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

[ToroidalBoat]

Also my SNES died.

That sucks. How did that happen?

 

[Psyduck]

Noticed i cant stand loud music anymore, dont understand how the young'uns can live with a speaker blasting in their home all day, and ive gotten into arguments with younger relatives about leaving the tv blaring off loud when theyre not even in the room

Fact that almost everyone i share this with says im in the wrong with this is what makes me realize im getting old

 

[glass_houses]

Noticed i cant stand loud music anymore, dont understand how the young'uns can live with a speaker blasting in their home all day, and ive gotten into arguments with younger relatives about leaving the tv blaring off loud when theyre not even in the room

Fact that almost everyone i share this with says im in the wrong with this is what makes me realize im getting old

My first sharehouse I lived with a girl who had a tv addiction. She worked fifteen hours a week and watched television whenever she wasn't sleeping. Seven in the morning the tv would go on and she'd lie on her back on the lounge watching it until eleven at night. The sound was always turned right up and she told me that what she liked best were the ads. Drove me fucking insane. Especially since I owned the tv set.

 

[rdrr]

I recall explaining to someone, how at one point, when TVs stopped being so much console TVs, in a wood cabinet, on the floor, that when that TV died they were sometimes used as a TV stand for the new TV until a proper TV stand could be purchased. I know my family did it, and numerous others!

 

[Saguaro Butt Plug]

When people stopped calling me Miss and started calling me Ma'am.

Not sure what age that started but it was kind of a bummer. I always felt like correcting them like Patsy did on Absolutely Fabulous.

 

[ATI Escapee]

I found 2 more lil hyperpigmentation spots under my eyes yesterday. I have a handful on my face now. Age spots? Idk. Kinda neat that I am getting kalidescope skin, kinda off putting that it could be considered 'age spots'...

 

[StanleyYelnats]

When I shop vintage, it’s stuff I wore in high school. And no matter what I tell myself, 20 years ago was not 1980.

 

[0ctober lust]

Although I'm a bit younger than the others here (I'm 28 ) I do want to share one of my favorite memories
Back in 2008 (14 years old), I was with my first boyfriend, We were hanging out in my room and he asked if I ever heard "Fuck A Dog" by Blink-182. I didn't really like Blink-182 so I was like "No I hate blink-182" but he convinced me to download it off of limewire and waited about 8 minutes for it (I was in a small town in the middle of nowhere). I was laughing my ass off and loved that song because it was so fucking stupid. After that we played the new Valve game Left 4 Dead. I showed it to my now husband when we were first dating and everything

Weird to think 2008 was 14 years ago.

 

[NyQuilninja]

Video games
Seriously wft is a season pass I just paid for the fucking game disk all ready

 

[Jason Wynn]

Video games
Seriously wft is a season pass I just paid for the fucking game disk all ready

I don’t get this shit either

Back in my day when you bought a game, that was it. Done deal. You got the full game and didn’t deal with any bullshit. Any extras the game might have were unlockables earned by playing the damn thing

Then expansion packs came around and that was cool. Pay a little extra for new levels, acts, characters. Spice up an old game a little. I’m down with that.

Then DLCs came around. Okay, it’s basically little mini expansion packs. Seems like a good way to gouge players but I can still kinda sorta get behind it.

Season passes? What the fuck is that? Get off my lawn!

 

[Prj4MW8iPT3vmFM2rzDc]

The nintendo switch came out 5 years ago

 

[NyQuilninja]

I don’t get this shit either

Back in my day when you bought a game, that was it. Done deal. You got the full game and didn’t deal with any bullshit. Any extras the game might have were unlockables earned by playing the damn thing

Then expansion packs came around and that was cool. Pay a little extra for new levels, acts, characters. Spice up an old game a little. I’m down with that.

Then DLCs came around. Okay, it’s basically little mini expansion packs. Seems like a good way to gouge players but I can still kinda sorta get behind it.

Season passes? What the fuck is that? Get off my lawn!

Now you can't hardly even buy the disk anymore
This is why am all about sailing the high seas

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

I recall explaining to someone, how at one point, when TVs stopped being so much console TVs, in a wood cabinet, on the floor, that when that TV died they were sometimes used as a TV stand for the new TV until a proper TV stand could be purchased. I know my family did it, and numerous others!

I remember the TV we had when I was young didn't have a remote control. We had to get up and walk over to the thing if we wanted to change channels. Another thing is back in those days most broadcast stations signed off after the news/late night talk shows. Most stations would play the Star Spangled Banner, then it would be static until about 6am when the morning news came on.

 

[Sneeds]

I realized I was getting older when I don’t want to speed as much as I want too. That and my transmission is fucked because of my previous speeding over the years. But surprisingly I’ve only gotten 2 tickets in the past 5 years

 

[Lunete]

Next year marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Fred Rogers.

On a related note, a couple of years ago I was out shopping with my younger brother at a department store. I was rummaging through a rack of shirts when I saw one with Mr Rogers smiling in his signature cardigan with the caption "It's all good in the hood." I lifted it up to show my brother and went "haha it's Mr Rogers."
The cashier must have overheardme cause she stoppedwhat she was doing and said "You know the other day there was a girl in here who had no idea who that is." I put it back and just walked away awkwardly.

 

[ZipDisk]

That sucks. How did that happen?

At first, I thought it was a power issue, I don't have the sns 002, I have a shitty radio shack adapter.
But when I asked "my" Nintendo dude at the swap meet for a first party brick he got surprisingly shitty and indignant.
Pretty sure I flat out burned any good will I had with the dude when I asked if he would sell me a tri-wing. No clue where my fucking game bit is. (I have console and cart)
Fucking ebay wants $25 to $50 for an sns 002, and the swap meet guy was trying to sell me the shitty 3rd party one with two outputs.
I know he does good work, I bought my NES from him in 02 and it boots perfectly every time.
My SNES is my original. *I* want to fix it.

As to the children having children, one of my stupider uncles squirted into a stripper, and got the fabled "18 years"
Kid just turned 21, guess what he did?

 

[A Grey Cat]

rewatching a playthrough of GTA vice city stories and hearing Jerry comment "what are you 15?" and remembering I wasn't even 15 when that game first launched on the now dead as the dodo psp

 

[AnOminous]

I realized I was getting older when I don’t want to speed as much as I want too. That and my transmission is fucked because of my previous speeding over the years. But surprisingly I’ve only gotten 2 tickets in the past 5 years

When things happen that would previously have caused me to go road rage but I just can't even muster the energy to get mad. It reminds me how amused by granddad would get when either my dad or I would tard rage behind the wheel at something another driver did. He'd just smile and say: "Calm down. He's not done yet."

Next year marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Fred Rogers.

I honestly think a good deal of the degeneracy of our society has to do with the people who never got to grow up with Mr. Rogers reaching adulthood, or at least the state of perpetual childhood that passes for adulthood these days.

 

[Rusty Bucket]

I'm only 33, but I still remember when LaserDiscs were used in school for a time before I got to high school. And old school projectors where teachers put plastic sheets on top of the machine which is then reflected onto the white backdrop they'd pull down in front of the chalkboard. I don't even know if those are still a thing or if it's all just connected to laptops/computers now.

 

[msd]

I'm currently sitting in this old dingy Mexican cafeteria type place, I've been coming here since I was around 5, I always have such fond memories of being here early in the morning to the smell of coffee and Mexican elderly who were all friendly.

Now, I'm 24, I don't see alot of the faces I saw before, the cashier lady who was always super cheerful and energetic, is now on oxygen and less energetic.

Time sucks kiwis, I miss the all my Mexican grandma's and grandpa's.