Thing's that make you feel old. - That pop in your knee when you get up aint going to get better faggot.

[WTBOnlineFather]

Being introduced to people who share my interests and are younger than me

 

[The Last Stand]

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Yes, I'm THAT old two times over.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Coworker who was amazed I saw all three Lord of the Rings movies in theaters. He would go on to say “I wasn’t even born until 2002! How old were you when Fellowship came out?”

Told him I was 17 and his response was a genuine “Wow!” which made me laugh.

Kid also referred to the PS2 as “peak vintage gaming” which made my eye twitch.

 

[Hinttitroniikka]

I have a cousin who's six years younger than me, who used to drive me nuts when we were kids, because we used to travel a lot together, and an 8-year-old and a 14-year-old have such different priorities and abilities when travelling. Now some decades later, we're in the same phase of life and the age difference is about unnoticeable. I know that happens to everyone, but I spent so much time being so very annoyed by my cousins that the difference really stands out in my memory now.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

2002

2002 was also when the first Ice Age movie came out, which I saw in theater IIRC.

 

[Smar Mijou]

I can still recall when a can of soda in a vending machine was 50 cents.

Hell, the really cheap/ generics like RC Cola machines were 25 cents! Blows my mind that a damn 12oz can of pop is now a dollar.

This is one of the examples I was thinking of. Even just things like claiming games have “retro graphics” because they used some pixel art, but all the animations are too many frames, everything moves incorrectly, and there’s generally a bunch of subtle technical anachronisms that make it glaringly obvious the game was made last year.

Yup, fucking winner! And I've actually had one  ARGUE with me over that shit, as autistic as that sounds. Trying to explain to some ziddiot why certain pixel color combinations, or the definition and video in their "retro 8 bit" whatever JUST WASNT POSSIBLE, but they refuse to even acknowledge it, because some broccoli-haired half-nog on TikTok said so, so it must be true.

Old tech magazines, besides must making me feel old everything about them kinda makes me feel like at some point I transferred to a parallel dimension with a new alien culture.
-A physical magazine
-The high tech gadgets I yearned for that are now obvious garbage
-The shameless use of tits and ass on the font cover
-the variety and colour of cell phones and media player designs
-The optimism

Nothing about them feels like it belongs to our culture anymore.


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Hell, just magazines in general! The late-90's to mid-2000's aesthetic was timeless. You still had the glossy, full color magazines with actual interesting articles, 300+ pages long, and in-depth reviews of cars, tech, gardening, guns, whatever suited you. And of course, the perfect balance of scantily-clad women and advertising to make it interesting. Now, if you can even  find a print magazine that caters to your interest, it's all corporate sanitized and sponsored BS, and you're lucky if it's 100 pages long. Anything actually critical of (insert product here) is a no-no. It's pretty much a print version of the bot-written algorithm designed "best seller" articles that infest the top search results for anything nowadays. You're essentially buying a brochure at this point.

"Why didn't you buy the tickets online, grandma? Couldn't you watch it at home on the same-day stream?"

It's cliché at this point, but there really is something about the whole cinema experience that you just can't experience at home. Of course, the whole Covid bullshit and lowered manners of people in general have almost ruined it. It used to be you could look up movie times (or call a number!), and go to the theater, get tickets, concessions, pick your "favorite seat" and all that. Now, most places want you to make reservations on yet another fucking app, order concessions on their app, and you run the increasingly high risk of getting trapped by beung sat down by a gang of niggers who will just sit and talk or play on their cellphones throughout the whole movie. Or even make loud calls on speakerphone.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The beginning of the nightmare

That new Star Trek movie that marked the start of crappy "Nu Trek" was out in 2009. Now that's almost 15 years ago.

Blows my mind that a damn 12oz can of pop is now a dollar.

Or easily more. Food and drink prices are so jacked up now.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

I remember when Gateways and Compaqs were around for personal computers back in the day. Anybody remember that Disney MMO, ToonTown?

Now I feel old.

I inherited Mr. Cheeses' Compaq for my sewing room years ago, I think it's buried under some Christmas fabric.

 

[The Last Stand]

I remember when Tang was a drink.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Kid also referred to the PS2 as “peak vintage gaming” which made my eye twitch.

I worked at a youth rec center for a little while that provided gaming systems for free use and I had a kid ask to play one of our Gamecube games, saying he was "in the mood for something retro". I aged like 20 years in 2 seconds.
And then I aged ten more when he asked for help with the controller, he had never used a controller that plugged in before and was also looking for some kind of "on" light on the controller.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Reading through the story posted in A&H on Cyndi Lauper’s son and seeing quite a few Kiwis posting that they have no idea who she is.

