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I feel you, buddy. I even went as far as setting up a full on LAN in my house so family and friends could relive those epic Halo memories. Funny enough, though, I barely get to play. Most of my time gets swallowed up by family, chores, work, more chores, and editing videos for my channel instead of gaming. And when I finally carve out a free hour? The game needs an update, my graphics drivers are outdated, or-of course-Windows 11 decides to break something. We truly didn’t realize how good we had it back then. My cousin and I often reminisce about how incredible 1995 to 2011 was. Hopefully, my kids will get a taste of that same magic with the LAN. On a brighter note, I recently played Halo: Combat Evolved in VR, and wow-it brought back that pure, childlike joy. For a moment, it felt just like the old days.

This was a very interesting video and I've been thinking about this as well. For the most part I don't get nostalgic about the past because I enjoy my life now far more than I ever enjoyed my childhood (that's not to say I didn't have some good memories). But sometimes I'll look back on period of time in my early adulthood when i lived in Vietnam for 6 years and I'll catch myself getting nostalgic for that time or for a girl I dated. But when I really think about it, I wasn't always happy during that time (even though it was an amazing time in my life). The funny part is at that time I was hungering for the kind of life I have right now. And the girl I get nostalgic about...I actually had several chances to be in a relationship with her but I refused all those times. I feel like what we miss is *not* the actual time, the person, or the moment that happened, but we miss how we felt in that moment, how we were actually approaching life - how we were growing as a person, making new friends, exploring new aspects of life, forming new relationships, and the meaning all these things gave us at the time. Because if we try to go back...all the magic that was there is now gone. Because it's over. That magic is elsewhere. While Vietnam is always going to be a part of me and I'll go back to visit, I know that part of my life is over. And it's really the feeling of living in a new country, growing as a person, making new friends, and living the *adventure* of my life that breathes the magic I felt into my life. And in doing so, I get to keep my childhood sense of wonder, joy, and play alongside hard earned wisdom & maturity as well. Love the video as usual, got me thinking, and I'll send it to my girl like I've done in the past. Keep up the awesome work!

Here is some silver lining: Finding enjoyment and happiness changes over time. You can't expect the same movies, games, friends, etc to make you feel just as happy. Your diet coke analogy is spot on. It wasn't the soda but the moment as a whole where everything aligned and you were doing what made you happy right there. Getting older, gaining more knowledge, allows us to widen our tastes and better understand what is good for us / what feels good. And finding that balance is the challenge, but it isn't like 'the good times are over' they just changed

Dat Ambient Wonder at the end yeah life’s been going to shit, but that song will forever make me feel a certain way also amazing video 🤟

It is interesting having to explain to people that : "talking to people on the internet was once a new and exciting thing." We have come a long way since then.

There are also those of us who "forgot" how to feel that type of excitement and joy because upon hitting adulthood we were basically run over by the bus of life and faced numerous tragedies, losses and struggles that shaped us into more of someone on survival mode. Where everything that should be exciting is met with a secret unspoken guarded demeanor where we don't fully open ourselves to the experience because in the past being open has left us vulnerable and made us experience hurt. If you experience enough events where you were incredibly excited for something and then when the moment came you were instead greeted with betrayal, hurt or disappointment. In a way you start to become fearful or nervous when something is exciting because events of the past have made you distrust that feeling due to how it can make you feel if it goes the wrong way. And once those are set in place it is very hard to rewire your brain back.

That's where you are wrong kiddo, coming back to BioShock 1/2, Halo C-E, Minecraft 1.6.4, COD: WAW, Sniper Elite V2/Zombies etc etc you get the jist of it, ALLWAYS feels like coming home and new games also could have and create that feeling ... if good new games ever would come out today ... but they don't. 😎👉👉

Holy Halo! Our winds strive trough the stars and propell all worthy along The Golden Path trough Order and Chaos, Expansion and Decay, Live and Death. A Holy Halo. A Beacon bright. Never starting, never ending... Allways present. 💛❤️🤍💙🖤

Make public LAN parties a thing again.

At least we got to experience it while it was fun 🤧

max stirner's 'the ego and it's own' book has a part in it that talks about how rationality and pragmatism is something that is thrust upon us in adulthood that basically kills our minds which were nothing but a world of pure thought. What i find interesting about that is that it may not be just getting older, but the world's pressures on us. Now that sounds obvious but it is a key distinction. Is it just an organic part of getting older, that is would it have happened regardless of circumstances. or is it just because of the outside world? if it's the latter that means that it could hypothetically be reclaimed.

