Gen X

As generation X is between the Boomers and Millennials, Can Gen X tell us how things used to be, before the internet and 911, how was growing up for you?

Life appeared so much happier, simpler back then, has it all really changed?

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It wasn't all as great as you think. There was actually much more violence (at least in the US) in the 80s and 90s. Major crack epidemic and gangs. But if you lived in a suburban or rural area things were mighty fine. Play outside as a kid and roam the neighborhood at age 8. Stuff like that.

>Major crack epidemic and gangs
What in the 80's? I thought it was charlie and Heroine and blacks were like the Cosby show and Carlton from the Fresh prince

that's back when looking at a black person's outfit meant hearing "what the fuck you lookin at" because all your focus was on their outrageous clothing, not the actual person.

The Cosby show was about as unrealistic as it could possibly get.

Nigs were like this
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Funny you say that, my first day at a new school when i was 15 moving to London was seeing a black kid in the corridor (who was a year below i found out) beating up a white kid in my year for wearing a union jack patch on his arm.

that was the first ever black person i saw, and he was beating the shit out of some fat nerd

WELCOME TO LONDON!

It was cool, because it was a decade without Communism, for the most part, and PC was laughably weak. SNL and most comedians made fun of it. The reasons why the 90's were cool can all be traced back to the fact that the people running the show were young in the 1950's.

White people were like this.

Sometimes I wonder if there was less of a race issue in the 80s and 90s or if it was just the fact that I was a kid and innocent.

I feel like identity politics have spiraled out of control.

Yes it was less of an issue. Outside of L.A. Riots (Rodney King and Reginald Denny) there wasn't much of any racial problems.

It's the internet. These things always existed but the internet made it spread easier and polarize people more. Back in the day if an upity black does shit in NYC NYPD beats them senseless and sends them on their way. Those days are gone and we are worse for it.

Actually white people were like this

Life was better. Its more comfy in ignorance then being redpilled.

Mild titillation was a nude woman on page 3 the conversation being would you take naked pictures for a million pounds. Now women shoe their tits for free. The schoolyard talk when talking shit with your friends was would you be fucked in the ass for a million quid, now fuckers stuff dogs in thier arseholes.

You got a job got paid, had drinks and cigs, made it with women fucked around and generally had a good time.

Great music great TV shows.you had time to do other shit. You kept it touch and phoned people and talked to them. There was a god mix of ethnicities and we weren't over run by niggers and Pakis.
We didn't know what was happening on the other side of the world and we didn't care.
General degeneracy , redpilling, femanism, women, immigrantration and ((them)) have fucked everything

Fuck Gen X most are idiots. Especially the Women.

>implying crack dens and parks aren't littered with kids playing about
>implying suburbia was fine while a crack epidemic was going threw the nig community

Before the Internet, access to information was available but more difficult. The Internet was supposed to fix that, but has become an entertainment diversion where nobody plays by the rules.

I grew up in Iowa. Suburbia was paradise and in many cases still is.

well put. well put, my friend.

Small town America in the 70s and 80s was glorious. We played outside, not tethered to cell phones. No internet to poison our minds. We rode bikes all over town, came home around dark. Parents were fine with this. Lots of recreational drug use, many friends had leftover hippy parents so it wasn't that big of a deal for some people. Pools...public pools were great, music was rocking, girls had bush, etc. Skating rinks, you could get laid *at* the damn rink.

This is nostalgia talking of course. My kids play outside, ride bikes, climb trees, swim, etc but they also spend too much time online. They are smart though, the teens now really are intelligent little shits. They know more, and I never thought it was really fair to them. They grow up much faster than we did.

I had a great childhood and teen years. I enjoyed the 90s super much. The 2000s, I still have fun but the world just seems to have gone to hell in many ways. Race relations are much worse now, Gov is larger and seemingly more corrupt (if that were possible). People are much less friendly now and seem to be more pessimistic about life in general.

Oh, we had the "Red Scare"...duck and cover, all of that shit. But the thing is we had one monster to fear then, right or wrong. Today, the whole world feels like a powder keg. Shit comes at you from every angle now.

I am old, still having a lot of fun though! I never grew up anyway truth be told.

Get ready

there wasn't all these racist security cameras everywhere, shedding light on crime statistics.

