/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4681460
There's only one way to go "back". And that is to get your life in order to the point where you can sit down and play video games without being distracted about the rest of your life.

This is why the notion of video games as an escape are a falsehood. You cannot run from your life to play video games and then fully enjoy them. Only when your mind is clear can you sit down and give them your full attention to make the most of them. That's one major reason why you enjoyed them more as a child.

Having children of your own is a good idea too. That's how you get back the ability to imagine again. That was what made games so good as a child. You were playing while you were playing the game. As an adult it is difficult to put yourself into play mode again.

>>4681460
I never understood the letting everyone in your family know what you like to jerk off to by putting it on your wall meme

>>4681460

That room is so fucking aesthetic

>>4681670
its gay as fuck yo

>>4681670
90's was a wasteland aesthetically. Culture peaked in the 80's. Admit it.

>>4681663
>>4681745
>being ashamed of liking hot girls
yes, this is one of the major problems with modern culture

>>4681945
For once babbage says something that isn't retarded.

>>4681460
OP is right - the 1990s were the best decade. Yeah, the 80s had cool music and fashion and produced some great action movies. But I think in years to come, when our children squat in the ruins of civilisation eating dog food round a camp fire, they'll listen to the few surviving elders tell of a legendary past, before the twin towers fell, before ISIS, before Afghanistan and Iraq II. A time when the internet was new and exciting. When 3D graphics were still impressive and innovative. When SEGA still existed. When Clinton was in charge and the economy was doing just fine, after the Berlin Wall fell but before people started to worry about Islamic Terrorism and Climate Change instead. The goddamn nineties were so fucking beautiful.

;__;

>>4681663
It's how virgins let their parents know they aren't gay.

>>4681460
>TV and VCR mounted on top of the PlayStation box

I'm triggered by this

>>4682968
It’s how closeted homos deceive their parents into thinking they’re not gay

>>4682967
>Yeah, the 80s had cool music and fashion

I couldn't disagree more. Those are the absolute worst aspects of the 80's for me. Everyone looked and sounded stupid.

>>4681460
Idunno man. I mean, I liked my youth and I'm obviously a sucker for nostalgia, but I don't get all mushy and sad about the past being the past.

Think of it this way, back in 1999 you were probably wishing you were old enough to appreciate things you were too young to in 1990. Don't spend your present chasing around in your head and mourning a long passed memory that gets more and more rose tinted each time you look back.

its gone bro, be glad it happened and be excited for something new to happen.

>>4681460
maybe one day there'll be a machine that lets you relive memories

>>4683041
wouldn't help much
you'd genuinely have to be a kid/teen again to properly re-live those memories

>>4682998
this, teem peep 4 life

I’ve been watching a lot of console retrospectives on YouTube lately and I do think to myself “it would be great to have access to all that hardware fresh out of the box” but life is still okay now OP.

>>4681663

Same. I had vidya-game posters on my walls and jerked off to lesbian porn in secret.

>>4683038

But nothing good ever happens nowadays. I mean, you're chocolate so maybe good things happen for you guys (nowhere to go but up), but us cremes are in a heavy decline and it'll only get worse for us.

>>4681460
Superb post.

You all should watch the Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris. Its message is that nostalgia for the past is both totally subjective and generally stupid.

>>4681460
desu i have the opposite problem, time doesn't feel linear anymore. it feels like we're living in an amorphous time-blob, where instead of linear progress things are just a bunch of stuff that happened.
which is basically what post-modernity is, the end of the modernist metanarrative of eternal progress. what's weird is how long it took to die out totally - in real political terms, it died in the 1970s, but for vidya it only really ended in the last generation even if we were getting diminishing returns. the internet has been a slow slide, but with the creation of a near-universal meme culture, the same is true. everyone knows steamed hams now, who needs in-jokes?

and then there's the constant remakes and remixes, because when there's no progress you can't create "the new". this is it, settle in for the end of history. even when things seem to be changing, progressing or regressing it's all just a spectacle to keep you entertained and distracted. nothing is actually moving, there is no compelling story to our times.

>>4683263
>he doesn't want to go to the nice past and fuck Marion Cottilard

>>4683263
woody allen fucks his adopted kids

>>4683263
>You all should watch the Woody Allen film

>>4683263
>watching jew slideshows

>>4683521
>>4683931
Protip: Literally 95% of celebrities are terrible people

>>4683521
Hey now. They fuck in the sanctity of marriage.

>>4683970
Underrated comment.

>>4681460
>putting your tv on top of the playstation box

>>4683987

>>4683970
>>4683974
>any marriage other than the first being sanctified

I wish i could go back.

>>4684157
That's so cute

>>4684157
This pic is adorable. Early millenium has that distinct post-nineties-but-before-smartphones feel to it.

>>4681475
Thank you.

>>4684157
moar

>>4683016
>Everyone looked and sounded stupid
Look, i can get the stupid sounding part, but
>looked stupid
After seventies, it was godlike.

>>4682967
You know what we will tell our children here in Russia about 1990s?
Suddenly, there was nothing nomore. The union fell, and the civil wars at the east and the south resulted in a hellish violence and tens of thousands of refugees. Tanks stormed the capital, twice, and then the war on separatists started, which continued until every general and politician who started it died of old age, but it is still going.
Meanwhile the gangs became the real government in the cities, waging almost tribal-like wars for the control over commieblock streets (i shit you not, it happened). At the same time, the money were practically reduced to paper and replaced with pyramid investment documents which soon fell too.
And looking back, the shit was insane BUT
There were a glimpse of light, an escapism from the nightmare around. Chinese bootleg Famiclones and Contra, SEGA Mega Drive and Ultimate Mortal Combat 3. And "Dendy - a new reality" TV show. It gave us hope for a better tomorrow.
Goddamn 90s were a weird time, but how good they were.

>>4681475
>You cannot run from your life to play video games
tell that to every let's player ever.

some of those guys at their lowest would rather be homeless than to give up on the dream and get a real job.

>>4681475
>And that is to get your life in order to the point where you can sit down and play video games without being distracted about the rest of your life.

Are you sure this can happen in adult life though? I find it hard to believe from where I'm sitting right now, but I hope so.

