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

[Captain Syrup]

I'm around 50 and the same way. Email and text messages give me proof of what someone said if I need it.

My mom still sends certified letters so she can have a receipt. Lately the receipts haven't been coming. Guess they found a loophole.

 

[cybertoaster]

The moment everybody starts addressing me as "sir" is when I felt old

I think one of the things I hate the most is what I missed out on. Back in my teens my family went though money issues, went from upper-middle class to barely middle class. It blows, missed most of the 6th and 7th gen of consoles, not so much because we didnt have the money but because I knew we had to save and didnt want the guilt of burning money on consoom shit. But given how shit gaming is now I hate that I missed out on that, playing/emulating those games its not the same, the graphics havent aged well, and I still feel buying those its a waste of money.

Similar with dating and partying: again, didnt want to put more pressure on the family finances so half my teens and a good chunk of my twenties were on frugal mode. Went to college and it was shit, same as highschool, the "college experience" from movies its so fake in retrospective, cant believe so many of us fell for that.

Then there's the health, tho I'm doing way better than many of my peers who already have issues like hypertension, thyroid problems, hair loss, etc.

One thing that I think prevents me from feeling old for real is that time seems to have stopped. Culture its just rehashes now, and bad ones to boot. Decades no longer have a "look", like what was the look of the 2010s? of the 2020s? I cant recall shit because those decades just rehash shit from the 80's, 90's and some of the 2000s.

No matter how hard I try I simply can't understand half the stuff Zoomers do.

Its the network effect, they want attention and to get it you have to do dumbshit and upload it for everyone to see

Most of them will never live it down

When I have to take the pill.

Barnacles, I hate the pill.

The antibaby pill? or the "without this I die" kind of pill?

It consistently pleases me how many non-younglings are on kf. Originally I attributed this to Chris getting on in age but it can't be it because plenty of you ok-Xers don't follow him. I guess we cater to a more mature audience than one might guess

Zoomers werent around for forums and dont like the format so of course they dont come here and stay on social media

• We're closer to 2040 than 1990.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK, you're right

• All the "hip" or "rebellious" subcultures I observed back in the day are old and lame now.

Got co-opted by corporations, overton window shifted so they can make a profit off it now

I have a low-key hatred and disdain for coomers, doomers and zoomers in general.

What I hate about doomers is that they are almost all zoomers still in fucking highschool, like how much of a wimpy loser you have to be to give up at that age?

I know a guy who is almost 39, both parents about to die any day now. He dropped out of college due to bad epilepsy, dont qualify to most gibs, seizures have probably fried some of his brain because he used to be super organized and now is a borderline hoarder who dont even remember what day it is.

Point is that guy is fucked, he can be a doomer. The little zoomer shit who cant get laid? he needs a beating.

If Marty McFly were to go back in time today, it'd be to 1990

I think a BTTF set in the early 90's wouldnt be the same because culture hasnt really changed that much, the shock from 1955 to 1985 was much bigger. They plain didnt have camcorders in 1955 but we record shit with out phones just like they did in 1985 with camcorders, its just happens to be more convenient. Computers in the 50s were huge fucking machines, by the mid 80s microcomputers were common. Plus the internet came out in the early 90's, it has changed but mostly due to broadband allowing the services we were told about back then. Like if you go to 1995 and show youtube or zoom to somebody they would be like "thats it? 25 years and all we got its video? where's the VR internet from that mnenomic movie?" but show the internet to someone in 1955 and it will blow their fucking mind that they can send instant mail to another continent.

Let alone the cultural shock: gays, porn, anime, that existed in the 90's it just wasnt mainstream, but not rare enough that you couldn't find it. In the 50's gays got arrested, porn got you arrested, and anime as we know it didnt even exist. The closest thing to hentai were underground tijuana bibles.

BTTF2 had flying cars, home fusion reactors, rejuvenation tech and hoverboards because they thought that just like in 1955 they barely had a few supersonic jets but by 1985 they had the shuttle and space stations then by 2015 all those things would be possible. But tech stagnated in many areas so it didnt happen. Sure computers and games didnt which is why you have smartphones and semi-selfdriving cars, but I still remember when they said VR would be everywhere by the mid to late 90's and only now we're getting some decent shit, and only because facebook its burning billions to corner the market.

Our future its pretty lame, sure if you went back in time and showed me a smartphone it would blow my mind for a while but then I would realize its just a PDA with internet so I can watch porn with it.

You know what the clearest sign you're getting old is? You're still using outdated forums instead of just of talking on instagram or whatsapp.

I was big on social media when it just started, got burnout and left.

Lots of people seem to be doing that, even some zoomers, mostly because social media its just a huge Pavlovian machine designed to make you addicted to it because pageviews=money.

Retro computing is popular now, maybe in a few years we will be "ironically" going back to dial-up BBS

I still remember when I got a voodoo3 and I was the coolest guy around for that.

Too bad I got rid of other shit like my Geforce 4, might be ewaste now but it could be worth something soon.

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.

I hate that some people straight up write in emojis now, its like being illiterate became cool.

The Xbox 360 still feels cool and modern to me, despite it coming out in my late teens.

I remember the hype but the graphics sure have aged. All the talk about HD but most of the games didnt even run at 720p.

Also reading an article about Greta chan saying she was born in 2003, I can remember a time before her birth and that never stops being weird

Whats weirder is that she's legal now and there are deepfakes of her.

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.

What kills me is seeing Avril Lavigne, she looks like shit now.

