I can't understand the mindset of someone who dedicates themselves to preserving media they find nostalgic.

There is no opportunity for growth, what existed once is all there is.

They have boxed themselves into stagnation, isolation, death.

I can't decouple nostalgia from sorrow.

I used to save a lot of webpages and files on my computer, but they put me in a terrible mood whenever I looked over them.

I don't want to remember anything.

The future has gotten worse, but I have never found hiding in the past appealing.

I would prefer to imagine a positive vision for the future that solves modern problems and also takes advantage of modern boons.

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The spirit of old media has vacated, leaving only the perfectly preserved corpse.

Multiplayer games are abandoned.

Your friends will not understand or care about your experiences.

No new media will branch off from this point, and if an attempt is made it will wither on the vine.

We have long denied the inherent social aspect of even kinds of leisure that seem asocial.

There's an exception in "classic media" like Dostoyevsky or Runescape, which seems to endure beyond its expected lifespan.

Revival of old trends or styles to bait nostalgia always feels insincere because the spirit of that time has already passed.