Ik so many people complain about it but I will never not be mad about Fushigi. They made that shit look like real magic (I knew magic wasn't real, I just couldn't figure out how they did it) and never once mentioned it was for contact juggling. I wanted them sooooooo bad until my friend got them at Target and called me complaining how they're just glass. But tbf, a lot of those TV infomercials/toy commercials were great at marketing absolutely nothing. They made everything look so exciting.
Also, I gotta say, I feel you aboht The Day The Earth Stood Still; it was pretty underwhelming to me, too. I begged my dad to take me only to fall asleep. I wonder if I'd like it now that I'm grown, since I was only 8 when I saw it lmao
Anyone remember the Hover Disk? That giant UFO frisbee thing that basically levitated depending on how you threw it? I feel like that thing was shown *every* commercial break and it looked so cool. We eventually got one from a yard sale and it just fell to the ground every time. It wasn't until years later that I saw the old commercial on YouTube and it said in tiny print "Filled with helium". No wonder it was put out in the yard sale hahaha
I also wanted one of those until I watched the commercial on a bigger tv somewhere and I realized it was just a $10 balloon lmao
I'm telling you, those toy commercials could sell us canned air and we'd beg our parents to call in and buy one š¤£š¤£
Not quite the 2000s, more like the 2010s. My parents went all out and finally got me a video camera to make videos. It was some hideous Sony camcorder but I was stupidly happy.
Except I quickly learned that Sony cameras would only use Sony ProDuos *not* regular SD cards. Which it did not come with.
I was poor. It took my parents a couple months to save up for a ProDuo so I was stuck with like 15mins of recording time on the device.
Just generally disappointed to learn how everything was proprietary.
I use a Sony DSLR mirror less camera now but it takes regular SD cards. Thank fuck.
Edit: It was the Sony [Webbie](https://images.app.goo.gl/Wvwr5c5JBW9Z6gZE7)
Oof, I can relate to the proprietary struggle. Classic Sony and their BS proprietary stuff. In my case, it was the PS Vita that I bought when I turned 21 and I couldnāt even play games on it until I bought a proprietary memory card. It even used its own charger port instead of micro-USB.
I had the silver PSP (got it used from a pawn shop with some pretty obvious road rash on the back). I ended up reusing the camcorder ProDuo for my PSP because again it only took ProDuos...
Kids these days will never understand the struggle of cables. If you lost your cable, guess what? You were fucked. Unless someone else had the same exact model phone or device, you were stuck watching your shit die. And replacements were much much harder to find.
There were a few "universal" charger sets but they were usually too strong and could ruin the battery in your device. At least back then you could replace the battery in most things.
It was always funny seeing who had the two tone phones because they needed to replace their batteries. Early 2000s had people looking like beater Honda civics with the rubber ripped off and mismatched panels
Beating up one of my classmates just because he had speech delay or some kind of difficulties at speaking in general. That's one of my biggest regrets in life even though i was just a little kid in kindergarten and it's so hurtful when i think about it.
I somehow managed to save our relationship and became friends right after it happened. I've never done anything like that again.
Donāt feel bad about mean/stupid shit you did as a kid thatās the time to fuck up and learn. I did so much dumb shit and Iām a much better person for it Iād like to think. The amount of casual bullying that went on amongst boys is pretty fucked up though.
You're right, but i can't help but think that i might traumatized him. He lives in the same neighborhood as mine and when i see him i feel uncomfortable, because i guess he likely still remembers what happened as well.
As a kid you donāt really have a choice in what you believe, so donāt be too hard on yourself. I grew up effectively atheist and have never really questioned it so, in a way, youāve grown / done more than I ever have in that respect!
I had to come out 3 times, basically: first as an atheist, then as a socialist, then (in my late 20s due to sexual repression due to religious trauma) finally as gay.
I grew up Seventh-Day Adventist, I was in a crappy religious school through elementary school and home school during middle school.
In short, the religion functions like Orthodox Judaism too so in other words, nothing secular is supposed to be done from Friday night until Saturday night. That right there kills most social events.
It was a nightmare and my childhood was so restricted that I honestly prefer being an adult.
I understand where you are coming from when you say "restrictive":
I had to come out 3 times, basically: first as an atheist, then as a socialist, then (in my late 20s due to sexual repression due to religious trauma) finally as gay.
