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I've always been fascinated by nostalgia. It is such universal source of both positive and negative feelings for people. If anyone has any books or other media about nostalgia I'd love to hear about it.

Today's Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox (blegh) will be tomorrow's nostalgia. I just don't know if there will be cheap hardware available for future adults to experience it though. Plus it seems that pop culture is so much more fragmented now thanks to social media, so it's harder to capitalize on a single IP to milk later on.

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Minecraft is already nostalgia. It reminds me of starting university 16 years ago.

Minecraft to me is similar to unreal tournament (I forget which version) as well as computer hardware from ~2015 onwards. It happened after some sort of critical point of technological development had passed such that it doesn't feel old to me unless I examine it immediately adjacent to something modern.

I suppose that will change for the games if truly high fidelity head mounted displays ever take off. For the hardware I'm less certain because aside from pointlessly bloated web frontends nothing that I do on a day to day basis actually consumes more resources than it did in 2015. Perhaps local AI on low power devices will be the critical point for me there?

I really liked the article shared here about 3 years ago: https://ravenmagazine.org/magazine/the-paradoxes-of-nostalgi...

Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36465528

> I've always been fascinated by nostalgia. It is such universal source of both positive and negative feelings for people.

I read somewhere that nostalgia is just bitterness towards the present. It's an emotional trap and best not to linger in nostalgia too long. Change is inevitable, we can't go backwards.

>If anyone has any books or other media about nostalgia I'd love to hear about it.

Mark Fisher/K-punk on hauntology.

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