the Home Alone house then and now

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• binux@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  They both kind of suck tbh. The first looks like a nightmare to acid trip in and the other looks like a wizard sucked all the colour out of it.

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• craftrabbit@lemmy.zip ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Think of it as a canvas.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The new one is MUCH too white, but let’s be honest, the before pictures are pretty ugly too. That wallpaper is gaudy as hell.

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  • untorquer@quokk.au ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The before pictures are bourgie and give a 90’s generational wealth ick, but at least it still looks like there’s a human being living there experiencing something nearly recognizable as a human emotion from time to time.

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Well said. The middle photo of the living room looks like white hell in the new version. Like one of those underground passages in the Hoth base with some Myst-era computer generated furniture spawned in the distance.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    The all white aesthetic can be appealing in a “clear slate, calm mind” kind of way, but this works way better for me when it has a few gentle touches like rounded corners, plush furniture, warm lighting, and natural wood accents. No sharp edges or cold lighting or it veers into “ice razors” territory fast.

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  • turtlesareneat@piefed.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In 1990 that was the height of sophistication. Today, Millennial white/gray is the height of sophistication. What can we learn? Trends in home design/decor are bad. Stick to something timeless and you won’t think it’s outdated every few years.

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    • proudblond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I’m really sad as a Millennial that this aesthetic has been dubbed “Millennial gray.” I’ve watched some videos on it that make the case that it’s a backlash from the 70s aesthetic we grew up with combined with poor financial prospects in early adulthood, meaning we couldn’t buy a lot of or very nice furniture. Now that I’m firmly middle-aged, I can afford better stuff and my husband and I are slowly turning over crap particle-board furniture for nice solid wood pieces (often secondhand) in the craftsman style.

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    • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mudhuts will always be in. Don’t move with the flow, be the rock every drowning man needs.

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The 1990 looks like 1890. I’d suggest that makes it the timeless decor.

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    • EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I prefer rustic cottage theme. I never get tired of it and if someone else thinks it’s ugly… Cool, don’t live with me then.

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  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wanted to say that. The new one could use a few colored highlights, while the top one is stuffy and overloaded as hell.

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  • NoPanko@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hallway wallpaper is great, bedroom one is definitely a bit ugly though I agree

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• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not going to lie, I like the clean look of the millenial house more. We collectively grew up in clutter, where your grandma would have weird porcelain dolls, or a cabinet to display her fine china.

  My grandpa had a taxidermied pheasant, great horned owl, and a coyote pelt on his living room wall.

  Nothing wrong with all that, it’s just weird as a kid.

  Our parents generation hoarded shit, because their parents lived through the depression. That has its own value but it gets overwhelming.

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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Clean? As in sterile like a hospital?

    I think your example is the other extreme, but a little bit of color and a few personal items is a huge improvement over the sanitarium look.

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    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Clean lines and a warm color scheme might be a good middle ground. The old version’s wallpapers were a bit too busy and the new one definitely looks way too sterile.

      But yeah, of I had to choose I’d go with the old one.

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      As white as an operating room

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    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s definitely lacking some colour, but we keep our house very tidy.

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  • maturelemontree@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I get that. It can quickly evolve to clutter. I grew up in clutter and couldn’t stand it if that happens in my house. I’m already frustrated that I have a few things on a coffee table at home.

    I think there is a nice balance though, to make something feel more homey without all the dead, dusty pheasants.

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• brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Every time I see that movie I think how it shaped my idea that having such a nice and big house was normal and achievable, along with like 6 kids, and it was the average normal family… I’m not even American.

  I’m so much closer to the robber’s reality.

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  • volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To me it is the number of children. All the happy family movies had families with multiple children, and it feels like only child families are portrayed overwhelmingly as dysfunctional and tragic.

    I’m trying to work through this mindset because we only have one child, but it is hard because subconsciously, I feel like a failure, like I cannot live up to this expectation and my child is doomed to this gloomy, sad existence.

    If anyone is reading this, I beg you, prove me wrong. This isn’t a challenge, I just desperately need picture perfect single child family portrayals.

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    • fireweed@lemmy.world ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      There’s a whole trove of portrayals of happy, loving single-child families out there! You just have to look to China’s one-child policy era.

