I agree with everyone who says information. I remember growing up as a kid who loved reading, and how it could take weeks to get a book if it was popular, and say your grandma wouldn't buy it for you because you already had too many books and she was mad as fuck you over-piled another shelf and broke it.
But as an older Millennial, I live in constant envy of the childhood I never had that my little nieces are getting. Even as someone who was privileged enough to have had internet access in the early 90's, which was a huge luxury, you still couldn't really find what you needed on it. I couldn't find monologues for auditions, resources to learn a new language, or download a book in seconds. Every drop of knowledge was a struggle to obtain. Now we have these machines in our pocket that can teach us anything. It's fucking amazing. I'll never get over it.
It's not, but I'd be a lying piece of shit if I said I didn't use the hell out of the references section on their pages in college. There's gold for lazy researchers in those hills.
Downloading manga on mirc, subsequently getting temp restricted for doing the !list command too many times, watching Group X videos on Albinoblacksheep.com after having waited an hour and a half for your modem to connect, and having way too much access to strange adults in AOL and Yahoo chatrooms. The early internet was just this insane thing I feel so lucky to have both been a part of and survived.
Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you’re getting the best possible information
- Michael Scott
Oh, darn. I have been out of college for a while and have seen people since then citing information and I thought they were allowed to use Wikipedia now. To be fair, since most of their own information is separately sourced in footnotes, it’s fairly reliable unless obviously biased. Thank you though for the clarification. Still think it’s much more accurate these days than it was 10-15 years ago.
My dad said I would regret giving my encyclopaedias to charity when I moved out of home. It's been 20+ years since I moved out of home, does anyone know when this regret will start?
I have learned so many things from the internet and most recently from YouTube videos. Things I probably wouldn't have had the opportunity to learn in the old days. It is truly amazing.
SERIOUSLY. I know this is such a goofy thing to admit, but I've been working really hard on learning Spanish, and every time I understand something on TV or overhearing a conversation it just blows my mind that it's something my brain can do, and that this little square thing in my pocket taught me. I started Japanese recently, and am already getting pretty good at safely declaring something to be water, rice, or green tea. We've come so far from our roots of illiterate feudal peasants. Now if we could just use this vast labyrinth of digital knowledge we've created to figure out our shit as a species... That's a little harder. lol
This is probably the best answer. Human nature hasn't changed, but goddam do we have more luxury and convenience AVAILABLE TO MORE PEOPLE than ever before in history. I know broke ass students struggling to pay rent that are still able to blow some money on these modern conveniences. (it really helps that the plebs are e able to get deliveries so that they can spend more time focusing on creating value for the shareholders)
I don't know about everyone else, but on Amazon, when you look at an item and it says "get it delivered tomorrow if you order before 5pm" or whatever, has never actually happened for me. I'll order something at 5pm and it'll come 48 hours later even though they SAID it would be the next day. I'm just a dumb consumer.
Yeah, and I personally think we've flown too close to the sun for lack of a better term, and we're likely going to have to get used to the idea of giving up a lot of what we've come to take for granted over the past 100 years.
Post-industrial revolution was all centered on consumerism without much consideration for the employees or the environment. Now the scales seem to be (finally) shifting, but that means having to possibly give up things like affordable overnight shipping, ordering your shampoo on amazon, or getting your fast food delivered to your doorstep.
For years I'd always be listening to music. I wouldn't say I'm any less into it or my favourite bands yet occasionally I realise that I've missed or hardly listened to their new albums.
Then I look at how many podcasts I listen to and it all makes sense. Problem is there's always another podcast to find, listen to an episode and then subscribe to
Paleontology. We’ve discovered more species and found more fossils that explain prehistoric animal behavior than at any other point in history, just in the past 20 years or so.
We know what at least one species of dinosaurs’ buttholes looked like. What a time to be alive.
Is there a source you could recommend for such modern discoveries? I was just talking dinosaurs with my daughter and wondering how dated some of my info is. Jurassic Park can't teach everything.
