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Well, people have a tendency to forget shitty songs. I mean, how often do you hear shitty songs from the 90s on the Radio? There were plenty.

Your opinion's subjective, though. I hated 90s music, even as a kid. I like 80s music, but it sure as hell doesn't make it better than today's, because i like it too. That you won't even give the current decades an inch sort of proves how nostalgic you're being.

I don't like Arthur, it used to be okay

The current time is good mainly because of the Internet and technology but that's also why it sux as well. I also prefer being an adult but I wish I could be an adult in earlier decades sort of. So long as I can have my online bf not be online >_>

I just don't like many mainstream songs anymore because they all have this autotuney, shitty electronic sound to them and it's just no good to my ears. Like you can tell just by the sound of it that it's from this decade.

I liked Backstreet Boys when I was little too? I can't listen to them now, though. And that's fine; there are J-pop songs I really liked when I started getting into anime that I can't stand now as well.

There are a lot of terrible songs on the radio now, but I'll take it if it means that I occasionally find out about artists like Gotye and Fun, or songs like Take Care and Lights. And songs like Call Me Maybe that I realize are terrible but also can't bring myself to hate. >_>;;
And ideally if I give it a few years everyone will forget about songs like One More Night and whatever that hefty bag Train song is called and I'll just hear about whatever awful songs are popular in 2015 or whatever year instead. That's how it's gone so far, at least.



You keep describing good games as simple, and it's kind of bothering me. Games can definitely be too complex, but adding new things isn't automatically bad. The running shoes make the movement system more complex (walking, running, using the bike/switching gears) but I don't think anyone would want them removed from future games over this since they're incredibly convenient. The physical/special split is a lot more complex than separating the property by type, but it also improves the battle abilities of a lot of pokémon (and eliminates really dumb things like Alakazam being a monster with the elemental punches and Hitmonchan not being able to use them well). More variety in what pokémon can learn makes things more complex, but since I'm limited to six pokémon I want most of those pokémon to be able to use several different types of attacks.

A lot of the problems people mention with RBY are really bad from a casual perspective, though. Not thawing automatically means you're out a pokémon unless the player you're fighting has a fire-type (they probably don't). Constantly using rage until the pokémon dies and not being able to stop it is terrible design; I at least need the option to switch out especially with some of the other mechanics present in first gen (someone else had a fun story where their pokémon used rage and was frozen right after and they had to sit there and wait for the opponent to kill their pokémon). The special stat covering special attack and defense meant that a pokémon with high special was a lot better than a physical attacker. The list goes on.

Bleh, I sort of hate competitive battling anyway, and the way people are so intense about it. RPGs just don't really make great multiplayer versus games. Like, I battled Fish in Fossil Fighters and won the first time simply because I was further ahead in the game, and then the second time he beat me because he'd put way more effort into his guys than me (I just made mine good enough to beat all in-game foes). There's no skill or satisfaction there, it's just time and effort. I guess it can be fun to some people, especially if you're battling relatively equal Pokemon, but it's not really my thing.

I absolutely appreciate certain new features, especially if they make the game less tedious. I just also like how humble, straightforward and small a lot of older games are. They could make normal DK or Kirby platformers without it having to be a "return". The gameplay and look that made Sonic king didn't need to be called "classic". Now they can't make an old-style Sonic game with new, interesting levels; they all have to be uninspired throwbacks to the old levels. Yoshi and Kirby didn't need to be made of yarn to be interesting. This probably doesn't make sense.

I also just kind of prefer the first Smash Bros. and Pokemon because there wasn't all that serious competition surrounding them. I obviously can play the latter Pokemon and SSB games without being very competitive about them but the fact that I'm not just makes me feel like I suck. xd

I also hate hipster music and hipsters remember when hipster didn't exist mad

Hipster is a term from the 50s. Today it just means people who assimilate lots of things as cultural-capital, right? When have those people not existed.

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