So a couple of towelheads did such a number on your 4th world shithole that you still haven't recovered from, two decades later? That's pretty funny. Seethe.
no, muslims were not smart enough or planned. The usa, israel and saudi arabia did it. not some beet farmers. 9/11 gave the usa cassus belli for what everything is now
not a paradise but compared to now, it was much better
>lower wage stagnation >purchasing power for most individuals was better >not as big as surveillance state >"war on terror' not a thing >college, houses, and food all cheap >unlimited access to the internet didnt give people brain damage >smart phones were not everywhere >35mm cameras were still used >debt and national gdp were better
yes, some people get hung on on the material culture, but the living quality was better for Americans
Man those were the days when outrage culture and identity politics didn't even exist, your sphere of social experience was limited to people you interacted with in person and what you watched on TV
Movies legitimately haven't had soul for a while. I'd say 2006-2008 were the last years any movies had soul. After that it's been barreling of cinematic universes, woke oscarbait, and yammering about "the current thing". Cinema has become corporatized. Even studios that are hailed as a return to cinema like A24 are corporatized in their own way. At the end of the day it's about checking all the boxes and not art.
>Movies legitimately haven't had soul for a while. I'd say 2006-2008 were the last years any movies had soul.
I hate zoomers so fricking much. This website isn't for your generation. Go away moron.
>blockbuster >culture
blockbuster was to kino like mcdonalds is to food
indie stores were always better, but your parents were normies who didn't know any better
It doesn't matter. It wasn't about what place you rented from, it was the experience of looking through everything, picking it out, taking it home, grabbing some food, and making an entire night/weekend out of it. Streaming can't replicate this.
If the disc wasn't scratched to shit and wouldn't play. Now you're sitting there with your nachos seething at the frozen screen. Returned it two minutes late? That'll be $10 goy.
Blockbuster died for a reason and I piss on their grave.
blockbuster was part of the culture and was kino. Anyone around during its mainstream day remembers going there on Friday night with the family picking out movies for over the weekend/week.
Also would recommend watching 'The last blockbuster' great movie regarding the history of the chain
Can you zoomers stop with the Muh video store meme. Gen Xer. I grew up on video stores. They sucked. Never had new releases in. Waist a trip there. Had to return the shit in the next day or get 3 dollar fine. Blamed you for scratched DVDs or un-rewind VHS. Staff were all stupid teenage buttholes. Only thing I must of Game Crazy. What I don’t miss, is using phone book, yes a phone book zoomer, and calling video stores to see if the shit I wanted was in.
Millennial, and you had a shit place then. Blockbuster didn't give a shit about scratched DVDs. They just checked it was the right thing and that's it. Who rented the new shit? Dig through the aisles, and you end up with some hidden gems. Even with games, I played shit I never heard of and had a lot of fun.
Hollywood was superior. Had Game Crazy. They also ones they started 5 day rentals which Blockbuster copied soon after. That said, video stores still sucked
Yep. I think it's Seattle...my aunt and uncle live there and houses are always up on a slope from the sidewalk for some reason....I live in San Diego and while its beautiful here, there is no cozy vibe like the pacific northwest suburbs.
While the fashion was terrible, society was not manipulated by algos tainting our views, there was no global warming as any kid because they spent their whole summer outside and people were allowed to have differences
It makes me really sad to think about it bro. The world was so much better. Life was actually fun and the future seemed promising. There were no blacks in real life or forced into media. The modern world is fricking shit.
they were not good, but now everything is magnified and people can watch things read things and state their opinion 24/7 which made it worse, same as the news post OWS
Old consoom was bright and colorful, and the generally happy nature of the teenaged cashier giving you your food while the sounds of different subculture cliques talking about the newest Nu-Metal albums and Tamagotchis gave the mall a lively atmosphere and let you know that, despite being consumerist as frick, everything was going to be alright.
New consoom is sterile as frick and your cashier is a xanax-addicted chemically braindead zoomer while the only sounds in the mall are from Black folk looting stores or getting into huge brawls because everyone else is glued to their phones trying to laugh their despair away by watching morons become millionaires through /gif/ ylyl-tier tiktok cancer or browsing clothing stores for the freshest bussin frfr no cap drip from Supreme and Nike, along with the constant reminder of needing to mask up, get the jabs, eat the bugs, and kneel to BLM for being a privileged white straight male letting you know that, despite being even more consumerist, everything is going to get worse and nothing you do will stop it
no one is talking about their generation, but a time in America where it was better than today
>pre-9/11 was paradise
not a paradise but compared to now, it was much better
>lower wage stagnation >purchasing power for most individuals was better >not as big as surveillance state >"war on terror' not a thing >college, houses, and food all cheap >unlimited access to the internet didnt give people brain damage >smart phones were not everywhere >35mm cameras were still used >debt and national gdp were better
yes, some people get hung on on the material culture, but the living quality was better for Americans
too much people get caught up in the material culture and miss what made it great
just accept that you're racist and you liked pre 9/11 because america was white, stop beating around the bush and making up all these excuses, it's fine, america really was a better country when it was whiter
I miss having reasons to leave the house, now you can just do all your shopping online, watch and film or show online, do your banking online etc etc. Having reasons to go outside is a good thing
Vine was just proto tiktok (or rather proto-proto tiktok if you count musically). Those games are soulless nu-trash. As for those movies, Wolf of Wall street was soulless, Hunger Games was trash and Iron Man was the start of the MCU that literally destroyed the soul of cinema. Xbox One and PS4 were soulless. Those music examples are also soulless.