>>4681475

>>4681475
>You can't run from your life to play video games

Pfffttt haha what the fuck dood so stoopid

>>4684613
Real jobs suck. I wish I could have the dream.

>>4681460
As an adult, it's hypothetically easier to go back than you'd think.

Basically, my plan is to build up a nice collection of games from the 4th, 5th and 6th gens, a dvd collection of all my favorites and store them in what i have dubbed my "boy-cave".

It's not a man-cave, because it's not all about sports, beer, sports, pool and sports. Instead, it's all the boyhood interests i couldn't let go of.

Phase one is coming along slowly, but by the end of this year, i'll be there in that boy-cave. And to get the wife to go along with this, i am letting her go crazy collecting crafting stuff and helping her remodel a little. And by "letting" i mean i just go with it and dont argue...

Anyway, phase two is to set aside a block of time every day when i go do my thing. After the kids are in bed, and before i go settle in for the night myself. Watch movies, play games, listen to music, draw the weird shit i draw, etc. All bets are OFF!

I'll walk into that room, and it'll be 1998 again (unless i fire up the pa2, then it'll be 2001) and no one can fucking stop me!

And yeah, my boy cave will be shoved into the smallest room in the house, with the smallest TV, and all sound played through headphones. But god damnit, it'll work!

>>4681475
fuck off buddha

>>4684669
>I wish I could have the dream.
there is literally nothing stopping you from being a let's player.

as long as you're not a clown like DSP, LTG or wings you'll be fine.

As soon as VR gets good enough to let us live out our past, i'm plugging up and never coming back

>>4684793
As soon asvr goggle is good enough to double as just a regular HMD, I'm plugging in and never coming back

>>4684690
>The wife
>The kids
You dun goofd

>>4681460
>seriously hope nietzsche was right

Well time has progressed but you are still the same stupid child as you always were.

>>4682967
So the 90s were great because you were/are too stupid to realize all the terrible shit that was going on at the time? It was Clinton who started the trend of our government becoming a reality TV show. It was Clinton who started the meme of bombing random who countries to distract from troubles at home (he created the whole wag the dog meme). It was during the 90s when automation started to really kick in and you could no longer live a comfy life by taking a job at a local factory right out of high school. It was the 90s when Islamic Terrorism started infecting our lives. It was the 90s when the environmental movement really started to gain traction and actively encouraging government intrusion into our private lives. It was the 90s when both the illegal and single mother population started to boom. It was the economic policies of the 90s and people embracing the cheap housing meme that led to the downturn in the 2000s. Nearly everything bad about the 2000s had their origins in the 90s. It's time to grow up and take off the glasses son.

>>4681475
deep shit today bois. I need to get my life in order so I can get a gf to play 2player street fighter

>>4684157
>bionicles
based.

>>4685112
You should probably take some interest in history further back than your own personal memory

>>4681945
This is why traps are so common now. Granted many people would thank society for that cus traps are love, but eh, off subject.

>>4681460
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>>4684286
That's because the 90s really didn't end until 2007.

>>4685459

what a dumb statement. the 90s ended with 9/11.

2000 - 2001 is a unique time. The whole decade could have been this cool.

>>4685573
Where were you in 2007, faggot? Because everything up that point was pretty awesome, 9/11 or not. Great movies, great anime, the last gasp of decent rock music, amazing games like Resident Evil 4, all without being spoiled by smart phones and widespread use of social media. Get real gaylord.

>>4685589

2002-2007 was full of wigger and emo shit

>>4685614
>2002-2007 was full of wigger and emo shit
That shit had been in full swing since the late 80s my dude. I didn't spend my entire day on MySpace so I wouldn't know anyway. Early to mid 2000s were fucking great, no idea what you're talking about.

>>4684157
Her legs look unnaturally long relative to the rest of her body

>>4681475
This bois
The NEET life is not all it's cracked up to be. You get trapped in your own thoughts. People crave a purpose.

t. NEET

>>4685589
>last gasp of decent rock music
Pray tell what are you referring to?

>>4685773
Slightly Stoopid, 311, Louis XIV, Gorillaz, Avenged Sevenfold, Offpsring, and many others still produced some good tunes during the early-mid 2000s. There hasn't been anything worth listening to in over a decade outside of very few exceptions.

>>4684157
I still have those same jeans man

>>4685835
This is the worst display of taste I have ever seen.

>>4681475
Truth right here.

But you cant do that while you work. Find a childless old woman that will go mommy/gf mode and take care of your neet ass. Thank me later. I only have to take mine to church every now and then and I'm allowed to regress to a kids state without her getting cold on me she actually likes it and made me a room at her house where I can store PCs and vidya too.

>>4685862
I mean youve no idea how good it is its like a new backup parent in case shtf but you can fuck them too. Plus if you marry them you get pension money later on in life. Seriously consider.

>>4681460
i don't want to go back to slow shitty computers, bulletin boards, slow internet, slow modems and analogue tv. fuck that shit right out of here. even the 80s im not even tempted to go back to. even worse. slow everything.

>>4685835

The only one of those bands that was ever decent was the offspring

>>4685897
YA YA YA YA YA

>>4685859
>This is the worst display of taste I have ever seen.
Okay, let's hear your top 10.

>>4685573
>NUVAH FUGGET
Why are amerimutts this retarded? Nobody else in the world gave a shit about your shitty buildings.

>>4685229
>traps are so common now
Traps are common because more men can't get a girlfriend, so they go prison gay. It has fuck to do with love, it's just horny men that are unable to fuck girls.

>>4685859
>>4685897
>311
>Slightly fucking Stoopid
>Gorillaz
>not good
Literal retards right here folks. I imagine these fags either listen to generic 60s and 70s rock like Rolling Stones and The Beatles, pretending they have good taste, or listen to some garbage hip hop tunes.

>>4685921
A better time...

>>4685910
>meanwhile, in the UK...

>>4685637
Also NEET, but no.

My life is complete, and I know my death's destiny. You simply make mods.

>>4685921
>90s poon

like tears in the rain

Playing vidya and fapping all day is all there is to life. Everything else is work and must be avoided.

