Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[kaijyuu]

Hrm, maybe you'd be interested in stuff like Avatar then, Telgin.


If anything I think cartoons of today are reaching if not surpassing the old 80s cartoons. We're back to the point where "kids" cartoons aren't 100% fluff anymore. There's still a lot of trash but there was a lot back then too; nostalgia filters out all the stuff that wasn't good

[klingon13524]

My heart aches to have Molly back on Rocketboom (Kind of a science/entertainment vlog).

[Detonate]

Yes, very yes.  I miss a lot of the cartoons from this era, like Sonic the Hedgehog, ReBoot, Swatkats, Tail Spin, the list goes on.

Oh god, TailSpin. I remember watching the series when it was originally airing. In 2007 or so, Toon Disney started showing reruns of it. The entire recording screen was filled with episodes.

[Telgin]

Hrm, maybe you'd be interested in stuff like Avatar then, Telgin.


If anything I think cartoons of today are reaching if not surpassing the old 80s cartoons. We're back to the point where "kids" cartoons aren't 100% fluff anymore. There's still a lot of trash but there was a lot back then too; nostalgia filters out all the stuff that wasn't good

True enough, I suppose.  Maybe I'm just bitter about the cartoons I like getting canned (Sonic the Hedgehog, Swatkats, Reboot for a while, probably more) or spiraling into mediocrity (Spongebob and The Fairly Oddparents for more recent examples).  I did watch Avatar a bit, and it wasn't bad but I never did really get into it that much.  I think I was put off by the fact that it was anime styled, and I'm truly and utterly sick of anime.  Judging Avatar by its own merits though, it seemed like an engaging story and was interesting.  Just didn't click with me for some reason.

[DrPoo]

I miss legal gunpowder and when you could actually see things go boom in physics/chemistry

[varnish]

I miss having a car that worked. I miss having a car that didn't cost $1000+ to fix.

I also miss waffles. I don't make nearly enough waffles these days.

[Jopax]

I miss playing in the sand, making castles and cities and everything you could think up a story for.
I miss adventures that I had as a kid, exploring, fighting, breaking stuff, putting stuff together.
I miss those old cartoons everybody knows (Mighty Max, Digimon, Scooby Doo and countless others).
I also miss when ice cream costed half as much as it does today and was about three times bigger too.
I miss some of my friends really badly, not sure if I can go for such long periods without them.
I miss a lot of things and I realize missing them probably won't bring them back, but heck, it's good remebering them ^_^

[Armok]

I miss all the forum games that have died...

[Truean]

http://www.homestarrunner.com/main1.html

[Aklyon]

Most of this thread is stuff i miss, but since Powder Miner brought up Cartoon Network, I really miss Megas XLR now.

[King DZA]

Being able to feel like a total badass for owning a N64.

[Sensei]

http://www.homestarrunner.com/main1.html

This, so much.

Also, still have my N64. And SNES. And NES.

[Telgin]

the first time I play any game I enjoyed (save for DF, it was a few times in I enjoyed it most)

There's a lot to be said for this, actually.  I always enjoy games most when I'm still learning them.  It's exciting to learn a new game.  Everquest did this for me longer than any other game because of the utter lack of hand holding early on.

Once I've mastered a game, I never enjoy it as much again.  I think that's one of Dwarf Fortress' strongest points.  You pretty much can't master it.

[Heron TSG]

I miss being surrounded by the challenge of the unknown. When I was younger, I knew basically nothing about anything, and I had a blast doing everything in every direction at once. Now that I've been at it for a while and outpaced the (admittedly slow) school curriculum, I have to find specific targets to learn about. It's now a rare time where I can say, "I don't have a clue what this means." and then dive into it. To get that kind of feeling now, it's either Wikipedia's Random Page function or programming. Maybe I should take another foreign language or two.

[Lord Shonus]

This is going to sound pretty stupid, but I really miss the sort of installers games used to have back in the DOS era. Back then, companies had to design their own installers, and they often wound up rather unique. Nowadays, it's just the generic install progress bar, sometimes with a slideshow.