Basically if this image is supposed to be giving me nostalgia for 2013 it is failing miserably. 2013 was shit tier as was every year following it (and immediately preceding it). 2010s as a whole was garbage and hardly better than today.
>Boomers use to spend their free time reading books and newspapers or going for a walk without a phone to browse the internet with while they walk
Cringe
>buddy javier has a niece (pic related) 17 yrs old >don't know that she crushes on me, i'm 24 >i'm oblivious to it >in the past, i helped her out with her school work and her artwork (she wants to be an anime artist) >he's constantly pushing her hang with the group, sit next to me, etc. any time we all go to his house to have our ad&d sessions or simply hanging out playing video games >don't see her for about 3 months >friend and his niece live an hour away by spring cypress >one night my buddies john, garcia, and myself take a break from ad&d and go rent a movie from our blockbuster at 75th and lawndale >we separate and start browsing >after a while notice some thot creeping on me >insta-boner, thinking of a way to approach her >she keeps creeping closer and closer >i randomly pick up boxes, turn them over to see what's it about and set it back >not really paying attention >javier comes up from behind and surprises me >says he and his niece came down to hang with us, but didn't find us at john's house, but john's brother told javier where we were. >thot comes up and find out it's amy >down boner. down. >get my movie and we all leave. >we all decide to go to student center (arcade, bowling, drinking, pool) at u of h central. i'm working on my 3rd degree. >month later javier tells me niece likes me and i should go out with her >single, okay. what the hell >going to work get call from javier that amy is back with her mother in Pennsylvania. >frick >find out she stole javier's mother car to skip school and go to some guys house. >double frick >loses control and flips car and destroys it. grandma not too happy and flies her out that same day. no injuries >then find out several days later that amy runs away from home to hook up with a 40+ year old in California >heart broken >drugs, and couple abortions later, goes back home solo >ends up being fat hair stylist >oh, movie that was rented that night at blockbuster was army of darkness >i miss blockbuster
I get so depressed when I watch mediea from like pre-2010, shit even pre-2016.
It wasn't great then, but it's so much better now. Every time I go out now I have this strange feeling, it feels like there's an uncomfortable vibe everywhere. Like everyone secretly distrusts everyone else, I feel so bad for the kids who are gonna grow up in this time
Even some simple show like KoQ, it's from a completely different time and watching it makes me yearn for that time
Seinfeld is the big one for me, holy shit what a comfy time it was
Societal trust is immensely lower, as a result of mass immigration and the destruction of the middle class
It's really sad. I remember being able to easily get into friendly interactions just out in public. Now people are on their phone all the time in public, or just avoid any stranger interaction at all. It's such a cold place these days
I get so depressed when I watch mediea from like pre-2010, shit even pre-2016.
It wasn't great then, but it's so much better now. Every time I go out now I have this strange feeling, it feels like there's an uncomfortable vibe everywhere. Like everyone secretly distrusts everyone else, I feel so bad for the kids who are gonna grow up in this time
Even some simple show like KoQ, it's from a completely different time and watching it makes me yearn for that time
>Watch literally any sitcom made before 2010 >Get incredibly sad with the fact my life will never be what i'm watching on my screen
Shits rough man
based, I wish there were more people like you, most of them don't realize it
Seinfeld is the big one for me, holy shit what a comfy time it was
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It's really sad. I remember being able to easily get into friendly interactions just out in public. Now people are on their phone all the time in public, or just avoid any stranger interaction at all. It's such a cold place these days
Again, phones are a major culprit but it's also immigration. There is no basis for the United States to exist anymore. No one can agree on abortion, immigration, guns, even whether education is good. The country is no longer Christian, it's about to not be white, and English isn't even our official language. Why does this country exist? Purely to shuffle money around and maximize GDP.
>based, I wish there were more people like you, most of them don't realize it
most leftists I know and met are so pozzed its unbelievable. 99% of them under 40 are just liberals who like troony shit, they dont care about workers rights, firearms. Everytime i tell them that mass immigration is used to conflict with labour rights and workers they think im a trump supporter
I was born in 1995 and I'm firmly convinced that my generation is the best. Zoomers are fricked in the head, annoying little runts with ADHD and an inability to take anything seriously.
You're a borderline zoomer yourself, some definitions consider you to already be one. And millennials were the first gen to have ADHD. Gen X was the last cool gen.
03 here, I went to block buster in the dying years as a little kid and yeah I do miss walking around and looking.
Of course it wasn't perfect with how expensive the candy was, Scratched dvds and such.
But I watched some fricking weird movies back then.
I remember Blockbuster for having insane air conditioning, like walk in freezer levels. When it's hot in the summer, and you walk in there, and see some traumatizing movie, nothing like it.
