'Nostalgia"

Started by ZeoStar February 10th, 2021 1:41 PM
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What makes you feel nostalgic?

I was thinking about this the other day, and I don't get the feeling too much, however I did when I was viewing old commercials from 2011.

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I think forums are one of them, I have a lot of nostalgia for the times when the internet was a quiet place and forums were the place where most people shared their lives and interests, everything else just moved at a snail's pace.

Besides this, I think certain animes, toys (i had tons of 90s and early 00s brand toys), clothes, songs...even photo filters. I try to avoid things that make me spiral into a nostalgia trip because I know it's a ticket to a long journey of emotions and more often than not we tend to see thing through a pink filter. But god, sometimes I can't help myself...some of those were TOO GOOD to be forgotten ><

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For some reason, both Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts take me back to the 2000's when I was still in late grade school and early middle school. I don't know why. I'm not really a big Final Fantasy fan, and I've never played Kingdom Hearts. But I do remember the commercials airing for the latter...

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Not a lot these days. A lot of those things are still so active with all the remixing of content done in different media (Youtube content, game remakes, etc.) that it only rarely shows up.

I guess the 90s anime art style still does it for me to some extent because it's so different to what you see nowadays.
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seeing old cartoon network tv shows on youtube, playing old browser games like club penguin, poptropica, and old flash games from y8.com, reading old fanfiction i used to binge, and seeing my old drawings/stories i wrote from when i was still a kid. these activities remind me of what life was like before adulting, back when i had very little control of my life, but was a lot more stress free.
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Computer software from the late 90s and early-mid 2000s. Windows XP, Winamp, AIM, MSN Messenger. Software that was customizable, with different themes and tons of options to configure. That kinda stuff. I love looking back at old screenshots from that era.

For me its forums and older websites. What makes me so melancholic is that it seems that people deliberately are destroying and disregarding the old web now.
Interesting take! Which parts you feel are being destroyed and disregarded? I generally agree that communities on the modern web are lacking. Compare something like Reddit (basically "the" forum now) and something like PokeCommunity. Reddit does a lot of things right, but it's nowhere near as good at fostering a sense of community. Even in smaller niche subreddits there's something about the way information is presented that makes everything feel way more transient. Compared to PokeCommunity or other retro-inspired internet forums, where you get a sense that there's a group of real people here that form their own little social structure. Totally different vibes.

That said, Discord servers are as transient as you can get and they're flourishing. So who knows.

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"Anything that's made me happy in the past" is such a vague non-answer but it's kinda what came to mind? I've had a lot of "phases" in my life where I've been really into something new, so if I'm reminded of it, I'll think about how happy it made me or the happy experiences I had surrounding it.

Earlier today I stumbled across something that made me nostalgic because it's something I found that inspired me. I'm intentionally being vague here. It gave me that feeling that I wouldn't be where I was now if it wasn't for how I found it years ago. That made me think of how finding this nostalgic thing led me to doing something which led to doing something and so on, and being where I am now. Like it sort of made me backtrack through my memories. I guess that's kinda what being nostalgic is for me.

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That said, Discord servers are as transient as you can get and they're flourishing. So who knows.
Its probably just the way my brain is wired, but I get nothing from discord, it feels like I am wasting my time. There doesn't seem to be any real conversation, just people shouting at each other it is eventually getting lost in the backlog. I think I just can't use chat rooms in general, this has nothing to do with the modern internet, as chat rooms were always a thing.

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Its probably just the way my brain is wired, but I get nothing from discord, it feels like I am wasting my time. There doesn't seem to be any real conversation, just people shouting at each other it is eventually getting lost in the backlog. I think I just can't use chat rooms in general, this has nothing to do with the modern internet, as chat rooms were always a thing.
I think I sort of get what you mean. It's often tough for me to join large or popular Discord servers because of that. It obviously depends on the people so it's too general to really say, but people can often say the atmosphere can be toxic or unwelcoming. For me personally, it's just awkward for me to break in and feel comfortable in a large group like that. The main ones I'm in are just smaller groups of friends, that's what chatrooms have mainly been for me in general.

