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

[Megaton Punch]

Everyone younger than me doesn't know about kongregate or xgen studios

No one knows about newgrounds

I'm only 23, and half the stuff I grew up with is either gone or no one knows about it

I'm significantly older than you, but Kong and NG were the shit back in the day. Well, NG was just regular shit for the first five years or so, but in 1998 being able to press the space bar and punch a still image of a Backstreet Boy was basically confirmation that we now lived in the future.

I don't even know the last time I went to Kongregate. It has to have been five years minimum. Killing Flash was one of mankind's greatest atrocities.

 

[msd]

I'm significantly older than you, but Kong and NG were the shit back in the day. Well, NG was just regular shit for the first five years or so, but in 1998 being able to press the space bar and punch a still image of a Backstreet Boy was basically confirmation that we now lived in the future.

I don't even know the last time I went to Kongregate. It has to have been five years minimum. Killing Flash was one of mankind's greatest atrocities.

Its pain

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

I'm so old and crusty that I remember when Fortnite was in Season 1, back in the ancient and long-forgotten year of 2017

 

[rdrr]

Payphones. Since I do miss them, as I do not own a cellphone. I recall where they were, sometimes they are leftt with their dividers, and just the empty wall. Like, how hard would it have been to just keep that there?

Also, I saw Song of the South during it's re-release in 1986. Nowadays, that movie is all but disappeared.

 

[TheRetardKing]

2 more years, The Lego Movie's gonna be a decade old.

 

[yasscat]

2 more years, The Lego Movie's gonna be a decade old.

I don't like that.

 

[weegrumpy]

what makes me feel old is when my boys get nostalgic for PS1 and xbox, when i remember having an Atari console with the wooden panel (was it the 2600)? and an acorn computer lol

 

[A Grey Cat]

3 years and mad Max fury road, Jurassic world and force awakens will all be a decade old. Remember how hyped people were to finally have new entries in those series? But now they want two of them to just go away already?

 

[Cranky Old Broad]

Realizing the most of the music I listen to is 30 to 50 years old. It’s still better than most of the synthesized garbage that’s produced today.

 

[Super Sad Smile]

• Anything about video games. When I talk with people, I just get called a boomer or face blank stares. I see the rules and need to "accept everyone" in community guidelines and know you would have been called several slurs for wanting them implemented over a decade ago. I remember dlc and remember how much better expansion packs used to be. I know a lot of people who only play the most recent entry of x and think that's the only one that matters.
• Anytime I hear about a remake or remaster, I remember how that word used to make me expect it to be better than the original, or at least try to.
• My parents. I notice how much they aged and it makes me a lot more worried about them.
• Everytime I get asked about what's your (blank) for whatever social media app I don't use.
• Waking up takes a lot more effort now and my body feels more sluggish nowadays.
• Walking around and I see more blm and rainbow flags than American and sports team flags. It starts to make me wonder if that's what young people would rather pledge their allegiance to.
• Tiktok

 

[Jason Wynn]

• Anything about video games. When I talk with people, I just get called a boomer or face blank stares.

It’s the opposite for me. Younger people find out I play video games, launch into a spergout over the latest big release they’re playing, keep looking at me to comment and I’m the one giving blank stares.

I’m the old fart who keeps thinking/saying the PS2 isn’t that old when it came out 22 years ago when I was a sophomore in high school

 

[Whatevermancer]

Youtube recently recommended me a video about a "war" between zoomers and millennials that's apparently going on TikTok, which made me realize that's I'm out of touch with today's youth's culture, but most importantly: I don't even care about being cool and "in" anymore. And I don't care what the youth thinks about me.

Which, I think, is a sign of getting old.

 

[SITHRAK!]

Which, I think, is a sign of getting old.

That, and getting irrationally angry at shit one reads on the internet that has no actual impact on one’s life. That’s a big one too.

 

[Whatevermancer]

That, and getting irrationally angry at shit one reads on the internet that has no actual impact on one’s life. That’s a big one too.

It's the opposite for me, now I tend to get less angry/excited in general.

 

[CaseyTatumm]

Music mostly. Oasis, soundgarden, STP.. Makes me feel like a teenager again. Then i realise i'm pushing 50 and this shit is 20-30 years old.

Want to feel really old, this is stuff that our local classic rock channel plays.

 

[Super Sad Smile]

It’s the opposite for me. Younger people find out I play video games, launch into a spergout over the latest big release they’re playing, keep looking at me to comment and I’m the one giving blank stares.

I’m the old fart who keeps thinking/saying the PS2 isn’t that old when it came out 22 years ago when I was a sophomore in high school

I know enough about newer releases to know I'm not touching them. I spent more of my time looking back to the 90s and 2000s for games to play, while my friends just keep playing whatever is new. So I mention something like Monkey Island or Alpha centauri and they don't get why I'd play a game that old.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

All the political sperging over pop culture from the 80s, 90s, and 00s reminds me how even the recent past now feels ancient. I know the distant past isn't safe either, but it will never stop feeling surreal to witness activists doing the damnest to erase the past because it offends them.

Put another way, it all feels too soon. Like I didn't expect this shit to happen in my lifetime. Perhaps I should have.

 

[Therapy Dog]

My family lives all over the country so I don't get to see them much (I also don't particularly like any of them, but let's not get into that) and while my mother was in town recently she was telling me something about my niece (something about a horse I think, maybe she rides horses, whatever) and in order to keep up appearances and "make conversation" I asked how old she was...

Jesus fucking christ I did not want to know that.

 

[A Grey Cat]

I'm old enough to remember when the Xbox live store was just called the Xbox live marketplace. And all they sold on it was dlc or game demos, and any full games would be indie or retro arcade games. Not full games, dlc, movies and TV shows, and even apps like YouTube or streaming. Hell go back even further and I remember when the Xbox live os was just a basic set of tabs or blades as they called them.

Frankly this is meant to be a more positive side of getting older. Just cause I remember those times doesn't mean I wanna go back to them.

 

[murph]

My favorite drug is Aleve