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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Yesterday I heard two college aged gas station workers fooling around and one pretended to mishear the other saying he sleeps with men. I felt annoyed and was internally eye rolling and then realized I had for a split second reached the plane of old-enough-to-be-annoyed-by-immaturity.
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Accusing your friends of being gay is ageless. You may just be closeted.
 
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I'm too old for all this noise.
 
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AnOminous said:
As for 9/11 in general, it's sad there are adults who don't remember a time before it. It's not the event itself so much as the knock-off effects it triggered. America is a more dour and stupid nation than it was before.
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Despite my nostalgia, I don't sugarcoat the bad shit that happened in the '90s. However, 9/11 really changed things in this country. Most of it didn't hit immediately, but by 2003 the overall vibe had definitely shifted. I'm sure invading Iraq was a big contributor. I used to think the reason I had more fun in the '90s was because I was a teenager for most of it, and in 2003 I was into my 20s, into adulthood. But it seems like a lot of plenty of older people noticed the shift. You describe it perfectly. Everything just started getting more dour, more stupid, and it only accelerated over time, especially after smartphones really started gaining popularity in 2007.
 
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There’s something depressing about the toy market for kids either being expensive and glorified blind boxes, or different variations of slime. It gives me brain rot vibes.
At least with the slime, there used to be an educational element with mixing the slime up yourself.
Now I get junk food scented slime and $40 stuffed animal blind bags, that you can only use once and that comes with messy, rainbow colored poop packets that smell like cotton candy.

I remember board games, virtual pet devices, fashion plates, Barbies, action figures, horse figurines, Polly Pockets, baby dolls, etc. The toys just seemed more diverse.
 
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Gef Mongoose said:
There’s something depressing about the toy market for kids either being expensive and glorified blind boxes, or different variations of slime. It gives me brain rot vibes.
At least with the slime, there used to be an educational element with mixing the slime up yourself.
Now I get junk food scented slime and $40 stuffed animal blind bags, that you can only use once and that comes with messy, rainbow colored poop packets that smell like cotton candy.

I remember board games, virtual pet devices, fashion plates, Barbies, action figures, horse figurines, Polly Pockets, baby dolls, etc. The toys just seemed more diverse.
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The worst is Mini Brands, cause nothing says worshipping the cult of corportism quite like having your child buy blind boxes with different brands within the blind boxes.
 
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The worst is Mini Brands, cause nothing says worshipping the cult of corportism quite like having your child buy blind boxes with different brands within the blind boxes.
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I feel like a lot of those toys are more for adult collectors than actual kids. They're fun to collect tiny versions of big things you already have, but what kid is sitting there and actually getting excited about a tiny box of borax? I saw a guy on YouTube who cuts up minibrands and resins them back together to make cool new things, but that's obviously not what kids are meant to do with them.
Though being made for collectors probably isn't as bad as toys that are outright "adult" being marketed to kids, like those fucked up LOL dolls with their nipples and penises and lingerie that appears when the doll gets wet. MGA toys needs to be burned to the ground for that.
 
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Chromeo said:
I feel like a lot of those toys are more for adult collectors than actual kids. They're fun to collect tiny versions of big things you already have, but what kid is sitting there and actually getting excited about a tiny box of borax? I saw a guy on YouTube who cuts up minibrands and resins them back together to make cool new things, but that's obviously not what kids are meant to do with them.
Though being made for collectors probably isn't as bad as toys that are outright "adult" being marketed to kids, like those fucked up LOL dolls with their nipples and penises and lingerie that appears when the doll gets wet. MGA toys needs to be burned to the ground for that.
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If you think LOL dolls are fucked up, you should take a squiz at the Poopsie Slime Surprise dolls.
 
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Charlie Delicious said:
At work me and my buddy were having a convo and somehow the phrase "first rule of fight club..." Came up. A younger coworker heard this and asked about it. We told her Fight Club is a great movie. "The same director as Seven!"

"Seven?!" She replies

I died inside
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Due to the absence of late-night movie watching on TV, rentals, and a decline in theatre-going, young people today truly know absolutely fucking nothing.

Completely culturally bankrupt. They know memes, retard nigger celebrity gossip, and nothing else.

Even the biggest dumbshit boomer/gen X-er had a baseline of the artistic endeavour around him. Not anymore.
 
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