>you will never be 14 years old again in the year 2004, right in the middle of the golden age of the internet and video games
Na fuck that
Technology has progressed massively since then. I can obtain and store things in a way that 2004 couldn't dream of.
We currently live in a world where you can unironically turn off your lights and turn on your hotpocket cooker without leaving the safety of your shit encrusted chair
>you will never relive the october-december of 2013 EVER again
Truly the best time of my life
>tfw the past 2 years of your life have unequivocally been the worst years of your life, even worse than when your father died back in 2005
>>24631909
All that shit is nice, but I'd rather be able to communicate with people like I used to before the normalfag infestation.
I wish I could go back in time. Fix so many mistakes, get treatment. I got in 4chan in 2003/2004, so I would know not to get on it.
>>24631909
The Clapper has been around for ages, anon.
>>24631883
>right in the middle of the golden age of FunnyJunk
>You'll never be the last one standing at a really messy nefarian first with all your guildmates
I have spent too much time wondering what life would be like if I woke up in the past with all my current memories of today. I was 15 in 2004
>>24632052
A gathering place for the mentally askew?
>>24631909
>ability to turn one thing off by clapping
>they chose lights
such a wasted idea
>you will never be a kid again and be totally oblivious to the world
>>24632081
Those were awesome times but onward is the future. The future is now
>>24632122
They were awesome, but also very not awesome. Know what I mean? The crushing hopelessness and fear of being a virgin forever grated on me daily. Now I am hopeless because of less interesting, more complicated things.
I, too, was 14 in 2004.
>>24632095
Most things require pretty strict safety concerns. It's easy to tell when a light turns on and lights can be left on for a long time without issue. There also aren't really any consequences to turning off a light accidentally like there is with most other things.
I just want to go back to 2004 before my best friend died. I haven't had a friend in over ten years.
>>24632216
Dig that nigga up senpai
>>24631920
Are you me? Literally everything went right for me in that time period. Cannot remember myself being happier
>high school was fun, had a bunch of friends
>senior in college, have made no long term friends and only a handful of acquaintances, least enjoyable period of my life so far
does it get better brehs
>>24631920
That's when I tried to kill myself
0/10 would not relive again
>>24632216
i-ill be your friend
>>24631920
2013 seems like a bad year for everyone, had a childhood friend rip my heart out that year and lost my business
lost my second job because my boss divorced her husband and just dropped the company as fast as possible so it collapsed
2005 was the best year of my childhood by far
I was 10 and all I cared about was listening to the shitty emo-pop-punk that was popular at the time, reading manga/watching anime, and playing vidya. also I was very outgoing as a child so friends came easy. It was a time when I loved my family to death.
now i'm a depressed 20-year-old with a shitty relationship with I'd say 80% of my family. I'm also a sheltered recluse, so that certainly doesn't help anything
I haven't felt that childlike wonder since trying MDMA for the first time
>>24632269
It does. Same for me, high school was fun but college was shit. Now I've been working for four years, good career, good money and good pussy.
>>24632269
As far as making friends, heh. Those days are over, sadly.
>>24632863
You fucking cancer. You should have killed yourself.
>>24632860
I was actually the same bro, had my oneitis fucking grind me into the dirt after several months of thinking I was getting close to making her have feelings with me
But boy did it go up, I went from crying in my bed literally all day on the verge of suicide to being the happiest I have ever felt because I found myself a waifu
I don't miss 2004. I had dial-up internet, so I didn't get to experience much of the golden age, aside from Coke Music
>>24633961
everyone had dial up, high speed was still sparse.
after 2008 you don't have much of an excuse
>>24631990
Oh shit are you me, my dad also died in '05
>>24632216
Was his name Brian?
