Millennials should be intimately aware that complaining that you can't play Mario Kart anymore is an early step towards being just a straight up nazi - ThreadSky

russelllatshaw.bsky.social • 5 days ago

Millennials should be intimately aware that complaining that you can't play Mario Kart anymore is an early step towards being just a straight up nazi

Reposted from cait

millennials please. please stop this. we were supposed to be better than this

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thetrin.bsky.social•5 days ago

I didn't understand the issue that the person you quoted had with the post. Someone is just sad that life changes when you grow up. Maybe I missed something.

kimifw.bsky.social•5 days ago

No. OOP is saying that life got worse. For everyone. They're mourning the world that kids today have to grow up in because it has more technology in it because somehow that makes their childhoods less fulfilling. In other words, OOP is bragging about being older.

thetrin.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ah gotcha.

robotlyra.bsky.social•3 days ago

Legitimately one of the reasons why i keep careful self-reflection as i'm in my 40s now

rodeen.bsky.social•3 days ago

rate of change is more impactful than the change itself

rodeen.bsky.social•3 days ago

though overdramatic this person is right

silkytao.bsky.social•5 days ago

I hate to do generational wars but millenials have Always been the ones rotting in nostalgia

Man I hatee those obnoxious "OnLy 90's KiDs WiLl ReMemBeR!" Posts

I fear every day into turning into that.

lunarantic.bsky.social•5 days ago

Why are people celebrating having a childhood of product addiction

Why, on the other hand, are other people from the 80s/90s outright whiny cynics

grantwhite.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'm a millennial who can't play Mario Kart anymore because I only ever owned Double Dash and sold it.

russelllatshaw.bsky.social•5 days ago

We should definitely go back to the time when the used games market wasn't a rampant speculative nightmare

siniroth.bsky.social•3 days ago

'hiding behind usernames' iunno, I identify a lot more with my username and my closest friends know both

russelllatshaw.bsky.social•5 days ago

Weaponized nostalgia is one of the easiest on ramps to right wing brain rot. First "hey remember how cool things used to be?" curdles into "they took it from you" really fast. Odds are you know someone who has fallen for this.

leohowler.bsky.social•5 days ago

I miss the 90's terribly, but I also realize a lot of it is just being marketed to differently and consumer trends changing. I will say I miss the prevalence of traditionally animated things and how a lack of unions for 3d work took that away.

tomaznable.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'd say it seems like the easiest way to immunize yourself against is to never totally step away from it like me and so many others, but reactionary nerds are still definitely a thing

arcanineties.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'd kind of take the opposite stance, people with this problem need to grow up. In the sense of looking forward to and enjoying things about the present phase of their life instead of trying to recapture the way they lived at 12 or 22 in amber.

They remind me of seeing 38 year olds at the club

tomaznable.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh they for sure need to grow up regardless, but the exact reason nostalgia can have that effect to begin with is their object of nostalgia has been heavily distorted by that distance from it. That lack of self-awareness and perspective is part of it.

arcanineties.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'd argue it's the lack of distance, the lack of other things to latch onto because they're trying to push job and bill out of the way to get back to gaming instead of doing things like romance, travel, activism, career etc

Things that would invest them in the now and future.

tomaznable.bsky.social•3 days ago

The initial post was about how "we didn't know we were saying goodbye" to these various things, so my assumption was that one day this person woke up and thought "the thing my life is missing is Mario Kart, like the good old days"

jorenonirom.bsky.social•5 days ago

You really have to adopt a "it's a nice place to visit but you can't live there" attitude towards nostalgia.

nateming.bsky.social•5 days ago

yeah I almost never feel the "[media] was so much better back in the day," because I regularly rewatch and replay stuff

Super Mario Bros. 3 is still good, but it's not like video games got magically "bad" since then

tomaznable.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'd trust someone who replays Super Metroid once in a while far more than someone who believes Mario Kart 64 was torn away from them by society

blisswallpaper.bsky.social•5 days ago

Also Mario Kart is easier to play now than ever. If you have any friends at all, you have enough friends who can bring Switch controllers to do a 4 player game.

