https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2XpNcn8XT8
Today, I want to warn you about a very powerful and dangerous drug, and it’s called nostalgia. Honestly, I truly believe it can kill your soul. It’s very luxurious and tempting, but it’s a poison you don’t want to have too much of, especially in today’s world. It’s all over the place. Now, this is unique to our environment. Everyone, in all times and places, has some pining for their childhood, or, you know, “Oh, I miss that,” “I miss when that was here,” and “I miss when we used to do that.” It’s very natural, but in our world, if you really think about it, the modern consumerist world is almost a perfect storm for this nostalgia that blinds everything.
There’s 90s nostalgia, 80s nostalgia, 70s nostalgia—every generation, or not even every generation, every couple of years, the toys that kids play with are totally different. The social environment is entirely different. When I was in high school, it was the era of flip phones, an era that came and went very quickly. Just a couple of years later, there were no more flip phones; now there are smartphones. The dynamic is entirely different. Obviously, now people are sharing pictures and all this other stuff, and that actually fundamentally transforms the way that people interact.
So, it’s actually very normal in the modern West, especially for a generation of people. If you know someone who’s 10 years younger than you, the games they played and the ways they interacted with their friends are entirely different from the ways you interacted with your friends. In each case, there’s no continuity. There’s no stability, right? It’s not like, “Oh yeah, I don’t know, girls play with dolls and boys do this.” It’s not like this thing that is going to be common among generations; it’s something that actually changes all the time. What that means is you can’t go back. You can’t go back and experience that again. Your children are not going to have the same experiences that you had.
It’s like a guy who really liked his Zelda games on the Nintendo 64, and he’s like, “Oh yeah, I want my kid to play video games, and he’s going to like that too.” But it’s not really the same thing because, well, this game is not impressive anymore. It’s old-fashioned. Compared to the other slop that I can consume, it’s actually not attractive. What that means is, you know, all of us are in a weird position where the things we enjoyed as kids are just gone. They’re just dead. They’re the things that appear in, you know, autistic people’s collections of stuff. I still remember things from my childhood, and it’s like that’s an entirely lost world because the modern consumerist world is very much about new things and faddish things—things that aren’t going to last.
Things that you get very emotionally attached to and then they disappear. Then they’re gone, you know, and all your emotional attachment was for nothing. And that actually is kind of the problem. Now, I mentioned video games. I think video games are a fantastic example. Obviously, I think people should never be playing video games, especially as individuals. If you’re in a party and you’re playing with other guys, I kind of understand that. But I look at all the time that I wasted as a kid, and it’s a killer. One thing that I think is really funny nowadays shows you the poison of nostalgia. Ultimately, when people see that the world they grew up in is gone, there’s a part of them that wants to relive it. They want to relive that experience, to go back and have those feelings again, and you can’t do it.
You can’t do it not just because the world has gone past that, but even the enjoyment itself was superficial. Video games are a good example. Nowadays, there’s this thing called video game speedrunning, right? It’s the most depressing and degenerate thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life because what’s really happening there is that there are guys who liked some old video game. They played it a lot as children, and now they’re adults with empty lives. So they play the game over and over again. They optimize it; they try to speedrun it. Sometimes they’ll even hack into the game, you know, change things around, create new challenges for themselves.
So, 25 years later, they’re still trying to relive the experience they had as kids. That’s what I mean when I say nostalgia can be a real poison in today’s society. By itself, it’s not really dangerous. There’s nothing wrong with looking back at the past and remembering the good old days, but we should live in a place where you can go back to the school you used to go to and see that, oh, the kids are different, but it’s still the same. That’s not the case anymore. In our world of rapid change, rapid technological change, mass immigration, and all these kinds of things, the world we grew up in is constantly dying.
There are memes that guys have, “Oh, the world you grew up in is gone.” It’s constantly leaving. Even at the rate, the reason this stuff is such a poison is that part of growing up in today’s world is kind of getting over those old obsessions. Obviously, I struggle with this when I remember my early childhood. I have rose-tinted glasses about a lot of things, but I think a lot of it is that you have to keep looking forward. Ultimately, my priority is living in a more stable world. I’ve said this in another video, but that’s something that people overlook.
The real thing is that you want those experiences; you want the feeling of continuity. You want to look at children and the next generation and say, “Hey, I’ve been there; I’ve done that; I relate to that.” But the world as it is now has taken that away from us because of technological, spiritual, and all kinds of change. That’s a bad thing because we’re so disconnected from every generation—the generation before us and the generation after that. There’s an inherent value in that, and we want to have some of that, but we can’t have it. Nostalgia is just a feeling of loss; it’s a feeling of “I can’t get that back.” It’s actually very sad.
How we have to cope, in a way, is just to order our priorities. There are a lot of little things in your past that are just going to disappear, and it might hurt, but it doesn’t matter. You need to get over it; you need to pull away from video game speedrunning, whatever that is, and focus on the stuff that matters. I think really the way to do that is by identifying what’s really going on. We want continuity; we want to have parts of our childhood in the future because that means we have a future that we can understand, control, and have a say in. The modern world, modern consumerism, is very much not that. So anyway, that’s all I got.
@DaveHulick - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
You can play the games of your youth, but you’ll realize there was more to your youth than the game. Your friends are gone, the society you lived in is gone, and your family as it existed then is gone. You’ll quickly realize games were not what you actually cherished about your youth.+620
@Valiblename - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
When looking ahead is not appealing anymore you turn around+407
@ethicstatue - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
Old man yells at trees+533
@zimtage1744 - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
Corporate nostalgia vs cultural tradition. Choose wisely.+89
@dmembrane_ - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
virgin nostalgia vs chad melancholia+488
@Cmontzter - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
“Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.” Ecclesiastes 7:10 +390
@taluula - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
The only thing i'm nostalgic for is human interaction More often than not, it's not like it used to be+131
@womp6338 - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
I don't believe in nostalgia, things actually were better before.+191
@fortntiejimmy - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
A clear demonstration of the power of nostalgia is the continued success of franchises like Star Wars, Pokemon, Sonic, and Disney stuff. These franchises have huge numbers of adult fans who still obsess over them because they consumed them in their childhood. However, if you ask these people they will almost ALL agree that the modern outputs from these franchises are terrible, yet will still consume them regardless to chase the childhood nostalgia. Remember those live action remakes of old Disney movies? EVERYONE agreed they were terrible yet the nostalgia gooners could not control themselves and gave Disney billions of dollars for a strictly worse version of something from their childhood. The mainstream entertainment industry is being flooded with sequels/remakes that nostalgia coomers (mostly millenials) will salivate over until they die of old age.+140
@japeezy82 - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
Nostalgia is bloat+369
@michaelns9887 - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
Nostalgia is not only about material things. You can be nostalgic about the city you lived in, friends you had, activities you did.+97
@Maxშემიწყალე - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
Since having kids I've been trying to see the world from their point of view, and the view of my father. My goal is to try and create such a wonderful childhood for my kids through experiences, trips, activities, walks in nature, so when they look back on their childhood they won't be nostalgic about some item or game, but for the people they spent their time with. My father left me with great memories, now I'm passing that on to my kids.+52
@poru208 - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
Historically, Nostalgia was a pathological form of homesickness, then in the mid twentieth century it became a sentimental yearning for the past. Take the emotions out of it and focus on what was tangibly better in the past, like unprocessed meats and chemicals in everything we ingest. Thinking of all the microplastics in our brains and balls makes me very nostalgic.+38
@whitodev3472 - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
is there anything you are allowed to enjoy Luke?+102
@MonsterGirlEnjoyer - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
Nostalgia is a feeling and Thinkpads do not feel+67
@brambasiel - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
1min ago upload. I already feel nostalgic.+67
@mateusmeloxyz - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
Despite being only 13% of the population, speedrunners make up 52% of the trans community+127
@nvxxu2i - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
Remember when Luke was more into Linux and Thinkpads? Those were the days+149
@FlavourlessLife - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
Bad take. While obsessing over old, dead things is a waste of energy, nostalgia does provide guidance on what is wrong with modern society. We should strive to bring back the things that genuinely made the world better. The video of 2:30Am at a 7-11 Near Disney World - 1987 exists. People born today can't fathom a world like that ever existing. Certain things are worth keeping reminders of.+72
@gitarmats - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
Shots fired at speedrunners.+105
@GurtGobain - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
I think most of all we cherished the carefree lack of responsibility. Nobody wants to grow up. And to be fair, """adulting""" (cringe) does kinda suck.+65
@Wren1 - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
But they can be some of what you cherished and some is better than none. I haven't been much into video games in at least a couple of decades, but when I do play something, it's from the 1980-2000 era. I find them more fun, more challenging, and I can pick up and play without an internet connection, updates or investing large amounts of time into them. Some of my family are gone, friends are meant to come and go because people change with their interests, and societies are different depending on where in the world you are. I've spent most of my life moving around the world, so I've become accustomed to uprooting and starting fresh in totally new environments every few years. That, in itself, is a big part of what I cherished and guess what? I never stopped doing it. I guess what I'm trying to say is that everything you listed are things that have always been, even in our youths. Nothing has really changed except the superficial.+11
@MateuszMisztela - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
@GurtGobain Yup. There is really nothing great about life of most adults.+3
@MateuszMisztela - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
@Wren1 "friends are meant to come and go" That's a very weird take. Especially that "meant" part - there is no such thing as "meant".+17
@marciomaiajr - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
That's 100% truth.When I was a teenager I used to play Sim City 2000 with a friend and recently installed it on my computer, but it didn't feel like before. It was more than the game, it's about old friendships and lost moments. I can't go back to it just by installing an old game.+10
@Wren1 - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
@MateuszMisztela In my experience, true 'friends forever' is something that can happen but is extremely rare. If I were still 'friends' with many people after many years, then someone is likely artificially limiting themselves for the sake of the relationship. Almost all of my friendships, and those that I've observed, fizzle out as the years pass and we slowly drift apart. I do have one 'friend' who I've known for almost 35 years, but it's much more of an acquaintance relationship now as our interests diverged. There are plenty of things that are meant. We're meant to stop at red lights, we're meant to pay taxes, 1+1 is meant to be 2, we're meant to breathe air, we're meant to have loved ones (human or otherwise), we're meant to find new interests, and eventually we're meant to die. If there were no such thing as 'meant', then why does the word exist?+13
@Smrda1312 - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
True, when I boot up a game now its more like a challenge of sort rather than some mystical experience. I open it play it through rather efficiently and pay attention to the story like I am watching a film. As a kid there is a sense of immersion and wonder that cannot be replicated. I remmber playing the dark brotherhood questline in Oblivion as a kid and being so immersed in all the missions. Playing it now you see how janky it really is. Still fun but it doesnt feel like a real world anymore.+10
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
That's very insightful.+1
@skylinefever - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
@GurtGobain I argued that one reason that millennials and Gen Z say they hate adulting is because many people did not get the ability to afford interesting things in adulthood. At least in boomer times, most people could graduate and get a job that comfortably paid for a car, rent, and the ability to save. As time went on, far more people entered adulthood with little after working, paying rent, paying for their car, and going back to work. The get nostalgia for the days where adulthood meant actually being able to afford to go places.+23
@-WarCriminal-22 - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
Jokes on you, I had no friends in my childhood!😂 And yeah I still love me Warcraft III, except now I got a little bit better at it.+5
@mallock8529 - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
@skylinefever Ya one of the reasons younger generations obsess over gaming is that hobbies that boomers participated in are prohibitively expensive now. Cars being the best example+11
@MemoryDealer - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
It depends on the game, but kind of sounds like a skill issue tbh.+1
@bubblegumKUSH - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
Damn dude crashing out+1
@hellowill - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
yup. It was playing with my friends. Lucky I figured that out a while ago.+2
@kurku3725 - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
@Smrda1312 do you feel the real world is real? I am not really immersed into the stuff I do most of the days.+2
@Commandore456 - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
Nope, I didn't have friends and my family are assholes. I hated my childhood and adolescence, the few things I liked about it was the mass media of the time and looking forward to a job that stopped existing before I became 18.+2
@Smrda1312 - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
@kurku3725 Thats a good point. I have a separate comment on here touching on this. But ever since highschool life seems more on rails. Work training eat sleep repeat. Deffo feels like the matrix and nostalgia hits hard sometimes because of it. But its important to break the mold sometimes. Go on an adventure, try something new, or if you like go to a party and have fun and ruin your sleep schedule. Its important to feel alive occasionally.+3
@sfudman - 2025-06-03 11:26:18
The past ain't what it used to be+2
@Nov1706 - 2025-06-04 11:26:18
@GurtGobain Don't legitimize using the word "adult" as a verb. You are an adult. Being an adult kind of sucks. "Adulting" does not suck, because it isn't a thing.+2
@JonasThente-ji5xx - 2025-06-04 11:26:18
True, except for "quickly". I think it happens slowly or never.+2
@MateuszMisztela - 2025-06-04 11:26:18
@Wren1 Yes, but in many cases using the word "meant" is just a cheap attempt to legitimize one's subjective opinion. Especially in this case, when you realise that humans lived in small tribes through most of the species' history.+1
@justian1772 - 2025-06-05 11:26:18
I still love Dawn of War and the first Starcraft, but it's not 1997 any more and the way I view the world had irrevocably changed how I'm able to experience those games. The Nostalgia is real but time itself will cut that Gordian Knot. No one who is sane can keep doing what he does not enjoy.+2
@vadsmixinglab11 - 2025-06-11 11:26:18
But also you and how you approached the world at yhat time is gone+2
@CartieBlanche - 2025-06-11 11:26:18
@Wren1 extremely rare, ive had friends of 15 years whom i haveve considered almost like brothers that changed for the worse but at the moment it felt like this was a friendship for life. ofc at the time it felt like it was meant but that is rationality in an irrational world.+1
@Gu1d-0 - 2025-06-11 11:26:18
@GurtGobain ^ that exactly. people have to understand that this cringe clinging to nostalgia is just another form of fleeing what you know is right for you to do+1
@Fillup82 - 2025-06-03 11:26:19
The story of this decade.+43
@skylinefever - 2025-06-03 11:26:19
We see little ahead of us besides man made horrors beyond our comprehension.+29
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:26:19
I've been walking backwards for years. walking forwards, in reverse... you get it+24
@luukhaag8772 - 2025-06-03 11:26:19
That's what he's saying though. Don't go backwards. Keep going forward, but choose another path. Better yourself. Form a family. Work toward making the society around you better. You can make a difference. Just don't get stuck in the past.+8
@sukkeri - 2025-06-07 11:26:19
@luukhaag8772 accept meaninglessness and be happy despite that. it's absurd to even suggest one person can change anything. life just is what it is. making it better is just a human thought. life doesn't care about the thoughts of some random organisms that will be gone someday anyway.+3
@michaelfox8164 - 2025-06-10 11:26:19
People probably nostalgized in the 1500s back when we didn't have everybody reading those dang books and newspapers corrupting their minds with literature+1
@iLinked - 2025-06-03 11:26:19
Noone I'd rather listen to+17
@loomlarge - 2025-06-03 11:26:19
He’s yelling at us among the trees+20
@高安迪-o1y - 2025-06-03 11:26:19
I watched the video from front to back and no one was yelling+6
@rhubarb1073 - 2025-06-03 11:26:19
@高安迪-o1y its a reference to the meme you doink+6
@Goresmog - 2025-06-03 11:26:19
@rhubarb1073 reddit moment+7
@rhubarb1073 - 2025-06-03 11:26:19
@Goresmog i've seen that meme on /g/ a hundred times. Isn't that where half of Lukes followers come from lol+4
@gLitCheRR44 - 2025-06-03 11:26:19
*yells nervously while pacing+1
@InfoDisco - 2025-06-03 11:26:19
@rhubarb1073 AH yes, how absurd of someone to not know a reference to a literal meme. Clearly you are the more cultured man. Well done, Chud+1
@rhubarb1073 - 2025-06-03 11:26:19
@InfoDisco hey im just lettin him know lol. im not sayin any of that shit ur sayin+2
@koma7252 - 2025-06-06 11:26:19
damn you really stopped his whole online presence and destroyed his video making career with this one witty redditorial comment, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzinggggg+1
@Gu1d-0 - 2025-06-11 11:26:19
this dude is between 25 and 55 he rules tho+1
@HebiNoMe - 2025-06-14 11:26:19
And the trees answered: "Based!"+1
@Commandore456 - 2025-06-03 11:26:19
I was raised by boomers, I didn't have a choice.+9
@misatoblushing6913 - 2025-06-03 11:26:19
cringe!+3
@IrisJoens - 2025-06-14 11:26:19
@misatoblushing6913 *cringey/cringeworthy+1
@starflowie - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
😂+3
@sumkindacheeto - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
vs thad loathing+22
@skylinefever - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
The Vlad accelerationism.+10
@RAMZAVFX - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
wtf does tha make anemoia then+1
@spitfiremanlizerd - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
Despair has the same temping bitter flavor or alcohol. Look at the "Alcoholic society's vs stoner societies" meme and you will find the same dichotomy in people with a taste for sadness; but it's all pathological.+2
@ezu5131 - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
vs brad ruminescence+10
@mitaskeledzija6269 - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
Javascript and other frontend junk VS C, C++, Rust+4
@giberic - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
javascript is bloat install gabario+1
@p0indexter624 - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
is adhering to a religion nostalgic. do ppl carve out a definition to not include them selves. are classic reprinted books nostalgia. are ppl conflicted.+15
@NewEpictetus - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
we need more people like you+3
@whatevr-y9o - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
@kojitakamura2522 It must be left in the past. But you are right, religion is timeless in some sense, not others. But Christianity was always bad.+4
@sam-sp5zk - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
@whatevr-y9o What do you mean by "always bad"? Can you clarify as to why in your perspective is such?+14
@OthorgonalOctroon - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
@kojitakamura2522 it's already in the past, it's been nothing but copes ever since the prophesied end of the age did not come when the temple was destroyed (even during the writing of the gospels they were coping) edit: oh and I forgot all of Acts is a nostalgia fanfic of Paul in a previous apostolic age in which miracles actually were commonly seen (supposedly).+3
@bamremix8235 - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
@whatevr-y9o Absolute statements are almost necessarily false!+3
@whatevr-y9o - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
@bamremix8235 How clever of you to say 'almost' to avoid making an absolute statement. If you want to deny the statement better tell me when Christianity was good.+3
@OrthoDust - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
@OthorgonalOctroon We can in fact debate this lol on a voice call+1
@whatevr-y9o - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
@bamremix8235 Ok, I'm not saying every aspect of Christianity is bad, just that it's bad as a whole. And the good parts of Christianity were generally present in Judaism or pagan philosophy like Stoicism before.+2
@ezu5131 - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
@whatevr-y9oChristianity is good actually+7
@whatevr-y9o - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
@ezu5131 why+1
@bamremix8235 - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
@whatevr-y9o What is "whole" Christianity?? That is my point! You are reducing the nuances by bucketing them into one unity. And your "good parts" being present in Judaism or pagan philosophy is not the point. That instead proves my point that it can never be classified as bad as a whole.+3
@whatevr-y9o - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
@bamremix8235 Ok, let's say an obese man develops stomach cancer which leads to him losing a lot of weight. Would you say that it's unreasonable to call stomach cancer bad as a whole because it lead to one positive side effect in this case?+3
@GarrulousHerald - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
@whatevr-y9o let's say your brain sometimes allows you to make smart decisions like eating and breathing. Is your brain still good even though it also leads you to dropping terrible takes like this?+8
@John-g5l8z - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
Ecclesiastes was one of the first books that made me emotional when reading the bible. It was reading it for the first time at a certain point in my life when I needed it.+2
@LobotomyDC - 2025-06-03 11:26:20
@whatevr-y9o Are you Jewish?+4
@OthorgonalOctroon - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
@LobotomyDC >worships rabbi >calls people who don't worship said rabbi jews how does one learn to be this talmudic?+1
@whatevr-y9o - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
@GarrulousHerald Better to have terrible takes than the desire to waste other people's time and no takes.+1
@bamremix8235 - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
@whatevr-y9o Does anything in the basic tenets of christianity or what jesus said the reason for the "terrible" things that you see happening in jesus name? Or it is just the pride, jealousy, selfishness of the human heart that causes humans to act like that?+1
@OthorgonalOctroon - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
@OrthoDust while I could debate on a voice call (I am after all an apostate from a traditional baptist church) what is there to debate? After all I don't think there's much I can add to Mark 13, 1 Thessalonians 4 and Matthew 24 where he added the trumpet in, evidently referring to the same event from 1 Thessalonians, not a secret coming or the Church or whatever.+1
@whatevr-y9o - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
@bamremix8235 "Telling people to believe in God, telling people to rely on a savior instead of themselves. Blind faith is good, doubt is bad. Homosexuals are bad. Philosophy, or the "wisdom of the world" is bad." "Or it is just the pride, jealousy, selfishness of the human heart" It's both. A lot of people are bad, but it's better to give bad people good advice than to give them bad advice.+1
@LobotomyDC - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
@OthorgonalOctroon You tell me, Moshe.+2
@Cmontzter - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
“The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one. Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord? There they are in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous. You would shame the plans of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge. Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.” Psalm 14:1-7 ESV Psalm 53 repeats this message almost identically…+3
