saying the stuff he liked had some issues.

 

[tippy2k2]

Spoiler

I remember those days...I still live in them. I like what I like and if other people don't like it, then that's their loss. I can discuss why they don't like it and (if it's not some dipshit reason) I can understand that others don't always like what I like.

Hell, even the plot holes and whatnot I don't care about. If you need proof that I'm not just saying this, you're looking at one of five people left in the world who liked the original Mass Effect 3 ending (I haven't even played the "Extended Cut"). I also enjoy Call of Duty for it's single player, I am a HUGE sport games fan, I love my consoles and don't like to game on my PC. You may notice this as the "Escapist hates you for not liking/hating things they like/hate" Trifecta.

 

[TheVampwizimp_v1legacy]

Nope, never happened. Those people are just didn't cyberstalk you back then. Twitter certainly doesn't help. I still remember being called a shill when I said that I liked Far Cry 2 back in 2009.

Also, if you want to use a footnote, you put the word in a bracket, you type what you want to appear in the footnote, then you create the end bracket by placing a "/" in front of it, like the following, minus the spaces of course.

[ footnote ] stuff here [ /footnote ]

Thanks for the tip, I never bother to look this stuff up.

And by The Days, I mean before the internet and 24-hour news channels mounted a constant assault on our very beings. There have always been people to ridicule you, but it used to be possible to ignore it and pretend that 90% of people weren't contrary assholes. Now, if you want to spend any time online, you have to brace yourself for strangers directing real anger at you just for existing.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

I remember a time when kids didn't all have their own cell phones. I remember when people were surprised when I said I didn't have one at the age of 12. I remember actually having to use the landline phone to call my friend's house to ask if I could come over. I remember a time when school bullying happened in school, and not around the clock.

As much as we like to say "Oh things were never as good as you remember them" and break out the rose tinted glasses argument, the internet has made some parts of life worse than they were before.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

Eh, sort of. I still don't often want to say I had a better time with Dragon Age 2 than Origins. Everyone starts pulling out the very sharp tools at that point.

 

[Barbas]

No. Before I discovered the internet, there were already people who told you those things on the school playground. Now they've just grown into similar adults.

I remember Boeing 747s flying so low over the rooftops that the hustle and bustle of the market would periodically be drowned out by the scream of their massive under-slung engines as they roared overhead like Tomahawk missiles. That old airport is closed now, though the runway has been used since for various events like the World Carnival.

 

[FalloutJack]

Seems like so many other people have really bad experiences...which I don't receive 90% of the time. Sorry.

 

[Starbird]

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Remember the days when you could like something without people ruining it? Days when if you were into a thing, whatever it was, you didn't have to worry about half the world calling you a stupidhead buttface* for liking something they don't? When the internet didn't tell you to feel dumb for not noticing all the super-legitimate problems that for-real-ruin-forever your favorite past times?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

What do you remember?

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*approximation; edited/censored for the children

Never. It's a really stupid and incomprehensible part of human psychology.

People have always been odd about their fandoms. Whether it be American Football fans ragging on Soccer, Playstation fans insulting Sega fans or Rift players pooping on WoW players...people are dumb sometimes.

Gaming does seem especially prone to this. Personally, I don't really see the point. I have an Xbox, PC and PS3 (and likely a 4 if they release an exclusive that actually looks half decent).

OT: I remember:
- Not having enough money to buy games, so when I did get one I made it last for months and replayed it a billion times.
- A can of coke costing 1/4 of what it does now. And being bigger.
- Trance music on the radio.
- Installing a game off 10 stiffy disks, finding one was corrupt.
- Game manuals being a work of art.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Those days ended when Ug decided that Thog's cave paintings were stupid and told him so.

- Installing a game off 10 stiffy disks, finding one was corrupt.

Actually had this happen with a CD. The third disk of Quake 4 warped and the installer couldn't read it. Had to take it back to the store.

 

[EternallyBored]

Nope, never happened. Those people are just didn't cyberstalk you back then. Twitter certainly doesn't help. I still remember being called a shill when I said that I liked Far Cry 2 back in 2009.

Also, if you want to use a footnote, you put the word in a bracket, you type what you want to appear in the footnote, then you create the end bracket by placing a "/" in front of it, like the following, minus the spaces of course.

[ footnote ] stuff here [ /footnote ]

Thanks for the tip, I never bother to look this stuff up.

And by The Days, I mean before the internet and 24-hour news channels mounted a constant assault on our very beings. There have always been people to ridicule you, but it used to be possible to ignore it and pretend that 90% of people weren't contrary assholes. Now, if you want to spend any time online, you have to brace yourself for strangers directing real anger at you just for existing.

So like before video games existed then? Because I remember the media accusing gamers of being violent sociopaths in the 90's, and reclusive virgin losers in the 80's, when they weren't attacking D&D for making people satanic of course. The internet wasn't much better, I got death threats for being a star trek fan in the early 90's on early BBS sites.

There was never any before time, the internet has always been like that, I remember having the same thoughts around 1999 when the media was bringing Jack Thompson around to talk about how games were training people to be mass murderers. Then I realized that it never really changed, the details change, and sometimes the nature of the targets changes, but its always been that way, now isn't really any worse than it was a decade ago.. To be honest, its actually better now, at least the news media isn't bringing U.S. congressmen on anymore to talk about their efforts to legally ban selling certain types of games.

