Personally 2024 was ok for me even though I was laid off and unemployed for 6 months. Ok maybe it’s a little shitty.

If we’re in the darkest timeline, what was the last point where it felt there was so much hope and joy in the world?

Some options commonly put out.

  • The day Pokémon Go released July 2016. So prepandemic and we went outside and and a girl told me where to find Weedles. Yep I’m in a videogame

  • The day before 9/11 or when Harambe got killed

  • When Endgame released, culmination of 10 years of marvel moments into a single movie, people cheering in the cinema. Still pre pandemic, maybe there’s a trend here

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’m not talking about substances, but things just don’t give the same highs as they used to.

    Getting a new Nintendo game as a kid and you’re giddy all the way home, reading the back of the box.

    Last time I bought a game I had been looking forward to for years it was lying in a drawer for a month before I even installed it.

    I had my first kid this year, and it’s probably the best thing to have happened to me in the last few years. But I don’t think the joy I felt compares to that new NES game as a kid. I wish I still would get that kind of highs.

    I’m pretty sure the last good day was sometime in 1996.