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Just relive the 90s over and over again Matrix Style
If you could, which era would you live in?
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Right now is pretty crazy time in history to have lived through from the early 90's. Survived Y2K, 9/11, watching the music industry die then be reborn online, housing market collapse, two recessions, wars, covid, more wars. Also A reality star is in the white house, again. And the richest man in the world did a bad salute at a rally.... twice! What a weird time to be alive and have lived through.
And that is only just over 30 years!
And that is only just over 30 years!
I mean right before that, about 40 years ago, they put an actor in the White House, then the Berlin Wall collapsed... followed by Soviet Union. The worst way last century's sci-fi shows its age is having USSR existing in 1999 or 2001. Metal Gear had to rewrite a lot to fix the timeline, especially when they mention START treaties and misguided anti-nuclear message that aged like kids in Aleppo.
Overall, 20th century was probably the craziest thing in history, starting on horses and coal, with early radio and telegraphs being the new stuff, then motor transport becoming a thing and electricity getting commonplace, commercial flights arriving, and people going through two world wars and ending up with rise of MTV, internet and portable technology.
My parents generation went from breadlines, reused cellophane bags people washed, with jeans, pantyhose and bubblegum being elite barter goods, to McDonalds, supermarkets, mobile phones and personal computers. Quite a big change for someone copying vinyl records to X-Ray plates, now streaming music & posting videos online.
It's gonna be a boring answer, but I wouldn't change anything. I can't stand the idea of having someone else as my mom, nor my boyfriend and my family and friends too. Even though it's really hurt losing some of them over the past few years, not knowing such wonderful people is an even sadder thought. Ask me again in four years, my answer may be different. x)
probably medieval japan or the wild west. or something that's a combo of both. i want to walk around with a sword by my side.
This might sound strange, but I'd say that span of time from 2008-2012ish. My teenage years. Might not be the "peak" of humanity, but it felt like that was the last time the world really made sense.
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any era as long as i am rich
Whatever theoretical point in the future where the average person in the US can afford a decent quality of living again. Barring the ability to choose the vague future though I guess I'd wish to have been born in the mid 80s so I can at least experience the golden age of video games actively as a teen and then adult whilst also probably being able to get a decent deal on a permanent roof over my head.
I'm sure when most people ask this they mean purely from a cultural perspective and not a "quality of life" perspective. If "what era of culture" is the question I'm answering I'd double down on being born in the 80s so I could be a kid/teen/young adult throughout the 5th and 6th generations of consoles.
I'm sure when most people ask this they mean purely from a cultural perspective and not a "quality of life" perspective. If "what era of culture" is the question I'm answering I'd double down on being born in the 80s so I could be a kid/teen/young adult throughout the 5th and 6th generations of consoles.
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Yeah, sorry I wasn't meaning it is indeed the most "crazy / innovative times ever". I was meaning, this time right now is unwritten and been kinda crazy so far. I wouldn't really go anywhere else. Also, what age are your parents they were in a bread line? Are your parents over 100? That sounds like something from WW2 with the breadlines and the pantyhose being used as bartering chips lol.
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The mid 90's to early 2000's.
The 80s. So many arcades to go to, so many shows to watch, and getting an NES on release day.
2005 south italy
Still feels like 2001, all the best games from 2005
All the crts
All the best cartoons baby
Still feels like 2001, all the best games from 2005
All the crts
All the best cartoons baby
I am talking about the 1980s, when my parents were very young and lines to everything took hours, the only way to make money was sailing abroad and buying stuff that simply didn't exist back home, so you could resell it at premium. Then "economy" broke apart and breadlines followed.
Nylon pantyhose, synthetic coats, electronic household items and other junk were bought by sailors as "school": If you were sailing, you got small allowance in actual money for souvenies and coffee, but they used that to make business instead. So in Genoa, Las Palmas, or Panama, sailors bought whatever they could resell home, extremely rare deficit goods like women's underwear, Japanese tape players, felt pens, makeup kits, and A LOT of synthetic fabrics someone would illegally make clothing for sale from (working from home could get you arrested) etc.
All symbols of the rich bourgeois "abroad," which was swimming in luxuries 90% in USSR couldn't even see... They also bought shirts and new uniforms for themselves, a sailor wouldn't be caught dead in poorly-fitting Soviet fleet-assigned clothing. Lol, the first thing mum bought from her job trip were panties. And footwear. Literally just left her old Soviet shoes in a dumpster outside the shop she got real kicks in.
How poor do you imagine countries where people regularly re-washed plastic bags until the print faded away? That's why Soviet Union collapsed, it's really hard to persuade people they live in the best conditions in the world when the shop shelves are empty, and hiding how rest of the world lives became increasingly harder... Oh and by 1990, food tickets came back, mostly for muskovites because they stopped leeching off Soviet "republics". Had a relative transferred by USSR government from Odesa (Ukraine) to Rybinsk (russia). Had to learn a water-only starvation diet, as he had to practice it for a few weeks because his allowance of 10 eggs a month wasn't enough.
That's why I DO agree with you that we live in most interesting times, but it's even more interesting for previous generation, which witnessed even more change, and many are still alive today to witness... whatever is this craziness. 50s-70s were really stable and boring by comparison.
I'm only working part-time these days, but with today tech I can play games and watch anything online.
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None.
I prefer to be dead.
I prefer to be dead.
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You can't watch hot anime girls changing clothes while dead. There isn't a more peak dignified reason to stay alive than this
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You have a point there.
But i still prefer being dead, not that i'm depressed or anything i just don't like the act of existence too much...
I dunno, we reuse plastic bags all the time here since they came out like 50 years ago. They don't really degrade for like 1000 years. Ah, cool so you just wanted to explain your history. That's cool. Never knew that.
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「たとえばきみは何のために生きているのかと訊かれたら、ぼくは念のためだと答えるだろう。人が生きている理由なんてその程度のものだし、ぼくが生きている理由もその程度のものだし、大抵の人はその程度のものなのだ」
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If you are under 20 and saying this, dw, it gets better.
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