@Cmontzter - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
The need for a savior is apparent here. Jesus of Nazareth fulfills this desperately needed role.+2
@JesusChristLord2892 - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
Amen+3
@whatevr-y9o - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
@Cmontzter What do you think, would a Muslim quoting the Quran or a Hindu quoting the Bhagavad Gita convince you to convert to their religions?+3
@Cmontzter - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
@whatevr-y9o “Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.” Hebrews 4:11-13 ESV Certainly not; from my view those texts lack the divine inspiration of the Bible. Quoting scripture is not simply repeating mere wisdom or opinions; rather a direct statement from the creator of the universe. There is value in reading and understanding other religious texts, however.+3
@whatevr-y9o - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
@Cmontzter Yes, and your view is biased. You thinking this text is divinely inspired is just an opinion. Why should anyone just adopt your opinion?+1
@Cmontzter - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
@whatevr-y9o You’re correct, to someone else, my worldview is simply a combination of my culture/upbringing/experiences. I certainly wouldn’t expect anyone to believe what I do off mere words. Rather good character and personal relationships are the basis of spreading the Gospel. I use scripture as the foundation of my words. This maintains my integrity, consistency, and humility. “He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.” 1 John 2:2-6 ESV+4
@Cmontzter - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
Christianity is soiled by those who claim the name of Jesus and then cause pain and suffering to their fellow humans. But perhaps that could be said for any opinion or belief….+2
@oriolgonzalo1778 - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
What do you mean by "do ppl carve out a definition to not include them selves."?+1
@Spudcore - 2025-06-07 11:26:21
Ecclesiastes is a good book!+2
@alessandrorossi1294 - 2025-06-10 11:26:21
I struggle to take quotes like this from the bible seriously. It's easy to write this when you know your life matters. The people who founded Christianity mattered in a way I will never matter.+1
@Spudcore - 2025-06-10 11:26:21
@alessandrorossi1294 Your life does matter.+2
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
What you mean is.. You're not like You used to be.+6
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
@Idothinkysaurus I'm not even sure what you're referring to. I can't even see my comment. Isn't youtube lovely. lol+1
@Idothinkysaurus - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
@calholli Heh my comment is hidden from me too, probably a quirk of commenting in the notifications. I'm just saying "You're not like you used to be" while a positive affirmation is kind of ignoring the very real, external social changes that have occurred over the past 5 years. Hence grandma mug quote.+6
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
@Idothinkysaurus wow.. Now I can see both of my comments. but not YOUR (first) comment? Why is google so bad a code?.. Anyway: It's not a "gma hug quote" -- it's just the truth. As you grow older, you're not the same as that young kid. I basically never talk to anyone anymore; because I want it that way. When I was younger, I would be so eager to get out of the house and go to a friends house, etc.. I was pulled like a magnet and always on the go. It's not the same anymore.. I'm not the same... at all.+2
@user-so6so5pr2p - 2025-06-05 11:26:21
internet killed everything good about the world+5
@michaelfox8164 - 2025-06-10 11:26:21
I am not nostalgic for the hostility, its peaceful now, I should get out more for sure but its nice as an adult to not constantly have to worry, and realising oh sure there's threats in the world to worry about but not right now as most people just mind their business.+1
@Idothinkysaurus - 2025-06-11 11:26:21
@calholli Good for you. I'm the exact opposite. I used to hate everybody, I saw them as lesser and not worth talking to, and now as an adult I NEED social interaction. As a social being I NEED it, and I want it that way as my needs are my wants, receiving what I need is simply arbitrarily difficult these days. It's different for everybody. I want to talk, socialize and grow, others are seemingly incapable post Covid. Isolation lowers IQ.+3
@calholli - 2025-06-11 11:26:21
@michaelfox8164 I thought that too.. and then someone stole $2000 worth of sheet metal from me, off of my lot.. and another time someone tore the lock off of a box trailer I have and stole a huge stack of plywood. So yeah - You can't "have things" and live inside city limits. They can't both happen at the same time. Move out of town and get out of the open prison that is "city limits"- where the cops swarm like sharks after you, yet do nothing about the looters.. and I live in Oklahoma. where it's basically quiet here. I couldn't imagine living in a blue state right now. Send me to the WOODS.. I can't get there fast enough.+1
@michaelfox8164 - 2025-06-12 11:26:21
@calholli Do you feel safer in a red state? I read they have higher murder rates, and I see what you're saying you feel certain groups can get away with things while you feel targeted, but that does sound a bit like a victim complex to me.+1
@deitrichhenderson2078 - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
When before? How long ago? It's all a perception that you'll never get back+15
@francisco646 - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
I miss the world before smart phones. The moment the internet entered our pockets, everything changed for the worse.+50
@Hero_Of_Old - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
In a lot of ways it was+22
@viral0998hj - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
It was not better before, in some ways it was in some other not+9
@jacquesbonhomme8198 - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
@deitrichhenderson2078 pre WW1 Europe, 1950s America, basically any time that the family and religious institutions were in tact. Try again with this idiocy+16
@the81kid - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
They were relatively better. They were never good times.+5
@Nickelbawker - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
End game capitalism unfortunately. So our childhoods, people in their thirties and fourties were much better. But it's not just that 2012-14 when social media was still new was pretty glorious. Now it's like were re-experiencing the same garbo over and over. I think the best outcome would be for things to go back to how the internet was during the myspace days. I think that obama ruined it to a degree I'm sure a lot of people were fed up when he deleted a huge amount of data on the Internet and they gave up their servers or subscriptions. Not all of the data he deleted was copyrighted and we will never get it back+9
@NEVERGOON-e7q - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
Nostalgia is something else.+2
@jimc.goodfellas - 2025-06-03 11:26:21
In my mind, it's pre-9/11 and post-9/11+9
@PlasmaSnake369 - 2025-06-03 11:26:22
@deitrichhenderson2078 the early 90's era of 2D video games and sprite art. Video games went downhill from there in many ways+4
@ManwithNoName-t1o - 2025-06-03 11:26:22
based+3
@belstar1128 - 2025-06-03 11:26:22
@deitrichhenderson2078 300 million years ago before the dinosaurs ruined everything+2
@philalethes216 - 2025-06-03 11:26:22
These are not mutually exclusive.+1
@gLitCheRR44 - 2025-06-03 11:26:22
@viral0998hj At least in the Western World, it was certainly better before, the only things which have noticeably "improved" or increased since are technological capabilities (hardware) and addiction. Most other things have either stagnated or regressed. Just because things have never been perfect (and never will be) does not mean that it was not objectively better (measuring the overall happiness and satisfaction of the average person) in the past. Nuance is important.+6
@kthxpls - 2025-06-05 11:26:22
@Nickelbawker Capitalism is a system, and, it works. If you want to start talking about politics, left and right are two wings of the same bird. We do not live in a democracy but an occultocracy, all nations are corporations and we are all slaves. There's a reason why the person you mentioned here, deleted data from the internet, and It's not only him, but the “people” behind him.+2
@crowsinthenose - 2025-06-06 11:26:22
Things weren't better before. They're just worse now.+1
@skupire6547 - 2025-06-14 11:26:22
@jimc.goodfellas im also about to be 40 years old 😔+1
@SinkingStarship - 2025-06-03 11:26:22
There are different tiers of fandom, for instance the True Believers consoom New Star Wars Product enthusiastically and really believe it's great, the middle-level fan grumbles some but will still watch new episodes of whatever on Disney Plus at least some of the time, while the most reactionary fans hate the new stuff and scratch the Star Wars itch by checking out Expanded Universe novels from the 90s from the library and that sort of thing. The people who complain the loudest are in the third category, but have probably the lowest numbers of these three groups.+6
@offensivearch - 2025-06-03 11:26:22
I wonder if it is a kind of neotenization of humanity. We continue juvenile behaviors into older ages. It didn't start with millenials (boomers had their sports obsessions) and it won't end with them. Genz and alpha will be even further neotenized.+2
@rivciks5045 - 2025-06-03 11:26:22
Thank God I didn't watch Star Wars in my childhood+2
@ゲンソウ - 2025-06-03 11:26:22
I disagree, those are just big recognized brands that have better ability to reach new young audiences, they are not making much off older super fans.+8
@darrniess - 2025-06-03 11:26:22
Those are not succesful thoug.+1
@relayer6797 - 2025-06-06 11:26:22
Pokemon fan here. I just play fan games and rom hacks now, as they actually feel like Pokemon games.+4
@derekstevens164 - 2025-06-03 11:26:22
It is a poison you don't want too much of.+7
@NewEpictetus - 2025-06-03 11:26:22
bloatware+13
@Mipetz38 - 2025-06-03 11:26:22
This+2
@robertweeb-nc1wf - 2025-06-03 11:26:22
And that's why I use Arch Linux btw. It has no real versions, so there are no versions to feel nostalgic about.+6
@gLitCheRR44 - 2025-06-03 11:26:22
If nostalgia is bloat, then so is life itself. May as well stop wasting even more time and just get it over with already.+4
@Gu1d-0 - 2025-06-11 11:26:22
nostalgia definitively is a nightmarish agent of enthropy. Just stagnating, rolling in your own fading memories like a pig in shit. eyes on the future fellas+2
@MikeSW - 2025-06-03 11:26:23
I get feelings of it when I drive down back roads, if I am walking underneath trees mid day, if I get splashed with water... It is true that it exists in a highly concentrated form in media. I got an N64 and a copy of Mario Kart 64 from the thrift store many years ago, because I had it when I was a kid. Turning that on and seeing/hearing the title screen was an INSANE nostalgic rush - I could feel my whole body warm up.+19
@michaelns9887 - 2025-06-03 11:26:23
@MikeSW When I played games that I enjoyed in my teenage years, I got disappointed because in reality they are not as enjoyable as they are in my memory. So it's best to keep them as a memory.+13
@ponternal - 2025-06-03 11:26:23
Nostalgia is just the memory of a certain feeling and vibe.+2
@relayer6797 - 2025-06-06 11:26:23
@michaelns9887 The other way around is possible too, many games and shows you might not fully "get" until you replay/rewatch as an adult+2
@SinkingStarship - 2025-06-03 11:26:23
That's awesome. I tend to feel nostalgic for toys, TV shows, or games from when I was a kid only rarely from a sense of shared connections to other people. In my case, I didn't really enjoy other people that much and found them boring if they didn't have some toy or game for me to use, and most of the stuff I feel nostalgic about doesn't really involve other people at all, but I'm probably just an actual psychopath so don't take my anecdote too seriously.+3
@JonasThente-ji5xx - 2025-06-04 11:26:23
You are a great dad. I wish you were mine+3
@offensivearch - 2025-06-03 11:26:23
100%+5
@GeorgeFluoride-e2m - 2025-06-07 11:26:23
It’s impossible to not feel homesick in today’s America. I don’t even feel like I have a home even though I pay rent every month+2
@jsedge2473 - 2025-06-12 11:26:23
If you’re renting, you DONT have a home. You are paying a feudal lord to hang out in his home.+1
@GeorgeFluoride-e2m - 2025-06-12 11:26:23
@jsedge2473 im also dumping bacon grease down my feudal lords drain everyday+1
@SuperDuperSeb - 2025-06-15 11:26:23
Not the heckin microplasterinos+1
@Apjooz - 2025-06-03 11:26:24
pain+63
@codyphipps1871 - 2025-06-03 11:26:24
The gospel of Jesus Christ+48
@AlexMannDesigns - 2025-06-03 11:26:24
Vim+43
@prawtism - 2025-06-03 11:26:24
Enjouying is cringe, anti leninmaxx, anti dostoevskymaxx+15
@1337139 - 2025-06-03 11:26:24
Enjoy being. That's enlightenment.+8
@Dionyson678 - 2025-06-03 11:26:24
Programming languages originally for mainframes.+7
@presidentmorsi4677 - 2025-06-03 11:26:24
enjoyment is for little children and women+6
@gLitCheRR44 - 2025-06-03 11:26:24
@presidentmorsi4677 Then what are you doing consuming content here on YouTube in 2025?+13
@A-Goose-Berry - 2025-06-03 11:26:24
Not since the divorce+3
@miner4236 - 2025-06-03 11:26:24
@presidentmorsi4677 bro gay as hell 🤣+4
@sohlasattelite - 2025-06-07 11:26:24
Making things is very enjoyable. Just make sure you're making things, that benefit you in the future and you're set. Enjoying things just to feel enjoyment is a trap of indulgence, and you'll end up thinking resentful thoughts about the world, because it gets in the way of you indulging yourself.+3
@Gu1d-0 - 2025-06-11 11:26:24
crushing his ennemies+1
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:26:24
I see what you did there..+4
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:26:24
AsmrFuns1 He means: they aren't called Feelpads.+2
@MonsterGirlEnjoyer - 2025-06-03 11:26:24
AsmrFuns1 beloved Luke is slowly but surely transcending and forgetting what are feelings and how do they work, at least in my opinion, it's very Linux coded and Thinkpad based+2
@shebastang - 2025-06-03 11:26:24
Talk about waking up at the perfect time+2
@andrewpirr - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
Speed runner fatigue+33
@taluula - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
My drug dealer says that, too+3
@skylinefever - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
Some people have argued that speedrunners are much higher on th 'tism scale.+17
@Nickelbawker - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
%13 wtf, %13 of gamers? There's like what 100mil us gamers tops? I highly doubt there is that many speedrunners. Seems like there's only about 10,000 speedrunners or under 100k+1
@-WarCriminal-22 - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
@Nickelbawker you don't get the joke bro+22
@blackstar9481 - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
HRT and its consequences have been a disaster for the geek species+18
@gatogordo4131 - 2025-06-04 11:26:25
not only that, most hard core programmers are trans... se the creator of libre boot.+7
@aedd3307 - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
underrated comment+10
@toshibapriest - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
apparently he died+6
@SimonPertus - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
Speedrunners are hurt+12
@CommodoreGrayum - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
I see what you did there+3
@user-ayush818 - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
@CommodoreGrayum can you smell it too.+2
@Gu1d-0 - 2025-06-11 11:26:25
@SimonPertus exactly lol all I see is cope OOOF+1
@erics2860 - 2025-06-15 11:26:25
You missed the point entirely just to write a comment.+1
@nvxxu2i - 2025-06-15 11:26:25
@erics2860 you missed an obviously sarcastic comment just to write a comment+1
@user-ek8cd1gg3f - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
I have never been to the United States, but I have just watched that video and don't really get what you mean. What are you missing?+4
@leopardclaw5192 - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
Probably true but the problem is people end up drowning in whirlpools of wistfulness thinking about lost futures to the point they don’t actually do anything and they never end up actualising anything about those ideals or visions of what could’ve been+10
@youtubeenjoyer1743 - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
Bad take+6
@FlavourlessLife - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
@leopardclaw5192 Yeah wistfulness is an indulgence that doesn't help anyone.+1
@leopardclaw5192 - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
@FlavourlessLife I understand the idea of what you were saying but the general attitude amongst regular people is so predisposed towards wistfulness and inaction that nostalgia really is just nothing but poison. I think you’re missing the bigger picture if you think it ever practically drives people to some sort of idealistic ambition to restore the world. It really does the opposite 99% of the time+6
@jamm_affinity - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
Nostalgia can help you get back in touch with your younger self. That's usually what your body is sort of yearning for in those scenarios. It's not necessarily about playing a certain game, but bringing something back that you had but lost. Luke is becoming such a despairing old man already in his 30s. It's sad. What matters is what you DO with that notalgia. Sure, if you just go spend all of that energy playing a game or something that's not necessarily going to reconnect you with your roots that need nourishing. Just shoving it down and ignoring it is ironically another form of escapism and repression.+10
@misterkefir - 2025-06-03 11:26:25
Agreed.+1
@スミル日本 - 2025-06-05 11:26:25
@jamm_affinity how tf is ignoring nostalgia "escapism"? escaping the past to live in reality?+4
@jamm_affinity - 2025-06-05 11:26:25
@スミル日本 Because it is conveying a lacking desire of something from your past. Sure you can ignore it, but it will keep coming back unless you address the deeper cause of it. I’m not saying to return to the past but to rekindle pieces of your past self that you miss.+1
@muanla - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
used to do it myself and he's honestly right, it is a colossal waste of time and kind of ridiculous when taken from a certain perspective. i'm glad that nowadays i rarely if ever pick up any video game, in contrast to my teens when i would regularly spend 12 hours a day on them for years. it's pretty fucked but what can you do.+14
@gitarmats - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
@muanla I understand it when guys do it online for money. But the guys that were speedrunning games on N64 back in the day just for its own sake... That is mindblowing to me.+3
@lubert88 - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
@gitarmats never forget that there are people who spent over 1000 days leveling up a certain WoW Character. While a good number does it for gold farming many others dont+3
@zelllers - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
@gitarmats Yeah, I think Luke's description of it is framing it, but you can take a different perspective and see that many speed runners have never even played the games back in the day and are simply "creating a new game" out of competition with others.+9
@ttully - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
Lol what is this guy trying to prove? He acts like this shit has never before happened in history. It's like some freak in 1912 telling me to stop reading because I enjoyed it as a kid because it takes up time and is enjoyable.+19
@M_CFV - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
@ttully "Everyone in all times and places has some pining for their childhood" within the first 30 seconds. Maybe try actually listening to the video+8
@senshissgenjoyer2129 - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
Games are ok as long as you don't obsess over them and play for hours when you actually have responsibilities+9
@skylinefever - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
I saw speeruneers similar to people who did silly challenges in order to get to the Guinness Book Of World Records.+1
@iotku - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
@gitarmats not to mention most speedrunners aren't making a reasonable living off of speedrunning, and like all content creation there's a long tail there. There's people who have spent thousands to 10s of thousands of hours livestreaming some obscure game they love personally over the past 15 years and still have no meaningful viewership/money to show for it+5
@kurku3725 - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
@zelllers yeah it is like saying: you shouldn't play chess+1
@nicolassabio2470 - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
It's no more waste of time than any hobby. No more than music or writing. @muanla+4
@nicolassabio2470 - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
@iotku There's a lot of people that have spent thousands of hours reading and have made no money out of there. It's a hobby and the negative spin both this guy in the video and people in the comments try to take makes no sense. Let him stay on tech, honestly.+5
@milkman6218 - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
Most speedrunners i've seen do it as a hobby (if not a popular streamer) while they're in college getting some degree. It's the least destructive hobby and what Luke describe is a real boomer take on the subject. In fact I've seen many speedrunners who got into the hobby specifically because they thought tricks/glitches were really cool not really nostalgia.+1
@hyphenangel - 2025-06-04 11:26:26
Shots received.+1
@BobofWOGGLE - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
I just think about the 5000 year old Sumerian tablet somebody dug up, where the author's complaining that "the world is surely ending: corruption is rampant, children no longer listen to their elders, and every man wants to write a book"+93
@yt-xe8ws - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
It's not just nostalgia Things are getting worse.+48
@warmpondwater1610 - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
"Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got." Flannery O'Connor+31
@This_Account - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
"The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life." - Paul Morphy+7
@SquidSquabble - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
"Remember when is the lowest form of conversation" - Tony Soprano+4
@mikeehrmantraut3572 - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
You can’t really blame people for being nostalgic when the world is so garbage nowadays+30
@caegame9748 - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
blind nostalgia yes, if you think a little you realize nostalgia for the good things is good, and nostalgia for the useless things is bloat and if you don't have positive feelings for good things that starts having 10, 20, 30 years old, you're not a normal human you're a mindless bot+49
@4.0.4 - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
I disagree, even consumerist media can be a form of culture and you can have nostalgia for stuff that doesn't really exist anymore. Not because of item itself but the vibe. Is this bad? Only if you are stuck in the past. You can use it to inspire your future. "That thing was good, I know it because I lived it, so I'll create some of it anew, to my limited capacity".+20
@mnemonic_de - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
Guiness Book of World Records is full of "nonsense"-Speedrecords. It's a challenge. A lot of speedrunners speedrun games they have NOT played as kids. Not sure if the thesis of his is correct in this aspect.+29
@ImperfectCitizen - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
Interesting critique on the futility of Nostalgia, although I think you have discounted the utility of Nostalgia in acting as a failsafe for traditionalism and the recapture of compelling elements. Nostalgia provides context and directionality for the present and can be used to either revive or restructure elements of today.+14
@rustymustard7798 - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
You know what i'm actually nostalgic for? People who can hold a conversation without getting that blank dead eyes stare after 5 seconds and losing track of what was being said. People who can go 5 minutes without reaching for their comfort screen in their pocket to seek emotionally upsetting information. People who can go on a 5 mile hike and not complain that it's "hard, boring and everything is so quiet and the fresh air is burning my sinuses can we head back? The season 2 premiere of Slop comes out on Netflix today we gotta hurry!" It's why i don't bother interacting with these cybergoblins, we're not on the same planet, we don't even breathe the same air.+6
@AustrianHungAryan - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
My parents restored a 1959 classic car because that's the car their parents drove them in. It doesn't fit in the garage. They babied that car more than they did ME! It blocks the laundry machines. I escape to Fallout New Vegas and even there the Boomers demand you put your Hoover Dam quest on hold SO THAT THEIR VEHICLE IS RESTORED!+48
@usmcp - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
Always describe never prescribe. RIP LUKE SMITH 19XX-20XX "HE DESCRIBED THINGS"+15
@ryanpmcguire - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
A friend of mine died recently and was a bit of a hoarder, attached to his old junkyard. Admittedly he had spent his whole long life (~90 years) collecting some pretty intriguing stuff. I appreciate that he felt a connection to his things which represented a sort compendium of his life told through objects. But as one who is the same, I recognized it as spiritual challenge. I pray often that the holy spirit through christ will (or hopefully has) transform(ed) his soul to free him of these attachments. There's nothing for him now on the earth (for now).+24
@alexhichamk6630 - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
what are your views on : I feel so late in life, i am 27 years old about to graduate , keep comparing my self to my colleagues who already built a family and have a career. please give a like so Luke can sees it, thank you.+17
@voidvoid5151 - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
"Nostalgia destroys souls, consume more new goyslop and never go back to the good old times."+37
@gonootropics2.065 - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
Why feel nostalgic for the past when you can be miserable in the now+17
@teeonline - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
Games like SOMA are actually worth playing because of their story.+20
@nnnyuy88yhj - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
I dislike how nostalgia stops people from progressing further in their lives. They won't seek our new opportunities, new things to like, new experiences to live through, because they know they have these safe choices that won't ever disappoint them.+15
@nicknewaccount7536 - 2025-06-03 11:26:26
The rapid change is probably also why boomer advice is so awful. In the past you became a wise old man as you aged, now you just become an old man screaming at clouds.+60
