With UlyssesT out there touching grass, I haven’t seen this thread in a while. What in the past do you NOT miss? It could be very personal or just something everyone experienced but doesn’t anymore.
For me, I am so fucking happy the food scene in burgerland has changed since the 2000s. People seem to enjoy more well-seasoned foods and healthier options seem to outstrip the unhealthy slop I remember in the 2000s. Even my yee-yee ahh Ohio suburb has changed somewhat noticeably to support fresh ingredients. Less WASPslop is always good.
How about y’all?
Being an absolute asshole online. Sure places like reddit and 4chan still exist but it feels like in general the internet has gotten, nicer? Like the other day I was playing an online game in someone in chat was popping off anti-immigrant shit and praising Trump and the entire guild chat turned on them shitting on them and telling other players how to add them to your blocklist. The general edginess I used to see in the aughts online feels like it’s dissolved into people being nicer, maybe it has something to do with irl being more ruthless than ever.
I think some of that is because there are more older (by which I mean like 30+ or even 20+) people online. You’ll still occasionally run across the YoU WoUlDn’T LaSt In A MW2 LoBbY types, and all I can think of is “Damn, sorry you failed to grow up and the rest of the world moved on”. Some of us didn’t like screaming slurs into a headset even back then.
back button -> dpad over the gamertag -> a button -> mute player -> back button
everyone i used to play with could do it in like 2 seconds lmao
Even the people that do banter that can be seen as rude or toxic “go fuck yourself/mom/dad/goat” etc stuff can surprise you when somebody pops off a N word or something and then it’s all “fuck off racist pos”
It’s a nice surprise to find.