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[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 46 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Hell, I'm 46 and it's really hard to not be cynical these days. I want to believe there's still good people out there but I run into so many assholes.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm also 40 something. Oh for the dizzy optimism of the 90s...

[–] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I will forever seethe that I missed out on the 1990s, especially considering how IT was a money printer back then & the rave scene was top notch. I just about caught the tail end of the old internet as well, even that has gone to complete corporate dogshit.

And owning a house wasnt a Pipedream : (

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ah the rave scene really was amazing. Have you seen the tiktok videos? The music and feeling will stay with me forever

[–] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Don't use tiktok lol, I've seen a few old clips passed around on forums and stuff uploaded to youtube though, shit looked great. Meanwhile the smallest rave gets shut down pretty quickly by the police these days : ( also pretty envious of pints being far more affordable back then, I barely even go to spoons as a student as it just costs way too fuckin much. I guess one upside of the modern day though is party drugs being cheap, pure and plentiful but that can obviously also have significant drawbacks.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I joined and deleted tiktok just to download the videos! I'm properly old now I swear everything was just better back then

[–] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago

Thats the way to use it lol, and I hear that a lot : ( most annoying this is we should be able to have a world where no one wants for anything anymore but alas no line must perpetually go up.