/retro/ - Y2K

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>>4832
in a sense the world really has ended in 2012, when the tumor that is 'material design' began to spread to all things nice with no hope of recovery

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Skype is kill :(

>>4878
no ;_;
>Skype is retiring in May 2025. Beginning March 2025, you will be able to sign into Microsoft Teams Free with your Skype credentials
This is the absolute worst timeline

>>4881
I'm pretty done with all of the workplace collaboration platforms. I had a boss for years try to have me set up and maintain them because "you're a nerd, right?" We finally got a proper IT department so I'm off the hook but man, those are all soul draining.

do you miss rotting angels of omnipotent eye?

>>4869
Sha, just waiting for new (ha) material.

>>4869
I'm always lurking here and occasionally posting when I have something to say... Things have been a bit slow lately though.

>>4872
why aren't you making your own?

>>4874
Writer's block, possible burnout, and work. Take your pick.

>>4869
Yeah. I come here at least once every two days to skim for new posts. I had meant to continue posting some of the Y2K artists I gathered last year but the thread for new retro stuff kind of veered away from it.

>>4250
>not in a good way
I know that feeling. It's a hard habit to break, but not impossible. Just scoured the tabs from my browser bar a few artbooks and a pair of (non-pornographic) stories. Think I'll keep it that way.

>>4250
>>4264
>It's a hard habit to break, but not impossible.
For what it's worth, I did so ~5 years ago, and the raciest thing I ever seek out now is
>a bunch of women with enormous tits running around on a beach

>>4265
Inspirational. Been doing that for a year and a quarter at this point, hope I can manage as long as you have.

>>4265
>>4266
I have made progress; when I was in high school and university I was spending at least an hour jerking off every day and these days I can go several days at a time without having much or any desire to do so as long as I keep myself busy. I just wish that I could have enough self-control to stop myself when I get into these deranged benders that take up an entire afternoon.

One thing I have noticed is that my tastes have seemed to become gradually less and less extreme, especially over the last couple of years, and my fantasies are now mostly focused on a single woman or myself and a single woman.

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>>5 (OP) 
In a few ways I do, I'm fond of the stuff I grew up with, at the same time I feel it was bad for me to have access to so much stuff from such a young age with the internet and all, it made my brain less sensible to this stuff, to the point where when it was time to finally do it for real, I suffered from ED for months, even now I'm still not perfect, though I'm a lot better, and when I want to make sure I'll pull it off I just use some medication, which back then barely worked because my case was so bad, now it's a treat. Anyways, besides the ED, I feel like the constant need for more stimulus made me develop unrealistic expectations, and fetishes I don't feel proud off, but can't get rid off no matter how long I stay away from all kinds of pornography, I should've used it less.

It's a double edged sword for me.

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>>6 (OP) 
I grew up with these consoles, looking forward to the future as things would get better... but nowadays I genuinely prefer the old stuff I grew up with, it's not nostalgia, it just adapts better to my current adult life. I wake up early, work all day long, come back home a bit late and have a few hours to enjoy with my fiancee, dinner, other obligations... and then bed, the time for video games keeps getting shorter, so when something new comes out and people boast about how it's 100hrs long or something, I don't like it, I love how most retro video games are 30min long when you know what to do, even if it takes me a few sessions to be able to pull off a clear run. I love the simplicity, and the feeling when I pick it up that, in less than an hour, I can win, I can beat it, it's fun.

>>4856
> I love how most retro video games are 30min long when you know what to do, even if it takes me a few sessions to be able to pull off a clear run.
The success of indie roguelikes such as The Binding of Isaac and Hades has poisoned all types of developers into making infinite replayability for their games as cheaply as possible.

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I remember finishing this in one session as a kid, because the cartridge battery died.

I've been playing so much kirby air ride lately it feels like an addiction. I get up early just so i can play it for 45 minutes before work. City Trial is just so fun and 5 minutes is the perfect amount for a game that i just can't stop playing over and over.

>>4865
I never connected with it but still played it a decent amount back in the day. It was a game my household had gotten, so I played it.

>>3639
One of my favorite shows, if not my #1 favorite. Like >>3640 says you'll either love it or hate it.

>>3634
I remember watching a few episodes of Lexx as a kid, didn't really gravitate towards it at the time. I remember a few years ago coming across streams on CyTube and thought about actually giving a series a try. Definitely love the link you provided. Going to have to back up my HDD and make space and download some shows from that period, starting with Lexx.

I wonder, is Inuyasha worth trawling for fics?

What are your top-3 fanfics ? The ones you enjoyed reading the most or that you keep coming back to

>>4863
I was never really on the edge of my seat reading fanfics, and "these were to my taste a quarter-century ago" is not much of an endorsement, but...