>>4685589

I get it - you were born in the 90s. Problem is, the early 2000s fucking sucked. Shit politics, shit music like Black Eyed Peas dominating the charts and shit movies that were remakes and reboots. Video games were good but video games were always good up until the global financial crisis.

>>4686047
> Shit politics,
Compared to today nigger? I mean, what? Nobody even gave a fuck about politics back then unless you were an aging 40 year old housewife.
>shit music like Black Eyed Peas dominating the charts
Shit pop music has always been the most popular, news at 11.
>shit movies that were remakes and reboots.
Now this is just straight up weaponized retardation. The Matrix, Gladiator, Memento, No Country for Old Men, American Psycho, Requiem for a Dream, literally hundreds of the best movies ever made. Even the comedy movies were good. The fact you could categorize the golden age of cinema as "remakes and reboots" is enough to invalidate every other opinion you hold.

>>4685929
>new-graphics-2007
>meanwhile

>>4686089
Oh yeah, good point. After all, everything got better since then, right?

>>4686060
>Nobody even gave a fuck about politics back then
>9/11
Seriously get the fuck out of here, you're underage you shouldn't even post on 4chan.

>>4686120
People live outside the US.

>>4686112
why the fuck are you complaining faggot? Brexit is immanent and the Tories, who you love, have been in power for almost a decade. stop being a cuck and blaming your worthless existence on muh immigration and muh leftists you fucking soy infused cunt

>>4686139
Doesn't mean they ignored a fucking war you retarded kid.

>>4685862
You can totally do it while you work. I have a wife, a son and a career. You just can't game for more than a couple hours a night, except on the weekends. I've been playing a lot more shmups because I don't have the time for RPGs anymore. It's actually a blessing- I've been able to discover new genres that I overlooked when I was young! Plus when my son gets older I'll get to watch what he plays.

>>4685862
gross

>>4686152
One of the defining moments in World Politics was America finding out that they can't actually just roll into Iraq and expect unilateral support from the rest of the First World.
They've been absolute shit at foreign policy ever since due to having a secretly racist idiot at the helm and then a decade later having an overtly racist, somehow even dumber idiot at the helm. They're only now just realizing they're alienating all their allies for years and missed out on the new trade deals and alliances that could have kept them in control.
But yeah 9/11 never forget boot in your ass thoughts and prayers

>>4686164
And this somehow translates into "nobody gave a fuck about politics".
You really are retarded, your mom must be so disappointed.

>>4686143
>why the fuck are you complaining faggot? Brexit is immanent and the Tories, who you love, have been in power for almost a decade. stop being a cuck and blaming your worthless existence on muh immigration and muh leftists you fucking soy infused cunt
Boy are you asshurt. It's not my fault your island is being absorbed by curry niggers.

>>4686168
Sterling counter argument.

>>4686225
Appropriate for a retarded one.

>>4686152
There wasn't a war until the UK and the US invaded Iraq.
The rest of the world didn't care.

80s thread
>look how much we don't care about the US game crash!
90s thread
>look how much we don't care about 9/11!
Obscure Windows game thread
>You should be playing these five well known Amiga games!
Something bad is going to happen soon in Europe I can smell it

>>4686060
>the early 2000s was the golden age of cinema
>lists not a single film produced in the early 2000s

>>4686340
>Something bad is going to happen soon in Europe I can smell it
We have terrorist attacks every summer. That's nothing new.

>>4686352
Yeah, and the nations that are the most tolerant are the ones hit the hardest but that's really just stage 2 of a 4 stage process

>>4686060
>Even the comedy movies were good
In the early 2000's? Did we live the same decade m8? That whole decade of comedy films was godawful, just the worst, and the trend of terrible attempts at lowbrow comedy hasn't died out even now.

>>4684516
I'm sorry, former Soviet anon. The 1990s were "good" if you lived in the West, not so good for certain countries. The World Bank, the World Trade Federation and the good old US of A swooped in when the Iron Curtain crumbled, and they fucked you and your country up the ass. So much and so hard that your collective anus has never recovered. For what it's worth, I apologize on behalf of my people.

>>4686340
>lists not a single film produced in the early 2000s
>Requiem for a Dream: 2000
>Gladiator: 2000
>Memento: 2000
>American Psycho: 2000
You know ratzmally, sometimes I wonder if you're just a really successful troll, because I find it hard to believe that anyone could be this retarded.

>>4686369
>Austin Powers
>Freddy Got Fingered
>Meet the Parents
>Zoolander
>Bruce Almighty
>How High
>godawful
How shit is your taste exactly? I mean seriously, I'll be the first one to tell you that modern comedy movies are ass, but the early 2000s had some fucking great ones.

>>4686406
Anon, those movies are exactly what I'd list if you asked me to name shitty 2000's films that sucked then and suck now. I'm actually taken aback for a moment to consider that these are 'good' to someone.

>>4686415
You sound like the kind of faggot who watches Family Guy and doesn't think Tim & Eric is funny. Okay then, let's hear it, name me your top 3 comedy movies of all time.

>>4681460
>Friends
>Buffy
>FUBU

What a fucking confused poser. I wonder if he went down the wigger or soyboy road in the end or if he just devolved into a full on normie.

Time doesn't exist. Time is just a way that humans have of perceiving the changing form of atoms as they exist in different states within the same space. If you place an apple in front of you, then move it slightly, then move it back to the exact position it was to begin with, did the apple go back in time? No, you'd just say you moved the apple. But what if the apple represented every single atom in the universe? What if moving it represented changing the position of those atoms back to the way they were in 1998? Would we have gone back in time, or would we have simply changed the arrangement of atoms?

The point I'm making is, it's silly to wish you could go "back" to anywhere. There is no "back". The only thing separating you from living how you did in "the good old days" is you. I can still play my PS1, I can still watch the same shows I used to enjoy, I can still make the same food, I can still do whatever the fuck I want. Sure, the world around you changes, but it only impacts as you as much as you let it. The world has always sucked and it always will, it's up to YOU to carve out your own little piece of heaven. Failure to do so isn't a reflection on how the world has changed, but how you have changed.

>>4685112

>so the 90s were great because you...

