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Growing up in the 2000s fucked my brain hard. The sexism, homophobia and racism coupled with the free-range parenting that was simultaneously neglectful while gaslighting everyone into thinking that it was too coddling, and an internet that simply did not give a fuck who it traumatized. All topped off with a resurgence of Western jingoism from the "war in terror".

The only good thing about that period was some of the videogames were okay I guess but only if you avoid ANYTHING remotely military flavoured. A lot of shit outside of Nintendo was afraid of colour and everything was that washed out brown. Just a miserable time. Everyone was so uncreative and the world had some fucked up Southpark brainworms.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Good things that came out of the 00s:

  • The Gamecube
  • The Gameboy Advance
  • The Ace Attorney series
  • Let's Plays
  • The last good Disney movies (yes it's me, I'm the weirdo who liked Atlantis)
  • Literally nothing else
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Treasure Planet, Lilo and Stich and Emperor's New Groove all slap hard

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The last good Disney movies (yes it's me, I'm the weirdo who liked Atlantis)

wdym its literally an artistic masterpiece and a cult classic, all the gurlies nowdays thirst over the main protag.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

It was the beginning of the end for a lot of tabletop games (Warhammer, M:tG, Warmachine, D&D, etc). Around ~2014 a lot of them got more enshittified than they already were.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only thing I know (courtesy of a friend) about that anime is that one of the early episodes apparently involves a false SV accusation as a plot point, which made me want to stay far away from it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Yes, although it's extremely minor and nothing about how it's presented is saying it's OK. There's some male-gaze stuff here and there, although it's definitely less bad about it than almost any other anime.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

FLCL; Fooly Cooly too

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

BitTorrent came out in 2003, so add that to the list.