@pancake_revolution - 2025-06-03 11:26:27
well, the sumarian civilization did in fact end+48
@BradScott-ys6ot - 2025-06-03 11:26:27
how to increase book income so you dont have to dig with hands for career… yep… same sh1t😂+1
@irixperson - 2025-06-03 11:26:27
And he was right.+11
@gLitCheRR44 - 2025-06-03 11:26:27
Maybe they exaggerated a little bit since the world didn't literally end, but it otherwise sounds like they nailed the truth.+1
@ponternal - 2025-06-03 11:26:27
People back then were not so different from us today+4
@Rybaczuniek - 2025-06-03 11:26:27
This it apocryphal.+1
@BobofWOGGLE - 2025-06-03 11:26:27
@Rybaczuniek I can't actually read cuneiform, I just have to trust that the museum's chief greybeard is telling the truth about what it says.+3
@GeorgeFluoride-e2m - 2025-06-07 11:26:27
His civilization was in its end stage just like ours+1
@gLitCheRR44 - 2025-06-03 11:26:27
yes, nostalgia is just the realization+1
@Gu1d-0 - 2025-06-11 11:26:27
let's be honest things were never that great to begin with it's just that we become more easily aware of it now+1
@xgui4-studio - 2025-06-03 11:26:27
yes that very very very true+9
@xgui4-studio - 2025-06-03 11:26:27
but i miss my childhood cause i waa Innocent and didn't know what was happening...+2
@vetrixfx9264 - 2025-06-03 11:26:27
i think the message is more like "stop being an NPC who tries to mimic the days of old, try to make the world a better place"+7
@SiriusFocquiew - 2025-06-03 11:26:27
I agree. I don't think speed runs have much to do with nostalgia. It's closer in my mind to the motivation to find exploits, glitches, etc in games that allow a player to do things the creators of the game didn't intend, combined with a bit of desire for recognition or belonging (to the relatively small group of people who can or even want to successfully speed run versus the larger gaming community). I get his larger points about nostalgia , but I think the view of gaming presented here in support of them was a little reductive, and not representative of the full spectrum of the reasons people play and like games.+9
@Optimus6128 - 2025-06-10 11:26:27
One would say speed running is a waste, another would claim it's not because you still left a name in history of speedrunning. And I would be more with the second, but the point is other. I would say we shouldn't obsess as much about what is a waste. Me deciding what to do in my life no matter how absurd, I will waste more time worrying that others will find my activities wasteful, than the time I actually spent in the activities.+1
@Nickelbawker - 2025-06-03 11:26:28
Damn. 70s rigs were better. They restored the wrong rig that's their problem 😂+5
@5kN9 - 2025-06-03 11:26:28
lmao+1
@BradScott-ys6ot - 2025-06-03 11:26:28
😂😂😂+1
@Smougda - 2025-06-03 11:26:28
I want an old car too, sadly old cars are illegal here.+1
@luukhaag8772 - 2025-06-03 11:26:28
Just remember that he didn't himself.+1
@selfhosted918 - 2025-06-03 11:26:28
Comparison is the thief of joy.+19
@MateuszMisztela - 2025-06-03 11:26:28
You (and they) will die eventually, so do not take it so serious.+6
@coldwater5707 - 2025-06-03 11:26:28
Your friends started unusually young compared to where I live. When I was about 30 my dad told me “snap, snap…give me some grandkids”. I redoubled my efforts and found a wife and had kids. I graduated about the same age as you.+6
@skylinefever - 2025-06-03 11:26:28
I don't really know what to say, as sometimes our brains won't obey the orders to not compare. All I can say is that far too often we might try to do things on schedule or ahead of schedule, but reality doesn't give a damn about our schedule books.+3
@reralt - 2025-06-03 11:26:28
Same as you brother. Same age about to graduate. Religion keeps me steady in life. Otherwise I would have given up on life a long time ago.+4
@gLitCheRR44 - 2025-06-03 11:26:29
@DexxxxT not really, the new stuff bears little resemblance+4
@AnomymAnonym - 2025-06-03 11:26:29
am new to this channel, and yeah, his take was way off base on this one..+3
@TheMinskyTerrorist - 2025-06-03 11:26:29
not what he's saying+3
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:26:29
They are basically the same thing.+2
@Bleeeaaoop - 2025-06-03 11:26:29
There's lots of awesome games and he's just salty no one plays with him anymore.. Or he's alone in life, idk, I think he needs a family to share his nostalgia with...+7
@misterkefir - 2025-06-03 11:26:29
Many such cases.+4
@youcefsiouda - 2025-06-09 11:26:29
He's a bit pessimistic+3
@SinkingStarship - 2025-06-03 11:26:29
This is a great point, and I think a stronger rationale than the video gave. On the other hand, people increasingly don't have much motivation to "progress," and there's not really an objective notion of what that means in our deranged society.+3
@skylinefever - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
I saw boomer advice as telling people to do what works in a world that no longer exists.+39
@gwills9337 - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
@skylinefever yes this. In earlier times you would look back at the previous generations for wisdom.+4
@HoratioFitzbastard - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
@gwills9337 Wasn't much less rare then than it is now.+1
@DanielKhastou-zs5yp - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
Strangely enough, the answer I’ve found to this problem is to stay as youthful as possible. You never have to be nostalgic if you keep a young mindset and keep trying new things. It sounds like I’m an old person when I say this but I’m only 22 and I can feel the world dulling unless I make an active commitment to try and expand my mind and experience.+8
@daniel.renacido - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
To sum up: Nostalgia makes you hopeless, and hope is the virtue we need to persevere on good, and keep continuity.+3
@BinaryDood - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
the only correct speed to live is the seed of mind. "If there is one lesson mankind will learn in the 21st century, is that it is not meant to live at the speed of light" - Marshal McLuhan+8
@Benjaminivc - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
Anxious people look to the future, depressed people look to the past.+5
@williamfound1069 - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
"The past is never dead. It's not even past". -- William Faulkner "Requiem for a Nun"+6
@lunchbergeron3434 - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
i think nostalgia nukes a lot of young guys in their early 20s especially. Thats when childhood essentially ends and you have to start being an adult, and the society around us does nothing to prepare us for that mental jump into manhood which historical societies had entire rituals for. Also almost all new games suck and are extremely predatory in their monetization so its really tempting to just play minecraft again even though that game is a massive time sink.+21
@CataciousAmogusevic - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
Seen many people damaged severely due to nostalgia+16
@jahve3002 - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
I think there is some inaccuracy in what is said in the video. The important thing is in the inner state, in motivation, that is, are you acting out of fullness or out of emptyness. What author actually means when says 'nostalgia' is a symptom of emptyness, when one tries to fill the emptiness with memories of happy moments, the moments when life had life in it. In this sense, nostalgia isn't bad nor good in itself, that is just the attempt to restore inner peace. It is a good thing when used well, when you manage to find support in it. The bad thing if you become addicted to it, and instead of thinking about the reasons of suffering and the ways to stop it, you just hide in memmories. In the same sense, the mentioned speedrunnig games isn't bad in itself. You can do it out fulness and make a lot of fun in the process. Honestly, it feels kind of wrong the way author critisizes it as a whole, it is kind of not smart generalization and I don't feel any christian love in how the author does it+12
@McMurphyMillions - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
Is reading the classics not reveling in nostalgia? The nodern "retro nostalgia" is infantalization and arrested development, but theres a point that you're just denying yourself joy.+6
@thekhantv_5481 - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
reminds me of a bruce lee quote “to change with change is the changeless state”.+6
@Hikanon2 - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
listened to this while i was playing minecraft with 3 guys i knew since elementary. perhaps you're right.+4
@cinemint-music - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
I very realized that what I missed the most was taking for granted that things were good. The only thing that stays the same eternally is Christ and his church. Christ has ascended! ☦️+1
@jellyfrosh9102 - 2025-06-06 11:26:30
Is it really nostalgia when things WERE objectively better?+6
@Ryan-xq3kl - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
No offense but just because you had a shitty childhood or even early life doesnt mean everyone else did. Nostalgia can be perfectly normal. Obsession with nostalgia is not nostalgia just like obsession with eating is not eating, it's binging.+25
@WilliamMcAdams - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
Nostalgia has to serve an actual purpose. I'm not certain what, but it simply has to. I know companies hire psychologists to the tune of millions to bio-hack the human body to "buy more product," and I know that they have hijacked the nostalgic responses. But those responses are natural. They aren't implanted. So, then, what is the natural function of nostalgia? I've never thought to ask before today.+18
@garret918 - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
CLARIFICATION GUY SINCE NOBODY ACTUALLY LISTENED. He's not condemning "nostalgia" as a whole, he's just warning of it's dangers and providing examples. There's a difference between fond memories and nostalgia; nostalgia inherently has a negative connotation to it. People are conflating the two, and he's using the term nostalgia in both ways somewhat. Don't have "nostalgia" over dumb shit. Feelings of nostalgia do not suddenly validate whatever you have nostalgia for guys. "Nostalgia" (or fondness) for genuinely better times is just wanting a return to traditions/experiences that shouldn't have been done away with; he isn't taking about Nostalgia in this sense per se. He's talking about how nostalgia is used against you, and why you need to be able to move on and focus on better things. In addition to this, what he is saying is that generations are having such different environmental upbringings, so quickly, it's getting harder to have shared, intergenerational/cultural "nostalgia/memory". This is important to have in a culture. I don't think he'd go as far to say that generations have NOTHING in common, but the ability to relate is getting noticeably harder.+5
@gLitCheRR44 - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
Nostalgia doesn't destroy souls, nostalgia is the very essence of the soul.+2
@JohnnyN-I - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
Man, I really miss the days when Luke used to tell us how based suckless software was.+28
@terathan33 - 2025-06-14 11:26:30
Playing video games is no bigger waste of time than aimlessly walking around the woods insulting people that play video games.+2
@bluedeskfan2754 - 2025-06-03 11:26:30
I get nostalgic for a world that was long gone before I was even born.+9
@Crytoma - 2025-06-03 11:26:31
Yes+3
@miojao-r7r - 2025-06-05 11:26:31
Brilliant sentence.+1
@jamm_affinity - 2025-06-03 11:26:31
What's important is a person's relationship to the activity they engage in. Is it used to escape life, or to enhance it? A drink every now and then can enhance your life. Playing a video game sometimes can as well. The universal "truth" of viDeO GamEs bAd is something spouted by the same types of people that genuinely believe they are going to a paradise when they die, not realizing that is just escapism of a different kind. I go through Minecraft phases every few months and they are great. New games are trash. Don't let this bitter man convince you to not enjoy an amazing game just because it's old. He’s projecting his despair onto others+4
@gLitCheRR44 - 2025-06-03 11:26:31
This is very true, but, leaving childhood behind is much easier when you live/exist in a healthy and familiar society which actually embodies your culture, interests, values, traditions, and heritage, where your neighbors are actually rooting for you to succeed and often willing to lend a helping hand. Alot of this just doesn't exist anymore, and yet this is how humans have always lived/survived and gotten by from one generation to the next. Now more than ever it feels like it is every man for himself.+2
@kurku3725 - 2025-06-03 11:26:31
@jamm_affinity don't let the bitterman convince you new games are trash)+1
@Wren1 - 2025-06-03 11:26:31
People in their 20s are too young to experience nostalgia and I always have a chuckle when I hear someone talk about things from 10 years past as if it were a lifetime ago. It's something that happens to everyone when they are young; we desperately want to be, or at least perceived as, older. It's not until most people hit middle age that they truly grasp their mortality and have the life and loss of loved ones (whether that be deaths of family members or children leaving home) behind them to experience nostalgia. Mid life crises are a manifestation of that desire to return to innocence. For me, I'm seeking a balance between the best aspects of myself now and attempting to restore the best aspects of myself from my youth. It's going to take some doing, but that is the person I strive to be.+2
@jamm_affinity - 2025-06-03 11:26:31
@Wren1 This is absolutely not true. For someone who is only 25 for example, 12 years ago WAS half a lifetime ago..+2
@Wren1 - 2025-06-03 11:26:31
@jamm_affinity Half of 25 years is not anywhere close to a lifetime, but if you're only 25 then I don't expect you to be able to fully comprehend that. When we're young, everything appears exaggerated, including time.+3
@jamm_affinity - 2025-06-03 11:26:31
@Wren1 It IS half of a lifetime from their perspective. What is a lifetime? It’s the total amount of time someone has been alive. It’s not some set age. All you are doing is trying to reduce the emotional phenomenon of younger people, saying that they are not able to experience a yearning for the past which is absolute bull. I’m not even 25, it was just an example. I do agree that as time goes on maybe nostalgia can grow deeper roots, but that doesn’t mean that young people are incapable of experiencing a very simple emotional phenomenon.. There’s no light switch where suddenly in middle age you can experience nostalgia.+1
@kurku3725 - 2025-06-03 11:26:31
nostalgia is very good actually, the itching that it has, the sadness - it is a call to action a call to bring back something valuable that there existed you just need to listen to it and revive it, clean up the dust...+2
@PlasmaSnake369 - 2025-06-03 11:26:32
Eastern Orthodox Church arguably is embedded with nostalgia for the Byzantine empire the way that icons must be drawn to the art style of that specific time and place+4
@darukutsu - 2025-06-03 11:26:32
so you don't eat when you have obsession with eating?+1
@jamescobblepot4744 - 2025-06-03 11:26:32
Sounds like you're in denial my dude+2
@windy6587 - 2025-06-03 11:26:32
Nostalgia is imo a recipe for attachment. It makes sure we stick to the same things we used to, and maybe maintain a form of repetition that ensures survival. Like for example families, friendship, some food you like or some useful item- things that on repetition keep you going in terms of living as long as you don't deattach+6
@nnnyuy88yhj - 2025-06-03 11:26:32
Nostalgia a few hundred years ago: feeling at peace because you visit your childhood house after 20 years Nostalgia in 21st century: cried because of a bunch of pixels you saw when you were young+12
@WilliamMcAdams - 2025-06-03 11:26:32
@windy6587 An interesting and valid viewpoint. Highly probable this is (at least) close to the truth of it.+1
@sumkindacheeto - 2025-06-03 11:26:32
A question like that is like asking "what's the purpose of memory?" Which probably was a survival mechanism. But nostalgia seems like more of a recurring memory, doesn't it? Now, what value, what purpose would that recurrence have to someone? Would ascribing emotion to it serve a purpose? Maybe the feeling is misplaced because not everyone thinks the same, whose to say it's a good thing or a bad thing? Could it be the recognition of the loopy, cyclical nature of things or something else entirely?+3
@computernerd8157 - 2025-06-03 11:26:32
I 100% agree with you. My guess is so a parent can love their adult child.+2
@WilliamMcAdams - 2025-06-03 11:26:32
@sumkindacheeto Memory serves a rather important function, and nostalgia is (at least, seemingly) related to memory. Seems nostalgias function could be important by proxy. Several good theories have cropped up in the replies. All based around the idea of "ascribing value to something."+3
@Octochiken - 2025-06-03 11:26:32
Not all natural responses have a purpose. It could be a side-effect of something else that does have a function.+2
@Wren1 - 2025-06-03 11:26:32
Perhaps it serves to remind us to not take things for granted. There is nothing I would not give up to have just one more day with my lost loved ones, and I often regret not spending time that I 'wasted' on unimportant activities with them instead. I know that I'm being unfair to myself, but the feeling of guilt does help me to prioritise those who are still alive. Perhaps it's also a way to help us with the cynicism and world-weariness that comes with age.+1
@infopierlu - 2025-06-03 11:26:32
Are u nostalgic ?¿ XD+6
@godnyx117 - 2025-06-03 11:26:32
Their software sucks. Very limited and patching is very inefficient and bad+5
@baseballworldwide9439 - 2025-06-16 11:26:33
cope response+1
@gigas10 - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
You should watch midnight in Paris+1
@FistaKiller - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
It isn't "long gone", it never existed. Its just in your head.+2
@SHspesh - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
You have to agree that we're living in an unprecedented era that only just began 30 or so years ago. Rapid technological advancements, mass immigration and the social changes brought on by these things, major social changes never before seen in history. These are unique times and I think nostalgia today is more than just a longing for youth and a simpler life/lack of responsibilities. I miss when I could take a fucking walk outside without my life being in danger. The question is what is the solution and how to we move forward because there's no going back. A respect for the past and contempt for the mistakes made that we should learn from, instead of just locking yourself in a man cave with all the stuff that helps you relive the wonder of discovery and magic of youth. I don't even remember what my point is, I think just that there's a reason nostalgia is so much more common now and it shouldn't be taken as lightly as "stop playing retro video games" although I understand the context. Also, things objectively were better before the 2010s.+27
@p0indexter624 - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
interesting topic, let me offer a nuance. historical continuity is important regarding what got us here. generations overlap. being born in the 60.s and growing up in the 70s and until the emergence of the internet all media reflected historical continuity in part because we didnt have the option of alternate feeds of information that you could merely select. we had to find it (library/media) or formally learn it academically or more importantly by experience. this allowed generations to be on the same page historically and socially. the current pace of life is not organic and is engineered and virtues that got us here have been forgotten and replaced by false wisdom. historical continuity has been broken by the engineered pace of life and the results leave generations alienated from their history and waxing nostalgically makes them sad because they want it. unemployed devs are waxing nostalgic for the good ol days before they coded their own demise. this is more of a reflection of what's wrong w/ our current engineered society that some have benefited from and others not while forgetting how we got here. generations have been silo'd and isolated. betrayed. i would argue forgetting what got us here and the engineered pace of society is what IS destroying our souls.+7
@alexxx4434 - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
I was nostalgic for one local man going into woods to yell at the clouds until Luke returned+2
@zeph199-n4x - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
Nostalgia can be ok as a temporary indulgence but dont make it a habit+7
@athaclanor - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
They squeeze the life out of your beloved childhood franchises in front of your eyes, they don't just quietly fade away. Disney would kill us for money without hesitation.+3
@2amv685 - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
Nostalgia is just another human need. Once it’s satisfied, it fades and makes room for the next. For example, the urge to listen to an old song to feel nostalgic disappears once you’ve heard it, the emotional need has been met.+3
@davefrance4355 - 2025-06-08 11:26:33
Lots of people triggered hearing the uncomfortable truth+3
@kalliste23 - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
The past is another country.+4
@realCaptainFordo - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
Your point against video games can be applied to books, film, virtually anything leisurely. If I pick up a game, play for an hour, and forget about it until I pick it up again, that is no different than me reading a fiction book or watching a film. Yes there are games that are designed to be addictive, but that isn’t an inherent piece of the medium. If your position is that consuming any and all creative work by yourself is wrong, then that’s one thing, but not the argument you seem to be making.+23
@Ultrajamz - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
I think if nostalgia fuels fixing thing (for example MAGA) it can be good, but if its something that makes you just mope around and stagnate, it is very bad.+6
@pallokala44 - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
You have never experienced life to the fullest if you haven't played your favorite childhood games on a 4K OLED monitor through emulation and listened to the game music on audiophile headphones.+11
@RoofusRoof19 - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
I'm nostalgic for luke's linux content+4
@iGavid_Doggins - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
Constantly thinking about the good old days, while forgetting about the present. That's me...+2
@Jader7777 - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
I'm less nostalgic and more gobsmacked how modern games are garbage and how profoundly well made games from the 90s and 00s are. It's not that I am going back, is that there is so little going forward.+21
@SNDBPOSS - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
One nit pick, Pokémon card scalping is more degenerate than video game speed running. IMHO+8
@YeloPartyHat - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
I very much do think the "kids are different but the school is the same" in that the difficulties people face are very different in how they manifest, but the underlying problems are still the same. E.g: Depression, loss, finding meaning etc... If this wasn't the case, education itself would not work.+5
@mynameismud8596 - 2025-06-06 11:26:33
Let's be real, it was nearly as much of a consumers' world back then as it is now. We just didn't know about it+2
@skylinefever - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
You bring up a good point. Was the past better because it was better, or was it because in childhood life feels like there is genuine magic in the world? I think about how much motivation involves emotions. People can say what they like about emotions being low quality or inferior, or whatever. However, good luck genuinely negotiating out emotions by pure cold facts and logic. I often said that I dream of a world that no longer exists and can't be accessed, problem is, the psychological "Priority list" I have just does not want to budge by doing the usual advice. Knowing that an item is inaccessible and telling myself that doesn't actually remove "Seek out that world" from the mental priority list. I argued that vaporwave art exists due to nostalgia. People wanted Tron to be real and were bummed it didn't happen.+5
@ponternal - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
I feel like nostalgia goes deeper than just material consumption, it’s the memory of a certain vibe or feeling. Even when I think back to a boring or terrible part of my life there is a weird feeling I get when I relive it where it feels like I am back there.+2
@simonplays5982 - 2025-06-03 11:26:33
I remember the quote " Remember when is the lowest form of conversation." - Tony Soprano,+5
@deathsinger1192 - 2025-06-03 11:26:34
Immigration didn’t make things more dangerous, that’s just a fact. You have a point with the other things you say. Maybe we will be able to properly judge the events of the last 35 years once things have settled down again, which I‘ll hopefully live to see.+1
@BiruKarurin - 2025-06-03 11:26:34
" A respect for the past and contempt for the mistakes made that we should learn from, " The elves called it "wisdom."+4
@misterkefir - 2025-06-03 11:26:34
The last phase of this catastrophical change happened somewhere between 2012 and 2015.+4
@altvibr - 2025-06-16 11:26:34
i just puked a little+1
@matthias6933 - 2025-06-03 11:26:34
I think there should be made a distinction between unhealthy escapism that might be associated with nostalgia and just finding enjoyment in media you have familiarized yourself with and developed a certain taste for that just happens to be from an older generation. Especially when the status quo in media is as awful as it is nowadays. See books; people generally don't see you as being blinded by nostalgia just because you find some older literature geniunely great.+5
@arthurfrayn7619 - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
If he went to college/is over 22 years old and speed running is the most degenerate thing he's seen? He's probably just being hyperbolic though.+1
@iiisaac1312 - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
Scalping is actually based though. It should be done to everything from pokemon cards to heckin VIDEO GAME GPUS and CONSOLES.+1
@vetrixfx9264 - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
Remember when Tony Soprano said "'Remember when...' is the lowest form of conversation."?+14
@Rybaczuniek - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
Looking into the future, and indulging in fantasies, can also be dangerous+3
@CausticTitan - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
If I am not allowed to enjoy the art produced today, I will have no desire to create a better tomorrow.+4
@eeleye733 - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
'nostalgia' comes from 'nostos' and 'algos'- literally homesickness+2
@hgriff14 - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
i heard another youtuber say that nostalgia is just a form of depression and i’ve never heard a better description for it since.+7