Some madman made a crossover of Duke Nukem and Neverwinter Nights.  I'm pretty sure it's lost to the ether now, but when I was grabbling FFN and AO3 archives from IA, it was the only thing I specifically sought out.

There was also a Diablo/StarCraft crossover, which is still up: http://theboojum.com/Tales/Dumptruk/HellCraft/hellcraft.htm

Just being able to hold onto something, look at it, manipulate it in your hands is becoming a thing of the past. It's still possible, going for thrift or markets, or small time stores still gives that to you, but the whole rental aspect is sadly and truly dead.

>>477
This.
I miss more when owning your movies/music was the norm, before streaming took over. Sure you can still buy physical CDs/DVDs, but nowadays those get released less and less. Also you have shit like Bluray that will outright refuse to play on certain devices... On the bright side we can now rip music from streaming platforms so I guess that's the next best thing?

I have a Family Video near me that's going strong ever since Blockbuster went bust.

>>831
The one where I live went out of business recently. It's sad, but I was glad it was able to hang on for so long.

Some of my fondest early childhood memories include renting Super Nintendo games from a Family Video store.

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>>475 (OP) 
It's odd... on one hand, what we have now, especially if you consider the ease of piracy aswell, is essentially my childhood dream, and yet, now that I have it, I yearn for what I once had, at a time where I longed for what I have now... is the human being just impossible to please? Is it just nostalgia? I'm not sure, but perhaps I simply overestimated how good having infinite choices was, and the limitations made something like a single choice for a weekend feel like the most special thing, anyways I do miss them.

>>4814
>2012
ahem not retro :^)
My email account is from like 2002

>>4814
>>4816
Mine's from 98, Yahoo.

>>4814
I believe its from 2008, I forgot any older ones.

>>4816
I made my gmail acct when it was in beta, I'm guessing that was ~2004, off the top of my head?

>>4105
In my case, I got locked out of the account because I didn't give them my number.
Next time, I'll try to give them another throwaway email to confirm.

>>4132
Same. Fuck microsoft.

>>4814
Weeb and scanlation forums from '08, 09
They're dead but some are still online, I visit them occasionally like graveyards

>>4513
>driving a 23 year old car
What's wrong about this one. Cars from 90's and 00's are about the best ones, having just the right amount of electronics and tech while still being quite repairable.

I'm not sure. I will always like things that are old compared to the present moment because that's what shakes out of all the torrents of trash. In twenty years we will still be here pining for what we don't yet know was gold in 2025. I look up psytrance music that was made before I was born because all modern psytrance sounds exactly the same and surprisingly often has Rick and Morty voice samples, which I find obnoxious.

>>4651
I have never had the misfortune to encounter such samples. How do they even use it?

>>4670
How should I explain it to you? They're cringy voice clips of Rick talking and burping interspersed throughout the FL Studio default percussion presets. They've been in every non-Goa psytrance mix I've loaded up since 2020, so I just turn it off and see what 90's Israeli psy is worth listening to that I haven't heard already.

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>>4494 (OP) 
1. If you enjoy older things, that doesn't stop you from enjoying modern ones too, even if less.

2. A lot of times the older alternative is the cheapest, with things like emulation of retro video games, in this economy it's not a bad thing to prefer older things that are cheaper and/or you already own.

3. It's natural to prefer things we're already familiar with due to the sense of safety we get from it.

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>>4077
hi thar rHAd mai name is //\\TerboDworf//\\ and i am a dworf irl, tha tmens 'in real life" , normally i doun liek teh emoz but u seem cool do u wanan be frenz?/ :O
i like 2 b a snekky dowrf who stayz in teh dark  , so maybe im a little emo maiself :PPP

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On the topic of old funposting, I was troubleshooting some Windows issues several years ago and I found pic 2 on a Windows tech forum. Truth is stranger than fiction, it seems.

>>1956
jnco or die

>>2123
S&M jnco's

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I was a warez d00d, in the 90's. I started out on BBS's and got to hang out with some warez board sysops and one time I brought my PC to their house because that was the quickest way to upload files to them. Fun fact: my 14.4k modem could transfer a 1.44 MB floppy disk image in 15 minutes. But I was running DOS and so during that time the PC was unavailable for any other tasks. I also tried my hand at running a BBS, but it didn't last very long, because like I said DOS only did one thing at a time. That was before I found out about Desqview, which was basically a multi-tasking hack add-on for DOS. And by that time I was already on Internet, so didn't care about BBS anymore.
On the Internet, I of course did more warez, especially since now I was free of daily upload/download ratios. I spent lots of time on IRC and at one point joined a scene group that did warez releases and ANSi art. I don't want to say which, but it wasn't one of the bigger ones. People used to trade warez directly on IRC via /dcc or upload the files to some FTP sites. Most of the time the FTP site admins had no clue their FTP was being used to store warez. It was usually hidden in strange or invisible directory names with embedded control codes for obfuscation. We had lists (txt files) of the currently known FTP sites with the exact strings to type for accessing the files. Usually they lasted quite some time before the site admin caught on (probably from all the extra bandwidth usage). We also had lists of

