Brutal The brutal truth about hyper consumerism and nostalgia

[deleted fren]

I often see YouTube shorts like this in my recommended and I always cringe when I watch them.

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/plL4lhk8-cY?si=y_fsxTYLTC4O7btH

Not just because of the sickening display of hyper consumerism, but because I can feel the sense of numbness and emptiness that the creator of it likely has.

This hyper consumerism is driven by a desire to chase the sense of happiness and excitement that these men once felt when they were younger. They can never recreate those sensations because their minds have numbed, so they engage in more and more consumerism for quick dopamine releases.

Inevitably they become like this. Husks of their former selves desperately doing anything to feel what has long since faded.

The closest they came to recapturing those feelings is when they reminisce over those nostalgic memories.

And then they're imagining the feelings more than they are experiencing them.

 

[nakolas]

Foids be like

I miss the 2000's!
>Born 2008/09

 

[deleted fren]

Foids be like

I miss the 2000's!
>Born 2008/09

For foids nostalgia is an aesthetic. For men it's a yearning for what they'll never experience again.

 

[Ricecel Sungnodius]

And then they're imagining the feelings more than they are experiencing them.

Nostalgia distorts the past too much. When I looked past the nostalgia, I realized that my childhood wasn't as good as I thought.

 

[starystulejarz]

I'm glad i was never gaming on consoles outside of SNES, as with PC you were always evolving and not really looking back outside of games, while for hardware = new always better (with few exceptions like sound cards or pre rtx 40 series as they could use physx).

There are no well defined generations every single part manufacturer gets new gen every 1-3 years. There are no PC I and sequel PC II, it's just a fully customizable and always changing PC.

I have no such massive attachment like that fag to old Cods or their gamepads as custom controllers like gamesir are much better. They were great fps games for it's time but it's the past. I'm playing Gran Turismo 5 now on emulator why would i only want to experience same things for over 15 years? i want something new from time to time. Stagnation is regression.

 

[starystulejarz]

Nostalgia distorts the past too much. When I looked past the nostalgia, I realized that my childhood wasn't as good as I thought.

"Nostalgia is the form of depression" it's not just state of depression and are allergy to new things but also getting scared of trying new games and especially new genres i can guarantee their brains will get early dementia as they don't learn anything new. Cod only playing community will have 90 years old brains at age of 50. Cod dudebros personality are all based around cod and consumerism they have lost their soul long time ago.

There is zero chance that ultra boring cod dudebro would want to try something ultra obscure like this game:

 

[deleted fren]

Nostalgia distorts the past too much. When I looked past the nostalgia, I realized that my childhood wasn't as good as I thought.

Everything looks better in retrospect tbh. We'll probably look back with yearning at this year in a decade or so.

I'm glad i was never gaming on consoles outside of SNES, as with PC you were always evolving and not really looking back outside of games, while for hardware = new always better (with few exceptions like sound cards or pre rtx 40 series as they could use physx).

There are no well defined generations every single part manufacturer gets new gen every 1-3 years. There are no PC I and sequel PC II, it's just a fully customizable and always changing PC.

I have no such massive attachment like that fag to old Cods or their gamepads as custom controllers like gamesir are much better. They were great fps games for it's time but it's the past. I'm playing Gran Turismo 5 now on emulator why would i only want to experience same things for over 15 years?

Because their dopamine receptors are fried and they're trying to recreate a sense of happiness that they're incapable of feeling. You're lucky to be able to still enjoy video games to such an extent.

 

[starystulejarz]

Because their dopamine receptors are fried and they're trying to recreate a sense of happiness that they're incapable of feeling. You're lucky to be able to still enjoy video games to such an extent.

I can see him playing just one-two match and then get ultra depressed that it's "not as fun as they used to be". You can't be as happy right now as you were in your teens. Well unless you use psychedelics but then you would play like total noob

 

[deleted fren]

"Nostalgia is the form of depression" it's not just state of depression and are allergy to new things but also getting scared of trying new games and especially new genres i can guarantee their brains will get early dementia as they don't learn anything new. Cod only playing community will have 90 years old brains at age of 50. Cod dudebros personality are all based around cod and consumerism they have lost their soul long time ago.

There is zero chance that ultra boring cod dudebro would want to try something ultra obscure like this game: View attachment 1530137

Personally, nostalgia doesn't massively impact my ability to judge the quality of a game. I can say that some games I loved growing up aren't that good at all. I try to play a new type of game every month.

Doing this in 2023/24 revived my love of gaming because I became a fan of Monster Hunter, Pikmin, and dungeon crawler jrpgs, and action games like Ninja Gaiden. Beforehand I was in the cycle of playing a few hours of Halo and nothing else.

 

[deleted fren]

I can see him playing just one-two match and then get ultra depressed that it's "not as fun as they used to be". You can't be as happy right now as you were in your teens. Well unless you use psychedelics but then you would play like total noob

Exactly. Life gets shittier with each passing year. It's just the nature of how our brains work.

 

[starystulejarz]

Personally, nostalgia doesn't massively impact my ability to judge the quality of a game. I can say that some games I loved growing up aren't that good at all. I try to play a new type of game every month.

Doing this in 2023/24 revived my love of gaming because I became a fan of Monster Hunter, Pikmin, and dungeon crawler jrpgs, and action games like Ninja Gaiden. Beforehand I was in the cycle of playing a few hours of Halo and nothing else.

That's how you can be sane and stimulate your brain. Playing same games and same genres every day not only is boring but make your brain into a mush with early dementia a being a guaranteed thing.

 

[starystulejarz]

Life gets shittier with each passing year.

And then you become a boomer and then brain gives you happy hormones out of nowhere for no reason like you were a kid. Human brain and aging is weird.

 

[deleted fren]

That's how you can be sane and stimulate your brain. Playing same games and same genres every day not only is boring but make your brain into a mush with early dementia a being a guaranteed thing.

I don't know about dementia, but it definitely ensures your dopamine receptors are numbed.

And then you become a boomer and then brain gives you happy hormones out of nowhere for no reason like you were a kid. Human brain and aging is weird.

True. Although, my boomer dad told me life isn't happy very often.