@Bacon_Is_Medicine - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
Nostalgia is more powerful than history.+2
@kevinarea - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
Luke, you are so right. I threw away my nostalgia and told my kids not to hold onto anything that they think I was attached to from my youth. Instead remember and tell stories of me and their mother whenever possible.+5
@TactDB - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
I'm nostalgic for discovery. There is no more discovery in the world.+3
@Wren1 - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
Meh, I'm significantly older than you and I prefer most things from times past and I'm fine sticking mostly to them. For me, simpler is better and there are very few modern things that I care about even slightly. Call it nostalgia, call it an attempt to back to the past, make up whatever excuse you need to try to posture over others. All you're doing is demonstrating righteous insecurity by belittling what others like because you have nothing better to do and that is sad.+24
@gLitCheRR44 - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
Yes, we need to return to tradition. There is simply no other way forward, the nation will not survive. All that's left is to take action. Nature will win.+2
@kevalan1042 - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
So... you're nostalgic for the world before the world took nostalgia away from us+8
@pelshifter - 2025-06-08 11:26:35
Nostalgia can be a powerful guide. It reminds us of what once gave us joy and meaning. Playing an old game or listening to a song from the past isn't wrong, it can be really nice. But if we use nostalgia to avoid the present, it can become a trap.+1
@AVGNEmpire - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
Nostalgia is just a meme, a word created by envious and bitter people that didn't have great childhoods, so they belittle yours by saying "you're just nostalgic" Misery loves company+14
@koma7252 - 2025-06-06 11:26:35
i've been recommended this guy's video few times - clicked - and now im going thru the playlist. not a single lie detected yet, but also, very interesting to observe the comments, to see the typical baseline redditor spergouts and witty zinger attempts. very cute to see them hiss at truth being spoken and trying to divert with boomer memes and basketball american tier "digs" (hair, clothes etc lmfao), always entertaining.+3
@silentJET85 - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
“Any hobby that I personally don’t like is a waste of time and degenerate.” Cringe take.+24
@gabor_kov - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
I think in broader terms, the thief of joy is comparisons.+3
@MM-op6ti - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
Nostalgia is a form of depression+10
@honkhonk1555 - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
I pine for a time before the coin clippers infected everything. I call nOOstalgia.+3
@UserUser-zc6fx - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
I dunno bruh, Super Mario Bros 3 is still pretty fun.+8
@chetcrypto3210 - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
I am nostalgic for his Linux tutorials.+2
@signalworks - 2025-06-03 11:26:35
Unc lost me with this one... How could you live in a stable world or do great things if you don't foster internal stability through introspection and looking back? I'd argue that getting swept up in the rat race of modern society where you have to be faster and better and cheaper, is more dangerous, because it makes you blind to the bigger picture and prevents you from doing what is truly great or what makes you happy.+10
@Jake-Day - 2025-06-03 11:26:36
Arguably more dangerous.+2
@SinkingStarship - 2025-06-03 11:26:36
Or maybe alternately: if I'm not allowed to produced art produced yesterday, I have no alternative to the garbage produced today and no incentive to make something better tomorrow.+5
@D.A-k6g - 2025-06-03 11:26:36
Pfffff absolute nonsense+2
@misterkefir - 2025-06-03 11:26:36
coal alarm+2
@armannstraughter3296 - 2025-06-03 11:26:37
😄+1
@jamm_affinity - 2025-06-03 11:26:37
This is exactly how I'm starting to see Luke. He is a despairing man yelling at anything new. He's becoming a bitter old man already in his 30s. There's kernels of truth in the things he says, but they are all half baked and incoherent.+2
@davefrance4355 - 2025-06-03 11:26:37
Clearly didn’t say that, and it’s his opinion either way+1
@jamescobblepot4744 - 2025-06-03 11:26:37
AsmrFuns1 "I personally enjoy videogames therefore it's a worthwhile hobby" isn't an argument either though. I've spent 10s of thousands of hours gaming and yes, it's mostly a wasteful destructive hobby robbing you of valuable time you could be spending actually engaging with the world. Denying this is foolish, and simulating synthetic experiences isn't really something we should be striving to do, much less defending+1
@luukhaag8772 - 2025-06-03 11:26:37
Everything is fine in moderation. Just don't get obsessed about it.+1
@CommodoreGrayum - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
Looking back to what? Video games and TV shows?+2
@CommodoreGrayum - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
AsmrFuns1 It doesn't make them happy. Also, even if it did, something making someone happy, doesn't automatically make it good.+2
@JacksJournale - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
The only reason my kids didn’t experience dirt bikes or motorcycles like I did is because a Kawasaki is not $600 anymore. More like $6000! A Harley Sportster isn’t $4300 1980s prices. it’s now 16 thousand! But paychecks in the south are stuck in 1985! Things change because you can no longer afford it! My grandmother bought a brand new car about every 12 years. Because she could afford it and paid cash! I’ve never been able to afford a brand new car. She worked in a sweat shop! My father bought a brand new Chevy truck in 1964 and I don’t remember the price but it was $65 per month.+3
@lucienHAHAHAH - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
You mention Zelda. Zelda is an artpiece that can still be enjoyed just as well as before - it's not dead, even if hidden away in collections. It's a western problem, where media is stored away and labelled and hidden in archives, but if you ever go to Japan you will see the art tradition of games, companies, etc. you so easily disregard as "slop" live on organically. Sequels, games taking inspiration from this and that, doujin music, Video games were never a waste of time. The video games just got bad because the culture changed. And there is nothing wrong with wishing that the little light that shined through and was archived and forgotten comes back. Speedrunning is just playing the artpiece in more interesting ways and see what can be done with it. That's not degenerate, it's not about reliving something, it's about delving into a work. Japan has continuity. Japan has speedrunning. Japan has living art. Japan has loyalty to "consumerist brands". And all these things work and fit together because their culture never had Obama, not because they don't have "nostalgia" or because it's changing over time.+12
@jeffreysmith9837 - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
Grow with the new generation. Learn with them+2
@Hammid - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
This is the first time I find myself STRONGLY disagreeing with Luke. Nostalgia is the force, besides Christ the Lord, that keeps me going. The innocence of the 80s, 90s and 00s are to be cherished, treasured and paid tribute to for as long as I live. Besides that, a lot of my passion and drive in life comes from Nintendo®, DOOM®, and METAL GEAR SOLID® series to name a few – along with Linux and Macintosh.+4
@leonbishop7404 - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
I will have nostalgia about watching this video in 5 years+2
@avroml - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
MAGA is literally based on nostalgia after unspecified times when USA was allegedly "great".+27
@WALLEXD1 - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
“Don’t look back—you’re not going that way.”+1
@witherbossmoregamesc - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
Luke dropping truth nuke on the speedruning thing. One my classmate was into speedrunning and achievment hunting and he trooned out recently!+5
@apollo1707 - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
I see a great soul in this man !!+3
@1d10tcannotmakeusername - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
Don't miss the past, implement a superior version in the future+15
@edwardcumpstey9061 - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
I'm nostalgic for a time when advice videos weren't a thing.+2
@evangaynor4211 - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
Looks like somebody didn't like the oblivion remaster+3
@gr8ape111 - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
What about nostalgia for a dude that died 2000 years ago?+51
@CeoLogJM - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
I hope one day each person will get a random book, a random song, from a thousand years ago, and be forced to live out someone else's nostalgia, never letting a human life's memory fully die.+1
@JonathanPlasse - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
This is the Buddhism concept of Impermanence.+6
@Diogenes-96 - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
I disagree, as usual… nostalgia isn’t poison, it’s a sign that your current life sucks, or maybe even that the current world sucks. Nostalgia is a signal that you need to go back and focus on what’s valuable to you again. Why avoid your sense of longing? Is history itself not valuable?+4
@Makiela96 - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
My need for nostalgia was fulfilled one year ago when I bought car tire foot pump. In Poland there is company which produces them since I was a kid and they even pack them the same as it was in my grandad house. Just looking at it brings good memories from it.+1
@JacksonNick-j6i - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
My boomer in christ, your entire personality is based on nostalgia for the medieval life style!+7
@This_Account - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
One existing cultural continuity point is books. I read the Chronicles of Narnia to my kids like my parents did for me. It stands the test of time. At the end of Dawn Treader, there is this beautiful statement about needing to return to the real world to find God there too. It hit me HARD as an adult in front of my kids.+1
@porky1118 - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
3:40 I think video games can be just like any other form of art. But they are superior since they can include stories, drawings, music, interactivity and even more. I don't really play online games. I mostly play games which I play through once. Basically single player games, usually with some kind of story. I play them for a few weeks at most, and then it's over, I finished it and completed every side content that interested me. So no need to continue playing. And besides that, I sometimes play some games with my brothers.+4
@Swede2be - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
why are video games a good use of time according to you?+2
@lucienHAHAHAH - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
@Swede2be Because they are artworks. So is looking at paintings, reading books or listening to music.+1
@Swede2be - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
AsmrFuns1 people making their own decisions is not inherently good or bad, nor is being happy. and it can be beneficial to decide what actions a person should do, such as persuading a child to be more kind, or forcing someone who likes to cut themselves to stop that habit.+1
@Swede2be - 2025-06-03 11:26:38
@lucienHAHAHAH what makes artwork inherently good?+2
@irixperson - 2025-06-03 11:26:39
You're proving his point by listing off all of the things you consoomed as a child and somehow equating it with your childhood "innocence" as if those two things are related.+3
@upendownlinker - 2025-06-03 11:26:39
At the end of the day nostalgia is still a distortion of reality.+1
@irixperson - 2025-06-03 11:26:39
AsmrFuns1 Please arrive at the point as to why I should stop "posturing."+1
@palchum1185 - 2025-06-03 11:26:39
🪝+7
@zojaXII - 2025-06-03 11:26:39
@palchum1185 he is right doe ;)+2
@JohnDoe-jk3vv - 2025-06-03 11:26:39
Yeah, we should really drop the last "A" and aim for new heights.+1
@GurtGobain - 2025-06-03 11:26:39
With what? Garbage in, garbage out. For example even if you want to grow your own food... the soil is depleted, polluted, and filled with microplastocs.+7
@acrxsls1766 - 2025-06-03 11:26:39
Deus Vult.+4
@GurtGobain - 2025-06-03 11:26:39
What about nostalgia for a guy who died in 1945?+30
@ballshippin3809 - 2025-06-03 11:26:39
@GurtGobain Difference is he is always reincarnating himself as leaders of countries the enlightened liberal west does not like. The Austrian painter is always here with us+16
@deathsinger1192 - 2025-06-03 11:26:39
@ballshippin3809 bro wtf is this take+7
@Wise_Dirt - 2025-06-03 11:26:39
@deathsinger1192 It's a hyperborean take, that's what it is.+6
@CommodoreGrayum - 2025-06-03 11:26:39
Christ is risen.+2
@darukutsu - 2025-06-03 11:26:39
@GurtGobain good ol'days+1
@ezu5131 - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
“I stand on the subway platform, the one I stood in wait day after day, two decades ago, and wait again for a single Memory to find me. Instead, Memory’s inauthentic twin, Nostalgia, has me smiling at that that never was. I must be very careful to mind the gap.” - Norm+1
@davidcyrax - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
I'm extremely nastalgic, this video helped+6
@Magnificent-Stranger - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
Tough love, some of us may not want to hear this message. Although I do suspect those who react the strongest against it are the ones in most severe need of taking it to heart+2
@kosmonautofficial296 - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
“Plays Halo 3 music”+3
@theDemong0d - 2025-06-07 11:26:40
At some point they will grow up enough that it'll be hard to control their consumption, but you absolutely can raise kids on old stuff if you control what they have access to. Apart from a few computer games I played as a kid, I had a very 1960s childhood in the early 90s, growing up playing outside, reading children's books that my grandmother had, watching old ww2 documentaries, Charlie Chaplin, popeye, little lulu, bugs bunny etc. The main key is hanging onto enough of your old stuff (between yourself and your parents) that you have the material to create such an environment. Of course you can always just keep them away from TV and video games altogether and have them read books and draw, which is timeless. This is pretty sustainable up until age 7 or 8 when they'll start learning more from their friends+1
@Proto97 - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
I agree with you about nostalgia, but I think the example of video gaming is...not applicable in most cases of young adults. Most young adults are not gaming their lives away. Sure, some are entirely too engrossed in it. I think, like in my case, the majority of us are working and/or going to school to create what we need in the near future. Gaming is a fun, engaging, and relaxing activity to do in the time we aren't spending working towards a better future. I personally do other things like create art and music, which to be honest is more fulfilling. However, gaming still has its place (at least in my life) and I don't think it is a net negative at all. Also, I don't do it still because of my childhood (if you were saying that about people who play games). In the broader discussion of consumerism and the evils of mammon, I understand what you're saying. However, young men are entirely forced to participate in this system. Young men, unless born Amish (for example), have no way out other than playing by the rules (at least for a considerable amount of time). Might as well take advantage of the luxuries this system creates for its "slaves" and have some fun. Sure, I may have one foot in the door and the other out. But do I have a choice at this moment? At least I'm not entirely committed to consumerism with a greater love for money than what is good... Everyone is at a different place in life, it is good to remember. Some people are just trying to escape bad situations. Survival is their number one motivation. It is sad, but to a person like that, playing a game might be the only peace they can find.... I know this is not the way you spoke about video games. You are referring to those who spend a great deal of time doing it. But have you considered some of those who are disabled can really only do so much? Some disabled people play a lot, because they cannot do other activities. It allows them to experience running, swimming, or whatever else in a para-physical way. I disagree with your take, but not entirely. Regardless, I see that you are on the right path.+4
@SeasideBandit - 2025-06-09 11:26:40
I was in my teens and 20s in the 00s. Back then i had so much nostalgia for the 90s and didn't care much about the stuff that was relevant in the 00s. I now look back on the 00s and the things i now miss. We need to live in the moment and enjoy the things we have now, they too are going to be a thing of the past.+1
@Squeegee216 - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
Dont be an adult and have fun hobbies. Be productive 24/7+7
@weareallpoorinsomeway - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
It´s something I struggle with. More than 5 years ago there was a girl that loved me, for a single night. I still dream of her, I still love her, I will never see her again. It´s the Most beautiful thing that ever happened to me, but it´s also so painful and lonely. I look more and more into my future, but sometimes I dream of her and the following days are always hard.+1
@FromTheWombTotheGrave - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
Human nature never changes+4
@YeloPartyHat - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
I don't see a problem of sharing "Hey, I've been there" with my fellow man. There is always an abstraction level at which you can empathize.+2
@CobsonGotTheGemmyTho - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
OSRS character tries to convince you not to play OSRS+10
@Jake-Day - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
Did you forget we’re all going to die anyways? If someone enjoys playing their old games then I’m happy for them.+1
@porky1118 - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
4:35 I don't see the problem with speedrunning. I wouldn't do it myself. I wouldn't say it's really nostalgia driven. It's just a different way to enjoy games. Somebody even argued that speedrunning combines the best elements of competition and working together. There are people who just want to be the best. But there are also people who like to figure out new tricks or optimize routes. I get that it's a nerd hobby not really related to the real world.+5
@jibblito2004 - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
By all means enjoy your fond memories, but don't get trapped in that loop+1
@ThomasHolbrookII - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
I disagree with you regarding video games. I used to play them for hours on end. The NES and SNES are still among my favorite consoles, and I enjoyed Warcraft II on PC. After college, I became interested in different things. Though I may play the occasional game today, it's not for hours and hours on end. I grew out of it. Nostalgia isn't poison. It's like water. One can use it to quench their thirst, but they can also use it to harm others. It's not the thing itself. Rather, it's what you do with it. There is nothing wrong with having hobbies as long as it's recognized that not everyone will share them with you as they may have different interests. Nostalgia is remembering what was, appreciating where we have been, and being in awe of where we are going. That's why vintage cars exist to this day. I have also noticed a trend where people are wanting to start their own garden. There is also work on vintage computing where the hardware is being preserved and even improved upon so that they don't end up in landfills. There's a market for this stuff and if people are into it, that's not a bad thing. Remember the saying, "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." The past isn't always about mourning the loss of something. It's about remembering the lessons that came before so we can be better equipped for the future. Nostalgia is not a destroyer of souls but a river where we have the choice of traversing it, drinking its waters, or using it to harm others. In the end, it's up to each of us to decide what to do and our responsibility to own our decisions.+12
@MunnyLerner - 2025-06-04 11:26:40
Extremely topical! With the specter of AI hanging over every decision, nostalgia feels like a hardcore side effect. I hadn't realized until this video how much the subject of nostalgia has been cropping up in daily conversations. Keep it up, great thoughts!+1
@ivangelion5399 - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
Joy is fleeting yes. I'd like to ask what you do for fun?+4
@Being_Joe - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
Now is the only time that exists+2
@IrrationalExuberance - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
Also, as far as speed running scene goes, there is utility in mucking around with the internals (CPU register state / CPU instruction debugger, etc) of old architectures, because they are so minimal. By the PC MS-DOS era you had to fuck with all this shit like segmented memory, etc So one might become interested in "old" things simply to isolate the scope of complexity, not merely to "pop in a synth wave album, indulge in nostalgia, and do fashy shit" (this is a joke, because back in 2016 journos were whinging about whether synth wave is fascist. Also literally just read a more recent article where yet another person was trying to call "80s nostalgia" "fascist") Wordcels, gone wild!+6
@kosmonautofficial296 - 2025-06-03 11:26:40
https://youtu.be/JX5O3n9K_d0?si=hRxFCpLx1ciZlZMV+1
@ninety3premium - 2025-06-05 11:26:40
you people have been making the same joke for 11 years please get new material+1
@SiriusFocquiew - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
I'm not a speed runner, but it seems to me that the speed run becomes the game (pulling off the exploits, etc that allow it becomes the motivation for and mode of playing, rather than actually playing the game as intended), and the game itself just a medium for playing this sort of meta-game. So I agree that it has little to nothing to do with nostalgia (if anything, it seems nearly antithetical to it; someone nostalgic for a game isn't going to rush through it and miss all the stuff they were nostalgic for). It's just another way to approach a game.+5
@porky1118 - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
@SiriusFocquiew That's also how I understand it. It's similar to fighting game enthusiasts, who don't even play the story modes and play around with different characters, but they only pick one or a few characters and then only want to get good at it competitively.+1
@James75647 - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
I don't think there's anything wrong with being nostalgic for old media, whether it's tv shows, movies, videogames. Those things can be a representation of the world when it was real and good. I think that people being nostalgic for media can be a good springboard for them to start wondering why everything sucks now. Obviously the right thing to do is to make the best of the era you live in, but it's tough sometimes. I think about how different my life would be if I was born just 10 years earlier, because I would have had more years as an adult in the real world. I'm 32 and I feel like I'm at the exact age where I am able to remember the real world but it got snatched away from me and other people my age at the exact time we were cognizant enough to realize it. I'm using the term "real world" because the modern world is fake and soulless.+2
@dontpokethebear3893 - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
Tarkovsky talks about this+4
@lorddeathspit1124 - 2025-06-15 11:26:41
I’m 46 which means I’m more than halfway done with life and more than half of everyone I’ve known is dead. I can’t go back so I try not to even think about my past if I can. Thinking about the past is self torture in a way, it’s gone. They’re gone.+1
@nick_kobets - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
You will go back, that is why you seek it and "wait" for it. At some subconscious level everyone knows it, that's why nostalgia exists. You are the superposition of all your actions and circumstances in this world locked in time. That's also a reason why some ppl kts even though they don't necessarily understand the mechanics at play.+4
@priesemut - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
Thanks for being active again. Kind of missed your videos for the past two years but now it feels like its 2023 again+2
@Ruben-s5b1c - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
I wish I had a nostalgia problem instead of a trying every second to survive in this world problem tbh+5
@SimGunther - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
You know what's worse than just taking the bad from the past? Making something worse than the past just because "new". 😂+2
@nicksalvador9729 - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
100% agree. A huge aspect of this is how so much of our culture is based on capitalism and consumerism. You can own whatever remake (or original copy) of whatever game, toy, or album you want. This will never bring back those times you lived and people you were with. Wallowing in nostalgia always made me feel depressed and even a little bit anxious. Thanks again for another great video, Luke. ☦️🕯️+6
@Commandore456 - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
Even the word "Nostalgia" has a different meaning today. Decades ago, it was described as a pleasant feeling of the old & gold returning. You just described what I experience, a lament of best times being long behind us and having nothing to look forward to. I get a sense of abnormalcy in our contemporary cultural aesthetics and atmosphere and I would get not a peasant feeling from relics of a past culture, but a feeling of normalcy or at least I would if just by looking at the atmosphere and film grain and pacing, I know it was made in the year 19XX was over a quarter century ago, triggering my grief akin to crying with a photo album full of dead people. I hated my childhood and adolescence, but the few things I liked about it only exists as relics of a bygone era of which is not good enough for my heart. I can only look forward within the lexicon of my pre-established sense of normalcy and nobody uses that lexicon anymore. My sense of normalcy isn't in the pre-established brands the spoodermens, the star wars, but more abstract, but with late 20th century witty writing, pacing, archetype and aesthetic sensibilities that made a late 20th century summer blockbusters feel like a late 20th century summer blockbusters whilst having the joy of discovery. I don't get the joy of discovery watching something that is shot by shot something I've already saw be it watching the Disney Renaissance for the umpteenth time or worse, the shot by shot live action or photo-realistic CGI bastardizations.+1