>>24631883
god dammit
At least I've had my fun with NES
>>24634212
>you never played WoW
>you never used IRC channels
>you never hung around in small communities making friends
>you didn't even get broadband until 2010
I WANT TO GO BACK
I WANT TO EXPERIENCE EVERYTHING I'VE MISSED
I WANT TO BE ABLE TO THINK BACK ABOUT HOW I MISS OLD GUILDMATES, BUT REMEMBERING ALL THE GOOD TIMES WE HAD TOGETHER
I WANT TO SPEND TIME ON A SMALL, TIGHT-KNIT FORUM
THIS IS LITERALLY THE ONLY THING I FEEL LIKE I'VE MISSED OUT ON
EVERYONE HAS THESE AMAZING MEMORIES OF ALL THE FUN THEY'VE HAD ONLINE AND I HAVE NOTHING
I DON'T WANT TO LIVE ON THIS SOCIAL MEDIA FUELED INTERNET ANYMORE
2004 was when anime fansubs were truly entering the golden age.
>>24631920
fuck off, frz
>>24634296
>tfw i was there and experienced none of that
>mfw
>>24631883
My best year was mid 2009 to mid 2010 t b h
>>24631920
Dude, yes. June 2013 - December 2013 was the best time of my life.
>the feels induced by "Happy" from Pharrell are unreal
>>24631883
2007 was the best game year m8
JUUSSSTTTT
>mfw i feel that everyday
>tfw no black fighting game friends
[spolier]tfw no friends
>>24631909
hmmmmmm
is that why my chair smells bad?
>>24634296
THIS
LITERALLY GOT MY OWN COMPUTER IN 2009
>ANONS TALKING ABOUT ALL THE MEMORIES THEY GOT AND FRIENDS THEY MADE ONLINE
FFFFFFUUUUUCK LLAAAAAA4A
>>24634965
I HATED that song because I couldn't relate. I knew I wasn't happy at all. It made me hate life even more.
I'm the same age and I think maybe the peak was really 2006/7
mostly because that was the peak of wow
>>24631920
>June-December 2013 will never come back
JUST
Any 2008 year bros alive? I would give my left kidney (I'd be all right) for a time machine.
>>24631883
The PS1 era was literally the golden era of video games.
PC had some amazing and groundbreaking releases. PS1 revolutionized console gaming and multiple brand new genres
2004 was only 1 year before the fucking Xbox 360 for christ sake. Not even remotely close to the golden era.
>>24631920
>this was the beginning of everything turning to shit for me
give me back the happiness you stole from me
>>24637608
Maybe for you.
I remember getting my 360 in 05/06 when it was fairly new and having a field day with everyone online.
Now my online friends have split between X1 and PS4 so I'll lose a good bit of people I was close to. The console wars/greed are literally killing gaming.
Let the feels begin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvW-QTiZLQ0
>>24637635
Kek. Fucking. Kek.
>>24631883
>2004
>Golden Age of Video Games
This is why /v/ is cancer.
>>24631883
grad-jamacated high school in 2005. i agree that the early 2000's were a semi-golden era of the internet. the last 3 years of HS were the peak of my depression, yet at that time, i felt i had a chance to beat all this crap in my head. i almost miss being that naive. the "good" side was that high school for me was just about fucking around all day with my friends and going home. rinse, repeat, until graduation.
i'm a year shy of 30 and what sucks the most is i did not want to end up like so many of the other pot smoking deadbeats from my small town, so i focused on career stuff trying to make something of myself from the get go. well, due to depression blah blah blah, i've spent the last 10 years being tired and i'm about to give up and become a bum.
the damnedest thing at 10+ years later is it got me thinking: ya know...maybe those pot smokers i went to highschool with just were on to something when they just chilled in life and smoked a blunt.
>>24637608
1000% this. the birth of 3D gaming, loads of new IPs and interesting ideas
>>24637635
> The console wars/greed are literally killing gaming
this is just capitalism at work. once an industry starts getting bigger they start appealing to the masses and everything gets diluted, more expensive games = less risk = constant sequels and generic shit. few can compete in the AAA space anymore
>>24631883
I remember around that time, I was incredibly poor, and we lived on this dusty street, and I'd go do shit with my Brother, and all our friends in the fields. Like we'd just explore.
I miss that. I barely have any friends anymore.
>>24637658
Halo 3 and Castle Crashers were my thing. Not saying it's the golden age, I just think it's still a good time period.
1999 was the Golden Age for me.
