I can’t afford to lose my education, but 2012 if I had to pick. A little less hopelessness would be nice.
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I lived through 2009. No thanks.
Ok, but would you put 2009 above or below your predictions did 2026? Frankly I'd take another 2020 at this rate, at least then I could afford food.
Ahh, I see. I could not afford food in 2009. So they are probably the same.
Hard agree. There was still hope back then.
I think my life peaked around 2009, maybe 2011.
2009 was shit. 2011 waa good
On one hand, in 2009 I had hope my life would eventually improve and I would have a chance to be happy someday.
On the other hand, I was still a teenager and stuck living with my parents. I would rather be hopeless and paying half my income in rent than live with my abusive mother again.
Pfft, I’ll take a 1996 that’s been driven like it was stolen.
From what I remember about 2012, our greatest worry was the Mayan calendar ending and speculation that they had predicted the end of the world. What a simpler time.
If we're playing this game, let's go back to 1984. Ironically enough, it was a pretty good year... at least comparatively speaking.
"But, there was no internet!"
You'd like it, trust me.
There was internet... there was just no web.
1984 would've been the twilight years of ARPANET, I believe.
Yes, but because the Internet's power was so concentrated in one place, any hacker that accessed it was granted superpowers like having code projected onto your face, being digitized into an actual computer, or global annihilation.
Please let me go back to 1999
are you kidding me, 1999s have appreciated in value way above what you could ever afford
I'll take 1996 off your hands. I had duck hunt on NES and my parents were still married.
'96 was such a choice year. The year Pokemon came out, as well as a sick lineup of films - Trainspotting, Independence Day, Mission Impossible, Scream, Happy Gilmore, Mars Attacks!, Space Jam; the list goes on.
But '99 was The Matrix and they even told us it was peak human civilization. We were all "yeah, it's pretty good, but it's only going to get better..."
Absolutely lol 2009 was the start of recession and 2012 was like the Mayan calendar doomsday.
Can I have a 1997 please? Or a 1994 just for the movies
I’ll take 2021 and the pandemic all over again, just don’t give me anything like 2025 ever again.
2001 for me please. Lord of the Rings, Spirited Away, Ocean's Eleven, the Twin Towers and the Cowboy Bebop movies!
Lol, one of those things is different from the others 🤔
2016 started off all mouldy and is now just a pile of toxic sludge.
Everyone died in 2016 :( except the people who really deserved to.
Anything before 2016 would be a good choice.
Real. The last few years have been kinda rough for people.
Due to budget and environmental reasons, we won't be having a new year this year, but instead reuse 2025.