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Kids of today will likely miss Roblox in 15-20 years, but it's unlikely they'll have the chance to play the stuff they missed during their childhoods (programming.dev)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
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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

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[–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

That is something ive thought about. You cant really have nostalgia for things today because theyre either A, not physical things anymore, or B, locked in walled gardens and shutdown servers .

Im sure kids will lament the loss of their bangin 2026 spotify playlist that in 2050 costs an extra $67 a month to access your "20s nostalgia mix", and all their game servers shutting down; they may try to cobble together a server (from obsolete data center parts) to play some old school retro Arc Raiders until the AI surveillance botnet targets them and fines them 1000 social credits for not buying season 38 of fortnite (world leader legendary edition!)

Did I miss anything 😄

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months 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"

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