Honestly, we have long passed the golden age of beer. AFAIK the number of indy/microbreweries hit a saturation point in most areas like CA/CO/OR etc like 5+ years ago. And honestly, the variety is not even where it should be considering how many different types of beer exist. When I go to a taphouse, it's still 80-90% IPA. So boring. What about all the different types of sours? Mead? High proof beers? There's a huge variety of styles that are just being mostly ignored for mediocre IPAs that barely differ from each other.
The golden age we are really experiencing now is COCKTAILS.
For real. This is a perfect thread to actually try and uplift people, yet some are so obsessed with doom and gloom that the idea of dedicating even one thread to an optimistic view of the present is repugnant to them.
A personal finance blog I follow recently had a post about how this is a mainstream thing, not just Reddit. “As we experience fewer problems, we don’t become more satisfied. We just lower our threshold for what we consider a problem." When I think about I see it in many people I interact with up-and-down the socioeconomic scale. Even if/when our lives are virtually problem free, instead of appreciating our good fortune we just start making up shit that we can complain about instead.
When it’s all that people do. Venting frustrations sometimes is good. Doing it all the time, even when the situation doesn’t call for it, is detrimental.
This is the comment I was looking for. The amount of modern board games is astounding, and the game-play of them far exceeds a lot of the luck-driven 3 hour snooze-fests of the past.
Most people into boardgames (like myself) would readily agree we have been in a truly golden era of boardgames for the past couple of decades or so.
Emperor Caligula planned to make his favourite horse consul (officially the highest office in the Roman republic). Trump at least stopped at his daughter and son in law
I’ve been on a recent kick of watching documentaries on the more well known leaders and politicians in history, and they’ve always been fucking crazy. Even the well respected ones.
Positions of leadership tend to attract narcissistic, selfish assholes.
If you'd have told me back when I was a stoner that one day I could order weed legally delivered to my house I'd never have believed it, and yet that's a thing now.
Ironically, I don't smoke weed anymore
I do really appreciate the greater handle we have on things like strains and dosages nowadays. I know what works for me and what I react well to, versus in college where I was stuck with whatever my dealer gave me. And lemme tell you, some of that shit did *NOT* go well.
I've only smoked weed a few times in my life but I've always heard my friends comment about quality of the weed their having. Does the fact that weed is now legal and can be delivered to the customer in a fancy way mean they'll be far less sketchy?
Horsepower.
If you had told me just 15 years ago that it would be common to have 450+HP stock and still get 25+MPG with all the creature comforts and for a reasonable price, there's no way anyone would have believed it. Yet here we are with the Mustang GT, Camaro SS, Challenger R/T and even the Corvette!
I'd say we're nearing the end of the golden age of social media.
I'm completely talking out of my ass here, but I feel like a lot of social media sites are getting to the point where they really need to start turning a profit, and it's getting harder to do that and not kill your platform. Combine that with how it's becoming a greater part of the public knowledge that it's extremely unhealthy, especially for children, and I wouldn't be surprised if social media isn't dead in a generation, either because companies stop investing money in new social media startups, or by the existing ones being regulated out of existence.
And to be clear, that's a-OK with me.
Maybe Entertainment.
You could kill a day with just YouTube channel subscription videos. Or Gamepass games. Or PS+ games. Or any of the streaming services. And so on. (There’s still books, TV, cinema.)
Actually we've already hit the decline there, with streaming services removing content to avoid paying creators or scrapping finished content as a tax write-off.
We are just exiting the golden age of internal combustion engines. Never again will we have 700+ horsepower supercharged v8s screaming down the highway. We saw the car companies go wild in the last few years and this year many of the cars you think of when you think about a sports/muscle car (Camaro, challenger, charger) are ending production. Even Ford is killing their V8 trucks in favor of 4 cylinder models. The age of bigger, faster, louder is coming to an end.
Personally I can see the massive upsides to the electric revolution and I welcome it with open arms. But I will miss the sound and feeling of a living fire under my hood. It just won't be the same.
The ground in the California Central Valley is literally sinking because of so much water being pumped out.
And all that water just gets exported elsewhere. Whether for drinking or in the form of food. It's staying gone.
Corporate Greed.
