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Cheap take out and delivery. Where I live at least shrinkflation and inflation have hit very hard and it's just not worth it at all.
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Season cliffhangers.
Young people will never understand me in 1990, banished up to my parent's bedroom to use their TV because they had a movie on downstairs, watching William Riker calmly say "Fire" on a borg cube containing HIS CAPTAIN, and then the music du-du-du-du-duuuuu and the words "to be continued"
And then having to wait an entire goddamn 3 months to find out the outcome.
Ending seasons on cliffhangers was magical. It's still attempted sometimes today, but in the age of binge-watching and in some cases years between seasons, most shows just wrap up one season arc and start a new one. Kind of sucks.
A lot of good shows also end up canceled with cliffhangers so it's a double-edged sword. I'm still pissed about Alphas not having a proper ending.
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Having hope for the future. Believing it would be better than the present.
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Friends and I used to be able to throw DJ parties at clubs. Now corporations make the artists sign non-compete contracts so they cant play anywhere else in the city for several months surrounding their show with the company. So the DJs just stick with that company
Bioware before (and a little bit after) EA.
Actually that applies to Origin and Westwood as well.
Okay so maybe EVERY dev before EA buys them out.
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y/a answers before i jumpted to reddit, then oracle killed it.
INDEED FORUMS, and glassdoor reviews before the astroturfing, legal threats.'
the golden age of shows/movies pre-2010, everything after that were replications of each other, and mostly filled with boring titles and copaganda militaryganda, funny enough started appearing around P45 first term. sci-fi had a pretty bad streak after 2010s, if any was remarkable enough to be re-watched. the decline of cinema quality correlated with the rise in streaming.
Completely disagree on the movies. 95% of movie advertisements are for the big budget, low writing quality blockbusters. More than half of my theater's current showings are typically original IP (or first-time adaptations) and the majority of award winners are original/first timers. If you're not seeing the original titles, I don't believe you're looking for them
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The golden era of videogames (around -90 to 2000?). The music was rad too.
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'murica? Can I say that? Too soon?
Unless you were black, a woman, LGBT, on the spectrum, developmentally disabled, Irish, "Un-christian"... the list probably goes on but I've run out of things to think of.
Physical media, physical buttons, watching sports without a subscription.
Hope
Yugoslavia. Party scene. Some relationships.
Restaurants. Used to be actually self made. Atleast in germany 80% of german restaurants use convenience to variouse big degrees. Some sell souces and soups from the package to premium prices
Politics. It went from people actually trying to bring forth better futures, to self and friends enrichment, to baby class witz self and friends enriching. And i mean global. Not just EU or America
90s Japanese cars.
Pokemon games before generation 6 (7 was perhaps a brief return to form).
I'll go get my walker. Gen 4 was a big dissapointment to me (outside of the physical/special split) and where I stopped keeping up with the new releases. The plot didn't grip me, but I also never picked up Platinum. Maybe that one somehow makes it better.
In my entirely objectively right opinion, Gen 2 had the best "world"/"setting" and Gen 3 had the best "mysteries"/"secrets" and postgame with Emerald. Someone deserves to be jailed for leaving the Battle Frontier out of ORAS.
I tried to love Soul Silver, after all the many hours I put into GSC, but never finished it. I've also tried Black and White, BW2, XY, and ORAS. A good amount of the "gold standard" rebalance/QoL hacks too (Drayano is the GOAT). It just doesn't keep me like it used to. Get at most 3 or 4 gyms in and just lose interest.
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Uber and Lyft, by forcing cab services to get better while paying good.