Couple of things for me.
One is tiny croutons. I don’t see them anywhere anymore. They taste the same but it’s kind of a pain sometimes to keep the big ones on your fork. The small ones were a little more satisfying to snack on too.
Second is Blue Nehi. Never met anyone else that’s tried or heard of it. Damn it was good though. Big Blue is kinda similar but those always taste under carbonated.
User friendly and logically designed interfaces. The crap that is designed now is stupidly designed and I’ve seriously lost my enjoyment of using electronics.
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Windows 7. no ads, no sudden candy crush, no cloud data stealing.
Windows 7 business philosophy but with modern windows features would be great.
For me it’s Vista. I’ve always felt like I’m the only person who actually unironically liked that thing. It just looked so good, and for my computer at the time at least, it also worked so good (I got a new one specifically for Vista anyway, so I didn’t have the complaints most people had).
7 felt like it improved in some areas (performance on weaker hardware, lack of bloat, better customisability, and so on) while in contrast it was basically nerfed in other areas (more generic design language, worse taskbar by default, too few new features, etc). It took me a short while before it would end up growing on me.
Vista was FULL of security issues though. I did PC support in that era and I kept going to one house in particular because they would pick up some crazy virus / Spyware from thier kid visiting sketchy porn sites. Didn’t matter what I did or how I locked it down, or what AV I installed he would manage to get it reinfected. After the 8th time or so I just made them buy a XP license and told them they need to have a hard talk with thier kid about all the sites he was visiting. Once I had XP installed and appropriate AV, it stopped being an issue.
Edit: Whoops, nevermind it was Windows ME. Carry on with your Vista love (though I’m still not sure why you loved it)
A lot of people misremember windows Vista sucking ass when actually it was ol’ Mistake Edition.
Thanks, and have a nice day (actually it’s night time where I live, so… have a nice night)
I know I’m not the only one but I’ll say it anyway:
Altoids Sours.
Those were the bomb!
My ex wife.
That’s sarcasm. But when I was in college, there used to be Popeye’s all-you-can-eat buffet locations and also a “Super Popeyes” that sold liquor and fajitas when you were flush and had $20 bills. I don’t want to eat unlimited fast food today but I wish young people today could have the experience of being lit and eating all the Popeyes.
I’m not young but I still missed out!
The pandemic stole the last Popeye’s buffet from us: https://nola.eater.com/2021/12/8/22823504/last-popeyes-buffet-closed-lafayette-louisiana
Not too many Popeyes in my area. That sounds insane though. Not a fan of the food but college-age and drunk I’d eat almost anything.
Buttons.
Have you ever used an apple TV remote?
You can’t even navigate without swiping on a little touch pad.
Modern Samsung remotes have changed to a toggle sort button where you move it up and down and then depress for mute.
Good compromise but difficult for the elderly.
Almost every tv has gone to a digital number interface. Remotes do not have numbers on them unless you’re using an antiquated cable reciever with a dedicated remote. Alternatively you can buy third party remotes but with the digital interfaces it will only work on some models.
Think the best modern compromise are the Samsung universals and the LG magic remote. Superfluous wii remote esque arrow navigation so replacements cost $50. However, perfect hybrid of modern design and function.
Thank you for coming to my television remote Ted talk.
It is not necessarily a niche opinion here on lemmy, but the direction tech design is going is overengineered for a problem that never existed.
I own an Apple TV and you don’t have to use swiping. You can tap or click the buttons. I’m not able to confirm it right now, but I also think you can turn off the swiping gesture.
Never knew this!
Thank you.
I don’t know how to explain it, but classic Pizza Hut. Going to Pizza Hut with the family was always great sir down experience and there was usual a small arcade. The pizza was way better than the comparatively tasteless junk they serve now.
Also, arcades. I’m not talking about the “arcades” now we’re you tap a card so you can spend a few bucks for some shit experience. It’d be really cool if there was like a millionaire out there that was just an nostalgic and open up a classic arcade, with actual quarter machines. Probably wouldn’t make money (probably would be a loss) but it would be an experience I think many would welcome back and would be brand new to a whole new generation of people.