@rahulnair7714 - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
Please keep making Videos.+4
@the81kid - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
Nostalgia is the Island. You can never go back. Nostalgia is a product of the media society we live in. People can obsess over media - idealized represantations - from decades ago and fantasize that it was once real and that their rose tinted memories were real. Nostalgia at a level this society engages in would never be possible without modern technology.+2
@binaryghosts5131 - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
I don't agree with your video game stance. Been hearing it my whole life. "Video games are a waste of time!" Then those same people sit like zombified vegetables staring at a TV screen watching a movie or TV series or worst of all, sports. And books are not really better. These things are ultimately just entertainment vectors. I argue with video games it's even slightly better because of the interactive element but just like with movies, TV shows, and books you have to weed out and avoid the slop. It all comes down to just not letting yourself get consumed by any given entertainment medium or vice you have to the point where you are neglecting your life's duties and responsibilities.+7
@bobdole27 - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
Unless you're maybe like 90, most people's nostalgia from what I've seen and heard for the most part mostly just refers to whatever consoomerism was popular during their time period. Such and such TV show, such and such radio music, clothing styles, cars etc. etc. Very few are nostalgic for things that actually mattered like the level of relative freedom they had with less government and technology, or the human interaction and what not, those mattered, but whatever manufactured media garbage or materialistic trinket, really doesn't regardless of the time period.+3
@LeafsKiller63 - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
Luke for someone who believes himself to be a deep thinker, your opinion on videogames is very shallow. What's frustrating about people like you with this opinion is that you understand the difference between real literature and garbage like 50 Shades of Grey or whatever slop the New York Times is shilling on their Bestseller list. Yet when it comes to videogames, you judge them all by whatever is popular. And this a problem because popular games will always cater to the average, and average people just want cheap dopamine which is why most games are either too easy or provide an easy mode. But if someone chooses to play a difficult game on its hardest difficulty, where they will fail over and over and over and over again yet keep trying.....well that's the opposite of cheap dopamine. If you can't see the value in that then you're not as wise as you think you are.+4
@joshuamaserow - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
I appreciate your videos. The nature of your videos is deeper than most of Youtube.+1
@pepepopo7100 - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
This goes doubly so for MMO worlds.+4
@ObtecularPk - 2025-06-08 11:26:41
I found out that good things come and go in waves. Enjoy it very much when everyone is on the same page, doing the same thing, at the same time and hopefully the same place. Then leave it. It's gone and you will never experience that. You have to wait until the next good thing to happen where you can enjoy something with someone(s).+1
@mylittlecancer - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
10 second gang+6
@seethemore6360 - 2025-06-04 11:26:41
All I have is nostalgia. There is no bigger piece of shit than God.+2
- 2025-06-03 11:26:41
Ok, if we take this reasoning to its conclusion, let's not have any fun in our lives, because at some point, sooner or later, our ability to have the same kind of enjoyment will be gone.+4
@ElonMuskrat-my8jy - 2025-06-03 11:26:41
Which films? Or was it an interview?+1
@smittywarbenyagermangensen4860 - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
Are people every second trying to kill you or are you every second on the verge of starvation?+2
@Ruben-s5b1c - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
@smittywarbenyagermangensen4860 yes every second is an exaggeration but every few hours more like it+2
@irixperson - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
To argue that reading books is just as much a waste of time as watching television or playing video games is simply idiotic.+3
@upendownlinker - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
Just because boomers were wrong about TV, doesn't mean they weren't right about video games. Also I don't know of a single person who got consumed by reading books to the point of neglecting their life and turning into zombies.+1
@binaryghosts5131 - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
My replies keep getting deleted or at least I can not see them again when i check back on my phone. In either case, which books are not a waste of time?+1
@brockm4047 - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
My nostalgia is walking through the woods and enjoying nature. Some experiences are timeless, it just depends on the person.+1
@Ep2d957 - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
Seems like you are deeply unhappy with yourself.+11
@JohnWilson-cp2nj - 2025-06-15 11:26:42
Accept your losses. Take the time to grieve and move on. Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted.+1
@ballshippin3809 - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
Unfortunately in this ever growing world of existential nihilism and the breakdown of prior structures, the only solice most modern people can find is comfort in their nostalgia. I'll confess I'm guilty of doing it myself half the time+4
@HydrasHead-g1u - 2025-06-10 11:26:42
fleeting feelings based on a previous edition of now-vintage goyslop that the drivel machine has moved on to; attached to our own boxes we put ourselves into, a potpourri of things we're exposed to as kids a bunch of psychological boxes that cater to people's proclivities and conglomerate them together into self-created archetypes, carl jung talked about archetypes but maybe that's just the base human desire to conform and we're actively creating our own archetypes with the self-programmation on social media and what's funny is that we get pleasure for doing this! we get pleasure from sticking ourselves into self-imposed boxes and seeing the world as a collection of boxes because it makes us feel like we understand the world, we're deliberately simplifying our perceptions of the world just to feel validated at our own understanding of the unknown, cheating by sticking little pieces of unknowns or maybe even novel bits into half-related nearby content personality archetype boxes and self-validating by pretending like we've learned something new or gained more "knowledge" just to get that normie sense of self-satisfaction when we finally "understand" our own model, the model that self-fullfillingly makes the whole world simpler and duller which is the worst part, since we create our own realities when we start modelling the world as pattern-matching boxes and conforming ourselves to that we can't even detect any novelty that doesn't fit into a box+2
@acrez3260 - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
Holy shit this guy is miserable lmao. “Imagination is bad” “nostalgia is bad” how sad of a life do you have to have.+8
@ManwithNoName-t1o - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
we need to go back to the future: the 80s+1
@twn5858 - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
I wonder if some kids are going to have nostalgia for wearing face diapers and suffocating themselves all day long. They'll want to learn how to master the face diaper. Probably so, It's a real clown world that we're living in now.+5
@sasamilic720 - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
The hidden bright side of a bad childhood is no nostalgia for the past :))+1
@6400ab - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
Don't care. Still looking forward to playing some couch coop Halo on the old 360 with my kid when he's old enough.+3
@markusshiller1085 - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
The real title should be "Why Worldly Things Destroys Souls"+1
@KangKadmus - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
I get nostalgic for new stuff cuz it's already old. But seriously, I was emotionally attached to cigarette vending machines in malls and stores. We should be able to smoke at McDonalds too like wtf some things are worth being nostalgic for.+4
@tristiqueorci - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
Luke looks like lenin, sam hyde looks like trotsky+3
@Thisisatestsir - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
Nostalgia is demonic interference… same as having a crush, depression, procrastination etc… you’re wasting your emotion on an idol. The same can be said for “I wasted so much time playing video games”. Focus on prayer now, and everything you could possibly need will be given to you. Despair is a cunning trick. I am just a dude not a priest pls don’t take my word too seriously.+9
@xXKillaBGXx - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
I still play Sonic 3 and Knuckles on Sega Genesis.+2
@愛 - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
Yea love destroys souls too and emotions are bloat 😒+4
@lorenzozapaton4031 - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
I remember with joy and sadness my childhood and younger years but I won't change it back for the convenience of the modern world.+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
Brother, you are wildly lost and confused on this topic. What is blinding you is your limited experience as an American. This is a uniquely American problem. The U.S. county I was born in was 90% white in 1990. Now it's 15% white. My high school in that county was 85% white in the 90s. Now it's 7% white. That's America. I left and moved to Eastern Europe, to one of the Baltic countries. My wife's hometown was 100% white when she was a kid and it's 100% white now. Very little has changed at all. They have a few less Russians now. Life moves slow over here. America tears everything down to the ground and starts over every 20 years. This is why you have no sense of continuity and permanence. To a very real extent the meme is true, "you have no culture!" (white Americans). Everything you want is achieved by living in a small tribal ethnostate. You live in the world's largest multi-ethnic empire economic zone in all of human history, and you wonder why you can't order a meal at McDonalds in 2025 if you don't speak Spanish. Because of course you can't. You've been replaced. As for the rest, you'd be surprised. I started my oldest son out on the Switch but he likes retro gaming and "flat Mario" as he calls NES and SNES Mario. Anyway, he does traditional cultural activities and speaks the local language. He has an identity older than recorded history and rooted here in the Baltic sea region. That is my gift to him - a cultural identity, which is something I, like you, never had in America. Something that can't exist in a country like America by design. Because America is the experimental country. Maybe Mormonism will win out, maybe Southern Baptists, maybe Latino Catholicism. It's the place where you're free to try anything, or you were, before the country became a hard core police state back around 1913...+6
@lanpartylandlord6123 - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
what do you think is the best coping mechanism for this? as you mentioned, cities , ways of life, etc have all changed to be unrecognizable, and it is all so nonsensical. i think people latch onto their past relationships and things that left an impact on them as a way to make sense of things. how do we deal with it and move forward?+3
@ebeneZr - 2025-06-03 11:26:42
Memory and just getting used to doing the same thing over and over is actually a bad feature of humans. For example, cocaine addiction is purely psychological so the only thing making people want to do it again is the memory they had of doing it before and in a way that is nostalgia My point is, if there was a way to reset our bullshit memories that is keeping us from completely our goals that would be sick. People ask me oh how do I quit smoking crack I tell them bro just fully reset your brain, rewrite your whole life story and go with that, you grew up in the mountains in china and you don’t even know how you got here Then you are all good, you have no memory of being addicted to crack+4
@unrelentingspirit6888 - 2025-06-03 11:26:43
Nah Luke is a pretty smart guy, disagree with his take on this video though. Basically telling his audience to avoid nostalgia because they can allegedly build their future on the quicksand around their feet that used to be solid ground. I think he just can't accept that things have just gotten worse overall.+6
@CIB8282 - 2025-06-03 11:26:43
He mentioned that social gaming makes sense.+2
@Alonzo_Lamont - 2025-06-03 11:26:43
I wanted the crack effects but without smoking it, crackheads are the definition of "lock in"+2
@skylinefever - 2025-06-03 11:26:43
I often joked about what would happen if human memories had a delete button. It would probably end up curing so much, that the BS therapy business would go broke.+1
@unrelentingspirit6888 - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
I don't have to accept an inferior future, i can recognise it, i can observe the effects that it will have going forward, but i will never be apart of it because it is simply... inferior to what once was. Imo great media died after 2014.+2
@IrrationalExuberance - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
Celebration of youth was a component of Italian Futurism, which was a fascist art movement. Celebration of youth is also what Silicon Valley corporations are obsessed with, and their marketing revolves around dismissing the past and advocate for replacing it with "the new" (what capitalism seeks to do overall.) Silicon Valley has "turned out" to be fascist, despite their last decade of phony "corporate wokeness" I've seen a trend to be dismissive of nostalgia or attempt to align it with "right wing" and "fascism" but this seems pretty superficial to me, especially when you take the above into consideration. Also, you can enjoy "old things" and "new things" so it's a bit of a strawman anytime someone tries to frame it in these very black and white terms or insinuate that everyone who enjoys older things is somehow refusing to "get with the times"+2
@Cosmic_Chronicles_ - 2025-06-06 11:26:44
Nostalgia is good, the best one is for a time you never lived in, for me the specific place all my ancestors come from.+1
@forrealiumman - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
I agree with precisely everything said in this video.+4
@Dankschon - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
My childhood was awful, I miss quite literally nothing. I feel 0 nostalgia. Alas, it's pretty obvious that the world is not heading towards a good place either. However, I realized that I still can carve a small paradise to me. Somewhere in a rural area, somewhere that I can grow roses and read Shakespeare.+1
@PhilippBlum - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
lol. There are people called athletes. They do nothing but this one thing. Just as crazy. If that's what people want to do and find community in it. Who am I to judge? Those who know+3
@wave641 - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
what made them fun were the constraints you had to finish your homework fast to get one hour in per day+1
@bug______ - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
nostalgia is fascism. look to the future, comrades+6
@XYReason - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
Nostalgia sometimes is represented through mk ultra, magical spellings, etc. You can find a relief, in a harsh world, with taking advantage of those resources. e.g. Getting back and listening to dubstep, golden days edms, tobuscus. But, that's just temporary - someone from the strange corner can capture your potential and suck your soul until you get your back broken.+1
@Secondry-h2p - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
I have nostalgia for programming back then and reliving it feels magical+3
@riggel8804 - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
I still play street fighter 2 competitively. There is still a lot for me to learn from the game. It's like playing chess. People don't have a problem with chess and I don't think they should have a problem with competitively game play or speed running. Our society is drowning in entertainment and too much entertainment is bad but a little bit is fine. It's good to not take yourself too seriously and think you're so important that you must maximize your time efficiency.+2
@Zrbz99 - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
I played way too much OSRS in my 20s. I can't even stand to look at the game now. Feel like I should start a company or do something real before I hit 30.+3
@evildojo666 - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
Don't have to get something back if it never left in the first place.+2
@ToMaSsS10 - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
But I don't play videogames for nostalgia, I do cause I like it+2
@GrigoNiko - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
The dream of the future, you see, dissolves, and, with time, so does the apprehension. The world under sun is no exception, and all you see around you evolves. New traits, and things familiar, can be sensed, but futile is hope without fruition. The grief you knew begets no vision. The happiness you felt becomes regret. Winter fades, and takes its cold and storm. Spring revives the world with love and warmth. But still the law: all things decay and age. Vanity itself wont dry your tears. And so you fear as your time draws near. The world will turn, but never change. I learnt about Camoens by playing a videogame, btw+1
@bingeandgrab - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
urban terror is a game i never stopped playing. Im still having fun.+1
@AASDJS - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
My last 5 years of life have been based purely and exclusively on nostalgia. I miss many of the feelings and things I did as a child. I understand how difficult it can be to overthink it and simply accept that it's over, that I must move on, but it's very complicated. Lately, my life has been an infinite loop, every day, every week, every month, the same thing over and over again. And I miss the simplicity of the world, when technology was a novelty and we never knew how quickly everything would advance, and I don't like that. I want to stop for a few minutes and be a child again, go back to the simple life. And I know this is the best example of how nostalgia can be toxic, as I explain here, haha, but I'm saying this to vent, and I suppose many people go through the same thing. P.S.: Sorry if my English is very bad, it's not my native language :S+1
@stonebud - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
Agreed, nostalgia does kill you from the inside+1
@rudolf-adamkovic - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
The key is to decouple enjoyment, including nostalgia, from the corporate world. A couple of years ago, my son installed Debian Linux, and I was surprised to see him using the same installer I had used when I was doing the same at his age. Another example is Emacs, which is only getting better, 40 years on. Chip music? Never been better! Play offline, and do not forget to support the artists. In summary, if you can, decouple what you enjoy from the corporate world.+1
@alanwong4767 - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
the Establishment is always trying to pull, “that thing that we told you to like? now it is [gone/bad for you/g4y …]” always a good reminder to watch how suggestions induceattachments, longings etc+4
@roflchopter11 - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
Thats extremely regarded.+7
@skylinefever - 2025-06-03 11:26:44
I argued that this a real reason thepiratebay gets attacked. It is full of movies back when movies were artistic first, and had political points second. Now everything is woke message first, artistic merit last. Rather than actually address this, Hollywood attacks the past.+5
@ziozzot - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
some people can use the nostalgia as creative energy like creating a game as some sort of hommage+1
@relayer6797 - 2025-06-06 11:26:45
Speedrunning isn't just about nostalgia. Many top speedrunners in popular games are very young.+1
@nin6246 - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
I still occasionally play EverQuest on Project 1999. So much nostalgia.+1
@captainclarky5352 - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
The classics and historical fairy tales have a role to play in forming cultural material that lasts from generation to generation. Kids sung about Little Red Riding Hood two hundred years ago and kids will hopefully be singing two hundred years in the future+1
@eo-LEC- - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
Im gonna keep playin video games dude+2
@RAMZAVFX - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
The rare L take from luke damn 😅+3
@Official_Chat_Moderator - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
Looking deep into the past is necessary for insight, the future not worth worrying about as it hasn't occurred yet, the present moment is the only thing that matters. If we take care of the present moment then our futures will most likely be guaranteed (unless some freak accident happens, out of your control etc.)+1
@jimmyking92 - 2025-06-10 11:26:45
Old videogames don't have any nostalgia to me now even though I played a lot when young, I can emulate them on my phone any time, they don't produce something special to me. But walking near my old school, near the beach on my hometown, driving in the roads I used to bicycle, visiting my uncle's house where my grandparents used to stay before they passed way... That's nostalgia, but when it hits I feel blessed because I had a fantastic childhood and smile.+1
@KhyeTheWandereR - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
Luke is on a roll with these gems of wisdom.+1
@SheepWaveMeByeBye - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
People of this age treat love like milk. They think it rots after a week.+1
@amochswohntet99 - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
what you're saying is true in a narrow sense, but it's also the natural consequence of an unstable world which you mentioned, and fails to account for real tangible decisions by enumerable people. Would-be leaders not doing what's right for their societies and allowing their societies to traverse a horrible moral landscape, and refusing to take any responsibility for their decisions which affect the entire populations because it serves them only and that's all that matter.+2
@nirgunawish - 2025-06-05 11:26:45
"legitimate interest is now the legal basis for using your information to improve meta"+1
@ArneRief - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
If I understand you correctly you are arguing against a materialist/consumerist nostalgia, with longing for specific toys, video games, shows, music, a lifestyle you grew up with or even one you didn't experience yourself but identify as cooler and aesthetically more appealing than the present. I agree that this form of nostaliga is misguided, shallow, paralyzing and a waste of time, energy and emotion. However, I believe there can also be a form of nostalgia or an undercurrent to nostalgia that is healthy: the instinctive realization that life gets ever more abnormal as modernity progresses. If you don't just long for a lost past because of material things but because you can identify that it was less anti-human, anti-nature and anti-life than today, this might very well set you on a beneficial and healthy track. Or like you say, it might help you to "identify what's really going on" and that feeling of nostalgia can transform into moral and/or spiritual resistance against harmful modern tendencies. So I wouldn't say that nostalgia is harmful per se.+3
@enclaveofdoom - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
Not a good take. Video games are just another medium of entertainment. in context of Worshipping God walking in nature because you enjoy it, is same as playing video games because you enjoy them. I get that you can be generally be more happy in nature, but it's just wrong to single out a medium of entertainment. Reading books, watching movies, political scheming, being atheist in nature can all be equally harmful.+3
@skupire6547 - 2025-06-14 11:26:45
Your def right man, me and my brother often talk about going to blockbuster with our parents and seeing our friends there on a friday night and grabbing pizzahut then watching the two movies we picked out... its sad even thinking about how those moments are just gone+1
@mattias99475 - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
I miss walking in the woods, playing by the thawing creek. I know kids don't need the latest flashiest games. The outdoors was plenty stimulating.+2
@halycon8125 - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
It's a very interesting topic, though I'm not sure if I can ever really articulate my thoughts on it clearly enough. I feel in rapid change, there's also this notion of 'linear obsolescence', like if a piece of music or movie is a few decades old, that's now 'dinosaur media' and makes it less good merely because it's old. But, typing through this, I wonder if all of this a fetishization of time, and a lot nostalgia is the other side of the coin to it. It's not to say I think it's fine to remember stuff from the past, but it should be remembering why one values the things they do. Otherwise, it's pointless pathos, and pathos towards fetishized time.+2
@Sheakru - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
Time travel is easy, you can go back whenever you want. But noone else is there anymore.+1
@sunderkeenin - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
Appreciation shouldn't be exceeded. There is plenty of stuff that is better than what we have today, and there is plenty of stuff that is worse. It's good to appreciate what we had, what we can no longer have, and what really is good or bad. My childhood games will never exist as they were. WoW was a great community, not a great game. That is no longer there. The Redwall books on the other hand, I biught the whole series for my baby sister and got her a Kindle so she can read anything of interest. I set her up with Minecraft and she only plays in single player creative worlds for the most part because creative expression is timeless. I think nostalgia is an indicator that we once appreciated something and ought consider its ongoing value to figure out truly when to let go, not to indulge. Indulgence sucks and we always regret it later.+1
@JonasThente-ji5xx - 2025-06-04 11:26:45
Content years ago was better than what's being produced today. It's more worthwhile to play an old video game 1000 times than watching modern Netflix productions.+1
@HydrasHead-g1u - 2025-06-10 11:26:45
there are things that are timeless, surely+2
@mispitch - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
What do you think about the nostalgia food brings? The smell of a meal your mom cooked that you smell later in yiur life.+2
@klnmn3722 - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
