Kids don't read store catalogs

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>WAAAAHHHHH WHY DO THINGS HAVE TO CHANGE

sears failing to adapt to the times is what happened.

I once saw a one-shot anime that was the opposite of this; an early-middle-aged man gives his son a bicycle, who is polite but unenthusiastic about it. He reflects to his wife that he was ecstatic when he got his first bicycle when he was the boy's age and she tells him not to worry that their son's life isn't just like his own.

swiping is literally how you turn a page
why are there so many """""""""""""adults""""""""""""" who literally don't know how technology works

>violence
lolwot

Oh my god! Buckner & Garcia were asking for help all along

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Why would the kid try to swipe a book's page? Is he retarded?

That one's just a silly gag rather than silly fretting.

is Pac-man fever fighting frivolity, truancy, violence and drugs?

You're all missing the point of this; someday, YOU'LL be the one pining about how things used to be, and your nostalgic attachments will drive you to MISERY. You're not going to give a shit about new culture in 50 years, you'll be thinking about what you enjoyed from your childhood to your twenties. Web 1.0 and ownership of physical media will seem like a distant dream, and everyone you know and loved will be dead or dying alongside you.
>implying that you won't all be like this with physical floppies/trades or hand-drawn animation when they cease as mediums

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Do you think purists ever stated that D&D and Video Games would make kids get laid all the time with premarital sex?

I love how anything fun it’s considered a slippery slope to drugs and Satan in America

this

>carried the cabinet up the stairs in front of the house
STRONK

How can church and books even compete?

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You already see it with all the people on this site complaining about "zoomers" playing Fortnite.

Nice try, I was already out of touch and complaining about what was popular when I was 9.

>These recent actions force us to seriously ask the question:
>"Did america media really sinked so low that we are now looking up to Malaysia and the philippines?"

Yeah, but a lot of that is just dumb irony and memery. Trust me, over time it'll grow to be more honest and from the heart, and that's when it's too late.

The thing I love about this and the other Pokémon Go comics is that it's the purest example of people fearing their age.

Pokémon was already a huge hit that most boomers couldn't wrap their heads around, some even swearing it was demonic, sent to tempt your kids to satan. Now it's 20 years later, a quarter of the average man's life and it resurfaces and they're even more out of the loop then they were before.

Detective Pikachu might as well be the grim reaper for these fuckers.

PAC-CKED

This says a lot about our society

oh my god it's like an unaware chris ware comic

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>He never appered for the weekly after D&D orgies
What a square

I'll have you know I complained about people playing Halo 1 and the ORIGINAL Madden. Complaining about people enjoying things is not era-dependent.

Sears and Radioshack catalogs were fucking awesome, though.

Otome has gone too far

Fuck, I love Space Harrier.

You filthy whore, he is already married!

Sorry, I either sincerely like new fads every time they come up, or enjoy them as cringe. I’m going to be a 70 year old that keeps up with the culture of 14 years olds, and it’s going to be creepy as fuck.

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That comic is super dumb, but I honestly agree that there's something sad about losing the Sears catalog. I read the history about it once (it's over 130 years old) and I found it a fascinating part of American culture.

I mean, it's not like the bungling of Sear's business means it's undeserved, and blaming it on kids who only enjoy "swiping" things is a special kind of retarded, but I kind of get the feeling trying to be conveyed here. It's like losing the end of the era.

She's Ms. Pac-Man, not Mrs.

I sincerely doubt that you'll still feel that way at 60 or 70. Oh, sure, you may get some enjoyment out of this and that, but no one will care about shit that you loved (except for your fellow fogeys) and it'll eat at you inside.

I found a Radioshack catalog from 1999 that I kept for nostalgia reasons. The Sears catalog was canceled farther back than people realize. Its funny to see people complain about Sears dying when they didn't even notice they stopped making catalogs in 1993.

>they didn't even notice they stopped making catalogs in 1993.
What? I was using some kind of catalog to create Christmas lists up to at least '98. If it wasn't the Sears catalog, what the hell was I looking at?

I found halo 1 and 2 overrated as fuck.

