Bad things that used to be good

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skykiii

skykiii

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ITT: Name/describe things that suck now but were good once. It can be anything.

You may sperg as much (or as little) as you wish.

Try to focus more on "why it used to be good" instead of "why it sucks now."

No bitching about nostalgia. Just because you're not happy doesn't mean nobody else is allowed to be. (EDIT: To clarify: I essentially mean don't be this guy or this guy. The kind of people who have to always come in to any topic that discusses good parts of the past and has to say "quit being such nostalgia fags.")

Just to provide examples of what kind of posts I'm looking for:

Disney - While behind the scenes the company has always been a bit shady (though to be fair, Walt was reacting to a world that had done him dirty), its worth remembering that they did used to actually make good stuff. The Three Caballeros is a personal favorite of mine. Also worth mentioning: Disney comics are some of the few that are actually still capable of being good.

Also I find it amusing that a lot of their cartoons had a "don't believe everything you see on TV/don't mistake television for reality" episode.... kind of ironic considering how they are now.

Fags = Used to be, you could smoke 'em. I'm not sure what happened--I think the nicotine formula changed--but the old formula ones used to have this flavor that just filled your mouth and stayed with you for a long time. The new ones just kinda make me choke up, and I've heard they're illegal in some districts anyway. I bought a batch of the old-style ones from an unscruplous ebay seller and they're just as good as I remember.

My actual inspiration for this topic was a discussion I had with friend, where he was surprised I was interested in a compilation of old Konami arcade games--he only knew modern Konami, and was surprised to hear that in the past they were legitimately good (and made things besides gacha games and pachinko machines). Then he saw Contra III in action.
 
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Ibanez RG 350EX said:
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To clarify: I essentially mean don't be this guy or this guy. The kind of people who have to always come in to any topic that discusses good parts of the past and has to say "quit being such nostalgia fags."

This topic isn't even about nostalgia (look at my Konami anecdote in the OP--I knew about Konami's good years, but my friend didn't) but some people are likely to read it like that anyway.
 
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The Last Stand said:
Hillary Clinton. Very beautiful, powerful woman and strategist. Now, she just cries about Donald Trump and the 2016 election. Bitterness is a very unattractive trait.
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“Well, I think her history is far from being over. I’d like to answer that question in another 15 years from now. I think she is going to go down at a minimum as a great senator. I think she is a great wife to a president. And I think Bill Clinton was a great president.”
-Trump
 
Shrinkflation+recipe changes. There's so many products that just aren't what they used to be. I recently bought Hit cookies for the first time in years. They are smaller, you get less and there's less chocolate filling. The next time I come across Golden Maria I want to see if they've suffered the same fate since it's a similar product.

I had one piece of Halloween candy this year. It's so expensive that I'm not buying anything else until it goes on clearance. I got a Russell Stover coconut cream filled pumpkin. And the chocolate was pretty thick, which surprised me. But the filling wasn't the same. It was dryer and there was less of it.
 
Cadburys Chocolate. Used to be made with far better ingredients and tasted a lot better as a result. Similar with Nestle - Until the mid 90s the sweetener was sugar refined from sugarbeet, and it had a much better, more complex taste with less forward sweetness. Now practically nobody sweetens anything with sugarbeet as that industry died off.
 
Driving. It may just be me getting older and more easily aggravated, but post-2020, other drivers are so selfish and impatient now. I remember writing in a college paper about how my morning commute was my relaxation time. It was peaceful and uneventful. Now, every morning someone does something so stupid I think about it the rest of the day.

This morning a lady casually pulled out in front of me. Didn't even make an effort to stop at the stop sign. I'm hesitant to use the passing lane because often when I use it to overtake a slow car, I have a car riding my ass within a few seconds because I'm only going 10 over, not 20 over. I see the same people fly by me every day and they never get pulled over either. More and more often when I do try to overtake someone, they speed up so I either have to drag race with them or just get back behind them. No one stops at stop signs or right turn on red anymore either. Just roll through if a cop isn't around. No blinkers either.

I do not know why it would have gotten worse. Maybe mass immigration putting a bunch of third-worlders on the road. I would say phones, but those were around before 2020. Maybe people just got worse with phones and driving. Maybe I'm just older and grouchy now.
 
The Last Stand said:
Hillary Clinton. Very beautiful, powerful woman and strategist. Now, she just cries about Donald Trump and the 2016 election. Bitterness is a very unattractive trait.
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I can respect your love of classic Hollywood dames, not my thing but I can see the appeal. What the fuck did you ever see in Hillary?

Tax: To be honest, pop music. Not to say I was ever a pop music guy but back in the day hit songs would come along now and again that were actually great. In the mid 2000s we still got genuinely fantastic artists breaking through to the top of the charts, like Gorillaz or White Stripes for example. The well started running dry around 2010 and since 2015 or so, I honestly don't think I have heard a single pop song that I will think back on and want to hear again in the future. I realise I sound like every person ever who turned 30 and stopped liking what's on the radio but I do feel there was a very noticeable drop in quality around that time.
 