Yes, you dumb bastard. You think I don't know all the terrible shit going on in the 1990s? Of course I fucking do, but this is a thread about nostalgia. And it's not just nostalgia. If you lived in a developed country in the 1990s it was a fucking great time. A house of cards it may have been, but economies were fucking booming, including the nascent digital economy. And videogames in particular were peaking. Yeah, Clinton was a sleazy fuck and bombed a country just to distract from his sleaze, but I'd take that over an endless, pointless land invasion of some shithole desert backwater that black holes dollars like water going down a drain. I'd take ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia (no offence, kosovan anons) over planes crashing into the pentagon and WTC with the president asleep at the wheel, any day.

>>4686420
He's literally around 16 you mean fuck. Also don't pretend Buffy and Friends didn't have their good seasons.

>>4686381
No need to apologise, it was the late communist party to blame anyway.
Have some famiclone logo.

>>4686418
Neither of those shows are funny. I don't have a top 3 comedy films list, most comedy films tend to make me laugh about as hard as Saturday Night Live.
I dunno, Shawn of the Dead was pretty funny in parts? Shoot 'Em Up made me laugh a little? I don't really look for comedy anymore, last one I saw was one of the Hangovers and that entire type of movie can fuck off. I'm far more entertained by comedy when it isn't the main focus of a film.

>>4686420
In case you didn't notice, the friends poster is Jennifer Anniston and that other cunt laying in bed. Judging by the fact he has like 6 other pictures of women on his wall, I'm going to say he displayed it for that reason and not for Matthew Perry. Kid even owned a PS1 and N64. Probably turned out a lot cooler than you.

>>4681751
This right there. Everything good about the 90s was a holdover from the vastly superior 80s and after 93 everything took a hard nosedive from music to movies to culture in general. Videogames only stayed good for longer because Japs and western nerds that made them were deaf to cultural changes and were still influenced by 80s culture.

Compared to the shitshow that is now, the 90s seem great, but they were already the beginning of the end. Music especially got incredibly bad, grunge, boy bands, girl bands, techno, dance music with shitty rap parts, it was a fucking horror show. Same for movies which all had to have the N64 style CGI and started to all go for PG and PG-13 ratings. Gone were the days of the R-rated comedies and action movies of the 80s.

>>4686436
>Shoot 'Em Up made me laugh a little?
I'm going to give you points for mentioning this film because this is legitimately good and highly underrated film, but the fact you can't see the humor in something like Tim & Eric or Freddy Got Fingered makes you a massive faggot. It sounds like you just hate fun so your opinion has been safely discarded.

>>4686443
>It sounds like you just hate fun

>>4686441
The existence of Alice and Chains and Sublime alone invalidate this shitbird opinion. Now go ahead and tell me how they suck and how you only listen to good 80s music like Prince.

>>4685835
Fucking kill yourself tastelet.

>>4686449
It's Alice in Chains you mongoloid.

>>4686474
How can a woman be IN a man? You're wrong you fucking stupid pants.

>>4681460
>i wanna go back to before i was born
>seriously hope the guy i just read about was right about shit he read about
kids. lol

>>4686474
Sorry I'm a degenerate phone poster

>>4686398
>films released in 2000 were produced in 2000
>films released in 2000 are representative of the early 2000s

>>4686427

Sorry for using language.

>>4685892
Yeah, because the internet is so much better now that all of the stupid normalfags are shitting it up and we have facebook and google. Give me back my secret club.

>>4685112
>So the 90s were great because you were/are too stupid to realize all the terrible shit that was going on at the time?
Yeah that is the 90s in a nutshell. I'm late Gen-X and loved the 90s but cannot deny that a big reason was blissful ignorance about what was going on outside the US.

For example, my first thought when I heard someone say that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center was that it was some crazy guy in a 3-seater or something. Meanwhile my more aware friend immediately knew it was muslim terrorists.

>>4687204
>Give me back my secret club.
You probably weren't even on the internet before 2003.

>>4687237
I was born in '87 and spent many hours watching a small black and white television (waiting for pages to load) surfing the internet on a 28.8k modem in the 90's.

>>4685909
>>4685917

'00
GSYBE - Lift your skinny fists
ATDI - ROC
Shellac - 1000 hurts

'01
The Strokes - Is This It
Mogwai - Rock Action
Converge - Jane Doe

'02
Meshuggah - Nothing
Wilco - YHF
McCluskey - MDD

'03
Mars Volta - Deloused
YYY - Fever to Tell
EITS - TEINACDP

Not in any order.

Not exactly retro, but I was going to say that after 2007 there were some great and revolutionary games relased like Super Mario Galaxy, and then I read it was from 2007, so yes, it's been a pretty awful decade yet.

>>4688819
I think SMG is a bit overrated but I won't talk about it here

>>4686143
mate you sound mentally ill, love how the lefty pussys try to deflect soy onto others lol

>>4685862
How do I manage to get one? Like how the fuck is it possible?

>>4685614

emo and wigger shit is great tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaF2b82t4yI

>>4687563

You are the soyboy of your generation.

>>4689428
Step 1. be a mentally retarded man child
Step 2. find a mentally challenged old lady
Step 3. kill yourself

>>4689448
Nah, don't listen to this faggot. It's easy. I fucked a 37 year old woman when I was 21. Just drop some weight on fish around tinder until you find one.

>>4685589
Entertainment was best when you were a child? What a coincidence.

I like the Gamecube. It had a good amount of great games. RE4 was great but it was also the start of the whole series turning to shit and it also made Capcom go away from real survival horror. But you're fucking delusional if you say the early 00s were even remotely as good as the 90s.

>>4688819
SMG sucks though

>>4685921
Check out chad upselling the cleaning kit. He knows what prints the paychecks.

>>4689490
RE4 is literally so good that it makes anything before or after irrelevant.

>>4681475
i agree. i don't really have the peace of mind to do the things i enjoy, and even if i take the time, i'm usually too distracted/worried/distracted to really enjoy them.

i'm currently trying to change career paths to get into calmer waters. playing comfy retro video games as a goal is one of my motivations. it'll never be like back in the 90s when i was a kid, but hey.

on that note, it's crazy how kids can find solace in things and push reality out. i was a refugee in the 90s with a traumatized mother and a missing father and constantly facing deportation, but just the memory of religiously reading every single word and staring at every single illustration in my cousin's secret of mana guidebook paints the era in a golden color.

