mahinWhat’s a thing you miss that you’re 90% sure was objectively awful?
ExtremeDullardThe smell of leaded gasoline.
The smell of a fine cigar: I quit smoking 14 years ago but I miss that.
And I’m 200% sure they were awful.
That 5 minutes of smoking where you don’t do anything but think and enjoy a pieceful smoke… I miss that as well. I quit smoking 4 years ago.
u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)You’re making me feel like I miss it but I haven’t even started yet 💀
Sitting on the porch with my morning coffee and first smoke of the day during the summer was always a wonderful experience. Doing the same in 30F in the winter, not so much.
tetris11leaded gasoline
Few memories trigger a nostalgic response in me than this. Ah, I’m in heaven
smell is the sense most strongly linked to memory
Are you sure you’re not just thinking of the smell of carburetor engines? I think I know the smell you’re thinking of and its the exhaust of a vintage carburetor engine.
Was there really a different smell for leaded gasoline?
No, it’s the smell at the pump. Nothing to do with how the engine feeds itself. Yeah, leaded gasoline smelled different. “Sweeter” or something. Maybe it wasn’t the lead, and maybe whatever replaced the lead inside modern gasoline is what smells different, but it definitely isn’t the same.
It’s not like gasoline smelled better, it’s just that I remember smelling that smell when the entire family went on summer holidays and we kids were allowed to stretch our legs while our dad gassed up the car. Good times and good memories!
this might shock you, but I have never smelled leaded gasoline. I’m too young, it got banned before I was born.
what did it smell like?
Random things I liked as a kid. I was obsessed with Spy Kids for a bit.
Come to think of it, I miss school and I miss the military. They were both godawful, but I was young.
ComradeSharkfuckerYou miss consistent structure
Nah. I just miss my youth.
That’s a midlife crisis
You can miss something without being in a crisis lol
I’m way past that point.
Missing your youth first hits you when you start having small health issues you didn’t have before. And then it gradually gets worse. There’s no crisis about it.
There’s a reason it’s called the dirty thirties
Working in a bar
I love people. I’m a people-person, but I kno know that I am remembering it through rose-tinted lenses
Most customers were average, a few were great, a fair number were dicks
But the hours, the late nights, the cost to my own social life, the lousy pay, the inability to eat normal meals at normal times, all of that shit takes a toll
But I still have some fond memories and occasionally think about opening a bar with my woman
Oh, and I was running a place with a long-term partner. Doing that shit was the final nail in the coffin of our relationship, so fuck that…
Great answer, exactly the kind I was looking for.
Good Bartenders make a place.
We Salute You.
aleqBeing absolutely sure about everything.
Kids can be so annoying with that.
cally [he/they]
MattTheProgrammerNot just kids…
I miss old PC Games from the early 90’s.
I’ve reinstalled all that I remember and they sucked, but back then, they didn’t.
I’ve reinstalled all that I remember and they sucked, but back then, they didn’t.
Check out the remake of C&C!
Also Commandos still rock IMO!
I played through it recently. It is one of the few EA titles where I will concede that they did a good job and that I feel I got my moneys worth.
NHL Hockey 95 was really good!
Some of them got open sourced btw:
Try age of empires too!
Police Quest.
Oh god, those old adventure games.
Where doing things in the wrong order (which was explained nowhere) would lead to permadeath, or worse, getting stuck with no way to progress and no hint what you missed in a previous area you can’t return to.
All I remember from police quest is getting killed or fired for missing a step at a routine traffic stop, or forgetting to check the tire pressure every time you start driving.
In Leisure Suit Larry 1 you straight up get killed without warning if you step onto a street (run over by a car) or into a back alley (mugged and clubbed to death), or take a cab with wine in your inventory (cab driver takes it, drinks it and crashes).
Fun times!
I don’t know about early 90’s, but games from mid and late 90’s are bangers.
The best game of the early 90s was “Das Schwarze Auge: Die Schicksalsklinge” (later translated and re-released with dumbed-down mechanics as “Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny”), and I’m willing to die on that hill.
Doom was '95
It was released in late '93.
Ah ok my mistake, thanks, must have been thinking of Rise of the Triad
Worms!
