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

[Amphotericin B]

I feel old when I see people old enough to be my kids on the local criminal court docket.

I noticed how Gen Z can’t give their opinion without giving an addendum to be sure their totally benign opinion isn’t anything-ist. They’re terrified of pissing off the thought police.

They also use phrases IRL that YouTubers use to avoid demonization. For example they won’t say rape or sexual assault, it’s SA instead. They say “unalive” instead of kill (unless they’re telling someone kys). They’re not YouTubers but they speak like they’re afraid of demonetization.
These things make me feel old.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

They also use phrases IRL that YouTubers use to avoid demonization. For example they won’t say rape or sexual assault, it’s SA instead. They say “unalive” instead of kill (unless they’re telling someone kys). They’re not YouTubers but they speak like they’re afraid of demonetization.

 

[Local Fed]

I'm a pretty avid music listener so for me one of the big signs that I'm getting old is when I go to play a song or an entire album that doesn't feel all that old to me and realize that it's already been around a decade since it was released or something. To a lesser degree I have this happen with TV shows and movies, but I don't consume as much of those as I do music.

I saw someone else mention earlier in the highlights of the thread about classic rock stations now playing what they grew up on instead of their dad. I'm not quite old enough yet to see that happen (and it's pretty uncommon that I use the radio anyway,) but it's certainly coming soon enough. It's going to be hilarious/sad to me when in about 10-15 years those "classic rock" stations will be playing Imagine Dragons and hip-hop that just happens to have a guitar part in the song somewhere.

Finally, I just don't enjoy things as much as I used to. Nothing really hits me hard anymore. I can think of maybe a handful of albums that I've discovered (that were either newly released or simply new to me) in the past ~5 years that really just made me excited and still get played often by me. Most of what I still play the most comes from the early-2000s to mid-2010s with some notable exceptions from the 80s and 90s. I don't think that I could even think of a handful of movies that have done that for me in the past decade.

 

[Rose Breeder]

W hasn't been perceived by the public as the biggest buffoon in the United States for almost 15 years now.

 

[Becky McDonald]

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I remember when Smosh "briefly" (it was still more than a half a year) regained the lead after RWJ's channel got raped by Maker Studios. That was almost a decade ago.

 

[WonderWino]

I hate how phones have become the new default for many things. If I get an account somewhere, it suggests me to use the phone app instead of my browser on my desktop PC, because it's "more secure".

Yeah really though. I'd be asking someone from the bank if they realize how bad it looks to imply their app is 'more secure' than the banks own website. Its not the rousing endorsement they're trying to make it sound like it is. If anything it raises some red flags

Did you know Sonic the Hedgehog banged your mom?

Damn, who knew @A Grey Cat was the long lost brother of chris chan

Every franchise I loved as child has been ass raped into oblivion.

South park was right

I keep thinking star trek insurrection (a terrible film) was made in the early aughts. It was made in 1998.

On that note, tng ended 28 years ago. Anyone old enough to remember when it was on the air is at least in their mid to late 30s

On that note.....how about a zoomer hearing somebody mention garak and then looking confused and wondering why she doesn't remember him on the kardashians

During the "Joe Camel" era, I remember there were all kinds of ways you could get these cute little 5-packs for free, free lighters, and other nonsensical schwag for points.

So you miss the old days when they had stuff like this

Oh and realizing the super nintendo i've had in storage I got in 1992....and it still has the save gaves on it I made when I was 7, so does mario paint. Speaking of which, find zoomer who can't shut up about mario games and note their reaction when you tell them mario paint was a thing

and realizing this isn't as funny as it used to be and how the episode were made today bart would probably be getting offered chewable HRT for kids

and also realizing that anyone of highschool or college age today wouldn't understand most of the pop culture references from the classic simpsons era

and then there is that incident last year where a zoomer guard walked in on a few people watching starship troopers and was livid about neil patrick harris being problematic and promoting fascism....completely oblivious to the entire point the movie was trying to make. Even more awkwardly, one of the other guards tried to fuck with her over that mistake by calling him doogie himmler and she just looked at him confused and had no idea who doogie howser or himmler are

and more recently, picking up eternam on gog during the summer sale because its been awhile since I played it and never got around to finishing it last time