Most of the midwest was still like this up until the early 2000s.

It was awesome. Constantly outdoors playing with groups of friends on bmxs and mountain bikes.

One game was called forcings back. You have two opposing teams and you'd throw or kick a ball as far as you could to force the other team back. You'd just do that on the street.

A little bit of vidya. C64 and they'd have video game machines at the local shops, gas stations, and laundromats.

Used to ride my bike with a friend a few km to put maybe ten bucks into final fight, the ninja turtles game, double dragon, where you just used to use the elbow move almost always. A game called cabal was really cool.

Some guys really got into street fighter but I missed out on that. One thing I regret. This was more late 80s early 90s.

Maybe a an hour or two of tv at night. You didn't mind sitting through ads because they weren't insulting cuck rubbish and were respectful to white culture.

When you got older music was really cool because they were real artists and talented bands that once again celebrated white culture.

School could be a bit violent but if you just let the bullies be 'dominant' they didn't really bother you.

The internet was fun until about 2005ish. Music turned to shit around 2000. Once corporations got thier money claws into all entertainment it sucked. People stopped doing it for love and just for shekels. Kids use to play outside in the 80s and 90s and it was safe.

>Life appeared so much happier, simpler back then, has it all really changed?
yes, it actually was much happier. fucking smart phones are the worst thing to have come out in the last years. not the internet but these fucking constantly connected to facejew devices make live hell. life was so much better in the '90s really.

You sound degenerate.

Even before cell phones period it was great. You could hangout with your buddies without their moms and/or girlfriends constantly electronically hen pecking them.

Ha. I am telling you what it was like as far as drugs and skating rinks. I was never into drugs and never got lucky at the skating rink either but it happened often enough. The first time in my life I saw something sexual in public was at the rink, so it came to mind. People were much more inclined to have casual sex then, no AIDS as far as we were aware.

I was the kid who grew up racing bikes and swimming. Drugs were not a part of my lifestyle.

Peace leaf.

I kept wanting to make a thread on the same topic, but how can you describe all the stuff you didn't have and were so much happier living without it?

When I was an emerging maggot here in aussie, the internet was in black and white and was only operational three hours per day.
t.oldfag

cell phones are the worst fucking invention ever. i hope steve jobs gets fucked by nigger cocks in hell all day every day. and i was paid paid more after trade school than guys today after working 20 years for the same company.

The city I live in was a shell of its present self, retarded due to weak economy. The biggest happening was the construction of a baseball stadium. Brutalist architecture was popular. Lol, what a joke by today's happenings.

You'd walk into this place, full of kids and teens, and maybe one surly adult at the counter. You're surrounded by day-glo carpeting, dark paint on the walls, and the faint smell of ozone.

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You and your friends (as many as 7 or 8 at a time), would split off and find your favorite game. Afterwards, you'd see how your buddy is doing. Then you and your friends would go to the comic-book shop next door. Then maybe to host-friend's house where his mom or grandmother knew how to cook and actually liked cooking for lots of kids. You'd eat in the rec-room. Afterwards, maybe watch some movies or play RPGs and/or mini-wargaming.

Malls were truly a magical place in the 80s/90s


One more thing ruined by the internet.

Check out Dan Bell on youtube. Great videos on malls then and now.

user here is not just some curmudgeon. It's sadly true. The most advanced consumer electronic device we've come up with has killed most of our relationships.

>Some guys really got into street fighter but I missed out on that. One thing I regret.

Yeah. Street Fighter 2 and nachos. Can't beat it with a bat. My friends were so much better at it than me.

The city I live in was a wasteland. Very blue collar at the time. Now very yuppy.

I think the thing to get across is that this wasn't just an occasional thing. This was every-single-day with the exception of school, church, or having to ride along to single mother's therapy appointments.

Maybe this was the 1st clue we were setting the pins up to be knocked down 20 years later.

Street Fighter 2 was everywhere. The most obscure locations had it. Must have been at least a million of these units.

>no one worries about AIDS because it's not really a threat
strange to think that there was a world where this was true

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The government was a lot smaller. I mean, a helll of a lot smaller. And they were afraid of the public. Now what you have is a role reversal, where the public grovels, pleading "thank you sir" as the government shits down their throat.

There *was* a time for a decade or so where AIDS was only a problem for gays and drug users. Then all the race mixers and bisexuals fucked it up for everyone.