And Ghouls 'n Ghosts for SNES.
yes ofc, but being 49 in 1995 is not young, anything over 25 is not young. its not like children who are 13 romanticizing stuff, it is grown adults who were grown adults back than
see
>pre-9/11 was paradise
not a paradise but compared to now, it was much better
>lower wage stagnation >purchasing power for most individuals was better >not as big as surveillance state >"war on terror' not a thing >college, houses, and food all cheap >unlimited access to the internet didnt give people brain damage >smart phones were not everywhere >35mm cameras were still used >debt and national gdp were better
yes, some people get hung on on the material culture, but the living quality was better for Americans
recommend checking out 'Proximity'. It is like a modern version of 'flight of the navigator'. And if you are young fricks who think 2013 Obama Administration is comfy times then check out 'flight of the navigator' it was what kids who lived during a time when SOUL existed watched
Y'all boomers some dumb mfs if you srsly think your times were better than now. We got hotter celebs like Zendaya and Hunter Schafer we party erryday we got the tech we need to feel calm we got errythang we up in here doing our thing y'all hating cause you never did nothing
same, I used to scroll so much crap endlessly, covid hit and forced us all to stay in so I found myself wanting to scroll less, I just visit maybe 3 websites now (only 1 social media) and it's way comfier. getting back into reading again too, time to get my attention span back
>OH MY GAHD REMEMBAH DA NINETEES!??!?1 IT WAZ SO QUIRKY AND WEACKY I LOVE THE BRIGHT FLASHY COLORS AND NEON NICKELOADEEAN SLIME SEGA GENESIS HOLY CRAP SO QUIRKY AND RELATEABLE
Why the frick do these posts feel so insincere and unrealistic like I can list a thousand reasons why thirty years ago sucks and I can list a thousand more why the present is better
Do you frickers even remember BBS also that shitty protocol is still use today by east asian forums
Imagine doing anal with these girls? I’m a 90s kid and I would offen here my uncle say to my dad how he would frick his girlfriends up the ass and they would like it. His gfs look like these type of girls. We’re 80s chicks into anal on the low?
Not necessarily, there are objectively good and objectively bad eras throughout history. Did people who grew up in the 1910s or the 1930s look back on those eras as a better time when they grew up? Maybe in some cases, but I think most would agree that those were dark periods.
Aw yes the good world of black propaganda and race mixing propaganda. “Remember tik tok bros?” “Didn’t she a onlyfans?” “I remember watching Marvel movies in theaters and everyone was losing their mind”
Unironcally yes. When the entire world is owned by one Chinese and one American mega corporation in 30 years zoomers and millennials alike will be looking back upon the days when you could scroll through shitty ass tik tok as you pleased without damaging your social credit score
Hope for a financial crash that takes down both the US and China so multinationals sell off their IP and smaller studios start back up.. won't be the same but better than the future you predict.
>There will genuinely be zoomers who, in 20-30 years time, feel nostalgic for how 'good' the world is right now.
That's how badly society is degenerating.
If you think it's horrible now, just wait.
Which of course begs the question, why aren't any of you doing anything about this?
Cinemaphile as a whole is populated mostly by people of average intelligence at best and aggressive anti-intellectualism. They substitute intelligence and intellectualism with a crude elitism founded upon a cynical contrarianism which is rooted in a shallow exploration of the subject in the main but more importantly in entry-level esoteric aspects of the subject, whose obscurity to the general public gives them a false sense of superiority in comprehension for being "in the know", unlike normie sheep.
The obsession is driven by a need for identity in order to provide a sense of fulfillment for an otherwise lacking life. This induces a zealotry of preposterous degree, partially fueling the unwarranted rampant hostility here, but all that is beside the point.
The point is that they take their surface level understanding as good enough, and never push for a real progress or development of the general understanding and narrative. The board knowledge becomes frozen in time and depth and always opens and ends the same way. You only very rarely get someone expertly well acquainted with the matters, who either provide ad hoc evaluations in the same flippant style of the general user that are difficult to recognize as genuine information, or else effortposts that go far too in depth beyond the capacity of the average user to comprehend and appreciate what's being said, so typically ignored or brusquely dismissed.
That creates an environment hostile to experts, whose contributions are made to seem unwelcome. Experts are usually professionals acutely aware of when they are wasting their time, and so they shall choose to spend less and less of it discoursing here, and so the overall trend to the lowest common denominator continues unabated.
If i had one wish i would remove smart phones from ever existing, the internet i dont think is evil but when it can be used on a phone by everyone all the time no matter were you are it becomes evil
LAN parties back in the day being a young kid. You felt like a fricking genius knowing how to use a IP address to connect to a game server
The monitor on the far left is a compaq, the first computer I owned had that monitor. Had the side attachable speakers and a nice feeling knob for volume control that also acted as the power button. Good times.
knew people who played quake. Personally played a lot of Unreal Tournament, half life multi player team maps
>I think the 90s/early-00s had the perfect blend of tech and regular life before social-media became WAY too prevalent.
Indeed. We got LotR out of the early 2000s to prove it.
Unironically miss the dial-up days. People made a point of only using the internet for a couple hours a day, and could only access it from internet cafes or home.
Now, every fricker with a smartphone accesses it 24/7.
This thread is just American nostalgia and muh soul for things that were already soulless, corporatist, consoomer trash. Come to Europe and see places that have actual SOVL and real history Americans, and you will be humbled.
t. American who wishes he could go back
9/11 killed soul
Obama did
So a couple of towelheads did such a number on your 4th world shithole that you still haven't recovered from, two decades later? That's pretty funny. Seethe.