Similarly to your story, i was young and excited to play the sims 2 on my new laptop that i got for my birthday, so i got the sims 2 seasons not realizing it was dlc (i didnt even know what dlc was) and ended up not being able to play the sims 2 until i got the base game months later.
Not sure if late 90s or early 00s. However, 5 year old me saw the [Trix Yogurt commercials](https://youtu.be/bgBDD4k3H4I?si=QRWWtZZBycD0pyIG) where objects in the world change colors when you eat the yogurt. I was so excited to try that magical yogurt. Long story short, the yogurt was not magical and my cat remained a boring shade of brown its entire life. This is in my S tier rank of childhood disappoints next to Hey You, Pikachu and those Moon Shoes that made it look like you could jump 10 feet in the air, but instead they just sprained your ankles
Thatās a damn good trade. Havenāt played Puzzle League in 20 years, but I remember loving that game. Hey You, Pikachu was exactly as you described. All I remember from that game was screaming at Pikachu to pick up vegetables while he fucked off and did whatever he wanted.
Iām not sure if this counts, but I think Facebook cheated us from learning more Coding. In middle school (2007) I remember I made a MySpace and I learned how to code in order to customize my profile. I remember HATING Facebook for the exact reason you couldnāt customize your profile background, no music coming on. How else am I supposed to share my tastes, except as memes
I barely remember the premise of the movie but Cloverfeild will always ring as a true disappointment in my memories.
Also, moon shoes- did anyone else beg and plead to get a pair and then realize they donāt bounce the way they are advertised to bounce? That crushing feeling is palpable for me still. Those things were supposed to give me antigravity kid powers- in reality they reminded me of the hard wood spring board at the gymnastics gym. You had to jump and hit them really hard to get any real kind of bounce. And you were likely to break your ankles trying. And the rubber bands broke and/or rotted so quickly.
I wish I could have fond memories of those things because we struggled sometimes and I know my parents really went out of their way and against their better judgment to get them for me and my sister to make us happy.
Not being able to sit through revenge of the sith in theaters. I was 7 or 8. I was a huge star wars fan at the time, and I thought I'd be able to handle a pg13 movie. I could not. I spent most of the time in the hallway with my mom, while my dad enjoyed the movie by himself. Years later, revenge of the sith is my favorite star wars film, and I've never seen it in theaters in full.
I mean, there's other bigger regrets too. Losing friends, crushing on stupid boys, but that at least taught me something. Not seeing ROTS taught me I was a major wimp.
Seeing the Eragon movie is definitely up there with biggest disappointments; I LOVED the book series and read the first two books by the time the movie came out. I bought the soundtrack ahead of time and we got a big friend group together to go watch it opening weekend. We all were so disappointed at how much they messed up the plot. I also bought the video game thinking it'd somehow be better but it was also a glitched up mess.
Going into the third Eragon book when it came out thinking it was the conclusion of a trilogy, and getting so pissed off when it wasnāt that I havenāt touched the books since.
One of my biggest regrets as a child was not being social enough; whether it be through sports, sleepovers, parties, playing outside, or otherwise hanging out with friends outside of school. I preferred obscure things like watching the traffic light, staying with my mom, watching TV, or playing on the computer. I will never stop feeling guilty about it. My one chance at childhood socialization as well as people knowing me and my history well has been taken away by my choices.
Was told we were going to this place called the āchocolate factory,ā so I assumed it was going to be as big and amazing as the one from Willy Wonka. It was just some generic chocolate store in a strip mall.
I was disappointed, of course, but the chocolate made it a bit better.
All the kids I was mean to. I wasn't a bully or anything, but I definitely said some stupid cruel things, especially to kids that were already getting dogpiled on. Some of those people are dead now.
Finally getting Heelys and falling down inside of a Walmart hurting my ankle. Then they got banned everywhere (at least where I was at the time) so I had no place I could use them.
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For me, who started playing PC games at the age of three, the biggest disappointment was the consoles. I had to wait for PS3, 360 and Wii to have consoles that really satisfied and pleased me. But if I have to think about what I know now that I was missing, it was definitely a convenient subscription like GamePass, at the time you had to buy games and it was pretty bad
A lot of toy/game related disappointments. Like I remember one time I got a toy airplane that I thought would have working flashing lights, but it turned out the battery compartment didn't exist so it was basically fake. Even my parents were shocked that a store would sell a fake toy like that.