Call of Duty. I guess you can say shooters in general. It used to be where even a couple years after launch, you'd be able to play a variety of modes with players of various skill levels. The community would keep the games active without any machine algorithm influencing matchmaking. Now, Call of Duty has skill-based matchmaking, high install sizes, tawdry, overpriced cosmetics, and cheaters.
 
Preacher ✝ said:
I'd go as far as to say video games in general.
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I think most of us would. I know I tend to be more excited when a compilation of a classic series is announced than I am for anything brand new.

That said, a part of the issue for me is just how easy it is to build up a backlog. "Why should I buy this new RPG when I've already got dozens in my drawers and shelves that I never finished?"
 
skykiii said:
I think most of us would. I know I tend to be more excited when a compilation of a classic series is announced than I am for anything brand new.

That said, a part of the issue for me is just how easy it is to build up a backlog. "Why should I buy this new RPG when I've already got dozens in my drawers and shelves that I never finished?"
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The only video game thing I genuinely get excited for anymore is new installments of Tamriel Rebuilt or its sister-mods like Project Cyrodiil or Skyrim Home of the Nords.
 
1.) Junk Food & Fast Food - both seem to be creatively bankrupt now, quality has gotten worse.
2.) Commercials - Been watching older commercials from my childhood and my parent's childhood, and it seemed as though there was some form of effort to appeal to the consumer. Nowadays it just seems random.
3a.) Sports- These days I'm not as hyper into sportswatching as I used to be. With the constant barrage of sports bookies, softer play, (and in the case of college ball) the shift towards constant transfer portals and a playoff bracket that rewards mediocre play, it's gotten a bit less interesting to watch. I'll throw on RedZone for the NFL and watch college and hockey, but that's mainly it.
3b.) Sportsgames - I've ranted about this before, but in the 2000s, there was a ton of features in sports games that made it worth the price. Now it's just glorified gambling with the "ultimate teams" (spending real money on digital trading cards so that your digital team can be better than some other guy's digital team).
 
wombat said:
Driving
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wombat said:
I do not know why it would have gotten worse.
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Driving sucks nowadays because state DOTs are full of sadists. Every city is trying to quell traffic via "smart" traffic signals, with an apparent goal of easing potential gridlock on freeways before it happens.

Well, it isn't working.

These smart lights are usually still active (ie - not having flashing amber on a major road and flashing red on a minor road) during non-peak hours amid there being no real reason to have drivers stop at dead intersections. This is producing worse drivers, wasting everyone's time, and curbing people's desire to drive.

All to coddle the lowest-common denominators (LCDs) of the world, just like everything else. Retards need to participate in society, but keep fucking things up, like being uninsured and crashing into shit, costing everyone else time and sanity.

('Member when we used to be able to time lights? Pepperidge Farm remembers.)

This system causes traffic to always be everyone in moderately large (and up) cities. Along with the policeman never issuing tickets to noisy cars and trucks, it's now taxing to live and exist anywhere and not have to listen to mouse-fart exhaust notes if you're anywhere near and intersections or freeway.

I'll stop because I could write an entire thesis in this by now and y'all probably have something more intelligent to read.
 
Pretty much any form of entertainment. Most film is now a remake, sequel, or franchise. As late as the mid-2000s, there was still a lot of original stuff being produced. Music is Katy Perry and Taylor Swift (and others that sound like them) singing shit that all sounds the same. I know on this it's not just me becoming a grumpy old man who hates anything new because I work with some younger people and many of them prefer music as far back as the 80s over more recent stuff. Long running television shows were great in their first 10 seasons, then nosedive after that. The Simpsons and South Park used to be something I'd wait all week for, now they are totally unwatchable. Everything has to preach too, often in the most cringe-inducing way.

On the subject of traffic, I find pedestrians in my area getting dumber. In just the past few years, I've noticed people always walking in the street even where there is a sidewalk mere feet away. My town can get heavy snow from November to March and not everyone shovels their sidewalk, but you see people doing this even in mid summer, even where the street is narrow and there are cars parked on both sides. It's not just a ghetto thing either, I've seen people do it in the suburbs.
 
Clothing used to be made objectively better with higher quality construction and materials before the widespread prevalence of "fast fashion" resulting in cheap disposable clothes that don't last even 3 years and create immeasurable mountains of textile waste. Unfortunately this was just one of the casualties of globalism and pretty much the one I have the greatest reason to hate the most since it means favorite shirts and sweaters end up either perma stretched, patched until I look dirt poor, or full of holes so I look dirt poor. I hate buying new clothes.
 
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