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

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Fallout: New Vegas came out first semester of my freshman year of college.

I was in High School when the best Fallout came out. It was an impressively good year for games.

 

[Yamamura]

Some times on websites that have an age restriction, I fill in the birthday as 2003 (I wasn't born in 2003). It just reminds me that 18 year olds today were born in 2003.

Something about the act of filling that out and not having it say "you are too young" just has more of an effect on me than just thinking about it.

Edit:

Fallout: New Vegas came out first semester of my freshman year of college.

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.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

On November 15, 2021 will mark the 20th anniversary of the launch of the original Xbox. As well as it's many famous launch titles.

 

[Microsoft Gachi]

Seeing my parents, uncles, aunts etc getting older and older. A daily reminder of the inevitable. Hug your parents.

 

[KifflomKween]

Not having to lie about my age anymore when I sign up for a website.

 

[Cranky Old Broad]

Having grown up with parents who called the refrigerator the “ice box” and knew first hand the traumas of WWII.

That I rode my bike without a helmet, went down tall metal slides that would burn the backs of your legs in the summer, would walk over a mile to get a slurpee or the realization many kids now will never know what it’s like to play hide-and-seek all over the neighborhood until it gets too dark to see.

In junior high, it was a shock *gasp* to find out someone was no longer a virgin.

If not for COVID, this year would have been my 40th high school reunion.

When I look in the mirror. Oh, and the most disturbing: When you can no longer trust your farts.

 

[DatBepisTho]

80s and 90s nostalgia merch on kids. I've been seeing it a lot more lately due to my job's proximity to the (now) main school districts.
For example: I saw so many tweens with Reagan-Bush campaign or Nicktoons shirts last year. More than weeb, FNAF, or band stuff even.

-The weirdest part is normally it's the weeb shit here: Sailor Moon, DBZ, etc. I did see one of mothman on a skateboard so that was pretty cute.
Eta- those fucking light up shoes are making a comeback (or have been back) and are apparently rechargable now.

 

[Dom Cruise]

At Target, seeing t shirts of stuff like Nicktoons, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball and Pokemon sold alongside boomer band shirts like Led Zeppelin and The Grateful Dead.

 

[Seven Costanza]

I've been out of college for 16 years.

My oldest kid will be in college in 10.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Going to bed early. I just have no reason to stay up late anymore. I'm 37, but I already feel like I've had enough of this "life" shit. I look forward to sleep, as fitful and broken as it's been lately. It's my only refuge.

 

[A Gay Retard]

I got ID'd for something today and it made my day.
I was pleased to discover recently the PSX memory card that I used to back up my primary memory card isn't corrupted and has saves from elementary school on it. The RPG characters are named after my friends.

 

[DatBepisTho]

Now that I think about it...
Nintendo originally putting out the "classic" reboots of the consoles, primarily the Nes and Snes, was a reminder.

 

[Meat Target]

The passage of time, and how it always seems to accelerate as I get older.

My jimmies are rustled that this month is already halfway over.

 

[Nutritious_Banana]

The fact that I can buy a. 99 gas station snack with a debit card. I remember when they first started becoming a thing, and almost every place had a minimum purchase threshold to offset debit fees, and fast food joints wouldn't even accept them.
Also, I found an old PC that had a folder full of longcat shoops saved on it. Remember Longcat? He sure was looooooooooooooooooooooooong.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Some times on websites that have an age restriction, I fill in the birthday as 2003 (I wasn't born in 2003). It just reminds me that 18 year olds today were born in 2003.

Something about the act of filling that out and not having it say "you are too young" just has more of an effect on me than just thinking about it.

Edit:

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.

I remember when I went to the Rockstar Games websites back in the day when 18 years old's were born in 1993. Many of the people playing Grand Theft Auto weren't even born during the times I accessed these websites.

 

[sharpshield]

The Sims 1 is 21 years old

 

[feedtheoctopus]

If I drink now I get debilitating hangovers for 3 straight days, if I smoke cigarettes I get sick, my back is all fucked up to the point that I can barely sleep, the shape and consistency of my stool is now an actual thing I need to worry about, my kidneys are shitting out on me, I go to bed earlier,...

The fucked up thing is I'm actually not that old. I just abused the shit out of my youth so horribly that now as I'm pushing 30 I'm feeling it. Believe me there's absolutely a such thing as way too much fun. And I was never that healthy to begin with. I seriously doubt I'll make it to 50.

 

[Cyberfunk]

Feeling nostalgic for windows 95, xp, msn, forums, irc chatrooms… Basically feeling nostalgic for pre social media internet when you consider the internet is not that old.

 

[Preferred Penne]

Back in March I reached the age of 37 1/2. That means that I am now closer to 50 than I am to 25.

 

[AcidityLiquidity]

porn. i still remember how i would pretend to go asleep and wait until 00:00 and turn on the movie channel that would show porn for a few hours. i did not even jerk off too it at first. i just watched it for a few minutes being fascinated of what i was watching. almost got caught a few times too. now days, jerking off to porn is more of a routine rather than something i used to be excited about. it have come too a point were most normal porn bores me and i have too see something out normal too get me excited (like cosplays for example).

Not on topic for the thread but, you should stop jerkin' your gerkin' if it has reached that point m8

Go for some nofap, aim for a month but if you can go at least a week you'll feel like you have a lot more energy and be refreshed to even vanilla stuff.