Nothing. I was still in middle school back then, and completely at the mercy of my parents. Now I am a proud NEET. I have access to any game or show I want for free (minus the internet bill) and any drug I want for cheap (some of them are even legal now). Also I am no longer sad about girls like I was back then.
The future is an inherently good thing.
>>13675
Long road trips with my family. I’d usually be programming in the back seat on my laptop listening to music on the way to other big cities or the beach. Really great times.
I didn't realize there was something to miss.
I was 29 years old and still a loser. Oh well, at least I don't work anymore and no one bothers me.
My childhood
dvd rent stores
early internet (mostly online videogames)
friends that later moved
only anime about neets at that moment was RM which had 16 yo old hikikomori, that is what I also miss. No exposure.
>>14109
>BiOtaku
I get what you're going for, but you should've thought about that one a little more before posting
When I was a retarded idiot kid I couldn't say bicentennial and so I called him bisectional man and I'm sure the adults did the rest behind my back!
>>13825
>dvd rent stores
I remember every Saturday going to the 7store in Waterloo where we would rent DVDs and buy cool candy that you could not get in the supermarket, like bubblegum that comes out of a toothpaste tube or sour juice that came out of a fire extinguisher, a coke can filled with smarties Nestlé's competing product to Mars's M&M's, giant jawbreakers that lasted for long after the movie finished and were probably about a 5 on the mohs scale!
>>14121
our dvd rent stores rented ps2 pirated games as well. And even music CD's and dvds. The quality of the games went better with time, but it all started with shit like ffx-2 and tekken, nfs underground and fifa. And maybe 100-200 other games..
I was skipping most of my studying and just rented some metal dvds, some games, and some movies and blasted it all day everyday + some online mmorpgs too
>>14261
I remember the 7 store also rented ps2 games and CDs
I didn't know about handbrake at the time, but if I rented a CD I'm pretty sure everyone would have known what I would do first with it!
renting games, 4chan, still thinking anime was good, world of warcraft since nobody knew anything yet and it wasnt populated with autistic antisocial faggots minmaxing in every tiny way possible
i was 3 in 2004
though i still remember the days of dvd rental stores
>>14286
Heh, get out you underage fagg-
>Checks date
FUCK Smashmouth was right... The years start coming and they don't stop coming... This is why I love time dilation drugs
I was 1 years old. I miss being ignorant to the horror of the world.
>>14283
Anime is still good anon, the classics from Toei and Studio Ghibli are still around aren't they?
Just ignore the gaijin produced netfux crap.
>>14283
Yeah, The Gospel according to Saint Eliott describes the fall of WoW to the normies in graphic detail.
World of Warcraft:
>Was once a haven for autistic anti-social rejects to escape reality.
>Now is a tool for f*males and fake autists with a social life to appropriate our culture to attract a mate. and breed degenerate offspring together!
>>14288
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuIroPpHswE
Greetings from another kid who still believes in Shrek!
>Shrek is love,
>Shrek is life!
>>14303
it never kinda was
>haven for autistic anti-social rejects to escape reality.
back in day gms did a lot of dmg control directly ingame, and protected the autists. aww, you cannot do this quests? here here retard, we'll help you. elliot is too retarded to see that this was in company best's interest. it was a kindergarten till wrath. that's where normies came, but its merely a byproduct of a videogame company politics. things come and go.
>>14278
the fun part is i did it all in some russia shithole. how it can be so similar to murica is beyond me.
>>14394
Awww, Russia ain't a shithole, anon, you guys won the space race! Korolyov was a legend.
>Perestroika was a mistake though!
>Гребаная Горби это кусок дерма!
>>14407
Thanks anon, I'm actually on the same side of the Atlantic as you. The 7 store was in the very town immortalized in Sergei Bondarchuk's masterpiece:
>MEEEEEERDE!!!!! LES GUARDES MEURENT; ILS SE RENDENT PAS!!!!!
I miss EVERYTHING about 2004.
my obliviousness
>>13675
Starting up RuneScape 2 and sneaking to jerk off at hentai clips at my public library.
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