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When is nostalgia harmful? I fear that one can gorge on nostalgia, and horde memories. When is forgetting and letting go, instead, a more healthy course of ac
by bravura 13y ago
When is nostalgia harmful?
I fear that one can gorge on nostalgia, and horde memories.
When is forgetting and letting go, instead, a more healthy course of action?
- jameskilton 13y agoThe gaming, specifically MMO community, has a huge problem with nostalgia. Nigh every day someone complains about how World of Warcraft is only getting worse, and that the "good old days" of earlier expansions were some sort of Nirvana of MMO gaming, yet in pretty much every case, this nostalgia is in fact a manufactured memory and these people don't really remember what the game was really like back then. They misunderstand the feeling of nostalgia as a "things were better" feeling rather than what it really is: "we had so much fun together back then."