15 years ago is a longer time than you'd think, user.
15 years ago, you could actually play a game online and say whatever the hell you wanted, and without running into hordes of small children, or finding that every server has a thousand rules against sexism/racism/etc. which means the only accepted speech is admin ass-kissing.
15 years ago, if some plaid-wearing cuck hipster tried to make an artsy-fartsy video game about his dead cat or whatever horseshit leaked from his vacant cranial cavity, he would've been laughed out of wherever he tried to get money for it rather than given a fortune before he even "released" the waste of data.
15 years ago, the U.S. at least pretended to give a flying fuck about its citizens and their rights, rather than gladly trampling it all in plain sight and taking a fat shit on the founding principles of this nation to thunderous applause because "muh scurry turrists".
15 years ago, nations held onto at least a shred of dignity, self-sufficiency and guarded nature toward outside threats, rather than bending over and lubing up so that everyone and their grandfather can come over from wherever-the-fuckistan and get to raping freely.
15 years ago, fat women and dykes knew their place as the undesirable dregs of the female population and dealt with it, rather than thinking they're goddesses and ceaselessly pushing their retardation into culture as the good word of their false god of equality.
15 years ago, if you tried to hook up with a tomboyish girl with short hair, chances were she would've been an amazing partner, rather than a fucking loon whose brain is so soaked with toxic hair-dye and wracked by toxiplasma gondii from her guaranteed horde of cats that she cannot process logical thought through all the meat curtains her face is buried in.
15 years ago, life at least made a little goddamned sense and we had some hope for a brighter future, rather than being a maelstrom of insanity that's spiraling downward into infinity like we all are now.
Maybe we'll get lucky, and 15 years from now will be a far better place than we're in now, be it a world freed from madness by salvation, or by being reduced to ashes in the chaos.