To keep this reply on topic, chatrooms themselves are nostalgic for me. Things like account theming and flair customization on PC actually reminds me of an old chat site I used to use all the time when I was young and where I met my first genuine group of friends.

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Seeing people I used to be friends with, but I'm able to get over it.

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"Anything that's made me happy in the past" is such a vague non-answer but it's kinda what came to mind? I've had a lot of "phases" in my life where I've been really into something new, so if I'm reminded of it, I'll think about how happy it made me or the happy experiences I had surrounding it.
This. Even things that are still around (like pokémon) are nostalgic for me for that reason.

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Old Pokémon merch makes me feel that way.
Sometimes old shows on the BBC, Nickelodeon and Cartoon network male me feel majorly nostalgic too.



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The Marriland Forums closed down recently
wait it did?? omg i loved that place. Marriland is forever iconic to me for the being the guy to introduce me to the Pokemon Let's Play/Walkthrough format that i fell in love with in my youth. binge watched his content endlessly.
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wait it did?? omg i loved that place. Marriland is forever iconic to me for the being the guy to introduce me to the Pokemon Let's Play/Walkthrough format that i fell in love with in my youth. binge watched his content endlessly.
It did, now it's just a discord community. If you were on the forums, what was your username there?

One thing that also made me feel nostalgic was seeing fairly odd parents for the first time in years. Luckily it was an older episode.

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Listening to older music makes me feel nostalgic. I really miss listening to music on cassettes.

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It did, now it's just a discord community. If you were on the forums, what was your username there?
i think it was Aaayron? i literally can't remember if i posted anything at all though, i was mostly on Marriland for the walkthrough guides. it was in shoddy internet cafes and i was like 11 lol.
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i think it was Aaayron? i literally can't remember if i posted anything at all though, i was mostly on Marriland for the walkthrough guides. it was in shoddy internet cafes and i was like 11 lol.
I'm pretty sure marriland also recently retired his youtube channel.

...I'm going to assume he also hosted the website. But I never visited it nor did i watch him much.

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I'm pretty sure marriland also recently retired his youtube channel.

...I'm going to assume he also hosted the website. But I never visited it nor did i watch him much.
yeah i think he did. i remember reading up about him reviving his youtube channel and upgrading the website after that channel strike he got in 2012 or so that forced him to delete all his videos. the guy literally reuploaded absolutely everything and even did new commentary on his older LPs. that really impressed me back then (actually even til now, bcs that stuff's really tedious. those walkthroughs had like near 100 episodes each). miss the guy.
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yeah i think he did. i remember reading up about him reviving his youtube channel and upgrading the website after that channel strike he got in 2012 or so that forced him to delete all his videos. the guy literally reuploaded absolutely everything and even did new commentary on his older LPs. that really impressed me back then (actually even til now, bcs that stuff's really tedious. those walkthroughs had like near 100 episodes each). miss the guy.
Reminds me I used to watch his old videos growing up and an X wedlocke of his helped me through one of my classes in high school. The little I've seen of him recently has been his involvement in TRG Colosseum, from the same group as the Thrown Controllers video I sent you a while back.
I guess all those things, his old videos, and Thrown Controllers are things I'm nostalgic for too, actually.~

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Reminds me I used to watch his old videos growing up and an X wedlocke of his helped me through one of my classes in high school. The little I've seen of him recently has been his involvement in TRG Colosseum, from the same group as the Thrown Controllers video I sent you a while back.
I guess all those things, his old videos, and Thrown Controllers are things I'm nostalgic for too, actually.~
oh wow the X Wedlocke was actually new to me even and i think i had stopped watching him regularly by then. the memorable ones for me were his Platinum playthrough from like 2009 (back when he didn't have a capture card yet and would literally just point a digicam on his DS screen lol), Black 2 playthrough which had 130+ episodes and i binged them all (still had energy for that), Emerald Nuzlocke & Heart Gold Wedlocke (i think this was his first wedlocke? can't tell).

oh dang i forgot about the Thrown Controllers thing :x
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