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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: drenrin2120 on September 28, 2010, 01:37:39 AM
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Does anyone else think... in all honesty, without the boohoo, "I miss the oldies, they were the goodies" crap or those anti-modern art people ( I think they exist. Pretty sure.) That nothing is really creative anymore and that everything is just distracted people, sucking the life and money out of 'em? For realz now. Anyone else think everything sucks lately? Or am I just now catching on?
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I think everyone is awesome. I still can't get over pay-at-the-pump gas, and that was introduced like ten years ago. I mean, you don't even need to go inside. You just pay at the pump. Revolutionary!
Don't be a... nostalgia elitist. Is there a term of that? Well, if there is, don't be that. Just because you liked something in the past doesn't mean that stuff that's happening right now isn't any good.
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or am I just a cynic?
And that's kind of what I was sayin in the first paragraph. I mean, a lot of things on TV nowadays is awful. But maybe it always kind of was? Don't get me wrong, I love a lot of things out there that are new out there.
Also, I clearly said I wasn't talking about "nostalgia elitist" crap then preceded to kind of contradict myself. JESUS SAIKAR.
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I agree with ya Dren, everything does suck. People mostly.
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Well, TV sucks lately. There seems to be too much focus on people drinking nad having sex. Things that were kinda taboo some ages back.
Music, well depends on the taste. The young ones like the new music since they are raised with it, but I can't say that I very much appreciate this more than the stuff from the 90's.
Games, well games are basically sequels and prequels and some knock offs and spin offs. Which isn't that striking since people barely give new titles a chance. And of course, most games are very graphic focused, which is why I still hold a love for the "inferior" handheld consoles such as DS and PSP.
Books, well... In most cases every plot twist and story is already taken it seems so most people seem to either put focus on conspiracies or simply writing biographies.
Movies, I really don't have much to say because I'm not feeling any change at all here except that special effects don't look like something from MSpaint lately.
Society, we have too many options, too much freedom so we get confused, need to search ourselves what we want to do. Also we'd like to become famous and are overall affected by all the medial crap such as movies, tv and papers. Also we like to know about famous peoples lives apparently since we read about that everywhere and some people see them as rolemodels and get some teenage preggers, drug usage ect ect.
Overall, everything is great just a little different, things changes over the years usually in a slow pace. But nowdays we have such a blooming technical evolvement that a thing such as cellphones looked like crap, serious crap like 10 years ago. Also - only those business sharks had one.
But yeah, people seem to think that they need THAT much money. I'll never get it, why own 4 cars and a boat? What does money mean when you throw it away on meaningless objects that you simply got since they are expensive? Everyone can get pretty much everything as long as you work, having a job like that is just overkill. You'll never need that kind of money except if you're starting a small rebellion against the government or something. 'Cuz I'll never understand the desire to NOT work since you got enough money. What the hell are you supposed to do all day then?
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The older you get, the worse this becomes. Its not you....its natural.
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Yeah, I was mostly talking about people with the "everything sucks" statement. I just didn't know it yet.
A lot of world event discussions have been happening in my classes and I've been reading vonnegut and watching the news, so my whole look on the world's become pretty bleak. As for class discussion, I feel like a lot of people out there, or atleast in my classes, are fuckin' stupid. Just throwin' that last bit out there, take it with a grain of salt if you will.
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I think thinking other people are stupid is probably not new, it just comes with being smart. Or being an ***. One or the other depending. Or I guess it could also be both.
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Not sure how old you are yet but you'll learn to accept it.
There are people and there are people who aren't even trying to improve anything.
It's all about how you were raised.
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Everything sucks. You're just getting old enough to appreciate how badly it sucks.
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Not all TV sucks. I really enjoy Hell's Kitchen. There's something about an angry british guy yelling at people that makes me giggle.
IT'S RAW!! *kicks a trashcan*
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You ALL suck.
/problem.
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Yeah, I was mostly talking about people with the "everything sucks" statement. I just didn't know it yet.
A lot of world event discussions have been happening in my classes and I've been reading vonnegut and watching the news, so my whole look on the world's become pretty bleak. As for class discussion, I feel like a lot of people out there, or atleast in my classes, are fuckin' stupid. Just throwin' that last bit out there, take it with a grain of salt if you will.
I agree.
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Nostalgia: To remember how great the past was
Dreams: To see things you'll never get in the future.
Present sucks...
But seriously though it's not all that bad. Yes, people are stupid, but they've always been. It's just more noticeable today, I suppose. How many innocents burned because they were accused of being witches? See? Stupidity is pretty old! And there are many other things to prove it! But I'm too lazy to note them.
Many things suck these days, but many are also great. It all depends on your thought, point of view and other words like these. I personally enjoy yelling to myself how f*cking gay CoD can be some times and other similar things.
