Hell just seeing pictures of bands I grew up listening to where they all have wrinkles and dad bodies is soul crushing in a way, especially those pop-punk bands like Blink 182 and Green Day because they're still dressing the same way they did when they were 20.
Hell just seeing pictures of bands I grew up listening to where they all have wrinkles and dad bodies is soul crushing in a way, especially those pop-punk bands like Blink 182 and Green Day because they're still dressing the same way they did when they were 20.
I always despised Pop-Punk, but I watched some videos from Green Day "Father of All Motherfuckers" today.
I actually laughed. They are trying SO HARD to look 20something, or at least 30something. ...and then the camera zooms in...
oh...my...god...
Just looked on quakeservers.net. There's a 26/32 server (public) and a 12/24 (locked). Neither of them with 2fort4. No more pages and pages of TF servers for bong hits and gibs.
nothing makes me gut laugh anymore. I was gonna make a thread asking people the last time they pissed them self’s laughing. The Farms gets some good sensible chuckles out of me and the occasional 4Chan webm. But nothing that makes me lose my shit laughing.
That and my knees are fuckedz
nothing makes me gut laugh anymore. I was gonna make a thread asking people the last time they pissed them self’s laughing. The Farms gets some good sensible chuckles out of me and the occasional 4Chan webm. But nothing that makes me lose my shit laughing.
That and my knees are fuckedz
Going back to old MMOs you used to play to see your guild is a barren wasteland, the main area you used to hang out at is empty, or the MMO doesn't exist anymore.
Going back to your old hangouts irl and seeing a vegan cafe replace it after being replaced by ANOTHER vegan cafe.
Still owning a working VCR/DVD player, CD player, and my mom's Walkman.
Cars that still have CD player slots, namely mine from 2011.
Every show, song, and video game being the exact same formula and perpetuating the "consume product" mantra. Don't even get me started on remakes.
Your favorite 2000s cartoons now considered nostalgia. Not to mention I don't like how the same cartoon channels have become lifeless, corporate, "fellow kids" husks on social media (granted, the shifted towards Gen Z kids was expected, but it's just not the same).
Connecting with friends feeling a bit more isolated if you don't have social media for personal/safety reasons. Nothing exciting about tweeting your grocery list or the last shit you took.
Social media in general replacing technology you used to play with your friends, like Tamagotchis and Nintendo DSes that everyone brought to school and always got confiscated by teachers.
My wife described Guns n' Roses as "Dad Rock". I objected to this, GnR are the coolest and hippest and happenin'est thing ever, I informed her. She disagreed.
So I made a bet with her. I would Google Image Search "Dad Rock" and if any pictures of Guns n' Roses appeared on the first screen I would accept that GnR were indeed "Dad Rock". I perform the search, and what do I see, the very last image, right at the bottom right of my oversized gaming monitor?
My sentiments exactly. Enjoying classic rock runs in my family from my uncles to my late dad, who was pretty much an expert on artists from the 60s to the late 80s. It's surreal when I consider buying a ticket to see my favorites like Guns N' Roses live, and know that all the band members are nearing or at retirement home age.
Beside the gray hair, when I first started smoking you could smoke everywhere and I could buy a carton of Marlboros for $18 (now it costs me about $65 a pop).
When I started 7th grade there was still a designated smoking area for students and no minimum age for buying tobacco products, buying beer wasn't a problem either. I could probably have bought booze if I presented a note from my dad.
Another thing that makes young people go "what? no.":
(this is a post about a change in politics)
There used to be a chain of stores called Domus. They sold groceries, clothes, records, home appliances, electronics, bicycles and so on. Everything you as a regular citizen could be found at Domus and that was intentional. It was part of the Co-Operative Alliance(Coop), an ideologically driven member-owned business that was close to LO, the national union. LO was a a Social Democratic organization so they were tight with the party and the party was the government.
After ww2 there was a huge restructuring and many things were planned out and built by the government. They had a vision for a new society and the blueprint to make it happen. Domus and Konsum(another Coop brand) was part of that, every city and town would have one and it would be in the center of that city or town. So sayeth the government.
Looking at that picture there's an old Haussmann style building to the left, another one is peeking out on the right and in the middle of this photo from the 60's is a building that was built in the 60's with the Cooperative flag waving at the top. Whatever was at a good spot in the center got torn down and replaced by an almost ctrl-c, ctrl-v design, often with parking on top. Things with historical value was lost and that didn't matter, this was more important.
to the point:
They tightly planned and controlled all of this, creating their own brands and products and controlled which products would be allowed to be sold in their stores - this was about shaping society.
At checkout they had the usual magazine rack with comic books on the lower half on the right, to the left of that were ladies gossip magazines, pop-sci magazines and magazines that were considered for everybody. On the top half there were men's magazines about sports, cars, industry etc. Those were usually placed above the comic books because they couldn't place the hardcore pornography there. The porn was above the lady mags, nothing covering the covers and those ranged from explicit to very explicit.
It was difficult finding one of the more explicit covers.
I didn't expect that table cloth.
Domus/Konsum was a department store created and controlled by social democratic politics, meant to serve every need of a family, and they always stocked the shelves with porn. I don't know if anyone bought them, it's a weird place to be a coomer, but it was always there and out in the open.
This is too insane to happen today and the government being involved makes it even better. Younger people don't believe me because they can't imagine it being like that. Remember using rotary phones and the number had a lot of 8's and 7's? Hearing modem sounds? Being in type-writing class with actual typewriters? Being 9 and seeing a frumpy 50 year old woman restocking the porn shelf at the department store?
I always despised Pop-Punk, but I watched some videos from Green Day "Father of All Motherfuckers" today.
I actually laughed. They are trying SO HARD to look 20something, or at least 30something. ...and then the camera zooms in...
oh...my...god...
Speaking of bands you used to like that still stubbornly cling to their youth, I was a big Offspring fan in the 90s (I was a teen and didn't know better) thought Dexter Holland was badass. Looking at him now, still trying to maintain the look he had in the mid 90s, getting fat and older is just sad. He looks like that drunk uncle who peaked in high school.
Realizing people that I visually identify as peers are almost always actually about 10 years younger than me.
Also, "Oh, I just spoke to so and so the other day" and then realizing the last time I talked to that person was 5 years ago.
Not unrelated:
Today's "Mad At The Internet" included an awesome rant about the good ol' days in TF2/APB and the current state of affairs of the internet. Lots of memories of porno sprays in TF2 (I remember the super lo-res sprays in CounterStrike circa early 2000s)
Methinks our Glorious Ooperator belongs in this thread.
The fucking DS. I had a small crisis some years back when I saw someone talk about how the DS was part of their childhood, and I was like "that shit only came out a few years ago"