>towelheads
no, muslims were not smart enough or planned. The usa, israel and saudi arabia did it. not some beet farmers. 9/11 gave the usa cassus belli for what everything is now
The israelites did a number on brainwashing us to believe pre-9/11 was paradise
>pre-9/11 was paradise
not a paradise but compared to now, it was much better
>lower wage stagnation
>purchasing power for most individuals was better
>not as big as surveillance state
>"war on terror' not a thing
>college, houses, and food all cheap
>unlimited access to the internet didnt give people brain damage
>smart phones were not everywhere
>35mm cameras were still used
>debt and national gdp were better
yes, some people get hung on on the material culture, but the living quality was better for Americans
a thousand times this, thank you anon
NP, most think its just liking colourful things and blockbuster, which is part. But it was so much better
>So a couple of towelheads
It was the fricking israelites.
It was literally the Saudis though.
No, it was literally the israelites. Stupid frick.
Proof? We have literal proof that the Saudis did it.
pol is that way bot
Come on man, it was a national tragedy
WE MUST RETURN
yet we won't
WE MUSt
social media ruined the brains of children and women, as intended
Soon i will go inawoods and never use the internet again, i cant wait
Man those were the days when outrage culture and identity politics didn't even exist, your sphere of social experience was limited to people you interacted with in person and what you watched on TV
>1990s and pre-9/11
honestly any decade from post-war until 9/11 seemed like a great time to be around, even in the 70s when the economy was shit
Any decade before smartphones and social media took over our lives
the beginning of the end
The devil in human form
burn it.
without the smartphone the internet wouldn't be full of esl third world morons
Movies legitimately haven't had soul for a while. I'd say 2006-2008 were the last years any movies had soul. After that it's been barreling of cinematic universes, woke oscarbait, and yammering about "the current thing". Cinema has become corporatized. Even studios that are hailed as a return to cinema like A24 are corporatized in their own way. At the end of the day it's about checking all the boxes and not art.
>Movies legitimately haven't had soul for a while. I'd say 2006-2008 were the last years any movies had soul.
I hate zoomers so fricking much. This website isn't for your generation. Go away moron.
He's right, 2007 was a great year for movies
Get with the times, grandpa.
you’ll understand when you grow some hair on your balls, junior.
Thank God the second American civil war will bring us back to these times
>blockbuster
>culture
blockbuster was to kino like mcdonalds is to food
indie stores were always better, but your parents were normies who didn't know any better
It doesn't matter. It wasn't about what place you rented from, it was the experience of looking through everything, picking it out, taking it home, grabbing some food, and making an entire night/weekend out of it. Streaming can't replicate this.
I still do that at my local public library or on the internet archive
Yes, this. Blockbuster is just a shorthand for this whole experience.
The only thing I don't miss from The Old Times is having to rewind VHS, and sitting through about 6 adverts before the menu screen appeared.
you could've gotten one of those vhs rewinders
If the disc wasn't scratched to shit and wouldn't play. Now you're sitting there with your nachos seething at the frozen screen. Returned it two minutes late? That'll be $10 goy.
Blockbuster died for a reason and I piss on their grave.
gay
the reason why people went to indie stores is because they were too poor for blockbuster or wanted to rent porn
indie stores had more titles and stuff that blockbuster didn't have
blockbuster only had mainstream shit, but had lots of copies of the same titles
blockbuster was part of the culture and was kino. Anyone around during its mainstream day remembers going there on Friday night with the family picking out movies for over the weekend/week.
Also would recommend watching 'The last blockbuster' great movie regarding the history of the chain
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8704802/
kino documentary
I went to a small store before switching to blockbuster and it wasn't that much different
You will own nothing and be ha-...wait a minute...
Can you zoomers stop with the Muh video store meme. Gen Xer. I grew up on video stores. They sucked. Never had new releases in. Waist a trip there. Had to return the shit in the next day or get 3 dollar fine. Blamed you for scratched DVDs or un-rewind VHS. Staff were all stupid teenage buttholes. Only thing I must of Game Crazy. What I don’t miss, is using phone book, yes a phone book zoomer, and calling video stores to see if the shit I wanted was in.
I'm a millennial, anon, but do continue screaming into the void.
Millennial, and you had a shit place then. Blockbuster didn't give a shit about scratched DVDs. They just checked it was the right thing and that's it. Who rented the new shit? Dig through the aisles, and you end up with some hidden gems. Even with games, I played shit I never heard of and had a lot of fun.
Hollywood was superior. Had Game Crazy. They also ones they started 5 day rentals which Blockbuster copied soon after. That said, video stores still sucked
Better Candy Selection, but Blockbuster was my place of choice
>LARPing ESL hands typed this
You're a homosexual and never went to a Blockbuster in your life.
blockbuster had that policy for new releases where if they were out of stock you got it for free when they got it in
Having a desk that the monitor would sit down in was deluxe, don't remember seeing many of those
>worst prison cell in norway
I'm a big fan of the 2000s myself
Same. The early 2000s felt like a fever dream but in a good way.
It was the last drop of gas in the tank burning out after 9/11. It was just momentum that faded away.
Can we ever return?
Why does literally everything from the past just look like it contains peak SOUL?
You got something to say guy?
