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  • superkret@feddit.org
    3·
    2 months ago

    I miss old PC Games from the early 90’s.
    I’ve reinstalled all that I remember and they sucked, but back then, they didn’t.

      • superkret@feddit.org
        1·
        2 months ago

        Oh god, those old adventure games.

        Where doing things in the wrong order (which was explained nowhere) would lead to permadeath, or worse, getting stuck with no way to progress and no hint what you missed in a previous area you can’t return to.

        All I remember from police quest is getting killed or fired for missing a step at a routine traffic stop, or forgetting to check the tire pressure every time you start driving.

        In Leisure Suit Larry 1 you straight up get killed without warning if you step onto a street (run over by a car) or into a back alley (mugged and clubbed to death), or take a cab with wine in your inventory (cab driver takes it, drinks it and crashes).

        Fun times!

  • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
    31·
    2 months ago

    Life before cellphones and internet.

    Did you know in 1990 only .25% of the world’s population (12.5 million) had cellphones and only .05% (2.8 million) had internet?

    It feels like we sacrificed local community and connection for global information overload and disconnection sometimes.

    • VacuumVigilante@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      GenX, here. You are so very, very wrong. Phones and internet have made anxiety disorders endemic. We’re constantly bombarded with information, alerts, opinions, information and misinformation…

      Young people have never experienced what it’s like to have privacy. To leave the house and be totally unreachable. To get answering machine messages that you had no obligation to immediately respond to.

      I’m in big tech and helped develop all this shit. We made it addictive on purpose. I’d love to go back to how things were in the 90s, and I’m not waxing nostalgic. Things were objectively better before all this crap.

      • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
        0·
        2 months ago

        Maybe I am, but I don’t think so. I’m a Xennial and also workin tech. You and I feel the same but I don’t think we’re in the majority. It might not be 90% but I think we are the ever shrinking minority that feels this way.

  • spacemanspiffy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Being able to eat, like, 8 meals a day and not feel like shit that night or the next day.

    At some point my metabolism finally started to slow down.

    • rekabis@lemmy.ca
      0·
      1 month ago

      I had the “hollow leg” of my youth clear into my 40s. But by 45 I could feel it noticeably collapsing, and by the age of 50 it was almost completely gone.

      In my late 20s I polished off 7 full racks of ribs in one sitting. These days I have trouble getting completely through one full rack.

        • rekabis@lemmy.ca
          2·
          1 month ago

          Yyyyyyup. Baby back ribs, my absolute favourite.

          First time I ever had racks outside of home, was at a local restaurant called Kelly O’Bryans. I was in my mid-20s at the time. Decided to “Irish size” the order to two racks, not aware that they were already running a special that doubled the racks. Entire party stared in shock when four f**king racks came out balanced on a single platter. And I ate them all. Including all of the pachos (cross-cut fries with a house dip sauce).

          Second time was when Montanas came to town a few years later. At the time they were still doing six bones a refill, instead of the current 3-4. Had the whole initial rack (something they also stopped doing, only half a rack to start these days) and then did 12 refills. So seven full racks of ribs. I still have that receipt somewhere filed away in my bookkeeping.

  • auginator@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 month ago

    My ex-wife it’s been six years since she left. She cheated on me, got knocked up and took off with the boyfriend.

    She was super religious. She treated me like garbage but she prayed all the time.

    All this time and sometimes I think of her coming back. I know better but my heart doesn’t.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    0·
    2 months ago

    The smell of leaded gasoline.
    The smell of a fine cigar: I quit smoking 14 years ago but I miss that.

    And I’m 200% sure they were awful.

    • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 months ago

      Are you sure you’re not just thinking of the smell of carburetor engines? I think I know the smell you’re thinking of and its the exhaust of a vintage carburetor engine.

      Was there really a different smell for leaded gasoline?