>you will never play World of Warcraft on launch day ever again
>you will never misspell your edgy undead name as "Enternalhate" and get laughed at by everyone for being a fucking retarded 12 year old again
Feels bad man
>>24637608
Ps2 was golden era, psx was 1st Gen 3d and they hadn't worked the kinks out yet
I want to go back to 02. Was in middle school and me and my friends would mess around at school and then go to an Internet cafe after to play CS, Starcraft, War3, and Diablo 2. Always have feels thinking back and how I won't ever have as nearly as much fun gaming ever again
>2006-2008
>12yr old with computer
>limewire torrents
>cp everywhere
>fapped until dick fell off
I'm surprised my parents never got b&
>>24637673
iktf
>tfw your bro went away to college and you were left with no friends because you spent all your time with your bro and his friends
>>24637683
O and 05 as well for playing Guild Wars at launch. That was damn fun. Guild Wars 2 killed any hope I had for gaming.
>>24637670
>Few can compete
This. Its so fucking frustrating watching the hobby I love turn to absolute shit. IF only there could be another video games crash.
>>24637707
Nah, they were my friends too. It's just we moved.
It was really sad. But happy too. we were back on our feet after my mum went through a major breakup with domestic violence. I remember all of them going to get things to give to us on the night before. They all said bye.
Since leaving school a few years ago, I lost half my friends. The other half now hate me.
I just usually hang with this kid I known and play shit. But I wish things were simpler.
>You will never use Tiger as your main OS again
>Nothing to look forward to anymore
>PSP modding scene is dead, smartphones do everything better anyway
>You will never look forward to softmods for consoles so you could use them as cheap HTPCs/Emulators
>You will never look forward to anime or video games like you did when you were 14
>All the communities you used to go to are dead
> you will never be able to turn back time to pre university time so that you can pick a degree that matters and study harder.
Now I'm stuck with shit degree and slightly better than average score. Unemployed right now.
>>24637713
>Arkham series -> Batman's Car the Finale
>Katamari -> Will never have another non shit tier game
>COD Zombies -> Let's add random creatures every couple of rounds to ruin your wave
>Final Fantasy -> I know you liked the gameplay, but we made it into a complicated 3 part movie
>Bioshock -> You didn't have to touch this
>Zelda -> Cutesy SJW appealing bullshit
>Crash Bandicoot/Spyro/Sanic -> Raped to the point where it's impossible to bring back
>Rockstar as a Company -> Everything they touch has to become a cash crop
You may have a point.
>>24637781
Good to see another robot stuck in the cycle.art here
Was gonna do graphics too, but that didn't happen because I can't stand college. Now I have a meme degree.
Graphics kind of is too.
Nobody told me this.
![[HorribleSubs] Ushio to Tora - 20 [720p].mkv_snapshot_11.34_[2015.11.15_20.40.31].png](https://i.imgur.com/QrUP8pY.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Ushio to Tora - 20 [720p].mkv_snapshot_11.34_[2015.11.15_20.40.31].png")
>>24637769
>playing MOHH on PSP
>went for the community/clan
>join room
>everyone knows who you were
>nading
>online gfs
>that one edgy guy that was 10 years older than you but you used to like talking to for saying edgy phrases
Those were the days
Damn EA shuts down everything I love
>yahoo messenger
>picking up online gfs in the chat boards
>MMORPG's were popular and people jumped at beta testing
>Decent IGN's for websites/games weren't too hard to get
>Newgrounds for entertainment
>Playing Custom Maps on Halo:CE
>Printing out your favorite pictures and guides
>Defend Your Castle
Oh man if I could go back
>>24637917
>everyone was on msn
>myspace for hitting on online gfs
>bretty gud sex games on newsground
>>24631909
>We currently live in a world where you can unironically turn off your lights and turn on your hotpocket cooker without leaving the safety of your shit encrusted chair
>implying that's a good thing
The world has made it far too easy to take the path of least resistance, and that never leads anywhere good
>>24632052
You're back in time right now as far as the future you is concerned. Better make the most of it.
>>24637961
Just ignore the wonders that automation and improved industrialisation have done for the standard of living.
>>24631920
Damm, that was the time between my highschool graduation and my conscription, truly a golden age
>>24637961
Maybe you should have paid attention in history class, anon
>>24631883
YTMND and Brian Peppers memes.
