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I used to feel bad for my grandma. She would spend her days pottering about in the kitchen, baking and listening to her books on tape.
I'm now at the point in my life where I just want to spend all day in my kitchen, baking, listening to podcasts. Life goes by quick
 
AnOminous said:
I remember when a cell phone weighed like 20 pounds and had a giant lead-acid battery and you needed an antenna on top of your car to use it.
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I still remember when there were phone booths at nearly every business and public area and they all came with the big thick phone books.
 
I miss it when you actually owned the things you bought. As in, you could actually hold them in your hand. Now you're lucky if you can find a CD in a general store, and even thrift stores don't have that many cassettes.
 
Super Mario Brothers said:
I miss it when you actually owned the things you bought. As in, you could actually hold them in your hand. Now you're lucky if you can find a CD in a general store, and even thrift stores don't have that many cassettes.
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I have to admit I love not having to cart around CD's and such, streaming is awesome, I can have pretty much any music I want anywhere anytime. Only place I even use MP3's now is for music while I swim, as Bluetooth does not work in water
 
sherwoods110 said:
Actual Appreciation

Keyshia Cole - Heaven Sent

This song was in heavy rotation on Urban Adult Contemporary radio for what seemed like years. I heard it the other night and had one of those, "Oh man, I forgot about this one. I haven't heard this in years!" type of moments. When I got home, I looked it up to listen to it again and realized that it was released in 2007! How was this almost 20 years ago already? Terrifying.
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In the last year I've become a little morbid, thinking about my own mortality. Now reports of people dying affects me on an emotional level, especially when they are near my age.
 
The fact that for me, new game IPs come out the blue and completely take the world by storm. It's like they just show up one day and everyone is talking about it as though they've been excited for months, if not years. I can't tell if that's just me living under a rock (fuck social media), or if I've just stopped caring about new releases.
 
Book Thief said:
The fact that for me, new game IPs come out the blue and completely take the world by storm. It's like they just show up one day and everyone is talking about it as though they've been excited for months, if not years. I can't tell if that's just me living under a rock (fuck social media), or if I've just stopped caring about new releases.
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Definitely ease of mass communication with its own caveat of hype waves. Else lets hear some examples, because either you're under a rock, or you and I, are under the same rock?

I kinda feel that way w/ tv shows and flicks - older is looking better and better, and I mean stuff before my time to highlight how shit everything has become at large.

OutInTheRain said:
In the last year I've become a little morbid, thinking about my own mortality. Now reports of people dying affects me on an emotional level, especially when they are near my age.
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Sounds like, you have some regrets about your life thus far?

Super Mario Brothers said:
I miss it when you actually owned the things you bought. As in, you could actually hold them in your hand. Now you're lucky if you can find a CD in a general store, and even thrift stores don't have that many cassettes.
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It's kinda wild to have lived through both the era of when we all wished shit was all digital/compacted into something convenient, and seeing ALL the downsides of when everything actually becomes so.
 
OutInTheRain said:
Oh I think everyone does. However, this is not a therapy session and no one needs me PLing everywhere.
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Indeed, but either focus on positives or focus on this misery almost being over. Glass half full, while you can afford to keep it so.
 
Super Mario Brothers said:
I miss it when you actually owned the things you bought. As in, you could actually hold them in your hand. Now you're lucky if you can find a CD in a general store, and even thrift stores don't have that many cassettes.
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I love not having to have a small suitcase in my car to hold all my cassette tapes/CDs. I love having my entire music collection saved on something the size of a pack of cigarettes that I can take literally everywhere and I have all my music literally at my fingertips.
 
Jean ValJean said:
I love not having to have a small suitcase in my car to hold all my cassette tapes/CDs. I love having my entire music collection saved on something the size of a pack of cigarettes that I can take literally everywhere and I have all my music literally at my fingertips.
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Nevermind music, but ALL the major retro games and emulators and a way to record footage playing them and then some.
 
Book Thief said:
It's like they just show up one day and everyone is talking about it as though they've been excited for months, if not years.
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I would assume it's propaganda.

"Influencer" cliques where they all talk about each other and whatever each other are talking about.
You get two steps outside the bubble and no one has ever heard of them, but inside the bubble they seem like very important people.
Anyway.
Only the one person with the actual contract from the product or brand has to mark their advertising as an advertisement.
Everyone else in the clique is just talking about what everyone else in the clique is talking about.

This is where you get shit like "the rizzler gave big booms to livvy about baby gronk", which I'm sure was a major event in whatever insular internet hole they all inhabit, but is inscrutable nonsense outside of it.
Learn to see the fnords.
 
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