Do any other late-20s & early-30s robots feel like the entire world and culture perfectly revolved around them?
>early childhood during the late 80s & early 90s coincided with the craze of Saturday morning cartoons and toys like the Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers, arcades, Nintendo shitting out consoles and games faster than you can beg your parents for.
>tween years right on time with fake-edgy mid-90s things like WWF Attitude Era Wrestling, Sonic The Hedgehog (who was actually relatively edgy for his time) and Sega's marketing campaign, skateboarding becoming mainstream, etc.
>Teen years in the late 90s and early 2000s are fully celebrated with mainstream edgy alternative culture like nu-metal with Korn and Marilyn Manson and Slipknot, mainstream pop-punk like Blink 182 and Sum 41, mallgoth culture with Hot Topic, etc. All that teen angst and being jolted was childhood was also emphasised by things like 9/11 or Columbine. Even video games become really edgy with and more mature like the first 3d GTA game.
>As your teen/young adult angst fades away into the mid-2000s, so does the alternative edgy music scene.
>into our late 20s & early-30s, there's a boom in childhood nostalgia with all sorts of franchise like Transformers and Ninja Turtles and video games being rebooted
Am I the only one who feels like this?
Is it a coincidence? Or are we the chosen generation?
>>29601406
I was born in 1991 and I don't get this at all. We did have all kinds of marketing thrown at us which might give you the illusion that everything timed up perfectly with your childhood but I doubt it was spontaneous.
I walked into a Hot Topic recently, a majority of their band shirts on thee walls are STILL Blink 182, Marilyn Manson, Korn etc
Do 2000s babies not have their own culture? Or do they just not shop at malls
>>29601459
>I was born in 1991 and I don't get this at all.
Of course not, you were born just a handful of years too late to experience it all at the right time.
How old were you when like numetal was mainstream? 6-7, maybe 8 years old?
Going through the teenage "fuck you dad I won't do what you told me" and "shut up mom" phase and then hearing a RATM/Linkin Part song on mainstream radio that has nearly the exact same lyrics is mind-boggling.
That's some next-level synchronicity.
>>29601540
>I walked into a Hot Topic
I'm suprised that there are any left at all anymore.
And yeah, I still sort of follow the metal/rock scenes and I swear to god it's the exact same fucking bands playing and headlining metal festivals as 20 years ago. Korn, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Disturbed, Godsmack, Rammstein, etc. What happened in the last 20 years?
My Chemical Romance showed up and broke up in a handful of years? That's about it.
Then again people still wear band shirts from 70s and 80s music like Misfits and Rolling Stones.
I'm 34 and I feel the same way.
Example: The moment I learned to fap, I suffered though scrambled porn TV channels for maybe a year and then the Internet appeared. Everything was shiny and new and awesome thanks to the massive dotcom hype. And you could download MP3s, porn, and anything you could imagine without any fear of the Feds kicking your door in. It was a golden age.
Video games (sound + picture that is interactive) are the final form of electronic entertainment. It started with radio shows (sound only) and books/comics (picture only) to movies/tv (sound + picture). In the early days video games were primarily marketed to children so the late 20s/early 30s people have essentially experienced this entire arc of entertainment since its inception, so it makes sense that everything would feel catered to us.
Also there are lots of franchises that have gained popularity today which predate our times, particularly superheros and their movies.
>>29601679
good to know I'm not the only one
Also now that you mention the internet, this is likely more bias than anything, but I definitely feel like how back then it was more aimed towards kids with stuff like Newgrounds and Flash games in general as well as most like angelfire & Geocities pages.
Then as we got older and into our teens and P2P file-sharing became popular there was just ALL the porn like you said but it was also the first primitive social media sites and things like livejournal, MSN messenger, Myspace's ancesters and then myspace itself.
Then as we reached proper adulthood, myspace also matured and grew up into facebook.
and yeah dude my first faps were to Sears catalogues and Archie comics
>>29601406
slipknot stole their name from another band, "groove baraka". saturday morning cartoons kept me distracted enough to not run around spray painting more graffiti, power rangers kept me entertained because i wanted to fuck the pink power ranger more than i wanted to fight. ninja turtles are faggots just let michael bay fuck their shit up. nintendo did some cool shit i never really bonded with my closes bros over it. wwf/wwc taught me some shit about fighting till i beefed up. sonic sucked compared to earth worm jim. skate boarding was owned by corporate people that worked with corporate made lies to me about it I never forgot.