No one cares about the shit I love now.

That's a filthy lie. I was getting Sears catalogs into the early 2000's. You're thinking of the mail order thing instead of the Christmas Catalog which is what all the kids wanted.

>city library offers video games for kids and teens among other cool shit

Thank you based libraries

They weren't THE sears catalogs. They were smaller advertisements.

searsarchives.com/catalogs/questions/catalogend.htm

> by Rabbi Steven F.Mink

Hey now that neet girl has some nice boobs
Would cuck pacman/10

Buddy, I'm on fucking Yea Forums.

I'm already miserable.

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>someday

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Yeah, I'm 30 and I've never seen a Sears catalog.
The catalogs I have nostalgia for are those things where you could get 10 CDs for the price of one.

Nah. My father wasn't like that. My mother isn't like that. Only about a half of the old people I know fetishize their past like this, usually the ones with an unhappy present.

>implying I won't care about the new culture years from

But I like things from the past just as much as the present and I bound to like something from the future. Me and my father even share an interest in old Japanese works, even if it's on different terms.

My first time was at an arcade. So yeah, I think premarital sex would be a concern.

I thought this comic was going to be a joke about having to use the bra section of Sears catalogues to jerk off because that porn tree you found in the woods got cleaned out.

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>Porn tree you found in the woods
I thought it was a myth or outdated but there's n suspicious amount of porn out there in the wild.

Hidden outdoor porn stashes were definitely a thing before everyone had the internet.

I hate to tell you this, but there's a good chance at least something new that became fashionable has made one, the other or both shake their head in disappointment.
Yes user. It pretty much happens to everyone where they just 'don't get' the latest fad or think it's stupid and asinine, despite being wildly popular.

>having to use the bra section of Sears catalogues to jerk off

I had to do this because my family owned the local woods so there was no porn trees to be found.

Though I should add that while porn trees are pretty much dead, I have still found plenty of teenage fuck nests in city parks while walking around. Who else would leave a box of good condoms next to waller full of crushed leaves?

The current example of this is probably social media. It's the very antithesis of the generation raised to not put personal info publicly on the internet.

I would guess gay hookup site unless there was a bunch of nip bottles around.

I hear you, public libraries are treasure troves of hidden gems. I just checked out bunch of PS2 games earlier today.

Porn trees are very rare user, you need to search in the right season

yeah right, i like seeing what the future holds the only sad thing is i won't be able to see more

That has nothing to do with it being new and everything to do with it being a fad. Pogs get the same reaction and that was dead before I could tie my shoes.

I remember seeing posters on my classroom walls talking about, 'cyber safety,' and how you shouldn't put photos of yourself, or give out your name and address because anybody could get it and whatever you put on the internet stays there forever.
Hell, I remember PSAs on cartoon network and nick and disney channel.
Image related.

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Sears filed for bankruptcy because Sears has consistently been getting worse and worse over the last decade and a half.

Catalogs are fun, though. They're just no longer convenient enough.

Yeah it's kids with no disposable income that made sears go bankrupt!
What a fucking moron

Good heavens! Not... frivolity!

They honestly should have never discontinued those programs. It's why you have so many people today that don't realize the internet isn't just what they see on the little screen of their phone.

Is that because you don't let people know about the shit you love now?

I honestly couldn't say what the effect of such PSAs is. Looking at stuff like DARE tends to lead me to think they're not effective.
Still, I don't know how much it would hurt kids to know that they probably shouldn't post pictures of themselves at the beach on facebook along with their name and address.

The thing these old fucks fail to realize, if some young cunt does act like their hyperbolic examples, most normal people will punt them into submission until they learn humility or cry to their online echo chamber

The future will be one of global death and decay by the time I'm this age

Even if people still continued to do stupid shit, at least they would know it was stupid. That's good enough.

Although I do think Fortnite is dumb and doesn't seem like it would be much fun for someone like me, I can at least understand why someone younger than me might enjoy it. What I see from boomers older than me is the complete inability to wrap their brains around anything that supersedes whatever they considered fun in their day. These people lament how the world is turning to shit because there's some new hot thing that everyone is playing with instead of whatever the new hot thing was that they played with, and I can't fathom ever having that mindset. Who knows though, maybe someday I'll become just like them, and understand how they think.