I still wonder where this was taken. Based on the foliage I would say Seattle or Portland
>I would say Seattle or Portland
Yep. I think it's Seattle...my aunt and uncle live there and houses are always up on a slope from the sidewalk for some reason....I live in San Diego and while its beautiful here, there is no cozy vibe like the pacific northwest suburbs.
it's south jersey (philadelphia suburbs)
That would really surprise me if true
Imagine sitting in that house in 2005 and playing World of Warcraft
>Look outside
>See the comfy rain
>No social media
>No smart phones
>WOW untainted by current year
We had it good. All was right in the world. Magic was still in the air.
While the fashion was terrible, society was not manipulated by algos tainting our views, there was no global warming as any kid because they spent their whole summer outside and people were allowed to have differences
80/early 90's childhood was peak comfy
>While the fashion was terrible
better than today, today its all synthetics and fast fashion athleticwear
WE MUST RETURN
yes
everyone is white and not on phones
look how clean and comfortable it looks.
I love walking into Targets in the middle of bumfrick nowhere and seeing these just with some updated signing.
nice
Because it did.
Holy shit that pic is kino
You feel it, too, don't you? I'm gonna make them give back our past!
It makes me really sad to think about it bro. The world was so much better. Life was actually fun and the future seemed promising. There were no blacks in real life or forced into media. The modern world is fricking shit.
how did we get here?
Imagine being able to sit outside and enjoy it without having a phone
I hate ADHD
For me, it was Hastings
New York City in 1993
bros...
soul
Kek is that Bob Golic? He does a radio show in Akron. He's redpilled but boring as frick
yeah lol
>liz-hurley
She's still an absolute smokeshow.
all the models from that time are still amazing
>all the models from that time are still amazing
The models of today are addicted to surgery and are soulless.
>The models of today are addicted to surgery and are soulless.
you know it
modeling will never be the same
IRL is a dead game.
90s were objectively better for Americans
pre Iron Man 2008 was soul
Marvel killed cinema
I hate current year so fricking much
same
looks comfy as frick.
I feel for zoomers because they will never know what it was like to fly before 9/11
Everyone loved the culture they knew growing up T/F?
YOU VILL RENT ZE TAPE AND OWN NOTHING
People villfurry rented ze tape and owned nuazink. In ze future it will be forced, zere will be no option to own
Were did the SOUL go?
>always recording moments
>digital cameras
>35mm was used
>clothing styles had some unique culture, now it is all athleticwear
Why does it seem like race relations were better in the 70s and 80s than they are today
they were not good, but now everything is magnified and people can watch things read things and state their opinion 24/7 which made it worse, same as the news post OWS
Fair enough
>seem like
They were.
Old consoom was bright and colorful, and the generally happy nature of the teenaged cashier giving you your food while the sounds of different subculture cliques talking about the newest Nu-Metal albums and Tamagotchis gave the mall a lively atmosphere and let you know that, despite being consumerist as frick, everything was going to be alright.
New consoom is sterile as frick and your cashier is a xanax-addicted chemically braindead zoomer while the only sounds in the mall are from Black folk looting stores or getting into huge brawls because everyone else is glued to their phones trying to laugh their despair away by watching morons become millionaires through /gif/ ylyl-tier tiktok cancer or browsing clothing stores for the freshest bussin frfr no cap drip from Supreme and Nike, along with the constant reminder of needing to mask up, get the jabs, eat the bugs, and kneel to BLM for being a privileged white straight male letting you know that, despite being even more consumerist, everything is going to get worse and nothing you do will stop it
True
90s consumerism was unironically soulful as frick
cosumerism and soul are diametrically opposed.
I miss Mac Miller
It ain't 2009 no more.
I know what's behind that door
Every generation thinks theirs is unique lol morons
no one is talking about their generation, but a time in America where it was better than today
too much people get caught up in the material culture and miss what made it great
just accept that you're racist and you liked pre 9/11 because america was white, stop beating around the bush and making up all these excuses, it's fine, america really was a better country when it was whiter
Grow up
are you going to deny that wage stagnation is the result of mass immigration?
I miss having reasons to leave the house, now you can just do all your shopping online, watch and film or show online, do your banking online etc etc. Having reasons to go outside is a good thing
Bros..
2013 was just as sterile as it is now
Vine was just proto tiktok (or rather proto-proto tiktok if you count musically). Those games are soulless nu-trash. As for those movies, Wolf of Wall street was soulless, Hunger Games was trash and Iron Man was the start of the MCU that literally destroyed the soul of cinema. Xbox One and PS4 were soulless. Those music examples are also soulless.
Basically if this image is supposed to be giving me nostalgia for 2013 it is failing miserably. 2013 was shit tier as was every year following it (and immediately preceding it). 2010s as a whole was garbage and hardly better than today.
Kino just Kino
Boring
I was young enough in 2013 that I should have nostalgia for it, but looking at this pic it was a pretty destitute time culturally.
2012 was the last good year of life.
2012 wasn't that great
soulless
>Boomers use to spend their free time reading books and newspapers or going for a walk without a phone to browse the internet with while they walk
Cringe
>buddy javier has a niece (pic related) 17 yrs old
>don't know that she crushes on me, i'm 24
>i'm oblivious to it
>in the past, i helped her out with her school work and her artwork (she wants to be an anime artist)
>he's constantly pushing her hang with the group, sit next to me, etc. any time we all go to his house to have our ad&d sessions or simply hanging out playing video games
>don't see her for about 3 months
>friend and his niece live an hour away by spring cypress
>one night my buddies john, garcia, and myself take a break from ad&d and go rent a movie from our blockbuster at 75th and lawndale
>we separate and start browsing
>after a while notice some thot creeping on me
>insta-boner, thinking of a way to approach her
>she keeps creeping closer and closer
>i randomly pick up boxes, turn them over to see what's it about and set it back
>not really paying attention
>javier comes up from behind and surprises me
>says he and his niece came down to hang with us, but didn't find us at john's house, but john's brother told javier where we were.
