With UlyssesT out there touching grass, I haven’t seen this thread in a while. What in the past do you NOT miss? It could be very personal or just something everyone experienced but doesn’t anymore.
For me, I am so fucking happy the food scene in burgerland has changed since the 2000s. People seem to enjoy more well-seasoned foods and healthier options seem to outstrip the unhealthy slop I remember in the 2000s. Even my yee-yee ahh Ohio suburb has changed somewhat noticeably to support fresh ingredients. Less WASPslop is always good.
How about y’all?
It’s really tiring to see people going to huge efforts to analyse media that’s intended for young children and complain about tropes and narrative devices that are there because it’s media for children.
I get that it’s sort of an elitist sentiment, but media written for or targeted at adults is usually better, or at least freer to explore the sorts of things these people claim they want to see, and they would almost certainly have a better time if they just stopped watching children’s media.
For example, Harry Potter / Disney fanatics in their late 20s early 30s. Read another book, I’m begging you.
Plenty of video games written for exclusively adults (and plenty that can’t legally be sold to children).