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

[ToroidalBoat]

I can still think 1 MB is big, at least with images and text.

(that is almost the entire standard 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy disk)

 

[Lemmingwise]

I don’t get this shit either

Back in my day when you bought a game, that was it. Done deal. You got the full game and didn’t deal with any bullshit. Any extras the game might have were unlockables earned by playing the damn thing

Then expansion packs came around and that was cool. Pay a little extra for new levels, acts, characters. Spice up an old game a little. I’m down with that.

Then DLCs came around. Okay, it’s basically little mini expansion packs. Seems like a good way to gouge players but I can still kinda sorta get behind it.

Season passes? What the fuck is that? Get off my lawn!

The first expansion pack was for populous in 1989.

That's 33 years ago.

The first dlc was for creatures in 1996. That's 26 years ago (and only a year later was the first paid dlc).

The first season pass is from 2011, 13 years ago.

This means that the time from first dlc to first season pass and from first season pass to now are now equally long. We're firmly in the age of the season pass.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

I can still think 1 MB is big, at least with images and text.

(that is almost the entire standard 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy disk)

I still find myself thinking would that be better sticking on a USB memory stick and walking over than emailing it over, etc.

Then I recall the kid doing IT support where I am studying likely never had a set of slips to make floppies double sided in his tool bag, doesn't carry a tool bag, or swap out parts he swaps out whole desktops / thin clients and doesn't really need to as they have support contracts where you can mail in damaged system for hardware swap out.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Since I don't keep up with Current Year America, a lot of Current Year American stuff is to me like it would be to an old person.

I could be like "Kardashians? Didn't they oppress the Bajorans?" or "what's Fortnite about?" - stuff like that.

I'm in the same boat (no pun intended, honest) as you. I never kept up with current year trends and terminolgy. As an example, I simply shrugged the first time I saw someone asking about POCs because the former IT pro in me parsed the term as "proof of concept." Similarly, "BIPOC" got parsed as "Bipolar Community."

That moment you realize wacky packages had a point. The funny thing is its from 1991

I believe Garbage Pail Kids were a related concept. Growing up, my next door neighbor and I came up with our own Garbage Pail Kid characters based mockable traits we and our peers had.

I used to have a sticker for "Beastball" (instead of baseball) that I received as a gag gift in grade school. It makes me wonder if it was part of the Wacky Package family since it may have been released at the height of Wacky Packages' peak popularity.

Most stations would play the Star Spangled Banner, then it would be static until about 6am when the morning news came on.

At one point in my youth. there was station with marginal reception that displayed a test pattern onscreen with the time (down to the second) and play instrumental easy listening music you couldn't find elsewhere. Now, stations are willing to fill the overnight and early morning time slots with anything ranging from old reruns, repetitive infomercials, or crap nobody in their right mind would want to watch.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

I'm in the same boat (no pun intended, honest) as you. I never kept up with current year trends and terminolgy. As an example, I simply shrugged the first time I saw someone asking about POCs because the former IT pro in me parsed the term as "proof of concept." Similarly, "BIPOC" got parsed as "Bipolar Community."

I don't know if it's my social isolation or reading a lot of older texts but I sincerely value not knowing what a lot of kid's are talking about - I feel I'd just lose more hair and have a rage induced anurisim if I did.

 

[.iota.]

the are two words in particular that elicit my inner marge simpson grumble.

'tranny', which in my mind is simply a flamboyant gay man in drag, not a predator or 'person of gender'.
'pegging', because i remember voting for the term when it was decided upon by dan savage's readers.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

The first season pass is from 2011, 13 years ago.

Didn't that terrible-ass Two Worlds game released around the same time as Oblivion have a season pass?

 

[Lemmingwise]

You know what makes me feel old?

I remember that there was a time that kiwifarms was accessible on clearnet.

 

[Looney Troons]

I remember getting those chain letter ASCII mazes via AOL email where you held the down arrow and just let the thing scroll. I enjoyed these a ton as a kid.

 

[Testicular Manslaugther]

You know what makes me feel old?

I remember that there was a time that kiwifarms was accessible on clearnet.

I remember a time where this place would be considered downright tame compared to 50% of the clearnet.

 

[AnOminous]

the are two words in particular that elicit my inner marge simpson grumble.

'tranny', which in my mind is simply a flamboyant gay man in drag, not a predator or 'person of gender'.
'pegging', because i remember voting for the term when it was decided upon by dan savage's readers.

And now Dan is just another problematic cis white male as bad as one of those nasty hets.

 

[urr13 account]

I STILL don't fucking know what "Based" actually means.

means the same thing as "cool" "sweet" "rad" etc.

 

[Dysnomia]

Made In America concert. Who the fuck are these "artists"? I hadn't heard of a single one of them.

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

Even if we unite in mocking of trannies, we still come here to express ourselves properly. That's why forums have become ancient; nobody wants to formulate an opinion without self-doxxing, memes, or 140 characters giving them some kind of safety net as to why their grammar is dog shit.

This is a really controversial thing. If you go against the grain of society or whatever cult you're in you are automatically branded as "insert current "insult" here". Mainly because people cant think.

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

I was using a program today and couldn’t find the save icon in the toolbar.

Apparently there‘s some effort to replace the floppy as the save icon, the icon instead was a folder with an arrow pointing to it. I guess the argument is people increasingly don’t actually know what the floppy icon is.

It’s silly how something so small made me feel old.

One thing I heard about that is not every culture uses the floppy icon to save. It's like having the universal exit sign in Europe just a guy walking out a door due to languages.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

I still have my DVD collection and many of them are from movies I saw in the theater twenty years ago. I remember going with my friends to see the Matrix sequels in high school, same with Lord of the Rings and Kill Bill. Some of them are movies we heard about and then watched together for a movie night, like Silence of the Lambs, Total Recall and Goodfellas. If I'd gotten a girl pregnant around that time, my kid would be a legal adult now. In fact, this is the last year anyone under the age of 18 was alive when I was in high school.

That's how I feel old.

 

[eatler]

It’s been a pain trying to find a place to develop film. Every drugstore did that back in the day. Now in my town the only place you can develop film is Walgreens. the only reason I didn’t use them is they throw away their negatives. Since I am a art photographer I’d like to keep them.

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

You know what, this fucking thread is coming up on half a fucking decade later from the start of the lock downs for COVID. This is fucking nuts that in and of itself the thread about being old is in fact becoming old itself.

 

[jONALD]

For me it is that stupid green text that 5 years ago is now 10 years ago or however it went. Several times I have to reposition my mental timeline of life and suddenly... "hey, the Xbox one is still kind of new right...?" Kiwi uncles and fathers, it is 11 years old now and I can still vividly remember the Xbox 360 despite it being 18 years old now.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

I am a Zoomer by definition (born 1999), but I'm turning 25 this year. The oldest possible Zoomers by definition are 27. I find it funny when people use the word "Zoomer" as a catch all term for middle and high schoolers now when the oldest Zoomers are pushing 30.