>thot comes up and find out it's amy
>down boner. down.
>get my movie and we all leave.
>we all decide to go to student center (arcade, bowling, drinking, pool) at u of h central. i'm working on my 3rd degree.
>month later javier tells me niece likes me and i should go out with her
>single, okay. what the hell
>going to work get call from javier that amy is back with her mother in Pennsylvania.
>frick
>find out she stole javier's mother car to skip school and go to some guys house.
>double frick
>loses control and flips car and destroys it. grandma not too happy and flies her out that same day. no injuries
>then find out several days later that amy runs away from home to hook up with a 40+ year old in California
>heart broken
>drugs, and couple abortions later, goes back home solo
>ends up being fat hair stylist
>oh, movie that was rented that night at blockbuster was army of darkness
>i miss blockbuster
yeah once i bought a box of popcorn flavoured jellybeans and really liked them
what kinda weird masochistic shit are you into, who of sound mind would actually like that?
I get so depressed when I watch mediea from like pre-2010, shit even pre-2016.
It wasn't great then, but it's so much better now. Every time I go out now I have this strange feeling, it feels like there's an uncomfortable vibe everywhere. Like everyone secretly distrusts everyone else, I feel so bad for the kids who are gonna grow up in this time
Even some simple show like KoQ, it's from a completely different time and watching it makes me yearn for that time
It's so much worse now*
Social media has unironically melted everyones brains, move inawoods anon
>inawoods
shut up
Cope zoomie
Cope with the fact you're never going to go "innawoods," it's just delusion
I have family members who did, they just commute like an hour to work each way
they have goats, ducks and chickens now, originally city people
I don't care
this is what city living does to you, it makes you autistic
mirror
Frasier and xfiles do that to me
Seinfeld is the big one for me, holy shit what a comfy time it was
It's really sad. I remember being able to easily get into friendly interactions just out in public. Now people are on their phone all the time in public, or just avoid any stranger interaction at all. It's such a cold place these days
>Watch literally any sitcom made before 2010
>Get incredibly sad with the fact my life will never be what i'm watching on my screen
Shits rough man
i only watch tv from the 90s and early 2000s, breaking bad is the youngest tv show i watch
Based anon, i'm doing the same thing now. Modern media is cancer
yup, xfiles, frasier, seinfeld, ds9, tng, and a bunch of others on my parents streaming service i can filter to before 2000
>parents streaming service
yes, I login from across the country and online to watch shit, theyre boomers
based kino house
i recommend the book
in the limelight by steve eichner if you like 90s ny clubbing
>Seinfeld is the big one for me, holy shit what a comfy time it was
forgot that, yes it is.
Societal trust is immensely lower, as a result of mass immigration and the destruction of the middle class
yes as a leftist mass immigration is used to cause conflict in workers rights and undermine workers trust.
based, I wish there were more people like you, most of them don't realize it
Again, phones are a major culprit but it's also immigration. There is no basis for the United States to exist anymore. No one can agree on abortion, immigration, guns, even whether education is good. The country is no longer Christian, it's about to not be white, and English isn't even our official language. Why does this country exist? Purely to shuffle money around and maximize GDP.
>based, I wish there were more people like you, most of them don't realize it
most leftists I know and met are so pozzed its unbelievable. 99% of them under 40 are just liberals who like troony shit, they dont care about workers rights, firearms. Everytime i tell them that mass immigration is used to conflict with labour rights and workers they think im a trump supporter
yeah because leftism has been coopted to just mean out-group preference and self hate rather than supporting meaningful programs to help the poor
I was born in 1995 and I'm firmly convinced that my generation is the best. Zoomers are fricked in the head, annoying little runts with ADHD and an inability to take anything seriously.
We at least witnessed the pokemania.
Thank god for those wonderful memories.
You're a borderline zoomer yourself, some definitions consider you to already be one. And millennials were the first gen to have ADHD. Gen X was the last cool gen.
03 here, I went to block buster in the dying years as a little kid and yeah I do miss walking around and looking.
Of course it wasn't perfect with how expensive the candy was, Scratched dvds and such.
But I watched some fricking weird movies back then.
The SOUL has been lost
Sovl=$10 israelite tax on everything
I do still miss the DVD isle they had pokemon and digimon when no one else did.
I only went to toys r us for pokemon league and to get toys or games that I couldn't find elsewhere
Lots of E, just missing video of girls with pacifiers in there mouth
this guy is great,
he uploads all his vintage videos of the 80s and 90s
I remember Blockbuster for having insane air conditioning, like walk in freezer levels. When it's hot in the summer, and you walk in there, and see some traumatizing movie, nothing like it.
And Ghouls 'n Ghosts for SNES.