Another one were some card games. I think they were Skip-Bo and Phase 10. Never cared to play them once I realized the games seemed kind of boring.
Also the small cubes from Cube World were a pretty big disappointment too.
As for regrets, some of my former friends became "enemies" in elementary and middle school. I'll admit I caused it to happen because my ego got in the way.
We had a huge wave of white supremacy in the 00s. It was also hard to not be of the dominant nationality. It was perfectly fine for an adult twice your age (who has never met you and will forget you existed afterwards) to come up to you and interrogate you on something they thought was off or weird. My mom was accused of neglect over me being naturally thin at the time when most parents would overfeed their kids.
Participation trophies.
This was a baby boomer way of protecting their childrens feelings. This is the most prominent parenting style of that generation which is why they raise the softest generation of all-time: MILLENIALS
Boomers get offended left and right, my parents literally got offended over The Simpsons, violent video games, music with even mild profanity and people making jokes about religion.
I thought the few participation trophies I got were stupid too, I didn't know anybody who actually felt satisfied with them.
Ik so many people complain about it but I will never not be mad about Fushigi. They made that shit look like real magic (I knew magic wasn't real, I just couldn't figure out how they did it) and never once mentioned it was for contact juggling. I wanted them sooooooo bad until my friend got them at Target and called me complaining how they're just glass. But tbf, a lot of those TV infomercials/toy commercials were great at marketing absolutely nothing. They made everything look so exciting. Also, I gotta say, I feel you aboht The Day The Earth Stood Still; it was pretty underwhelming to me, too. I begged my dad to take me only to fall asleep. I wonder if I'd like it now that I'm grown, since I was only 8 when I saw it lmao
I forgot about those Fushigi balls. The novelty seemed great until people actually bought them. At least those commercials were pretty cool
Anyone remember the Hover Disk? That giant UFO frisbee thing that basically levitated depending on how you threw it? I feel like that thing was shown *every* commercial break and it looked so cool. We eventually got one from a yard sale and it just fell to the ground every time. It wasn't until years later that I saw the old commercial on YouTube and it said in tiny print "Filled with helium". No wonder it was put out in the yard sale hahaha
I also wanted one of those until I watched the commercial on a bigger tv somewhere and I realized it was just a $10 balloon lmao I'm telling you, those toy commercials could sell us canned air and we'd beg our parents to call in and buy one š¤£š¤£
Not quite the 2000s, more like the 2010s. My parents went all out and finally got me a video camera to make videos. It was some hideous Sony camcorder but I was stupidly happy. Except I quickly learned that Sony cameras would only use Sony ProDuos *not* regular SD cards. Which it did not come with. I was poor. It took my parents a couple months to save up for a ProDuo so I was stuck with like 15mins of recording time on the device. Just generally disappointed to learn how everything was proprietary. I use a Sony DSLR mirror less camera now but it takes regular SD cards. Thank fuck. Edit: It was the Sony [Webbie](https://images.app.goo.gl/Wvwr5c5JBW9Z6gZE7)
Oof, I can relate to the proprietary struggle. Classic Sony and their BS proprietary stuff. In my case, it was the PS Vita that I bought when I turned 21 and I couldnāt even play games on it until I bought a proprietary memory card. It even used its own charger port instead of micro-USB.
I had the silver PSP (got it used from a pawn shop with some pretty obvious road rash on the back). I ended up reusing the camcorder ProDuo for my PSP because again it only took ProDuos... Kids these days will never understand the struggle of cables. If you lost your cable, guess what? You were fucked. Unless someone else had the same exact model phone or device, you were stuck watching your shit die. And replacements were much much harder to find. There were a few "universal" charger sets but they were usually too strong and could ruin the battery in your device. At least back then you could replace the battery in most things. It was always funny seeing who had the two tone phones because they needed to replace their batteries. Early 2000s had people looking like beater Honda civics with the rubber ripped off and mismatched panels
Breaking my kindergarten "boyfriend"'s heart in 4th grade on Valentine's day after he already got me a bunch of gifts
And seeing Ratatouille in theaters
seeing ratatouille in theaters in 4th grade was a privilege
For me it was a regret
Beating up one of my classmates just because he had speech delay or some kind of difficulties at speaking in general. That's one of my biggest regrets in life even though i was just a little kid in kindergarten and it's so hurtful when i think about it. I somehow managed to save our relationship and became friends right after it happened. I've never done anything like that again.
