Is it wrong to enjoy the aesthetics, optimism, and culture of the Atomic Age? Was it all just too idealistic to serve any good?
of course it is, you racist
>>1162619
no, and stop playing so much fallout
>>1162619
There is nothing wrong with enjoying the aesthetics and culture of the 50's.
Its only when you put it on a pedestal and say there was nuffin wrong going on during that time that I find objectionable.
>>1162619
>we had plastic chairs un shiet
>>1162619
No, but remember that the idealized version that is now part of pop culture has about as much to do with reality as steampunk does with Victorian England.
>>1162637
Racial discrimination had been a common problem throughout history. I find it regrettable of course, but I'm not going to include that in thinking about this, since it had been a problem in previous generations too. Just as I wouldn't fault people for having homophobic thoughts today anymore than back then. But I'm sure you're baiting.
>>1162657
One can't have a discussion on the time without linking it to that game? I'm not here to talk about video games.
>>1162673
Those aren't plastic.
>>1162677
>But I'm sure you're baiting.
of course I am
you'd have to be a fag to not like the 50s.
>>1162619
>materialism
>idealistic
>>1162698
Why not both? It was idealized in that the media showcased an America that wasn't really there.
>>1162657
Outside of F2 and FNV, Fallout is shit.
The last age of positive make role models....
>>1162710
that would be the 80s, really.
>>1162706
It was there, it just wasn't the whole story. Film culture had to progress to the point of wanting to see every day life. When film and television began, they were resources reserved for only the most pleasurable scenes. The things we wanted to be seen the most. After 70 years of being in human culture, video is finally mundane enough to cspture the mundane or grotesque.
>>1162714
The 80s male role model was a pussy masquerading in a real man's skin. The 50's man persona has remained relevant even today...
>>1162726
I can agree with that.
>>1162739
why does it look more aestheticly pleasing and futuristic than today?
>>1162753
Drive-In theaters really are a treat. Thankfully there's still one in operation nearby.
>>1162756
20s-early 60s futurism was GOAT. I want to single out whatever factor lead to the demise of it and art-deco and work my best to build a time machine to stop it.
>>1162756
Because of fucking hippies.
>>1162777
Dem pointy titties. Dem velour pants.
So this is what happens in a white dominated society that is the only country to be both first world and not completely fucking wrecked?
>>1162798
>the absolute madman
>>1162769
Why not single out the factors that lead to it's creation, work your way into a position of power, and foment those factors.
>>1162810
>hey, honkie, I heard you was sayin' we wuzn't fifties n shiet too
>>1162817
because retroactively bringing back futurism just makes it retroism, don't you think?
>>1162833
>What is the Renaissance
>>1162844
fair enough.
>>1162833
do you want architecture design to change or not fag? stop being so idealistic
>googie / raygun gothic shit
Pig disgusting.
can somebody tell me if these cars are 50s or not? I think they could be 60s or early 70s and that I put this in the wrong folder.
>>1162879
as if you aren't only shitting on it because Fallout made it popular with normies.
>90% white
sounds like heaven.
>>1162896
I don't know why people mention Fallout so much, the 50s shit wasn't really a thing in the Fallout universe until F3 and most of Fallout is Mad Max-esque desert raider shit anyway.
>>1162884
Is this West Vaginia?
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(kek)
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>>1162906
My folder thanks you.
>>1162884
Definitely 60's early 70's.
>>1162909
and Fallout wasn't really a thing with normies until Fallout 3.
>>1162915
Google reverse search gives somewhere in NY State, but as somebody with an Appalachian background I wouldn't have been surprised if it was West Virginia. The two states have similar license plate colors, which doesn't help.
>let me tell you about Koreans
>>1162955
Someone explain this gun to me. Am I looking at it wrong or are those bullets facing the wrong way?
the sad part is that we're so far gone from this that white American industrial workers are almost a humorous thought to me.
>>1162673
imagine what a crowd this size would look like on an American beach today.
>>1162982
Those bullets would be rotated in the right direction though a sort of complicated mechanism.
>>1163016
Fucking wonder weapons. Besides saving space by putting the magazine flat on the gun, this sounds like it'd jam like a motherfucker every two seconds.
>>1162982
it's for shooting people from around corners. We could have won the war in a week if it had been designed 10 years beforehand.
>>1163029
It got reused later on in this belgian wonder weapon.
>>1163034
looks like the first step towards a Metroid arm cannon. Neat.
>hurr durr fallout
Why do you care so much if somebody has become interested in this via some game? Are those people actively affecting your interests like shitty Steampunkers do it? Doesn't seem like Fallout had this effect
>>1163081
But normies have been interested in 50s esthetics decades before Memellout. See shit like rockabilly.
>>1163104
Or like the entirety of the 80's.
Back to the Future, the B-52's, etc.
>>1163109
it's weird how nostalgia tends to go in cycles of 30 years like that. I remember a lot of shit from the 60s like spy movies and psychedelic imagery/music coming back in the 90s, and the next decade you had stuff like that 70s Show.
>>1163130
We have 80s nostalgia right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEtsFqCY1LY
