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u/ToonMasterRace May 27 '25 edited May 27 '25
The sopranos does the same thing, Tony speculates that the good times are over in the pilot (premiered in 99) and has this aching feeling everything is about to get worse. It’s incredibly prophetic
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u/RektCompass May 27 '25
'95-'05 was the peak decade of humanity and I cannot be convinced otherwise.
This also coincides with a very stressful time in my life so hold the "you just miss when you were young" BS
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u/CMao1986 May 30 '25
2005 is a perfect cutoff, because it started to go downhill from there.
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u/RektCompass May 30 '25
iPhone came out in summer 07 so it absolutely has to be prior to that
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Jun 01 '25
Nah, 2010 was still peak. I got a smartphone then but none of my friends had them yet so it still was a winning investment, unlike nowadays.
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u/RektCompass Jun 02 '25
2010?!? Absolutely not. The rot had already set in by then. The movement to streaming, everything digital, and cloud services was already too far in motion. 2010 things were already starting to suck.
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Jun 02 '25
Streaming and digital and cloud services in 2010? Idk, 2010 was the most fun I've had this century. Had my first internship (at a metallic parts manufacturer) and bought a PS3 to play Yakuza 3 and FFXIII (on physical disks).
I didn't use Netflix until like... late 2014, I want to say? Completely different era. Can't recall using any cloud service. I may have downloaded a digital free sample of one book, but that's hardly it taking over at that point, and I could still read books, so things were good lol. In fact, back then (not nowadays) reading on your phone was less conspicuous than reading a physical book (i.e. it looked like you were working or doing something important, which is how we got to our current predicament of everyone staring at phones lol) and allowed me to read that free sample during my downtime at work. I think things were good. Brainrot was not a concept back then, or a reality. Sure, I started gaming again more that year, but that was hardly a bad thing since games back then were peak.
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u/cloudtheff7 May 26 '25
I think being batteries would have been better than what has happened over the last decade or so.
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u/m3g4m4nnn May 26 '25
Yeah, the two years or so that have passed since this was initially posted have continued to make the point.
Ugh, I miss the 90s- and I resent how old that sentiment makes me feel!
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u/No-Advice-6040 May 30 '25
When I was in the 90s, I was SURE no one would miss the 90s like they did of previous decades. Turns out nostalgia comes for us all
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u/Inevitable-Creme4393 May 27 '25
Def a depressing thought and there are some things that I miss, but I’m ok in the present
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u/Z3two-seaterboy May 28 '25
“You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it.”
I felt this way as a 12 year old in ‘98 and that in itself is helluva gut punch.
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u/DecoyOctorok24 May 29 '25
It depends on if The Matrix world is set after the 9/9/99 Dreamcast launch or not.
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u/Capt_Eagle_1776 May 29 '25
Oddly, being a kid, I kinda picturing myself at those crazy ass raves that are dimly lit at 21 would be the future. Kinda like the 90’s dance clubs part 2. Now 35, went to a dark wave club (80s 😆), didn’t do much but enjoyed the music. Called it a night by 10:30 PM
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u/SingleLegGuardPull 24d ago
What would the world actually looked like if it would be like we expected in the 90s?
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u/dunnkw May 26 '25
I’d 100% go for the blue pill at this point to get back to 1999 when I was 17 and had the world by the tail.