Playing MCC and playing a capture the flag match and being stuck unable to leave the beach for the 10th time on Last Resort cuz the team just camps the wall and shoots us. Custom games suck. No lobbies or mics. Console players like me having an inherent disadvantage against pc players who snipe me the very nanosecond i poke my head out of cover. Most matches being a sweat fest. None of my old friends being online anymore. Yeah, the past is done.

It's funny I felt this way myself too in the past, I remember thinking the same, that things will never feel the same, that the past was truly gone and the future was forever going to be bleak compared to my past but I was wrong, it is definitely possible to recover those feelings and happiness that we felt as kids and even let old and new things surprise you and make you feel like you did in the past even if things are different, I think a lot depends on your mindset and your mental state, like you said I think a lot of us are just going through mental things that make us feel this way, we just need to realize it and work towards improving them and getting better, once we get over them and we get better we can definitely recover that happiness and wonder we felt as kids, you just have to realize that is never truly gone if we don't want it to. No amount of bills, and adult-life responsibilities can destroy it, you just gotta learn to cultivate it inside of you. Also being positive and living in the moment and making the best out of every minute as much as you can (without stressing of course) helps a ton in reaching that goal. Also is good to acknowledge that the past is gone, that is a fact and that things change and some are gone forever, you have to let go sometimes that's how life works, but there are things that you definitely can keep alive inside of you if you want to and there will always be new ones that can replace or fill the gap that the loss of old ones made and there's nothing wrong with that.

I play halo now and it just doesnt hit the same as when I was a kid. I definitely feel worse and some of the magic is gone. I wish I knew what happened with me and this series

Many material things objectively were better when we were younger. Gen Z today has 90% less spending power than people in their 20s back in the 1960s and 70s. That is an objective fact, you can look it up. The quality of so much of what we buy is significantly lower than it was 25-40 years ago.

Being a boomer shooter guy and light gun guy, who only plays boomer shooters and light gun games, I'm just fine because I have lots of cool stuff to look forward to, with just banger after banger coming out. Furthermore, if I go back to all the older classic boomer shooter games like the QUAKE games or the DOOM games, or go back to all the older classic Light Gun games like the House of the Dead games or the Time Crisis games, they are all still just as fun as they were back when I first played them for the first time. Boomer Shooters and Light Gun games are timeless because you can play them 100 years from now, and still have lots of fun. So, I'm good.

I think part of it isn’t just aging, it’s also that there doesn’t seem to be anything left to look forward to. Will a movie ever again blow minds the way Jurassic Park or The Matrix did? Will there ever again be a generational leap as big as the one between PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2? Will there ever be another Beatles or Metallica? (And no, Taylor Swift doesn’t count- her popularity is cult of personality, her music is average) Maybe there will, but everything has felt stagnant for at least the last 15 years, maybe longer. It’s all so iterative now, with the instance on constantly pushing out new content, that not enough time can pass between the old and the new to clearly define a leap forward. Remakes and remasters aren’t helping. The reason people look back to the 90’s and early 00’s in particular is because that was the last time they movies, music and games made us go WOW, I’ve never seen that before. There are exceptions of course - Half-Life Alyx, Red Dead 2… but they’re so few and far between these days as compared to a year like 1998, for instance, which featured the release of probably a dozen games that are considered legendary even by today’s standards. Smart phones may be the last great innovation of our era, and it seems like everything since has mostly been a downgrade in someway. Electric cars should be amazing, but as far as personal freedom, they suck compared to gas powered vehicles. AI should be changing our lives for the better, instead it’s ruining art and destroying educational testing. Someone once said that eventually we will run out of combinations of musical notes to create new songs, and no truly new music will ever be made again, it’ll all just be altered versions of something we’ve heard before. Maybe we’ve hit that point with everything.

be well my people

People will never be over the 2005 to 2012 Call of Duty games! People will never be over the 2001 to 2012 Halo games because people cannot embrace the games of today! They struggle with change and only like game series at their most simplest incarnation! They can’t except the fact that games have to change and evolve! We all miss things from our childhood but we have to move on at some point because nothing stays the same!

