Reminiscing on how kids of the 80s, 90s and 00s can all get games of their respective times via emulation and piracy, but anything inside Roblox is likely to be inaccessible when present day kids become adults and look back with nostalgia

  • I Cast FistOP
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    8 days ago

    We have nostalgia for stuff that has left a good mark on us, memories from “better times”, the source of the memory being physical is irrelevant.

    As a veteran WoW player, I can assure you that, despite never owning a copy and playing almost exclusively on private servers, I have a lot of nostalgia for the 2006-8 era. I can never get the characters I once played with and I’m ok with that, but I can still get a close enough experience by finding a server running the appropriate version or, if I’m feeling adventurous, get one of the emulators and run it myself.

    There’s also the iconic “you think you do, but you don’t”