*shakes fist* damn kids don’t know nothing! Wouldn’t have your Lady Goo Goo or whatever if it wasn’t for Cyndi!

 

[Cheesegirl78]

Reading through the story posted in A&H on Cyndi Lauper’s son and seeing quite a few Kiwis posting that they have no idea who she is.

*shakes fist* damn kids don’t know nothing! Wouldn’t have your Lady Goo Goo or whatever if it wasn’t for Cyndi!

Nah, Dale Bozzio did it first, she ran so Cyndi Lauper and Lady Gaga could walk.

Something Mr. Cheese brought up; few years ago we were discussing how phone booths have vanished for the most parts, and phones in general, and showed a picture of a rotary phone to cheeselet #2. He had no idea how a person would even use it, and when we showed him videos, he exclaimed how LONG it would take to make a call.
My grandparents had a party line until the early 80s, because it was cheap, and cheeselet could NOT get over that.
"They had to SHARE their phone line? Really? That's so weird!"

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

The "8 bit pixel art" is one of these that instantly sets me off. If only for the simple fact that for kids nowadays, apparently "pixelated graphics and sprites = ZOMG 8 bit!!1!!2!!" to zoomers. I personally blame all of the idiot Minecraft shill types for this. Don't get me wrong, the aesthetic is neat, and I can appreciate the creativity of some of the handmade art and things like that, but it does make me cringe when a kid sees something like this:
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and goes "OMG that's 8 bit!" It's like, c'mon, I was there, other than the mushroom power up, Goomba, block and pipe, none of the rest of the design was ever even possible on an original 8 bit NES system, even with the later games with built-in accelerator chips. Later SNES and Genesis era, sure, but not anything from the actual 8 bit era. And when you try to tell or show them actual games they just roll their eyes at you or refuse to believe it, because the broccoli-haired ziddiot on Jewtube or TikTok said so... /sperg over.


"Be kind, please rewind!"

To be fair it is just an art style. If you are trying to replicate that era you are not required to be 100% accurate. But when it comes to talking about how that isn't "true" 8-bit graphics and they think you are lieing then that can be a bit frustrating.

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

Old enough to remember the thread we already have on this.

I am playing Red Dead Redemption (one) at the moment and it struck me that I'm older than Bonnie MacFarlane (29), Norman Deek (34) and Captain De Santa (34). To be fair, the latter two are rough 34s. Still, though.

Yeah but my thread is better.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

The pain in my back and shoulder.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Hell, just magazines in general! The late-90's to mid-2000's aesthetic was timeless. You still had the glossy, full color magazines with actual interesting articles, 300+ pages long, and in-depth reviews of cars, tech, gardening, guns, whatever suited you. And of course, the perfect balance of scantily-clad women and advertising to make it interesting. Now, if you can even  find a print magazine that caters to your interest, it's all corporate sanitized and sponsored BS, and you're lucky if it's 100 pages long. Anything actually critical of (insert product here) is a no-no. It's pretty much a print version of the bot-written algorithm designed "best seller" articles that infest the top search results for anything nowadays. You're essentially buying a brochure at this point.

I feel like a weirdo being in my early 20s, and I've been getting Guns & Ammo since I was... 16 I think. Beautiful magazine btw. I just don't know any other zoomers with magazine subscriptions

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

I feel like a weirdo being in my early 20s, and I've been getting Guns & Ammo since I was... 16 I think. Beautiful magazine btw. I just don't know any other zoomers with magazine subscriptions

I don't know anyone outside of weird automotive enthusiast that know ( never-mind know how to work on ) a carburetor. The idea of trying to start the car too much is just something they cant comprehend.

 

[The Last Stand]

My grandparents had a party line until the early 80s, because it was cheap, and cheeselet could NOT get over that.
"They had to SHARE their phone line? Really? That's so weird!"

Yeah? Try telling him that if you had dial-up Internet, if somebody was on the phone, the Internet on the computer would go out.

 

[WelperHelper99]

I don't know anyone outside of weird automotive enthusiast that know ( never-mind know how to work on ) a carburetor. The idea of trying to start the car too much is just something they cant comprehend.

Car magazines are pretty sexy too, and informative. I think it's strange to the modern generation to wait for information like how to work on a carburetor, or get pictures you can't zoom in on. I've always liked magazines for the fact that the articles are written by actual people and not some rando on the internet. You can do research on them, get to know them through their articles, and decide if they're bunk or not

 

[Watchfuleye275]

Realizing 1980 was 44 years ago.