I think it's a coincidence you bought into so much marketing when you were not the target audience. they wanted older people that could come up with bucks but you just happened to fit into the "take my money" category
>>29601790
Good point, but for me it was music that really seemed in perfect synchronicity with my generation's growth.
Most media too actually. I remember how the first real edgy cartoons like South Park (97) and later Family Guy (99) came out just as I was entering my own edgy phase.
>>29601874
>slipknot stole their name from another band, "groove baraka"
also they got their look from mushroom head
fuck you>>29601459
fuck you>>29601544
fuck you>>29601540
prodigy is fucking amazing btw and that dude fucks a spice girl
>>29601790
fuck you
there's suppose to be like one guy I say you're cool too
>>29602023
>also they got their look from mushroom head
Which stole their look from Mr Bungle.
There's nothing new under the sun.
>>29601868
Fuck yea. Flash was awesome 'cause we didn't have the bandwidth to stream video yet (except via shitty RealPlayer). It was better than the blocky Apple/Commodore/Tandy games we were raised on so we couldn't complain.
When JPGs came about, I was still operating on a computer monitor that could only handle 256 colors. I had to down-rez my porn for a while just to see it clearly. But yeah, the world was evolving right on que.
I was 15 when I purchased a subscription to an illegal sex porn site. They accepted my card with no prob, I downloaded all kinds of shit with no prob. The only thing I needed was privacy and the moment I finally got it, broadband went mainstream as if it were a reward for suffering through the dial-up days!
I'm betting we'll have full-sensory VR porn the moment we hit retirement age. Perhaps the ability to upload our consciousness just before we hit dying age. A final reward from the gods for being born in the 80's/70's.
>>29601933
don't forget ren and stimpy now lol
>>29601406
yep.
im born in 89 and i feel like they are non stop pandering to me.
>>29601406
in the end he did become a casualty of society
>>29601599
>Then again people still wear band shirts from 70s and 80s music like Misfits and Rolling Stones.
Yeah, but that's because those band's t-shirts are barely even "theirs" anymore. It's all about their logos, icons, and other artwork. When someone goes into Hot Topic and buys a shirt with the "Crimson Ghost" on it, they're probably not buying it because they listen to The Misfits. They're buying it because they see it in the store and think it "looks cool".
>>29602109
were they edgy?
My only exposure to them was getting a Sega Genesis for Christmas that came bundled with a licensed Ren & Stimpy game. It wasn't a bad game, a run of the mill platform action game but it wasn't all that edgy to me if even at al. I never actually saw the show.
Oh and Beavis & butthead too.
>>29602054
What in the fuck is that, I'm willing to argue ninja turtles are more cucks than faggots but this mister bugger shit is something else.
Like michelangelo might of had a chance, and rapheal was kinda rapey but mike would of been okay with it because they were like 90% cuck trying to all get in on that and 10% would of reached around if they could get past the shell.
>>29602155
SO AM I
STILL WAITING
FOR THIS WORLD TO STOP HATING
CAN'T FIND A
GOOD REASON
CAN'T FIND HOPE TO BELIEVE IN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-V-e7Wa3L8
>>29602246
Uh, what did I just read?
>being exposed to Tom Green and then Jackass as an impressionable 13 year old decades before every Chad on earth made himself a IT'S JUST A PRANK BRO youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXgfzxXUVsc
I felt like that for a while but now I feel like things are changing in A VERY VERY VERY BAD WAY with all this SJW collectivism and racebaiting.
>90s and 00s
>individualism, x games, do the dew and fuck the man
>ow the fuckin edge!!! right the fuck on
>hell yea steal songs, pirate games, hackers are kings
Now shit is Facebook and feminism. It's vile.
We got to experience lots of new types of media like video games, cell phones, and internet when they were still relatively new and exotic, and then got to see them evolve rapidly to become funner and more useful to the point theyre now cliche
>>29602457
I played the OG Super Mario Brothers when it was new. I played Uncharted 4 when it was new. I'm older than the goddamn worldwide web yet I'm still relatively young. What an awesome feeling.
>>29602398
Only on the internet though.
I don't have facebook anymore, I deleted like 95% of my twitter feeed, I'm not subbed to neo-gamers on youtube who talk more about Anita Sarkeesian than they do talk about actual games, the only time I ever hear about any of that shit is when robots REEEE about it here.
>>29601406
>tfw went from fapping to nothing but my imagination, and can now fap to shit like this
I love living in the future.
I thought Nu-Metal was shit back then, and I still think it's shit today. I'm just glad I didn't completely disregard Metal because of them.
