1980s nostalgia

I spent my entire 20's trying to convince my parents that democrats are corrupt. I just gave up a few years ago. There is no hope, they are brainwashed boomers that grew up watching jew television.

The 80's were by far the most boring and cheesy decade.

*90s

Nah, those were just depressing.

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the 80s were shit

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Remember the badass cartoon KR ripoff?

Only their uncle knows.

I played Star Trek on one of those as a kid.

Anybody who was actually there and has real memories from that time knows this. Anyone who says otherwise is larping.

• The music sucked
• The movies (mostly) sucked
• The TV shows sucked (with the exception of The A-Team)
• The clothes sucked
• The economy sucked
• The technology sucked
• Niggers started getting really uppity

What was so great about the 80s?

This. There are two types of people that gloss over the 80s

Newsflash: There were plenty of people in the 80s who pined for the 50s just as I know for a fact that there will be people 30 years from now who will obsess over this decade. People love building up a grandiose mystique for that which they will never have.

Actually this. What most people don't understand that there was this huge 50s culture back in the 80s.

really? that's weird, it should have been more of a 60s culture, nostalgia usually hits two decades back

Fair enough
Movies have mostly sucked since forever
Pleb detected
You had more or less the same options then that you do now.
You mean the media said the economy sucked because a Republican was in office
Atari was okay.
That was in the 60s and 70s

Honestly I think you didn't live then. You are just a contrarian faggot.

People were getting nostalgia about the 90s in the 2000s itself.

90s had that whole 60s thing. Woodstock 2, and comparing grunge to the hippie movement. The whole MC Hammer and company "Give Peace a Chance" protest song at the beginning of the gulf war. Shit, the 70s shit started at the late 90s going into the 2000s.

no, i distinctly remember people from the 2000s fagging around about the 80s

The 2000s at least till mid 2000s were like 90s 2.0. This decade has been utterly shit, can't wait for it to end and hopefully bring in something better.

the 20s are going to be even worse

That was when the 90s kid nostalgia was going.

Look, the future is going to be like this.
Imagine the coolest cartoon, comic, movie, television show, video game, board game, role playing game, etc. Now imagine that with Leslie Jones as the main character. That is the 2020s.

Nowhere else but down huh? Ugh.

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I love the millennial interpretation of what the 80s were like. One thing though, they got the music down good.

America wasn't infested with spics and the president was a somewhat more celebrated actor, also widespread devil worship

I seriously wonder if the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s was a psyop in order to get the general public to dismiss the activities of genuine satanists as crying wolf and delay mainstream investigation by over 30 years, by which the point the damage had already been done?

As someone who lived in the 80s, the whole satanic panic was a total sham perpetuated by Christian fundies. They saw movies and tv getting more liberal and tried to kick up a fuss.

They went about the wrong way, got laughed at and now movies and tv really became degenerate.

stay chipped, newfriends

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What most people remember as the "1980s" were actually just a three-year period from 1984 - 1986. Beyond that point things started going proto-90s, before that you had the final death throes of the 1970s in terms of fashion and technology.

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They werent that great. Early 90's was better. Not mid or late 90's.

t. satan

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Anyone here who actually remembers the 80s needs to kill themselves asap and stop leeching off welfare.

you will try

Quiet, you millennial filth.

I've read that as "erotic rarities"

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even if I remember it from a past life?

Correct.
80's idolization is reddit tier.

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is it as reddit as 90s idolization though?

Equally reddit.

The early to mid '00s (2000-2006) was the best time to be alive.

There were a hell of a lot of awesome one-hit wonders, and quite a few bands that had two or three decent songs.

Going from vinyl records to a TRS-80 feels like a huge leap into the cyberpunk age. Yes, the tech was not up to modern standards, but there were a lot of folks who were inspired by that tech. The 1980s were poised between the chemical hallucinations of 1970s pothead culture and the virtual reality hallucinations of the future.

The early 1980s in the USA were interesting because the War on Drugs had not become lethal yet. Reagan tried to get the ball rolling as early as 1982, but for a few years, civil liberties were a bulwark against him. The economy was not notably bad; a lot of people didn't realize that their wages were stagnating. It was a very hopeful time, and there was a range of colorful style, from punk rock mohawks to preppy girls with huge volumes of styling mousse in their hair, and big shoulder pads.

A lot of the one-hit wonders were noted for one song that really pushed the boundaries.