Adding in some things as some people have made recommendations
- Cidercade - Texas (multiple locations). Pizza is described as divine!
- Galloping Ghost Arcade - Chicago (see photos below). 972 games!
- Pinball Hall of Fame - Vegas, 358 different machines!
so you’d like your childhood/early adolescence to make a comeback
Yeah. For sure, that’s my vote. No one else seems to know or care about my childhood/early adolescence, though.
Im in my 40s and certainly remember the dine-in pizza huts and arcades. There were three in my area, all 3 were in shopping malls. Some of the games were starting to be 50¢ though, like After Burner which moved as you sat in it.
Where do you live? Theres an arcade in the city I live in now (its a bar-cade) but they have dozens of old cabinets and pinball tables. Theyre €1 per play, though…
Closest you can get to that experience that I know of is the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. They got all kinds of machines, old and new, that only take quarters. Isn’t just pinball machines either, they got a sizeable amount of arcade cabinets.
I found Blue Nehi exactly one time in my life! It was at a little convenience store tucked away in a neighborhood in like 2006 lol
It was one of the most delicious sodas I ever tried, but I never found it again anywhere else…
One thing I really miss is old wood console CRT televisions. The kind that looked more like a piece of furniture than an appliance. Aside from just looking cool, I just miss how the picture looked on those old TV’s too! The one we had when I was a kid had a big warning on the back to call a repair technician if anything wasn’t working right, and to adjust the picture you had to stick a butter knife into a hole in the back lol
I remember the one I had as a kid (TV). Picture wasn’t great of course but there was something really satisfying about those big, heavy dials that clicked when you changed channels.
Last time I had Blue Nehi I was probably also a kid (early 90s).
For what it’s worth I had it too and while I liked peach much more I remember blue as a cream soda variant. So maybe try some of those and see how close they are
I was a huge “1000 Blank White Cards” fan in college and I maintained a drinking deck and a sober deck and we played all the time. Everything got lost when I moved home so I never played again and I’ve never even heard of anyone else playing.
TIL they still make Nehi at all! Gotta get me some now, been too long. Need a grape Nehi to cosplay as Radar O’Reilley.
“Orange juice sirs? Freshly squozen.”
3D TV. It was so cool. Games actually had heads up displays. Movies were especially immersive. So much potential for development. But people didn’t like wearing glasses to use it :(
Careful what you wish for. There were these delicious milkshakes that were flavored like some mediocre chocolate but it actually tasted amazing (kind of like how classic coffee crisp didn’t taste anything like coffee) I bought them all the time and then they kinda discontinued. I wanted them back and when I heard they were I ran to the store to buy one. Big mistake, shit tasted SO BAD. They completely changed the recipe and I didn’t even care when they discontinued it the second time.
Lemon Lime Slice. Starry is kind of close though.
This isn’t gone quite yet but Macy’s closing stores is really sad for me. It has the best clothing deals ever, you could come out with several bags worth of stuff for only a few hundred dollars and it’s all very good quality and often brand names. I saved a bundle shopping there and I’m terrified the one closest to me will close.
I care actually, though for different reasons. Where now will I go to smell new colognes before buying them online? Admittedly this isn’t something I do often, but every so often something gets discontinued and I have to find something new. And I’m picky, gotta be a light scent that you kinda have to be close to smell and half of em smell not so great, need the testy thingys.
Exactly. Like I just love a good department store. Best deals and best service.
Marvel Heroes Omega for me, and City of Heroes for the homies.
Ditto for City of Heroes.
Also, I miss Avengers Alliance. It eventually turned into a blatant play-to-win, microtransaction nightmare but it could get quite intense and you legitimately needed to think about your strategy to beat certain foes.
The cartoon class of 3000.
Every episode has the standard problem in beginning and resolution at end kind of story, but it did something that I’ve seen no other cartoon do before. Each episode had a different song that played, and the were pretty much all different genres. You had blues with Richer Shade of Blue, (watered down kids) rap with All We Want Is Your Soul, and jazz with My Mentor, and others as well.
Closest I’ve seen are cartoons like Phineas and Ferb who do songs in the middle of an episode, but it’s not the same since the genre is usually more pop like.
