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

[seri0us]

How bad are they?

They're not very durable and sound half as good as the older ones but honestly might not be that bad if you're only revisiting radio tapes recorded by a meh-tier deck

 

[Van Darkholme]

Telling my ten year old niece what a Game Boy is and getting that "grandpa is telling boring old stories again" look.

I beat her in Mario Kart 8 later, the little shit.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Mario Kart 8

I still think Mario Kart 64* is be best.

* (really Mario Kart 2)

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

My joints… they really hurt.
I sort of feel like all the light and joy has gone out of the world, and I don’t know if that’s me feeling old or just that all the light and joy has gone out of the world.
Also trying to explain ambient techno to my kids and them being unable to even conceive of the 80/90s. It’s like the Jurassic to them, it’s not real. It’s a meme. I must have done this to my parents about the fifties and sixties.

I love telling my kids about things when I was their age. Yes, dears, we had to wear these things called pantyhose to work and church, and even sometimes to class in college (!)...and the only acceptable colors were nude/ taupe/ cream - sheer, not opaque - until the mid-90s.

But ambient techno/adjacent is still around, no 90s awareness necessary, though it's using AI a lot now (boo). Not my favorite electronic subgenre, but it's not completely dead.

I actually think music 60s/70s-to-now is a lot more similar than music 50s-to-70s (and nevermind a similar 50/60-year period of 10s/20s-to-70s). I could put on 90s Lloyd Cole, to pick a random one that isn't a stereotypical sound of its era/genre (vs a Backstreet Boys or Roxette or Nirvana for theirs), and it might just as well be a new release from someone (with some minor tweaks) if you'd never heard it. You could not say the same about listening in the 90s to a Glenn Miller recording.

Oh, yes. You couldn't get away from that story. It's become like 9/11 if you lived then.

"Where were you when the OJ verdict happened?"

I still remember watching that damn Bronco for hours on (my 13") TV (that was 18" deep, of course) while studying for a big exam. And I remember that my work wheeled in a TV to the main conference room for the verdict, and seeing the divide in reactions.

Maybe that means getting a working tape player can be easier now?

(I got a collection of tapes of mostly stuff I taped in the 90s.)

I still have hundred of cassettes, and even a Denon stereo with a dual tape deck, though it's been in storage for ages. Got a couple hundred vinyl as well but don't have a quality record player anymore.

 

[AnOminous]

Was at a hamburger stand and waiting for my own order while another guy my age was ordering. They did the thing where they ask you your name and he told the girl behind the counter "Shane. You know, like the movie. Oh wait you don't remember that." But I did. I told him to pick up the gun.

 

[Historical Strelkov]

The big thing right now for me is that younger people seem to think that the "bare minimum" is a lot lower of a bar to cross, because for example 18 year olds are from 2007 now. Just complete Post-Obama memory.