Being born in the late 1900s sucks. Young enough to remember nature existing, too young to have fully appreciated it.
I miss the birds I'd hear at 6 am after a marathon runescape session circa 2008. I miss lizards. I miss bugs. I miss seeing life during my day but I didn't care about it when I could.
Actually not the worst choice, considering the DS had a touchscreen and some games made use of the in-built microphone. You just need to keep button inputs off the screen.
Our music was better, yes, but or TV shows absolutely were just breaks between Pharma ads. As a kid in the 90s I remember despising having to wait through seemingly endless obnoxious fucking commercials (never understood why no one else around me really seemed to mind that much). And every single show would make like a mini cliff hanger for the very purpose of cutting to ads at that moment. God that pissed me off, totally destroyed any tension that they might have built. But now, since the advent of adblockers, I haven't watched media interrupted by commercials (at least of the non-diagetic kind) in well over a decade. Maybe the commercials and time lengths are worse now, but I wouldn't know because I can simply choose not see them. A godsend.
It did have the benefit of giving me breaks for my adhd ass brain to play gameboy for 5 minutes or do something else which generally led to me paying attention to the show itself better than I can sometimes without the breaks.
you kids talk about the fifteen recessions you've been through so far like you've seen something, but have you heard of 18% interest rates on mortgages?
Back in my day you just had to ask to the old man how to catch a pokémon, fly to cinnabar island, swim around near the coast, catch missingno and then you had infinite slurp juice to use on your pokémon
Now I am the old man and none of you know what I'm talking about
I've always considered people who weren't old enough to remember watching 9/11 on TV to be "posts" and have always struggled to take their existence seriously
I was born at with just the right timing for a global catastrophe to occur roughly every 10 years of my life. Soviet Union collapsed a few months after my birth, 9/11 happened right before I turned 10 and covid happened less than a year before I was 30
I played Mega Man Star Force (this is from that series, not Battle Network) a year ago at a low point when I had begun studying and it has become the most impactful game in my life because of how strongly it resonated with me
Battle Network on the gba was the shit man, loved those games as a kid. The ds games never were that good in my opinion, just didn't have the same charm I guess.
The battle network was a super tight mix of card and fight games that was Lazer targeted to the brains of such a very specific small group of people. There are a few projects now to use that system and make new things with it and they have all been fun and interesting at least.
Imagine being born after Robbie Williams released his magnum opus Millennium as an ode to the new Millennium. It's one of those things that you don't forget where you were when it was released.