How was the decade of 2020's so far? We're in the middle of it now...

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I have had a miserable time ever-since the Pandemic hit.

 

[RomaniMajorasMask]

For the person who said "The future is Brighter"....F### that guy, F### the future. Personally, I am waiting for the apocalypse...I was promised an Apocalypse....

An apocalypse, you say?

Seriously though. Relax a little! I do not know what you're going through, but the past half decade has not been so kind to me either. The future will be brighter, even if times seem rough. Luck will strike you when you least expect it. The universe gave us this chance, and I say we not waste it with misery. We spend too much time mulling over past mistakes and awful experiences rather than enjoying the present and making new ones.
I want you to tell yourself everything is good and everything will be good. Out loud. Really. Say it. It helps.

Also, whoever that guy was, apologize! Dat wasnt vewy nice!

 

[Lee__Kanker]

Started off lame
But now? I'm feeling pretty happy and optimistic

 

[Superdark500]

Won't be surprised if New Year's Eve ends with a giant message in the sky saying "Conglatulations on beating the tutorial"

please spare us, it's been bad of enough.

 

[Advil Lavs]

For me 2020 was just weird. 2021 was the worst fucking year I've had so far in my life. 2022 and 2023 we just forgettable. 2024 and what the first 3 months of 2025 were pretty good, despite me having to do some life-changing decisions soon. I did some stuff I wanted to do before, I went to some cool places, I got better at stuff I like and got my life together (or at lest mostly together, I'm still kinda panicking for the future).
Hopefully that trend keeps going as it is.

 

[Samatonic Samatonic]

 

[fake-kun]

An apocalypse, you say?
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Seriously though. Relax a little! I do not know what you're going through, but the past half decade has not been so kind to me either. The future will be brighter, even if times seem rough. Luck will strike you when you least expect it. The universe gave us this chance, and I say we not waste it with misery. We spend too much time mulling over past mistakes and awful experiences rather than enjoying the present and making new ones.
I want you to tell yourself everything is good and everything will be good. Out loud. Really. Say it. It helps.

Also, whoever that guy was, apologize! Dat wasnt vewy nice!

I wish I had your optimism.

 

[ATenderLad]

Not great, so far. Woke up to a death in the family, my great-aunts husband. We only met a handful of times, but he was pretty much the last of that generation we had left. It was expected - with my aunt gone he wasn't going to stick around long - but my brain keeps flooding with questions I wish I'd asked him...or any of them, really. Just feels like the living history of my family shrank dramatically, and we've lost something we can't get back.

I'll probably take some meals and some pet food to the people I know from volunteering this weekend, might help this feeling. It's harder now, my government isn't funding the programs that paid for that before and I can only afford so much myself.

Help where you can, embrace the people around you while you can, all the usual stuff people say when folks leave us. We all say the same thing, but predictable or not, I take some solace in it.

 

[RomaniMajorasMask]

I wish I had your optimism.

My fellow lost spirit, for your sake, I hope you can learn to obtain it. Life fucks, and you should too.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

Not great, so far. Woke up to a death in the family, my great-aunts husband. We only met a handful of times, but he was pretty much the last of that generation we had left. It was expected - with my aunt gone he wasn't going to stick around long - but my brain keeps flooding with questions I wish I'd asked him...or any of them, really. Just feels like the living history of my family shrank dramatically, and we've lost something we can't get back.

I'm sorry, wishing you couldve said something to your family member before they died is the worst

 

[RomaniMajorasMask]

Not great, so far. Woke up to a death in the family, my great-aunts husband. We only met a handful of times, but he was pretty much the last of that generation we had left. It was expected - with my aunt gone he wasn't going to stick around long - but my brain keeps flooding with questions I wish I'd asked him...or any of them, really. Just feels like the living history of my family shrank dramatically, and we've lost something we can't get back.

I'll probably take some meals and some pet food to the people I know from volunteering this weekend, might help this feeling. It's harder now, my government isn't funding the programs that paid for that before (Nazi Germany's "Useless eaters" making a comeback) and I can only afford so much myself.

Help where you can, embrace the people around you while you can, all the usual stuff people say when folks leave us. We all say the same thing, but predictable or not, I take some solace in it.

"Embrace the people around you while you can," is something I wish more people could learn to take in, myself included.

I've spent so long talking to people I straight-up don't like that it took an effect on the people that I did, which led me to spend so much time ignoring them that they became bitter. Love the people who love you, and make sure they know you love them.

I hope you can keep trucking, sire. You deserve an easier time,

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

2020 and 2021 were some of the roughest years of my life, and I feel as though I've been in damage control ever since. I've just in the last year or so settled back into life, but nothing will be the same for me moving forward. This has been a very long decade and it's not even halfway over yet.

 

[KirboDeku]

Nothing ever happens

 

[PSVitaForever]

Just yesterday I was dealing with one of those "calamity prophets", I'm sick of them and I'm doing my best to avoid them (it's people I know but sometimes I happen to meet them).
Someone told me you must live thanking for what you have, trying to cheer up and be happy, trying never to lose one's serenity, praying and thanking God and asking God for serenity if praying it's something you usually do: yes, it may be very difficult (I've read comments above, I feel for everyone of them), but is it better to always think to the worse?
I'm sending positive thoughts to everyone and a prayer, especially to people traversing harder times!

 

[Samatonic Samatonic]

Sending my Hugs to anyone who needs one.

 

[Jeff]

A solid F Rank from a dumpster fire. Pandemic, Cryto Currencies everywhere, Prices going up, Microsoft buying game studios they don't need, Disney's Flopped remakes, Algorithms/AI taking over the internet.

