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Given that the average getbigger is 45 years old, what are your thoughts on this?

I'm only 32, but I remember the internet being waaay more fun when I was a teenager, nowadays nothing seems new or interesting.

On the other hand, buying stuff online is very easy and convenient, we can easily search for better prices and so on.


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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2023, 10:08:18 PM »
Women were much better in the 70s and 80s

Society as a whole was much better in the 80s, no carburnings, constant gangrapes, masslooting, killings

Media is shit today, everything has to be Woke, LBTQ+ and Divershitty is fed on us constantly, mixed race couples in commercials etc

Schools were better in the 70s and 80s, today the kids are fed this propaganda

Buying Stuff is much easier today

Tech and Computers/Consoles are much better today

Compare an Atari game from the 70s to a High End PC game today

Life in general was better in the 70s/80s
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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2023, 11:18:47 PM »
Women were much better in the 70s and 80s

Society as a whole was much better in the 80s, no carburnings, constant gangrapes, masslooting, killings

Media is shit today, everything has to be Woke, LBTQ+ and Divershitty is fed on us constantly, mixed race couples in commercials etc

Schools were better in the 70s and 80s, today the kids are fed this propaganda

Buying Stuff is much easier today

Tech and Computers/Consoles are much better today

Compare an Atari game from the 70s to a High End PC game today

Life in general was better in the 70s/80s
^^^^^THIS..........plus a whole lot more.

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2023, 01:03:46 AM »

The metal music scene.


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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2023, 01:17:14 AM »
Music in general. Car aesthetics. Pro bodybuilding. Respect and decency, honor. Home cook food.

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2023, 01:58:29 AM »
Access is so much easier now thanks primarily to technological advancement

Which on the whole is good and better

But such ready access and instant gratification of 'wants' (as opposed to needs) has left in its wake a deficit in the less immediately apparent but equally rewarding aspects that came with these wants being harder to access in times past: the anticipation, the time and effort required to track something down or attain something desirable etc: in short, appreciation. In addition, due to the endless supply of wants at our finger tips, we often no longer take the time to properly enjoy things when they do come our way, its just on to the next short term dopamine hit

Also, Alyssa Milano was a lot better when she was younger than she is now


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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2023, 02:12:50 AM »
Ill take the 70's and 80's any fucking day of the week, what fantastic times those were!

Today just sucks, and bad...

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2023, 03:04:23 AM »

-Life has gotten way worse on average for Westeners.
-Data availability/mobility has increased/improved dramatically.
-Hifi equipment has gotten worse unless one spends a lot of dough - speakers have improved but every speaker seems to be geared towards tiny tits.
(Old high end gear is now affordable though.)
-Guitars have gotten worse(B.C. Rich on suicide watch hopefully) but guitar amps have vastly improved.
-Food quality & selection has gotten better but way more expensive.
-Bodybuilding and body culture has taken a nosedive.
-Computing has improved but the spirit is gone... underground is most likely better than ever though.
-Weapons have gotten way more deadly.
-Movies & effects have gotten way worse for the most part.
-Most classic getbig posters have retired.

In short - it's become a rich man's world... anything goes if you got the dimes.
For the average western workcel everything has been neutered/watered down.
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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2023, 04:14:50 AM »
Society has gotten worst.

Medicine has gotten better.

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2023, 05:26:38 AM »
Technology today shits all over what we had growing up.

Other than that not much else.

Agree about Social Media. Unless you have something to market on the internet, there’s really no point in having a presence.

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2023, 05:32:52 AM »
Society has gotten worst.

Medicine has gotten better.

And yet American lifespan continues to fall  :'(

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2023, 05:35:43 AM »
And yet American lifespan continues to fall  :'(

Obesity

People have too much access to high calorie low nutrition food and not enough motivation and discipline.

Definitely fewer fat slobs back in the day.

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2023, 05:49:44 AM »
Access is so much easier now thanks primarily to technological advancement

Which on the whole is good and better

But such ready access and instant gratification of 'wants' (as opposed to needs) has left in its wake a deficit in the less immediately apparent but equally rewarding aspects that came with these wants being harder to access in times past: the anticipation, the time and effort required to track something down or attain something desirable etc: in short, appreciation. In addition, due to the endless supply of wants at our finger tips, we often no longer take the time to properly enjoy things when they do come our way, its just on to the next short term dopamine hit

Also, Alyssa Milano was a lot better when she was younger than she is now


Yes, information is so easy to obtain that we don't search for it.