There were creative things happening even in the Top 40. That's not even addressing the very weird music inspired entirely by LSD.

Remember when people thought that the future would be nice? With computers, space-things, flying cars, all kinds of shit and wonders?
Here we are now, in Dystopia. The cyberpunks were right.

Ah hell yes

I see what she did there

What did he mean by this?

Popular cartoons in the 80s were looking to a future in space rather than featuring characters that were borderline retarded and discussing where they like to stick or what they like to stick in their animated genitals.

He means he's George Soros

For the Obama years I was convinced that we had sunk lower than a cyberpunk dystopia. Now that Yellowstone and the hurricanes are getting ready to destroy the environment, I wonder if we're headed for a postapocalyptic Road Warrior future. But oh yes, I do remember when the future looked full of hope.

The 1980s were an awesome time for fantasies, including both hopeful-civilized-future and postapocalyptic-uncivilized-future fantasies. As with Sturgeon's Law, 90% of the sci-fi of the 1980s was crap, because 90% of everything is crap. But people were dreaming about the future they would make for themselves. They assumed that they would survive and find some kind of glory, or at least perish in some world-changing apocalypse. Nowadays, the suicide rate is a lot higher because people see no hope for the future, no retirement plan, no way to avoid eating out of dumpsters to survive.

Sorry the embed is not a webm. I made a webm and 8ch refused to accept the upload.

^this 100%

You fail to understand how good the shoulder pads were.

Also you probably never saw _Heavy_Metal_.

what's the appeal with having women seem to have broader shoulders?

Meme answer would be closet faggotry, but shoulder padding on women's clothing has almost always intended to be easily noticeable, so it's just fashion.

Have you been to Holla Forums? There's a resurgence of 50s pining today.

One day, were all gonna run out of places to fly to…That'll be one hell of a day…

As with the hair mousse, it's nice to see girls who take a bit of trouble to present themselves.

A girl who bothers to put mousse in her hair and pads in her shoulders is dressed up to look nice, or at least to draw attention. A girl wearing a tank top with untidy hair possibly doesn't care about her appearance.

Those were interesting times, and if you want a good indication of people seeing Satan in everything take a look at these two books. There was literally nothing in the popular culture that wasn't seen as secretly Satanic. My sister went all fundie for a short time, and got mad because she expected my parents to go through my room and throw out all my stuff. She was pissed when they refused, but she of course snapped out of it when they started attacking her music.

I'm older than 12 so no.

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I don't even know why y'all are trashing the music, I mean you can complain about anything, but anything new I've heard in public for about ten years has been pop with Negroid jungle chanting or cutesy indie crap.

And kids had arcades and freedom

I like how people complain about microtransactions in modern games but then act nostalgic about arcades, which were designed to suck as much money as possible out of you

BUT MUH NOSTALGIA
>inb4 muh gameplay

if we're talking purely about mainstream music hair metal/glam rock was pure crap, in the early 90s i was glad grunge came to bury all that shit

The difference is the games were at least fun, and if you got gud you could make a few quarters last an entire day.
Shit that has microtransactions nowadays is soulless trash like candy crush and is made specifically to be the equivalent of dangling keys in front of a babby instead of providing any actual challenge.
Don't get me wrong though, arcades were still just robbery houses with pretty lights.

not all of it. PUBG, for example, is pretty dope

Now you have pizzagatw tho.

Bullshit. Already suspicious.

"Mostly" is hard to swallow and a cop out. A lot were good then and a lot are still not showing much age.

You are using this point like it was 80s cartoons which were loved back then but are shit now.

True. Only a few shows people remember because people went outside.

Going to agree with this… to a point. The country just recovered from disco. Only the flamboyant neon clothes sucked and that was the shit plebs like you see. Denium jackets and jeans and regular sneakers however were extremely common which offsets this point. I was pretty comfy in lose fit/baggy denium and it wasnt retarded like the 90s baggy with MC Hammer and niggers.

You liberals are still ass blasted by Regan. Paul Volker finally increased interest rates from the loose spending and credit.

It was just starting and getting mainstream in this time after the transistor. Im calling bullshit OP. You dont know shit.

Everybody was chill in the 80s nigger. We thought that we could be cool with them. Then the fuckin 90s and gangs and niggers acting like backward pants wearing idiots.