8 years of not understanding why things were getting worse.
16 years of trying to unfuck my local scope.

8 more realizing it's something beyond my sovereign power, and I can only contribute to my representation rather than wield my destiny.

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AIDS was more of a threat back then than it is today. Today it has returned to its roots: A disease reserved for promiscuous homosexual males and drug addicts.

The 90s fucking sucked, just like every other decade where The Federal Reserve Banker Jew has ruled for the past century in Burgerland

What further elaboration is needed

Imo people became mostly insufferable assholes in the late 90s. I think it was because we could sense something bad was going to happen and there was just no character amongst the white population to fight it. The complete opposite. Being a piece of shit was what was rewarded, women were well into fucking Chads and the like by then, and boomers were well into being wilfully clueless greedy bullying morons. There were quite a few psycho SJWs around too.

this. also aids was a death sentence back then, today the treatments are so good you rarely die of aids.

And unless they were hammy, people were also REAL nervous in front of cameras. Video cameras were rare and obvious. Everyone would tone down or change their behavior when a camera was on.

Lots of scientific studies about how racial diversity destroys communities. Just the presence of people who are different increases pessimism and decreases friendliness.

America is a lot more diverse now than it was back then, and ethnic Americans are suffering greatly for it.

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>people became mostly insufferable assholes in the late 90s
agree. the degeneration started in the late 90s. i think because people had it too good and slowly became lazy. also the job market and wages went down or at least stagnated. i remember people saying that the new millennium is going to be a lot worse. i can't remember how i felt about it, i was busy working my ass off.

>tfw in the 80/90s traps were crossdressers who danced in clubs and not a real thing people took serious outside of night club entertainment

I remember the crazy shit me and my brothers got up to as kids in the early 80's. 11-13 years old. We'd leave the house at 10am and not come back until 8pm. No phones. No escorts. No supervision. None of us died. None of us even got hurt. And we did this shit for years and years.

We had this giant creek about 10 feet wide and it ran through and out of our subdivision. One day we followed it until the sun went down. We eventually found a road, and later a gas station. We told the attendant that we were lost ... anyway, we were in the next county over, apparently. It was so much fun.

And you know, our parents cared. They always asked what we were doing, and made sure our we had clean bodies and clothes after we got back in. Always told us to take extra snacks if we were gonna be gone all day.

Parents don't give kids enough trust and credit these days. I've been called out more than once for being a bad parent because I let my boy handle his own business. It pisses other parents off that my boy doesn't have a curfew, for example. He never gets into any trouble. I never get behavior complaints. But I've heard from 3 other parents because my kid's lack of curfew is a "bad influence" in itself to their kids.

I fucking hate parents in . It's always something, and they can never mind their own business, yet their kids are always sacks of shit.

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See? It's the camera thing. The context here is the guy making the video is super-edgy for his time. Everyone's either trying to ham it up ("oh look a camera!"), or tolerate the shit out of him.

>The dude is legally smoking indoors, and on the clock too.
>Fucking CHEVY VAN, dude!

>those feels god damned
your post almost made me cry you fucking faggot.

Gen X-er born in 68 here. In my personal experience, growing up in America was generally peaceful. There wasn't a lot of violence in my area and the local community was nice. People really just got along with each other, and just being a kid at that time was great. Played DnD and experienced video games in their infancy as a kid. I think I can also say that growing up now would be different, at least from my experience with my kids. I think it's ended their childhood earlier than it should be for some of them, due to Internet being so easily avaliable, but they've all turned out pretty fine.

Being born in the mid 90s wasn't all that bad, it just depended on your parents

I grew up in a racially-diverse neighborhood and went outside plenty. Hint hint everyone, as long as the economy is good people get along fine. I went to malls, rode bikes, did all the fun shit that pops up in topics like these. Sure, 9/11 happened, but you don't realize how it shaped the world until late high school anyway.

Smartphone addiction has really taken off since,... I wanna say around 2015. It got worse real quick. I've had a smartphone since 2012 but only now have noticed people really being glued to them. Texting was actually a boon before social media. It made it hella easy to coordinate with friends and chat up girls. Snapchat was the killing blow in my mind.