>>24631909
I doubt a 4chan janitor could afford most of that with such little pay
>>24631920
2013 in its entirety was bad wtf are you talking about anon
>>24631883
>you'll never play WoW for the first time again at the ripe ol' age of sixteen
>>24631920
2013 and most of 2014 was by far the worst time of my life
>>24631909
The ability to transport data has improved massively, unfortunately the amount of junk data has increased even more.
The end result is that the signal to noise ratio of the internet has gone to shit.
>>24634087
>mfw I had 5MB broadband in 2004
>>24638086
How the fuck could anyone enjoy 2013 or 2014 as a golden age? The most i enjoyed of 2014 was July-December
>>24637681
>>24637608
>PS1/PS2 era
>PS1: 2MB ram, 1MB gpu
>PS2: 32MB ram, 4MB gpu
Just imagine if they made games to the same kinds of proportion today. a 4GB DVD/4MB is a 1024x conversion between content and gpu capability. Even if you compressed 10x, that'd be ~100x. Now you get maybe 20GB games at the highest end, with 1-3GB GPUs. The proportion of games that are solely graphics, and much shorter as a result, is disastrous.
It reminds me of something probably last year, when some RPG was being described as long when it had a 20 hour playtime. I remember when RPGs had a minimum playtime of 40 hours, and that was without grinding or much backtracking. If you were one of "those" people that actually wanted to explore everything, you could easily go over 100 hours.
Nowadays the only games that go over 40 hours are the social anxiety simulators (MMOs) or Autism simulators (multiplayer FPS and "crafting" games)
>>24631883
I was 17 and about five years into an on and off cycle of depression and social anxiety that has basically gutted my life, living in a country that isn't America, meaning I couldn't go to the corner store and get a monthly supply of drugs to escape feeling with and actually get on with my life.
The golden age for me was a few months during the second grade when for the first time we had lived in a place long enough for me to make friends and I spent a good month going out bike riding and fucking around with friends after school and having fun. It was easily the most carefree time of my life. Then my parents got divorced and we moved around a lot and basically didn't settle down into a place till the 9th grade of highschool. The glorious teenage years that people often talk about where nothing but isolation, dropping out of school, going back, dropping out again, and building up a heavy dependence on alcohol to "deal" with anxiety and escapism. Worst part if my younger sibling stayed with one of the parents and basically had a stable as fuck upbringing and is now earning easy, big money but due to lack of any real hardship is basically an eternal teenager that can afford expensive party drugs and holidays clubbing overseas.
Pisses me off that so many people basically had an easy run of it, don't understand that some people struggle just being around people and that being in a workplace with others leaves them so mentally exhausted that at the end of the day they are mentally drained from dealing with shit that people don't think twice about. The worst part is that these obvious people are always the first to complain loudly when they are made to do something uncomfortable in their lives. Yeah, try feeling like I felt every fucking day will slowly going nowhere for years, you fucking cunt.
/rant over.
>Non-ASCII text is not allowed.
Get fucked jews, this site was created by ripping off Japanese sites. Chinbokowo kue.
>>24631883
>you will never experience early 2000s culture every again
Emo culture was the shit, vidya was arguably the best then (even though it was easier) and TV was the best (Malcolm in the Middle being my fav).
Today's culture is horrible. It's dead. It's filled with nothing but degenerates. I wish It was 2004 forever (but with technology advancing)
Plus internet culture was just beginning and wasn't poisoned by normies yet. I even miss MySpace since people actually used it for dating and what not and not to poison up the rest of the internet.
>>24638196
>vidya was easier back then
Nigger what the fuck are you talking about? The average game now is far easier than the average game in 2004.
Hard mode, don't use the words "Dark Souls" in your reply.
>>24638223
2nd gen 3D games where way easier than early 3D games and 2D games
Was the 360 your first vidya experience?
>>24638223
He probably means like, actually easier to get into and play versus Autistic toiling and paying out the ass (if we're talking pay-to-win games).