I remember that now, it was always fricking comfy in there
Nostalgia threads are often than not disingenuous like seriously you were not born from that period at all.
you dont need to be from that era to know it is better than today
>The oldest sumerian song was about nostalgia
Human moment
yeah people chas nostalgia, but when things today are so shit in the usa compared to 90s in usa it makes sense. anything else is coping
>usa
>us
>a
>america
>did i forget america
shut up no one cares nobody asks
sneed
bottom right isn't maria whittaker?
Thinly veiled american consumerism thread
yes, some people like the material culture but it was just a facet in the diamond that was better days
wrong, guys who were in their 20s-40s in the 80s and 90s tell me everyday at work how much better it was back than
>Being in your 20's-40's is better than being in your 50's-70's.
You're not really disproving my point here.
yes ofc, but being 49 in 1995 is not young, anything over 25 is not young. its not like children who are 13 romanticizing stuff, it is grown adults who were grown adults back than
see
it was objevivly better
this is because the us govt subsidizes shit food and has no quality control (but they'll freak out if you try to knowingly purchase raw milk)
>this is because the us govt subsidizes shit food and has no quality control
partly, people are also lazy slobs and shaming went away
and yes raw milk is a superfood I drink everyday
no, not really
people have always been lazy, the difference is people didn't put goyslop in front of them back in the 40s and 50s
I mean the easiest way to reminisce about those times with strangers over the internet is through media consumed
recommend checking out 'Proximity'. It is like a modern version of 'flight of the navigator'. And if you are young fricks who think 2013 Obama Administration is comfy times then check out 'flight of the navigator' it was what kids who lived during a time when SOUL existed watched
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8718300/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091059/
Everything is more fun when you're young and have few worries or responsibilities. Doesn't matter what year it actually is.
Y'all boomers some dumb mfs if you srsly think your times were better than now. We got hotter celebs like Zendaya and Hunter Schafer we party erryday we got the tech we need to feel calm we got errythang we up in here doing our thing y'all hating cause you never did nothing
I know this is bait but zoomers also unironically believe this
Nintendo games were pretty cool back in the days
Malibu takes a hit..
"Dude it's like this...
Since covid i've found myself becoming more and more offline, i really dislike what the internet has become. Its not fun anymore its just shit
same, besides using pinterest and playing wow private servers for an hour a day. the internet sucks now
I just finished fapping. Time to fap to 80s early 90s porn
good man
Personally I've become more selective with where I spend my time on the internet and how much
>i really dislike what the internet has become. Its not fun anymore
Yeah
same, I used to scroll so much crap endlessly, covid hit and forced us all to stay in so I found myself wanting to scroll less, I just visit maybe 3 websites now (only 1 social media) and it's way comfier. getting back into reading again too, time to get my attention span back
>OH MY GAHD REMEMBAH DA NINETEES!??!?1 IT WAZ SO QUIRKY AND WEACKY I LOVE THE BRIGHT FLASHY COLORS AND NEON NICKELOADEEAN SLIME SEGA GENESIS HOLY CRAP SO QUIRKY AND RELATEABLE
nope not even close, thats an aspect of material culture, but not why it made it better
damn bro coping hard that there is a legit thread on Cinemaphile.
calm down, grab a slurpie and turn on blood sport and bask in the 90's glow. Might also raise your testosterone a couple of points, but no guarantees.
Shut up zoomer, we don't value your opinions about anything.
Why the frick do these posts feel so insincere and unrealistic like I can list a thousand reasons why thirty years ago sucks and I can list a thousand more why the present is better
Do you frickers even remember BBS also that shitty protocol is still use today by east asian forums
I would go back to 1920s tech if it meant society was 100% white
I can smell the brown from this post
Stop with the roleplay
Good bait moron
it's not bait, it's true, search deep in your SOVL (if you're white, if you're not white, you don't have one)
Most likely than not you have no clue what clue what soul even is also I didn't ask
History's a whitewash.
NY in the 90s
London in the 90s
nice
not too sure
Imagine doing anal with these girls? I’m a 90s kid and I would offen here my uncle say to my dad how he would frick his girlfriends up the ass and they would like it. His gfs look like these type of girls. We’re 80s chicks into anal on the low?
no, all the boomer i talk to said now. but they were hotter
>that contrast of eastern brutalist authoritarianism and western degenerate superficiality
I love that photo.
>western degenerate superficiality
a women taking a pic? probably for her husband
There will genuinely be zoomers who, in 20-30 years time, feel nostalgic for how 'good' the world is right now.
That's crazy.
because of their connection to material culture, not actual things that made society better
>People will be nostalgic for social media one day
Literal hell
That's because things are only going to get worse.
Yeah, no shit Sherlock.
Maybe because the western world is getting progressively worse for the common person
Back in my day all we had was tiktok and fortnite
Not necessarily, there are objectively good and objectively bad eras throughout history. Did people who grew up in the 1910s or the 1930s look back on those eras as a better time when they grew up? Maybe in some cases, but I think most would agree that those were dark periods.
The bad eras are the ones that are undiscovered.