This is the best variant so far.
Not enough people are remembering word art and how silly it is.

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I'm just giving them shit for it, I'm fully aware that if I was born in 2010 or whatever I would have been right there with them, flossing away.

>Boomers weep that Sears is gone

What the hell? Sears is shit, and has no problems extorting and fucking their customers over when they can. That's not unique to Sears but it definitely doesn't mean you should cry for them like you lost an old friend.

I can't believe that old guy kept wearing the same shirt all these years

Access to information used to be a luxury and it made all information, even the menial and commercial kind, more special. Now that information is both easy-accessible and so dispersed, there is no longer that centralized cultural frame of reference; even a commercial that has a 2 billion dollar campaign behind it is likely not going to be ever experienced by a substantial percentage of the young population.

But the question is where's the joke?

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Some angry boomer now would have the same comic but the girl brings home Mrs. Pac-Man

look now, i can also get dick at the church, Pac-Man

If you didn't want the company to go out of business maybe you should have bought their shit instead of being a window shopper so degenerate that you had to do it from within your own home without even actually visiting the store.

>at least something
this has happened to everyone then

It's already begun.

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>this has happened to everyone then
Yeah, probably. How much it happens is a different question.

Jokes on you faggot. I've wanted floppies to die for years

As an adult for both of those things, Minecraft was better. You spend your time creating and exploring for your own amusement rather than banging your head against a wall while getting outplayed by NEET losers while role-playing as your favorite streamer. Not all fads are born equal. Some have good qualities like Pokemon, some are just all bad like Tamagotchi.

what the fuck is the difference
i don't understand

To be fair, kids were basically spending all their lunch money on Pac-Man and Space Invaders

Trends die in weeks these days.

I've been doing this since I was a teen.

Do you build forts in fortnite? The name might imply this, as I see that pic on , but I as an older millennial born in the first half of the 80s ain't got a clue about the game overall.
My friends just told me that it was some kind of shooter.
I know that in Minecraft, you mine and then you craft stuff like houses and more, just as it's said in the name.

If it ain't Phoenix, I don't give a fuck!

That was the idea. But in practice, you build spiraling monstrosities of semi-invisible structures while exploiting the game's physics and mechanics in a sort of revolving door practice where your opponent is trying to destroy walls, or build stares to circumvent your walls faster than you can. It seems like it could be fun if you were really good at it, but I don't see how the average "spends half the game wandering then dies the first second he encounters someone skilled" player gets any enjoyment out of it.

>The name might imply this
It's more true for the "Save the World" mode which was the original part of the game.

No you don't make forts. You just throw walls in peoples faces to block shots then build ramps going straight up for a better angle for easier headshots. I kinda feel sorry for the people that bought into the beta for the actual zombie defense game where you are supposed to build forts to defend yourself.

Fortnite has become a part of an increasingly large growing number of "spectator sport" video games. The game is more popular to watch than it is to play. There's a large number of battle royale games these days copying and competing for this format.

It launched as a survival game where you built forts and fought off zombies, but the game didn't really catch on until they added the Battle Royale mode that attracted the PUBG audience.

No, I intend to take command of the future and make it retro-chic. Think 40k but it's the eighties and nineties instead of medieval gothic fetishism.

>spectator sports
>games

what if a game is more fun to actually play than to watch?

Nigger, I already hit that point when I was 19 and saw 13 year olds walking around with cellphones.

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>what if a game is more fun to actually play than to watch?

That's called baseball.

>what if a game is more fun to actually play than to watch?
Video game or sport?

>Think 40k but it's the eighties and nineties instead of medieval gothic fetishism.

40k fetishizes European Heavy metal, mate. It's not medieval fetishism. They literally ripped art out of heavy metal albums.
All of which did happen in said eighties.