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>>2068
> mallcore
Uh uhhuhuhh huh. I think he means like Winger or something. xD

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>>3405
>The internet has always had its own speech patterns and common phrases, the difference now is that the main population driving language evolution has become normalfags who view the internet differently (in a more casual way) to those who were around in less user friendly more technically oriented times.
Yeah, back then a lot more of it felt like in-jokes that were relegated to certain sites or parts of the Internet other than the basic Interweb speak most people could understand. Nowadays it's a relative handful of big sites influencing online language. I will say that even a lot of older memes didn't age that well either, but at the same time I feel like people could communicate better without stuffing their writing to the gills with a bunch of unfunny rhetorical cliches. Am I really supposed to be amused by "Sir, this is a Wendy's" after seeing it for the thousandth time?

Also, I just learned a few minutes ago that Mike Matinee just released a video where he mentions just the phenomenon I'm bellyaching about.
>The whole lolcow community is anons LARPing about how normal and not lulzworthy they are right?
They actually seem to be more self-aware about their autism than they used to be; I'll give them that. The old lolcow imageboards were a lot more fun and less faggy though, even if they were arguably more spergy.

>>3405
>The whole lolcow community is anons LARPing about how normal and not lulzworthy they are right?
I haven't visited the site in a long time, and while it is filled with 'anons', it was infamous for the goon atmosphere that it had, especially with the hatred of all things anime.
>>3408
Am I really supposed to be amused by "Sir, this is a Wendy's" after seeing it for the thousandth time?
I feel like this is a huge problem because nobody ever wants to articulate themselves anymore. All they want to do is use the same smug snide comment for the one millionth time in a row and get their upboats so that they can feel socially validated for being an obnoxious retard. I understand why people on the internet are getting more and more hostile and combatative as the years go on. This kind of environment where nobody wants to truly talk to one another and instead use dumb one-liners only festers that kind of climate.

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>>2564 (OP) 
>seen twin towers or witnessed 9/11, even if you were 3 or 4 back then?
1996 here, so I was in kindergarten.
I don't remember much of that day beyond school ending early and me going back home to play some Crash Team Racing or Tomb Raider, blissfully unaware of the events that happened. My parents might have been in the living room watching the news, but at that time news and politics just seemed like boring old people activities, so I didn't bother investigating.
My parents nor my school never told us what happened, and I only found out a year or two later.

>>3303
This board is specifically designed with millennials and Zillennials in mind. It’s 1990s/2000s nostalgia, I.e. those ideally born between 1985 to 2001 are welcomed here to express their reminiscing about their younger years during those two decades. 

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>>3403
I don't see how someone using that phrase makes them a bot any more than saying some other online colloquialism like "n00b" or "normalfag" makes someone a bot, nor do I see how one could deduce that anon watches YouTube kids just from their comment alone. That's quite a reach and blindly talking down to them in that fashion doesn't help anyone. Anon is an old fart to enjoy himself like the rest of us here, not to be shat on. All this started just because someone politely wished to claim that they don't jive with the Zoomer label and wish to be referred to as "Zillennial", then the thread devolved into whatever this shitshow is.

>>3404
To be honest I personally don't care what lingo or terminology is being used. Whatever you can say to get the point across, as long as everyone understands what we are talking about. I see plenty of people here using certain phrases that the average person has no clue what it means. Even "lol" is not everyday speak in real life. 

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I ended up going down a 9/11 rabbit hole recently, and it put me in a pretty bad state of mind. I saw someone making an offhand mention of the allegedly lost "lol superman" gore video, and that piqued my morbid curiosity. I considered myself pretty jaded about the attacks due to memories of all the maudlin imagery and cheap virtue signaling that was everywhere right after 9/11 (and that helped justify America playing world policeman and getting even more people killed), but I didn’t really know the grisly specifics of what happened. I remember people jumping to their deaths, but I never thought much about it. I'd never considered what became of the jumpers' bodies when they hit the ground, that people in the vicinity were in danger of being killed by falling bodies (intact or not) and rubble, that the whole area was strewn with body parts, or that emergency personnel might come across victims of the attacks whose lower bodies had been turned to mush but still weren't completely dead. I ended up coming across some footage where you could hear bodies thumping as they hit the ground and an old /x/ thread that had been archived and included some pretty graphic images. Part of me is glad that these things have been brought to my attention, but another part feels like I would have been better off not knowing the gruesome details.

I posted earlier in the threads about not caring at all about 9/11, so it’s kind of weird that I developed a bit of an interest in it decades later. I