I think he s talking about real life, because fo did stay in the 50s and progressed past us at the same time.


fo U.S. was free until right before WWIII


If he is asking about the game the 50s favoring time split is f ing awesome, but they still progressed past us.

No you wouldn't. You would be either a baby or a child during the decade. Babies are... babies, and children don't have the same perceptions as advlts do. If you were to ask your grandma, she'd likely tell you that she had hardships, few hardships, or something in between. If you ask someone today how the 2000s were or now the 2010s, people would likely say the same.

In the words of Penn and Teller; "The good ole days are [censored]!"

The world as it is now is the best it's ever been (in a grand sense).
http://www.wisevid.com/gate-way?v=0Az6Aq5uvtcc

If things were better in the 50's? I don't know, I was born '92. My parents were born in the 50's, so I couldn't ask them. They mostly remember stuff from the 70's and onward. All my grandparents are dead so I can't ask them. My grandma's aunt is alive, she was in Berlin during its bombing in WW2, but she was only like 5 years old so she doesn't remember much from that time either. And I haven't really asked her. Only things I know about the 50's is what I learn in school and what I see in movies, both movies from that time and movies today making fun of (or idiolizing) the 50's (and since I like zombies, I like the movie Fido. Screw you guys.) And of course Fallout. But I am pretty interested in history, I just don't know how it felt living in that time. The little things, you know.

I know that people knew how to design cars back then, at least. (Cars are so ugly now. Get back to the car designs of the 60's and backwards! TAILFINS!)
And that smoking was good for you (uuugh... but now I know that smoking looks cool if you're a 50's person. No one looks good smoking nowadays, they just stink alot.)
And that it was way easier to get a job (well, I don't know how the situation in certain places was if there was a lack of jobs available, but I rather mean that you didn't have to study for 12 years and graduate with good grades to manage to get a simple job like now in Sweden, and then to study for a couple of extra years to get a better job (and it's getting even harder). Both my parents dropped out of Gymnasiet (closest equivalent is High School) in the 70's and we're a middle class family now with enough money rolling in each month to have fun for and with no big debts or anything.)

Your ruining the mood.

It is good things moved on in many ways.

One thing I wish stayed the same. How people treated on another. With some respect. People also had to earn it. Now most people just feel entitled to everything.

I just have a different opinion and am giving my reasoning.

"Oh no, people were racist in the 50's!"

Rofl, morons. Who cares?

Yah really it was more kind to people back then. But not to mention the corruption back then.

Well, I love the 1950s for Fallout's mood.

"Corruption. Corruption never changes."

It is worse now then it was back then. People did not have computers that can fit in the palm of their hand. I see people all the time during exams and tests cheating and it pisses me off to no end! It is funny when they still fail.

That is funny.

Yes corruption never changes but there was alot of corruption in the police departments during the 50's. I think corruption really started to come out alot was during the 40's though. Then leading to various other things that makes Americans doubt the government.

The other thing is that back then, politics were far less populist than they are today; political candidates would often be boring old men who could get the job done and didn't say much, they weren't perfect and the selection process was far less democratic but they didn't base their political campaigns on the fact that their opponent smoked pot at Uni (not to mention that as the Tea Party movement shows democracy can be a little overrated). Then John bloody Kennedy came along and pretty much turned politics into a popularity contest, leading to a new age of style over substance politics, back up by large media outlets. This also had the added affect of turning just about everyone into a 'political expect' who always knew that they could do better than government on the grounds that they agreed with a newspaper article. Sure, politicians are far from perfect, but I'm pretty sure most of the political commentators out there who attack the government because they have too much time on their hands would suffer a nervous breakdown if they were charged with running the country (and of course, following the law that universal popularity is impossible would have a vocal minority of critics).

I sure to hope your not making fun of JFK.

I think this is true. There were still murderers, rapists, major racism problems, but overall I would bet people treated one another with more respect.

Savage Beatings is very right about the way cars looked in the 50s.

As an autobody tech/painter I always get more excited when a mid to late 50s vehicle rolls in. At the same time they got 8mpg. They wieghed as much as many full size pick ups do today.

The style of them can not be matched though IMO

Oh come on read a history book the 50's wasn't this all perfect era, that was just the films the music the media that made it seem like it was the perfect era. People didn't sleep in seperate beds and everything wasn't perfect. The 50's was actually a huge six era, alot of people were having kids and having six coming back from the war. Thats why things were so family oriented in the 50's. They just did a better job covering up the bad stuff in the 50's. 50's idea of censorship was ridiculous! Belly buttons were too sixy so they had to cover it up, no cussing, things couldn't be too violent, i mean common thats why they rebelled in the 60's. I'd rather live in the time we live in now computers gaming systems cell phones technology is great I love technology. Don't get me wrong I like the 50's I like retro stuff but I would not want to have lived in the era.

Everybody has their own taste in music that arguement could go on for decades. I personally like all types of music so I really can't say todays music is worse than yesturdays music I like todays music and I like yesturdays music. Although it does seem like alot more songs these days are really bad and trashy.

If you base pop culture and media to reflect what its like to live in a certian era, people 50-100 years from now are going to think in the early 2000's we all acted like the people on Jersey shore god I hate that show.z



If you're poll refers to no 1950's or yes 1950's in the game I say yes keep it in there, I don't really get what the poll is asking... I love the 1950's satire in these games!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xpAhFhrYjw

I dont know if that was suppose to be insulting or not i could not tell. But i don't like your hatred towards him.

A 1950's outlook would probably have frowned upon gaming.

I dont know about that.

They probably wouldn't have frowned upon the act of playing video games but they'd frown upon the content we have in our modern games.

That gives me a funny thought could you imagine if they had video games in the 50's with the type of censorship they had in those days a decent video game could never be made! I mean they considered showing the belly button the same as showing private parts!

In my experience people who are nostalgic for the 50's edit out the bad bits. Either that or they're homophobic racists who hate women.

People in the 50s did not hate women, men were more suited to the jobs of the time, which were factory and construction of suburbia. You can't hate women, or else your society will die out.

Now, I personally think (this is a person who was NOT born in the 50s) that the 50s were better in many many ways. Better music, dress, (I mean, Fedoras, cool man), morals, society, hell, just about everything was better. People would actually work to get ahead instead of running off government handouts.

Now, the racism was bad, but just about everything else was better. I would gladly trade off Justin Beiber for a old telephone.

and Don't forget anyone who thought different than you was a Communist sympathizer.

the 50s was a transition period for the U.S. there were a lot of growing pains.
the crime rates were lower in the past because there were less people, and job security was much higher, and (maybe controversial but there was no war on drugs to pad the law enforcements numbers)

It would be hard to make fun of him. With all his secret tapes out now, he basically stopped the potential for a nuclear exchange by himself. The Joint Chief of Staff wanted to go into Cuba with 90 000 men right away. They did not know Russia had tactical nukes for howitzers ready to go incase of invasion. Kenndy s cautious approach may have saved some serious problems for everybody .

Then he got shot in the head. Not alot to make fun of him about.

six scandals is all anyone can really make fun of him about, but his thought process was sound. Not too hard, but not too weak. He was good IMO