What has improved over time?

[MHR]

Of course gaming has improved. It's decision-making that hasn't. If you don't like the bullshit from a huge game that comes with a $60 price tag, maybe consider not buying bullshit at a ridiculous mark-up?

Bottom line is 30 years ago you can't say there were 50 fantastic games that are going to come out this year, but today you can. Just don't buy the 100 other shit ones.

 

[Vault101]

you know what pisses me off? people who spew the aame tired old bullshit "music is dead/current music is awful, it was so much better back then"

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? we live in great times for music....its go easy to find the bizare weird and wonderful and stuff you never would have has access to without the internet, and people want to go back to when you just he had the radio/TV/ and record store? hell no

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

I'm gonna go with boob's

And no not fake boob's I'm neutral about those, I'm talking about the way boobs look in comparison every ten or 20 years. If you do compare them they look different and to me they have become better and better.

It may be because of the bra's or maybe just health practices but to me boobs have only looked better and better.

(To those that have read this your time is now mine and you can't have it back.)

 

[Frission]

Hmmmm, that's a toughie. Yesterday's solution tends to be today's problem. Even with technology there's a problem with planned obsolescence. I'm more of the opinion that we live in a line that sometimes goes a bit up or a bit down.

Faster means of communication, makes it less meaningful. Better game graphics at the expense sometimes of game play and story. More information, can lead to over saturation. Some wines don't taste good aged.

It's not worse than any previous decades. The internet is bigger and better. That's a plus.

 

[Korolev]

Medical Science has improved, even if access in many nations has not. Our understanding of genetics and protein biology has improved. Computer technology has improved. If you look at the world as a whole, crime and violent deaths are at their lowest point ever (per capita). Sure, we've got the Wars in the Congo, Afghanistan and Syria, but in general the amount of violence across the whole world has gone down dramatically over the past 40 or so years.

Crime rates have fallen in the Western World - mostly because we're fixated on shoving everyone we can into prisons. But a drop in the stats is a drop in the stats.

 

[Russirishican]

Wine and Cheese

 

[cojo965]

My sexual prowess has improved over time. It's hard to tell though because it started so high to begin with.

Yes with a username like Fappy you would know

OT: My taste in games has definatly improved thanks to the gaming rut I've been in lately.

 

[trophykiller]

Robert Downy Jr. has most certainly improved. In some ways, I think the Character Tony Stark actually saved him as a person. Finding new meaning and direction that wasn't detrimental to his health(or illegal) was just the thing he needed to leave behind a good legacy. And that is kind of what the character Iron Man is about: improving the current world to leave behind a better one for future generations.

Plus, you know, great one-liners.

 

[Olas]

Portable memory storage.

The past:

Spoiler

80 Kilobytes

The present:

Spoiler

32 Gigabytes

 

[Amaury_games]

Well, nothing new here. I think humanity has improved quite a lot overall through the centuries. We live longer (medicine, food, and knowledge of how the world and our bodies work is better), leave knowledge for future generations (that's even easier to keep with the web and Computers, along with books), and our tools keep getting better.

captcha: "buckle your shoe". I'm at home, captcha, and it's freaking hot! I'll be barefoot until I have to leave to work tomorrow.

 

[Pebkio]

People's opinion of the Star Wars Prequel... apparently...

Actually, I'm going to take all of your opinions and throw them away. Right into the moot pile because what's improved is our collective understanding of science. Which has, by stint of being the basis of everything, has improved everything. Tech, medicine, boobies, quality of life... they've all gotten better because our understanding of science has gotten better.

The only thing our science can't touch is how we form thoughts and opinions. But we're getting there, and soon we'll even think better. Or, at least, we'll think that we think better. And even though it might be a dystopian nightmare, at least we'll think we're happy.

 

[Belaam]

Medicine - From infant mortality rates through life expectancy, all better.

Information - I'm only in my mid-30s, but this change is immense. My kids will never get totally lost driving unless they want to do it for fun.

Technology - Already several great examples here.

Civilization - I have no fear that people from a neighboring village will show up, kill me, burn my house down, and take my wife and daughters as sex slaves. This is pretty unusual in the breadth of human existence.

Society - No one I know is property. My daughters will marry for love, not because I sold them for some goats. At our current trends, they will even be able to marry other women if that is their inclination. If they differ from societal norms, they will be able to find groups of like minded people rather than be, say for example, legally tried as witches and executed. Classes of people, divided by race, gender, or caste are not considered inferior (at least not officially, and those who argue that they are inferior are mocked or scorned for doing so).

Waste water treatment - There is not a pit of my bodily waste next to my house. It exits my neighborhood underground, goes through a variety of treatments, and is returned to the water table. My odds of dying from a disease brought on by a lack of sewage treatment is extremely low.

Agriculture and food storage - Tonight, I had a sausage, mushroom and onion pizza with tomato sauce for dinner. I bought it for $4 a few days ago, took it out of the freezer today and it was ready in about 20 minutes. The wealthiest, most powerful Pharaoh of Egypt could not have done the same (Not in the least because tomatoes are native to the Americas).

Religious tolerance - At least in the country I live in, my religious views will not get me killed.

Long story short, if I could be transported in time to any period in history to live out the rest of my life, I'd pick as close to now as possible.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Bit of a lighter tone on this one but the splash art in League of Legends. Seriously, they fucking rock now.