As for music, well... there still have good ones behind al the crap that pops out today, yes.
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This is total "nostalgia filter."
Remember "Independence Day"? I caught some of it on TV a few days ago and was blown away.........by how much it sucked. The acting was hammy, the soundtrack was practically screaming "EMOTION!! YOU SHOULD BE FEELING EMOTION RIGHT NOW," the dialogue was hokey and inappropriate.....and this was supposed to be the great big summer blockbuster of '95 or whenever. I remember thinking, well we may have some crappy blockbusters today, but we'd never put up with something like this.
Also, I like alternative/rock right now.
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Now I do mean it. You all do suck.
Also, awesome music is still out there today. But people are so damn picky and sucky that they want their type of music to sound awesome. Suggestion: Broad up.
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I heard some guy talking at Journey's about how Grunge died in '95. He was making fun of the music playing there. He didn't buy anything. He must have been older than 25. His hair was died as black as his pleather jacket. I would have agreed with him about the music they were playing if I really cared.
He sucked.
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Grunge music unfortunatly didnt die. It turned into worse music. This is why we have Nickleback, and all of the other groups that sound like theyre singing the world `Schelm`over and over in various notes.
It should have died though. Seriously, that was one of the worst period in mankind for popular music composition. Seriously, say what you want about hip hop or electro, but at least some abstract methods of composition are at play on the average say, Kanye west album. Grunge sucked.
INb4 gem dosent know what hes talking about. Nirvana was so infuential and talentz
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Nah, I really can't stand Nirvana. The guy sucked 'cuz he sounded like such a know it all pissant about **** that is kind of ridiculous to be so pompous about.
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Pretty much. He would have died and unknown Junkie if not for the talented Mr. Grohl
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I dunno.
I have to focus on the things that are getting better, and on the fact that humanity is probably NOT going to destroy itself entirely within my lifetime.
. . .
*knocks on wood*
No, but seriously, things do suck. Culture has been dumbed down in so many ways it's not even funny. People don't protest or take action anymore-- they post facebook statuses about where they like their whatevers and wear special-colored t-shirts.
You can either sit around and cry about it, or you can decide to do things better in your own life. You can't change everyone of course, but you can live as you like. For me that means doing everything I can to stop trashing the planet, creating things by hand when I could just buy them from MegaSuperUltraMart, and generally dressing a century or two behind the times.
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That's all good and well, and people should take more care with what they do, but things like recycling only go so far. As far as not protesting goes, that's an american things. You know, being fat and lazy and generally not caring and submitting to the roles subjected upon them.
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As far as not protesting goes, that's an american things. You know, being fat and lazy and generally not caring and submitting to the roles subjected upon them.
The ****? Learn some American history. This entire country was founded on not submitting to roles subjected to us. And all three major conflicts in recent American history - the Korean, Vietnam, and Iraq/Afghanistan wars have been heavily criticized on all levels to the point where the Presidents that approved them have gone down in history as some of our worst and the party that supported them lost the next elections.
Gunna assume this is some sort of troll bait, because there's no way you're dumb enough to have meant that.
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Jesus christ Sai, It's a cynical view of MODERN American culture, but it's my view nonetheless. You're saying you've never heard anyone say, "Why vote? Why protest? Don't change nothin'."?
It's not my opinion of the entirety of American history.
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Really? That's... unfair: to say the least. You're from Brazil, right?
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Well yeah, but just sitting around and raging about how everything is terrible isn't really changing anything either, now, is it?
It's true there's only so much one person can do, but I honestly couldn't live with myself if I didn't try at all. It's individual complacency, the idea of "why bother, it won't change much", that allows things to keep going just as they're going. It's foolish to think ~you can save the wooooorld~, of course, but I mean, real movements and change start from the ground up.
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Like people who get obese? And they won't even bother to go for walks to loose some fat? like "Why bother, I'm fat" and they don't do it.
Eat less fat and get less fat but they go "Why bother getting less fat when I'm already fat? I don't need to get less fat, I need to get slim!"
And yet they continue like they are. People don't seem to notice how there rarely are fat people above 50. Because they can't live any more around that time.
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Well yeah, but just sitting around and raging about how everything is terrible isn't really changing anything either, now, is it?
It's true there's only so much one person can do, but I honestly couldn't live with myself if I didn't try at all. It's individual complacency, the idea of "why bother, it won't change much", that allows things to keep going just as they're going. It's foolish to think ~you can save the wooooorld~, of course, but I mean, real movements and change start from the ground up.
I get what you're saying, I really do. And I know raging about it all the time doesn't do anything. But sometimes, you gotta rage a little bit.
xD, prpl mage has a point.