I’ll admit, yes some things will not be the same, 3 years ago when infinite came out that was the first time in years I was excited for a video game. Don’t lose optimism you just never know sometimes

I’m 15 been training mma for 11 years and I want to fight in the ufc when I grow up

Me I’m a 15 year old woman I train mma so I can fight and I also do good in school and in general and I am a halo nerd and I love to play with friends

I don’t know how this managed to make its way to me, I don’t have anything even halo adjacent in my algorithm and then this pops up and…. Damn man… I’ve definitely been feeling SOMETHING these past few years and it’s grown and tripled in size as I’ve gotten older…. Jaded and cynical to the point of hating everything about me and everything around me, I’ll have dreams sometimes where I’ll all of a sudden be a kid back in my first grade class room, still being fully aware of everything that happened the past 27 years, thinking about co workers and family and my kiddos right there in this dreamed up first grade class room as a kid again and I more often than not just finally settle on wondering if it’ll be mom or dad picking me up that day 😔

Dude seriously, is this like some new endeavor from tates hustle club? Why are all these channels with the same premise popping up all over youtube

I thing I've had to learn is to not let my mood, outlook and joy in life be solely determined by external factors. Like all things good for you, it's easier said than done, but it has helped me.

That’s funny lol My favorite is actually Combat Evolved I could almost never play the other two…..almost….. Because something about the loneliness of the presentation of the story is an amazing backdrop to being the overpowered protagonist

The quote is "Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life" Most people remember it as something along the lines of "Do something you love and you'll never work a day in your life" I feel that there is an important distinction between those. I have always liked computer systems and tech in genera from an early age. I originally wanted to go to college for computer science. (Programming) and found I hated doing it when I "had to". I often made it a point to reinterpreted the quote as "Do something you love and you'll turn it into a job" So I switched to doing Network Administration. I'm not a huge fan of doing basic help desk type of work. (No I don't know why the printer isn't working, its probably because nobody has ever mad a reliable one in all of human existence somehow. =/ ) but when its just me doing the stuff I actually like, it really doesn't feel like work at all. I think the idea should be to find something that you TOLERATE doing even if its not what you originally planned. Doing something that is a hobby for you can turn it into work yes, but somewhere out there, there is something that you could do that won't leave you staring at the ceiling ever morning wondering why you even bothered waking up today. TLDR: Hang in there. Don't rush into a major in college. (If you decide to go) If you decide on something and you don't like it, don't be afraid to try something else. Find something you DON'T MIND DOING. Don't necessarily pick something you like just because you like doing it casually. Think about actually doing it as a job. You'll find your "thing" eventually.