-Life has gotten way worse on average for Westeners.
-Data availability/mobility has increased/improved dramatically.
-Hifi equipment has gotten worse unless one spends a lot of dough - speakers have improved but every speaker seems to be geared towards tiny tits.
(Old high end gear is now affordable though.)
-Guitars have gotten worse(B.C. Rich on suicide watch hopefully) but guitar amps have vastly improved.
-Food quality & selection has gotten better but way more expensive.
-Bodybuilding and body culture has taken a nosedive.
-Computing has improved but the spirit is gone... underground is most likely better than ever though.
-Weapons have gotten way more deadly.
-Movies & effects have gotten way worse for the most part.
-Most classic getbig posters have retired.

In short - it's become a rich man's world... anything goes if you got the dimes.
For the average western workcel everything has been neutered/watered down.

Care to elaborate about guitars? You mean overall quality drop or prices?

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2023, 05:55:56 AM »
Obesity

People have too much access to high calorie low nutrition food and not enough motivation and discipline.

Definitely fewer fat slobs back in the day.

It’s certainly a factor but the fall in life expectancy is only seen in the past couple years.  Before then, Americans were happily getting fatter and living longer

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2023, 06:22:52 AM »
Technology and social media, cell phones etc of course is incredible compared to past but is also responsible for the demise of society as a whole. The 'information super highway' has been used to confuse more than clarify and has turned everyone into a narcissist.  Impossible to have a conversation because no one has patience or the maturity to handle any contrary opinions.

Music, bodybuilding, boxing and cinema were all waaaaay better in the 70's and 80's hell even the 90's for that matter.

Cars were better in some ways but technology has improved autombiles in other ways such as luxury, gas mileage etc. But most cars today look like plastic blobs of shit. If you want to increase sales of e cars then design them to look like 69 chargers, mustangs, 68 camaros, 76 firebird, chevelles, challengers etc....fuck, I'd buy one today.

All entertainment is pushing woke bullshit and worse is social engineering through incrementalism. There's nothing inherently wrong with diversity and inclusion but ffs be realistic about it and address actual problems in individual communities and drop the double standard applied to everything through identity politics. It's so fucked up watching each generation  being brainwashed little by little. It seems we're headed for something along the lines of 1984 or worse. We are watching the demise of great cities like Philadelphia,  Chicago,  New York,  Seattle,  San Francisco Minneapolis and Portland in real-time. It's no longer 'gonna happen' or 'happening' (both terms imply there's time to change or reverse the damage) it's already happened.

Pretty much: everything sucks now except for a few small creature comforts. People suck, especially younger generations and women. Music, movies, celebrities,  news personalities and politicians all suck now.

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #15 on: September 29, 2023, 06:25:39 AM »
Women were much better in the 70s and 80s

Society as a whole was much better in the 80s, no carburnings, constant gangrapes, masslooting, killings

Media is shit today, everything has to be Woke, LBTQ+ and Divershitty is fed on us constantly, mixed race couples in commercials etc

Schools were better in the 70s and 80s, today the kids are fed this propaganda

Buying Stuff is much easier today

Tech and Computers/Consoles are much better today

Compare an Atari game from the 70s to a High End PC game today

Life in general was better in the 70s/80s

Well said!

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #16 on: September 29, 2023, 06:31:11 AM »
I think the answer to both sides of the questions is: porn.

Interestingly its both better and worse and it has something to do with the nature of desire and availability.

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #17 on: September 29, 2023, 06:58:07 AM »
It’s certainly a factor but the fall in life expectancy is only seen in the past couple years.  Before then, Americans were happily getting fatter and living longer

You’re just starting to see the effects of it now as the first generation of Fat fucks is getting old.  Obesity doesn’t kill you in a day but over many years.

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #18 on: September 29, 2023, 07:01:17 AM »
Culture in general weather music, movies, fashion, and there was always new slang terms.

We’re stuck with most everything from the 90’s now.


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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #19 on: September 29, 2023, 07:03:37 AM »
Obesity

People have too much access to high calorie low nutrition food and not enough motivation and discipline.



go and watch outdoor concerts from the 70s , Wood stock and the like, almost no fat people at all.


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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #20 on: September 29, 2023, 07:10:33 AM »
Judith Light was a lot better when she was younger than she is now.