I see Pet Sematary as a good analogy for this. If you try to bring the past back, you’ll end up with a corrupt, even evil version of it. Leave it dead.+1
@Kiskobold - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
Everything you do is for entertainment if you think about it. Either for you or someone else.+1
@ROBARVS - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
Nostalgia is great! Just look what it did for Doug Walker!+2
@llIIIIlllIIIllI - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
People here talking about missing their childhood and how being an adult sucks. You're not wrong. Society is being poisoned, you're oppressed by your finances, there are no real connections to be had, etc. I've felt the way you feel, and i still do, somewhat. However, having a child changed the world for me, in countless ways. I feel a deep connection, life has meaning, my life feels important, i feel motivated, I'm productive, I'm proud, i feel healthier mentally, i don't feel depressed or lonely or lost. It's tremendously difficult. However, the goal now is obvious, and so is the reward. Now i understand that you're not me, and this isn't a magic bullet that has the same impact on everyone, but all this is to say that there is another way to live your life if you felt the way i did for so long. It's out there, you can find it.+1
@makarkungurov2733 - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
That classic feeling of nostalgia when ThinkPads were relevant machines+1
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
I'm 42 now.. and the thing that these kind of videos makes me feel nostalgic for, is not really the movies or the music. But for who I was back then, as a kid. ... A kid with a big heart who was full of hope and excitement for the future......... That kid is no longer with us and has been gone for years now." ... I just posted this comment on a GUNSHIP video and it got 100's of likes. So it's funny that you bring this up.+2
@the-real-sjtimms - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
Nostalgia. It's delicate, but potent.+2
@hello9048 - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
But isn't his argument saying that Nostalgia is Essential for the Soul?+2
@Aetheridon - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
me after watching the PopularMMOs bodycam footage+2
@resofactor - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
Much of "Stranger Things" success was built on top of '80s Nostalgia'.+1
@Raphael0654 - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
You had me up to a point--but then zigged where I expected a zag. 😂 And you seem to err on the side of only savoring the external realm. In the end, there be many who'll largely be stuck by themselves, & will mostly have to draw upon their inner world. Now, don't get me wrong: there can be a time to set all that aside, lest it keep you from realizing your potential in the external... But don't take for granted the value in letting yourself experience a resurgence of the old, in whatever way suits you, when the time is right--even if no one else any longer appreciates it but you. Autistic or not, some sentiments are just for you.+2
@lignorof8475 - 2025-06-07 11:26:45
i can't remember now where it came from, but I heard someone saying that the current nostalgia for old tech and wear is a lack of reaction to the problems of today's society. So with the rise of AI/LLM in tech and all the socials questions that came before and after it (just to anchor in one time reference), people decided to larp as they were living in a era they never was in and worse yet, an era that couldn't be fully revived because it would mean people gotta need to somehow revert to the mind of yester-eras with the current day facts, culture, technology and most distributed knowledge of local and world events like attacks, wars, political decisions and so on.+1
@TheKing527 - 2025-06-10 11:26:45
TBH I think a lot of the video game speed running stuff is proof that young guys are being kept out of real opportunities in the big institutions and are choosing this crap as an outlet. It's sort of a combination of "walking away" but also putting their ingenuity and desire for mastery to work. Not saying it's a good thing at all, there are many healthier outlets they could pursue (many fields of work, doing stuff outside, etc.), but that's always been my take on it.+2
@KentKorihisa - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
I think speed running can be a cool idea like a sport. But I have noticed in my life lately I have played 0 video games just as a result of being more focused on personal projects.+1
@iiisaac1312 - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
Every seven years, about every cell in your body has been replaced. If you went back to the past, you'd be a stranger there. It's common for people to bond with the environment if they couldn't bond with other people during that time. People have nostalgia for things that helped them get through the past during their childhood. However, what was good for us as a child is no longer good for us as adults (such as excessive media/videogame consumption). A speedrunner-like obsession with reliving the past comes from a need to correct the past. An attempt to "fix" or "repair" their childhood. The belief that having it good in the present will fix the past. This will never work, as the past is the past and can't be changed. The only way to stop is to accept the past won't be a good as you want it to be, and move on to allow yourself to grow up.+1
@_deadpool_reynolds_ - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
I don't know if it's nostalgia, but I like things made today that look or sound like they did in the past. For example, music that sounds like it's from the '80s, or modern sneakers inspired by the '70s or '80s.+1
@jeb1514 - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
I always found it troubling that millennials/Gen Xers will gloat to younger people about how much better things were in the past. They should instead use that energy to talk about how bright the future will be. Gen Z has it burned into their brains that there will never be good times again. Very pessimistic!+2
@YeloPartyHat - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
I just finished binge-watching my old liked and favourited videos 😢+2
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:26:45
AsmrFuns1 Dictate is definitely not the correct word.+1
@Zonk926 - 2025-06-03 11:26:46
And there is an anime about nostalgia in this season called "Kowloon Generic Romance", very interesting, hmm.+1
@asd-m2w3f - 2025-06-03 11:26:46
blink twice in next video if you are lost+1
@christopherkapic - 2025-06-03 11:26:46
Also nostalgia for exes. She’s gone, move on.+2
@fikrirahmatnurhidayat4988 - 2025-06-03 11:26:46
It will make your souls go dark, like Dark Souls+1
@realfraudulence - 2025-06-03 11:26:46
Nostalgia is the dark souls of memories+1
@clamato422 - 2025-06-03 11:26:46
1) Tough times create strong men. 2) Strong men create good times. 3) Good times create weak men. 4) Weak men create tough times. ...Repeat Is nostalgia being at 4, remembering 3 or 2?+1
@KārlisKalējs - 2025-06-04 11:26:46
Assassins Creed Odyssey and Luke rants, made me nostalgic for a period 2,5k years ago.+1
@lalmiahmed3573 - 2025-06-03 11:26:46
03:46 what is that thing on the tree ? is that a letter ? you got a notification maybe ??+2
@nathanrodriguez7943 - 2025-06-14 11:26:46
i wrestled in hs and twenty years later i do submission grappling. i actually got it back.+1
@quinbatcheller5805 - 2025-06-03 11:26:46
I don't know, speed running is alright, there's a community formed around it, and people work really hard at it. I know games aren't real, and you could say it's time wasted, but if you're passionate about it and its what you want to be doing, is it really time wasted?+2
@StariZec - 2025-06-03 11:26:46
What we need today is a - Revival. 😀 Of us, human beings, not stuff. 🤩+1
@spitfiremanlizerd - 2025-06-03 11:26:46
I think what you become Nostalgia about indicates damage to your spirit already. There was a lot of crap in my childhood that while it might unlock some repressed memory if you see it again, there is no "longing" for it at all. Nostalgia should always be taken with a grain of salt, but sometimes things really were better, and very oftentimes they were crap back then as well. There is a lot of Faux nostalgia going on where they are chasing that "high" with infantile hype but not really feeling it. Nostalgia is a drug, a literal chemical, it's nice to feel as all drugs are, but don't let yourself sanctify the object that summons it as more than the "neat" thing it is.+2
@allsmilesformiles - 2025-06-13 11:26:46
Love for the past is one of the few things no one can take away from you. Viewing it threw this cynical lens of 'that world is gone' is a bitter, overly doomerish shame. Nostalgia is a bittersweet longing, and as long as it does not fully consume you, there's nothing wrong with putting on your rose tinted glasses every once in a while.+1
@AlwaysBored123 - 2025-06-08 11:26:46
Nostalgia, like all insidious things, is a product of the boomer generation. Before them people knew the past was bad so they worked to improve the future. Boomers shunned any notion of selflessness, and instead elected to extract as much prosperity as possible from both the past AND the future. This Faustian deal has left them with a crippling fear of the latter and insatiable lust for the former. One only needs to watch a Mecum auction or drive through a gated community to understand their values, and it is truly demoralizing to witness how much these wretched souls will pay for a hazy memory of the world they sold.+1
@PlasmaSnake369 - 2025-06-03 11:26:46
There's this thing called retroacheivements, where people can get Xbox 360 like "achievements" for old games played on emulators. I was recently finding myself getting sucked into it. If you look at the online leaderboards for these it's actually kinda insane to see what some people are doing. I was starting to reevaluate how healthy all this stuff really is. But honestly I don't think it's just nostalgia I think it's something about the nature of how these games used to be made+2
@Reldonator - 2025-06-07 11:26:46
It's not nostalgia that's the problem, it's what you do with it+1
@ShinDigListener - 2025-06-07 11:26:46
consumerist world isnt always making new things better. The old video games are sometimes pretty beautiful experiences similar to a book+1
@aurochs1 - 2025-06-03 11:26:46
Yeah but I wanna be 6 again and have my uncle bring me a purple Gameboy Color with Pokemon Silver from America, a place I imagined to be on the clouds hence it requires a plane to get there+2
@lambda653 - 2025-06-03 11:26:46
My video game speedrunning was watching old luke smith streams and videos lolololol+1
@austroasian4123 - 2025-06-04 11:26:46
1 Corinthians 13:11: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.+1
@MaxRussel-m7t - 2025-06-03 11:26:46
"But honestly I don't think it's just nostalgia I think it's something about the nature of how these games used to be made" How were they made?+1
@Richninjaa - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
What are your thoughts on Libreboot expanding to more hardware (including the Thinkpad x220)?+2
@rustymustard7798 - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
I'm nostalgic for when Nostalgia(tm) wasn't a trendy branded corpo product/buzzword and just cool old retro stuff.+1
@MrKristian252 - 2025-06-13 11:26:47
Focusing on what matters is each individual's choice. I don't think anyone's lives are wrong per say. That person who is speedrunning that old game, why is that wrong? He is having fun after all. Everyone finds their meaning in their own way. Either way, It's a nice video, like your talks. Makes me ponder.+1
@soanvig - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
Nostalgia for having scalp hair+1
@ChellSneed - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
I was having nostalgia in the past couple of days over a stupid show and I needed this video. God bless you.+2
@toya_senpai2470 - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
At the end you should do as you please, what else is there to do?+2
@martinschmiedt3075 - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
Lo and behold-first video recommended under this is one of my childhood favourite songs (Enter Sandman by Metallica).It’s almost like the algorythm really doesn’t like Luke’s point smh+1
@zojaXII - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
I agree with the message of the video and I've also been trying to explain that to my normie friends before but I disagree with the exemple of speedruning, most don't do it by nostalgia for the game even if that can be one of the factors that make you interested at first, but it's more of a way of bettering yourself at a specific thing sort of like a sport, it requires a lot of perseverence and can create friendships and rivalities and stuff, I like to think of it as "something to exercise your autism at", you might even learn some cool computer related stuff while at it (how RNG might work, how programs were optimised, memory access...) also you can find some argument for every hobby of why it's degenerate and a waste of time etc but as long as it stays a hobby I don't see why it would be inherently bad+2
@porteal8986 - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
I'm so glad Luke is back so I have plenty of new content to consume, it's just like the old days 😌+1
@ob3ythee.t.128 - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
I think the nihilistic consoomerism coupled with being brought up on TV shows is what makes a person have media induced nostalgia especially if they didn't have much going on as a kid. it might manifest later on in life as a funko pop collection and an addiction to playing the same old games. It's like the psyche trying to reintegrate the child but because the adult has no idea of what that state is he replaces it with consoomerism.+3
@armin6427 - 2025-06-07 11:26:47
"You can't go back." True, I think nostalgia is primarily the motion to deny the shitty present many of us have. Europeans can't just "go inna woods" .. and if you try to change getting replaced in your country you go to jail. So really what else is there than being a manchild? That's at least the one thing they can't take away from us.+1
@Bigboy_T-1000 - 2025-06-07 11:26:47
I don't know, I feel like I use nostalgia as fuel/motivation to improve my situation.+1
@jimc.goodfellas - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
Boy you ain't lyin......any time I start reminiscing of the old days, I have to snap myself out of it. All thinking about that does is make you sad+1
@GarrettEborn-f8n - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
i am going to stop watching videos of people pointing out problems or explaining to me how to find problems. i began to feel inspired by God to take life as it goes and smell the roses amen+1
@FRANKMUSIKOFFICIAL - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
I had my old micro machines speed shop tool box on a shelf and my 5 year old boy (eldest of three boys) asked what it was. I showed him and he looked up at me and said if he could have micro machines to play with one day. Am I wrong for buying him his own micro machines for Christmas then?+1
@Jalecko - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
fuck nostalgia i want the iphone 10000+2
@R_Priest - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
Nostalgia could be viewed as the converse of regret. From my view, the generational differences seem "superficial." We're talking about how media is consumed and shared and the ubiquity of socialized media. But in the US at least, if you go outside and look around, almost nothing has changed. Same old, same old. Of course, if you're Chinese or from a country that has developed rapidly, literally everything has changed from the prior generation. It's not just communication and modes of social interactions, but the very ground and environment around you. But I'd also be wrong to downplay the significance of the internet, email, mobile devices, and social media, and how that has changed us. It has changed us. It has altered the way we relate to one another, how we form bonds (and lack thereof), where we go to find connection and validation, and how we think about space and distance.+1
@tikkasen_urakointi - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
The problem is that things are changing too much and too fast, and mostly in ways that don't bring any extra value. This ever-increasing amount and speed of change seems to be the sole objective of modern society and the way it measures its efficiency. There is no continuity, because this pseudo-modernist society strives only for changing things, which often means just breaking everything that is old. But progress does not always equal advancement, and it certainly doesn't in this case. And because things are being changed and technology being deprecated so fast, "nostalgia" is being felt towards things that happened just few years ago and are already irrelevant to the modern world. This is an artificially made, unnatural situation that forces the masses to consume more and benefits only the richest few.+1
@Ionlyuseffmpeg - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
Money is too expensive. Need to set some expectations so people don't waste their life. And as you say, we need to be together. Still not putting my faith in the Kremlin tho+2
@Pdstor - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
Apparently my nine year old nephew still says Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask are both still very much "in," but then again, he's nine. I don't know if it's 100% bad, since something from e.g. the 80s isn't bad solely because of its age, it's when we do things like what we've done with 50's nostalgia - we *as a nation independent of generation* now point to 50's America as the apotheosis of humanity, "America at its best." Unrelated: I thought this was going to go down more of a "don't long for that feeling of first falling in love" kind of direction, this is very popular nowadays and is causing a lot of marriages to end over cheating. But consumerism, too, needs to be avoided.+1
@martinschmiedt3075 - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
AsmrFuns1 I never said it should,just pointed it out,Mr.I’m Always Right.+1
@spaycee9082 - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
I know what he is trying to say but he is just stereotyping gamers cuz new games are speedrun as well so that alone takes out his argument of them not doing nothing with they lives cuz they aren’t doing what he wants. Problem is he isn’t allowing others freedom to choose by disregarding what they are doing that can be paying bills by speedrun etc…+3
@ob3ythee.t.128 - 2025-06-03 11:26:47
AsmrFuns1 If you do not allow yourself to fully experience life then obviously you will feel happiness and content in things like video games and TV/media. My point wasn't saying people can't enjoy these things but instead that these things promote nihilism and excessive consoomerism. If you decide to spend 2 years playing video games and consuming excessive media then it will have essentially have amounted to nothing, your will power is stolen by corporations selling experiences. Versus, growing up as a kid and going out cycling with friends, you will keep those friends for life or at the very least have learnt to ride a bike, none of these things are possible with video games and TV.+1
@Yapianyibil - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
Generations come closer to each other as soon as people live longer. Compare this to ancient people who lived 30-35 years and can barely see grand children.+1
@leighdepaor - 2025-06-07 11:26:48
Interesting and valid points but I think we also need to be cognisant of the link between the Cultural Revolution in China and the “four olds/four news” thing that is being quickly normalised in the youth and the impressionable old, using media of all kinds. The resulting effect of which throws nostalgia into stark contrast with “modern” society.+1
@coolbro_9520 - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
your new webpage looks neat+2
@old_gaffer - 2025-06-05 11:26:48
uh oh.. Luke's getting rid of his thinkpads+2
@TheRogueVigilante - 2025-06-14 11:26:48
Do the ultimate chad move of reinstalling arch speedrun now luke+1
@cosmiccutie6687 - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
I'm obsessed with the 80s synthwave aesthetic, despite being born in the 2000s. It is nostalgia if i never had it to begin with?+1
@bedro_0 - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
At this point Luke thinks he's Terry Davis, the way he keeps rambling about uhhh... what the fuck were you talking about again, Luke?+3
@matthewbarry376 - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
I have a strong nostalgia for the Ireland of my childhood and before i was born+1
@PhilippBlum - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
Yeah. Let's build a world where people can take risk and build new of these experiences, technology. Those who know.+1
@radvilardian - 2025-06-11 11:26:48
Idk for you guys, but for me only music that create nostalgia, nothing else...+1
@coolconfuzer - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
I guess the guy read my article. Thx.+2
@vadsmixinglab11 - 2025-06-11 11:26:48
On one hand i very much ageee everything has changed, I always see a spot i used to hang out at when i was young and think about how that was a singular time in history where all the components were as they were But i think the main difference is that we arent how we were back then, our approach and perception of the world etc, not just the external factors Dude we're about the same age, grew up in the 90s, to say oh today its the consumerist world unlike the 90s is farfetched don't you think? The 90s were already very consumerism and brand oriented, remember how The Lion King came out and had all the merch etc..+1
@getawayunclejohn7107 - 2025-06-12 11:26:48
I dont think we can have the continuity as you've said right now, because we are amidst a rapid technological advance nowadays. Back before the industrial age, when the advancements were exceptionally slow compared to todays world, people could have that kind of experience, since there wasn't much new available to the 'public' for hundreds of years. The digital side of our lives is ever-evolving as of now, and since it has become a substantial part of many peoples lives, it further exacerbates the problem.+1
@PhilippBlum - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
It's a different future than we imagined, but we can still sail this ship in a better direction. Those who know ;)+1
@timobrien6957 - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
lego death sound 02:40+3
@holalluis - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
Nostalgia is not what it used to be+1
@za4ria - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
The outfit changed, he’s here to stay 🤲🏼+1
@DarknessLink - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
Destructive nostalgia like the kind you speak about is just a symptom of an unfulfilling life.+2
@OfficialAnekito - 2025-06-04 11:26:48
The world you were born in no longer exists+1
@beefcarver - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
I'm obey consooming retro gaming console stuff at a rate of 0.167 401k's per month so I can enjoy another decade of never getting kitty because I run Arch btw.+1
@wadhahmahrouk3609 - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
Angry boomer screams at industrial society+1
@fsmoura - 2025-06-04 11:26:48
Russian author longs for earlier times, when he wasn't a simulated conscience being eternally tortured by a demon-AI from the future.+1
@BiruKarurin - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
I think most people commenting here are conflating nostalgia with the admiration of tradition or the desire to hold onto true and tried value systems. Someone who values the past and understands why it was better should be compelled to bring those values into the present and reinstate them by DEMONSTRATION. That requires outward moving action, bravery and self-evolution. Nostalgia becomes poisonous if its only purpose is to inspire self serving and insular passivity. The former gives rise to new life, the latter to a dried stain at the shameful altar of a simulacra. Incurvatus in se! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbT1UU7YqNU+2
@0xssff - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
try "identity"+2
@iliyalb - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
i don't have a soul+1
@pileofthoughts - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
Used to be hooked on nostalgia in order to feel some kind of structure and continuity, browsed nostalgia posts for hours and hours. After finding the Church with its millennials of history I could replace consumer nostalgia with the real and deep continuity.+2
@targetprime7 - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
Everything that was said in this video was said in this video.+2
@PhilippBlum - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
The slop is the friends we made along the way. Those who know ;)+1
@Commandore456 - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
Also, Luke, you're an expert in Classical Studies. Those stories were as much propaganda as Captain America has been for 80 years. In 2,000 years there will be Classical Studies Scholars that reads "high brow literature" like Captain America like it's Heracles in archaic "Koine English" that was spoken in the American Empire and by the great "Trump Caesar Imperator". On a side note, I think Family guy is more high brow than Shakespeare, Shakespeare wrote fart jokes and dick jokes, Mozart wrote a song called "lick my ass". Romeo and Juliette has a homophobic gesture even Seth MacFarlane wouldn't write.+2
@TacticalTypos - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
I like the idea that it's like deceiving one's self into believing that they are more secure than they are by surrounding themselves with things that they are familiar, but which likely aren't good indicators of the world's current conditions.+1
@nexus7c0 - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
Heroes of Might and Magic 3 is still here+1
@ENIGMATICFENIX - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
Agreed nostalgia can be a poison... But it is a wonderful and good great fleeting experience. It is good to connect and maybe relive the past for a little while but making sure we don't get caught up in that making it the present. Leaving the past where it belongs. And being rooted in the now. Thanks for another awesome video peace out and take care.!+2
@Mipetz38 - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
maybe I have the brain of a dove but I never got those "nostalgia" memes, I don't think I had a crappy childhood, but I certainly live better now+1
@HydrasHead-g1u - 2025-06-10 11:26:48
sense of continuity by looking at little kiddies and saying "aww, just like me before, sooo cutesies!" isn't hardly anything to be so lamentful over+1
@arkbooi - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
Can we get the meme thumbnails again? It's pretty nostalgic+2
@xXKillaBGXx - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
Keep your mind in the present.+1
@NONAME-wc1tc - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
I was nostalgic for your videos luke a few weeks ago.+3
@evildragon1774 - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