Although I just looked that one up and they have been making new versions of it continuously so I don’t know if it really counts as an old 90s game anymore.
It counts as a 90s game, but not an early 90s game.
Games really started to get much, MUCH better in '94 and '95.
Games really started to get much, MUCH better in '94 and '95.
One of my friends found his old Gamecube with a copy of 007! So of course we had to have all the boys over to have a little tournament complete with 2 liter sodas and chips and cheap pizza.
Man I forgot how rough around the edges those earlier FPS games really were. They were super bare bones, with janky at best controls, and mediocre hit registration. At least the maps were still good.
Windows XP.
A security nightmare, had more unfinished backends than a plexiglass gloryhole… But goddamn could that machine run
TwigWindows ME too. Or maybe it was just playing Red Alert 2 on it.
That was my first Windows and it was unstable as hell. Barely had anything installed on that PC and yet it had random blue screens and crap like that. Really scared me as a PC beginner.
Fucking red alert, man. Our computer couldn’t handle it, so it would take 20 minutes to build a single refinery as the individual frames t. i. c. k. e. d. b. y. Meanwhile, our parents’ rule was we had to switch who was using the computer every 30 minutes. That fucking sucked.
People remember Service Pack 2 as the definitive version. Base and Service Pack 1 XP was awful.
Service Pack 3 refined it a bit better.
I has the Student XP cracked version. That baby was smoooth
Early 90s…I think you mean windows 3.1, bro.
Snot FlickermanAll my friend’s parents smoked when I was younger, but mine didn’t so I always associated the smell of cigarettes with meeting my friends. I absolutely hate the smell today, but I still get a flash of nostalgia when I smell cigarette smoke.
I used to loathe the smell of ciggies, especially when it lingered in fabrics and on surfaces. My parents didn’t smoke and I knew it was bad for people.
Now I like the smell of fresh ciggies :/
There is one specific cigarette that reminds me of my first boss when I got into IT. She mentored me for a few years and taught me so much about being in IT, and more generally in a professional environment. My entire career up to this point has been built on the foundation she built. I’m just below a C level position now and I’m not even 30 yet.
But I’ve long since forgotten what cigarettes she smoked, and it’s been a few years since I’ve stopped myself. But every once and a while I meet someone who smokes them and the smell will shunt me back to that first shitty job and everything that’s happened since then.
OhStopYellingAtMeI was an 80’s kid, and we had the best Saturday morning cartoons.
Transformers, GI Joe, Scooby Doo, Thundar the Barbarian, Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, Superfriends, Hurculoids, etc.
Transformers, GI Joe, Scooby Doo, Thundar the Barbarian, Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, Superfriends, Hurculoids, etc.
Lady Butterfly I loved Saturday morning cartoons! I used to get up at 630 to watch them all. It made me so happy 😊
Only knowing small TVs. Step by step, displays have inarguably improved massively, and I do love my giant OLED flatscreen. But watching TV was still great fun in the before times, people still watched the hell out of it, so can we say it brings people more joy now? Or is it just technically and visually better?
I think if you’re the kinda person watching beautiful premium shows, that’s an experience you couldn’t really get before. But I like TV that I can have on in the background, while I’m doing the dishes, and now we’re expected to pay attention to details on screen. Back when half the audience had tiny, grainy or monochrome displays, shows were written to suit listening as much as watching. And it’s not just scripts, shoddy visuals allowed costumes, sets and design that was evocative but cheap, in a way that cannot pass muster today.
And by comparison, it’s reduced the justification for going to cinema, and even kinda made the real world look bad. It used to be worth going somewhere in person because it would look infinitely better than seeing it on a screen. But now, it can actually be a disappointment, as the carefully composed filmed version with post production actually looks more impressive than irl. It’s the Connoisseurs Paradox, has it really deepend my pleasure, or merely raised my standards so much that I’m actually less satisfied?
I think the same can be applied for personal computers and smartphones. Mundane things were so fun on those devices.
mannycalaveraPretending I could make something or my life…
ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠Little Caesar’s as a traditional pizza parlor.
Pizza! Pizza!
Lucien [he/him]The old pizza hut was better