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

[LordofTendons]

When I was a kid my dad had some pencils in his desk that had dried out, hard erasers on them because they were old. Years later I found some pencils in my desk with dried out erasers because they had been sitting around for a long time. I got really depressed because it meant that I was old, too. But it turns out dying is taking a lot longer than I thought it would.

 

[A Grey Cat]

As of this july (2022) the dark knight rises will be ten years old. Meaning the Nolan batman trilogy will be over a decade old.

Bonus; half the cast from alien is dead including the alien suit actor and jonesy the ginger cat.

 

[Captain Syrup]

I remember my new year's resolution to exercise, but opening cans of tuna makes me sore so it's problematic to work out.

 

[BlackWaterSails]

My nieces

 

[A Grey Cat]

wreck it Ralph turns 10 this summer

 

[thebananaonion]

Gangnam Style turns 10 in about a month

 

[An Ghost]

Not me specifically, but Mint Jams camed out in 1982, so it turned 40 recently.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

Met a Hong Kong girl in the gym, got her IG and agreed to give her some tips when I next see her.

Turns out she's 19. I was driving a car, drinking booze, and smoking cigs when this girl was likely still shitting into her pants. What the fuck.

I'm still gonna try and bang.

 

[LordofTendons]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan turned 40 on Saturday. I saw it in theaters.

 

[Bees]

An 18 year old told me “I low key admire your Y2K aesthetic” and I didn’t know I had a fashion theme at all.

I have employees younger than my somethingawful account.

 

[Seora]

When half the people that you used to see on the Disney Channel are addicted to crack, have felonies or do porn.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I remember having a computer with a roughly 50 GB hard drive and thinking “My god I’ll never use all this space!”

 

[AnOminous]

When half the people that you used to see on the Disney Channel are addicted to crack, have felonies or do porn.

That's a common way to cope for people who were molested as children. Now imagine the molestation was by a revoltingly corpulent Kengle-looking pervert named Schneider.

 

[Niobium]

Windows XP is closer in time to the first ever cell phone (18 years) than we are to Windows XP (21 years).

 

[Seora]

That's a common way to cope for people who were molested as children. Now imagine the molestation was by a revoltingly corpulent Kengle-looking pervert named Schneider.

It’s not even the child actors either. You’d be surprised to see how many of the adult actors playing parents etc etc have racked up felonies and drug charges. I wouldn’t be surprised if they got touched too, knowing Disney.

 

[deso2y]

wreck it Ralph turns 10 this summer

Even worse, Rape it Ralph is 37 already.

 

[AnOminous]

It’s not even the child actors either. You’d be surprised to see how many of the adult actors playing parents etc etc have racked up felonies and drug charges. I wouldn’t be surprised if they got touched too, knowing Disney.

Mickey Mouse? More like Micky Molester. Or Rapist Rat.

 

[Megaton Punch]

I know a lot of people who only play the most recent entry of x and think that's the only one that matters.

To be fair, that's not a new thing at all. Final Fantasy 7 was the first really big entry in the west. The one that made the jump from nerds to normies. Only gamers had "3", only Real Gamers had "2", and nobody had 1. When 7 came out, it was Final Fantasy. And that's okay. I'm not gonna be that guy who says that you're not a true FF fan unless you've played the real Final Fantasy 2, and not just because 2 sucks shit.

I personally am the type who deep dives a franchise I get into and tries to appreciate the history of it, but I wasn't always. When FF7 came out, my thought wasn't "what about 4, 5, and 6?", it was "oh boy more Final Fantasy". As long as you're not being a dick about it, scoffing at people who play older games, it's perfectly fine to focus on the present. It's what everyone's talking about. Games are more fun when you can talk about them with your friends, discuss strategy, tips, tricks, and so forth.

What makes me feel old vis a vis video games is thinking about a fun PC game from my childhood and realizing there is no feasible way to play it because modern PCs consider its code to be the computer equivalent of Aramaic. And no, I don't consider setting up a Windows 2000 VM to be feasible just so I can take a trip down memory lane once every three years.

 

[A Grey Cat]

That's a common way to cope for people who were molested as children. Now imagine the molestation was by a revoltingly corpulent Kengle-looking pervert named Schneider.

I can never watch good burger or most of my favorite nick live action shows from my childhood ever again knowing what probably happened behind those neon green and orange doors

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

A girl I started dating when she was 21 (and still hold a bit of a torch for) is 42 now.

The "hot girl" in the office at work is going out with my cousins son (my cousin is a year younger than me).

I used to load games on my Commodore 64 with cassettes.

My neice is 18 this year.

I remember when "Smells like Teen Spirit" first got played on Australian TV and talking to a friend about how it would never be popular.

I remember paying $22 for a carton of cigarettes.