love listening to background bird, need myself sometime to walk into forest sometimes.+1
@greatgales - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
We all know what our personal version of "video game speedrunning" is, and we need to turn away from it. Serious call to action and agency.+1
@fandigilidubis5184 - 2025-06-03 11:26:48
Luke, why so pragmatic about everything? Speedrunning is a hobby, it doesn't have to be useful+2
@skylinefever - 2025-06-03 11:26:49
@BiruKarurin The social contract was broken ages ago, so people aren't signing in.+1
@skend3489 - 2025-06-03 11:26:49
Tell us what you know+1
@upendownlinker - 2025-06-03 11:26:49
Luke doesn't agree with all classical thought.+1
@Commandore456 - 2025-06-03 11:26:49
@upendownlinker Well obviously, I don't think he supports slavery. The point being Late 20th century pop culture "nostalgia" Star Wars, Star Trek, (Especially Star Trek 6) Spaghetti Westerns and The Avengers is as much propaganda as Ancient Greek or Roman epic poetry.+1
@upendownlinker - 2025-06-03 11:26:49
@Commandore456 tbh I am not sure how star trek or star wars is propaganda+1
@cooloobalvy1197 - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Yeah. The video games stuff is worst Luke take thus far.+2
@victorclaudino2 - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
You're absolutely right, and you got me when you mentioned videogames. I remember vividly playing a mmo called grand fantasia as a kid, at the time it got me hooked because the game was very cartoonish and it worked wonders in my imagination, I would create hazy stories in my head, imagine how it was to live in that kind of world. Eventually I stopped playing, because the game is terrible and some other reasons, but as I grew older I was always engaged by that wave of nostalgia that comes and goes, and I kept trying to go back to that place. I would download the game again, hoping that playing it would make me go back, but you can not go back to anything, no matter how you try. This got me so frustrated, it still does... Gotta let go...+1
@kptxxz - 2025-06-06 11:26:50
Speedrunning is even more degenerate than your making it out to be. The idea of speedrunning as an identity with an associated lifestyle emerged from Games Done Quick. Speedrunners want to succeed in their self made world and in a competitive environment this success is only possible with no-lifing. They end up not caring about the nostalgia or skill and just spam retry different random number "seeds". So it becomes more than a time waster hobby for people with empty lives. It's an entire devotion of faith to a void with predominately nothing received except anxiety and depression.+3
@lanpartylandlord6123 - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
its funny, i see video games differently. i think multiplayer is the worst time waster. i like artistic single player games that are short. i dont have a bad relationship with games. maybe once a month ill pick up a singe player game that ive been interested in. silent hill 2 is a good example. its likr 8-10 hours and it left a big artistic impact on me. i understand being anti consumerism but some products were made out of genuine artistic intent. playing single player rogue-likes or things with no end like minecraft leads to addiction and time wasting, but linear things with a start and end can be like books.+1
@bochok5694 - 2025-06-08 11:26:50
Video games ruined my childhood that for sure.+1
@marcagray - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Guys is having absolutely no nostalgia a bad sign or an ok thing?+1
@nicksterpick - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Disco Elysium speaks of this+1
@marciomaiajr - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
I worked for 20 years on waterfall software development. After that came the "Agile" BS and ruined software develoment for me. And I'm constantly finding myself in a kinda "oh, if I were developing this using waterfall, I would already have delivered this and that". But that thought is pointless, theres no going back, everyone fell to this "Agile" methodology and I have got to adapt myself to it. Theres no point in having nostalgia for waterfall, its gone. 😢+2
@alamputraaf - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
im nostalgia luke releases frequent video for us,+2
@LinuxRenaissance - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
I do not agree with anything you said in this video :) but I appreciate the attempt. Keep posting!+3
@questonickevalido - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Sometimes it happens that I get hit by nostalgia for a videogame. I reinstall it, play it, just to find out 10 minutes in that I am bored. The old video game is not entertaining anymore. All the nice things I was thinking I would get from playing the video game were only expectations. After a few times this happened, I started to find even new games not engaging. So nostalgia effectively mogged me out of video games. A powerful thing you can do against nostalgia is to identify why you have it, as it is often an unrealised desire from childhood. Find what you wanted to do back then, set an objective and pursue it until the end. After you are done, you will have no reason to go back to it and you will never spend more than 5 minutes fantasizing about the past+2
@Optimus6128 - 2025-06-10 11:26:50
It's all good but I don't believe in the concept of "waste of time". Or doing some activities or looking back and think what a waste of time. I am not interested in speed running but if some people like it I am fine. Meanwhile I prefer single player gaming. Why only the multiplayer social experience is not a waste? It feels a waste if you have end goals. Or if you think you are holding a ledger and by the end of your life you will look back and see "What did I do?". That's a very common new age modern culture idea. But I think we torture our brains more than with other things, thinking back of the things we should have done and should not.+2
@Jake-Day - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Sell nostalgia.+1
@sarundayo - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Me: listening to Synthwave 😢+1
@theAnalystMan - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Any opinions on rust being integrated into the linux kernel? Or in ubuntu replacing coreutils with a rust alternative?+1
@Dionyson678 - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Lemme ask you this Luke. I've been engaged in the typical cringe of millennial thing of reconnecting with my childhood youth. However it isn't buying that lego set I always wanted, or playing Red/Blue Pokemon with a refurbished Gameboy printer so you can have that certificate from Professor Oak framed, but getting back into animals as I was an "animal kid" growing up who watched a lot of Animal Planet. I've been watching more animal content (recommend the channel "Beasters" here on Youtube) and have taken up bird watching. My mother last year visited our old favorite regional tourist trap and asked if I wanted a souvenir, and I said to pick up a wolf figurine like I used to get every time we went there if it wasn't too much, and she obliged. I have it on my nightstand on top of rabbit pelt she also got me. I also bought some collector decorative plates from a yard sale that depict big cats like lions and tigers and intend to put them up on display. I can't help but wonder if I'm not like those guys who fill their house with old toys, even if it isn't obessing over forced corporate consumerist crap from 1990. Am I being infantile or reengaging with my inner child in a healthy way?+1
@Laotzu.Goldbug - 2025-06-09 11:26:50
Nostalgia for the void+1
@thepokkanome - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
What is the world that doesn't pass away?+1
@metalgearfan9802 - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
I kinda just go by the philosophy that nothing really matters, just enjoy whatever make you happy lol. Be that playing games, having a family, believing in a magical sky daddy, etc.+1
@MR.GECKO-i6h - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Nostalgia is tempting not because we want to "return" to our childhood. It's because the future sucks. Sure, everything is more convenient, but that comes at a price. Games for example are no longer considered work of art, and instead a cash cow for further extraction of money from consumers (microtransactions). Do you know why the are so many superhero movies these days? It's because they continue generate wealth after the release through merchandise of all sort you can imagine that becomes irrelevant after a while, and then repeated, that is the entire point of it. The push for "green technology" is not for the benefit of the environment, it's because they are more lucrative and open up for all kind of anti-consumerist business models, and scamming the taxpayers through stupid and corrupt politicians.+1
@pibott667 - 2025-06-14 11:26:50
when u talk about the generation desconexion and how is going to repeat i've heard it as the babilon generation tower, "embrace traciotionalism forgive ur ancestors"+1
@ttcc5273 - 2025-06-11 11:26:50
Now I miss my Pet Rock, little Pebbles Dirtslab 💔+1
@crisper1614 - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Speaking some real truths here.+1
@fruitspunch - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Although I mostly agree with what you said about nostalgia, I don't agree with your point about video games and speedrunning. I am not a speedrunner, so take my word with a grain of salt, but to me speedrunners show how people can learn quite fast, if they are motivated. To me, this really resembles something like meta-learning, where people have the ability to suck everything in and and use only the parts that are necessary to achieve their subjective goal. Honestly not that different from people who learn many languages to the point of "conversational fluency" or students studying for multiple exams during their exam periods. Of cource, I'll admit that there's a huge hype in speedrunning and I would've never came across this "trend", if it wasn't such a hype, but speedrunning itself is just the aim for perfection in whatever field the participants see fit. It's just another sport where people of many ranges can compete against each other. The real question here would be, how important sports and competition is to each individual person and to our culture as a whole, but I guess that's a different topic.+1
@justinian420 - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
"they play with...sticks!" LOL+1
@pamus6242 - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
I absolutely love video games and will probably never play them ever again....as a 40 year old.+2
@rusoriz-123 - 2025-06-09 11:26:50
Remember when Luke used to talk about Linux and stuff? Yea, me too...+1
@rk-bumbum - 2025-06-06 11:26:50
You ended the video in saying you can't have that continuity... but, with some nostalgia forms, you can have some things back. Sure, you can feel a bit sad in the moment too, but it's not necessarily bad or so strong. If you can partially relive some things, just do it. There's nothing important in this present time either anyway. What are the important stuff you're talking about? Maybe spend time with friends, in the nature, and sure lots of stuff to do. Better that, than just sitting in your dark room alone trying feeling sad by partially trying to relive some childhood moments. Yet, you could also try to share those moments, maybe try to show some glimpses of your life, and offer novel (old) things for new generations too. Just don't expect them to just take it or understand it so deeply. But have a person who perhaps shares some of those memories in some ways, maybe. Make new memories too, sure. But nostalgia is one great tool for sharing and getting good moments.+1
@PressureCooker69 - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
That's why I try to get speedrunners to play to fighting games instead. There's a lot of overlap between the two genres but fighting games aren't nearly as degenerate and the practice is more reminiscent of an actual skill+2
@davidnagy1046 - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
hi Luke! i tried studying different Hellenic and later philosophies and some of Christian theology, and one question remained in my mind: what is the soul, really? what are its parts? different philosophers and theologians give different answers, divide it up in different ways... what's your take on this?+1
@blitzkrieg2928 - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Nostalgia melted the snow from the past videos+2
@puhbrox - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Good topic. As an aside Nostalgia by Windows 96 is a goodon song+1
@PhilippBlum - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Remember Zoe 101? Gosh, I wanted that flip phones :D Those who know+1
@ENIGMATICFENIX - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Dude another thing.. the game mouse trap.. the idea and the thought of it is 1 million times better than the game. The original especially..... Lol+2
@cybermeth_ - 2025-06-10 11:26:50
return of the king+1
@GhostofTradition - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
I guess its time to let go of the old Livestreams and Not Related 😢+1
@theelodgeovkeku - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Funny how modern toys are a flash in the pan while children game's are one of the least mutable cultural artifacts we've got. Hopscotch is old enough to have been decreed degenerate and b& by Chuddah.+1
@PhilippBlum - 2025-06-03 11:26:50
Wouldn't it be funny to use consumerism to motivate people to get rid of it? A self-destroying cycle. Or at least reducing or putting in to use in a smart way for society. Those who know.+1
@westernautocrat - 2025-06-15 11:26:50
kids today dont have to delete meta.inf to mod minecraft...+1
@Jim_Buck - 2025-06-14 11:26:50
You can still brainwash your kids/nephews/nieces into loving old video games to some extend, mine love classic Tomb Raider and Zelda games. And OG Command & Conquer on a hot ass summer night into the wee hours will always be great+1
@matrixInvader - 2025-06-05 11:26:51
is nostalgia always necessarily something you pine for? I find myself being somewhat indifferent, or if anything weirded out, unsettled by it, a reminder of death coming?+1
@Necktowel - 2025-06-09 11:26:51
The crumbling of the existing socioeconomic order contributes to this as well. Feel like that’s a big missed part here+1
@Jim_Buck - 2025-06-14 11:26:51
Ooh, and Descent/Descent 2/Overload, also on a hot ass summer night is the best. I agree speed running is pointless though+1
@NyoQah - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
also *me think* i think theres nothing wrong with consumerism as i like free trade, im not a liberal either and i think open migration is very wrong, im just a oldschool 2000s conservative+1
@mattk1631 - 2025-06-06 11:26:51
If you're bad at Zelda speed running just say that unc!+1
@gnomelinux - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
This is a pretty bad point lol. Lot of it doesn't seem to understand why people go back and go to older entertainment. I am young and watch it because that stuff is better than the stuff of today as is most things now. Automobiles were better things were built to last and when someone turns on a screen for entertainment they'll likely turn on something they watched as a child and not like the newer things. Thats normal. Yes entertainment is superficial and not a necessity but its nice to have a luxury you can go to when you want it.+2
@ManwithNoName-t1o - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
todays video games aren't actually better. most gamers I know from my nephew to adults are playing hella old games. not because of nostalgia. but because the games today just suck.+2
@kraidur8693 - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
He's back+1
@zeevdrifter2707 - 2025-06-08 11:26:51
Can you have nostalgia for an era I didn't exist in?+1
@williammarshall5865 - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
I believe there is a 3rd path, but I can see where you're coming from. You and I are close in age, but I have 1/2 a dz homeschooled kids (2nd generation) and have been married to a woman whom I met when she and I were both teenagers. If I lived a different life, I'd probably agree with you, but I don't think it's as hard to incorporate older activities to newer generations positively as I think you're making it out to be. Of course, my kids (all kids, really) would get bored with laser tag and nature walks and beach excursions if we peppered in bi-monthly theme park visits and annual cruises, and it's the same when you want to share your old games or movies with young people if they're used to consuming hyper-addictive media. Or, to use another example, if "all" kids eat fast food 3x a week, and "all" kids are diabetic and hate their vegetables, I'd be crazy to feed my kids a "normal" diet - (statistically normal, not historically normal). So, my phone plan comes with several streaming subs, but I never use them - jellyfin and plex for us. Each kid has their own pc and tablet, but neither is used for terminally online games, and especially never with people outside the house. Yes, there's more to it than what I've written, but on the whole, the concept works well. I think the hardest part of choosing what comes in your house is identifying the things you liked as a kid (or your parents liked when they were kids) that are actually trash you have a soft spot for and keeping those things out. The good news is, you don't have to be perfect, and the "good enough" bar is fairly low, just keep moving in the right direction. There remain aspects of your childhood that are worth preserving as sure are there are traditions of old worth keeping. It's not hopeless, your children don't have to grow up as foreigners in your own home, where they are offered to the world as young adults. You can win, just don't expect society to pat you on the back in approval.+2
@0000xFFFF - 2025-06-08 11:26:51
is leaving society and going to the woods a canon event after installing arch linux+1
@madmartigan1634 - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
This is why I quit vaporwave.+2
@tyniumv5485 - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
Have to disagree. I believe, that situation is becoming quite the opposite - the time is stopping. I am in my early 30s, and i have same experience playing Minecraft as modern zoomers. Like "Back in the days, kid, the water physics was completely different. *grunts*" Recently i was riding a bus, and gothic-lolita dressed schoolgirl sat near me. She took her phone and started to play 2d bike simulator, just like I did in in 2008. And we also had emo back then. I felt so much at that moment. (I abstained from creeping out the girl by turning this into "How do you do, fellow kids" situation)+1
@johnmcway6120 - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
very eerie terry davis vibes (minus the engineering genius). this is just kinda sad at this point.+2
@RippDrive - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
It was the best of times. It was the blurst of times.+1
@VasoTodorovic-jq5bx - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
Preach father Luka Kovacich Luke Smith in Serbian would sound Luka Kovacich+1
@Ril3y00 - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
So what does matter sir?+1
@A_scope - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
nostalgia is the longing for home... so i went home, and then found nothing from my memories...+1
@whereeaglesdare9584 - 2025-06-06 11:26:51
Pretty sure if youre not nostalgic post 2020 you might not have a soul.+1
@fundeadfox - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
welcome back solomon+1
@speedos - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
it's definitely because of nostalgia lol. you would have to be insane to look at the thousands of games on steam and be like "yeah literally none of these are good".+2
@jabłeczko980 - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
Odyssey is still relatable today, as well as Citizen Kane and tag game.+1
@speedos - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
@jabłeczko980 are u ok bro+1
@jabłeczko980 - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
@speedos you asking me? it is not ok to not value what was done once and for ever just because it is not of today. moreover, especially with music, popularly the contrary usually happens, people like pop from decades ago, and pop which they never listened too, so nostalgia explanation doesn't quite suit here+1
@speedos - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
@jabłeczko980 no i mean wtf does Odyssey, Citizen Kane and tag game have to do with anything? dude is talking about VIDEO GAMES, your response has nothing to do with anything anyone said you schizo+1
@speedos - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
AsmrFuns1 "You don’t get to decide for others what they like and don’t like." then why are you watching and commenting under a video by a guy who tries to do exactly that?+1
@rightwingsafetysquad9872 - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
Specifically on games, I find anything between Super Nintendo and PS2 to be difficult to go back to. I grew up on PS1 and Dreamcast, but turning one on now just kills all the nostalgia immediately.+1
@kirillholt2329 - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
I definitely needed to hear this. Just confirms what I already suspected. Nostalgia is incredibly dangerous.+1
@mysteriumxarxes - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
This video dropping on my 30th birthday is no coincidence+1
@5vart5ol - 2025-06-10 11:26:51
Luke, how do we revitalize the internet again? Some type of personal human of into everything we do? I feel we are all just going towards the doom scrolling.+1
@abominable.7800 - 2025-06-07 11:26:51
no country for old men+1
@vladimir.dobrev - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
I feel like nostalgia could indeed be bad if you overindulge in it and it also can be exploited by corporations to create "nostalgic" products so they can sell better or cater to some niche. Otherwise it seems pretty harmless to me.+1
@presidentmorsi4677 - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
ya whatever. bring back not related!+1
@BinaryDood - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
i will not allow myself to have nostalgia for dark souls+1
@chuckee777 - 2025-06-03 11:26:51
shoutout to simpleflips+1
@pathos_films - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
Yea, I remember thinking a while ago that nostalgia is probably the worst feeling of all, even though on the surface it might even seem "good" or at least pleasant.+1
@Yaxqb - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
You upload the same second I come home from a RetrogameCon in gothenburg, how ironic. You have a great point, I'm probably not going to force my gen videogames on my children+1
@briansalvadorhernandezroma2607 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
"Videogames speedruning which is the depressing and degenerate thing" dude chill out 😂+1
@Droidbot74 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
I think you’re criticizing something that’s inherently human. Nostalgia is something people go after usually because they’re in a place or have made significant progress. I do see what you’re also saying though that living in the past is a fast way to go nowhere in your life. A concept that applies to careers as well. Many people stay in jobs that are dead for far too long. Live in areas that are falling apart. Stay in relationships that really are not progressing towards where they want to be in life. These are bigger human struggles that will not actually go away.+3
@apollo1707 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
I see a great soul in this man !!+1
@skandhreddy - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
Gorguts - Nostalgia+1
@michaelfox8164 - 2025-06-10 11:26:52
I think you're both right and wrong on this. Old music, games, films, that arent technically sophisticated like the things we consume now, that can be offputting to experience nowadays but it can also be part of the charm, and you don't have to look at nostalgia as dead memories, history is cyclical in a lot of ways iust look at mens hairstyles, we can be nostalgic for certain aesthetics or styles, or iust the time and place they occured in, sometimes that's our own place in time or it can just be a romanticized image we have of a world we never experienced.+1
@sg137iu89 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
I have always viewed nostalgia as a bad thing. The world is not fixed, constant change means you are always going in a different direction, reinventing yourself, even if just in very small ways is a healthy way of living and dealing with reality.+1
@popohater88 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
why can't it be like 2016 again man?+1
@gravelAMDG - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
Nostalgia is weakness entering the body.+1
@animalmother4 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
Memba berries+2
@xgui4-studio - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
well i am on the spectrum and don't have a "collection" at least that I think....+1
@projectObject247 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
Great video Luke. Hits hard+1
@johnvargas761 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
crazy I thought kids like legos so I got my cousin that for his birthday later to find out legos are not cool any more+1
@SlideRSB - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
These boomer rants are boring now. I wish he'd go back to more stuff about Linux and open source. That's what I'm here for.+2
@dasarathk7476 - 2025-06-11 11:26:52
AWESOME!!!+1
@Emir-mi8mq - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
I can appreciate someone completing a very general speedrun challenge of an iconic game, i.e., SMB1 any%, but I see it as a waste of time when someone's working on some very specific speedrunning challenge or speedrunning some obscure game hardly anyone knows.+1
@stacksmasherninja7266 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
u need a better camera bro+1
@FruityRhythms - 2025-06-05 11:26:52
Shit talking on speedrunners is such a poor take. Pretty obvious that you don't understand the scene at all. Also, for me personally, nostalgia is super important. It reminds me of what made me happy in my youth and what things I might have lost connection to over the years. I can then act on that and recreate moments of happiness with my wife and my kid, which is awesome.+2
@astrea555 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
focusing on the things that matter is also a meme. I thought my art career mattered until the second Ai happened. Everything can be a waste of time or something you look back fondly in retrospect. Speedrunning is just as stupid as spending your life tinkering with Linux or whatever the fk.+2
@Gu1d-0 - 2025-06-11 11:26:52
I still play video games way too much except I don't lie to myself about it anymore. This isn't art, this is Matrix plugged in goo pod type shit. It totally is nothing else but escapism. And you know why games as a format will never be an artform? Art doesn't have fucking loading screens+1
@Smrda1312 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
