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[ToroidalBoat]

McDonald's

When I was a kid, it seemed like fast food restaurants always looked ugly and maybe even depressing.

Now I kind of miss how they used to look. They seem to always have this "brutalist hipster" look in Current Year.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I was reading one of the later collections of Garfield comics, and I didn't like the "smartphones" and "social media" references. Switched to Garfield comics from the late '80s and it felt better, with landline phone and CRT TV jokes instead. Also, the Garfield comics seem to have "jumped the shark" since their peak in somewhere around 1990.

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[Derrick]

I was reading one of the later collections of Garfield comics, and I didn't like the "smartphones" and "social media" references. Switched to Garfield comics from the late '80s and it felt better, with landline phone and CRT TV jokes instead. Also, the Garfield comics seem to have "jumped the shark" since their peak in somewhere around 1990.

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Remember when flat screens were a sign of wealth and not just something every family had?

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

Had two young guys approach me in the gym tonight when I was doing clean and jerks. They looked older than I'd anticipated. Turns out they were both 15 years old. I left high-school before either of these fuckers had even been born.

Both smoked and/or vaped, both looked and seemed thoroughly dejected with life, women, academia, whatever. They seemed way, way more ran down than I was at a comparable age.

I felt bad for them. I hope that was an isolated case.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Teaching college kids and knowing that none of the names that were household names, so important (like Romney or Bernanke) have any significance at all to them.

 

[Huh what?]

Just recently found out what "the sharty" is. I am now officially washed up.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

So many games are like this now. I remember all the 80s/90s futuristic films that used the 2000s as this far off futuristic time. Remember Back to the Future Part 2? That took place in the far out future of 2015, which is almost a decade ago now.

My favorite futuristic piece of media is 2012's Call of Duty Black Ops 2, which takes place in 2025 (so technically next year). In it they predict, among other things, that then CIA director David Pretraeus would be Secretary of Defense. In reality the real Pretraeus would be forced to resign from the CIA literally three days before the game released due to an Extra-Marital Affair, he would subsequently be convicted in 2015 for leaking classified documents

Also one of the ships is the USS Barack Obama, which hasn't happened either.

Weird that it had real people like that. I thought Modern CODs always used vague TV Presidents and stuff.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Just recently found out what "the sharty" is. I am now officially washed up.

I still have no idea what it is, and I don’t care enough to look it up. I just assume it’s more faggy zoomer “humor” like Skibidi Toilet.

Tax: I miss having phone conversations with people who want to have a lengthy talk. I don’t want to have an hours-long text session. Texting is for short amounts of info where a phone call isn’t needed. And it feels so impersonal. You want to shoot the shit with me, pick up the phone and call dagnabbit!

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

When I was a kid, it seemed like fast food restaurants always looked ugly and maybe even depressing.

Now I kind of miss how they used to look. They seem to always have this "brutalist hipster" look in Current Year.

I miss fast food places being decorated for kids. When I was a kid you sat on a brightly coloured plastic bench with Ronald McDonald, kids today sit on a grey seat at a white table surrounded by grey walls and eat with fucking bamboo cutlery. It's such a sadness.

 

[Derrick]

Weird that it had real people like that. I thought Modern CODs always used vague TV Presidents and stuff.

>Modern
>2012

You belong in this thread with the rest of us old timers.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Realizing cave story came out 20 years ago and a bunch of other games a lot more than 20 years now.

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

Using a VAFC to roughly adjust my air fuel ratio because I don't want to chip the ecu in my car. 20+ year of technology.

Edit- watching the original dragon ball anime. I get super nostalgic and feel a warmth and glow from it.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

>Modern
>2012

I guess I'm old since I still think of at least the late 20th century as "modern", if not since WW2 ended.

Or maybe since around 1900 can be "modern" to me.

 

[Broadside]

When I was a kid, it seemed like fast food restaurants always looked ugly and maybe even depressing.

Now I kind of miss how they used to look. They seem to always have this "brutalist hipster" look in Current Year.

That's because they updated all their designs around 2015 iirc.

Also I know I'm old when I hear about the tail end of some supposed mega career like "JoJo Siwa" or some other big celeb whom I had no idea even existed.

 

[Elizabeth Olsen]

Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the Columbine shooting.

I was FIFTEEN.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the Columbine shooting.

It also seemed like such an unprecedented tragedy when it happened. Now in Current Year America, mass shootings are almost routine.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the Columbine shooting.

I was FIFTEEN.

Honestly I'm amazed we're now having anniversaries for school shootings. It's one thing to have documentaries or debates, but I don't understand why people continue to make events like this as an anniversary. A wedding or a kid waiting for Christmas season; not immortalizing the suspects as American icons. But maybe I'm overthinking this.

One thing that reminds you that you're getting old is that you relishes sitting down. Like my crazy idea is to have a light weight foldable chair with me as a means to rest. I'm not someone who complains about cars but it would be nice to have somewhere to sit down when there are no benches or chairs.

 

[Elizabeth Olsen]

Honestly I'm amazed we're now having anniversaries for school shootings. It's one thing to have documentaries or debates, but I don't understand why people continue to make events like this as an anniversary. A wedding or a kid waiting for Christmas season; not immortalizing the suspects as American icons. But maybe I'm overthinking this.

You're overthinking it. The literal definition of the word anniversary is "the date on which an event took place in a previous year"

So it's the most accurate term that you can use to describe something that has happened on a previous date years ago.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Left a voice mail on a friend's phone.
He called back and said "WTF, you left a VOICE MAIL?!!?"

I guess no one does that anymore...

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Honestly I'm amazed we're now having anniversaries for school shootings. It's one thing to have documentaries or debates, but I don't understand why people continue to make events like this as an anniversary. A wedding or a kid waiting for Christmas season; not immortalizing the suspects as American icons. But maybe I'm overthinking this.

I think the biggest issue with the anniversaries of any sort of shooting or disaster is the tendency to get too fixated on what happened long after the fact. There's nothing wrong with remember the victims of a tragedy such as Columbine, especially for the families and friends of the victims; the problem is when people 10, 20, etc. years later still repeat the happenings as if they happened yesterday to the point it's more of annoyance than a remembrance of those who lost their lives.

In my part of Kiwi Land there was a big crash decades ago with only one survivor - a very young child. To this day, the media covers the anniversary of the crash obsessively and tries to figure out what the now adult child is doing even though the person had little to no recollection of what happened due to their young age at the time and has clearly expressed the desire to be left alone and live as normal an adult life as possible without any sort of media spotlight.

Left a voice mail on a friend's phone.
He called back and said "WTF, you left a VOICE MAIL?!

It seems the younger generations preferred online messengers (until they mostly shut down) and text-based real-time communication over any sort of conversation.

My most recent reminder that I'm getting old was running into the son of a grade school classmate - the latter of whom I haven't seen since we were 16.