Though they're still working stuff out. They changed Jax's default art and changed it again within the week. It was just that bad.

Compare this

Miss Fortune Classic Skin ? Old [http://lolwp.com/miss-fortune/missfortune_splash_0/]

With this

Miss Fortune Classic Skin ? Reworked [http://lolwp.com/miss-fortune/miss-fortune-classic-reworked/]

I wish I didn't suck with MF... Sad thing is she's my best AD Carry...

[sub]STOP FOCUSING ME[/sub]

Can't be bothered to think of something less trivial. Video tapes maybe? Though some people are still fond of tapes. Myself included.

Oh and for those who have forgotten:


Ah the memories...

 

[Altorin]

Portable memory storage.

The past:

Spoiler

80 Kilobytes

The present:

Spoiler

32 Gigabytes

that pretty much sums it up. Anyone who doesn't think that the world has vastly improved since a time when you couldn't even store the current page of the forum you're looking at in the hard drive of your computer, should go live in a tree for a year. Then let us know how vastly improved your experience was with a complete lack of modern technology.

And anyone complaining about game design in general must have no clue about the actual history of the video game industry. It's much better now, even with EA and Activision being the powerhouse monsters they are today. You're getting games faster, cheaper, and with much more work put into them. Sure, there is shit out there, but there was ALWAYS shit out there (pick a random NES game, and tell me how AWESOME it is. Please.) and Games come out every year that can at the very least compete with the best games of earlier generations, the cream of the crop from a bygone era.

 

[ohnoitsabear]

you know what pisses me off? people who spew the aame tired old bullshit "music is dead/current music is awful, it was so much better back then"

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? we live in great times for music....its go easy to find the bizare weird and wonderful and stuff you never would have has access to without the internet, and people want to go back to when you just he had the radio/TV/ and record store? hell no

This times a thousand. Sure, it could be argued that popular music is worse now than it was forty years ago (although there was some pretty damn bad stuff that was popular back then), but who cares when I can easily access whatever music I want to listen to anywhere in the world?

Aside from that, I will say that the human race (at least in many parts of the world) has gotten much, much better about not discriminating. I mean think about it, sixty years ago, a black person wasn't allowed to use the same drinking fountain as a white person in most of the southern United States, and now the United States has a black president. Sure, there's still a long way to go, but the improvement has been enormous.

 

[Spinozaad]

Technology.

But I politely disagree with the people who claim that la condition humaine has increased over time. Modernity killed meaning, made life and death impersonal and the world uncaring.

 

[Belaam]

Technology.

But I politely disagree with the people who claim that la condition humaine has increased over time. Modernity killed meaning, made life and death impersonal and the world uncaring.

I disagree with this completely. Public executions used to be a major form of entertainment. Now, we get upset and send our own money to people we will never meet, thousands of miles away to ensure that they get food, cleft jaw surgery, or better education. Heck, in many cases, people will do the same for animals - creatures not even of their species.

From cheering the execution of those of differing politics or religions to helping those we will never see in person, it's hard to imagine that as a decrease in "la condition humaine". I would encourage you to look up some 19th century parenting books - most encourage the idea that children should be afraid of their parents and that this fear should be instilled via hitting them with a thin stick. Finally, this fear should be instilled prior to the child learning to crawl so that when they crawl towards a dangerous location and you yell at them, they will know to fear you.

19th century parenting books give me nightmares. To say nothing of the devices that literally restrained children to desks or in bed to keep them from getting up in the night or not finishing homework.

 

[DugMachine]

Female figures have gotten uh sexier I guess? How this happened in the span of a few hundred years is anybody's guess.

 

[Spinozaad]

Technology.

But I politely disagree with the people who claim that la condition humaine has increased over time. Modernity killed meaning, made life and death impersonal and the world uncaring.

I disagree with this completely. Public executions used to be a major form of entertainment. Now, we get upset and send our own money to people we will never meet, thousands of miles away to ensure that they get food, cleft jaw surgery, or better education. Heck, in many cases, people will do the same for animals - creatures not even of their species.

From cheering the execution of those of differing politics or religions to helping those we will never see in person, it's hard to imagine that as a decrease in "la condition humaine". I would encourage you to look up some 19th century parenting books - most encourage the idea that children should be afraid of their parents and that this fear should be instilled via hitting them with a thin stick. Finally, this fear should be instilled prior to the child learning to crawl so that when they crawl towards a dangerous location and you yell at them, they will know to fear you.

19th century parenting books give me nightmares. To say nothing of the devices that literally restrained children to desks or in bed to keep them from getting up in the night or not finishing homework.

I agree with the sentiment, but not with the argument. You're applying your own moral standards to previous times, that's a historical fallacy. We can't judge the part based on our standards.

Morals might have changed, technology might improved, but the human condition hasn't necessarily improved as well. More people than ever are starving of hunger and disease than ever before. War has become more brutal and total, we are destroying the environment, society is atomized more than ever, modern technology and ideas brought about the greatest and most senseless slaughters of human life on a mass industrial scale, etc. etc.

That's the condition I'm referring to. While the veneer has become more civilized, the heart of darkness is darker than ever, thanks to modernity.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I genuinely think music has. At least, the music I listen to. In my humble opinion, Machine Head's The Blackening is only separated from Master of Puppets by rose-tinted spectacles.