I do agree with you that carpet is awful, but that mustard yellow or olive green carpet combined with the conversation pit just hit me right in the nostalgia.

I would say go with a wood floor (not the landlord-chic-nightmare in the picture) but with the wood panel walls it’d be a bit much on the wood.

SO MUCH THIS!

The soul of everything has been sucked out, we get greys and whites. And if we’re particularly bougie: stainless steel and black enamel.

Cars, appliances, furniture, flooring, etc.

I want the world to have CHARACTER again!

The first one has character, it has SOUL.

The second one went with soulless landlord chic. It has no character anymore.

I’d personally keep a carpet but go with an olive rather than the blue-green that it is in the left pic

Wood paneling is so pretty though!

CRTs are peak for retro gaming

But I can’t imagine the kind of person who would love retro gaming would destroy such a beautiful room like this

You’ll pry my old outdated terminology from my cold dead hands lol

Sounds like some based French right there

They really know how to riot

This is the male fantasy in a nutshell

“But she’s a 500 year old [dragon/elf/vampire/etc] in human form, it’s fine bro.”

Looks like a child, acts like a child, would be considered a child by their own culture/species: That’s a child bro.

I’d like to say I’ve never had that conversation but I have.

“Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid” was fine (though not everyone’s cup of tea) until they started to sexualize the minors (which was basically at the introduction of the child “dragon”). Then I stopped watching it. And from what I hear, I picked a good spot to stop watching as it only got worse from there in regards to the minor characters.

EDIT: I should probably clarify for those that think I support that kind of content, I do not.

If I walk fast enough I can outrun death

Now Rainier on the other hand…

In living memory at the time maybe, we’ve uh… we’ve had some pretty bad presidents over the centuries.

Different strokes for different folks

With a member that big, even physics’ knees get weak.