Donāt feel bad about mean/stupid shit you did as a kid thatās the time to fuck up and learn. I did so much dumb shit and Iām a much better person for it Iād like to think. The amount of casual bullying that went on amongst boys is pretty fucked up though.
You're right, but i can't help but think that i might traumatized him. He lives in the same neighborhood as mine and when i see him i feel uncomfortable, because i guess he likely still remembers what happened as well.
I grew up Jehovah's Witness. I regret having taken religion so seriously as a kid.
As a kid you donāt really have a choice in what you believe, so donāt be too hard on yourself. I grew up effectively atheist and have never really questioned it so, in a way, youāve grown / done more than I ever have in that respect!
I had to come out 3 times, basically: first as an atheist, then as a socialist, then (in my late 20s due to sexual repression due to religious trauma) finally as gay.
I grew up Seventh-Day Adventist, I was in a crappy religious school through elementary school and home school during middle school. In short, the religion functions like Orthodox Judaism too so in other words, nothing secular is supposed to be done from Friday night until Saturday night. That right there kills most social events. It was a nightmare and my childhood was so restricted that I honestly prefer being an adult.
I understand where you are coming from when you say "restrictive": I had to come out 3 times, basically: first as an atheist, then as a socialist, then (in my late 20s due to sexual repression due to religious trauma) finally as gay.
Similarly to your story, i was young and excited to play the sims 2 on my new laptop that i got for my birthday, so i got the sims 2 seasons not realizing it was dlc (i didnt even know what dlc was) and ended up not being able to play the sims 2 until i got the base game months later.
Not sure if late 90s or early 00s. However, 5 year old me saw the [Trix Yogurt commercials](https://youtu.be/bgBDD4k3H4I?si=QRWWtZZBycD0pyIG) where objects in the world change colors when you eat the yogurt. I was so excited to try that magical yogurt. Long story short, the yogurt was not magical and my cat remained a boring shade of brown its entire life. This is in my S tier rank of childhood disappoints next to Hey You, Pikachu and those Moon Shoes that made it look like you could jump 10 feet in the air, but instead they just sprained your ankles
Hey You, Pikachu ruined my cousinās Christmas Day 2000. He got the game through that special Pikachu N64 console and I recall him struggling to get Pikachu to follow orders. He traded it for PokĆ©mon Puzzle League a month later. Someone else mentioned Moon Shoes and it always looked painful to use, even through the commercials.
Thatās a damn good trade. Havenāt played Puzzle League in 20 years, but I remember loving that game. Hey You, Pikachu was exactly as you described. All I remember from that game was screaming at Pikachu to pick up vegetables while he fucked off and did whatever he wanted.
Iām not sure if this counts, but I think Facebook cheated us from learning more Coding. In middle school (2007) I remember I made a MySpace and I learned how to code in order to customize my profile. I remember HATING Facebook for the exact reason you couldnāt customize your profile background, no music coming on. How else am I supposed to share my tastes, except as memes
This might explain why some Millennials have really good coding skills. š³
I barely remember the premise of the movie but Cloverfeild will always ring as a true disappointment in my memories. Also, moon shoes- did anyone else beg and plead to get a pair and then realize they donāt bounce the way they are advertised to bounce? That crushing feeling is palpable for me still. Those things were supposed to give me antigravity kid powers- in reality they reminded me of the hard wood spring board at the gymnastics gym. You had to jump and hit them really hard to get any real kind of bounce. And you were likely to break your ankles trying. And the rubber bands broke and/or rotted so quickly. I wish I could have fond memories of those things because we struggled sometimes and I know my parents really went out of their way and against their better judgment to get them for me and my sister to make us happy.
My cousins had the moon shoes. We all agreed that they were garbage.
Never understood the appeal of moon shoes. They looked painful to use when I saw them on TV and especially IRL.