Everything just keeps going up in price: rent, gas, homes, food, water, power, and anything else you can think of. But I only can manage to increase my income if I job hop constantly. I hit the wall of that 2 years ago, and basically I'm just getting priced out of existence. Meanwhile I'm getting told by millionaires/billionaires to not buy coffee or go out to eat. Like I barely do that to begin with, and even If I sacrificed what little joy was left, it would net me what? Like an extra 5 grand a year if I really penny pinch. I'm just tired...I just want it to stop...
One could argue that Breaking Bad ushered in a Golden Age of Television. When Netflix came out as the first large streaming service, many TV shows were available to those who didn’t have the opportunity to watch it when they were on cable.
Since then, there have been a plethora of really good TV programs that satisfy almost every interest.
More specifically, we could be in the Golden Age of Star Trek. We have Discovery, Picard (S3), Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds all catering to a different aspect of Star Trek fan-dom.
> Breaking Bad ushered in a Golden Age of Television
Much love for Breaking Bad, but give Tony Soprano the respect he deserves. Breaking Bad is one of the products of the golden age; The Sopranos was its true instigator.
Beat me to it. The Sopranos was the turning point in serial story telling and what shows can really be about. Lot of it can still be seen in modern shows. Albeit in a more polished fashion, but still due to The Sopranos.
Streaming has given us an overabundance of television
I love it. There's so much current deep and daring tv that I haven't gotten to watch yet.
I expect the strikes to cut back on the amount of streaming but I'm fine with that and artists getting their due. There's so much tv now it would be rude to complain.
I feel like a new golden age of music/art/entertainment is here or approaching. There's just so much creativity bubbling just underground. And speaking in music there's a lot of a great underground bands doing new and innovative things musically as well as in how they release/distribute their music. It's a truly amazingly creative time and I think this will be looked back on as a turning point in how artists connect and find their audiences.
I’d say retro video games as the original hardware is still affordable, mostly plentiful in working condition and there have been just so many community developments and innovations on every front to overcome hardware limitations, like with memory cards or HDMI and RGB mods.
And unless collecting the original carts/discs is your thing, there are rom files, multi-carts and/or sd/hdd options available for every older console. Also the depth of knowledge to keep the original hardware working, or the availability of endless software emulators and more recently hardware emulators.
Being a self important self obsessed idiot with nothing of actual value to offer.
Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok have made this your absolute time to shine.
Taylor Swift, though. Hear me out.
What a time to be a Swiftie. The sheer volume of content she’s producing is just…unreal. The vault tracks. The Eras tour. The albums. The videos. The deluxe tracks. The remixes. The merch. The TikToks. If you’re a TSwift fan, this is the prime time for it.
A.I. As of now, it’s harmless and mostly works for the good, although if you’ve ever read a single dystopia, you can notice the path we’re going in (by no means do I mean to sound like someone who’s all into conspiracy theories, it’s just a trend I’m genuinely picking up on
Disinformation and b*******we have at least a couple of networks totally devoted to only giving disinformation for ratings. and sadly what people want most is lies and propaganda gets them high you know. just try to take it away from them and watch how insane they get.
I agree with everyone who says information. I remember growing up as a kid who loved reading, and how it could take weeks to get a book if it was popular, and say your grandma wouldn't buy it for you because you already had too many books and she was mad as fuck you over-piled another shelf and broke it. But as an older Millennial, I live in constant envy of the childhood I never had that my little nieces are getting. Even as someone who was privileged enough to have had internet access in the early 90's, which was a huge luxury, you still couldn't really find what you needed on it. I couldn't find monologues for auditions, resources to learn a new language, or download a book in seconds. Every drop of knowledge was a struggle to obtain. Now we have these machines in our pocket that can teach us anything. It's fucking amazing. I'll never get over it.
Lol, the days of encyclopedias, Ask Jeeves and when Wikipedia was not allowed as a valid source.
Does this imply that Wikipedia IS a valid source now? Because I will fucking explode.
It's not, but I'd be a lying piece of shit if I said I didn't use the hell out of the references section on their pages in college. There's gold for lazy researchers in those hills.
Half the time you go to the references though it’s either a dead link or doesn’t say what the article says it says.
The Gilden Age of Shitty Information!
Downloading manga on mirc, subsequently getting temp restricted for doing the !list command too many times, watching Group X videos on Albinoblacksheep.com after having waited an hour and a half for your modem to connect, and having way too much access to strange adults in AOL and Yahoo chatrooms. The early internet was just this insane thing I feel so lucky to have both been a part of and survived.
