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   Video_Game_King (video_game_king@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 13:14:05 JST Video_Game_King

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   • Misty

   @misty My personal defense mechanism against nostalgia in general is to mentally separate artifacts from experiences. So much pop nostalgia centers itself around artifacts (games, shows, computers, etc.) because their constancy makes them easier and more desirable to relate to than personal experiences. But a lot of (my) formative experiences, good and bad, are difficult if not impossible to reduce to whatever might've been popular at the time.

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     Misty (misty@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 13:14:06 JST Misty

     I think the absolute best defense mechanism against toxic nostalgia is hanging around younger people who wistfully describe the years I think of as "after it all went to shit" as their long-lost glory days. It's not that I'm Right and they're wrong, it's that the whole frame is meaningless.

     Rich Felker repeated this.