Tag: nostalgia

No More Teachers

Today, people share memories with each other online, using pictures and their words. But in the future, memories will be shared with biotechnology that works with the mind. Using this, people will be able to access their ancestors’ memories and live them out in a simulation if they choose to do so, all very reminiscent of the Animus in the Assassin’s Creed video games or the Nostalgia Pills in the Watchmen HBO show. Plus, this makes it possible that in the future, there will be no more teachers!

7 Classic Cartoons That Deserve A TV Special

This year, I was glad to see hour-long specials appear for past Nickelodeon shows Rocko’s Modern Life and Invader Zim, which was in addition to a Hey Arnold! special that launched in 2017. Because of that, the writer of this article I am sharing lists 7 cartoons they would like to see be given the same treatment, as do some people in the comments. Which cartoon that hasn’t been brought back recently would you like to see come back?

https://kotaku.com/7-classic-cartoons-that-deserve-a-tv-special-1837257834

Nostalgia

Compared to other animals we can think of the past and future, run simulations of these things. People turn to the past to cope with their anxieties about future concerns, in times of stress, discontinuity and change in life. Nostalgia is a sentimental or wistful longing for the past. Nostalgic memories are the memories people find meaningful or sentimental. It’s feeling both sad and happy about the memory or memories. There was a time in the history of psychology where people thought nostalgia was bad. Nostalgic memories includes a heavy emphasis on bonds and relationships, can contain momentous life events, it’s self-focused and has a redemptive aspect. People of all ages seem to engage in nostalgia. People tend to like and want things that elicit nostalgia. Nostalgia may be higher among young adults, a time of uncertainty for many people. It decreases in middle age, a time of stability for many people, and increases again as people get older, a time where many people experience and are aware of a lot of transitions in life. There are triggers people use to become nostalgic. They are sensory inputs and psychological threats. Nostalgia has both positive and negative aspects. It can be a powerful motivating force and provide a stable sense of self across time, regardless of what happens to someone in life. But if you’re so fixated on nostalgia it can stop you from living in the present or preparing for the future, can make you less open!

Amazon’s Game Streaming Service

When I was a child, I had a Sega Genesis and sometimes played games through the Sega Channel, a service that basically let its users stream Genesis games, although back then I had no idea what the word “stream” meant. Sega was a pioneer and innovative in many ways. Perhaps that is one of the reasons for their downfall in the gaming console business. For instance, the Dreamcast was the first console to come with online gaming support and its controller had a screen in the middle long before the Wii U GamePad did and the PlayStation 4 had a touchpad in the middle of its controller.

Nowadays, game console manufacturers are getting into streaming games for monthly and annual fees. Sony has PlayStation Now, Microsoft has Xbox Game Pass, and the Switch, with its online service, lets you play classic NES games in a similar manner. Lots of criticisms have been levied against these services though and the adoption of these services doesn’t seem to be as high as it is for video streaming services like Netflix. Now, Amazon is looking to enter the game streaming business, hoping to be the first company perceived mostly to get everything right. Already, they have experience with services like this since they own comiXology, which supplies digital versions of many comics for a monthly fee. So I’m excited to see how this turns out.

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Nostalgia of Neglect

I have a post on this blog about nostalgia, how some people, myself too sometimes, seek a return to their past. Well, just like many people want to return to the past, the reverse is also true! There are many people living wanting to escape from their past. I can relate to them as well. It has taken me a long time to get over some things from my past. As a child, out of anger, my mother once told me something I wish she hadn’t, that made me feel alone and my father was addicted to drugs, which caused a lot of problems for my family and I. Basically, sometimes, I felt abandoned by my parents. And I know one person that had both of their parents addicted to drugs, that felt the same way, neglected. And I know another person that had their parents around more, not addicted to any substance, but was a victim of abuse. Both of these people, as adults, have changed their names from the names they were given at birth, perhaps as a symbolical way of cutting ties and attempting to leave the past. So if I were to say anything now, leave you with a lesson for today, I would say to be careful with what you say and do to children, because it can impact them for the rest of their lives!

Nostalgia

I often tell my young friends that the song “Stressed Out” by Twenty One Pilots is the 21st century version of “The Logical Song” by Supertramp, but the reference flies over their head one hundred percent of the time. And I remember one time hearing “The Logical Song” being played on the radio program Coast to Coast AM; I thought it was the perfect song for that show and now I think it is a perfect song for this blog. The singers of both songs yearn for simpler times, where there wasn’t much stress for them. I can relate to the lyrics of “The Logical Song” in particular because the singer mentions how he often has trouble sleeping, with questions running through his head, and questions who he is, just like I am prone to do!

There’s one reason why these songs are relatable to myself and other people, why they are probably timeless, were successes. It is the same reason why there are endless reboots of old television shows now, why I want to visit my sister’s home to play an NES Classic Edition she just bought, why I am wearing a Looney Tunes shirt right now, and me and my buddies bond over our memories of those and other old cartoons, nostalgia.

Swiss physician Johaness Hofer coined the term “nostalgia” in the 17th century, he considered it to be a mental disorder. Hofer got the name from the combining the Greek words nostos (to return home) and algos (pain). The word is thus translated into the term “homesick”.

I’m not so sure nostalgia should be classified as a mental disorder. It can actually impact people positively. It filters out painful memories, fights depression and helps people to cope with the present. Smells and music can incite nostalgia like the Twenty One Pilots hit above states. Nostalgia is also frequent in times of great change or uncertainty, such as the times we live in now.

All this talk about nostalgia is now reminding me of my favorite television show The Twilight Zone and one of my favorite episodes of the show called “Walking Distance”. The episode is about a man bored of his tedious and repetitious life that goes back to his hometown, to feel happier and try to reclaim some of the lost magic he experienced as a child. To him, the past is perfect and beautiful, but it also keeps him from focusing on the present and the future. This nostalgia unfortunately leads him to ruining a summer for the younger version of himself. At the end he learns there is no going back from his father. So I sometimes wonder if all the attention we put on the past, great memories, is worth it many times. Perhaps, like the man in the episode, we all can never truly go back home!