They don't make _____ like they used to

[rokkolpo]

They don't make social interactions like they used to. Used to be people would get a group of their friends, go out to a bar or a coffee house, and sit there while talking about various conversations. Now we go to threads on websites, and do the exact same thing from the comfort of our own computer.

...Oops

Or we do both.
We just have more options now, it doesn't negate the old ways.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

They don't make Big Bands like they used to be. I would kill to see some of the great, late big bands brought back from the dead. Those boys could really swing XD

They don't make jazz like they used to. It's all fusion stuff nowadays. The times of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and the likes are all in the past.

This too.

 

[Angry Robot]

I agree about the cars, I own a 1991 4Runner and love it, new cars suck, especially being a mechanic.

But in my own opinion they dont make peripherals like they used to, power gloves, game gloves, single handed controllers, light guns that WORKED! light Bazookas! air pads! Sub-woofer backpacks!!!!!! (I have proof!)

What do we have now? crappy plastic to attach to our wiimotes which costs $10 for 20c worth of plastic and maybe an arcade stick every now and again. Playstation had the best selection of that crap

 

[SecretsOfMoon]

They don't do cars, games, music, movies, computers, appliances, you name it, like they used to, because today everything is better.

 

[rhyno435]

inb4 Video games.

Back then, you would stay up until 3 in the morning trying to beat Contra without the code. Now, teenagers stay up until 3 being annoying over their headsets playing Call of Duty.

Not too long ago I would have agreed with you. Then I played God of War 3. Playing what may now be my favourite game of all time made me think of all the other amazing games have been made just in the past few years.

OT: Music. I haven't been around all that long, but there was certainly no Justin Bieber or Jonas Brothers when I was downloading music.

There were the back street boys in the 90s, all manner of ungodliness in the 80s. Boy bands and pop shit have been around since the monkees. Trouble is that the monkees were actually entertaining.

True. I guess the difference, for me at least, is that when I didn't actively search for those bands (which I never did), I never had to listen to them. Nowadays Justin Beiber and all of them are constantly in the news. Then again, maybe I was just to young to notice the other bands back in the 90s...

 

[SimuLord]

I'm gonna say atheists. They really hit their peak in the 18th century. Richard Dawkins needs to read up on his Voltaire.

 

[Casimir_Effect]

Men.
Most guys these days seem to be a bunch of metrosexual, moisturised, city-dwelling, hugging, excessive hair-styling, vegetarian, teetotalling, branded coffee-drinking, fashion-conscious, whiny pussies.
I'd make a similar arguement about modern women but I'll leave that to someone with the right of chromosomes AND a set of ovaries.

 

[Nouw]

Ahh the music...

I miss the 90's, even though I only spent 5 years there.

Seriously though, name one really really really really really good singer or band which wasn't around then.

...can you name even one thing Doctor Freeman...?

...I thought not...

Do you mean being alive or being known? Lady Ga Ga.

Anyway, they don't make anything the same really, it's changed so much!

 

[Bravo 21]

Playgrounds, they are all so safe these days, back in my day, which was actually about 7 or 8 years ago, playgrounds taught kids how to fall only to get back up again, to the point where me and my friends would throw ourselve off of them, climb along unsafe structures with no handrail, and take completely unessecary risks. now, they are trying to remove anything you can fall from, although my younger brother still managed to break his arm on a play ground.
... and now i have my daily rant out of the way.

 

[Cogwheel]

I'm gonna say atheists. They really hit their peak in the 18th century. Richard Dawkins needs to read up on his Voltaire.

I can't say I know as much as I should about Dawkins, but I'm religious (mildly) and I'm still impressed by Voltaire. All else aside, he just has that much style. "This is no time to be making enemies" indeed.


Also? Food. Everything is genetically modified, sweetened, filled with additives (often very harmful) or made from plants that get covered in pesticides. Often a mix of the above. And for all that, it ends up tasting horrible too.