Only pros so far for me that is, Nintendo Switch library, TMNT Cowabunga Collection, TMNT action. figures reprints, Super Mario Bros. Movie, the Sonic Movie trilogy, and RGT.

 

[Samatonic Samatonic]

A solid F Rank from a dumpster fire. Pandemic, Cryto Currencies everywhere, Prices going up, Microsoft buying game studios they don't need, Disney's Flopped remakes, Algorithms/AI taking over the internet.

Only pros so far for me that is, Nintendo Switch library, TMNT Cowabunga Collection, TMNT action. figures reprints, Super Mario Bros. Movie, the Sonic Movie trilogy, and RGT.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Look man, I remember people saying the 2010's was the worst decade ever. My dad has a paper he did as a kid which said the 80's was the worst. Is it normal for this to happen so often? Heck no, but I also think it's in our nature to focus on the worst. Especially when a decade starts with such a nasty beginning like 2020 was.

I think we're going to become more community focused this decade. It's already happening. People will find each other, bond with each other, and make memories together. Communication will change and we will see a massive push for optimism and independence. The culture is fed up with the dreariness that smart devices have given us. People are leaning to more into their hobbies.

It is undeniably true how bad things are for certain groups of people right now, I know. If you put yourself out there, come in with an agreeable personality, you'll find people. Maybe things as a whole don't get better, but SOMETHING always does.

 

[Jeff]

Look man, I remember people saying the 2010's was the worst decade ever. My dad has a paper he did as a kid which said the 80's was the worst. Is it normal for this to happen so often? Heck no, but I also think it's in our nature to focus on the worst. Especially when a decade starts with such a nasty beginning like 2020 was.

I think we're going to become more community focused this decade. It's already happening. People will find each other, bond with each other, and make memories together. Communication will change and we will see a massive push for optimism and independence. The culture is fed up with the dreariness that smart devices have given us. People are leaning to more into their hobbies.

It is undeniably true how bad things are for certain groups of people right now, I know. If you put yourself out there, come in with an agreeable personality, you'll find people. Maybe things as a whole don't get better, but SOMETHING always does.

Everyone would find that one negative or two from every decade. But, just ignore those negatives and enjoy the good life by making new friends and activities.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

A very slow and constant painfull decade right now .
Overall this decade has become more like the trail-version of hell when i look at germany overall .

But for me personally , its becoming a decade of change and fun again .

Retrogaming soothed and healed my soul again when before modern gaming just ruined my fun at gaming overall ,
im in a band now and learning to play e-guitar since last year ( we have nothing huge planned except learning to play and make some own songs ) ,
im getting into my workout again since the start of 2025 ,
given up on dating and planning some creative projects ( making my own TTRPG , my band and maybe try to get into videogame-design as a hobby some time later ) to get creative again
and finally getting out of my depressions since 2020 .

Im actually optimistic and see what happens next .

 

[Antihero]

A decade of "If I speak I'm in trouble".

 

[Parasite_Steve]

The 2020's have been the most ridiculous clown world decade in my life so far. What an absolute shitshow between watching the entire world losing its mind because math is hard and big numbers are scary and constantly being forced to play make believe to cater to people's delusions and feelings, because, feelings are now apparently the only thing that's important in the world. I truly cannot wait for the perpetual current year to end and for common sense to return to the world.

This all sounds uncomfortably dogwhistle-y right there
I don’t think I’m gonna be missing out on anything by putting you on ignore from now on, toodles

I’d be way more worried about the global ripple effect of the current US administration.

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

Since 2019 I've had bad RNG in life events and constant debuffs on my physical health. My friends and family have been giving constant support to keep me going at least.

 

[lil_thang]

The past 5 years have been some of the worst in my entire life, peaking at the end of 2022 into 2023.

Within this period I:

- accepted and began my transition (MtF) which feels stinkier the longer youve left it
- climbed from customer support to business analyst to head of tech for an NGO, resigned and was asked back, resigned again
- experienced near fatal levels of burnout
- been evicted
- lost several lifelong relationships
- lost my pet cat of 18 years
- my mother recieved a near fatal injury while overseas (since recovered)
- battled with rampant undiagnosed scoliosis in neck and lower spine

However, also within this period:

- local "married-wahna" supplies here, due to the explosion of private messenger services over the past half decade and the pathetic attempts at enabling legalization, has prompted the black market to primarily offer the highest grade imported strains. it has never been easier to procure smoke in the black market and the quality has never been higher

- I got a Steam Deck last year (still in debt for). this device kinda constantly humbles and amazes me. in a small way it gives me a kind of existential hope and perspective of how far we have come technologically speaking. This is a literal dream device were you to take it back in time even just 10 years. the Steam Deck is essentially the portable gaming form factor PC i always dreamed of existing as a teen. it's easy to be cynical in this insane age we live in but when you have flashes like these and you truly realize the progress we have witnessed in our lifetimes, i am continually astonished. it gives me a sort of hope that even though we may be bitterly depressed that objectively, some things are amazing. objectively things are the best the have ever been and continue to improve.

then again even this perspective is a fleeting one. i imagine having this sort of holistic technological appreciation is bound by age demographics and the techonological enthusiasm of any given persons. that is to say, i holistically and wholeheartedly appreciate seeing technology (in particular gaming) improve from era to era. it still blows my mind a little bit that full3d experiences can be run on everyone's phones, people do not appreciate the raw computing power they have on them 247. i was mind blown when i got quake running on a nokia smartphone. what i'm getting at here is that perhaps those of younger generations who have grown up and matured alongisde this technology may not appreciate what i'm marvelling at here.

the ol' "We went to the moon with the computing power of a Casio calculator, or 1/1000th of a iPhone" or whatever truism.

 

[TheWanderer]

I did not need to learn this information