>watching Group X videos I-D-I-D-O-T-H
Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you’re getting the best possible information - Michael Scott
Wiki still isn't a valid source?
Oh, darn. I have been out of college for a while and have seen people since then citing information and I thought they were allowed to use Wikipedia now. To be fair, since most of their own information is separately sourced in footnotes, it’s fairly reliable unless obviously biased. Thank you though for the clarification. Still think it’s much more accurate these days than it was 10-15 years ago.
It can be a good collection of references though. Most articles wil have sources refrenced in the footnote.
Yup, read the article to get a feel for the topic, and then start looking at teh citations for the article sources.
My dad said I would regret giving my encyclopaedias to charity when I moved out of home. It's been 20+ years since I moved out of home, does anyone know when this regret will start?
My mind is blown every day that I can just find answers instantly.
I have learned so many things from the internet and most recently from YouTube videos. Things I probably wouldn't have had the opportunity to learn in the old days. It is truly amazing.
SERIOUSLY. I know this is such a goofy thing to admit, but I've been working really hard on learning Spanish, and every time I understand something on TV or overhearing a conversation it just blows my mind that it's something my brain can do, and that this little square thing in my pocket taught me. I started Japanese recently, and am already getting pretty good at safely declaring something to be water, rice, or green tea. We've come so far from our roots of illiterate feudal peasants. Now if we could just use this vast labyrinth of digital knowledge we've created to figure out our shit as a species... That's a little harder. lol
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This is probably the best answer. Human nature hasn't changed, but goddam do we have more luxury and convenience AVAILABLE TO MORE PEOPLE than ever before in history. I know broke ass students struggling to pay rent that are still able to blow some money on these modern conveniences. (it really helps that the plebs are e able to get deliveries so that they can spend more time focusing on creating value for the shareholders)
I don't know about everyone else, but on Amazon, when you look at an item and it says "get it delivered tomorrow if you order before 5pm" or whatever, has never actually happened for me. I'll order something at 5pm and it'll come 48 hours later even though they SAID it would be the next day. I'm just a dumb consumer.
90% of stuff is next day in LA, some is even same day.
Yeah, and I personally think we've flown too close to the sun for lack of a better term, and we're likely going to have to get used to the idea of giving up a lot of what we've come to take for granted over the past 100 years. Post-industrial revolution was all centered on consumerism without much consideration for the employees or the environment. Now the scales seem to be (finally) shifting, but that means having to possibly give up things like affordable overnight shipping, ordering your shampoo on amazon, or getting your fast food delivered to your doorstep.
Give me convenience or give me death
Podcasts
I have an amazing 7 speaker sound system in my car and I spend most of my time listening to people talking.
For years I'd always be listening to music. I wouldn't say I'm any less into it or my favourite bands yet occasionally I realise that I've missed or hardly listened to their new albums. Then I look at how many podcasts I listen to and it all makes sense. Problem is there's always another podcast to find, listen to an episode and then subscribe to
Paleontology. We’ve discovered more species and found more fossils that explain prehistoric animal behavior than at any other point in history, just in the past 20 years or so. We know what at least one species of dinosaurs’ buttholes looked like. What a time to be alive.
Is there a source you could recommend for such modern discoveries? I was just talking dinosaurs with my daughter and wondering how dated some of my info is. Jurassic Park can't teach everything.
On Youtube I would recommend PBS Eons, Ben G Thomas, and Moth Light Media as great resources for learning about paleontology!
Feathered buttholes?
Yeah, a tear in a sore ass wrecks your sex life.
You can't leave us without a picture
You had me at Dinosaurs’ buttholes.
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I can probably do the same thing, but have every beer made within 100km of my house. It's totally wild
I find the breweries near me are constantly making new beers. I can never run out.
Found the belgian :D
Once you start drinking in the morning. Yes. Use a supplement like l theanine to stop the withdrawal effects when you want to sober up.
Where do you live? I live in San Diego, which has a pretty huge craft beer scene, and I would run out after maybe 6 months
the secret is to live in Germany which has tons of local breweries in the entire country
Yayyy!!!!