In some sense, a game that tries to challenge you based on improving AI, complicating gameplay, and having more to remember is easier than a game that just sets the AI resource gain or reflexes to 10x
I want to murder whoever designed Red Alert 3 because the AI cheats out the fucking ass at all times.
>>24638111
That's pretty much what I have in Australia now. The fucking idiots refused to establish a proper infrastructure for decades and allowed one company to have a complete monopoly of the wholesale and retail sector. Absolutely retarded.
>>24638239
I don't understand, are you trying to say vidya in 2004 was easier than it was before 2004 or now?
>>24638196
>Malcom in the Middle
Holy shit you're serious
>>24638252
>He probably means like, actually easier to get into and play versus Autistic toiling and paying out the ass (if we're talking pay-to-win games).
Clearly you weren't alive in the arcade days. Games were designed to take your coins.
>>24638258
>I don't understand, are you trying to say vidya in 2004 was easier than it was before 2004 or now?
Before of course. I guess you could interpret it as easier than it is now, but the 7th gen was the bane of games. Automatically quick saves literally every 10 feet, some are impossible to fail
>>24638278
I'd call arcade games Autism simulators.
>>24638278
>Arcade games
>2004
>>24638293
They were the foundation of video games so I guess you'd be right.
>>24638293
nah, Dwarf Fortress and other fantasy roleplaying games are pure autism.
>>24638301
>reading comprehension
>you
2002 was objectively the peak of video games
>>24638347
Look, people stopped replying, why you don't you go troll somewhere else
>>24638347
>2002 was objectively the peak of video games
Going to cite any examples? It's hard to differentiate between hipsters who were born in the early 2000s and actual legit people with bad taste and/or poor memories.
"You have been muted for 2 seconds, because your comment was not original."
Are you fucking with me?
>>24638316
>Arcade games were designed to take your coins
>Therefore all video games by extension were designed to take your coins
Your logic is bad either way.
>>24638380
>Therefore all video games by extension were designed to take your coins
I have no idea how you came to that conclusion. It certainly wasn't based on anything I posted.
>any year but 1998 being GOAT
>playing sherwooddungeon, a shitty mmorpg in internet, you didnt need to download it
>seeing amvs with linkin park songs
>stoling money from other kids to go to a cibercoffee because i was poor
>starting to lose all the friends
>getting more and more ugly
>shit it was good when i was a child but in that year and the next year everything start to die in me
sorry if my english is bad also im shitskin
>>24631883
2004 was the tail end of the golden age of video games. Late 90's was the middle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_in_video_gaming
There are many games here that would win GOTY easily.
>>24638347
>2002 was objectively the peak of video games
Going to cite any examples? It's hard to differentiate between hipsters who were born in the early 2000s and actual legit people with bad taste and/or poor memories.
>>24638434
>fellow '98 fag
>>24638412
>90s
>good
peak normie time period, would not recommend to anybody
>>24631920
Jesus christ stop that.
>Was living in the US on a year abroad
>Met qt3.14 ambitious ginger pawg and started dating
>Never been so in love as I was with her
>Literally wanted to move to the US permanently just to be with her
>When I went back to Sweden december we tried the long distance thing which worked for a few months but ultimately broke it off in June 2014.
>Now I'm still single and has been for a year and a half
>Uni student studying communication, and will go onto foreign policy -> peacekeeping operations
>Party every weekend
>Have had sex with quite a lot of girls (gone from like 14 to 22 in no time at all)
>Lots of friends
>Studying is going well, never failed a test
>Miss being that much in love with a person
She meant so much to me. Now she's half the world away working on a PhD in Legal Psychology and has another guy making her happy, whom she's been with for longer than we were. I could never be what he is to her.
>>24638434
>wanted to play Ocarina of Time on my GBC
>have to wait THIRTEEN GODDAMN YEARS
FUCKING GAMESTOP
>>24638481
late 90s senpai, it was basically 00s without normies on the internet and 9/11 bullshit
>>24632860
Yeah, 2012 and 2013 were pretty bad years for me
>Failed college course parents paid for in 2012 because was a lazy fucker
>Got fired from factory job on my second day there in 2013 because I was "not suitable for the job"
>>24632078
how old is funnyjunk?