What you're experiencing is a kind of dysthymia and its very common for people to experience in their 20's and 30's (the hardest years of their life) where they unlearn all the over-compensation that being a teenager surrounded by other emotionally clumsy teenagers brought you. What you have to do is become less guarded and embrace new experiences. You're looking to objects to get the feeling, when you should be looking to feelings to get the feelings. Part of growing up is thinking you an run away from bad feelings and not accidently amputate the good feelings too and then wondering why you don't feel anything -- or even as much. You have to accept that if you want the highs, you must have the lows. You must feel vulnerable to also feel euphoria because vulnerability is where acceptance is born and kinship and bonds are made. It begins by figuring out when the magic stopped, and going back to that place mentally and figuring out why it stopped. Trauma is a thing everybody experiences -- usually when we're let down by someone important, or someone we trusted and we don't fully heal properly. Like physical trauma, the obstruction must be removed so the body can heal itself, and so too is the case with the mind. Sometimes that means doing childish things to get into that mental space so you can have those really big really emotionally draining thoughts. When folks say "love yourself before others will love you", what it really means is you have to value yourself enough to know if the way others treat you is fair or not, to not let people be unfair to you. This doesn't mean reacting with violence or anger, or shutting people out or using your power it means telling them that you're not okay and diplomatically dismantling what they do to you -- and then when all peaceful means of diplomacy end, you move to unpeaceful means to protect yourself. Likewise, it also means not just assuming that you like yourself, and not just assuming that you're a good person so you ask if you are actually in the wrong so you weigh things up fairly. If you feel guilt, or you feel like a bad person, process that, figure out why that is. If you have some gap of "But I know I'm X" but "I feel Y" which contradict, you have knowledge, and understanding in conflict. You only turn knowledge into understanding with repeated practice, so it becomes engrained as part of you -- and likewise, this is how you also unlearn bad habits, with the help of those around you -- which begins by helping those around you. When you start feeling, people will want you around, and you'll stop being lonely, because everybody just wants to feel witnessed, and acknowledged and to do that, you have to be a feeling human being who doesn't cast judgement to placate some ego. These difficult emotions will absoloutely make you cry and they will make you angry, but you must feel those emotions to break the blockages so you can flow properly as a human being, and so your emotions can come freely and so the world can be enjoyed sincerely again without hedging expectations to protect yourself that risk robbing you of your future joy. The real lesson of finally growing up is that like Peter Weller says, you need to be strong enough to be gentle. Being hurt takes strength. Folks who hide and run away from their emotions are weak, or are in situations where it makes them vulnerable and others will capitalize on it to hurt them. Those are situations you must leave if you ever want to be happy. Being a child isn't being naieve, its being open to oppertunities and being willing to experience some really low lows to find those highs because you didn't "settle" for a life on some "Once in a Lifetime" Talking Heads life-plan track that everybody has laid out for you through implicit non-explicit social signalling shit like 2.4 kids, a wife, a car, etc etc. The sooner you get that and you figure that shit out, the sooner you'll sort your shit out. The kid was not eager to grow up to be who you became. That doesn't make them naieve, it means you failed them, and you're putting the blame on them. You can't do that. It will poison and kill you by making *ANY* emotion you associate with the kid (even good ones) be seen as threatening to your concept of self now so you cannot have those emotions in the present. Its a contradiction. You cannot have it both ways. Like Carl Rogers said: When you accept yourself just as you are, only then can you change. You must know your current location to figure out which direction will take you to a destination. That means accepting the parts of yourself you have trouble with: If you don't, you'll never work on them, and you don't improve. Every carpenter accepts the facts of their material. Every artist, every sculptor their canvas or their clay. Every engineer, the limits of their scope. You must be this way to live skillfully. It sucks. It hurts. It means yeah you probably get dealt a bad hand, but you're not quite down and you're absoloutely not out. Pick yourself up and try again. You are worth it, even if every cell in your body tells you that you're not because its easier for it to be some bullshit foregone conclusion to forclose your entire life to "I guess this is it then". The moment you do that, you're already dead. Everything you've been trained to do to protect yourself is there to turn you into a worker who doesn't complain, who can't network with others, who is isolated so your employer can take advantage of you -- where you just shrug and say "it is what it is". As absurd as it sounds, It doesn't have to be that way. Welcome to emotional availability, and welcome to the rest of your life. Source: Just turned 38, and this is the best lesson I have ever learned in my entire life. I strongly advise you follow it. I went from obsessing over the old Armored Core games trying to recapture nostalgia to finding personal projects that let me find new joy that isn't locked in the past. Just as there is nostalgia, there is also a kind of neo-stalgia, a longing for the future. Try to find futures you care about. Y'all take care. You're in my thoughts, and you deserve the world even if you've gaslit yourselves into thinking you don't. That you are still here when so many others aren't is worth celebrating. You don't know me, and I don't know you but you beat the statistics, and I'm proud of you. Godspeed, Spartans. To the moon and back. o7

I still am a very nostalgic person. I do miss my childhood a lot. I'm 17 and for years I suffered so much mentally. Up until like somewhere at the beginning/end of last year I started questioning a lot of things. One of them being whether God is real or not. Like many people I knew about Jesus and all that growing but I never really got into it or really even believed it. About 3 years ago now I had a pretty bad breakup. For me it was like the literally end of the world. (First love type thing). Prior to the breakup I did overthink a bunch but afterwards.... man. I literally lived in my head 24/7. Obsessed with trying to fix the past. And that just heightened my overthinking and anxiety to a whole other level. Since than a lot of negative stuff happened but I won't go into detail. Around the beginning of this year/end of last year I started to question pretty much everything. One of them being whether God is real or not. Like many people I knew about Jesus and all that growing but I never really got into it or really even believed it. I started asking myself questions like, "If all this Jesus stuff isn't true then why is it after thousands of years still the world's biggest debate?" Anyways a while after I just started to trust in Jesus. And from there my life has changed significantly. I still worry and have anxiety, but I've found true peace in just simply trusting in God. I know it seems like it's possible to be real at first. But the good, good news is that it is. You might not understand now. We all suffer, and we all go through pain. But God doesn't want us to go through it alone. So please whoever is reading this. If you have all these questions about God. You have the power to google and research the answers. Jesus loves you, my friend. He really does. He saved me. He can save you too.