As long as you applied yourself in high school, there's a good chance you can get a job. Kids aren't getting swindled into taking meme degrees and going to expensive schools, they know full well the risk but do it anyway because their parents suck and they just want to have fun. One of my friends works in a warehouse as an unskilled laborer and has his own apartment and car with no debt. There's a lot of opportunity out there, it's just not in the places people oh so desperatly want it to be.

I feel terrible for kids growing up now. They're fucked. We're all fucked, but at least we had a shot at enjoying some of the finer things in life.

>the degeneration started in the late 90s.
Thirded. Washingtonfag here. You saw it in the grunge music scene. I saw pretty much everything start here and then fan out. The coffee ("omg, have U herd of expresso?!??" lol), the Kurt Cobain wanna-bes, and Microsoft. Microsoft everywhere. You get the latest thing and the next fucking latest thing would come out, and then you'd have this basement full of old "latest things" you didn't use anymore.

>video games in their infancy
remember this?

What? You're not generation-x, you're a milennial or early gen z at most. Either way, good post.

the southern frat chad would be totally interchangeable with a modern day southern frat chad

i visited family in tacoma in the mid 80s, the space needle was the tallest building in seattle. went back to seattle last year, i was shocked.

Something similar. I had a Commodore Vic-20 when I was a kid. I remember getting these coding magazines and typing in all the BASIC code to make shitty little text games, but it was so much fun. Spent the whole summer of 82 doing that shit.

Gen X ruined Star Wars

I have a ""friend"" in gen x, ama

>Malls were truly a magical place in the 80s/90s

When I was kid, malls still had pet stores. Puppies in the windows, cats behind the glass wall, snakes in the terrariums. It was like having a zoo in the mall. Haven't seen that in 30 years.

i got a used c64 from a neighbor with games on cassette took fucking 20min to load a game. then got a floppy disc
load"raid over moscow",8,1

Reddit move on my part. But in all honesty, 2008 was the year everything reached critical mass. We switched timelines after the Great Recession,... it's been a nosedive into shit creek since then.

Gen X are cunts, basically boomers 2.0.

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- Rock T-shirts (looks like RATT, a backbencher metal band)
- No one's being politically correct
- When niggers weren't niggers at all. We just got along.

It's really gone down the shitter. Homeless people everywhere. Heavy antifa presence. Stay in your outer suburb where it's safe.

They're not all bad, they're just really bluepilled and love debt. They're just adult children who had the benefit of a good economy. It's kind of weird seeing kids younger than me have a better idea of how the world works than some Gen Xs do though.

Shit man, you know how bad it was sitting there and listening to that damn cassette tape load up games, and having to remember the exact number code or whatever was a bitch! I shit myself too when I heard my floppy disk drive start head banging for the first time

used to be a cell phone just called people and received calls.

used to be you had to go to the store to get the latest game

used to be you had to get magazines to stay informed on video games

used to be you could spend months on a game before you finished it, not hours.

The nintendo was good, but the SNES was great, and the N64? The N64's legacy is still carrying nintendo to this day. Playstation was great too, let me tell you, the first 3d metal gear, the first 3d final fantasy. fucking. amazing. don't even get me started on the orgasmic bliss that was the PS2 and XBOX.

Everything's stagnated since then, gaming became popular, they worked out a formula, it became an industry.


The television was great too. Nobody got offended, all manner of great shows, great cartoons, nickelodeon had great shows like legends of the hidden temple, and guts, hell even anime was better. You had to go to the store and get the VHS tape for the new episode. It was a magical experience. Oh yeah, and BLOCKBUSTER! Blockbuster pizza sleepovers were the fucking best, especially when an N64 was involved.

toys were great too, kids actually played outside. Block wars with super soakers, go-karts everywhere. RC vehicles everywhere, skateboards, roller skates, noodle fights in the pool, music was fantastic.

I think 2005 thereabouts was when it died. the Y2K scare was the the beginning, then 9/11 happened, and it went downhill.

it was far more simple, people actually interacted with each other. im thankful i experienced my childhood relatively tech free.

>asks for gen x opinions
>talks about pizza sleepovers with n64 games

get bent, millennial scum

Yeah, 2008 was boiling point for the pot of shit on the stove that had been sitting there since 9/11 just waiting to overflow... I'm just glad my kids were still to young to understand the gravity of the situation in 08 and that my wife and I were still financially sound throughout that shit show.

