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

[The Southwest Strangla]

Remember when VH1 did "I Love the 80's", and then did a mildly successful followup called "I Love the 90's" and it seemed so weird because the 90's wasn't that far away from the 2000's? Comfy times.

They did I love the 00 but didn’t went that far into it

 

[AnOminous]

Remember when VH1 did "I Love the 80's", and then did a mildly successful followup called "I Love the 90's" and it seemed so weird because the 90's wasn't that far away from the 2000's? Comfy times.

Lmao and now there are people who are legally adults able to drink in the U.S. who don't even remember the '90s and look at you like "you old fuck" if you say something you did in the '90s, like you'd just started talking about what you did at the Battle of Verdun or some shit.

 

[Meat Target]

Running on pavement or concrete is hell on my knees. And often, my joints creak like floorboards and pop like popcorn.

I'm only 30.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I've been periodically really freaked out by the realization that 2007 is 15 fucking years ago, that is just absolutely bugnuts batshit insane to me.

It's the kind of thing I literally can't think too hard about and have to just kind of pretend isn't real.

Lmao and now there are people who are legally adults able to drink in the U.S. who don't even remember the '90s and look at you like "you old fuck" if you say something you did in the '90s, like you'd just started talking about what you did at the Battle of Verdun or some shit.

This is really hard to take lmao.

 

[Cool Dog]

Had some teens and their mother stay over one time. Most of them were boys pretending to be girls, or girls pretending to be boys. One was a munchie with a wheelchair. She would walk when she was sick of sitting down. One of them was obsessed with BTS and she wanted to be a male Kpop star. They rarely showered. On their phones half the time. When they got onto the console in the lounge room they would watch some VR comedy roleplay series on youtube. The rest of the time they were playing fortnite. They spent all their money and their mothers money on Fortnite, sometimes they wouldn't be able to afford food because of it. None of them went to high school. One earnt some side cash training 12 year olds in Fortnite.

Why were a bunch of smelly troon tweens staying with you? elaborate

As for fortnite thats why the freemium cancer its destroying gaming, its insanely profitable

I've recently seen people posting "GTA 5 nostalgia" unironically.

TBF that shit its going to be 10 years old next year

All previous 3D GTA games came out in just 7 years

My daughter was rooting through a pile of my old stuff and when we found my Gameboy Advance SP.

She thought it was a broken Galaxy Z Flip and when I showed her how to turn it after charging it. She commented that the lower half of the screen was broken.

i feel old

Nigger I had a gamegear, that shit was old when the GBA came out

When you hear music you grew up with, but it's been sampled to high hell or remixed by "artists" with only a fraction of the talent of the originals.

I really, truly, hate this, specially because the fucking kids say "this song sucks but its only good because of this part!" and they mean the sample from the old song, without even bothering to take 5 seconds to google that shit

A friend of mine is traveling for a while to an area where internet is spotty at best and video streaming is out of the question, so I helped him stuff an SD card with tons of movies and tv shows. I made a throwaway statement that what's on that tiny card I can balance on my fingertip is magnitudes more than the massive video collection he used to have. (he was a pirate and media hoarder of the first hour)This lead us both to be quiet for a moment and gave us both a small sad.

I have that feel every time I pick up a 128GB SD card and remember how a seagate 1GB HDD was this huge metal brick and yet that was space-age compared to the old timey HDDs from before I was born that were nearly as big as the PC it was connected to............which at the same time was tiny in comparison with mainframe HDDs

sometimes find myself stopping and marveling what absolute scifi technology has become everyday. Stuff I and many others didn't even ever consider seriously possible inside my lifetime the time I got my first computer. I mean some of the signs were there and just a mere decade later it was pretty clear that is the way it was going but still, wow, sometimes. late-80s me time-traveling to today would've his mind blown perpetually and probably wouldn't sleep for weeks out of excitement and having to figure it all out. He'd also especially have his mind blown to what electrical engineering is today. I also don't think he'd understand why I still hold on to the computer he bought a few years ago when all these marvels exist.

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I could time travel with the stuff I got now and show it to my 6yo me and his/my friends at the time and see how it would blow their minds that even a phone game has better graphics than the OG toy story movie

Then I remember half the shit wouldnt even work because its online-only and the servers wont exist for another 20 years or so

Yet, I live in this time and in a way it's all mundane. Super computer in my phone, mundane. Instant global communication from wherever with whomever, mundane. Loads of information and basically endless entertainment and educational media mouseclicks away, from 80s blockbuster to how to install wainscoting DIY videos to some random guy's 4k youtube video of walking the streets of Tokyo, mundane. It's weird. Sometimes I wish I could see this world through these fresh eyes. Sometimes I also can't help but wonder how healthy all of this is. It feels like some wrongful excess that shouldn't be, at the same time I'm pretty sure young people nowadays don't and can't understand how I could feel that way.