......followed seconds later by the realization that the last time I played it was in 1992

Oh and the amused realization last december when that yearly christian childrens fund commercial started making its usual rounds, that its the same one they've been playing since the 80s and that the 'children' they're using to get people to donate are probably older than I am now, assuming they didn't all starve to death in the ass end of africa. Shows how much of a grift that is

and then theres the horrifying one - the day I did my first shift at the nursing home and realized the guy in the room next to the guy I was there to keep an eye on had been the fire chief who showed up and helped save my stepdads parents apartment building when it caught fire back in 2002....and now he's a barely coherent dementia patient who has no idea whats going on half the time

I remember when it was an unusual thing to walk into another room and then have no idea why I went there when I got there. Now it seems like it's almost a 50/50 thing when I get up to go somewhere I'll have forgotten what I'm even doing by the time I'm there. Another fun one is when you immediately remember what you were doing when you get back to where you came from, then forget again by the time you're there.

At least you don't end up going 'I remember now!' and put the tv remote in the dishwasher

and if you really want to confuse the average zoomer start bringing up waynes world, or show them that lollapalooza simpsons episode

 

[Safir]

Smartphones. When I was a kid, consumer computers and especially the Internet were the stuff of sci-fi. I got to see a commercial computer at a company which people played simple games on, and a plotter, and thought it was the wonder of wonders. My only disappointment was that the geometric pattern I drew in glorious 16 colors came out black and white (of course). If it had magenta and light green ink I'd have died of happiness on the spot.

I hate how phones have become the new default for many things.
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And not just companies. My bank recommended using their phone app. Why? When I make transactions, like paying for an online shop order, I do so at home. And at home I have my PC.

Same re: post but the "why" is easy, we've known this from 2007. Getting into the average person's phone is the next best thing to living in his/her head rent-free.

I fucking hate the new default of smartphones. I go out of my way to avoid using one. My parents both got smartphones three years before I was finally forced to (to steal documents in vocational training, because going at it with a digital camera would be too suspicious).

And then I remember what I wrote above, and mellow out, and want to live for a long time and see what else the future will bring.

I’m seeing more and more people who tell me that they flat out refuse to watch any show or play any video game from before a certain time point.

It's this but the double reverse meta irony version for me. Mom sees me play a (good) new pixel art game: "ew, isn't your computer good? why are you playing this old shit?"

And I don't care what the youth thinks about me.

I never was *sunglasses.jpg*
This is why the streamer / tiktok shit doesn't make me feel old. I would've hated it as a teen, too.
but

I was obsessed with the Spice Girls when I was little

I remember actively trying to be a Spice Girls fan, not to be "in" (other kids thought I was weird, buying Spice Girls candy in bulk and having stickers on everything) but because I thought it was the right and proper thing to do, because I was supposed to have a pop cultural identity and be a fan of something. I still have the memory of it in my bones.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

It's this but the double reverse meta irony version for me. Mom sees me play a (good) new pixel art game: "ew, isn't your computer good? why are you playing this old shit?"

My dad does the same shit. Except, he has even less of an excuse, because he's a PC gamer just like me

 

[Yamamura]

I feel old when I see people old enough to be my kids on the local criminal court docket

This is pretty much how I feel whenever one of those new age rappers dies. I look at their birth year say "2003" and I still never get used to it.

Unrelated, but does anyone else think about the year they might die on? I looked up other people born 100 years before me (ex historical figure born in 1887 compared to 1987 (just for example not my actual birth year)) and think about the year they died on.

Recently I just started thinking about how the world will have changed by the time i die, like it did for them. Like someone born in the end of the 1800s before the 20th century got to witness grand changes in the world, culture and society as a whole. They watched the fall of empires and the rise of new ones. I'm just imagining all the things I might live to see within my life time and things I may miss.

 

[Mister Uno]

I'm just imagining all the things I might live to see within my life time and things I may miss.

Fuck man I'm feeling it. Despite being generally positive, I hate thinking about the things I will miss when I die. Especially space travel, cause how cool will it be for the first pioneers to explore space? I wonder what cool shit is out there constantly, waiting to be found.

