30 Things From The ’90s That Are No Longer Around Yet People In This Online Group Want Back

Upvote for Farscape reference. 🙂

TBF, MS Office only wants the soul of your first born. Which seems reasonable.

you can still buy stand Office as a stand alone no subscription product

Absurd (Office is).

Yes, I think the same. Its a scam. But it seems like people dont mind.

Couldn't agree more. I just told them I wanted out, they said they'd send me an email before it auto-renewed, never did, as I checked every day, including junk, and then tried to get me to sign up for another year. I hate the line they use "shall I go ahead an apply the deal". They even went down to 3 months free and £16 a month. But I bought Procreate instead!

Yes! I’m not designer myself, but I’ve bought affinity designer to do some small vector graphic sketch once in a while. I would never pay monthly for illustrator and open source alternatives are so cumbersome to use… i couldn’t be happier with it!

I miss used bookstores. Unfortunately, there aren't anymore I'm my area. Just stupidly expensive B&N.

Powell's books in Portland Oregon! Love that place!

They exist, but here they are 70% filled with office and arts & crafts supplies than books, and the books they do have are s**t.

Actually, the one in the photo is B&N on 5th Ave, NYC. It still exists

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But most of them are horribly boring, just having the most common bestsellers. I like reading, but I don't see the point of going to bookstores anymore.

They still exist but their supply of books is nowhere near what it was. Looking for something or someone new...not in the store. They just carry the tried and true. I do most of my reading via Kindle now but I really do prefer to read from a book, I still occasionally go to flip that page.

My all time favorite.

Hey kids Santa has bought you the latest Xbox! Yayyy! When can you play on it? February the 28th, as long as no one uses the internet and slows down the download.

Not to mention that so many of them rely on online multiplayer as well, in order to make up for lacking content. I'm an introvert, even playing games online with other people can be exhausting. Especially when they make it so that you can't get everything you want without joining up with a group. Everything is stacked against you if you want to play solo (Nothing against people who like multiplayer, but those of us who don't are kinda getting a raw deal).

I remember (I think it was) last year when Street Fighter V came out as one of the free monthly games on PS Plus. I hadn't played SF for years so downloaded it. That in itself took forever then when it finally installed I had to download another pile of updates if I wanted to play the game in story mode (which I did). Took so long I left the console on overnight thinking it would be finished the next day. Nope. Yet more updates. In the end I just deleted it as after 2 days of downloading various updates the game still wasn't fully available.

To be fair the updates are free at least.

I have renamed form the PlayStation to the AlwaysWatingStation.

Not to mention the expansion packs needed to actually beat the games.

As someone with slow internet, the solution is turn off internet to the console. I only turn it on when necessary. I hate bringing home a new game and oops, there's a 37gb update. Now I have to wait all week for it to finish downloading that, so I can play.

My wife got me a PS4 this Christmas and I made exactly the same experience.

It's true. But games are so much more complicated today, it's unfathomable. I don't mind the updates, it's just when an important quest crashes your game. I was very late to the Skyrim party, and they still hadn't fixed the vampire questline when you get stuck outside of the gates - can't remember the names, but Bethesda are the worst for this.

A number of bands have banned smartphone use at their gigs

They used to pat down people for cameras entering concerts. Photos of live performances were contraband. My mom used to work for Photomat,developing film, and they were instructed to destroy concert footage when it came through.

Or worse, at their kids' concerts. You'll show the video to a couple of people, maybe rewatch it once, and that's it. No one's ever actually present anymore.

Agree. Even so, take a short clip of your favorite song and then put the phone away. You just need a short snippet of your experience. You don’t need whole songs/concerts.

I nearly got into a fist fight with a woman at a concert because I told her to get her bloody phone out of my face. I came to see the artist live, on stage, not through her stupid phone! I may be a girl, but I fair dinkum would have punched her back if she threw one first!

I looked at the video several times after the concert. What's the idea telling me I didn't?

I LOL'd a few years ago at a concert when I hadn't been to one in a few years. They were holding up their phones with a picture of a lighter. But I guess you can't smoke anywhere anyway so who would have a lighter?

Same for fireworks

I won't record it but I'll vent on Twitter.

I must admit that I do love phone cameras for travel. One device becomes very useful and easy to transport, rather than an additional camera.