An individual reflects on the shift from a clear distinction between online and offline activities to an always-online world, expressing frustration and nostalgia for past times where offline entertainment and a less interconnected lifestyle were predominant.
This might sound needlessly convoluted, but I miss when there was a clear divide between being online and offline. When going online was something you had to commit to, like you'd just be writing a Word document or playing a game or whatever offline but would decide 'I want to go online now to look something up for my school assignment' and would have to click connect. The whole 'always online' thing which has crept up on us over the years does annoy me a little.
We've now reached a point where if my ISP screws up and my internet goes out for a few hours, I can't even fire up a locally installed single-player PC game to entertain myself during that time because even starting the game requires going through Steam, which requires an internet connection... and that really, really annoys me. What annoys me is that we've allowed ourselves to be shoehorned into a world that literally cannot function without the Internet. My kids are starting to get into cartoons now and I have such a hard time finding anything that they like to watch that I can even stand. 90s were so hopeful, life could only get better but now that we're here it seems we all want to go back. I wish people weren't so fragile and easily offended like in good old times. Everyone seemed to be more resilient back in the day. The advent of reliable fast internet gave too much leniency to developers and allowed them to release games at 70% to be fixed at a later date. Expansions seem to be almost extinct too. They used to *expand* the game, while DLC is commonly used to complete development of the main game. Leaving the house at 9am on your bike, getting home at 6pm for dinner, and being completely uncontactable for that entire time. That was such a 90's (and early 2000's) community experience for me and I loved having it as a date night option. Perusing new releases and digging through the archives was a lot of fun and scanning one by one with a controller has always felt so limiting and lifeless by comparison
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