The 80s and 90s were shit and people weren't any happier. I grew up in a small place and by the time I was 25, 5 people I grew up with had killed themselves and 3 were dead from overdoses.

I guess we were more physically active as kids before internet took off, but that's about all good that can be said about it.

I am 36. I remember the 80's. The thing that has changed the most is that people don't pay attention to things right in front of them. Real life is happening all around, but all their attention is on social media. In the 80's people made much deeper connections because they were always interacting with each other without interruption. The only connection to the outside world was a phone attached to the wall. When it rang, it was much more important too. It wasn't a telemarketer or an alert that someone you barely remember from high school posted a picture on Faceberg. People verbally made plans in person and were expected to show up. The plans weren't tentative and cancelled with a text message because a 3rd party texted a more appealing option. It was much more difficult for women to get attention so they would become desperate and do a lot of really cute and awkward things for you to notice them. It seems the more connected we become, the less we value those connections.

When I was 12 my dad asked the flight crew if I could go and have a look in the cockpit and they said yes.

Went and had a look, it was sweet

Dragon 32 > Commodore 64 > Amiga 500 > Amiga 1200 later upgraded to some monster in a full tower.

The first video game I ever played was my cousins Atari Pong machine.

>used to be you could spend months on a game before you finished it, not hours.

Kids these days will never know this horror. If you didn't have a subscription to Nintendo Power, there are several games you just weren't going to beat. Ever.

Like ... what ... Zelda on the NES had it's 9th level buried in the side of some random fucking rock that you could only find by using limited quantities of bombs on every fucking rock the whole damn overworld. I remember having a bitch of a time with Castlevania: Simon's Quest, too. If I had just 2 minutes on the internet, it would have saved me months of work on those games.

>VHS tapes
i remember when we secretly watched a friends parents porn movies at his house, biggest concern was that the tape would get tangled up inside and wouldn't eject. we were so scared that would happen that we had a hard time concentrating on our boners.
also taking airguns to any playground was totally acceptable and nobody gave a shit.

I'm sorry grandpa did you want me to talk about the 70's?

>cars designed only with a ruler
>cocaine
>lots of cocaine
>cocaine everywhere
>had to buy my japanese animes through catalog
>parents were proud of exterminating the indians
>et for atari was the best game ever

This hyper "communication" world we live in made it utra individualist..

I think it's all going to reach critical mass soon. Everyone loathes their existence and knows everything is only going to get worse. That kind of pessimism is bad for a society.
One thing I don't miss is that feeling you got when you "broke" a game. Like you know you're not meeting some criteria to move the game forward, so you're stuck backtracking and looking through every nook and cranny in a "dead" game world. It was an eerie feeling.

It was definitely less of an issue. Obama really set everything back.

yeah, devs have always been cunts.

That shit was the best. Whenever my family went to the mall my sisters and I would always save the pet store for last. I remember the store had a little play fort for all the kittens in the front window.

i remember playing this for months.

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we would laugh our asses of running over people, it never got old.

I was born in mid 90s and remebered doing this in multiple occations when I was young. But then 9/11 came and muslims fucked up yet another great thing.

Yeah, I get a lot of shit from people because I treat my cell phone like a house phone. It doesn't come in the bedroom with me. I don't hardly ever answer it. I take my sweet fucking time replying to text messages. Etc.

I stubbornly refuse to let that fucking box interrupt my time. My time is MINE. You have no right to get pissed off when I don't drop everything to reply to your text about traffic being bad within 10 seconds. Or when I take longer than 4 rings to answer your call.

People could learn alot by being forced back to using landlines for a few months. Today, they're fucking insane in feeling entitled to everyone else's time, at any hour of the day and night.

I remember pay phones everywhere
I remember pagers, where people would send you their number and then you would scramble to the pay phone and call them

I'm very old, so I remember $.10 drink nights, disco parties, sex before AIDS, pinball arcades, good music, cool cars & cheap gasoline

You all missed some pretty cool shit

>The plans weren't tentative and cancelled with a text message because a 3rd party texted a more appealing option.

^ Truth. Also rage-inducing. We're human beings; not just extensions of your many entertainment options. It's like people who do this stopped being human themselves.

Played that with my neighbour, some good times were had.