>>4689468
Anon, no-one is saying it's challenging to fuck 37 year old ladies. The problem is getting them to take care of you as if you were their child, even though you're a thirty-year-old neckbeard with no aspirations, yourself.

>>4689504
No, it's really not a problem at all. All you have to do is be mildly good looking and learn how to be charming. You don't know this because you've never had sex, but once you've charmed a woman, she will worship you so long as you remain equal parts distant and affectionate. Getting a woman to provide for you is easy if she thinks you are better than she is. Woman only date up, not down. Be the "up" and you can get a woman to do anything for you.

>>4681475
I needed this

>>4686164
>shits on Bush
>shits on trump
>doesn’t shit on Obama being at war for every single year of his presidency

If you don’t hate all three congrats, you actually fell for the two parties meme

>>4689497
RE4 was the cancer that killed Resident Evil. It turned a series of survival horror games into mediocre zombie shooters.

>>4689513
..for approximately 2 years

>>4689434
>Everything except 311 and some other shitty 'rock' bands are soy

>>4684157
>RF switch running cable through the VCR
checks out

>>4689672
Hmm, I wonder who got him into those wars in the first place.

>>4686474
It's Allison Chains, ya chudster.

>>4689751
Nah seriously, not him, but you're a hipster faggot, as would be the nomenclature back in the day. All of those suck unless you're either 15 years old, high on molly, or both.

>>4681460
I feel you, anon. The last 18 years have felt so futile. It's like we fell asleep one day and woke up the next in a parallel world.

>>4689513
>i only had seks wid muh hand
Cool parrot blog babykun

>>4683274
Get a VR headset. Made me feel like an 80s kid again.

>>4681663
wait, I had a poster of obi wan kenobi

>>4690543
I got bad news for you

>>4689751
>"shitty rock bands"
>listens to literal soytune made for edgy early 2000s hipsters that nobody except 2 of his friends in elementary school ever listened to

>>4685897
Are you fuckin' kidding me, 2000s Offspring is really not good "Splinter" and "Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace" are shit compared to "Americana" and "Ixnay on the Hombre" "Conspiracy of One" was Ok

>>4689428
Life of Kings

I knew the owner of an agency that would send out girls to take care of old people, take them to hospital for checks, staying nights etc.. One day I started doing a couple jobs for him (so much for qualifications right?), I knew him from when I did compute repair, so I joked around hey I can do that if you need help and wtf he takes me seriously so I did some driving old ladies to hospitals in the region for 15 euros per trip , it was shit deal I knew it.

Eventually one lady wanted night presence, they warned me "prepare yourself for HELL" they said she had a nervous breakdown and every woman they sent would turn down the job after a month in horror. House was a mess, garbage everywhere, literally crazy tier stuff but honestly it didnt impress me at all.

I cut them out of the deal after a couple weeks and have been keeping her to myself since then, they were giving me pennies while bleeding her dry. Fuck them.

She turns out to be a real lady, caring and educated, and cute looking too (thank god). She loves me having intelligent hobbies and wants me as her son/lover and doesn't mind me not working, takes me thrifting every time I want, buys me craploads of retro PCs and components.Shes such a frail lady its hard not to get attached too and its not in my intention to hurt her we've been very transparent about what we want from each other and its working so far.

Btw advice dont think she stays with you just for the dicking its not like they cant get another tomboy with their money if they want. Dont manwhore while youre with her if you want it to last never embarass her saying shit like she pays me etc dont be a tomboy or a whore be their son with privileges its better in the long run. Its been 3 years now im 29 shes 60 doing well so far.

I dunno why this isnt the dating startard for guys baka I always told people young girls have no value.

>>4689672
The fuck is the two party meme? I'm not American.
Only one of those presidents invaded Iraq and caused the rest of the Western world to turn its back on giving America blind unilateral support.
If you can't see that you're changing history to support your personal biases. It's a quantifiable fact that foreign approval of America nosedived during the Bush and Trump years, this is completely undeniable.

>>4689428
try an agency for elder care then keep her for yourself.

remember CHILDLESS and lonely, state job is good also

>>4689428
believe in yourself and dont be a dick, be humble.

>>4690772
>try an agency for elder care
The guy wants a hot 30~40 year old woman, not a fucking geriatric patient.

>>4689513
>be the 'up'
>but live in her basement and rely on her for everything

Looking from a purely mathematical point of view she's either extremely ugly and desperate, or you're amazingly good looking and excellent in the sack.

But I get that you're trolling and only want replies, here's one out of courtesy.

>>4690803
>Looking from a purely mathematical point of view
And this is why you don't understand anything about women, autismoid.

>>4690793
No he didnt said he wanted a 40yo or then he wouldnt get shit.

Btw you also find 50 year olds while doing assistance/nights jobs. Mine's 60.

40yo are still in the market. theyre no good. 30yo gtfo theyll trap you with a baby. We're talking about getting a wreck a making her the sad office lady of your dreams who will be a mom, fuck you, cook you and take you thrifting for retro vidya

>>4690809
Lol, you're a retard dude.

>>4681475
>get through college (european country, no debt)
>get a nice 9-5 office job
>get a caring, understanding and educated bf
>get a room for retro and non-retro vidya
>get home
>suspend your disbelief and adult brain
>be 8-12 again
>enjoy vidya without worrying about minmaxing or shit like that
>feels really good

don't forget to allocate time to do "adult stuff" like running errands and cooking yourself a nice meal

>>4690808
Thanks for the reply, (You)s make me feel good :^)

>>4690862
Okay

>>4690679
>>4690129
You guys are hilarious. The flyovers of /vr/

>>4690869
>You guys are hilarious. The flyovers of /vr/
Sounds like a pretty soy thing to say.

>>4681460
If enough people think like you I can see why no one here wants to accept 6th gen.

I've wasted my entire life

>>4686398
how can you be this stupid? you seriously think they were made in 2000? you know how long it takes to make a movie?