Well TBH I'm disappointed at how shit today's devices are in that you're so limited as to what you can do. Phones are consumption devices, its not meant to be used to create anything besides shitty social media, you can't code or do 3D graphics or any kind of actualy work besides basic writing and even redacting a document on a phone its a fucking nightmare

And then you cant fix shit because everything its soldered or glued, you cant upgrade it for the same reason. The last laptops with socketed CPUs are from 2013. The new macs are basically phones with no upgradeability, if your SSD dies then your entire computer dies. And android phones now wont let you install a custom ROM without basically red flagging your device so you cant use most payment and banking apps, all bullshit so you have to buy a new phone when they decide to not update it anymore

Things werent this shitty before, it used to be better, you owned your devices and could do whatever the fuck you wanted with them. Now even fucking windows has ads

I don't think it's healthy and I'm seeing more and more people seeking out alternatives to computers for everything, I'm seeing bidding wars going on for typewriters, writing paper sales going through the roof for quality notebooks and pens, I'm also seeing more Film Photography happening not just instant photography but genuine interest in very technical photography, film sales are going up as well much like typewriter ribbons and correction tabs.

Thats a fad and it wont last, like a few years ago there was a fad for polaroid cameras with posers like ladygaga making it trendy again, and now its as dead as her career

Now the new fad are minidiscs, got tons of fucking hipsters buying this stuff and driving prices up, faggots just shit up everything just like they did with retrograming, they dont give a fuck about the things they destroy

When people talk about "shooting games" or "FPSes" and its shit like Valorant, Apex Legends or Fortnite and not Quake, Unreal Tournament or Counter Strike.

Dont even have to go that far back, zoomers think halo reach and left4dead are boomer gamers

 

[The Southwest Strangla]

I've been periodically really freaked out by the realization that 2007 is 15 fucking years ago, that is just absolutely bugnuts batshit insane to me.

It's the kind of thing I literally can't think too hard about and have to just kind of pretend isn't real.



This is really hard to take lmao.

I was freaking out that 2008 is 14 years ago. I use to do a lot of shit when I was still in school around that time. Like random memories will still pop in my head and I always remember that these events took place from 2008-2015, and it hits me hard. I was talking to someone about an anime called Samurai Harem and someone said it was ancient; I told them it was not. I looked it up; it came out in 2009. like, It doesn't seem that old. Hell, I did the same thing with regular show. I thought it wasn't that old, but it came out in 2009. to me, when you realize something is now ten years old, that hits harder than realizing something is like 25 or 50 years old. I guess since ten years pass by quickly.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I was freaking out that 2008 is 14 years ago. I use to do a lot of shit when I was still in school around that time. Like random memories will still pop in my head and I always remember that these events took place from 2008-2015, and it hits me hard. I was talking to someone about an anime called Samurai Harem and someone said it was ancient; I told them it was not. I looked it up; it came out in 2009. like, It doesn't seem that old. Hell, I did the same thing with regular show. I thought it wasn't that old, but it came out in 2009. to me, when you realize something is now ten years old, that hits harder than realizing something is like 25 or 50 years old. I guess since ten years pass by quickly.

The whole time period of 2007-2015 feels so freakily recent to me, so many crystal clear memories, but the most recent year of that is now 7 years ago, it's like what the hell happened to the last several years? It's gone by in a flash as one crazy fucking thing after another has just kept happening in rapid succession.

 

[bigoogabaloogas]

The whole time period of 2007-2015 feels so freakily recent to me, so many crystal clear memories, but the most recent year of that is now 7 years ago, it's like what the hell happened to the last several years? It's gone by in a flash as one crazy fucking thing after another has just kept happening in rapid succession.

I still remember the times when we amuse ourselves by playing dodgeball with tennis balls back in 2009 (times were rough back then) but I can't even remember the names of the people I went to high school with. Time really does fly when you're an adult now, huh?

 

[frap]

Don’t know if I’d count this as a feeling old thing or a “the retards I deal with” thing, but I’m seeing more and more people who tell me that they flat out refuse to watch any show or play any video game from before a certain time point. My brother’s girlfriend is 27 and she refuses to watch any movie made before 1995. My brother himself is 28 and refuses to try any video games made before the PS2 era. Both of their reasons are “because those movies/games are too old and must suck”

I get irrationally angry over this and have caught myself unironically thinking something to the effect of “damn retard kids wouldn’t know what good was if it kicked them in the teeth”

This is kind of nuts to me.

Admittedly I don’t really watch much in the way of old movies, but I don’t have an arbitrary cut-off date, and when I say ‘old’ I mean those made several decades before I was even born. And there are still exceptions.

Just for example, no movies before 1995 means no watching
- Jurassic Park (and its special effects have held up better than a lot of films that came after it)
- any Disney movie from the Lion King and earlier (including nearly all the princess movies, plus all the xerox era)
- Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs
- original Star Wars trilogy
- original Indiana Jones trilogy
- Muppet Christmas Carol
- Home Alone 1 and 2
- Silence of the Lambs
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights
- Airplane!
- The Wizard of Oz
- Grease

Fuck knows how many I’m forgetting.

