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Anti-nostalgia thread: what are y’all happy is gone and hope never returns? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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With UlyssesT out there touching grass, I haven’t seen this thread in a while. What in the past do you NOT miss? It could be very personal or just something everyone experienced but doesn’t anymore.

For me, I am so fucking happy the food scene in burgerland has changed since the 2000s. People seem to enjoy more well-seasoned foods and healthier options seem to outstrip the unhealthy slop I remember in the 2000s. Even my yee-yee ahh Ohio suburb has changed somewhat noticeably to support fresh ingredients. Less WASPslop is always good.

How about y’all?

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[–] blunder@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You mean in the past? No there was just no assigned seating, they sold tickets until the theater was full and that was it.

What I miss about this is that 1) there was a benefit to being early, 2) there was actual social interaction involved (eg "excuse me we have three, could you move down one?"), and 3) if all else failed sitting separately is really not a big deal. Plus 4) people knew to show up early to get good seats so people were actually on time to the showtime. Drives me up a wall when I'm sitting in a shitty seat in a half-empty theater, while for the first 10 minutes of the movie people file in to their assigned, better seats

That's my rant

Edit plus 5) like, if your plans changed you didn't get fucked over nor did you fuck the theater and another moviegoer. You just didn't go. There was no credit card refund and empty seat in the theater involved

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Nah, I meant now. Like if you didn't order ahead, you just get a random seat. So it negates the being early advantage, but all else is pretty much equal otherwise. I'm the opposite on pretty much all that. I don't really want to show up 20 minutes before the showtime because it means I have to sit through about 40 minutes of ads/trailers (I've timed it to about that before). Definitely not tired of people 'saving' seats for their friends by throwing their coats over them for that 40 minutes and asking people to move. I'm in it for the big screen and sound though, not necessarily to share the experience with the other people I don't know.

I get you on refunds/not showing up though and people showing up after the movie started. Though that has kind of always happens to me in theaters without assigned seats also. I mildly complained about a group of teenagers showing up late to Nosferatu, playing on their phones, then getting up a second time to get drinks and stuff 20 minutes into the movie.