After I retired I went through times I became maudlin about the people I used to work with.

Some people think "Oh like 50s/60s/70s/80s/90s/00s movies/music/games/tv/books or homages to those things in later works!"

Other people think "Oh like a deeply personal sense of retrospective longing or awareness that relates to people and places that I've been!"

With these polls, were you going for "media nostalgia", "personal nostalgia", or both?

Nearly everything I spent time with was from an era before I was born, so "nostalgia" (in the simple "from the past" sense) has always been a big part of my experience. I still prefer older material to new, so the transition to "my personal past" is kind of a blur.

I enjoy the #TOTP reruns on a Friday night in the UK, but that’s far more about the folk busily taking the piss on here in sync with the show than the actual music.

Cartoon Network appealed, quite intentionally, to 20-somethings, with Space Ghost:CTC remixing our Saturday morning cartoons, they did a Scooby Doo Blair Witch, and even Power Puff, Dexter's Lab, Ren & Stimpy were more cartoons made for us than for kids, often with retro animation effects blended with the new.

All the action figures marketed to adults, that started during that time as well, and never stopped. We never let go of our childhood video games, a trend that eventually became normalized and heavily marketed, but we were originally *supposed* to have left Mario far behind.

90s music experimented with a lot of retro sounds, much of it from music of our 60s-70s childhoods, but also to earlier times. (Like Ska and Neoswing.)

So I think anyone my age (50) who liked that stuff during that time might want to think harder about how much of that was nostalgia for a lost childhood, something that before our generation, simply wasn't done. You were supposed to grow up, leave behind childish things like toys and cartoons, but we were the first generation who didn't. Hard to remember, because now it's normal.

I enjoy old stuff mixed in with new stuff, and I do occasionally partake in a light dose of nostalgia, but I always had a low threshold. Two episodes of "Stranger Things" and I was done with the "nerdy kids in the 80s doing stuff I did as a nerdy kid in the 80s except with supernatural horror instead of domestic trauma."

my take on nostalgia is, something that was great to experience is gone and there is no appropriate continuation or (re)new(ed) thing that can replace it in one's life - something that "continues the spirit" ...

... the reasons why such a break happens can be manifold.

nothing quite like driving my teenaged daughter somewhere and listening to the radio, a song comes on, and she flawlessly belts out all the lyrics to Tears for Fears "Everybody Wants To The Rule The World"

that happened last week

that's a fucking trip man