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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)
Yeah, the price is a big turn off for me.
If the CPU kept up with modern apps I'd still be using my Galaxy S3 Mini.
A show called Almost Human.
That show was so good!
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.
"Black Pepper Jack" and "Four Cheese" Doritos. They were both so good in their own way.
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 :(
Cuba lima monster energy. So many good memories of getting out of school and going to my buddy's house, we would just hang and drink so many of these. Granted it was no doubt terrible for our health and was a bunch of money we probably could have used for better things, they remind me of a simpler and better time.
The final seasons of Colony. It was getting intense then the show was cancelled
Yes! I really enjoyed that show.
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 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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I usually cut my croutons in half
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.
Adding in some things as some people have made recommendations
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.
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, thatβs 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 50Β’ 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 β¬1 per play, though..
Joe's O's, the way they used to be. They were basically Cheerios but 10x better. Then sometime several years ago, they updated the recipe and it has a weird bad taste to it. Singlehandedly took it from my favorite cereal of all time to have not even considered it in years.
Marvel Heroes Omega for me, and City of Heroes for the homies.
Ditto for City of Heroes.
Also, I miss Avengers Alliance. It eventually turned into a blatant play-to-win, microtransaction nightmare but it could get quite intense and you legitimately needed to think about your strategy to beat certain foes.
Careful what you wish for. There were these delicious milkshakes that were flavored like some mediocre chocolate but it actually tasted amazing (kind of like how classic coffee crisp didn't taste anything like coffee) I bought them all the time and then they kinda discontinued. I wanted them back and when I heard they were I ran to the store to buy one. Big mistake, shit tasted SO BAD. They completely changed the recipe and I didn't even care when they discontinued it the second time.
Buttons.
Have you ever used an apple TV remote?
You can't even navigate without swiping on a little touch pad.
Modern Samsung remotes have changed to a toggle sort button where you move it up and down and then depress for mute.
Good compromise but difficult for the elderly.
Almost every tv has gone to a digital number interface. Remotes do not have numbers on them unless you're using an antiquated cable reciever with a dedicated remote. Alternatively you can buy third party remotes but with the digital interfaces it will only work on some models.
Think the best modern compromise are the Samsung universals and the LG magic remote. Superfluous wii remote esque arrow navigation so replacements cost $50. However, perfect hybrid of modern design and function.
Thank you for coming to my television remote Ted talk.
It is not necessarily a niche opinion here on lemmy, but the direction tech design is going is overengineered for a problem that never existed.
I own an Apple TV and you don't have to use swiping. You can tap or click the buttons. I'm not able to confirm it right now, but I also think you can turn off the swiping gesture.
Never knew this!
Thank you.
You can turn off the swiping gesture. I've done it on my AppleTV, and it is WAY better.
Yes, swiping works well on a phone...because there are no buttons. I don't want to swipe on my TV remote, my car radio, my laptop screen, and fridge, my door handle...
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."
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.
Potato cakes at Arby's
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I know I'm not the only one but I'll say it anyway:
Altoids Sours.
Those were the bomb!
Lemon Lime Slice. Starry is kind of close though.