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I'm not old, not even close. But I have physically aged a fuckton in the past 5 or 4 years or so. Mostly due to stress. People stopped addressing me as "Kid, sport, buddy" and just started calling me "Sir". Very clearly I'm in a different phase of my life. I have a sense of responsibility now. The time of me being an edgy, angsty, rebellious fuckhead is over. I do genuinely wish I could be that guy again but, there's no use regressing and trying to go back, it's just not the same, and it'll make me look really immature and cringe.
 
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Anime Kid With Goggles said:
I'm not old, not even close. But I have physically aged a fuckton in the past 5 or 4 years or so. Mostly due to stress. People stopped addressing me as "Kid, sport, buddy" and just started calling me "Sir". Very clearly I'm in a different phase of my life. I have a sense of responsibility now. The time of me being an edgy, angsty, rebellious fuckhead is over. I do genuinely wish I could be that guy again but, there's no use regressing and trying to go back, it's just not the same, and it'll make me look really immature and cringe.
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>I look like shit now, which means I can't have fun anymore, and I now have to be an adult and pay taxes and shit :(((((((((
stfu nigga
 
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I literally have no idea who the hell any celebrities are now if they weren't around before about 2000 or so.
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  • Jennifer Lawrence: possibly the last "It" girl. I miss that doughy bitch.
  • Jared Leto: approaching Teflon Don status for the volume of accusations thrown at him making people care less and less.
  • Ezra Miller: would find some way to commit sex crimes on a deserted island, it's like his superpower.
  • Rebel Wilson: Lana is fat and Rebel Wilson is no longer that fat. "Oi mate look how big moi voigina is"
  • Taylor Swift: if you watch clips of any Jake Gylanhaal film, you can see fans posting her shit lyrics in the comments. She's a sociopath, so naturally she sees sex and relationships as vehicles to promote her brand.
  • Ryan Reynolds: his range as an actor is 'affected douche.'
  • Ruby Rose: I don't get it, they built up her up to be this menacing character for John Wick to face off with, and he steamrolls her ass, she doesn't even get a hit in. Rumor has it that Ares is mute because Rose's delivery was so terrible that Keanu did her a favor, ensuring that she would never have to speak at all.
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PipTheAlchemist said:
The floppy-disc as the save icon is so iconic at this point, that even zoomers associate floppydiscs with saving. Weird to try and start changing it now
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It's still dumb as fuck to do it for generational reasons, when SD cards essentially look like tiny floppies anyway.
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Tell me they couldn't get away with just horizontally shrinking the floppy icon and it would basically be the same thing.
Unless UI designers will also say that people don't know about this sd card anymore because of micro sd, even though they are both still used. But irregardless 80s nostalgia media has been overproduced for so long that there is no way that kids don't at least recognize the design of the floppy and what it does in a basic sense.
 
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Is the "haha they 3D printed the save icon" meme just ironic, or are zoomers really that stupid?

I grew up in the days of floppy disks and casette tapes.
I was too young to witness the times of rotary phones and vinyl records, but I still know what they are and how they were operated.
Older tech isn't some arcane mystery forever closed to future generations, you can easily google what it is and how it worked. Or ask an older person in your life (like your parents).

This level of willful ignorance irks me.
 
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Vril-Dame vom Aldebaran said:
And not just companies. My bank recommended using their phone app. Why? When I make transactions, like paying for an online shop order, I do so at home. And at home I have my PC.
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I suspect it's companies trying to market their custom apps - whether free or pay - to people or feel people will like the convenience of not logging into a site through a mobile browser when the branded app eliminates that step.

As I posted in the Things that personally piss you off thread, I'm familiar with a site that actively promotes its app by touting its benefits in return for the monthly fee. What they don't want people to know is the same functionality is available for free by logging into the site through a mobile web browser.

Is that more of a security risk? Maybe, maybe not. But, I trust that more than phone apps that push security updates and patches every few days.
 
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Vril-Dame vom Aldebaran said:
Is the "haha they 3D printed the save icon" meme just ironic, or are zoomers really that stupid?

I grew up in the days of floppy disks and casette tapes.
I was too young to witness the times of rotary phones and vinyl records, but I still know what they are and how they were operated.
Older tech isn't some arcane mystery forever closed to future generations, you can easily google what it is and how it worked. Or ask an older person in your life (like your parents).

This level of willful ignorance irks me.
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Yeah, for such people that's basically just retardation.

I was a young lad when cassette tapes were being phased out, but I sure as fuck know how to play them, record on them, rewind, etc. Not to mention having similarly in depth knowledge of vinyl and even shellac records before that.

As for the girl mentioned up top who didn't know what a forum is. That's her just being a retard. The word gives it away more or less, for fucks sake.
 
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Death of video game arcades which went way of blockbuster due to consoles, powerful PC gaming that could emulate arcade machines with each forced closure of entire arcade game chains out of buisiness.

It also makes me sad that slow death of physical medium of games and many many obsolete formats starting from casette tapes, floppies of various sizes, laser disc, CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray and others.

I had to buy USB floppy drive and disc drive so I could back up all the warez disc, DVDs that I burned myself and floppies with now obsolete Gameboy and SNES emulators to make transfer faster in early 90s.

And gathering nice collection of now harmless viruses like Chernobyl which permanently bricked computers world wide, funny enough most were found on post USSR warez CDs that were burned on back of some shady back alley vendors. I remember buying 200 games in one CD in post Soviet Estonia which cost 100 marks at the time.
I only remember the trip about the part when I as a kid gave 20 marks to some starving and cold lady who just stood on the corner of the market square.

This lady was so touched by my generosity to the point that she tracked me down to the tourist taxi before I entered and she gave me a hug and a blessing, I think.

I didn't give a shit about money back then, so without knowing I gave this lady enough money to buy food for weeks.

Man post Socialism was wild. I feel we're going to see even longer breadlines and desperate beggars like that old lady decades ago. I feel both old and sad to see history repeating itself like this all over again.
 
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Vril-Dame vom Aldebaran said:
People who catch viruses on a PC will also catch them on their phone because they don't know anything about cybersecurity.
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How could they catch viruses when Googles disclaimer lays out all the access the app needs in the popup everyone clicks OK on? I know a guy that always got the latest Samsung and ALL the apps installed and he rarely turns on mobile data because the quota gets zapped by all of that crap. Somehow. I don't care and I will not help.
Anime Kid With Goggles said:
People stopped addressing me as "Kid, sport, buddy" and just started calling me "Sir".
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That was a bewildering experience to me as well. A receptionist called their boss and said "the guy/dude from [x] and the man from [y] is here" and as it turns out I wasn't the guy/dude anymore. At that point it was honestly shocking to me.
 
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Having fun playing video games and realizing that you ARE the old man in the group. To the point you could be their parent or worse their grand parent in age.

That's when I at times say to myself. "God damn what the hell happened with my time?". I guess because of playing 30+ years of video games I can still, just barely at the edge of my fingernails, keep up with the rest of the younger players.

But so far I'm still having fun.
 
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