For instance, wasabi. Or rather, what I get here in Japan instead of horseradish. By far my favourite seasoning, in any food where it actually fits. I think they're the same thing, but I've been told the Japanese option is much spicier. It's made into a green paste that's generally really good. Ten years ago, you could get it anywhere.

Now? Still available everywhere. Only the plant itself has, a few rounds of selective breeding later, been made considerably less spicy. The paste itself also contains green colouring. Did I mention that it also contains lots of sugar now? Because it contains lots of sugar now.

Madness.

 

[Au Naturel.]

Playgrounds, they are all so safe these days, back in my day, which was actually about 7 or 8 years ago, playgrounds taught kids how to fall only to get back up again, to the point where me and my friends would throw ourselve off of them, climb along unsafe structures with no handrail, and take completely unessecary risks. now, they are trying to remove anything you can fall from, although my younger brother still managed to break his arm on a play ground.
... and now i have my daily rant out of the way.

I used to climb a very tall wooden structure in my playground when I was younger, only to throw myself off of it, just to say I jumped off of it! Yup!

 

[My name is Fiction]

I see your old timey music and raise you one Sigur Ros


As for the topic at hand, probably american animation, name any modern tv show and it is a shallow comparison to the first 8 seasons of The Simpsons. You also had Dexters Lab, Ed, Edd and Eddy, Rugrats, Animaniacs and more which i know im forgetting.

"Hay I remember that song, it was used in a trailer for Ubisofts Reboot of Prince of Persia."
"Game sucked a little but the song was awesome!"

 

[TeeBs]

I see your old timey music and raise you one Sigur Ros


As for the topic at hand, probably american animation, name any modern tv show and it is a shallow comparison to the first 8 seasons of The Simpsons. You also had Dexters Lab, Ed, Edd and Eddy, Rugrats, Animaniacs and more which i know im forgetting.

"Hay I remember that song, it was used in a trailer for Ubisofts Reboot of Prince of Persia."
"Game sucked a little but the song was awesome!"

Well, from what I know Sigur Ros actually doesn't accept money from advertisements, but there is also a history of commercials that have used sound a likes, most recent example I can think of is in a social network ad they used Go Do from Jonsi's album Go *Jonsi being the lead singer of sigur ros* though I don't know if he changed his stance for his solo career.

The can be found on alot of soundtracks though, most notably How to Train a Dragon and 127 hours.

 

[Leg End]

Video Game Consoles.

My NES is still kicking ass in Image Fight yet I am on my second 360 with the first having a DVD drive failure and my second one is going the same route any day minute now.

Hell, my old GBA is still working yet both of my DS's have broken hinges with the first having a dead top screen and the second just being crap.

Yet, the Gamecube might be one of the ultimate examples.

The thing is a fucking tank.

 

[Dr Snakeman]

Men.
Most guys these days seem to be a bunch of metrosexual, moisturised, city-dwelling, hugging, excessive hair-styling, vegetarian, teetotalling, branded coffee-drinking, fashion-conscious, whiny pussies.
I'd make a similar arguement about modern women but I'll leave that to someone with the right of chromosomes AND a set of ovaries.

Hear, hear!

You win +15 Man Points for that statement. I approve.

As for mine... cartoons. Just try and tell me that there's any children's programming today that can even come close to the awesomeness that was Animaniacs. And Freakazoid could kick the ass of Nickolodeon's entire modern line-up any day of the week.

...

Just realized how ironic it is that I praised manliness, then turned around and talked about cartoons in the same post.

Ah, screw it. They're both good points, so I'm leaving it the way it is.

 

[mega48man]

Ahh the music...

I miss the 90's, even though I only spent 5 years there.

Seriously though, name one really really really really really good singer or band which wasn't around then.

...can you name even one thing Doctor Freeman...?

...I thought not...

deadmau5, muse, the beatles, the rolling stones (well, they're still together, but they're not rooted in the 90's, same goes for all the other great hits of the 80's and 70's) i'm just gonna stay safe here and say big bands from the 80's. yes, most of them went through the 90's but they're rooted in the 80's, except bon jovi and def leppard, those damn traitors went western, and they wrote some of the best music to.