I still play that game religiously. I've tried to optimize my mod loadout over the years to create the peak FNV experience that teenage me wishes he could have playing on the awful PS3 version back in the day.

You think thats bad? I had to play it in potato mode with an iGPU back then, and it would crash every 5 minutes.

Politics will be a wonderful shit show when my generation ages into it. Political attack ads will feature statements like "my political opponent is a furry who paid artists on the internet to draw Sonics stinky feet"

I think the chinese invented tiktok as a way to collect blackmail material both at home and abroad.

 

[RussianParasite]

Quote button isn’t working, but @cybertoaster your point on the TiK Tok/China relationship is something I have thought for well over a year now.

These kids will grow up and eventually want to become politicians/diplomats/spies or something like that. Those of us who are old enough are lucky we were able to either not have, or fully remove, our cringey internet behavior. The CCP will absolutely target some of them for blackmail for things they did in their retard teenage years and it may very well fuck up their lives given that people are canceling each other based on things they did or said literally decades in the past.

But whatever, keep e-thoting it up future Ms. Senator.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

Whenever I move and hear/feel a joint pop that I didn't even know existed.

 

[AnOminous]

One thing I don't mind is for most of my life my preferred games have been like 10 years old or more, so I never really have had to buy a fancy gaming machine specifically to play them, and I haven't even really caught up to the Clown World woke games that are currently being made.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Watching old ass OVAS from the 80s and 90s is sad, even distopias had a rad attitude that seems optimistic compared to the nihilistic fagotry the future really turned out to be. I want to go back and experience the truly good shit in its prime and heyday, this is not a golden age for anything except bullshit that makes life worse and the future seem even more bleak.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

Realizing I have no idea what OVAS is.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

The "dueling intros" bit during the latest RLM episode brought the old "FUCK YOU, IT'S JANUARY" bit to the forefront of my mind, so I went back to watch those episodes and not only does the video quality look a little "old", some of the things they talk about, like movie theaters dying a slow death, seem like a lifetime ago. Also Mike has hit the wall hard lol.

 

[DiggieSmalls]

Every time I see a teenager. I think “holy shit was I a retard”. Make me feel old.

 

[Captain Syrup]

One thing I don't mind is for most of my life my preferred games have been like 10 years old or more, so I never really have had to buy a fancy gaming machine

If only we knew then what we know now. I can download a library of 6th gen games for free with barely a second's effort.

We saw where consoles were headed a time long ago. They're becoming more and more like PCs; yet console ports are always trash? So what's the point of physical media, then?

 

[A Grey Cat]

1981: (technically 1.9.7.8.) Michael Myers is 21!

2021: Michael Myers is 61...technically 64

 

[A Series Of Tubes]

Remember when you actually could work on cars and 90% of their failures weren't some idiotic shit caused by electronic parts you can't do dick about?

OBD II was a mistake. ABS, EFI and OBD1 should have been where cars stopped at.

 

[Alexander Thaut]

my back . . .

 

[Testament]

Remembering being able to just catch a movie I liked on TV without hassle. Though it was typically 80's action flicks, was the thing. They still entertain me much more than anything released today...and with the way things are going, I'm not too optimistic for new movies, shows, what have you. Same with games. Most of my library is games older than 10 years old. ..I guess the same can be said about music on the radio when I'm in the car. It's all new, unfamiliar crap.
It makes me feel like the type of boomer who doesn't like change and just wants things to stay the same.

I was also thinking back to old MSN earlier too. How shitty Discord can be makes me miss MSN a lot.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

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"

It still feels like new technology to me

And now the 3ds is 9 years old

Now the 3ds is a decade old…

 

[Cedric_Eff]

Realizing I have no idea what OVAS is.

Direct to video animes.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

I'm around 50 and the same way. Email and text messages give me proof of what someone said if I need it. It pisses me off when I am doing business with someone and I keep texting/emailing them but they respond by calling me on the phone.

Plus I have crap hearing and understanding people on the phone can be difficult.

There's currently a big scandal in the political climate here because a w*man of importance deleted text messages with her advisor. As if that shit can't be restored, or just the sheer fact they're digging for >text messages<.

I'm mixed on calling vs. texting. Applying for work is a formal online written process, but half the time they just skip any and all effort and call you up going "interview next tuesday"? But at the same time, getting it return in the form of an email also seems highly informal, as if they don't care (which they don't) whether you react or not.

Remembering being able to just catch a movie I liked on TV without hassle. Though it was typically 80's action flicks, was the thing. They still entertain me much more than anything released today...and with the way things are going, I'm not too optimistic for new movies, shows, what have you. Same with games.

Netflix started reuploading old-ass 90s movies here and I'm more into rewatching those than watch whatever blockbuster just got put out, even as a person who's deadly afraid of wasting my time specifically by re-consuming shit I already know. At this point, remasters and remakes are twice as appealing as new games also, cause you know what you're getting. None of this "you're a kid with powers" bullshit. Fuck off, give me the role of an adult with powers to shape my life, ie. GTA or what have you.

 

[Stasi]

Just remembered this old bastard and when my local shop closed down. Remember going in on the final day and there were people in there ripping out the metal shelves and offering the wagies pennies for them and they were like "sure take whatever, we need to get rid of as much shit as we can". I swear it was only yesterday I was in there buying Oblivion and Stadium Arcadium.

 

[Tour of Italy]

I did the count and I have as many divorced friends as I have married ones.

 

[qu_rahn]

>Get out of bed in the morning
>Feet hurt
>It's getting later in the day
>Back starts to hurt