      “But Fireweed! This is literally propaganda!” It’s all propaganda, whether it’s “be content with one child” or “be fruitful and multiply.” Media depictions of large families appear fun and loving because the creators make it that way (the more kids the more you have to work with: there’s the jock kid, the geek kid, the uptight kid, the…). Even media about the difficulties of large families (e.g. Cheaper by the Dozen) still end with everyone being happy and loving because it makes for a feel-good ending; that doesn’t mean it reflects reality in the slightest. Society doesn’t like to talk about the darker sides of large families because of heteronormativity, but there’s some media out there portraying large families as hopelessly dysfunctional (Shameless for instance, or you can read about any of the large family “reality TV” shows that have ended in scandal).

      Remember that we’re in unprecedented times; large families used to not only be the norm but were practically required (have lots of kids to work the farm, or because you don’t know how many are going to survive to adulthood, or because there’s no social safety net for when you become old/sick/injured except your family members). Nowadays it’s the opposite: more kids equals less resources to go around, and unchecked population growth combined with unchecked consumption is wrecking the planet. But media hasn’t caught up yet, and with influential, wealthy people out there screaming racist nonsense about “crashing birth rates” and “great replacement theory,” there’s pressure to continue to portray large families positively and small families poorly. It’s the same situation as the propaganda I linked above, but in reverse.

      In other words, rejoice that you’ve eschewed the media narrative and done the right thing for your family! Also forget visual media (where creators use large families to portray the appearance of a happy family, because more kids = more hugs and smiling faces in the shot = more love, right?) and look to books, where there are plenty of depictions of loving, functional, single-child households.

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    • proudblond@lemmy.world ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Hopefully the media is changing. Off the top of my head, I thought of “Inside Out,” where the girl is an only child (I think?) and her family is depicted as pretty loving, just going through a tough move. I suspect a lot of kids’ media has also adjusted to two kids max; I’m specifically thinking of shows like Bluey and Daniel Tiger for instance.

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    • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I was an only child and had an excellent childhood/teenage years and am still really good friends with my parents. My goal with my daughter is to do as good of a job for her as my parents did for me. I don’t live a perfect life but my relationship with my parents is not something I could ever have any complaints about. Don’t worry, as long as your kid knows you love them and you try your best to do what’s best for them (and not just what you want to be best for them), I wouldn’t have any worries personally.

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Only child of lesbian parents checking in. You’re wrong, it takes all sorts to make a family please don’t let corporate bullshit brainwash you.

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• rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Another victim of big Small

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  • gedfromgont@piefed.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    big small

    Image

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    • bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not the size that counts, it’s how you use it. Image

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• boudica@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Eh I much prefer the clean look. The older design looks cluttered and a bit tacky to me.

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Blindingly white

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• lemmelemmy@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Egh… such a boring millennial aesthetic.

  Ps. I’m also a millenial. Gray is the worst colour

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  • ContriteErudite@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gray is one of my favorite colors. I’ve decorated my office using various shades of gray and grey-centric hues. It looks good because I made sure there’s plenty of contrast, especially under natural light.
    I agree, what they did to this house does not look good and it feels like a hotel. I’ve been in hospital rooms that were warmer and more inviting than this.
    I’d guess these photos were taken for a home listing and that the bright and neutral paint color was intentional. Repainting walls in white or light neutral tones is common advice from realtors because it makes rooms feel brighter and is easy to paint over.

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I agree.

      but we’re both unpopular. popular opinion is that everything should look like hotel.

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• ech@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  1. The interior shots were a fabricated sound stage 2) The last shot isn’t even the same movie 3) This is most likely slop, considering the large discrepancies in dimensions.

  F-, -1/10

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  • anon6789@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    House seems real. Here is a youtube short of a guy walking through it and an Architectural Digest article about the house, its history, and its transformation to the drab and now even more giant state it is in. I turned off javascript and was able to read the whole article. It also talks about how most of the filming was offsite, as you said.

    Current owner says they wish to restore the interior.

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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I doubt it is ai. The same room with the fireplace can be seen in both the picture featuring it and the hallway shot where it is barely in view, but the same furniture is visible in both.

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    • ech@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Same house still.

      That’s a hotel room. In New York.

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• breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t think this can be true. The house interiors in the movie weren’t filmed on location. They were custom sets built into a school gymnasium. So everything in the “before” photos are sets and set decoration.

