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The 2000s fucking sucked (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Growing up in the 2000s fucked my brain hard. The sexism, homophobia and racism coupled with the free-range parenting that was simultaneously neglectful while gaslighting everyone into thinking that it was too coddling, and an internet that simply did not give a fuck who it traumatized. All topped off with a resurgence of Western jingoism from the "war in terror".

The only good thing about that period was some of the videogames were okay I guess but only if you avoid ANYTHING remotely military flavoured. A lot of shit outside of Nintendo was afraid of colour and everything was that washed out brown. Just a miserable time. Everyone was so uncreative and the world had some fucked up Southpark brainworms.

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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago (4 children)

That franchise was pure War on Terror brainworms

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago

Yeah, they gave the aliens a weird and wrong religion

Put emphasis on how they were willing to die to kill us

The only good alien is the one who figures out his worldview was a sham

If it wasn't intentional, it was still gross

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The single player campaign is some of the lowest pulp military sci fi out there. But the couch multiplayer was top-notch, and brought me together with a lot of other friends in-person. I think Halo 2's online multiplayer was the beginning of the end, though - a lot of those guys I haven't seen in person since literally 2004.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

akshually the earthgov canonically used the spartans to put down peasant revolts, so you're playing as the bad guy against another bad guy.

[–] wideopenarms@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

Ok, but so is cs (even more explicitly at that) and there's still a weird soft spot some people here express for it