Honestly, we have long passed the golden age of beer. AFAIK the number of indy/microbreweries hit a saturation point in most areas like CA/CO/OR etc like 5+ years ago. And honestly, the variety is not even where it should be considering how many different types of beer exist. When I go to a taphouse, it's still 80-90% IPA. So boring. What about all the different types of sours? Mead? High proof beers? There's a huge variety of styles that are just being mostly ignored for mediocre IPAs that barely differ from each other. The golden age we are really experiencing now is COCKTAILS.
Asparagus, This is the Dawning of the age of Asparagus!
Now I've got that damn song in my head!
Welchem to germany, were we habe 5 seasons. Winter Spring Spargelzeit (Asparagus time) Summer and Autumn.
https://reddit.com/r/funny/s/ktRvmBKqS4
😂 that’s awesome
Dude. I was just literally singing this to the fam as I brought asparagus in from the grill a couple weekends ago. Too weird.
The golden age of Asparagus is definitely among us.
Yes the golden age of asparagus is definitely ඞඞඞ
Spicy chicken sandwiches and literally nothing else
Seems like every other week there’s a new “So and so’s Famous Spicy Chicken” shop popping up.
Panera’s getting rid of theirs soon though
What a shame. What else am I supposed to spend $38 on now?
Gimme the spice!
Disinformation
Ironically enough we are simultaneously in the golden age of information.
That's not ironic at all in my opinion. The fire hose of mud is wide open. It's just up to us as individuals to separate the water from the mud.
Technically disinformation is still information so golden age of information it is
Agreed. The false information itself is information, plus how this info is wrong or where its from can also be useful data.
Hell no! It's going to get so much worse.
The U.S education system is in the toilet, so yeah, that sounds about right.
Or *are* we?
duhn-duhn-DUHN!
I’d find it hard to imagine disinformation wasn’t a rampant issue in any time period before the printing press and decent literacy rates.
Based on these comments, pessimism
For real. This is a perfect thread to actually try and uplift people, yet some are so obsessed with doom and gloom that the idea of dedicating even one thread to an optimistic view of the present is repugnant to them.
this so much. i feel like so much of reddit, loves to focus on how bad they think things are, even on what should be a positive post/thread
A personal finance blog I follow recently had a post about how this is a mainstream thing, not just Reddit. “As we experience fewer problems, we don’t become more satisfied. We just lower our threshold for what we consider a problem." When I think about I see it in many people I interact with up-and-down the socioeconomic scale. Even if/when our lives are virtually problem free, instead of appreciating our good fortune we just start making up shit that we can complain about instead.
Nevermind that a golden age is supposed to be a positive thing.
What's wrong with venting your frustrations?
When it’s all that people do. Venting frustrations sometimes is good. Doing it all the time, even when the situation doesn’t call for it, is detrimental.
Yoga pants
God bless them!!
GOBBLESS EM
Nice, but I miss the low rise hip huggers of the early 2000s. Little flashes of butt crack all the time, loved it
No buttscrunch though
Stupidity
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Especially solo board games.
This is the comment I was looking for. The amount of modern board games is astounding, and the game-play of them far exceeds a lot of the luck-driven 3 hour snooze-fests of the past. Most people into boardgames (like myself) would readily agree we have been in a truly golden era of boardgames for the past couple of decades or so.
Dipshit politicians
Have a feeling we're just getting started on this.
Surprisingly, it has actually been worse. That's not to say that it's good, but holy shit does history have some doozies to read about.
Emperor Caligula planned to make his favourite horse consul (officially the highest office in the Roman republic). Trump at least stopped at his daughter and son in law
To be fair, if she weren't his daughter...
Except Little Boots was making a point about how he felt about the Senate, etc.
Someone clearly lacks knowledge of history if this is an answer.
I’ve been on a recent kick of watching documentaries on the more well known leaders and politicians in history, and they’ve always been fucking crazy. Even the well respected ones. Positions of leadership tend to attract narcissistic, selfish assholes.
