/ot/ - Off-topic

pretty sure i posted some in >>8229 https://uboachan.net/hikki/res/7914.html comfy memories.

>>27598
I swear my bro still plays that.

>>27599

Had those same white speakers back in 1997.

Time to be kicked into 2025….

Living in the 90s…..

1993

I don't like obsessing over the past but looking at old anime and video games from the early 2000s really calms me in a way nothing else really does. The world was so different yet in a sense, strikingly similar. I don't remember it being much better politically or socially, but the media and the entertainment sure was. It felt like we were at a grasp of something truly new and innovative but it all just slipped through our fingers and we lost touch. For music, I blame the rise of hip hop in the mid-2010s being pushed by the fantanos and the pitchforks of the world. Poptimism too. It felt like it was a crime on the internet to like niche music and genres around that time and for what? A vague sense of social justice? Wouldn't it be more of a "social justice" to listen to the truly niche, struggling artists who defy boundaries rather than stay inside them? I hate the constant meddling in culture for these vague, grandoise but never fully fleshed out ideas that are entirely full of nothing and counter productive when you truly examine them. And the mid 2010s was full of that sort of ideology. I think that's part of the reason why 2000-2011 feels so pure and why it resonates with many a zoomer: it was free of the confinement and art was allowed to be expressive and niche on a grand scale because none of these entertainment mediums had fully grasped what exactly we were doing in the new digital age nor did they have any conceptions of what we should be doing as a part of social responsibility. It was purely free-flow, stream of conciousness lead by several entertainment powerhouses that dominated the online culture and were not afraid to take risks or alienate a few people for the sake of making something truly beautiful.

>>27814
Feeling the same thing, I miss how pure internet was, everything had more substance to it, now is a bit souless but we still can access some good stuff

>>27831
I treasure the fact that I can still access good things from a time long gone as well as some new good things that slip through the massive irony and edge barrier on the internet.

It feels nice to have something truly devoid of modern day politics, partisanship, and aggressive agendas. Particularly aggressive from the right wing "let's make 'gemmy' hate pieces" edge sphere, but also the left wing overtly inclusive "lets make everything black" bullshit that can be just as annoying.

Having something that just stands on its own and presents its own world views and own insights rather than tailor made pandering is nice and actually stimulates my preception rather than try to force me in alignment towards it. Hamfisted messaging has honest been kind of a deathknell on truly creative and exploratory works.

You people managed to make a chill 2000 nostalgia thread political.

>>27864
they'll always find a way.

When The Last Airbender was actually good…