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

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I've tried using the internet on a tablet and "smartphone", and it sucks.

there's a few bits that work really well, like archive.org's winamp mode on a touchscreen is like, holy shit

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Another thing I can still recall is when it was normal to not be carrying an electronic device almost 24-7.

(When carrying an electronic device that was not a calculator to school could mean it getting confiscated.)

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

I miss when European countries had different money. Now it's mostly bland "euro" instead. Looks like an analogy of "globohomo" there.

I will never not crack up every time I think of Jeremy Clarkson holding up a Euro coin and exclaiming, "A Euro! That's like a wheel weight!".

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Have you investigated whether it's lactose intolerance?

I think I can get indigestion from that "plant-based" meat substitute stuff.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Found this F:NV mod on the Nexus


Get off my lawn etc.

 

[pork and beans]

What, no A/C, no radio, no electronic windows?

Speaking of which, remember those cassette player attachments you'd buy from Radio Shack to hook up your phone to the car stereo?

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These things.

My car is so old I still have to use this, even though I’ve never used an ACTUAL cassette tape. Oh, well.

 

[glass_houses]

My car is so old I still have to use this, even though I’ve never used an ACTUAL cassette tape. Oh, well.

Does this mean that you've never had to deal with computer problems in your car? Fucking lucky.

 

[teriyakiburns]

My car is so old I still have to use this, even though I’ve never used an ACTUAL cassette tape. Oh, well.

Any car I buy tends to be similarly old. First thing I do when I get a car is pop out the head unit and replace it, either either a cheap chinesium android unit, or this last time with a slimline touch screen unit that can do android auto or whatever the apple shit is these days. It's just modern enough to provide some use without being so deeply retarded that I'm constantly fighting it, and it remains bilsfully disconnected form the rest of the vehicle so I only have to interact with it when I want to pick a satnav route or change tracks.

Which brings me to my current bugbear (setting aside the fact that I apparently change cars often enough for this to matter): there's a pretty hard age limit on cars I will ever purchase, because all modern cars have done away with the DIN head unit, instead adopting fully integrated entertainment systems, and have put all their controls and gauges out of the driver's direct line of sight, behind arcane, unintuitive touch interfaces. I can't pop out the head unit to replace the entertainment system with something I can customise, because there is no head unit; the entire fucking dash is the "head unit" now. I hate this shit. I spend my entire day fucking with computers and troubleshooting complex UX issues. I don't want to have to do the same thing in my fucking car. I'm now at the point where if I can't fix it with wire, wrenches, hand tools, or a hammer, I'm just not interested and might even set it on fire.

 

[GenociderSyo]

When people say damn I feel old and you realize you're twice their age.

 

[pork and beans]

Does this mean that you've never had to deal with computer problems in your car? Fucking lucky.

indeed it does... i guess everything has its perks
sadly, because of policies about climate change and pollution, old cars like mine arent permitted to drive through most parts of the city anymore, which i think is lame as hell. They say its about carbon emissions, but im pretty sure its ALSO a way to punish those that haven't bought newer cars.

 

[Huh what?]

Every year on websites I have to scroll further down to enter my age.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I saw an exchange online where somebody took umbrage at a PS2 game being called "old" then it was pointed out that there was more time between PS2 game and then than there was between SMB1 and the PS2 game

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

Every year on websites I have to scroll further down to enter my age.

This is the blackpill. I remember the good old days when my birth year was so recent it wasn't even listed because I was too young to be using the website.

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

Seeing the “if you were born on [[insert date]] you are not legally old enough to purchase nicotine products” sign on the counter at drugstores and having my actual birthdate just falls farther and farther behind from being listed on it.

 

[gorgoroth7134]

Talking about school shootings and realizing you're the only one that remembers Columbine.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

the other day I realized nobody else in my FFXIV raid group had played FFX or even knew anything about it. I tried to explain it to them and the enormity of its place in the Final Fantasy series but I couldn't get them to understand. I suggested that they try it (the HD version on Steam) and one of them said they tried to play it but it was too old and they instantly hated it. I said it wasn't that old, it was only released in 2001 - to which they replied "I was born in 2001", and I immediately crumbled into dust

 

[AnOminous]

When I forget someone's name and then try to remember it by typing their name into a search engine.

A related phenomenon, when I forget some trivial thing and then try to remember it by doing a search engine search, and somehow, despite being unable to remember it all day, I instantly remember it BEFORE even trying a search. Wtf?

 

[Swine Schwein]

When I look in the bathroom mirror and wonder who this old motherfucker looking back at me even is. Who is this guy?

Why can't those decaying mirror ghost zombies ever reflect the youthfulness of our souls? DON'T THEY KNOW THAT SPIRIT IS FOREVER? I'M YOUNG ON THE INSIDE except when it comes to functionality of my organs

 

[Señora Airi]

I can't understand most of the memes people post anymore

Memes get made and become stale way too fast now for anyone to keep up with, unless they're terminally online.

Tax: Listening to music past 2016 makes me feel like Stan from that episode from South Park, where everything turns to poo, even the underground music that everyone says is good.