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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 23:58:39 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

>Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>> Spalls Hurgenson  <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >TL;DR: in twenty years, we (either personally or as a culture) be
>> >looking back fondly on a lot of the current SNL skits and wondering
>> >why the 2050 cast is so unfunny ;-)
>
>> I remember first watching Saturday Night Live a few years after it
>> first aired and already people were telling me that original cast was
>> much better.  I beleived them too, since most of the original cast
>> where big name stars with movie careers by then.  How could nobodies
>> like Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo compare with the likes of Dan Aykroyd
>> or Chevy Chase?
>
>> As I continued to watch and enjoy it, I kept hearing how previous seasons
>> and casts were better and how far downhill it had gone.  Except now they
>> were talking about seasons and casts I had seen myself.  While I could
>> agree such-and-such a sketch was a classic and so-and-so who left the
>> show was really funny, I was still enjoying the show.
>
>> By the time the 90's rolled around I realized people were just going
>> to continue saying the show had gone downhill and whatever season and
>> cast they first watched was the best.  No one really had a viewpoint
>> where they could objectively compare the seasons.  Even me who never
>> thought the show was bad couldn't really see where the show had it's
>> inevitiable up and downs.  Just too hard to objectively compare a show
>> you're watching today to a show you saw years ago.
>
>> When I heard people making similar complaints about The Simpsons I just
>> ignored them.  Somehow both perputually downhill shows have managed to
>> survive even now when TV itself is in decline.
>
>Like gaming. Older computer action games were better. /s ;)

They definitely weren't though.

   [yes, I saw your /s tag. I chose to ignore it so I can rant :-)]

Sure, there were some good games. I'm particularly fond of titles like
"Doom", or original "Civilization", or "Full Throttle", for instance.
But there were so many _awful_ titles back then, and even a lot of
what we remember as "good" games don't hold a candle to the modern
game experiences. I _loved_ "Pool of Radiance" when it was new... but
even if you were to upgrade the visuals of that game to modern
standards, the _gameplay_ and controls would make it waaaay too
tedious to play today. 

I love my obscenely-large collection of old-timey video-games... but
damn if most of them just aren't worth playing even for a few moments.