The best way to win at this social game is to not give a shit about trying to win the social game at all and to just do whatever the fuck you want thanks to all the money you have.
As long as you do have the money for a comfortable living standard, of course.

I get the feeling that the message depicted in the cartoon isn't what the illustrator meant to send.

>someday, YOU'LL be the one pining about how things used to be
Lol, no I won't
>your nostalgic attachments will drive you to MISERY
I've never really been nostalgic, which also means I won't bitch like a retarded boomer when new tech develops and people use that instead of obsolete junk.

Yeah, Sears is falling apart because its leadership is a combination between idiots who thought they drum up by sales by making stores compete with each other, and shitheads who just looted the equity and ran.

Sears is falling apart due to bad business practices for anyone in any time, the idea that the damn kids be on they phone all the time has anything to do with this is just peak boomer-brain.

I'm already out of touch because I don't want a black refugee to fuck my wife while I cut off my own penis.

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/pol/ doesn't shit on the rug, they said.
It's all Yea Forumsmblr, they said.

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>not wanting to chill in a pimping kimono with your chastely-dressed qt 3.14

Sears CEO sold off their most profitable divisions to the company he used to work for. It was all a scam and all the shareholders knew it. their wealth is tied to their investments and not the company, if its more profitable to dismantle a company they'll do it.

On a side note Its kinda funny, back in the early 90s Sears created a unified warehouse/store database with the potential for an online store where people could order an item and the instructions could then be relayed to the nearest available location to be delivered. Literally today's Amazon, but they sold it off thinking the internet wasn't going to catch on. Sears could have been the worlds biggest company with a gigantic lead on everyone else but they fucking blew it with old idiots not realizing how technology changes over time.

This is true. Minecraft forced them to actually be creative and make their own fun from the blank slate. Fortnite just scratches that itchy trigger finger and need for adrenaline plus WACKY TOYS

I wish my library had a pacman machine.

>but they fucking blew it with old idiots not realizing how technology changes over time.
I think that about sums up the american economy in a single sentence

It's funny because there's this small window of people who grew up at the introduction of the internet, but didn't grow up with it already being pervasive. So you have zoomers who don't understand the consequences of the internet because it's always been with them, and old fogeys who also don't understand the consequences of it because they weren't young and impressionable when it was first introduced so it wasn't naturally ingrained into them.

I imagine because of the narrow age range, there aren't a lot of people that naturally know to respect what the internet can do to you if you're not careful about your personal information.

These posts are a perfect equivalent to

>I imagine because of the narrow age range, there aren't a lot of people that naturally know to respect what the internet can do to you if you're not careful about your personal information.

Its mostly people born in the late 70's-early 90's that are in that range. They grew up having technology around, but didnt get a family computer and internet until their teens or older and were old enough to know to not post your face and information online.

The funny thing is my parents and older sibliings are more in touch with pop culture than I am my mom always called me an old soul but that probably means I was born a contrarian

Yeah but I don't intend to be so exclusive. Which means nobody need be nostalgic anymore because ALL of the eighties and nineties will be there.

Kinda odd that no one mentioned who wrote that article.

based

>Ferdinand Marcos
>Malaysia

what? the good Rabbi have forgotten which strongman the US was supporting at which country at the time?

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Pac Man: Defender of Western Civilization from the Dangers of Decadence!

Why would that be strange, user?
Do you have some sort of opinion on religious leaders writing news articles?

It makes even less sense than that. The comic is arguing that sears went bankrupt because kids use smartphones. I went into this comic thinking it was gonna be baawing about kids not being interested in shop or something and it ended up being even dumber!

see

Because it's easier to blame the actions of people without power than blame those who are actually at fault

There's a difference between being fond of, or even personally preferring, things from your youth and thinking the new generation is morally wrong for not doing them.

There's a difference between thinking something is morally wrong, and feeling disconnected from the way the world changes around you. Try reading OP's comic again, where does it imply that it's immoral for a kid to not give a shit about a Sears catalog because it isn't interactive?