Nostalgia has been huge in a big way all year. It’s a convenient cover up to the heinous shit that’s happening Right Now, it’s easy to market on and make boatloads of cash, and it exploits your emotions. Who isn’t out here self soothing in the one of the few ways we can with retail therapy 🤑 microplastics are found in babies and in ice cores in Antarctica and your tax dollars bomb are directly funding jihadists fundamentalists we spent 20 years liberating the Middle East from lol. But the 80’s were pretty cool huh? Naughty dogs new game intergalactic looks pretty cool xD

Im notorious for dwelling in the past, but ive found the best thing is making sure my little ones are getting the best childhood i can, from everyday things to christmas. I get my joy from that and its so worth it

It will never be the same but our love for halo always will. They should just remaster the old halo games and throw servers back up so we can all play again I look at halo games the way car enthusiasts look at abandoned cars.

i just refuse to get attached to any game/movie/show anymore. these companies get away with way too much simply off of nostalgia...especially in the past few years.

Not even 1 second into this vid due to Thumbnail What Cry babies ! Yes it’s called Time and growing up more But the thing is That FEEling WILL Stay with your Forever and You CAN retell it to others Besides Halo Reach Sucked and Bungie lost their charm after Halo2 😊

I think some magic can be recaptured more easily than you think. Playing custom games and I saw a mod stream of custom games that recapture the magic and bring something new that isn’t even AAA content. Honestly makes u feel like a kid again for a bit. New games have stupid things like cat ear skins and buggy game launches that ruin experiences. Some new fun can still be had like throwing fusion coils across the map. Grown adults experiencing things they have missed out on for the first time can also be great to experience

It's about time someone finally realises it lol.

The nostalgia bubble has actually ruined the feelings I had towards my fond memories.

>plays exact same games over and over again >"gAmES AreNT fUn AnYmOrE!!!1111"

hey man just discovered your channel and I wanted to say I'm glad you're making these types of videos. I've had thoughts about doing something similar myself, just verbally processing general life events while playing an old comfort game.

This video is going to blow up. I can feel it

I stopped playing online multiplayer games because of cheaters. It sucks... I used to love online multiplayer. Cheaters ruined the game for me. Why even try if it's possible for people to cheat? And of course everything you said. It truly won't be the same as it was in middle school, because it's too easy to cheat now, which takes the fun out of the game.

Diet Coke tastes awful

Oh man, Halo and Christmas have been utterly destroyed for me. Halo (no explanation needed. It's just changed a lot for the better and worse,) and after working retail for a few years... Yikes. All the fun and energy is just gone. It sucks, I can't wait for in 10 or so years when I spawn in some poor schmuck(s) to finally take fun seriously again because I miss it.

100% agree, even though games are made to be profitable in another way now, its more that we had more time back then and now we can play for maybe an hour and there o guys from the OG squad online.

Simply. Great video.

I don't know why Halo fans are just now realizing this. I've realized it since 2014 and hadn't bought a Halo product since.

This video hits…it’s sad, but it is true…those good ole days are gone, but I like the sentiment of living in the moment. It’s like that scene from The Office where Andy talks about how he wishes he knew the old days were so great so that he could really take the time to enjoy them.

I chose the military after my time in high school. As everyone else I knew was preparing to shoulder immense debt and go to some giant school that would screw them over for decades of their future, they looked down on me. Me, who knew what I was about, knew I'd have a stable job and very little, if any, debt. I grew up in a wealthier area, so naturally I went to a high school that was basically a recruiting center for higher education nearby. Felt like being in the middle of a pyramid scheme. I was almost outcast, treated as somehow lesser. I wasn't putting in college applications my senior year, and people laughed at me for it. Someone I knew rather closely at the time even said, within earshot, behind my back, that I had "no future". Well, now I have a job, a steady income, and a life that's more or less, financially, at least, workable. Most of the people I knew back in high school, some people older than me, are still searching for jobs or even still going through various kinds of very expensive school, shouldering some serious debt to start out their professional lives. The guy who told me I didn't have a future joined the Army a year after I did. Crazy how that works out. College is A path, not THE path.

Honestly sometimes I get giddy for a new game or something and looking back the highs feel about the same. I think having a lot of bad childhood memories helps temper my rose colored glasses in that sense. There are cynical/depressive thoughts 8yo me didn't have, but after getting out of my lowest point its pretty apparent I didn't fundamentally lose anything. I think we all just need to touch grass and take our meds lol. And if you REALLY wanna play Halo with that underdeveloped brain mindset, alcohol will do it in a pinch!

This 100% sounds like a personal mental issue. I don't love, like or care about halo anymore because i know for a fact there are freaks corrupting it from within. But for the greater picture and the Potential of the Halo universe and games, it has been and continues to be extremely mismanaged. These hopeless nostalgia videos are only for people to cope with a real loss. I refuse to believe halo can't be as good as it was, realistically it can be and at the same time it wont be. But to say its impossible is Hella delusional.