 

[The Gifted Kid]

Over the air TV channels. Used to be as simple as screwing in an antenna, fiddling with it for 5 minutes and you were good to go. Speaking of TV remember when there actually used to be somewhat palatable shows on. Also is it just me or are there more commercials now. I was watching something the other night and it literally was like 5 minutes of show sandwiched between 10 minutes of commercials. I swear it wasn't this bad even 10 years ago.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

Over the air TV channels. Used to be as simple as screwing in an antenna, fiddling with it for 5 minutes and you were good to go. Speaking of TV remember when there actually used to be somewhat palatable shows on. Also is it just me or are there more commercials now. I was watching something the other night and it literally was like 5 minutes of show sandwiched between 10 minutes of commercials. I swear it wasn't this bad even 10 years ago.

Both my mom and brother watch television regularly and it's crazy how that's true. For example you'll be watching sports and there would be more commercial breaks than game play. It's as the program you're watching is the commercial not the commercials.

The first video game I ever played (Lunar Lander) is going to be 43 years old this year.

I can remember in the early 90's my older brother gave me his original Game Boy and some games like Link's Awakening and Mortal Kombat. Soon after my cousin gave me his NES and SNES. What's crazy is that video games were seen as an electronic boy toy that boys eventually out grew. There was no nostalgia or geek culture like you have today. Promos for video games were mainly commercials or publications like Nintendo Power. Now it seems people have a religious experience when they watch presentation by Nintendo or Apple.

 

[Doctor Placebo]

Celebrities and relatives dying.

 

[PaulBearer]

My fucked up old face, mirrors.

 

[Windows 10 Upgrade]

Nintendo Game n' Watch in the early 80's was THE SHIT. I thought I was cool in my single-digit years for having one "Parachute" game but after I moved in with my non-deviant and opposite gender life-partner I found they had about SEVEN of the fuckers, including Donkey Kong.

I bought the Game n Watch Mario for my kid last year, but it was really for me.

 

[Captain Syrup]

What's crazy is that video games were seen as an electronic boy toy that boys eventually out grew. There was no nostalgia or geek culture like you have today.

All of my coworkers are into Pokémon now. I feel like Miles in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Celebrities dying.

Famous people die, and I don't learn about it until months later. It doesn't make the evening news like it used to.

 

[Tingle]

Recalling a show, game, movie etc. I was interested in but never got around to, then looking it up to find out it released ten fucking years ago.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Don’t know if I’d count this as a feeling old thing or a “the retards I deal with” thing, but I’m seeing more and more people who tell me that they flat out refuse to watch any show or play any video game from before a certain time point. My brother’s girlfriend is 27 and she refuses to watch any movie made before 1995. My brother himself is 28 and refuses to try any video games made before the PS2 era. Both of their reasons are “because those movies/games are too old and must suck”

I get irrationally angry over this and have caught myself unironically thinking something to the effect of “damn retard kids wouldn’t know what good was if it kicked them in the teeth”

This is kind of nuts to me.

Admittedly I don’t really watch much in the way of old movies, but I don’t have an arbitrary cut-off date, and when I say ‘old’ I mean those made several decades before I was even born. And there are still exceptions.

Just for example, no movies before 1995 means no watching
- Jurassic Park (and its special effects have held up better than a lot of films that came after it)
- any Disney movie from the Lion King and earlier (including nearly all the princess movies, plus all the xerox era)
- Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs
- original Star Wars trilogy
- original Indiana Jones trilogy
- Muppet Christmas Carol
- Home Alone 1 and 2
- Silence of the Lambs
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights
- Airplane!
- The Wizard of Oz
- Grease

Fuck knows how many I’m forgetting.

1995 as a cutoff year is the height of absurdity, you're literally missing all of the greatest movies ever made if your cutoff year is fucking 1995, I pray I never meet anyone that retarded.

How did we go from certain 80s classics being ubiquitously beloved staples of the culture to people who won't watch anything older than 1995? Insanity.

As for video games, I could forgive anyone that can't deal with PS1/N64 graphics as those are pretty dang crude by today's standards, but you're a retard if you can't hang with SNES/Genesis classic high color pixel art.

 

[Mr. Skeltal]

The fact the Majora's Mask is seen as a "retro" game is still unnerving to me. I think it wasn't that long ago and them remember that it came out in 2000. It's old enough to drink. I remember having to save allowance money to buy the Expansion Pak after getting it for Christmas and not being able to play it.

Also Dark Souls is 11 years old. I thought about this when someone posted "power up the vase cannon" in reference to the Jar Cannon weapon in Elden Ring. People have been exchanging the same giantdad memes for a decade now.

 

[Alabaster Disaster]

I heard someone refer to a PS2 as a retro console. That fucked me up.

The PS2 is old enough to buy booze in the States. I remember the first time I downloaded a Genesis or SNES emulator I already thought of those systems as "old" but both had been out for less than 10 years by then. I think some of the difference in perception is just due to "kid" to "teenager" seeming like a way bigger jump than the same time frame contained in adulthood. But also the "improvements" between console generations don't seem nearly as big since those days.

This is the stuff you have time to think about when you spend an entire day off tweaking PCSX2 so it doesn't foam at the mouth, because the state of its code rivals Yandere Dev for pure spaghetti.

 

[Absolutego]

I posted T_T in a group slack channel and then had to explain to my zoomer coworkers that it represented a crying face. At which point they asked "Isn't that what emojis are for?"