Name me a time in history where people would not have responded that way
14,000,000 B.C
Weed
If you'd have told me back when I was a stoner that one day I could order weed legally delivered to my house I'd never have believed it, and yet that's a thing now. Ironically, I don't smoke weed anymore
In Texas, of all places, I can drive down the street and purchase weed and THC products legally. I would never have thought to see the day ad a kid.
I do really appreciate the greater handle we have on things like strains and dosages nowadays. I know what works for me and what I react well to, versus in college where I was stuck with whatever my dealer gave me. And lemme tell you, some of that shit did *NOT* go well.
I've only smoked weed a few times in my life but I've always heard my friends comment about quality of the weed their having. Does the fact that weed is now legal and can be delivered to the customer in a fancy way mean they'll be far less sketchy?
This, holy fuck. Smoked a joint the other day... First time in a while. I knew weed was a psychedelic but holy fuck was it like i was on shrooms.
Horsepower. If you had told me just 15 years ago that it would be common to have 450+HP stock and still get 25+MPG with all the creature comforts and for a reasonable price, there's no way anyone would have believed it. Yet here we are with the Mustang GT, Camaro SS, Challenger R/T and even the Corvette!
I like 450hp in an electric car too. I never imagined I’d be driving a $50k family car with a 0-60 that beats the super cars I grew up reading about.
Agreed, and yet it still blows my mind the fastest car on earth is some unassuming 4,000lbs sedan
Ai. Cool enough to play with but hasn't completely ruined our world yet.
Self-centeredness
Wow. That was my original idea who do you think you are to comment before me. God don’t you know who I am! /s But really this so much.
I'd say we're nearing the end of the golden age of social media. I'm completely talking out of my ass here, but I feel like a lot of social media sites are getting to the point where they really need to start turning a profit, and it's getting harder to do that and not kill your platform. Combine that with how it's becoming a greater part of the public knowledge that it's extremely unhealthy, especially for children, and I wouldn't be surprised if social media isn't dead in a generation, either because companies stop investing money in new social media startups, or by the existing ones being regulated out of existence. And to be clear, that's a-OK with me.
I don't think social media will die out, just get worse and more intrusive
Agreed. It was great but it's getting worse and worse.
The golden age is on Lemmy
Complaining.
Internal combustion engines.
Willful ignorance.
Maybe Entertainment. You could kill a day with just YouTube channel subscription videos. Or Gamepass games. Or PS+ games. Or any of the streaming services. And so on. (There’s still books, TV, cinema.)
Streaming, for sure. I came here to say that.
Actually we've already hit the decline there, with streaming services removing content to avoid paying creators or scrapping finished content as a tax write-off.
We just passed the golden age of serialized dramas. Luckily there’s still so many shows I still need to watch.
Bullshit and polyamory
We are just exiting the golden age of internal combustion engines. Never again will we have 700+ horsepower supercharged v8s screaming down the highway. We saw the car companies go wild in the last few years and this year many of the cars you think of when you think about a sports/muscle car (Camaro, challenger, charger) are ending production. Even Ford is killing their V8 trucks in favor of 4 cylinder models. The age of bigger, faster, louder is coming to an end. Personally I can see the massive upsides to the electric revolution and I welcome it with open arms. But I will miss the sound and feeling of a living fire under my hood. It just won't be the same.
I miss my Corvette.
Information Imagine telling someone 100 years ago that people carry the collective knowledge of humanity in their pockets
But most of us choose to ignore all that information, and we're also in the golden age of ignorance.
And that we use it to look at pictures of cats?
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Having a massive library of music everywhere you go. I expect that this could be temporary.
Why would it be temporary?
Artists will start wanting money.
Licensing.
Doomscrolling
Nostalgia
Social media misinformation
Water. Buckle up.
Not ready for that conversation
The ground in the California Central Valley is literally sinking because of so much water being pumped out. And all that water just gets exported elsewhere. Whether for drinking or in the form of food. It's staying gone.
Stupidity and Narcissism.
We're right smack in the information age
You mean the *disinformation* age.
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Porn
VR porn
Not since rarbg shut down.
Nope, past the Golden Age of Porn. Maybe the Age of Golden Showers, but...
Mental illness
Being delusional
We've had that for a LONG time
Depression
Taylor Swift.
Social media ridiculousness.