Born too early to explore space, too late to explore the world, but right on time to watch people explore their amholes.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I'm seeing 90s fashion come back and it's fucking scary.
My hair is turning grayer and grayer each passing day.

I finished college seven years ago and high school 14 years ago.
Whenever I see new construction projects or new buildings, I remember what they used to be before.

New cars scare me, I don't trust rear-view cameras.

I made this post two years ago.

I've changed my mind about rear-view cameras.

 

[ZipDisk]

There used to be a site that told you when you would die. Mine said 2057.

I don't think I'll make it that far.

 

[FeetRightsActivist]

The first time I popped a boner was during the episode of TMNT where Don Turtelli kidnapped April and started ticking her feet to make her talk.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

My backpain has only just started lostening up, I've had to go the doctor for it and got given some pain killers and stretches to do but man.... fucking getting old fucks sucks.

And not just companies. My bank recommended using their phone app. Why? When I make transactions, like paying for an online shop order, I do so at home. And at home I have my PC.

Some people use their phone to pay with nowadays, as some sort of debit/credit card replacement, or to use PayPal on. I never logged onto PayPal with my phone once, because the idea feels really unsafe to me.

I guess it's a generational thing. But even then, I absolutely do not understand the claim that phones are safer than desktop PCs or laptops. Can anyone explain this to me?

To be fair I like the verification on my phone for large purchases, I'm very careful about buying with my card online from a place that isn't in my normal realm of shopping and the banks really good about it or atleast mine is, I can sign in say that Yep it's me ordering from that website and finish my purchase, I know a few people who's bacon it's saved who are not so careful.

I've used my paypal app a fair bit on my phone especially when I've been at shows and alike it's easier than carrying around lot of Cash.

I don't like that everything has gone over to using phones but I will admit that it can be convenient.

I've been using computers since I was a kid in the 90s and only rarely caught a virus, because I'm not dumb.

True here as well but I recall the shift from malware just being malicious or irritating as it's motive to being purely financial and running stealthily as it can - my first experience of this was back in the late 90's earl 00's with a porn dialler I only noticed at 1am when it kicked me off the internet to dial in for the night at 1am while I was playing Ultima Online.

I can sort of forgive a lot of the non techie kids for not noticing a infection same goes for a lot of the older people considering that it most of the malware today trys its best to not announce it's self.

It's still dumb as fuck to do it for generational reasons, when SD cards essentially look like tiny floppies anyway.
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Tell me they couldn't get away with just horizontally shrinking the floppy icon and it would basically be the same thing.
Unless UI designers will also say that people don't know about this sd card anymore because of micro sd, even though they are both still used. But irregardless 80s nostalgia media has been overproduced for so long that there is no way that kids don't at least recognize the design of the floppy and what it does in a basic sense.

I knew a generation has passed when my local alternative store stopped selling "Jesus Saves" T-Shirt that had a floppy disk on the front, I felt rather old.

 

[Becky McDonald]

For those of you who brought it up:
The major societal changes of the past ~200 years will not happen again, at least nowhere near the scale that it has, other than in third-world shitholes where they can afford to make the stuff of sci-fi (other than running toilets). Where we live and how we live right now is just about as advanced as things will ever get for a LONG time. Other than computers getting bigger and faster, home technology and cars becoming more pozzed and IoT-connected, and nuclear energy finally being rightfully embraced, there will be no other major advancements made during this century. That's it. Especially if a major conflict or actual disaster happens.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

The first time I popped a boner was during the episode of TMNT where Don Turtelli kidnapped April and started ticking her feet to make her talk.

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I have been dipping in and out of the F1 thread from time to time. Drivers like Hamilton, Vettel and Alonso are considered the "old guard." I can still remember these guys being the fresh new up-and-comers. They're all older than me so it's not that bad (yet), but still...

 

[AnOminous]

Other than computers getting bigger and faster, home technology and cars becoming more pozzed and IoT-connected, and nuclear energy finally being rightfully embraced, there will be no other major advancements made during this century. That's it. Especially if a major conflict or actual disaster happens.

That's what you think, Mr. Fukuyama.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

I made this post two years ago.

I've changed my mind about rear-view cameras.

How gray is your hair now?

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

How gray is your hair now?

I dyed it, but I got some grays here and there.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

I dyed it,

Pussy