>>29601790
There is some truth to this, but I think it really extends to people in their early 40s who grew up with Atari and NES, imagine experiencing the jump to 3D in your late teens/early 20s. Though we were around most of us were quite young and not all of us grew up with rich parents to buy the latest consoles, I was playing my Mega Drive up until 1999 when I finally got my first PS1 with FFVII and VIII.
Same with computers and the internet, I had an old 486 with a turbo button and Win 3.11 when Napster first came out and I used to troll the chatrooms because it took like 40 minutes to download a song and some songs wouldn't play properly. In saying that I think 2006 was the best year for the internet then after that it all went downhill and got taken over by normals.
It's just a shame I've lost all my files over the yearscp.
>>29601544
Are you sure it's not just that your teenage personality was vastly affected by the mainstream culture?
Have you noticed that teenagers these days aren't edgy at all anymore? they are vain and obsessed with their sex image.
Well so is all of todays music
>>29602785
No it's still there, just not as obvious now, and it was also there before. Teens in the 70s, as an example, had punk rock, the 80s had metal.
It's a biological thing, most teens freak out and feel like no one understands them because they're experiencing everything for the first time.
Or maybe it's because kids and teens were increasingly put on behavioral meds since my time and the times before that.
>>29602515
Yeah, and now it seems like the world is exploding/ending. I know every generation says that, but...
I think we really are chosen generation.
>>29602985
Yes, every generation says that. I think we're fine. When you hear of missiles flying to the US, then yes, we'll be screwed.
>>29602985
>Yeah, and now it seems like the world is exploding/ending.
I stopped watching the news, both on TV and online.
I don't feel like the world is ending. I feel like it's a nice summer night just after it's done raining
As fun and useful as the internet and modern society is, it's a non-stop flow of useless information, propaganda and drama.
im just happy i got to play good video games my entire life
never in recorded history has a generation had access to such fun games to play. like imagine being born 100 years ago? jesus christ im sure i woulda just killed myself from boredom and tedium
>>29603219
True words, anon.
Thing is, if you were born in the early 90s and you were not autistic, you were listinging to Blink and Sum 41 when you were in sixth / seventh grade, playing GTA, skateboarding and playing with 12 year old pussy. Linkin Park was on the radio in 2004, Chester Fucknut wore all those stupid Van Goth hats. The cartoons that the kids actually like are the early run Cartoon Network, Dexter's Lab and Powerpuff Girls, the kind that Adventure Time and Steven Universe fans actually watch. There's some p ludicrous confirmation bias you've got going on there. You must have missed Fall Out Boy and Panic and all the bands that actually got a round two. Also indie was a thing in Montreal, and the proto-"""hipster""" hipster lived in the early 2000s. You can stop projecting your romanticized notion of your less-autistic years on the internet, you just look like a delusion fuck.
>>29603274
> playing with 12 year old pussy
>>29603274
>Linkin Park was on the radio in 2004
You're off by 4 years.
I grew up without the internet and without cable back then, I only heard of nu-metal through the radio.
>>29601544
>Going through the teenage "fuck you dad I won't do what you told me" and "shut up mom" phase and then hearing a RATM/Linkin Part song on mainstream radio that has nearly the exact same lyrics is mind-boggling.
Hear, hear!
31 year old robot checking in. I definitely had this experience and it was powerful.
Then I'd go ride my skateboard--in my Chad Muska inspired nylon track pants--and feel like I was a misunderstood loner as I listened to an actual mixtape (on cassette) recorded off the radio. This was before downloading was even really a thing. I.e., before Napster, even. And then I'd think about buying a boombox to bring along with me to my next session: "Maybe I should invest in a ghetto blaster like Chad."
>>29601406
All fads repeat themselves; you aren't special, no one is.
We are all different, and in these differences we are beautiful; but no one is special.
No, you were too young to actually experience the 90s and too old to be young now
1976-1982 seems like the best window of time to be born
>>29604316
Also, why do people born in the late 80s and on claim the 90s as their decade? If you weren't at least 16 by the end of the decade, you didn't really experience it.
>>29603478
And that's exactly what they wanted you to feel, boyo. Generation XY, the forgotten generation of perfect, unquestioning wageslaves.
At what age do you stop being young? I pick 37
>>29604570
We're old, man. But the goalposts keep moving.
>>29604620
Yeah but what age do you think you're solidly not young anymore?
>>29603353
Brah, you're 31, not 41