Aw yes the good world of black propaganda and race mixing propaganda. “Remember tik tok bros?” “Didn’t she a onlyfans?” “I remember watching Marvel movies in theaters and everyone was losing their mind”
>file name
pure utter hypocrisy
this thread is nothing but a circlejerk
Unironcally yes. When the entire world is owned by one Chinese and one American mega corporation in 30 years zoomers and millennials alike will be looking back upon the days when you could scroll through shitty ass tik tok as you pleased without damaging your social credit score
Hope for a financial crash that takes down both the US and China so multinationals sell off their IP and smaller studios start back up.. won't be the same but better than the future you predict.
no they wont. and you know why?
no soul, to much technology that killed the soul.
youu can watch, or already have watched 80´s and 90´s movies over 10 times. and you still can watch them, and feel and see the soul in it.
what music is still remembered? the 80 and 90´s.
not some katy perry or beyonce.....
even the communication with other people.....
what did yu do nowdays.
smartphone, message apps,tewwt, social media......no soul.
every human on this earth that had the luck to grow up in the 80´s and 90´s knows and has lived the real soul and kino times.
thats it. never ever again.
now we live in times with no common sense anymore.
Feelings over Facts.
Emotions over the Truth.
Well, movies used to be more communal in nature, that much is true.
Get rid of smart devices and bring back the VCR as the way to watch movies, and maybe...
But that would mean turning a world that's too big... into a world that's too small.
>There will genuinely be zoomers who, in 20-30 years time, feel nostalgic for how 'good' the world is right now.
That's how badly society is degenerating.
If you think it's horrible now, just wait.
Which of course begs the question, why aren't any of you doing anything about this?
What do you suggest, anon?
that's only because 20 years from now will be even worse than now
bros
yeah but mcdonalts is the reason we never got a third tim burton movie.
robin williams as riddler was the plan.....
God, I think I actually got that in my youth.
I can smell the late 80s and 90s
Holy yabbos who is that?
joyce mandel
>joyce mandel
Based, thanks.
np
>np
Also, yuuuge F to those tiddies.
>sees nostalgia thread
>food
>lust provoking media
typical get fricked in the ass losers
I could post wage graphs, purchasing power studies, obesity stats, home ownership and purchasing graphs but it gets too boring
Look, she is truly beautiful.
they all were, the 80s-90s was the golden age of modeling
Can you amerifarts not cry b***h and moan for 5 MINUTES
SOVL is not a real word you nignogs
Cinemaphile as a whole is populated mostly by people of average intelligence at best and aggressive anti-intellectualism. They substitute intelligence and intellectualism with a crude elitism founded upon a cynical contrarianism which is rooted in a shallow exploration of the subject in the main but more importantly in entry-level esoteric aspects of the subject, whose obscurity to the general public gives them a false sense of superiority in comprehension for being "in the know", unlike normie sheep.
The obsession is driven by a need for identity in order to provide a sense of fulfillment for an otherwise lacking life. This induces a zealotry of preposterous degree, partially fueling the unwarranted rampant hostility here, but all that is beside the point.
The point is that they take their surface level understanding as good enough, and never push for a real progress or development of the general understanding and narrative. The board knowledge becomes frozen in time and depth and always opens and ends the same way. You only very rarely get someone expertly well acquainted with the matters, who either provide ad hoc evaluations in the same flippant style of the general user that are difficult to recognize as genuine information, or else effortposts that go far too in depth beyond the capacity of the average user to comprehend and appreciate what's being said, so typically ignored or brusquely dismissed.
That creates an environment hostile to experts, whose contributions are made to seem unwelcome. Experts are usually professionals acutely aware of when they are wasting their time, and so they shall choose to spend less and less of it discoursing here, and so the overall trend to the lowest common denominator continues unabated.
empty post
yeah im not reading all that shit homosexual
okay troony
Holy Adderall, Batman
compare her to actress nowdays....not even close.
amen, actresses now are so fricking ugly
>actresses now are so fricking ugly
Actresses now are sometimes not even female
She was something.
If i had one wish i would remove smart phones from ever existing, the internet i dont think is evil but when it can be used on a phone by everyone all the time no matter were you are it becomes evil
vgh... 2007... halo 3... call of duty 4... gears of war...
kino
When was the last time culture valued beauty?
for acting? maybe the 90s. modeling 90s too
>When was the last time culture valued beauty?
early-mid 90s. Been downhill ever since.
1991–2001 was the best decade in history.
as long as you weren't Yugoslavian i guess
1985-1999, was better
1991, soviet union fell, and 2001, well you know
sadly
>Peak culture
God so guys are so cringe
I think the 90s/early-00s had the perfect blend of tech and regular life before social-media became WAY too prevalent.
>tfw I never had enough friends with computers to have a LAN party
I would've played Duke 3D or Doom...never got into Quake but I think I would've tried it at a LAN Party.
LAN parties back in the day being a young kid. You felt like a fricking genius knowing how to use a IP address to connect to a game server
The monitor on the far left is a compaq, the first computer I owned had that monitor. Had the side attachable speakers and a nice feeling knob for volume control that also acted as the power button. Good times.
knew people who played quake. Personally played a lot of Unreal Tournament, half life multi player team maps
>I think the 90s/early-00s had the perfect blend of tech and regular life before social-media became WAY too prevalent.
Indeed. We got LotR out of the early 2000s to prove it.
Unironically miss the dial-up days. People made a point of only using the internet for a couple hours a day, and could only access it from internet cafes or home.
Now, every fricker with a smartphone accesses it 24/7.
soi the thread
wrong
>weaboo
GTFO
This thread is just American nostalgia and muh soul for things that were already soulless, corporatist, consoomer trash. Come to Europe and see places that have actual SOVL and real history Americans, and you will be humbled.
t. American who wishes he could go back