What's The Most Baffling Type Of "Nostalgia" You've Seen?

[bogey_j]

the nostalgia a lot of folks seem to have for Blockbuster has always been baffling to me I mean, I grew up going to Blockbuster too but there was nothing inherently magical or special about it. Media streaming services like Netflix or Gamepass are way better than Blockbuster ever was. I would never want to go back to renting shyt at Blockbuster. i don't really get why places like reddit revere Blockbuster as some classic millennial must-have cultural memory

 

[Belize King]

Playing retro games. The only NES game I am willing to play is Supet Mario 3. Anything else from that era/system

I’ve done a recent run on Final Fantasy 3. I enjoyed.

Beyond that, N64/Playstation2/Dreamcast is as far as I would go back and even that is game specific. N64 for the wrestling only. I don’t think I can enjoy Golden Eye if I played it today. Dreamcast for Shenmue only the rest of the era

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

I hate those “remember back then when we used to” type of talks. No I don’t want to remember back then because I was dumb as hell

 

[Remote]

I miss Blockbuster the same way I miss buying music albums.

You didn’t exactly know what you were getting into until you bought it. And because of that, you relied on word of mouth and other people’s recommendations. That sometimes didn’t work out but it also created an opportunity for social interaction. You could make friends from talking to someone about what album or movie you might want to watch.

I’m not sure that’s everyone’s view but that’s how I see it.

These days you have 5 minute movie trailers that practically give up the whole plot. Nobody listens to albums anymore. They just pick off this single or that single.

I do have nostalgia for what was lost in there.

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

It was the ritual that people miss. Limited selection creating a sense of scarcity and exclusivity, browsing, talking to other customers, asking the clerk for recommendations, looking up reviews in Leonard Maltin's big ass book.

That's all gone, now.

I will say home phone lines, but I guess it's a similar thing.

 

[3rdWorld]

Make Amerikkka Great Again

 

[Remote]

It was the ritual that people miss. Limited selection creating a sense of scarcity and exclusivity, browsing, talking to other customers, asking the clerk for recommendations, looking up reviews in Leonard Maltin's big ass book.

That's all gone, now.

I will say home phone lines, but I guess it's a similar thing.

There’s two things we lost with landlines.

The good: you no longer have to call a girls house and talk to her parents first.

The bad: If you were mad, you could slam the phone to hang up on a person. That was kinda fun. No more tho.

 

[bogey_j]

I hate those “remember back then when we used to” type of talks. No I don’t want to remember back then because I was dumb as hell

I don't relate to half the shyt they talk about too but they act like it's some universal experience

the cacs on reddit are the worst at that

 

[Illuminatos]

Nostalgia for cable TV. We now have the option to watch whatever you want, whenever you want and you want to go back to the days of being forced to watch something at a certain time? Having to miss an episode of Naruto or WWE because my mom forced me to go to church was WOATed and people are reminiscing about that?

 

[Eza]

It was the ritual that people miss. Limited selection creating a sense of scarcity and exclusivity, browsing, talking to other customers, asking the clerk for recommendations, looking up reviews in Leonard Maltin's big ass book.

That's all gone, now.

I will say home phone lines, but I guess it's a similar thing.

This exactly.. There's memories attached to moms taking me to Blockbuster/5 Star Video/Movie Mania every week to rent games. Stopping in other stores in the strip mall while there, hitting the penny candy store on the way home to grab 100 fruities + 100 sour straws for 2 bucks..

shyt was all part of the adventure..That's what people miss...

 

[O.Red]

Walking around a video store searching for a gem is objectively better than mindlessly scrolling for an hour and still finding nothing to watch. Maybe it's the art/cinephile side of me speaking but I doubt it

If you're a part of the side that doesn't really care about physical and social experiences I don't know what to tell you

Even now whenever I'm in Target I take some time and walk the DVD section to see if I might stumble on something. Picking up the case, turning it around and reading the synopsis has value to some people It's the same as preferring physical books to reading on a tablet, or handwriting notes vs typing everything into the notes app(handwriting has actual cognitive benefits over touch typing)

Society mass adopting digitization so easily is part of why so much shyt feels so dead and lifeless now. Everything can't be hyper convenience hacked to a "scroll the screen" framework without destroying the part of us that like doing physical things, despite how benign they may seem at the time

Thats the reason we have Blockbuster nostalgia. If you've never felt the joy from walking the aisles looking for 2-3 gems to leave with then

 

[⠀X ⠀]

That’s because you had to actually leave the house to do things. Shopping on the ave was an experience. Downloading something or buying it on Amazon, doesn’t compare to actually going out and getting it.

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

Nostalgia for cable TV. We now have the option to watch whatever you want, whenever you want and you want to go back to the days of being forced to watch something at a certain time? Having to miss an episode of Naruto or WWE because my mom forced me to go to church was WOATed and people are reminiscing about that?

One thing about network/cable pre-streaming and TiVo was there were tv-based collective cultural experiences. Everyone would watch a thing at the same time and that would be what people talked about the next day. Like when Michael Jackson would drop music video premieres during prime time.

 

[O.Red]

That’s because you had to actually leave the house to do things. Shopping on the ave was an experience. Downloading something or buying it on Amazon, doesn’t compare to actually going out and getting it.

I'm surprised at the amount of people that are surprised at me when I say I love grocery shopping

 

[VegetasHairline]