In hindsight the “30-year nostalgia cycle” thing should have been seen as a flashing red warning light, instead of just some peculiar thing our society does.

yeah you see it all the time in like, tabletop rpg or videogame spaces where some people love retro rpgs and retro videogames for the aesthetic or weird quirks of the genre and some people love it because they want back Gary Gygax's encounter tables full of "slovenly trollops"

I was born in 1970, started playing ttrpgs in 1982, and I have nostalgia for almost every game of the period except for Gary Gygax's AD&D 1st edition.

I started playing in the 90s, I remember leafing through first edition world of darkness books and whatever used supplements my store had for whatever insane 80s and 90s rpgs came out and got abandoned, and yeaaaaaah. yeah.

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