Fuck. I'm sorry guys, Guns n' Roses are officially Dad Rock now.
Nah, we're still cool. Everybody else are the ones who are lame
Retro computing is popular now, maybe in a few years we will be "ironically" going back to dial-up BBS
Shh... I was gonna start Kiwi-BBS if this place ever goes tits up.
A bunch of us would line up against the wall outside, with one person as "it" They would chuck the ball as hard as they could at one of us, usually aiming for the head. If we dodged, we still stayed, if we caught it, we were now "it" and the original person who was it got hit with the ball without being able to dodge or grab at it.
Holy fuck, I thought wall-ball was only something played in my little dreary patch of Maritime shithole.
I know my old cell phones are landfill tech, but I bought that iPod new.
Apple stuff is so poorly built, I have no idea how they have any fans at all. I think it was the Iphone 4C, the colorful one with the aluminum frame. Fuckin' thing bent in my pocket to the point it wouldn't turn on anymore.
I saw the first couple of movies, but that was it, never read any of the books, never watched the rest of the movies, I regret that now, I missed out on the defining cultural touchstone of my generation, but eh, the climate surrounding it did make me wary, I was able to sample it enough to satisfy my curiosity and it just didn't grab me like it did other kids.
Harry potter was a bit too kiddish for me when it came out. I read the LOTR books first, so I might have been setting myself up to get disapointed.
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?"
I 'member when they were emoticons and before that smilies. I forget this smiley site I used to lurk and download rad smilies to import into my MSN. Simpler times.
Remember LaserDiscs? If you do, you are old.
I wasn't allowed to fuck with my dad's LaserDisc machine.
I still have my DVD collection and many of them are from movies I saw in the theater twenty years ago. I remember going with my friends to see the Matrix sequels in high school, same with Lord of the Rings and Kill Bill.
I lost a pretty big collection of VHS's, DVD's and retro games in a house fire like almost fifteen years ago without powerlevelling too hard. I've recently only picked up a moderate amount of Genesis, SNES and NES stuff.
I remember going to McDonalds with $5 and eating like a king due to the dollar menu. McDouble prices have doubled within the last decadish. The fast food dollar menus are dead and we are stuck with 'value menus'.
Remember the 4 can dine for $9.99 coupons? Maybe they were only a thing in C*nada.
Gamestop used to have kiosks in their stores. What happened?
The gamestop in my town is like 1/3 funko pops and other toys and shit like that. I think they even had a bunch of phones, but I didn't do much more than poke my head in. Just a bunch of PS4, PS5, and various Xbone iterations. I didn't recall seeing any PC shit. I remembered when they used to stock retro shit. I also remember when they were Electronics Botique
I saw flat-screens (we called them that back then) stacked like plywood.
So I got myself the biggest Zenith Plasma that CC stocked.
Beautiful _DUMB_ TV - that can get analog and digital broadcasts.
Thing almost broke my back and my car.
I've been trying to find a CRT and it's about as hard as finding a used flat screen in 2001. They're just non-existent in my area.
I rewatched season 1-10 of The Simpsons and was surprised how shit the drawings and animation were. I mean they have their charm but it just caught me off guard since I haven’t watched many since primary school and high school. Don’t get me wrong the jokes definitely stood up to the test of time, I was laughing my ass off as there’s lots of jokes I missed as a non-American kid. I remember watching it at 6pm every night and quoting it with my friends the next day at school. Also remember the summer break when we were all speculating about who shot Mr. Burns and taping that episode to VHS because I thought it was a big moment in history. Have never seen an episode passed season 14 or so, last I heard they were still making them.
Pretty sure that was all hand-drawn animation, so I'm sure there's bound to be fuckups.
Farmville. Zynga came this close to starting the gacha gaming craze.
I'm pretty sure all those facebook games started the whole pay to win shit we see in games now.
What makes me feel old is watching apartments I used to live in, stores I used to go to, and places I used to hang out either close and sit abandoned or just get torn down. My city's changed so much in the last... hell even 4-5 years, so much more in the last 10.
Maybe I'm getting old, but I really don't see THAT much of a difference between 1080p and 4k, besides the amount of disk space games take up now.
Unrelated, but San Andreas' remaster getting butchered hurt my soul.