I don't know about the physical media thing yet. At least with video games the file sizes keep on getting bigger and bigger, which means hard drives are going to fill up faster and faster. I don't know if consoles can keep up with the march of more and more demand for character realism, particle effects, global wind physics, realistic environmental destruction, better physics engines, all that jazz even if pc gaming is having no problem.

>Reddit

>didn't follow Pac-lore
Pleb. They get married and have a kid during her game.
youtube.com/watch?v=v8BT43ZWSTY

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Maybe he just wanted to show some of his cool syfy art on the news so someone reading it would give him a better job

Not that user, immoral is the wrong word but dude, he's calling kids too dumb to know how to flip a catalogue. The comic isn't just pointing out changes in trends, it's antagonizing the modern generation by presenting it as obtuse and single minded, "if it's not a phone kids these days will hate it, oh the humanity"

What the heck are you on about? Nowhere in the comic does he imply that the kid is too dumb to operate a catalog; he's dismayed at the fact that something that brought him great joy and hours of entertainment is disregarded immediately by someone who is at the same age he was when he loved them. Projecting much?

That comic isn't the best example because it's kind of tripping iver itself with how stupid it is, (see ) but it is implying that smartphones made the kid to dumb and impatient to figure out how a book works. If it was just about how the man feels disconnected, it wouldn't try to demean the kid so unflatteringly.

*over
*too
*it wouldn't portray the kid so unflatteringly

>Weeks
Lest we forget, Minecraft is nearly a decade old now. It wasn't going to remain the most popular thing ever forever.

>Nowhere in the comic does he imply that the kid is too dumb to operate a catalog
Are you joking? You think it's normal occurrence for a kid to panic because a book doesn't work like a phone?

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Don't be the old man in OP.

I don't even care for fortnite, but it's a shooter. People have been playing twitch shooters for decades now.

>no where does it imply the kid is too dumb to operate a catalog
>kid literally says "This is dumb, I keep swiping but nothing happens"

Can you even read user?

>panic
The kid looks bored and disaffected, not panicked. So no, I'm not joking.

The idea of eventually becoming as tech illiterate as my parents scares me.

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You're a pedantic little bitch, aren't ya. Ok let me rephrase: you think it's normal occurrence for a kid to get confused and angry at the sight of paper?

Ditto. I hope to god I don't become a "back in the old days" type of person and continue learning the new stuff.

>we won't be able to project our mindscape into the akashic galaxy net because we didn't keep up with technology
That feels so bad, I am inclined to post a picture of the meme character Pepe, the green cartoon frog making a sad face.

Fine, you win. Boomers are the worst. I hope you never grow old and bitter, because you'll be young and hip forever.

Jesus user, I'm just calling a very stupid comic stupid, nobody is demonizing old people for liking old stuff

The only reason kids don't read sears catalogs anymore is because porn is easily available

Are store catalogs even still published?

the joke's on you, i'm already there

>I've never really been nostalgic

You are going to get fucked even harder when it hits.

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>corrupting our youth

Nothing really ever changes, does it?

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Jokes on you pal I don't have many significant attachments to stuff from my age and I purposely go out of my way to find old things before my time to enjoy.

Fuck Sears I wish they would have bankrupt

I doubt it’s going to happen to me. Maybe to the next generation, but when I was a kid we were encouraged by the technology to really fuck around with it, so part of my mind always gets pretty curious about how every new thing I come across works. I can understand why older gens don’t muck around in tech, it used to change very slow, but sadly I think the next gens might be fucked. They are deliberately making programs and tech that are sleek and intuitive to the extent that they removed the “encourgae you to engage with the user manual” method, so I have heard stories of 18 year olds not knowing how to do basic short cuts in documents. ~1990 birth

It already happened to me. Seeing Early Zoomers nostalgic for 2007-2012, saying things like "In my day we had Minecraft and icarly, not Jake Paul and Fortnite", "2008-2014 was the golden age of music", "Adventure Time ending marks the end of my childhood." Just a few years ago, that stuff was widely considered the downfall into shit era.

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There's nothing wrong with demonizing old people for liking old stuff, though.

Easy solution is to make engaging interactive user manuals.

I don't give a shit about new culture now