I feel like I do this a lot with podcasts. I started watching the Gus and Eddy podcast and finished it about a month before the last episode was released for example.
It could be anything though. An online game, an OS, a console, TV show, a forum, or anything else. I’m just curious what people have to say.
It also doesn’t need to be “dead”. It could just be a significant change where a chunk of the community left.
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As a Plants vs Zombies fan, I tried PvZ Online during what was the final year. Same thing with the Yahoo Games Battle Cats.
Two browser games I gave up on after realizing they’d be closing the servers long before I could finish adventure mode in PvZ Online or get anywhere significant in Battle Cats.
Minidisc. My then-boyfriend bought me a recorder for Xmas 2002 and I was absolutely in love with it. I still use minidisc but I think for most people it was a flash in the pan - it didn’t have the staying power that I thought it would.
Also ephedra - right before it was banned, all the women in my office went through the Atkins -> Xenadrine -> Pilates fads. Holy crap did that suck. Atkins made me stink (ketosis) and xenadrine make me shaky, dizzy, and irate. I was too poor for pilates haha. The entire office was miserable!
Burning music to CDs. Still fun to listen to in the car.
Oh me too, It’s so much fun. I’ve got a big binder of them in my car. I know nobody else who does, so I sadly can’t share my CDs.
Living
I got helldivers 2 a week ago.
Toys-to-life video games. I went on a Skylanders spending spree less than a year before it officially died. $5-$15 figurines got sold at garage sales for $0.25-$3 each.
I had tons of fun getting into it and I was young enough that I could afford to waste the money, so I regret nothing.
Did they shutdown the servers or something?
The toys-to-life trend ended, as it wasn’t making enough money. The games remain playable, but they have no support and are old enough they they require hardware that I no longer have.
Escape from tarkov :/
Just uninstalled earlier this week after years of sinking time into it. I watched the wiggle video and with the current developer drama, I’m fucking done. The game is simply INFESTED with cheaters.
Laser discs and quadraphonic LPs.
Playing back quad was such a pain
Really? I’ve found it to be as easy as a standard LP. 8 Track quadraphonic, now that’s a whole different kettle of fish
The standard I gave up on was the one with the extra channels encoded on high frequencies that needed a clean hyper elliptical and required demodulation that never seemed to work right.
If you’re talking about the one with phase encoding then yeah that worked good.
Game of Thrones. I binged the whole 7 seasons right before 8 came out. I think I saved myself a lot of pain and wasted suspense. That ending was fucking embarrassing.
The human race
Sometimes on the news or social media, I’ll hear about some well-known musician, author, etc, who has died. There’s been occasions where I check out their material and suddenly become a fan.
Have you heard of Daniel Dennett? Check him out.
Got into Breaking Bad a bit after it had its series finale, but before Better Call Saul was a thing. I don’t know that the show has ever been “on its way out” though, it just wasn’t being talked about as much at that point.
Tumblr! I only joined shortly before all the wildly terrible business decisions killed it lol. Great memes from there would get cross-posted to my various platforms often enough for me to want to go, but I procrastinated until it was almosssttt too late…
Now we got a fediverse version though 😈
Ooh, neat! I didn’t know there was a fediverse version of Tumblr. Thanks for sharing!!
Amateur radio. At this point it’s a race to talk to old hams before they die.
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