When I was a kid, there was magic in given being a handful of quarters and playing games at the arcade. I remember the excitement of renting movies on the weekend - my family had our very own VHS player. It blew my mind when I first laid eyes on a desktop computer. It was so exciting to go to a record store and chat the owner up to figure out what the cool underground stuff was (no internet, everything was word of mouth). I remember how cool it was when the walkman was introduced and you could listen to music during the boring parts of life. When we got cable and we went from single digit TV channels to nearly a hundred, it was like a massive leap forward. There was so much magic in the world, I thought. I felt like I was part of something important in a weird way, that I was getting to witness the future.
But now I'm old and out of touch. Everything is cold and digital. You don't own anything anymore, just a license to download something. Movies suck now because only a handful of superhero movies make any money. And my life is just going to work, paying bills, trying to lose weight as my metabolism slows to molasses.
So I ask you, what magic is there left in the world? What exciting things do kids and teenagers look forward to? What do the 2020s offer people?
Aside from raping the intern at the Christmas party, not much.
Logan Russell
My favorite thing about the 2020's is that old people like you are wasting away and you're too soft and weak to interfere with the rest of having fun.
Christopher Evans
none we're just as fucking sad about it as you are.
VR is cool though, half life alyx and beat saber and boneworks are some of the best games I've ever played.
Camden Gomez
To give you a realistic answer, I honestly see no point in doing much of anything these days. Most people our age (late teens, early to mid twenties, maybe late twenties or early thirties) are so numb to the constant stream of events available to us 24/7 at a moments notice that we play video games or indulge excessive amounts of porn to cope with the state of things. We really don't have much to live for these days. It's all escapism. The communal aspect of society has largely collapsed (in my view) in the west.
Logan Myers
You’re a stupid zoomed nigger and I pray that you get in a car accident that leaves your eyes popping out and face deformed. Then we can all watch you on a webM being passed around while we laugh at your ugly mutt face
Jeremiah Jackson
Second on the VR thing. A quest 2 is cheap, and if you download emuVR or new retro neon arcade it’s pretty cool
Jose Davis
This
Xavier Nguyen
Probably nothing, I’ve already attempted suicide twice. Spent 10yrs finishing a college degree and can’t find a job. Faggot dad abused me for years and I didn’t mature emotionally until 24. Thought. Im almost 28 now and still unemployed and living with my parents. Im considering just joining the fucking marines at this point just to get me out of the fucking house, don’t really care where they send me.
You have a comfy job user and im assuming your own place, don’t throw that shit away. If it’s purpose you’re lacking then use your free time to go find one. Im still trying to find mine.
Landon Cook
Spot on brother.
Justin Jones
Stop living on nostalgia. The magic you're talking about is exploration of something new and fresh in your life. Try travelling, introducing new things. You can get the same feeling from visiting a world monument. I lived in one of the worst areas in the world and knew all the worst people. I've lived in the rich counties, gone to raves. There is a variety of spices of life, stop chasing the tail and look for something else to see, and you will realize at our age, life has more than you will ever be able to see, more than you can ever learn, taste, smell, feel. Enrich your mind and the captivating feeling happens. VRChat does have it's moments, but mostly cringe, learning programs, creating art when I havent done it in years, there is a lot I find fulfillment with.
Tldr; don't be a fagget and look for new shit
Michael Martinez
I know how you feel. There is one thing that you have to realise. those times create feelings of happiness because it was the time in your life that you did not have a lot of responsibilities. Now that we are adults, we look back on those days and think things were better. They are not. Just the feeling you have now. Look forward. Look forward and see the beauty we have now. Travel, make experiences. And gloat in the fact that the asshole who called you a zoomer nigger will have the same feelings in ten years.
Brody Rivera
basically this.
Aaron Powell
Join Ukraine army
Kevin Walker
I play retro games and watch/collect movies and anime on vhs, play records and enjoy all the things i did back then, now with money to buy it all. It feels pretty good to have multiple hobbies.
Easton Smith
Bonus if you plug it into your PC and pirate all the expensive-as-fuck simulator type games that only have about 3 hours worth of content, assuming your PC can run VR. They're fun but 20-30 bucks? No thanks.
VR chat is kinda nice too :)
Caleb Foster
Nothing, OP. We need to perform a mass suicide that'll make people sorry.
Aaron Parker
Its collapsed because everyone plays games and shit. Be the change if you want it.
Ted Kazinsky saw this shit coming.
Noah Mitchell
Damn. I thought I was just getting older, not that the world was too miserable to be worth living in.
The world is going to shit, so I just spend my time jacking off to AI generated fanfics or modding video games, but as said, it's just escapism. Truth is, I feel rather powerless against the higher beings in this world, be they billionaires, politicians, etc. It's just so tiring
Zachary Wright
Every weekend me and my best friend would rent VHS movies and then sleep over each others house watching them all.
If we knew our parents were going out we'd rent the dirtiest movie we could without it being porno because we were too young to rent those. Then we'd rent some regular horror movies too.
When we'd get home we'd hide the dirty movies in the bushes and just show our parents the regular movies we rented. then when they'd go out we'd get the dirty movies out of the bushes and watch them first.
We used to get so horny together watching the movies we'd make a little bed in font of the TV and then remove all of our clothes and get into bed together.
Once the dirty parts of the movie started we'd start rubbing our cocks and we'd slowly pull off the covers so we could see each others dick.
As soon as I'd see my friends hard penis I'd lose all control and I'd reach over and start playing with his dick while he continued watching the movies.
This would just get me hornier and I'd just lean over and start sucking him off. I'd jack off while I'd suck him and we'd both cum but would stay naked and keep watching the movies.
I'd usually suck him off 3 times each night.
Now when I watch alll those old movies that we would watch together they bring back so many memories of me sucking off my best friend.
Tyler Morgan
The world may be different than the one I grew up in, but Any Forums is still the same.