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #21 on: September 29, 2023, 07:47:44 AM »

Yes, information is so easy to obtain that we don't search for it.


Care to elaborate about guitars? You mean overall quality drop or prices?

Quality drop regarding necks(not every single one of course) and custom shop prices being too high - especially B.C. Rich.
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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #22 on: September 29, 2023, 07:49:08 AM »

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #23 on: September 29, 2023, 07:55:32 AM »
The Walking Dead before Shane was killed off

Yellowstone before Beth got really annoying

The Simpsons before season 9 or 10

Chick-Fil-A before diversity hirings and washing the feet of dindus

Ron Desantis before he ran for President

Bodybuilding

Music

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Re: What was better before and now sucks, and vice versa? Anything goes
« Reply #24 on: September 29, 2023, 08:01:17 AM »
I'm 36 but I like my history.

Before cars, cities were built to be beautiful, just go anywhere in Europe/Boston and it is nice.

Trains and rail cars were sweet as well.

Up until tv came about, radio was basically like modern day podcasts, real cool shit go on youtube if you're curious.


Until the 90s, flight attendants use to be hot

Until 73 or so cool shit was happening in space

Between 65 and 83ish, guitar based music dominated society.

Jazz before 65 was a total beast, it was amazing.

Until the late 90s you had a ton of tv, and it was scheduled. No randomly binging shows, you had a set schedule and everyone else was on it. Everyone was watching xfiles at 7pm on a thursday etc. You could have an actual watercooler conservation, without having to figure out if you're even on the same episode. Like your entertainment was based on an actual schedule, instead of everyone randomly doing their own thing, dates and time of day really mattered, people had normal work hours, and you didn't talk to people outside of your timezone. 

Renting VHS was awesome for more or less the same reason, you had to go out with friends date/wife/friends/kids pick what you were gonna watch. It was a part of movie night, now movie night means you try to find something on a streaming service, instead of being social you watch it by yourself and half to time you give up half way through.

Until 97ish, popular movies weren't CGI borefests, almost all the top box office movies featured real stories, you couldn't just overwhelm the audience of 20 minutes of cgi.

From 06ish-14 we had the golden age of online streaming, shows like game breaking bad were actually good, you had good stories and there wasn't a ton of wokeshit. HBO/Showcase etc would reliably release 3-5 shows that were based, like Sopranos/Boardwalk Empire/Oz/The wire/The Shield etc.

For 1990 to 2008ish, we had tons of white immigrants from Eastern Europe coming over, they were cool hard working people who were well educated, since 08ish they've become old fucks, poorly educated folks who were completed ruined by independence, or alternatively have become as pro socialism/EU as their grandparents.

Until 95ish Christian/Family values were still normal, you assumed someone was christian or at least supported the values, instead of now where you hope people actually have any values at all.

Before the internet the world was a mysterious place. You couldn't just google something, you actually had to find a book on a topic and hope it actually included the depth of knowledge you were looking for. Atlernatively watch a really cool show on tv or actually visit the place. 

Before 2006ish smart phones weren't a thing, people weren't socially retarded and were capable of small talk.

Before 1995ish, being intelligent self educating yourself by reading would pay off as you'd actually have real value in the workplace.

EDIT: Science fiction was way better. Things actually had to be thoughtful. From 77 to 91 there was just endless great epic sci fis being made including star wars/alien(s)/80s trek/terminator/predator

Flip sides

Legal edible weed is amazing

You don't need social skills to get laid you just need to be tall good looking etc

Watching sports is awesome because you don't have to watch live, way better film angles etc.

You can learn anything for free.

Psychology is way better understood and you can do a whole lot with a bit of knowledge.

We now have a solid understanding of how to do proper HRT.

Joe Rogan and his types are tearing it up, bringing mandom to entirely other levels.

There's hot East Asian Chicks everywhere.

Middle Eastern folk are finally learning to bathe

You can make/record your own music with a computer for cheap.

You can immerse yourself with any culture online.

You can watch movies/tv from virtually any era with ease.

Massive flat screen TV are dirt cheap

VR tech is amazing

The Russians have stopped blue balling us, we can actually hate them again without liberals calling us Xenophobic/paranoid.

China is about to die/fuck off.

If you can code, you have unlimited career options.

You can work from home with ease.

People actually care about fitness(even if there's a mountain of obesity) it's a normal thing for people to keep fit without having to be an athlete/age is no longer an acceptable excuse etc.