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Even Photoshop looked so good 20 years ago...

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (2002) splash screen

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The fact Windows doesn't do this anymore is a disgrace.

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Pokémon Snap (1999) River

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Skyblazer (1994)

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1up.com - February 2004

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zone.com - March 2000

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circuitcity.com - March 2000

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True, it makes me very sad that the internet is now full of these ugly edgy copy pasted drawings in very generic templates. Rage comics were, first and foremost, comics. Internet users were making comics and being creative and having fun. Wojaks are part of a modern culture of memes full of sneer, cheap sarcasm and ironyism. It makes the internet a more toxic and unwelcoming place.

Its crazy how much more charming rage comics are than wojacks

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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) dir. John Lounsbery and Wolfgang Reitherman

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New Blog

I decided to make a blog to share my hot takes about the real important issues that plague our modern society: modernity.

Modernity is bad. For every 1 good new thing that is made, 99 old things get replaced by inferior counterparts. The degradation of society seems unstoppable. Resistance is futile. We can only watch the collapse of old norms as the world spirals into worse and worse versions of itself.

I came to this revelation watching anime. Old anime is simply superior to new anime in every possible metric. Once I realized that, everything started making sense.

The reason the world sucks is that it has gone to shit, deliberately, for no reason other than to replace the old good with something new even if it's worse. Every aspect has thus become a worse and worse iteration of its previous self. I look fondly at the retro ages when everything was better. The modern world is in a constant pursuit for the bleeding edge that disregards all common sense and everything that was built upon before. I fight the disdain of modernists for the old with my own vastly greater disdain for the new.

All old things are better. I didn't experience them first hand, but I know in my heart they are. Having lived my entire life in the modern world, I think I have plenty of experience about modernity to say modernity sucks.

I haven't played that many old games, but I know they are better. And I haven't used Windows 95, but I know that it's better. I never visited a geocities website, but I know they were better. Those were different times with when things were better. There was a charm then that seems gone now. The limitations of the technology allowed for a vast field of abstractions that were their own thing. Once the limitations were removed, we started an endless chase to abandon the genre that had been founded and move to the next limits of the technology, for no reason besides that we could. We didn't stop to think we were making things worse. Being cutting edge on its own had value for some reason. I think that was stupid. What we have now is worse. This isn't my subjective opinion. It's objectively worse and I could find many studies in decades of industries to back it up. But nobody cares because it's modern and everyone hates retro. Fools, they don't know what is good.

Although I'm only an expert in matters of computers and the Japanese arts, I suspect the degeneration by modernity permeates others aspects of society as well, like fashion and music. My theory is that the OGs that pioneer a field with their greatness have a varied repertoire of knowledge, but the second, third and subsequent generations that follow their steps draw their inspiration instead from the generation that came before then. This means that the OG extracts ideas from the outer world, while their descendants merely create rehash what came before them. Like an incestuous relationship, modern creators ruin their creative gene pool by keeping things in family (in industry). Ironically, this means they aren't trying to break new ground by creating new things, but simply do the same things that were done before them, without the varied external knowledge that their predecessors had. This leads to the homogenization of creativity. Creations stop having intrinsic value and instead are pinned to an extrinsic standard of value shared between the current generation, a.k.a. the trends.

Based on this, it's with great sadness that I conclude: all new industries eventually go to shit. It's an unavoidable phenomenon and a natural mechanical process built into their lifetimes. In a new industry, there are no expectations, no metagame, but as the industry matures, schools train new workers with a meta in mind, producers, distributors, and consumers all pitch in to influence this meta, and so the adherence of the industry to unfounded ever-changing expectations is created by means of collective self-indoctrination. All gears turn smoother when they fit within expected ranges. There's too much to risk by going against the trend, too many people involved into this now. The projects are larger and the pipelines are settled. If you don't use them, you fall behind. The competitiveness of a mature industry forces its players to do not what they think is good, but what they think is safe. To copy previous successes, to distinguish themselves, and to stay within safe limits. The fine balance of these forces crushes it all into a narrow and perilous corridor, each generation making it turn into ways unpredictable and nonsensical. But alas the industry must abide to its whims, for there's no industry if they do not.

I have no idea where this path will lead us, but, based on where were are now from where we came from, I don't like the trajectory. I have no faith in it or its future. It will only get worse from now on and there's nothing we can do to change this. Give up. No point in trying. The fight was over before we even saw the ring. All we can do now is reminisce and preserve, and hope future generations get the chance to witness what real good looked like, before all these shenanigans ruined everything.