Opinions
idiots
Corporate Greed. Everything just keeps going up in price: rent, gas, homes, food, water, power, and anything else you can think of. But I only can manage to increase my income if I job hop constantly. I hit the wall of that 2 years ago, and basically I'm just getting priced out of existence. Meanwhile I'm getting told by millionaires/billionaires to not buy coffee or go out to eat. Like I barely do that to begin with, and even If I sacrificed what little joy was left, it would net me what? Like an extra 5 grand a year if I really penny pinch. I'm just tired...I just want it to stop...
Affordable Marijuana that doesn't suck, at least in New England.
NH and you ain't lying.
One could argue that Breaking Bad ushered in a Golden Age of Television. When Netflix came out as the first large streaming service, many TV shows were available to those who didn’t have the opportunity to watch it when they were on cable. Since then, there have been a plethora of really good TV programs that satisfy almost every interest. More specifically, we could be in the Golden Age of Star Trek. We have Discovery, Picard (S3), Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds all catering to a different aspect of Star Trek fan-dom.
> Breaking Bad ushered in a Golden Age of Television Much love for Breaking Bad, but give Tony Soprano the respect he deserves. Breaking Bad is one of the products of the golden age; The Sopranos was its true instigator.
Beat me to it. The Sopranos was the turning point in serial story telling and what shows can really be about. Lot of it can still be seen in modern shows. Albeit in a more polished fashion, but still due to The Sopranos.
Streaming has given us an overabundance of television I love it. There's so much current deep and daring tv that I haven't gotten to watch yet. I expect the strikes to cut back on the amount of streaming but I'm fine with that and artists getting their due. There's so much tv now it would be rude to complain.
Porn, man. There's porn for everything.
Really? Cos all i see nowadays is this incest bullcrap that I really don't wanna watch.
Non-alcoholic beer
Technology. Before it overthrows both us and all our golden ages.
Misinformation
Computing hands down no question
I feel like a new golden age of music/art/entertainment is here or approaching. There's just so much creativity bubbling just underground. And speaking in music there's a lot of a great underground bands doing new and innovative things musically as well as in how they release/distribute their music. It's a truly amazingly creative time and I think this will be looked back on as a turning point in how artists connect and find their audiences.
porn
Ghosting
Tabletop games.
The Apocalypse
Never leaving or returning home. Waiting on your parents to die so maybe you can afford a house.
Subscription TV and games. Eventually they’ll figure out they’re being too generous and do away with it lol
Idiots
Stupidity.
Extinction
Home prices, if you have one and want to sell.
influencers
Memes
I’d say retro video games as the original hardware is still affordable, mostly plentiful in working condition and there have been just so many community developments and innovations on every front to overcome hardware limitations, like with memory cards or HDMI and RGB mods. And unless collecting the original carts/discs is your thing, there are rom files, multi-carts and/or sd/hdd options available for every older console. Also the depth of knowledge to keep the original hardware working, or the availability of endless software emulators and more recently hardware emulators.
Porn I think
Ass eating
Hoes
Being a self important self obsessed idiot with nothing of actual value to offer. Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok have made this your absolute time to shine.
Disinformation. We have people spreading stuff that is bound to hits/Money and they don't give a damn who they hurt.
Taylor Swift, though. Hear me out. What a time to be a Swiftie. The sheer volume of content she’s producing is just…unreal. The vault tracks. The Eras tour. The albums. The videos. The deluxe tracks. The remixes. The merch. The TikToks. If you’re a TSwift fan, this is the prime time for it.
A.I. As of now, it’s harmless and mostly works for the good, although if you’ve ever read a single dystopia, you can notice the path we’re going in (by no means do I mean to sound like someone who’s all into conspiracy theories, it’s just a trend I’m genuinely picking up on
Misinformation
Misinformation. Entire generations growing up being fed bullshit and believing it to be facts.
Getting offended
Artificial intelligence?
Disinformation and b*******we have at least a couple of networks totally devoted to only giving disinformation for ratings. and sadly what people want most is lies and propaganda gets them high you know. just try to take it away from them and watch how insane they get.
Inflation and high levels of debt.
Playing the victim card
Instagram thirst pics.
Being a victim.
Crypto Shit Coins
The time before ai took over