Shit that reminds you that you’re getting old - Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Damn young’uns

[Pissmaster]

I found some batteries that have an expiration date of December 2024 and thought about how that's not really that much shelf life left on them

and then thought about how batteries tend to have expiration dates of 10 years from their date of manufacture, and that means they were made in December 2014

and we are now a lot closer to 2024 than 2014, despite 2014 still feeling recent enough to where entertainment from 2014 doesn't feel anachronistic at all, but then again culture's been stagnant as fuck since then

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

I'm so old some of the first video games I played in my youth were The Dungeons of Kroz, Hugo 3, Castles, the Eye of the Beholder series, and the Sierra games like King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Space Quest, and Police Quest.

Almost nobody born after 20-25 years ago knows about any of that shit.

 

[JULAY]

I'm so old some of the first video games I played in my youth were The Dungeons of Kroz, Hugo 3, Castles, the Eye of the Beholder series, and the Sierra games like King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Space Quest, and Police Quest.

Almost nobody born after 20-25 years ago knows about any of that shit.

Oh, God, how I miss the heyday of point and click adventure games! I played all of the Sierra stuff, but I definitely liked the LucasArts franchises better. It was such a delight to play a game that you actually had to think about to progress, especially in the later years when they got rid of ridiculous bullshit like "find the pixel", or in even earlier years "find the right verb" when everything was still done through a text parser.

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

I had never heard of any of the celebrities that got their own McDonald's meals before, besides BTS.

Earliest I can think of was the McJordan burger came out in the early 90's.
Another thing that made me feel old, back when upgrading to windows XP they had the option to get a verification code over a 800 number.

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

Oh, God, how I miss the heyday of point and click adventure games! I played all of the Sierra stuff, but I definitely liked the LucasArts franchises better. It was such a delight to play a game that you actually had to think about to progress, especially in the later years when they got rid of ridiculous bullshit like "find the pixel", or in even earlier years "find the right verb" when everything was still done through a text parser.

Oh man, the Indiana Jones Point and Clicks were some of the fucking best. I haven't played those in so fucking long.
Open: Slob
"I'd rather not"
Goddamn they just don't make games as funny as they used to.

 

[JULAY]

Oh man, the Indiana Jones Point and Clicks were some of the fucking best. I haven't played those in so fucking long.
Open: Slob
"I'd rather not"
Goddamn they just don't make games as funny as they used to.

I absolutely LOVED the Indiana Jones titles, those were my favorite. I can still hear that fucking parrot from the Fate of Atlantis in my head. The original Monkey Island and the second one were awesome as well. And Maniac Mansion, and Zak McKraken, Loom, too many to list here, but they were all fucking awesome games. I wish that there were companies that put out classic adventure games like that these days, I'd buy them in a heartbeat.

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

Maniac Mansion

I still replay Day of the Tentacle every few years when I want some feelgood nostalgia.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I had a Betamax before a VHS player

 

[Captain Syrup]

Sierra games like King's Quest

"Dying for a drink, Graham?"

 

[JULAY]

"Dying for a drink, Graham?"

I'd rather die a million times than listen to that fucking owl even once again.

 

[awoo]

I still feel the same like I was 5-10 years ago. Pretty much same autistic hobbies I have never lost interest in, my appearance even hasn't changed that much (asian genetics maybe, actually my parents have pretty much looked the same for two decades which is kinda a miracle). All my friends from my teens are grown ass adults now even though they look mostly the same. I feel old but I'm actually not which is kinda strange.

 

[lurk_moar]

I am getting lines on my forehead.

 

[glass_houses]

I am getting lines on my forehead.

Me too. And around my mouth and between and under my eyes. They're coming in thick and fast.

 

[Horton Hears A Whoreson]

Fondly recalling childhood memories with your parents before looking at them now.

 

[Raging Capybara]

When I joined this forum, Nool still didn't use the rabid dog as a profile pic yet.

 

[AnOminous]

When I joined this forum, Nool still didn't use the rabid dog as a profile pic yet.

The first one I remember was Bane.

 

[Miss Misery]

I just had to explain the term "Indian giver" to my boyfriend.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

When my back gives out while I’m plowing your mom

 

[glass_houses]

I just had to explain the term "Indian giver" to my boyfriend.

What is an 'Indian giver'? I don't think I've heard the expression before.

 

[AnOminous]

What is an 'Indian giver'? I don't think I've heard the expression before.

Someone who expects to be paid back for something initially presented as a "gift." My guess is you're probably not that old because it's only fairly recently that people have stopped using that phrase because "dass rayciss" or something.