It was a decade of America being America again now that the Cold war was finally over. The government wasnt large enough to be big brother and thr only busy bodies were church ladies no one gave a shit about.

fucking normalfag

Quite a few panics about Satanists are justified. There are two kinds of threats: stupid crazy Satanists who rape anything that moves in the name of Satan, and rich smart perverts who run blackmail and human trafficking through pizza restaurants. The rich smart perverts have media connections and stir up panic about anything that will distract people from the pizza restaurants.

Arcades were nice in that they were a physical building one could go to and in which one could experience some physical freedom. The games were overpriced, but it was exciting to walk around a room with fifty different games, looking for a fantasy that was worth a quarter.

I never got gud. To my mind, the games were not exciting for the gameplay, they were exciting for the world-building. Something like Gauntlet or Golden Axe gave a colorful view of what a fantasy world might be like. That was worth something. It inspired a few geeky young minds to dream of something better.

My perception is that the 1980s were a very nonthreatening Cold War. The Soviets and nuclear war were recognized threats, but they were not terrifying or shocking; they were well-known quantities, and the USA was confident, and finally in 1989, the USA declared victory when the Berlin Wall came down.

The 1980s seemed nice because while Afghans were dying for the USA's wars, and CIA agents were doing secret stuff for the Cold War, most people didn't suffer for the Cold War. It was just real enough to put a defining frame around life, but not real enough to cause suffering for the man in the street. The Iran-Contra thing was a symptom of the Deep State, but people were oblivious; if anything, they thought Ollie North was a rascal with a heart of gold who bent a few unimportant rules. In fact, the Deep State was murdering a lot of people, but most people were oblivious. The notion of sinister government conspiracies had not yet hit panic mode. The 1980s were good and dead when the man in the street could worry the government being a bigger threat than the Commies. The Berlin Wall falling wasn't really the end of the 1980s. Perhaps teh Gulf War was the defining boundary, but Ruby Ridge was the wake-up call that told us the 1980s were absolutely dead.

but muh gameplay

It surprises how far five bucks will last me in a barcade. That used to seem like a lot of money, I guess.

imo it's a wash

Technology and economy are the only things on your autistic sperglist that are of value to a developing civilization.

Don't forget niggers, who are the opposite of valuable to a developing civilization.

Ride it on up, babe let's cruise a while.

There was an awful lot of 1980s culture that was totally unfuturistic. I remember very little cyber and a whole lot of punk. I remember mohawk haircuts.

Everything was much more Mad Max back then.

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Big tits were revered and plentiful. Porn stars were gorgeous and not cookie cutter fake blondes with generic fake tits bare shaving bump covered vaginas. News was still somewhat based and not controlled by 2 corporations. Music was better by several orders of magnitude. EDM fans had the likes of depeche mode and new order, rock fans had prime van halen and motley crue and country fans had dolly parton who had twice the songwriting talent and cup size of taylor swift. And economy? Imagine a country where if you got fired from your job you could get another one the same day. A country where a white male could even work at the post office. And FUCK technology. Want to see a picture of your grandpa? Go find an old family picture album and there he is, meanwhile your grandkids might be able to find your pics 40 years from now through online search if your name is uncommon enough. No cell phones provided a little something called "freedom" no social media provided a little something called "literacy" and no wifi everywhere provided a little something called "sperm count". And yes tv and movies were vastly superior then too, could give easy obvious examples but like everything else they'd be wasted here. Young or old people nowadays are fucking retarded.

Don't forget no smart phones or wifi provided something called "attention span"

I loved the fuck out of this tv series as a kid. The fact that every transformation scene was the exact same recycled shit didn't bother me at all.

Truly it was best decade!

The TI-99 was comfy as fuck.

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A very underrated home computer. Actually they got really cheap right before they discontinued them. I used to have one. I used to play Star Trek on it.

Heil'd

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Nostalgia is one of the worst feelings to have. It's literally reddit & normie tier, even more so if you willingly induce some vague idealization and sadness about some past you never even experienced. You may enjoy some part of the 80's culture since what remains is admitelly cool, but you are essentialy devolving into a facebook mom posting about "the good old days" while old fat cunts like and circlejerk each other about how some corporate logo makes them feel sad. What the literal fuck. Just assume your present situation and experience life.

NO!

This is why you fail.

kill yourself

you triggered, normie scum? yeah, go back to your fantasies and jew induced nostalgia

You can still go to legit places with 3 guys in a garage.

Agreed.

prove it

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That show would be so impossible to do a credible reboot of.

Back when MLP was a sweet and innocent children's brand alongside Carebears.