No need to hand out crappy Mad Catz pads to Player 3 and player 4.

russelllatshaw.bsky.social•5 days ago

Mario Kart 8 has sold biblical text numbers, a lot of people are playing Mario Kart

tomaznable.bsky.social•5 days ago

The take on music I don't totally disagree with, but it just means that when you realizing how the delivery methods have devalued music, you need to make an effort to consciously listen and re-establish your relationship with it. I did that by getting into vinyl, but you just need to be more mindful

pattiblacxk.bsky.social•5 days ago

Collecting records works because it encourages you to actually sit down and listen to an album from start to finish and engage with it. I find turning off autoplay and avoiding playlists (for the most part) helps a lot.

ryukage.bsky.social•5 days ago

My tricks for being more mindful and thus appreciative of art and media is to read physical media. I don't always need to nor can I, but it helps.

russelllatshaw.bsky.social•5 days ago

Returning to stuff as an adult is fun! The context changes but you run a good chance of a renewed and deepened appreciation!

silkytao.bsky.social•5 days ago

I do the opposite, I never replay/rewatch anything

There Is so much I haven't seen, I'll never run out

nateming.bsky.social•5 days ago

people keep calling me a time wizard because I keep up with (select) new shit while regularly revisiting old stuff

kirbynoodle.bsky.social•5 days ago

It’s so weird how my micro generation (early gen z) does this with like, 2008. Like yeah 2008 was probs great if you were playing CoD and not paying bills.

blisswallpaper.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'd argue that most people, of any age demo, who was 'firmly middle class, with reasonably functional family' probably had a super kick ass ages 12-17 one way or another, it's just how that age goes. ...COVID years excluded. Those years probably sucked to be a kid.

russelllatshaw.bsky.social•5 days ago

2008 and that period of all times is WILD

skyebunny.bsky.social•5 days ago

In some ways things WERE taken from us, but the unidentified 'they' is not who is actually at fault. Corporations try to squeeze every drop of profit they can out of workers and products. People don't have as much disposable income, free time, third spaces, etc. Just get the 'they' right, folks!

donkeykonga.bsky.social•5 days ago

The entirety of Gen X has fallen into this trap. Their generation’s radicalizing moment was when a bad ghostbusters movie came out

sam-animeherald.bsky.social•5 days ago

I had to talk my friend off that ledge and it was not fun. It's VERY easy to slide down because it's 100% appeal to emotion.

bytylerhayes.bsky.social•5 days ago

I remember the germ of this hitting my social circles (myself included) around like, the Michael Bay adaptations of Transformers and Ninja Turtles, and when I think about the slide from that to yelling about Ghostbusters to out and out bigotry that we barely avoided I sweat bullets.

sam-animeherald.bsky.social•5 days ago

Mood. It's genuinely scary to see happening in real time because the moment you recognize it is the moment you realize how little time you have before your friends are lost

bytylerhayes.bsky.social•5 days ago

I am grateful to say I’ve only stayed in touch with the ones who avoided the trap and swung the other way with me, but I am so sad to say it wasn’t all of us.

bytylerhayes.bsky.social•5 days ago

I think the Bay movies were an especially virulent vector for it because the real-world bigotries bubbling through his Transformers made it easy to tell yourself you weren’t like those OTHER “oh no my childhood” people until it was too late.

sebnegre.bsky.social•5 days ago

'Member?

trenchmarinara.bsky.social•4 days ago

Ah yes, the ‘member berries!

nuclearbob.net•5 days ago

I haven’t made war against any of the food and beverage companies that ruined my life by depriving me of my childhood joys. But that’s probably more laziness than actual virtue.

agiganticbrain.bsky.social•3 days ago

Nostalgia’s like booze. It’s fun now and then, but if it’s your main way to cope with reality, then you have a sickness.

akiko.social•3 days ago

I agree; Just grab some friends and play Mario Kart if you miss it.
Things we used to love are not just gone and inaccessible now. Nostalgia is a big reason I've gotten into collecting DVDs and CDs for the past few years, the latter of which I had a small but nice collection of in my childhood, too.

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