I think people often think the children have changed but at least where I live it is not really like we think. I often see kids causing mischief when walking around the city see older people cursing their psrents for not raising them right and remembering that that is not all too different than what we did. It is a shame that they have to navigate social media as much as they do it def is a bad influence. I also think having phones to be constantly monitored by parents is not the best. Also nostalgia is a poison I agree but sometimes it is a reminder that maybe we are stagnating and caught in a routine. I often think back of high school and how everyday felt like I was alive and now some days go by like I am an automata. But I try to use this as motivation to break out of the matrix. Well as much as I can I guess.+1
@jonathaneubanks9026 - 2025-06-10 11:26:52
What about Heraith? Or however you spell it?+1
@MrAlienAssassin - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
Thinly veiled attempt to denounce people nostalgic for the original Default Runescape Character model+2
@riverblack123 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
If you're an adult you should be playing videogames for 5 hours a week at most+1
@xgui4-studio - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
i don't believe in soul at all ... and nostalgia can be great right???+1
@coldwater5707 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
I don’t have room for nostalgia….my mom moved in and I had to get rid of most of her truckloads of JUNK that had been accumulated. Between that and kids I just want much stuff for myself. I have some ham radios…been doing it since the early 80s but that is about it. I do remember this phase but I moved on.+1
@nemousama4637 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
I think you misattribute the problem to nostalgia when all the examples you listed were related to consumption and passive experience. It is possible to have nostalgia for past achievements or greatness that one may have had before a long decline; nostalgia that can kindle back your fire to change and improve your current situation.+1
@Gasdq123 - 2025-06-07 11:26:52
Does it mean I should try Windows 11?+1
@DHarrisChillin - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
Are DIY chad email server speed runs not OK?+1
@toobskuiks116 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
This was my thought recently as well. Especially video game nostalgia.+1
@projectObject247 - 2025-06-03 11:26:52
AsmrFuns1 God bless the speed runners+1
@riverblack123 - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
AsmrFuns1 Im not dictating bro im just saying what I think is a healthy amount of hours for the average adult+1
@ajdaniel123 - 2025-06-04 11:26:53
Crazy take on speedruns lmao+1
@Joshayy_1 - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
In the case of video game speed running. Typically the ultimate goal of a video game is to enjoy the experience of playing the game. With speed running the goal is to enjoy the game at little as possible and you can really see it in some of these speed runners. They'll restart constantly because whatever run they are on doesn't work out, and they aren't having fun doing that. They have nostalgia for this game so they speedrun but speed running the game isn't even trying to experience it in the same way they might have as a kid, and through their efforts of optimizing the game they completely remove any chance of experiencing that game in the same way. Now they are in a cycle of seeking out an experience they permanently destroyed.+1
@HydrasHead-g1u - 2025-06-10 11:26:53
why not just keep having experiences that are worthy of future nostalgia instead of pining for the events your current nostaligia tells you to pine for? they're better in your head anyways, why not just fantasize and look for new? perpetually chasing new online drug-highs, but at least they are new, but that could be bad as in giving more knowledge but nothing else deeper or lasting+1
@desktorp - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
Humans were not designed to have audio and video recordings tampering with the procession of our memories. When a loved one dies, our memories are supposed to fade, crystallize; to become refined and tempered with time. Today we can stare at pictures and video to keep the wounds fresh. The same goes for music. We were meant to pass along music tribally. Every time an old song is played, it's to be remembered and passed along. Now it's recorded and we keep playing that same recording over and over, to the point that when we see the band live, we are let down that the song doesn't sound EXACTLY like the studio recording we've heard a thousand times. High technology is the real culture killer.+1
@PhilippBlum - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
Isn't it funny. Currently trying something by going back to the roots. But differently. So. You learn, you create news things. It never be the same again. Those who know.+1
@sklorpion - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
ciekawe, że wracam tu i słucham. Cieszę się że odpuściłem linuxa i teraz ukierunkowałeś się na przemyśleniach.+1
@thecomputerist - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
Luke, can’t wait for the “anyway, that’s all i had to say” luke smith merch tshirt+1
@IAvres - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
Stop dissing my MC speedrunning addiction Luke =-(+2
@MrNinjaFish - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
I knew nostalgia was a bad thing when people were being nostalgic about the 1990s.... in the mid 2000s. Probably different from my point of view because I didn't have a good childhood. Adults push a pessimistic and nihilistic view of adulthood and seem shocked when the next generation act like children - surely the point is to make adulthood and maturity seem worth pursuing? If you can't justify your position in life to your kids the point of education is to make sure they can do better or different.+2
@lh5br7fm9b - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
i used to date Nastajah in high school+1
@MatthewHaydenRE - 2025-06-07 11:26:53
Luke have you ever considered hunting woth hounds? It cured all my malaise from the modern world. Read "On Hunting" by Roger Scruton.+1
@lpanebr - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
Tell why ur back to YouTube+1
@DaisyChaine - 2025-06-08 11:26:53
5:48 that aint a tree+1
@SS-in2kr - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
Always great to hear you. Btw, waiting to hear you on "AI is demonic"+1
@winterkatzen - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
Luke should rebrand as the Nostalgia Critic.+1
@TakiGosc427 - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
Isn't that funny in a vudeo about how too much nostalgia is bad the while point is "back in my days things changed slower and that was good"?+1
@3ofSpades - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
Nostalgia isn’t progress. It’s complacency. The things we enjoyed as kids helped shaped what we enjoy as adults, but they weren’t what made us who we are. It was the experiences and having fun by learning. What makes nostalgia poisonous is how people refuse to grow and move forward as they repetitively do the same thing over and over again until it becomes unhealthy and destructive. Insanity. And this results in products and ways of life deteriorating. Video games are a great example. But if you only play big new games that encourage you to play without feeling anything other than regret and lazily reuse stuff from the 90s, then you’ll feel like you wasted your time and nothing changes. It’s fake at the end of the day, but it’s better that everyone practices everything in moderation.+1
@Gangdan-o9b - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
无论如何，我喜欢你的发型。+1
@RuddODragonFear - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
Fuck yeah video number 5 of the new era!+1
@jantarwern - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
Luke, please make a community IRC channel (if you don't already have one)+1
@desktorp - 2025-06-03 11:26:53
AsmrFuns1 oh no! A probably gay person with a gay disney video game avatar posted an eyeroll emoji!+1
@solcommandore6421 - 2025-06-03 11:26:54
AsmrFuns1 for me it became a rabbit hole, pointless, permanent configuration change. I'd rather listen to this now.+1
@MrNinjaFish - 2025-06-03 11:26:54
AsmrFuns1 1 Corinthians 13:11 surely?+1
@3ofSpades - 2025-06-03 11:26:54
AsmrFuns1 No. I'm saying have fun, but don't get carried away to where it becomes unhealthy.+1
@okotoko - 2025-06-03 11:26:55
/vr/ won't like this one... I was born in '01 but I have a small curated collection of PS1 games because I think it's important to learn and appreciate the technology of olde. Sometimes it's nice to just slow down and simplify for a while and not have to rely on the latest flashy thing to bring any sort of joy or inspiration to my life. In our current world I'd say it's actually quite effective in teaching patience and gratitude, something that's sorely lacking in people of my generation especially, but this of course different from nostalgia and people who live in their own past+1
@izakayaGeneral - 2025-06-03 11:26:55
totally agreed luke.. hold on I just need to finish ocarina of time+1
@niksatan - 2025-06-03 11:26:55
I am damaged by that drug :-(+1
@afrosamurai4747 - 2025-06-03 11:26:55
broootal stuff man+1
@weatherkop - 2025-06-03 11:26:55
Has this guy heard of a TB-303?+1
@penjamincity1770 - 2025-06-03 11:26:55
Luke Smith is getting drafted in WW3+2
@AK-vx4dy - 2025-06-07 11:26:55
It is strong stuff... it killed me many times+1
@NyoQah - 2025-06-03 11:26:55
I'm sorry luke but ill have to disagree here, too much nostalgia can be unhealthy yes but nostalgia itself is not literal poison, you're taking things too much to the extreme and im sure not everyone is that badly impacted by nostalgia theres also nothing wrong with wanting to bring back the past, for example im a huge fan of the 2000s, furthermore i didnt have a great childhood so experiencing those nostalgia slop videos & trends actually make me live something for the first time (for the most part) i couldnt experience because i had a very traumatic childhood, now maybe you wont call this "nostalgia" and maybe you'll think im just sperging out but its still considered nostalgia nonetheless, and i think theres nothing wrong with wanting for society to be like the 2000s again+1
@jacksom-x4j - 2025-06-11 11:26:55
F that my kids playing through ocarina of time whether he likes it or not god dammit+1
@NaphasterJones - 2025-06-06 11:26:55
I dunno, this video is kind of a non-starter from so many different angles that it just ain't worth taking seriously. Ignoring the obvious criticisms (literally a hermit, have N64 roms on your pc ffs, etc. (and pls, don't counter with obvious responses (I deleted them already, etc (I'm already not using any of these points as a primary argument)))) the medium is just too much of the message here: what are we all collectively doing here if not indulging in some form of remembrance. you were gone for so long, just to come back to what you have once done; why? why do as many of us that are/were subscribed come back after all this time? is there nothing to the natural impulse that causes me to WANT to see you again? to read the comments from all who have come back. at some point, this all just comes across as a f*g*y affect towards a particular 'type' of lifestyle more than anything else. at what point are we allowed to hold YOU accountable to actions that are incompatible with what you espouse. I respect you primarily for your biblical analysis (and linux/vim ofc), but you go too far from even your own standard.+1
@GabrielSantos-th7ww - 2025-06-03 11:26:55
he literally made the Shadow's speech about speedrunning+1
@ShalomDepot - 2025-06-16 21:26:55
Good stuff+1
@undecidedmajor1664 - 2025-06-09 11:26:55
Hauntology+1
@dasenase - 2025-06-03 11:26:55
8 minutes to say a whole lotta nothing. Your audience isn't watching speed runs lmao+1
@demovideo490 - 2025-06-03 11:26:55
Is it more bugman to leave bugman family and start your own family somewhere else, or should the son return to bugman family with his wife and snd kids to regenerate and heal is bug relatives being examples of Christ.+1
@MrGriZar - 2025-06-03 11:26:55
Bro saw Michael Myers and stole his look+1
@Bleeeaaoop - 2025-06-03 11:26:55
Not the best take on most things in this video, I think you're just lonely...+1
@gickygackers - 2025-06-03 11:26:55
Souls like souls-like?+1
@epix4300 - 2025-06-03 11:26:55
not related pls+3
@SirCatWaffel - 2025-06-08 11:26:55
Im just a video game Luddite. Only roller coaster tycoon and sim city 4 please+1
@ClintLeetwood - 2025-06-12 11:26:55
That game looks like shit by today's standards. Your kids will laugh you out the house.+1
@GabrielSantos-th7ww - 2025-06-03 11:26:55
AsmrFuns1 sorry, I meant Shadow's And I was referring to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n__GJuqLb00+1
@CugelTheClever458 - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
I avoid thinking about the past unless it is to learn from it and avoid previously made mistakes. Other than that my past holds nothing of interest for me+1
@riverblack123 - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
Part of the speedrunning and nostalgia thing is a refusal ro grow up.+1
@benwasilewski - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
It's not Trump that's destroying our way of life - it's the speedrunners+1
@c-LAW - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
You've just got the wrong nastalgia.+1
@ThinkerOfThoughts - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
Oh wow!+1
@itspro1610 - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
you look like mental outlaw but white+3
@Vertex_Draco - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
That beard is bloat+1
@Rg-es9kv - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
sentimentality should be selective+1
@Pepxico-y7d - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
soystalgic+2
@JoaoVictor-xi7nh - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
Seriously, it's depressingly bleak to find some old game you'd wasted your childhood/teen years on, try booting it up to relive the magic only to be met with the flattest, most joyless contentment you could feel. "eh it's kinda cool I guess". God I hate games+1
@trashviewer3521 - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
Well this Karl Marx guy definitely doesn't know much about current state of video games. Yes, the stuff US millenials played like old Zelda games is mostly out of date old and cringe nowadays. But most of the current gaming market isn't like that. The current date market is mostly about recycling stuff from 10+ years ago, or just complete slop. You can't really be nostalgic, because very little new thing was introduced in last 10-20 years of gaming. (well except VR). The current gaming market is actually mostly repurposed stuff from times where game was good. And it's pretty objective statement that can be scientifically proved.+3
@PhilippBlum - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
You can even argue since your cells replace ever so often, we are new humans as well. Those who know+2
@hopscotchoblivion7564 - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
Watching this wrapping up by overnight wagie shift.+1
@palchum1185 - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
Yeah, nostalgia is a passion so its neutral, but how its expressed can be very harmful. Even for myself I notice myself being nostalgic over things from like 3 months ago and often times I do things just purely for chasing fleeting feelings from when i first consoomed something Also, based take on speedrunning btw+1
@xxOmnipresencexx - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
Nostalgia for being an e-celeb?+1
@CBT5777 - 2025-06-11 11:26:56
Interesting.+1
@RyanC__ - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
You’re such a smarty pants luke God bless you+1
@shavebunny - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
Millennials in a nutshell+1
@speedos - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
what angers me about nostalgia is that it is a very specific "doomer" emotion, but it has no word to signify its opposite. like, my childhood was miserable. i am much happier now than i was in my youth. why don't we have a word for that?+2
@ZZFilm - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
Film worth checking out… “Nostalgia” by Andrei Tarkovsky. It’s great.+1
@riverblack123 - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
AsmrFuns1 I'm not talking about all speedrunners, that's why I wrote "part of" This applies to some speedrunners+1
@Idothinkysaurus - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
Gratitude.+2
@speedos - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
@Idothinkysaurus that can just mean general thankfulness and appreciation, it's not specific like nostalgia+1
@Idothinkysaurus - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
@speedos If you're happier now than you were in your youth, what else would it be? Thankfulness is when you're specifically grateful. Appreciation is when there is value. Gratitude is the opposite of nostalgia, because while nostalgia is inherently longing, gratitude is satisfied while recognizing the growth.+1
@speedos - 2025-06-03 11:26:56
@Idothinkysaurus "Gratitude, thankfulness, or gratefulness is a feeling of appreciation (or similar positive response) by a recipient of another's kindness." I can be grateful to a friend for cooking me a nice meal without starving in my youth.+1
@oredaze - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
You lost me at "video games are a waste of time". A much bigger waste of time is watching some random dude in a forest speak. Bye. I don't use arch anymore.+2
@xCepheid - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
"Pathologize Things I Don't Like Any%"+1
@Ghost_x44 - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
I agree with you+1
@NEVERGOON-e7q - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
We should be looking forward to building a better future rather than longing for the past.+3
@Tuuminshz - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
Make thing Y great again!+1
@infinitelucidmaze - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
Rub beard + 10 speech+1
@Sebastian-uk3cp - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
Thinking of Tarkovskys movie Nostalghia+1
@skend3489 - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
Music's the worst+2
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
Speed runners catching strays.. lol+1
@SteeleJohnson-o7u - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
im commiemaxxing rn ough oughhhhh+1
@svenk666 - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
Nerd!+1
@wasumyon - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
Nostos over kleos+1
@justin266 - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
Awesome vids. Great frequency. Look trad. Based. Christpilled. Keep us all posted on your continued progress with any new progress pics or vid clips. Show us what you got man. Wanna see how freakn' trad, based and Christpilled you can get. Thanks for the motivation.+1
@adammontgomery7980 - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
I watch too much Youtube but, I'm glad I just naturally grew out of gaming. I just watched a vid about a teacher quitting and she claimed we should remove technology from the classroom. She said that the kids can't even watch a movie on movie day, they have to put earbuds in and scroll tiktok. Freebasing dopamine+1
@thdotaku - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
if you are a good parent your kids will play with sticks and dolls+2
@dannielrb - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
How is religion different? You're turning away from the new and continuously reliving the old, trying to keep the old alive, perfecting it, tweaking it, trying to get your karmic speed run down. Religion is collective generational nostalgia.+2
@dankusmemus2350 - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
based video+1
@AwkwardSegway95 - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
GNU/Nostalgia+1
@ルタフォリ - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
tfw I dont feel nostalgia from anything. B^)+1
@Dystopia_is_Now - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
Kind of funny that nostalgia is what brought be back to Christianity. The horrors of the secular world accelerated like crazy during Covid. Seeing how fast things were going, I desperately sought out some stability. Maybe that's different than what you're talking about since, in theory, Christianity shouldn't change with the times.+1
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
AsmrFuns1 I said: "Speed runners catching strays.. lol"+1
@eruikagartner - 2025-06-03 11:26:57
gayming > theytube+1
@PhillyCYOSports - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
Your off on this one.+2
@p0indexter624 - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
hey why not warn us of the fascist presence in the WH. no...warn us of nostalgia because it keeps you up at night !+1
@VajarJuranin - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
ChatGPT, please generate "The bearded beluga unable to comprehend human nature."+1
@abundantharmony - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
Says the guy who misses his hairline and is envious of the hairlines of others. 😅+1
@idan4794 - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
Yeah+1
@AmirulAbu1 - 2025-06-07 11:26:58
rude+1
@zironemegeaz - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
ya it's called b4 things went to complete shit.. by guy+1
@kborak - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
I have preached something similar for a long while now.+2
@winterkatzen - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
Shout out kosmicd12+1
@infopierlu - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
Tnx brother Luke. P.s. agree 100%+2
@kingnick6260 - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
Something something stuck culture+1
@johnddb - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
sneed+1
@FinnaTrynaBeHonest - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
He’s covering his left eye in the thumbnail. Illuminate confirm.+1
@DonutSwordsman - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
Sad af+1
@PhilippBlum - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
We are building new shit and apply the learnings from the past. Those who know+1
@MarcoAurelio-sv2tk - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
I personally perceive nostalgia as grief and this is not a good place to be. Adapt or depress. Yes, it is sad that some values are lost, but it is what it is. We can't change the past+1
@ezu5131 - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
I fall in the trap of getting overly excited when I play a game like Hollow Knight, thinking “wow, this game plays so tight just like the good ol days!” only to find myself sinking 3+ hours a day into it (overtime on weekends) and coming out with nothing to show for it in the end. Let’s face it fellas, games were always a trap+1
@Etherchannel - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
We are getting very close to having a Luke video where he starts blaming the Jews for all of societies problems.+1
@sergeymironov7315 - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
If nostalgie destroys soul, then how the almighty God gave that feeling to his beloved creations? 😂+1
@JASONpfxgm - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
Me after I lose in a speed running tournament+1
@irixperson - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
absolutely braindead "opinion" of yours+3
@p0indexter624 - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
@irixperson yawn+1
@anonaga308 - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
6:57+1
@skylinefever - 2025-06-03 11:26:58
Maybe this is why people get nostalgic. Instead of new stuff that takes wisdom from the past, there is new stuff that is simply new for the sake of newness.+2
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-03 11:26:59
He knows but he's too smart to let you know that he knows.+3
@darrniess - 2025-06-03 11:26:59
One of the worst videos from Luke.+3
@buyBread - 2025-06-03 11:26:59
omg so redpilled phliosopher stone take+1
@veronicachic - 2025-06-03 11:26:59
i learned more from video games than any of the goyslop taught in public schools+1
@OmegaLaser-xy4ip - 2025-06-03 11:26:59
Having nostalgia means you are too weak spiritualy to live in the present and try to ressurect high energy from your youth. Its ony very old people than can't move proprely that should have this degenerate feeling.+2
@speedos - 2025-06-03 11:26:59
ok this video sucks ass. constant blabbering with no real good points hammered in.+2
@useruser6240 - 2025-06-03 11:26:59
With all respect, Luke wtf is wrong with u, seriously?! why u can't separate things objectively?! Nostalgia is bad... why? Bc we can't have it anymore(or the way we had it before)... why? Bc the modern world is suck...therefore Nostalgia is suck!!! :/ Let's say u r right...this modern world and all the(consumerism and nostalgia, etc) r like drugs...not every patient can handle such a unplugging from all this drugs at once...idk how u came across to give such advice to everybody...i mean is such a risky move, in today's world there r not alot of happiness and joy(I mean even small things) therefore it is important to stick to what we have...yes it's like a empty or sad feeling from outside but it's better than nothing...for some people maybe it's the only thing they got, take it from them and they r one step closer to suicide...not everybody plan to save the world, not everybody have important things to do, not everybody is strong enough, and ultimately not everybody is Luke! However I do not agree about what I said above...such a extreme veiw of the world to see everything from the perspective of consumerism is like seeing things out of the context and it is ultimately unhealthy! The problem is the"modern world" and "consistency"...so let's fix that, not breaking other stuff up.+2
@James-f4k9m - 2025-06-03 11:26:59
4:14 you've put things more depressing and degenerate than speedrunning in your thumbnails. Christ is king, by the way.+1
@misatoblushing6913 - 2025-06-03 11:26:59
You are corny my boy..... YOU'RE LAAAAME!+2
@Antonio-mn5pq - 2025-06-03 11:26:59
Nostalgia is a disease, and is genetic not cultural. Hiraeth, saudade, morriña (literally nostalgia that kills you) is very spread concept on celtic areas. But it is also the ulterior motif in Genesis: nostalgia of a better past, the ultimate past being Eden Garden. That perfect place we got kicked out nfarily from. Upon realizing those two facts I was able to keep in check mine. Since I am alive, I can buiild what I am nostalgic about. Only in old age or terminal diseases is that impossible.+1
@KotBlini - 2025-06-03 11:26:59
speedrunning is trad tho+1
@justinternet1345 - 2025-06-03 11:26:59
now you took it too far and insulted speedrunners. like the jordan meme: "and i took that personally". I didn't even know you but some of your takes are of the "overly confident but wrong" type and "normie" pilled. but nobody cares for my opinion anyway. so good day forest beast ;)+1
@OmegaLaser-xy4ip - 2025-06-03 11:27:00
AsmrFuns1 lol Do what you want. I don't agree with Luke that video-games are a waste of time but old games were definetely not better. I enjoy pixel art and chiptune in indie games because its an unique art style. Speedrun is definitely degenerate and stupid.+1
@OmegaLaser-xy4ip - 2025-06-03 11:27:00
ChristopherJamesNeff lol I appreciate the dedication to it but I just don't like it and see the point. Its glorified cheating.+2