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  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not Amerucan, but as far as I know, America often builds houses en mass. Often in factories. Everything is standardized, zo many houses look the same. It wouldn’t be weird if a set also looked exactly like a real, standardized, house. These “now” pictures could be from a look-a-like house.

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And what you know is so wrong, lol.

      Mobile Himes or Manufactured Homes are built in shops, but even with those the interiors can be vastly different.

      Interior design is a thing, which makes every house different inside.

      And the type of house in Home Alone definitely isn’t a manufactured home or even one built in a development where there are only 3 models, but a very old, custom-built house.

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    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Due to a weird law, in the USA manufactured homes must be built on a permanent chassis.

      Most homes in the USA are built entirely on site.

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• axx@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Did someone say lifeless and sterile?

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• AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Before feels like Santa is real and I can almost feel the heat from the fireplace in another room… After is the brutal truth that Santa never existed in the first place, the child in you is dead, and a reminder that we live in a cold, corporate hellscape.

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  • valkyre09@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Photo 1: designed by Catherine O’Hara in Home Alone

    Photo 2: designed by Catherine O’Hara in Beetlejuice

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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  New one looks like an Ikea. Old one looks like a home.

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• HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  One looks cozy, the other institutional.

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  • sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d paint the walls but other than that I would take the “before” any day of the week

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    • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, I agree that wall paper is not the greatest but and you can paint walls to create a welcoming and cozy environment.

      But all white? Tell me you paid 10000 dollars for some nepo baby interior designer to tell you to use 3 different shades of eggshell white to offset the plain white in the hall.

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  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This isn’t cozy, it’s overbearing, at least for me. The second one can be fixed by introducing colored highlights and pictures on the walls, while the first one is unsalvageable.

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• whereitsat@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i notice this issue whenever i watch new films–everything looks so sterile and uninviting. culture has taken on this showroom/instagram aesthetic that gestures to class but has no character, taste and doesn’t look like anywhere where anyone would actually live; it’s nowhere where anyone sensible would want to live, at least.

  calling it minimalistic is disrespectful because that word and style aren’t mutually exclusive.

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yeah but if you say this to people they just think you’re an asshole, and worse, you’re probably poor.

    this is the aspirational standard that dominates American mindset. you also need a grey luxury car to go with it.

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  • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For me its because I don’t want people to stay.

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• darkmarx@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The original house was a set built at a school. They covered everyhing is red and green to make it feel more like Christmas. The regs, drapes, wallpaper, and everything wasn’t put in for style as much as for matching the theme for the movie.

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• thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I heard on the radio that the child actor is now potentially working with some people to make a new sequel where the same character has his own kid. I don’t think it’ll have the same shine and it’ll probably flop but time will tell.

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• Nugscree@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So warm and welcoming vs dead, cold and devoid of any personality. That does not feel like progress.

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    the progress was the 400% increase in the cost of the house over 30 years.

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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Millennial grey, because it’s important that you don’t mess up your investment by personalizing it.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s just fashion, it comes and goes. We like novel things, out with the old, in with the new. “Maxxing” is coming around now, because “influencers” realized they could sell more crap if they showed more crap. Hold tight, we’re heading back to a version of the before style.

  I get it, though. The before style is very busy, especially the wallpaper. I like the warm tones, but not the busy patterns.

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  • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The after pictures look like a house being staged for sale, which means any colour and details that used to exist would have been removed to give buyers a “blank slate” look to work with. That’s why you keep seeing this same look in house listings, while very few people ever actually live in an interior that looks like that.

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• Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I like the now substantially more

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  • huppakee@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I like the now equally not.

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    • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      OK I fixed it

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  • Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I agree, it looks way better and more comfortable to live in to me.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  AI slop

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• notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Now it really looks lonely.

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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So the one with the grandma wallpaper that is famous for a little kid being all alone looks less lonely to you?

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes.

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• SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Look’s fine?

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bit too much white, but otherwise very livable IMO. I like that clean style.

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• nullspace@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What a depressing aesthetic. It took a whike to realize the photos were not under a filter.

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• Magister@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well, I’m old and lived in before “before” and well it was ugly… I prefer the “now” now.

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• GarboDog@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Great, they removed all character and charm from it, no longer feels like a home, more like a hospital

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• Outdated4134@piefed.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Look how they massacred by boy

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is this your doing OP? It’s been sanitized and your username is Sanitation so I gotta ask.

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