>>4686340
nobody gives a single fuck what tripfags have to say about anything. you've proven yourself to be utterly clueless and a a compulsive liar in thread after thread.

> babbage's gramps
> a compulsive lying american

>>4691123
>a movie isn't from the early 2000s if you started production in the late 90s
how can you be this stupid?

>>4691084
haven't we all

>>4690110
>what is libya

>>4690758
Yet they were fine with hushing up Obama’s wars in Libya and Yemen. Interesting.

>>4685835
>Avenged sevenfold
This is the worst taste I think I've ever seen if you are genuinely over the age of 18 and out of your emo phase.
Also CKY was pretty sweet for the time

why is every board america vs european shitflinging right now. we get a new batch or something? jesus, grow up.

>>4691123
>you know how long it takes to make a movie?
About a year if you're a multimillion dollar Hollywood production. Much less if not, assuming everyone involved knows what they're doing and even still it shouldn't take more than a year.
No idea for animated movies, they're a complete crapshoot.

>>4691938
If you're a small filmmaker that movie you produced in six weeks or something will sit on your hard drive for years in the very unlikely event it ever does get a theatrical release - and your distributor will make their own cut

>>4694106
you're the reason I don't wanna be around here anymore. thanks for being this disgusting.

>>4691912
Sounds more like you're just a brainlet who doesn't know how to appreciate music. I bet you think Smash Mouth sucks too, just because you only associate them with All Star. Listen to at least 500 albums and then you get to have an opinion.

>>4691912
>shitting on Avenged Sevenfold for being "emo"
>likes fucking CKY
you just went full retard

>>4681460
>born in 95 so I don't remember 96-99 very well
>have fond memories of 2000-2002
>tfw after 2002 everything went downhill and the only good thing in my life were video games
>now, 22 y/o
>working hard to make my dream come true
>it depends only of me to sit down and get this shit done daily
>tries to play video games, trying to get back the feeling I had as a kid
>can't feel any kind of joy, I'm disconnected, distant and video games feel like nothing but a waste of time.
>tried other forms of entertainment such as books, tv shows, movies, etc etc
>despite feeling nothing, I hold on to the nostalgia because they are connected to the only good memories I have

>>4685112

Everything you said reads like you got it off a right-wing wiki page. Get some original thoughts, dude.

Time isn't linear, the way our brains process time is.

>>4681475
Very well written. You are correct.

I'm going to save this to remind myself later.

Honestly I just wanna die, going back wouldn't be any different than going forward. I'd still be me.

>>4684157
Damn, I don't think I would be able to breathe in this room without inhaling a small toy or something.

>>4689513
Who would be more of a pathetic waste of space in this situation? The content leech or the blissful host?

I mean, good for you. I don't think I would be able to step that low.

>>4694187
And yet here you are still

>>4681475
I kind of agree but the problem is you are always going to have more responsibilities and distractions as an adult, period. The mindset of an adult is completely different than that of a child, you are always going to think you are able to do something more valuable with your free time because you have the money and skills to do so. Having children is also a double edged sword since yes you can help them discover the games you loved as a kid but at the same time they are a huge responsibility and take up a large chunk of time to raise and care for.

Just

>>4694187

He's going to kill himself pretty soon. Give him another few months, maybe a year.

A while back I was playing some older arcade games late at night. At one point I stopped and went online for a little while and started looking up photos of old arcades. And then I realized that while I like arcade games a lot, what I really love are arcades. The whole idea and culture of it.

>>4681475
wow that's a pretty fucking good post, and an eye opener. even to someone who is already into self improvement.

>having children is a good idea
>being a NEET is bad
>dont leech off of women or youre a loser and a kid

Wtf are twats doing on /vr/ anyway? THOTS BEGONE

>>4694908
/v/ is full of robots because most of them off themselves before the shit they like is considered retro, hence more married/working posters here than on /v/. Maybe you should join them, either in /v/, /r9k/, or on the other side?

>>4681460
I’m lucky in that my wife’s son is into retro games so we’re able to bond over vr while I get to wax nostalgic about the golden era of gaming. My wife bought us a SNES mini which we play together when she’s out with her personal trainer. She’s such a fitness freak that she often pulls all-nighters at the gym, this gives her son and I plenty of time to hone our gaming skills in my retro man cave!

>>4694930
tits or gtfo

>>4685229
>make a post solely to announce your love of traps
>"eh, off subject xDDDD"

>>4687187
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>>4691084
Yup. It's okay, though. Someday you'll be dead, and so will everyone who ever knew you.
Just try to find something that you enjoy.

>>4689751
You literally just listed a bunch of /mu/ and pitchfork-favorite albums and pretended you have taste.

Not to mention that if anything is the epitome of soy, it's pitchfork.

t. I listened to 10/12 of these.

>>4694862
It's funny that you think I'm even remotely depressed. I'm posting less because even I can no longer stem the flood of posters like you - and presumably him since I can't imagine why my post about the realities of independent film making could possibly so offend a person not badly deluded into thinking their little "movie" they're currently filming in the form of 3 minute youtube clips could be a nationally released 2018 academy award nominated film.

>>4694908
>>4694954
As >>4694930 said it's dipshits like YOU that don't belong on /vr/. Healthy /vr/ was a mix of oldfags who participated in the authentic period culture of retro gaming then went on to grow into functional adults and youngfags who rejected modern gaming culture and sought to follow an old school gamer path - maybe in life in general but certainly in gaming.

Now we have literal /r9k/ fuckwits attempting to normalize even standardize their self-entombment validated by a bunch of people from countries where they lack the right to pursue happiness. Observing that process IS kind of depressing but it just reminds me how lucky I am to have the life I have.

>>4686009
what's this gif from? i've seen it a couple times on tumblr

>>4686427
shut up vsauce

>>4686441
>music in 90s was bad
>what was punk revival
>what was shoegaze
>what was florida and sweden death metal
>what was east coast hip hop
>what was the birth of trip hop

>>4695195
>it just reminds me how lucky I am to have the life I have.
I'm sure your wife's son feels very lucky to have you as well

>>4695195
gramps just wanna tell you that i respect you and like you. you're the only tripfag i'm fine with.

