Changes you hate to see

[calgaryblood]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Phones last plenty long, it's just they can't keep up with rate of advance.

They specifically make updates so your phone starts performing slower after a few years. There is zero reason an iphone6 shouldn't last 10 years but I guarantee you in one year after the 7 is out this phone will be junk.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

They're on the road just as long without being rebuilt and the plastic is not done to make them break down faster.

There's no incentive for Chevrolet to make a truck break down faster. It's just not a thing. I keep hearing it, but it's such nonsense.

I wrote off my original Escape in a rear ender some 5 years ago. I had a similar accident with my first vehicle I ever owned and ended up with a dent in my crome bumper and no damage to the rest of the vehicle.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by Cameron Swift

I miss video stores.

I want to watch Twin Peaks before it returns next year. My only legal option is to pay $120 to buy the box set, whereas previously I could just go to the video store to rent it.

I don't think the move to streaming was for the better. The selection of older movies/shows is much more limited.

I miss video stores too. I miss the thrill of uncovering some hidden gem in the depths of the middle shelves when the new release wall was picked over. In an on demand world you lose stumbling across something.

[Party Elephant]

Originally Posted by Dion

The introduction of Netfilx, Crave and Shomi. Now you have to buy all these extra services to see shows that you won't find on digital cable. The cost of digital cable is high enough as it is without having to purchase these extra services.

Cancel your cable?

[Ashasx]

ok lego why don't you ever include base plates in your sets anymore?

[jammies]

Devonian Gardens.

That is all.

[V]

Is this the "Old men yelling at clouds" thread? Because I've got a laundry list.

[The Yen Man]

I miss arcades. I think kids are missing out on not having experienced one during their heydays. When I was young, I'd know all the malls by their arcades. Wizards Castle at Market Mall and Sunridge, Laser Illusions at Marlborough and Chinook. Then later Easy Street at Chinook.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by The Yen Man

I miss arcades. I think kids are missing out on not having experienced one during their heydays. When I was young, I'd know all the malls by their arcades. Wizards Castle at Market Mall and Sunridge, Laser Illusions at Marlborough and Chinook. Then later Easy Street at Chinook.

We were recently down east in PEI and the area we were in had an arcade at the board walk. A weird collection of old and new - but my daughter loved it.
I also think a bar-cade would do really well in Calgary.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Dion

I wrote off my original Escape in a rear ender some 5 years ago. I had a similar accident with my first vehicle I ever owned and ended up with a dent in my crome bumper and no damage to the rest of the vehicle.

Modern cars are designed to basically self destruct to keep as many of the forces away from the occupants. That's a good thing. Who gives a fata if your car only has a dented bumper if you're cruising around in a neck brace for six months. I'd rather walk away uninjured and pay a deductible than have an unnecessary injury.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Modern cars are designed to basically self destruct to keep as many of the forces away from the occupants. That's a good thing. Who gives a fata if your car only has a dented bumper if you're cruising around in a neck brace for six months. I'd rather walk away uninjured and pay a deductible than have an unnecessary injury.

Just from the early 90's there's a 70% decrease in the likelihood that a bad crash will be fatal.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/n...kers/index.htm

[calf]

Originally Posted by jayswin

CFL: I hate seeing a once booming, popular (by Canadian standards) league start to crumble and completely and utterly fail to attract young fans, which will likely unfortunately lead to a drop off a cliff sometime in the next ten years.

No one under 25 talks about the CFL, and that's on the league. It's a number of reasons including shotty reffing and a mandate to make more calls a few years ago which has led to the league's advantage over the NFL (speedier plays/games) evaporating.

But the Stamps specifically have been really annoying with Flames ownership treating the games like a total business. And I know I'll get the old business break down from someone "You know, jayswin, it may seem bad to have so many empty seats, but selling 25k tickets at X is actually better business than selling 32k tickets at Y".

Great, except this isn't a premier product, it's really great football for Canadians that needs to be accessible AND enticing, as we're a hockey country. You put up ads that say "OMG, get in the building for only $34.95!!!!" and the casual fans are saying "Yeah, no, not paying $35 to sit on steel bleachers in the upper corners".

I love the Stamps, but life changes and gets busy which means I will probably have to give up my season tickets in the next couple of years. No way in hell am I paying $105 to take my son and wife to a game and to sit in crappy seats. It is really telling when I can't give away my seats to any game to any friends or co-workers. Sad!

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by V

Is this the "Old men yelling at clouds" thread? Because I've got a laundry list.

Depends. If you're yelling about how you just plain don't like clouds, that's the gear-grinder thread. If you're yelling at specific, scary-looking clouds, you want the ongoing super mega weather thread. If you're yelling about how they're different than clouds used to be, then yes, this is the right place.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Modern cars are designed to basically self destruct to keep as many of the forces away from the occupants. That's a good thing. Who gives a fata if your car only has a dented bumper if you're cruising around in a neck brace for six months. I'd rather walk away uninjured and pay a deductible than have an unnecessary injury.

If someone rear ends you, you're going to get whiplash no matter how the vehicle was designed. That said you do have a point about vehicles collapsing upon impact and the lessoning of injuries.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

I miss video stores too. I miss the thrill of uncovering some hidden gem in the depths of the middle shelves when the new release wall was picked over. In an on demand world you lose stumbling across something.

Glad to see I'm not the only person that misses video stores. In those days if you weren't an early bird you would be left out of getting the hot new releases so you usually ended up picking a movie that wasn't originally high on your radar but would turn into an unexpected satisfying experience. Also picking up snacks, etc. and it was a nice little date routine. Now you don't even need to leave your house and it's almost too convienient.

[Reaper]

I couldn't find anything in video rental stores for about ten years before Blockbuster bought the farm. I'm not sure if it is because video stores weren't a good product or because Hollywood ran out of new ideas around roughly the same period.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Modern cars are designed to basically self destruct to keep as many of the forces away from the occupants. That's a good thing. Who gives a fata if your car only has a dented bumper if you're cruising around in a neck brace for six months. I'd rather walk away uninjured and pay a deductible than have an unnecessary injury.

I agree for the most part, except that some of the safety features actually make the vehicle more unsafe. I recall Table5 ranting about this a couple years ago... The A pillar. In my truck, it's so wide that I have to move my body to look around it in certain situations. It's most noticeable when I'm on a winding road with very little traffic. For me, that's usually a logging road or a bush road. Gravel, almost no other vehicles, comfortably going ~60kph, it's natural to be closer to the middle of the road than to the side (or just dodging potholes). But when I go around a medium sized arc, my A pillar can very easily block out an oncoming vehicle. I pretty much have to lean on my center console and look around it for the most part, and also lean back over and check the other side of it before I'm sure there's no other vehicle coming.

I appreciate the roll cage and the airbag in there, but God damn, it'll probably be the reason for a head on collision.

[TheScorpion]

I miss hockey on TSN.

[calgaryblood]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

I miss hockey on TSN.

I'll add to that. I miss hockey on CBC. The old CBC where SN had no say.

[Ozy_Flame]

It's been mentioned already, but I don't enjoy the upselling strategy used on video games these days. Having to pay for a monthly subscription to play online, DLC packs, and "Deluxe" editions of the game are really causing me to dislike the current game industry.

As a guy in my 30's, I want to just pick up a game when I have time and play the #### out of it, and not have to worry about whether it's updated and has the required content or not. I'll break out my old NES any day of the week.

Any company that can do a "one-and-done" business model around casual games - on a console or not - will cater to a growing audience of older and/or increasingly frustrated gamers that has money to spend.