I became an adult in the 1970s. You might have problems accepting that decade was half a century ago, but I assure you that it's way beyond weird for me.
I don't look back on the seventies with any great nostalgia. It wasn't one of the happiest periods in my life, but it was also far from the worst.
About the only thing you mention that I feel some nostalgia for was the hippie era. I was born a bit too late (and I was a bit too cowardly/sensible) to have taken my stupid young life into my hands and hitched 800 miles down the coast to San Francisco, but I suppose if I'd been a few years older I might have experienced that crazy scene first-hand before it turned nasty. But then if I'd been born a few years before I was, I might have ended up taking a government-sponsored trip across the Pacific to kill random strangers - or be killed by them.
Such are the random chances of life. You're born when you're born, you live in the time you're alive, and it's best to try to make the best of your here and now. Nostalgia is actually a pretty nasty emotion. Things were never as wonderful as people like to believe they were. For everything you can list that you think you'd enjoy about the seventies, I'm sure there are at least a couple of things - quite possibly things that you've never heard of - which you'd find really annoying if you woke up tomorrow in 1972 knowing all you do now.
I remember this game I played as a kid, in my memories it plays like halo and is amazing. I found a copy again like a year ago and played it. Fuvking awful. Just pure dogshit if a game. So now I have these 2 memories of one game one amazing one bad. Fuck nostalgia man. But sometimes it's legit. But not often enough
IIN I sometimes wish I lived in the 1970s?
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I became an adult in the 1970s. You might have problems accepting that decade was half a century ago, but I assure you that it's way beyond weird for me.
I don't look back on the seventies with any great nostalgia. It wasn't one of the happiest periods in my life, but it was also far from the worst.
About the only thing you mention that I feel some nostalgia for was the hippie era. I was born a bit too late (and I was a bit too cowardly/sensible) to have taken my stupid young life into my hands and hitched 800 miles down the coast to San Francisco, but I suppose if I'd been a few years older I might have experienced that crazy scene first-hand before it turned nasty. But then if I'd been born a few years before I was, I might have ended up taking a government-sponsored trip across the Pacific to kill random strangers - or be killed by them.
Such are the random chances of life. You're born when you're born, you live in the time you're alive, and it's best to try to make the best of your here and now. Nostalgia is actually a pretty nasty emotion. Things were never as wonderful as people like to believe they were. For everything you can list that you think you'd enjoy about the seventies, I'm sure there are at least a couple of things - quite possibly things that you've never heard of - which you'd find really annoying if you woke up tomorrow in 1972 knowing all you do now.
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Iirc nostalgia comes from a Greek word that means something like “a painful memory “
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I despise nostalgia. I think it's the worst feeling there is.
I remember this game I played as a kid, in my memories it plays like halo and is amazing. I found a copy again like a year ago and played it. Fuvking awful. Just pure dogshit if a game. So now I have these 2 memories of one game one amazing one bad. Fuck nostalgia man. But sometimes it's legit. But not often enough
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What game
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Darkwatch