>>4684157
Ravioli on the VCR!

>>4695195
>tripcuck gets triggered and tries to gatekeep /vr/

>>4695216
He does. Today is his birthday (and happy late 5th birthday to /vr/ as well) and I'm letting him watch Hello Neighbor and Bendy music videos his mom doesn't approve of while she's at work and I clean up the house. I usually don't do that but she's getting to be extremely pregnant with our second and I want her to be in the best possible mood for his in-town pizza party at the local arcade today before the trampoline party this weekend in the city with the in-laws and cousins and relocated friends. My nerd friend's nerd kids are coming today. His 6 year old has an obvious crush on mine maybe he'll get his first real smooch but at the very least he'll get to feed tokens to games until he's sick of it and has enough ticket redemption junk to fill his trash can. There you go, a lot of cool story bro for you to work with. Do you have the mental gymnastic skill to spin it into something negative and continue believing that I'm an unhappy person?

>>4695231
Thanks, Anon. You seem like eh cool guy too and will probably quickly get accused of being me samefagging.

>>4695243
It was a gradual process just like my efforts to polarize /vr/ but over the course of the last sixteen months of tripfagging it's becoming clear that the more aggressively vocal faction is the one I consider undesirable be they a minority or not.

>>4695252
>Do you have the mental gymnastic skill to spin it into something negative and continue believing that I'm an unhappy person?
Nah, dude, you flat-out admitted to being a cuck so you saved me a lot of work

>>4695252
>spending his day on 4chan on his son's birthday
>considers letting him watch music videos a special birthday treat
>fully describes his son's birthday celebration, from pizza party to trampoline party
>feels the need to justify himself on an anonymous imageboard just to prove to someone that he isn't unhappy
I cannot believe a faggot like you actually exists, holy fuck.

>>4695307
See, just because our son belongs to my wife does not express or even imply he's not also mine. Note my (intentional) inclusion of the phrase "our second" in my post. This ignorance of the subtle implications of the English language is something I've noticed common in your type of anon, perhaps on account of yuropoor background or if a native English speaker maybe symptomatic of an early disenfranchisement with the educational system - a stark contrast to the traditional "nerd" I seek to reach.

inb4 "no u"

>>4695316
I'm so glad to share my joy with you, Anon.

>>4695252
damn sounds like a nice party for the kids

>>4695337
I'm hoping so. My mom is baking the cake and she's been having a pretty rough time. Her 14 year old dog she's had since my dad and grandma were still alive died Monday night and I stayed up all night down there suffering with them through the whole process. She's been doting on him completely for like three months as his health slowly failed at a cost to her relationship with my son that had been very comfortable, run back and forth between the houses style and now that the dog is gone she's realizing that like video games dogs will not carry on a legacy of you. I'm sure they'll grow back together, hopefully even before the new baby gets here at the end of May but I was a bit worried her sadness would color the party so I'm very glad the nerd kids will be there - and so is he, for simpler reasons.

Probably the "I'm a much better parent than that to my vinyl figs" anon will have something to say about this as well.

>>4683263

wasnt this movie one big nostalgia trip for le gay paris?

>>4695324
>>4695376
>massive autistic personal blogging on 4chan
>"I aspire to communicate with the higher breed of nerd that matches my high intellect" *tips fedora*
>"J-just because he's my wife's son doesn't mean he's not mine too.... and I said he we were h-having a second one, which totally can't be read as me accepting the son of my wife's boyfriend as my own"
>"h-heh, yuropoors and school drop-outs amirite"
Jesus Christ, anon, you're such a colossal self-unaware faggot
But what can you expect from tripfags, really

>>4685910
You're retarded. 9/11 had a huge impact on America and American culture which in turn had a huge impact on the world.

>>4682967
>OP is right - the 1990s were the best decade
Didn't we discover that OP's pic is from 2000 at the absolute earliest? That gold N64 controller is the giveaway. They weren't widely available until 2000, alongside Majora's Mask. Before that, the only way to get them was through Nintendo Power (in which case it would have a black emblem on it celebrating 100 issues of Nintendo Power, which it doesn't) or it would have to be one of the uber-rare 1000 given away as a prize in a Mario Kart tournament. So either that kid was super lucky, or this isn't the '90s anymore. Also that poster on the far right is from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged me, which was released Summer of 1999, so at the very earliest, this is 1999.

It would be nice to find something else in the picture to help date it, but I'm coming up blank. Maybe something on the Playstation box? I'm not too familiar with them...

>>4682967
The '90s were shit compared to the '80s, easily. I feel sorry for people who weren't there. The 1990s were basically crumbs.

>>4695659
Again

>>4695692
>Didn't we discover that OP's pic is from 2000 at the absolute earliest?
calender decades start with the 0 years and end with the 9 years, but cultural decades don't really. there's a reason we're speaking of the long 19th century and short 20th century too.

even if that pic is from 2000, it still has a heavily 90s feel to it. in fact, i'd argue it's more 90s than, say, the year 1994 when people were only halfway into the decade. shit's in flux, man.

>>4695659
Again. I'm sure you're capable of reading anything you choose into anything. It's a necessary quality of the dangerously deluded - and thinking you're only doing it for trolling purposes isn't going to protect you from yourself and the onset of mental illness.

>>4695832
>more 90s than, say, the year 1994
Kurt Cobain was already dead by now in 1994

In reality culture usually doesn't suddenly and dramatically shift. Splitting culture according to decades is arbitrary but it makes it easier to discuss. Humans crave precision.

I think 9/11 was a huge turning point for this country. It shattered the illusion of western stability and safety and thrust us into our current geopolitical nightmare. Social media was another turning point that has done more harm than good.

The 2000s kinda suck, but I'm also an adult now and life probably sucked for adults in the 90s too.

>>4695856
Social media is the biggest cancer of all. Honestly, the world was still pretty fucking awesome after 9/11. It all went down hill once people started using smart phones and shit like Facebook.

>>4695839
it's not just him, tripfag. you're hated here. what you do about it is another matter entirely.

