Bro, you're not going to psyop me into forgetting that the lock downs, vaccine mandates, sky-high inflation, and supply line issues that's happened since the turn of the decade weren't real. Also, weird that the year 2015 was picked consider that a lot of people, me included, felt like things were pretty good under the Trump admin era while it was actively happening.
Ive biked through my hometown a few times and it's nuts how small it is. Everything seemed huge, obviously, but the "far and distanced" sections of the city are just.. 5 mins on a bike. It's rampant with pensioners and millionaires building huge mansions. "Oh fuck it's so far out from everything!"; it's 45 mins from the capital. Same as where I live now, 2 hours away from my birthplace. Someone moved to my hometown as the start of a new life and excitingly drive to work from there every day. It's nuts.
Developers tried to move in on my old town just after we left. According to the newspapers, the goal was to turn it into a dormitory suburb for a nearby city. The local "village elders" put a stop to it, just like they killed every other attempt to modernise the place and bring new industries in. The culture of the place was insanely isolationist. You could live there (and we did) for twenty years and still be classed as a blow in. It was like it was a country town in some far off rural area, but the nearest neighbouring town was a whopping fifteen minutes drive down the road. After the developers were chased out, according to what I've read and who has been down there, the already high crime rate shot through the roof. There's no work because all attempts to establish new industries have been wrecked, and the only people who live there now can't afford to live anywhere else. They weren't all bad back when I lived there, but anyone with half a brain has left since then, leaving behind the exact type of people you'd want to leave behind.
Sure, some people neither mature nor mellow with age. At the same time, though, others do become more knowledgeable and appreciate certain things better. Now that I'm older, I can better appreciate a historical site in my area because I lacked the worldview and larger perspective when I was first taken there as a little kid.
I never was a gamer, either. I had a handful of Arcade games I liked, but I never got into console gaming where most of the games boiled down to smashing the controls ad nauseam and hoping for a win or other favorable result - especially with a two player game when your opponent knew all the tricks when you didn't.
It's a shame that vendors, especially in the US, don't want to use universal cords, connections, or standards as much as possible because they see the differences as a competitive advantage that gives them more leverage and revenue.
From what I understand your 25th High School Reunion is around when the conversation starts to shift from, "What are you up to, now?" to "What hurts for you, now?" I had my 20th last year so it won't be long now for me now.
My mom graduated in the 70’s. The “who’s still alive?” questions started after 10 years. As she put it, the 80’s were hard on her class.
Look at the bright side, at least you might be able to predict weather changes a couple days in advance now.
Yeah that's definitely a big one. "Oh I remember when I fucked this part of my body up. It was 40 goddamn years ago! AND IT STILL HURTS!"
And you try to tell the young'uns this and they're like "V8? What's a V8?"
It seems like your cohort always takes a few big hits in their late 20s as the ones with insanely bad habits or reckless behavior die off when they fail to quit doing that shit after the time their teenage immortality runs out. A couple funerals later, if you're going that direction, you know what's coming and get your shit together (or don't).
Lmao nigger. You elderly nigger.
I remember when Pokemon cards first came out, and nobody my age played it because that was a game for elementary kids, while we were middle schoolers.
