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[Samhain]

My mom still pays for cable TV, watching the ads doesn't help my fear of living in a dystopian nightmare, just watched an ad for rings with chink trannies, the ad before that one was a gambling ad. I remember when adverts used to be at least some what fun and not entirely soulless, like the ads where you were like damn I wish I had a house/family/thing/etc, now it's just why is this faggot and or nigger trying to sell me laundry detergent, put your penis away first at least.

It took me so long to convince my mother to cancel the cable TV she was paying for. Once I showed her how to watch the local news broadcasts on her iPad, she was convinced to cancel.

TV ads are now utterly soulless slop lacking any ounce of real creativity. I've never liked ads, but I could at least appreciate the ones that were creative and entertaining. Now they're all just low effort nonsense featuring black nuclear families, interracial relationships, and bizarre looking mystery meat children. I assume the "smart wife, dumb husband" motif still exists.

 

[Sebben Crudele II]

It took me so long to convince my mother to cancel the cable TV she was paying for. Once I showed her how to watch the local news broadcasts on her iPad, she was convinced to cancel.

TV ads are now utterly soulless slop lacking any ounce of real creativity. I've never liked ads, but I could at least appreciate the ones that were creative and entertaining. Now they're all just low effort nonsense featuring black nuclear families, interracial relationships, and bizarre looking mystery meat children. I assume the "smart wife, dumb husband" motif still exists.

When I watched US tv for the first time this year I had to contain a snort (I was with other people who are sweethearts but extremely lib) when I saw an aids ad and it featured only nogs.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

There are sometimes things like that make me think I'm old but then there are others that it just makes me think people these days are completely culturally illiterate.

It feels like actual human memory has become obsolescent, with more and more people pawning off the responsibility to their phones.

 

[Quijibo69]

TV ads are now utterly soulless slop lacking any ounce of real creativity.

I didn't know ads still exists. I've been mostly downloading and watching ad free YouTube for at least 10 years now. Last time I had cable was in the mid to late 00's.

 

[Whatevermancer]

Now my back hurts when I sleep too long.

 

[ExFoedere]

FF9 was first released in 2000, it's been 24 years. (soon 25 years)

 

[Megaton Punch]

FF9 was first released in 2000, it's been 24 years. (soon 25 years)

Me having grown up with FF4, a game that just turned 33:

 

[.iota.]

i finally purchased a pair of reading glasses.
i'm so elated to be able to read printed pages again that i've already read three books this week!

 

[Friendly Primarina]

I was listening to the radio this morning. After playing "Clocks" by Coldplay the DJ said "That was the OG Coldplay, from back in the day!"

There's a new Coldplay?

 

[Orange Rhymer]

i finally purchased a pair of reading glasses.
i'm so elated to be able to read printed pages again that i've already read three books this week!

I found my eyesight getting 'lazy', leading to needing glasses by afternoon.
I am doing eye exercises now, and I am not allowing myself to 'zoom in' or enlarge the screen (as much).
I have had a marked improvement in my eyesight.
I went to an ophthalmologist - she said "as you age the eyeball becomes tougher, harder and slower to change shape in order to focus close and far."
I'm still wrestling with some 'blur', and I will need glasses - but I can probably go another year or 2.

 

[Jesse Nicholas Radin]

Seeing music I knew as modern/new being sold/marketed as classic.

 

[The Hardest R]

It took me so long to convince my mother to cancel the cable TV she was paying for. Once I showed her how to watch the local news broadcasts on her iPad, she was convinced to cancel.

TV ads are now utterly soulless slop lacking any ounce of real creativity. I've never liked ads, but I could at least appreciate the ones that were creative and entertaining. Now they're all just low effort nonsense featuring black nuclear families, interracial relationships, and bizarre looking mystery meat children. I assume the "smart wife, dumb husband" motif still exists.

My boomer parents pay $130/month for satellite TV. They acknowledge that it’s a waste of money but my dad likes a couple random hunting and fishing shows so therefore they keep it. He’s too much of a boomer to watch hunting and fishing videos on the PC and thinks tablets are for fags.

Anyway, I watched ads on TV over there and not a single white person in the ads. Plenty of blacks, lots of mystery meat, a smattering of asians, and absolutely no whites. I pointed that out to my Trump-voting parents and they said they never noticed it before. Now they can’t unsee it and will keep talking to me about it on phone calls.

 

[teriyakiburns]

There's a new Coldplay?

There is. It's the Coldplay that sounds like everything that sounded like Coldplay.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

As a fisherman, I can totally relate:
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I've learned not to look. It's pointless to look. Now I thread the needle of a sewing machine on my first try 90% of the time.

Another thing is interacting with young people and they're amazed that we have some common interests while my reaction is 'dude, it's Fallout, I first got into that... oh... you weren't even born in 1998...'

 

[Myra]

It used to take me one day to clean house. Now it takes two and my bones ache.

 

[glass_houses]

LATE 90s AND EARLY 2000s FASHION IS NOT 'RETRO' AND ISN'T FUCKING 'VINTAGE' EITHER FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

 

[ToroidalBoat]

FF9 was first released in 2000, it's been 24 years. (soon 25 years)

The latest "core series" FF game I played is 6. The GBA port of 6. Also someone who was born when Crystal Chronicles (the GCN game) came out can be old enough to drink now.

 

[Fallow Tallow]

Everything. Every single aspect of everything. Every creak, every ache, every grind of bone. However, I've become quite good at ignoring everything, so that's a plus.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

webamp
there's a perfect mix of it

when I'm using it it's usually some old mp3s from songs that are older than winamp itself, and I get a chance to stop and think about how wondrous it is that I have the star trek future in my hands of "computer, open Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell II archive.org" and boom it's instantly in my hands on my touchscreen chromebook
and it's in winamp just like the mp3s I made from my dad's cd

and then I forget and try to drag winamp out from the browser
and I remember it's not really winamp back then

then it still works pretty great, and it's not so bad that it's still working pretty great after all these years

 

[Fat Gollum]

I've gotten to the age where my continence has started to deteriorate. I'm not shitting myself frequently enough to start wearing adult diapers but it may be something I need to look into in the near future. If anybody knows any good brands that they could recommend to me I would really appreciate it.