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

[Derrick]

Realizing we're closer to 2062 than to my year of birth ('85)

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

People accepting modern writing as good.

 

[ATI Escapee]

Not gonna lie, I'd do that without the business card. Doing dangerous shit in your garage is super cool and I'm always down to learn cool shit.

You know if someone were generally respectful and didnt invite themselves inside, Id probably appreciate that. I did have a teenager do that once and just asked me what I was doing at a distance when I stopped for a second, and I really didnt mind that and explained some stuff. It kinda depends on my mood though, ngl. Sometimes I need to focus. I just really hate when people are trying to solicit things and I hate when people waltz right in. So weird. I feel like if I were a man it wouldnt happen, but I cant really prove that lol. It has been better lately at least.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I still use "toaster" from the '00s with no WiFi and no other internet. Which can connect to a display with analog video output (those RWY cables that work with CRT TVs).

 

[Local Fed]

RollerCoaster Tycoon was released 25 years ago yesterday.

 

[Derrick]

RollerCoaster Tycoon was released 25 years ago yesterday.

Yeah but when did RCT 2 release? That's the one we all played back in the day.

 

[NOT Satoshi Nakamoto]

I've started talking during movies.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

I keep getting this asshole's videos shilled to me by the algorithm and I hate it.

This dude wanders around the toy aisles of his local WalMart and Target and such with his camera, presumably causing all of the parents in attendance to hold their children close and get the fuck out of there, because why the fuck is this grown man with a camera talking to himself in the middle of the toy aisle? Should I alert the police about this?

His whole argument seems to be that these toys are not selling because the recent Disney and Marvel movies suck because they're woke or whatever, and while there might well be some truth in that, he seemingly fails to understand or recognise the sad fact that children generally don't play with toys nowadays like our generation used to, and these big corporations are producing product for an audience that doesn't exist any more.

And honestly, that makes me a bit sad. Kids nowadays play with tablets or consoles or mobile games or electronic gadgets and I think that's why zoomers seem... I dunno, completely socially retarded. They don't engage in creative play as youngsters and don't grow up with a fully formed view of how to interact with others and the world around them.

I feel bad for children that don't play with toys.

 

[Derrick]

They don't engage in creative play as youngsters

We used to be real imaginative back in the day, I remember all the boys in my neighborhood could turn anything in our minds into a gun, Hell you'd have guys running around with sticks we got out of our yards pretending to shoot each other in our imaginary ongoing neighborhood war. The storm ditch that ran through all our front yards? That was a trench like in WW1. We'd cross the "no-mans land" of the street and attack each other in our neighbor's trench.

Honestly it didn't take much to entertain kids back in those days, just a couple sticks and a hyper active imagination.

 

[Scuffed Marisa]

Completely losing interest in music and tending to consider it as unwanted noise. Even more than that a complete disinterest in technology to the point I consider any "improvements" as hindrances.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

I've started talking during movies.

Does that mean you got old or turned black?

 

[AnOminous]

Does that mean you got old or turned black?

Black people often yell at the screen. If they're in a mostly white theater they're being assholes. But if you go to a mostly black theater and bitch about this, you're the asshole. There are certain movies, mostly bad, where it's actually fun to watch with a mostly black audience, so it's like The Room or Rocky Horror.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Black people often yell at the screen. If they're in a mostly white theater they're being assholes. But if you go to a mostly black theater and bitch about this, you're the asshole. There are certain movies, mostly bad, where it's actually fun to watch with a mostly black audience, so it's like The Room or Rocky Horror.

Old Posting with a bonus Fun Fact:
I know the 'Audience Callbacks' for my region in Rocky Horror.
(if you know what that is- you're old)

My SO knows the callbacks to at least 3 regions.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

Honestly it didn't take much to entertain kids back in those days, just a couple sticks and a hyper active imagination.

We used to go outside and play with the neighbor kids all day long until it got dark, that's when we had to come home. I don't see that so much anymore. Of course it helped that we didn't have the internet back then and the NES was the hot new thing that only a few people had. We didn't have all the electronic devices that exist today.

 

[Derrick]

We used to go outside and play with the neighbor kids all day long until it got dark, that's when we had to come home.

When the street light came on, that's when we knew it was time to go home.

But yeah we play tag, hide and sneak, we played soldiers all the time, we had a war from the time we were like 9 until we were 12 or 13 and got old enough to start becoming interested in Girls, then we sort of had an informal armistice break out over the neighborhood as we stopped spending all afternoon outside.

This was in the mid 90s so there was some Vidya but not to the point it is today with kids. Video Games were generally understood as an activity reserved for after dark or rainy days when the weather wouldn't permit outdoor play. If a kid was playing Nintendo at 4:30 in the afternoon on a sunny day we would have thought he was weird.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

I'll leave this here:

Bottle Rocket Fights
The most boss summer event a neighborhood could experience.
Yes, the potential for harm was great - that's why it was awesome.

 

[The Last Stand]

This was THE shit around 06-07.

 

[3D2A]

On a daily basis I'm usually getting pissed off at the kids outside playing, the dogs in my neighborhood barking, the private planes flying (why the fuck can't they have mufflers??), or all the above.

Or the niggers two houses down coming home at 2am blasting rap music.

 

[The Last Stand]

On a daily basis I'm usually getting pissed off at the kids outside playing, the dogs in my neighborhood barking, the private planes flying (why the fuck can't they have mufflers??), or all the above.

I'm at a point where I'm just annoyed in general. My tolerance level is decreasing each week.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Yeah I think being annoyed is more of a realizing you've been screwed and have no control thing than a getting old thing. I'm annoyed too, but I know older people who are not like me at all.

the private planes flying (why the fuck can't they have mufflers??)

They do have mufflers, why did you choose to live near an airport is the better question.


Reminds me of something. For anyone who wants some ragebait look up noise complaints for your local airports. There are people who file multiple complaints per day, they seriously have nothing better to do. Most of the airports in the country predate most the housing around them, so people choose to move near an airport, then file noise complaints incessantly. It's maddening. Fucking NIMBYs. If Cessna 185s weren't so expensive I'd buy one because in addition to being cool and a good airplane it's the loudest small airplane you can buy and you can really grind some boomer gears by playing with your constant speed prop.