>>4695880
I'm honestly starting to think he's just a good troll that gets a kick out of baiting people into meaningless pseudo intellectual discussions and dick measuring contests, because there's no way he's really this retarded.

>>4695231
Quit turning off the trip code just to suck your own dick, faggot

>>4695890
It's certainly more than possible I'm this retarded, Anon.

>>4685892
Yeahhhh. Except all this improved technology does is enable us to experience more garbage faster than ever. None of it is any better, we just move through it faster in hopes that the next thing is better, and even if it's not, we drop it and go consume some more crap because it's literally limitless now.

We're just flies in a dump filled with so many piles of shit, moving between it all so fast that we never stop to dwell on the fact that it's still shit.

>>4695856
>life probably sucked for adults in the 90s too
No it did fucking not suck in 90s. 9/11 marked the start of a worldwide recession that we almost started recovering from until the subprime mortgage and bank bailouts fucked it up. Working in the 90s was fucking great, I wish we had an economy like that again.

>>4695890
>because there's no way he's really this retarded.
If you've seen his anti-Europe rants you'd know he is absolutely 100% this retarded

>>4695926
Of course thr economy was better, but adults still had the same responsibilities they have now. Their bodies still aged, the things they loved about the past faded away, their friends still died. Getting old sucks.

If you really want to feel innocent and carefree again so you can completely absorb yourself in a game just smoke some weed.

But for real, living in the past isn't healthy and most of us were children back then. Just about everyone thinks the era they grew up in was the best. When I was loving the 90s as a kid my grandparents thought the world was coming to an end because violent crime was the highest it's ever been and "life just moves so much faster now"

>>4695927
Europeans all are beautiful, culturally diverse peoples who enjoy all the greatest personal liberties including the ability to drive V8 cars with affordable insurance and safety on the streets and at rock concerts. Also the Commodore Amiga is the greatest video game console of all time.

>>4696308
>Commodore Amiga
>Console

>>4681475
>You cannot run from your life to play video games
You assume I had a life to begin with.

>>4696975
pics like this must be staged

how can you lug 40 pounds worth of electronics your entire day just to play games in the 20 minutes you are eating

>>4696308
oh i have to take everything back, i thought you were better than this

>>4697560
>20 minutes
Dude's probably there for the wifi

>>4681460
Time is a flat circle.

>>4697675
>fallout 4 no multiplayer
>wifi

>>4681460
Hmmm.

I'm late to the party, but...

I get the OP is being hyperbolic, but here's the problem with nostalgiafagging: imagine if I presented a dank meme from 2001 to you as though it's still funny. I'd be an idiot. Why? Because nostalgia glasses exaggerate how good things were.

You know the "Sonic was never good" thread. In fact, Sonic 2 isn't as feature-rich as Sonic Mania, therefore in SOME sense it IS an inferior game--and remember Mania reuses OLD levels.

So if you have good feelings from things you're nostalgic about, fine, but if you pretend old things are something they aren't and weren't, you're just going to become a moron.

I'm just going to say it, fuck the people saying its unhealthy to look back to the past and enjoy nostalgia. If you look at it objectively, thinking about the past and getting your inspiration from it is one of the most healthy things you can do. Drawing strength, enjoyment, inspiration, etc from the past is great. I am a wage-slave and I work a standard 9-5 on the weekdays, you know what gets me through my day? Thinking about how good a game like MegaManX was from various different perspectives such as gameplay, OST, themes, narrative, etc. Even now I am revisiting old 80s/90s tier anime and trying to find out if its truly just nostalgia or anime/games from those times were objectively better. We teach history in schools because there is a benefit to it, we can learn from it and better ourselves from it.

There are people who say wanting to go back to a simpler time is somehow unhealthy. Life is too short to worry about the present or the future, just keep things as simple as possible. If you are fond of a certain era its not simply because you just "grew up" in that era, its the fact you can compare the culture and society of that era to now and you objectively see a down curve.

tl;dr: Its healthy to be a nostalgiafag, don't ever stop doing it.

I really miss the pre-2007s too

>>4697641
I was. I used to adore Europeans until I realized they're 70% responsible for the current state of /vr/

>>4694934
obv bait but the ending made me giggle.

>>4695659
this. honestly get the bullshit out of vr.

>fuck you're goddamn kids.

>>4697846

>>4681751
culture peaked in the 1680's you pleb

>>4694403
I don't understand why people seem to talk about having children and bringing lives into the world as some kind of recreational choice. I'm not saying you did that in your post, but it just made me think of it.
Most people it's just like "yeah of course I want to have children, what's the big deal." It even goes beyond monetary responsibility and trying to raise the kid the right way, like that's someone's life.

>>4698026
Family is the basis of society and Western society is teetering at the brink of losing that. It's understandable that people who didn't grow up in good families might not have the same desire to create a good family of their own but what's truly shocking is how many people who DID grow up in good families don't. That's what I don't understand.

>>4685128
the only one I see is onua, bitch wants the big black cog

>>4697785
No one is saying that enjoying things from the past in unhealthy. People are saying that it's unhealthy to wrap your identity around the past because it's literally impossible to go back. On some level, you have to move on.

>>4686143
muh corbyn mmm

>>4686340
Eidos, Ocean, Rare, Codemasters, Rockstar, Team 17, Bullfrog, Lionhead etc - the UK.
Also, Runescape and Neopets :^). Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that.

>>4681460
1) Fill your room with only 80s shit.
2) Wear period appropriate clothes.
3) Hypnotize yourself and go back and time
4) Die happy

Worked for Christopher Reeve.when he wanted to fuck Jane Seymour.

>>4695195
>authentic period culture
I like most of your posts but come the fuck on dude

>>4695324
please leave this board.

>>4684516
What do you think about Kinamania, Rusbro? I really enjoy his videos(the ones subtitled in English, anyway). Hes sort of like a skinny, crippled, Russian AVGN. I really like hearing what it was like for you guys back in the day - playing only what hacked and pirated games that made their way to Russia through Chinese bootleggers. Fascinating stuff.

This thread reeks of /v/ and /r9k/.

>>4700713
Better than old people smell

>>4700670
Nah I was here first

>>4700713
For sure

>>4700753
Not even