 

[Frission]

Those days ended when Ug decided that Thog's cave paintings were stupid and told him so.

Pff, it was already too late when prokaryote A thought that cynobacteria B's photosynthesis was over-hyped.

OT: People have always been like this. It's the same way people think the whole world is ending because of the violence, when crime and war is actually at some of it's lowest levels in history.

 

[PlayerDos]

I remember an age without p2win microtransactions, and when games *levelling systems* weren't designed to be as fucking tedious and time consuming as possible in order to get you to want to use the p2win microtransactions.

 

[Pete Oddly]

I remember those days, but I don't miss them. Sure, it was nice not to be called a fag every ten seconds when attempting to have discussions, and it was nice when anonymity didn't turn everyone and their dog into raving hyperbolic lunatics. However; nowadays it's harder for people to hide their heads in the sand and ignore issues with real world impacts.

 

[happyninja42]

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Remember the days when you could like something without people ruining it?

I am living it right now, because I don't give a fuck what other people think about the things I like.

Days when if you were into a thing, whatever it was, you didn't have to worry about half the world calling you a stupidhead buttface* for liking something they don't?

Yep, I remember those days, they were yesterday, and today, and last week, and pretty much every day. Seriously, who gives a shit what other people think about the stuff you like?

When the internet didn't tell you to feel dumb for not noticing all the super-legitimate problems that for-real-ruin-forever your favorite past times?

....yeah, see answers 1 and 2 above. I'm not sure if this is a 100% joke thread, or if you are being serious with your thoughts about negative criticism for the things you like. I'm going to operate under the assumption that you are being serious, because the alternative means this thread is just sort of without purpose.

Why would you let other people ruin your past times? Do you have to have everyone agree with your feelings on something to enjoy it? So they don't like what you like, big deal. So they say negative things about it, so what, that doesn't mean you can't still enjoy it. The opinions of others (including mine), mean jack shit to you, or at least they should, about a subject as non-critical as "the stuff I enjoy". I've had multiple people on this forum and others, call me all kinds of things because of my opinions on certain things, like games/shows/books/etc. And guess what, I don't give shit. They can say what they like, think what they like about me, I don't care. Their opinions are irrelevant to whether or not I like something, and it should be that way for you.

 

[TheVampwizimp_v1legacy]

snip, snip, snipperoo

OK, I am going to level with you, and the other several people who seem to be worried about my self-esteem. I *don't* care what people think about the things I like. I can happily defend Mass Effect 3 right to the haters' faces. Someone not liking what I like *does not* make me feel bad about liking it.

What *does* make me feel like crap, though, is that people feel the need to take time out of their days to bash people they have never met because someone dares have a different opinion. I am not afraid of these people, I am just frustrated at all the aggression and mean-spirited spite that people are so eager to spew on each other.

What I am saying is, when I was a kid, and there hardly even WAS an internet, and people didn't spend so much time looking for e-fights, it was just easier to sit back and enjoy what you could enjoy, and not worry about avoiding web denizens and the vitriol they spit just for the simple act of liking something.

Guh. I was just trying to draw out some nostalgia from you folks. That's all this thread is, trying to spread some love for the good old days, as you see them.

 

[happyninja42]

What I am saying is, when I was a kid, and there hardly even WAS an internet, and people didn't spend so much time looking for e-fights,

No, they were just looking for real fights in your actual face. xD And making fun of you for things that had nothing to do with an online persona, and had everything to do with your in person persona. xD I remember those days too, before the interwebs existed.

it was just easier to sit back and enjoy what you could enjoy, and not worry about avoiding web denizens and the vitriol they spit just for the simple act of liking something.

I dunno, personally, I would've loved to be able to mute/ignore/block the actual people I had to interact with back in the nostalgia days, sadly, that power was not mine yet. xD

I get what you're saying, I just don't think it's really that big of a deal, avoiding assholes on the internet is a lot easier than avoiding them in person in my opinion.

But since you want nostalgia, I guess I miss it when me and my friends would climb on the roof of our old elementary school, smoke some pot, and star gaze for hours, talking about random life stuff. Those were good times.

 

[TheVampwizimp_v1legacy]

What I am saying is, when I was a kid, and there hardly even WAS an internet, and people didn't spend so much time looking for e-fights,

No, they were just looking for real fights in your actual face. xD And making fun of you for things that had nothing to do with an online persona, and had everything to do with your in person persona. xD I remember those days too, before the interwebs existed.

Well, I was actually so shy as a kid that I barely had an in-person persona. People didn't even give me enough notice to bother trying to fight me. I was sort of a nerd incognito.

But since you want nostalgia, I guess I miss it when me and my friends would climb on the roof of our old elementary school, smoke some pot, and star gaze for hours, talking about random life stuff. Those were good times.

See, that's what I'm talking about! Remembrances of days past. Surely some things were better in those simpler times. Being an adult just doesn't give you the opportunity to do these kinds of casually illegal things anymore

 

[happyninja42]

But since you want nostalgia, I guess I miss it when me and my friends would climb on the roof of our old elementary school, smoke some pot, and star gaze for hours, talking about random life stuff. Those were good times.

See, that's what I'm talking about! Remembrances of days past. Surely some things were better in those simpler times. Being an adult just doesn't give you the opportunity to do these kinds of casually illegal things anymore

Actually it would be easier now that I'm not living with my parents and own my own house. xD But I have no desire to get high anymore.