FTFY

Can't really taint and bastardize disposable burger pop culture.

As if yuros or chinks had anything better.

Spotted the Holla Forumsgoon.

What's up with these tumbler-tier 'insults'?
What's next? Cumskin?

Hello Holla Forums.

WE WUZ RICH AND SHIET

Your Israeli satrap of a "country" is the fount from which all the degenerate shit flows forth to ruin countries where actual white people live. The world will not improve until you are all genocided.

You don't deserve better insults. Your tastes are basically nigger-tier. Bet you never even watched Gone with the Wind.

You don't get to talk big until you faggots do something about all those cucked gay nations of yours, like Germany, France, Scandinavia and the Netherlands, you bunch of butt pluggers. Enjoy all that immigrant cock, you good goy alpha-cucks.

Sweden wasn't always a shithole - it wasn't till the 2000s things started going downhill fast.

t. Ola Nordmann

Kikes and feminism struck.

That was then, and this is now in the (((CURRENT YEAR))), and its only gonna get worse for those cucked countries.

Enjoy those aids-ridden gay cocks and jihadists as Pollacks laugh at your miserable decline, you north euro, along with all your other liberal queer peers. The sooner the likes of northern and western europe fall the better it will be for when it comes time to cleanse them of the invaders and we rebuildto start anew free of the "oh so sexually free and feminine" left-wing faggotry that ruined so many other western nations.

sage for off-topic

The actual white race prays for you mongrels to be wiped off the face of the earth.

americans are the only real whites left kiddo.

You'll be more brown than white in the next two decades. Enjoy your hijabs.

It's like a home-grown alternative to G-Force, which was a bad copy of Gatchaman.

The melody reminds me of the Thundercats opening, but I might be tone-deaf.

You already are more brown than the mixed blood mongrels that pass for white in burgerland.

That's not surprising since both those shows are made by the same people.
And so was this.

You sound like a commie faggot. 80's was the last decade where America felt like the meme America. In the 90's all that leftist poz were familiar with today was first pushed hard.

Yep, definite commie faggot

I think its more than double user. If you grew up in the 80's, when you thought of boobs, Dolly was probably one of the first set of hangers that came to mind.

Look at Mehmet LARPing as a white here

And to all you commies ITT, KYS. Freedom incoming niggers!

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Mainstream music sucked. Outside that, it was still rather good, unlike today.
They sucked only in comparison to the 30s-mid 60s period, it has only gone down hill from there.
Hmm…I'll allow this but I also think you are selling the Dukes of Hazzard short. Sitcoms were awful however.
The clothes were similar to today or costumes, so unless you are comparing to an even earlier era like (say) the turn of the century then I'd have to question this.
It was a hell of a lot better then than it is now!
Alright, that's just fucking bullshit. In a few years you went from 8-tracks/vinyl disks, mono TV and carb-driven gas guzzlers…to cassette/CD, stereo television with show recording and primitive digital playback (laserdisk) if you were rich and autistic enough, and electronic controlled fuel injection systems with 8 trillion MPG and disk breaks finally shitcanning drums. Not to mention going from typewriters or CLI boxes like the Apple II, to the Amiga, Mac, and PC. Also Usenet without all the newfags. So no on this point you are a fucking idiot.
What are the 1960s/70s, or did you forget about the Black Panthers too.

Also there were a lot more places where people could still leave their doors unlocked at night and didn't have bars on their windows either. Unless you lived in Cali maybe though but that place was already 20 years into its current slow but accelerating downward spiral.

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The 80s were great because we had the greatest President in the White House.

web.archive.org/web/20170614130426/http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/presidents/ronald-reagan/

The supply-side economics thing was not implemented as designed. Paul Craig Roberts was working for Reagan: PCR saved the economy, but then other folks screwed it up. I know this because PCR told me so.

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GO VOLTRON FORCE!

Back then not all arcades needed quarters. Dimes were also worth money and you could find arcades that took dimes and nickels. The best newest shit used a quarter. In the 90s it became 25 - 50 cents.

damn i forgot how good rumblefish is, must give it a rewatch
also sauce on the music in the first webm?

god damn i still want one of these fucking toys.

The new ones talk, apparently, and have bluetooth or something in theme so they make the right sounds when you put them together. Gotta be honest I almost caved and started (((merchandising))) when I heard that.

No one has ever made a music video with dancing zombies in it since.

no that curryshit doesn't count