I'm fortunate enough to live in a time where technology is ahead and we have video games, the internet, smartphones, and anything else you can think of.

But there are times where I wish I could not live in the past, just visit it. What was it like for these people over a hundered years ago? Especially where I'm from?

I've explored pretty much everything here. I know where everything is, I've explored it to death, aside from Mr Brand's house a.k.a the Brand Library. I haven't explored that area enough until recently and I'm going back there this Friday assuming everything else in my life goes according to schedule.

But even with that, I can't help but wonder what this place must have been like over a 100 years ago. Before this place became a heavily populated area, there was a time where this city was small at it's population with not a whole lot of buildings. You had all this land.

There are times where wish I can just go back in time and see it with my own eyes, because the historical documentation itself just isn't the same. It's just like looking up Glendale on the internet. Yeah, you see it in images each time I mention it, but it's not the same as visiting or living here, and I think the same can be said with all the other parts of the world.

Maybe I'm just crazy, but going back to visit the past would be a nice escape. Not too far back though. Early 1870s would be my cutoff date.

What about you? Have you ever wanted to go back to a historical time period in your city or town to view it from a different perspective for once? Why or why not?

Discuss.

Oh and the man with the grey suit with the fedora is Mr. Brand. Or should I say was, he's been dead for over 90 years now. Keep in mind this is at a time period where fedora's were accepted before the internet and modern society shunned them. My mom actually gave me shit for wanting to by a fedora for myself. I really don't see what's wrong with them in terms of hat design, but whatever. Can't say I wear hats on a regular basis anyway.

Fedoras are still acceptable if you can pull it off

I would like to know how to pull it off exactly. Do I need to wear a nice looking suit with it or does it have more to do with my level of attractiveness?

Because I've met people they say I'm handsome and I've had people that say I'm decent looking. And yes I've met people that say I'm funny looking/ugly.

But the majority says I'm decent/good looking.

Quote from: Septy on May 19, 2015, 09:48:03 PM

Fedoras are still acceptable if you can pull it off

I would like to know how to pull it off exactly. Do I need to wear a nice looking suit with it or does it have more to do with my level of attractiveness?

Because I've met people they say I'm handsome and I've had people that say I'm decent looking. And yes I've met people that say I'm funny looking/ugly.

But the majority says I'm decent/good looking.

Wear period clothing or a nice suit. Then it works.

Quote from: Mmmmm Napalm on May 19, 2015, 10:36:00 PM

Quote from: Decimator Omega on May 19, 2015, 10:10:47 PM

Quote from: Septy on May 19, 2015, 09:48:03 PM

Fedoras are still acceptable if you can pull it off

I would like to know how to pull it off exactly. Do I need to wear a nice looking suit with it or does it have more to do with my level of attractiveness?

Because I've met people they say I'm handsome and I've had people that say I'm decent looking. And yes I've met people that say I'm funny looking/ugly.

But the majority says I'm decent/good looking.

Wear period clothing or a nice suit. Then it works.

What if I wore clothes that are acceptable in the 1920s? Like a suit from that area? Made today of course.

1930's, '40's suit would work.

fucking lol

Quote from: SecondClass on May 19, 2015, 10:59:24 PM

fucking lol

You have absolutely no respect for history, do you?

Ingrate.

Spoiler

Excuse me while I invent the time machine and go back to early Glendale and live there so I don't have to remember you people anymore, because you all wouldn't be alive for another hundred years and I'd be long dead and you would have never known about my existence.

First of all, you can't "respect" an idea. Like history. That makes no sense.

And secondly, I love history, particularly mid-20th century. But that doesn't mean that I'm going to make some whiny thread about how everything was better back in the day because people don't like me in this age.

Quote from: Septy on May 19, 2015, 09:48:03 PM

Fedoras are still acceptable if you can pull it off

lolno, fedoras are irreversibly symbols of autism at this point

And what the hell is wrong with autism? Not the severe kind. The regular kind. The one I have.

Quote from: Decimator Omega on May 19, 2015, 10:10:47 PM

Quote from: Septy on May 19, 2015, 09:48:03 PM

Fedoras are still acceptable if you can pull it off

Do I need to wear a nice looking suit with it or does it have more to do with my level of attractiveness?

Any trench coat will do.

Forgot about those.

Quote from: Decimator Omega on May 20, 2015, 01:49:28 AM

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Quote from: Septy on May 19, 2015, 09:48:03 PM

Fedoras are still acceptable if you can pull it off

lolno, fedoras are irreversibly symbols of autism at this point

And what the hell is wrong with autism? Not the severe kind. The regular kind. The one I have.

I mean, autism is objectively a disadvantage. There's nothing wrong with it on a social level, but it's definitely not a positive thing to have. Some autistics are annoying because of the symptoms of their autism, which is fine, but you're annoying because you define yourself based on your condition. There's no shame in having it, but you shouldn't be "proud" of it either, like you claim to be.

If there was a cure to suck the autism out of me, I would have long taken it by now.

Quote from: Decimator Omega on May 20, 2015, 02:00:23 AM

Quote from: SecondClass on May 20, 2015, 01:56:00 AM

Quote from: Decimator Omega on May 20, 2015, 01:49:28 AM

Quote from: SecondClass on May 20, 2015, 01:47:44 AM

Quote from: Septy on May 19, 2015, 09:48:03 PM

Fedoras are still acceptable if you can pull it off

lolno, fedoras are irreversibly symbols of autism at this point

And what the hell is wrong with autism? Not the severe kind. The regular kind. The one I have.

I mean, autism is objectively a disadvantage. There's nothing wrong with it on a social level, but it's definitely not a positive thing to have. Some autistics are annoying because of the symptoms of their autism, which is fine, but you're annoying because you define yourself based on your condition. There's no shame in having it, but you shouldn't be "proud" of it either, like you claim to be.

If there was a cure to suck the autism out of me, I would have long taken it by now.

Then there you go. All you asked was what was 'wrong' with it.

But yeah, it's really not as big of a deal as people make it out to be. You've just got to stop defining yourself on it. You're only "that autistic poster" if you present that image of yourself. I mean, at least 1/4 of this forum is probably autistic, but you wouldn't really know it.

Comms is a perfect example. He can be cringy, but it's not the melodramatic, self-deprecating, embarrassing stuff that you sometimes put out there.

And wow, this post sounds way meaner than I intended. Forgive me, I'm pretty stoned and tired. Never a good combination.

Don't worry about it. The whole autism and I'm proud thread was just a sponge bob reference. The message in the OP however was mostly not all autistic people are bad, but I think the forum misunderstood.

It's whatever though.