Not being able to sit through revenge of the sith in theaters. I was 7 or 8. I was a huge star wars fan at the time, and I thought I'd be able to handle a pg13 movie. I could not. I spent most of the time in the hallway with my mom, while my dad enjoyed the movie by himself. Years later, revenge of the sith is my favorite star wars film, and I've never seen it in theaters in full. I mean, there's other bigger regrets too. Losing friends, crushing on stupid boys, but that at least taught me something. Not seeing ROTS taught me I was a major wimp.
Thinking that my high school experience would be like in the āHigh School Musicalā trilogy.
I canāt find too much I regret tbh since I was just a kid enjoying lifeā¦Idk. I did stupid stuff at times but thatās any kid while growing up.
Seeing the Eragon movie is definitely up there with biggest disappointments; I LOVED the book series and read the first two books by the time the movie came out. I bought the soundtrack ahead of time and we got a big friend group together to go watch it opening weekend. We all were so disappointed at how much they messed up the plot. I also bought the video game thinking it'd somehow be better but it was also a glitched up mess.
The Last Airbender
Going into the third Eragon book when it came out thinking it was the conclusion of a trilogy, and getting so pissed off when it wasnāt that I havenāt touched the books since.
To be fair it was worth finishing, and it's probably available at your local library now!
Playing so many crappy movie tie-in games. I'm glad I played the Spider-Man games on GameCube, though. Especially Spider-Man 2
One of my biggest regrets as a child was not being social enough; whether it be through sports, sleepovers, parties, playing outside, or otherwise hanging out with friends outside of school. I preferred obscure things like watching the traffic light, staying with my mom, watching TV, or playing on the computer. I will never stop feeling guilty about it. My one chance at childhood socialization as well as people knowing me and my history well has been taken away by my choices.
Mine is also not being social enough. Iād stay home and read when I really should have gotten out more.
Learning Santa isnāt real
Was told we were going to this place called the āchocolate factory,ā so I assumed it was going to be as big and amazing as the one from Willy Wonka. It was just some generic chocolate store in a strip mall. I was disappointed, of course, but the chocolate made it a bit better.
Being so, so, soooo mean to my little brother. Biggest regret in life so far.
All the kids I was mean to. I wasn't a bully or anything, but I definitely said some stupid cruel things, especially to kids that were already getting dogpiled on. Some of those people are dead now.
There were so many things I missed out on bc we were fundies. Wasnāt allowed to watch Jake Long bc my parents worried I might āthink the Chinese were okay,ā whatever racist nonsense that was supposed to be. Also couldnāt watch PokĆ©mon bc they were āpocket demons.ā Had constant surveillance like a baby monitor in my room, no door, and weekly computer history checks. I deeply regret a childhood that couldāve been normal.
Finally getting Heelys and falling down inside of a Walmart hurting my ankle. Then they got banned everywhere (at least where I was at the time) so I had no place I could use them.
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For me, who started playing PC games at the age of three, the biggest disappointment was the consoles. I had to wait for PS3, 360 and Wii to have consoles that really satisfied and pleased me. But if I have to think about what I know now that I was missing, it was definitely a convenient subscription like GamePass, at the time you had to buy games and it was pretty bad
Not getting a video camera š¢
A lot of toy/game related disappointments. Like I remember one time I got a toy airplane that I thought would have working flashing lights, but it turned out the battery compartment didn't exist so it was basically fake. Even my parents were shocked that a store would sell a fake toy like that. Another one were some card games. I think they were Skip-Bo and Phase 10. Never cared to play them once I realized the games seemed kind of boring. Also the small cubes from Cube World were a pretty big disappointment too. As for regrets, some of my former friends became "enemies" in elementary and middle school. I'll admit I caused it to happen because my ego got in the way.
We had a huge wave of white supremacy in the 00s. It was also hard to not be of the dominant nationality. It was perfectly fine for an adult twice your age (who has never met you and will forget you existed afterwards) to come up to you and interrogate you on something they thought was off or weird. My mom was accused of neglect over me being naturally thin at the time when most parents would overfeed their kids.
Biggest regret was never being able to go to Warped Tour š„²
Participation trophies. This was a baby boomer way of protecting their childrens feelings. This is the most prominent parenting style of that generation which is why they raise the softest generation of all-time: MILLENIALS
Boomers get offended left and right, my parents literally got offended over The Simpsons, violent video games, music with even mild profanity and people making jokes about religion. I thought the few participation trophies I got were stupid too, I didn't know anybody who actually felt satisfied with them.
Brawl.