CDs and DVDs, because ownership beats convenience when you can get them second hand for pennies on the pound
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I miss the satisfying act of slapping a cassette into a tape deck, then snapping it shut.
Also:
FUCKING LASERS DUDE! Lasers will never NOT be cool.
And the technology has evolved that I can actually record and re-record to these plastic discs using lasers and it all fits inside a 1cm-tall drive that sits on my desk. And if the manufacturer uses high-quality materials, the disc will last hundreds of years.
Also some discs I can then either ink-print or laser-print on the top of it? Simply amazing.
Clothing and towels made with asbestos fabric. During the middle ages you could clean them by throwing them in the fire and they would come out clean. Eventually your lungs would give up on you but for a while you had a very cool way to impress your guests.
.... We (as in humanity) made a lot of cool shit before we realised it was slowly killing us.
And we’re still making stuff and slowly realizing it’s slowly killing us. Isn’t that neat?
Maybe one day we’ll have it all figured out. :p
Usually it’s killing us slower though. I don’t know if that’s progress
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Video games. Way back then there was imagination involved, and companies took risks. Nowadays every game seems to iterate on the same tired formula. The only recent entry I can think of that bucked this trend in the past few decades was maybe Portal, but there have been few to no other recent games that come to mind. Fight me.
What is the formula you're talking about? Games are so diverse it's pretty hard to see what single formula there could be that covers them all.
If you're only talking about AAA games, sure.
Alan Wake 2 and Control are fantastic!
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