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.
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.”
Frutiger Aero design
The modern trend for flatness and shape-y icons and such was cool for a bit, but I’m officially tired of it.
I’m just about ready to go back to skeuomorphic pre-rendered 3D models as icons and gradients & textures & transparencies everywhere
Especially since computers have only gotten better at drawing this stuff. A modern PC would be able to render the “Impossible” looks of those old Windows Longhorn Concept Videos without breaking a sweat.
Also – FUCKING BEZELS.
The current trend with – Mobile devices in general. Phones and Tablets, is to have the entire front of the device be screen. To the point that people hiss at seeing even the little dot for the front camera (or the notch, w/e)
I find this tremendously stupid, leaves you with far less ways and places to grip your phone, and makes the “I was using my phone in bed and dropped it straight into my nose” scenario straight up inevitable, since you can’t grip the thing tightly without accidentally activating something on the touch sensitive screen. Just give me a border of plastic that I’m safe to put my fingers on, dammit.
Marvel Heroes Omega for me, and City of Heroes for the homies.
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 :(
A show called Almost Human.
That show was so good!
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.
The final seasons of Colony. It was getting intense then the show was cancelled
Yes! I really enjoyed that show.
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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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
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 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).
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.
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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.
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
Proper Compact phones. Think Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact or iphone mini size. Screen size of less than 5", none of this phablet sized monstrocity. Yes, the Samsung Galaxy S24 or the Zenfone 8 - 10 exist (I’m typing this on a Zenfone 8), but I personally bo not consider them compact in any way.
Rant over. :p
The Samsung flip z fold up really small, also very durable to drops. My wife has one and loves it. Pricey though (the flip 3 is good used though)
Potato cakes at Arby’s
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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.
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.
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…
There’s a place by me that has a ton of old arcade machines but they’re all free to play; you just have to pay $25 to enter the place.
Omg yes, where is this place? What’s it called? I recognize many of those cabinets.
There’s a place just like this in Austin, Tx called the Cidercade - $12 to get in and their pizza is divine.
There’s one in Dallas too!
Galloping Ghost Arcade in the Chicago suburbs.
