Stuff that makes you feel old

[Darksy DePhil]

Realizing 32-bit has become obsolete

 

[Internet_Loner]

Those stupid fucking logo redesigns and calorie counts on the front of packaging.

 

[Sonic30]

You feel old because you listen to "The Beatles" and are a low energy hipster. You got nothing but blame yourself for poor decisions on taste. Liberals are tricksters

 

[Tootsie Bear]

The decline of smaller casinos. Growing up my parents, being both introverts, preferred to gamble at smaller casinos. As such my memories of traveling to and from, and dining in, is a thing of the past as smaller casinos fail to adapt in a ever changing market and close down.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

I remember the first thing I did after getting my driver's license was taking my friends to go see Snakes on a Plane in theaters opening night.

 

[Gravemind]

Looking through this thread made me think.

I miss the delusion of getting near endless replayability and entertainment from objectively short games. I really could keep playing the same thing and make virtually no progress whatsoever from just running around and soaking in the environment, music, and setting, which was partially due to the fact that I was, evidently, too autistic to make progress in games back then. Nowadays, I can go back and play older titles that I used to spend days in and blow through them very quickly, oftentimes without even remembering exactly how to progress off the top of my head and instead just figuring everything out on my own.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I end up kicking myself a lot like, "How was I THIS stupid back then?", when I get through older games lately. And I end up lamenting the fact that I can no longer just immerse myself in a game for mindless entertainment for hours on end without some kind of busywork to do. Say, for instance, the old 3D era GTA games. I used to be perfectly content to just explore or constantly go on rampages when I was a young kid playing GTA3 or Vice City. Now, I can finish up the story in GTA5 and, despite having not only the basic means to do the things I used to find endlessly entertaining when I was younger, but also a far more interactive and intuitive sandbox with which to do those things in, I just feel absolutely no compulsion and no sense of fun from trying to do those things anymore. I have more fun having a set objective or goal in mind rather than making my own fun, which ends up feeling rather dull in the latter case.

The ignorance of youth really is blissful.

 

[Synthetic Smug]

Friends who have been dead longer than they were alive.

 

[The Fair Lady]

-Pretty much everything to do with the early internet; AIM, Quizilla, Flowgo, eBaum's World, Dollz, etc. I remember when YouTube was new.
-How anything that came out in the 2000's or 2010's is considered old now.
-Childhood TV stars being in their 30's.
-The fact that the Playstation 2 is 21 years old and the Xbox 360 is 16.
-Almost all of my cousins being married, engaged, or with kids of their own.
-VHS tapes.

 

[Shitted Scaredless]

I'm not even in the prime of my life and my joints are ancient

 

[Jason Wynn]

finding out this website is still up and running

Retro Junk

You memory machine

www.retrojunk.com

This is where nostalgiafags went before YouTube

 

[Lou’s Biggest Fan]

I remember playing Daggerfall for the first time when it came out and now I was reminded that Skyrim is 10 years old this year. Fuck this shit.

 

[WhoIsSutterKane]

when i walk into a gas station and i hear music from when i was in high school (graduated 2006)

 

[PFM]

Playing Team Fortress 2 with kids that weren't old enough or even born to have played it when it came out

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

I remember when a really drunk bar regular actually took home the tranny trying to scam straight men into fucking them, he beat the shit out of them when the cock appeared and the police were perfectly fine with his actions.
And this was a bar attached to a pretty good texmex place which I miss.
Ah the good ole' days.

 

[SITHRAK!]

I miss Jagged Alliance 2. Tried to play it again recently and just couldn’t, and no other turn based game seems to scratch the itch. That makes me feel old.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

The ps2 is older than most of the people you see interacting online at any given time, i have nothing new to look forward to, everything seems like a retraced step and i long for the sweet release of death

 

[Cyclonus]

I remember when "64 bit" sounded impressive even though nobody knew what a bit actually was.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

"I remember a time when liberals defended free speech."

Damn, just how old are you grandpa?

Seriously though, one thing that reminds me I'm old is the SNES Classic. Anything that I grew up with bring referred to as an "oldie" or a "classic" is like "oh right im ancient".

 

[Car Won't Crank]

The fact that narrow body twin jets like the 737 and A321 are used regularly in many transcontinental and transatlantic routes. Even the Bombardier C series aka A220 also has ETOPS. Before, those routes were handled by big wide bodies like the 767 and A330. Man I miss the wide body trijets too like the DC10 and L1011.

 

[SITHRAK!]

The fact that narrow body twin jets like the 737 and A321 are used regularly in many transcontinental and transatlantic routes. Even the Bombardier C series aka A220 also has ETOPS. Before, those routes were handled by big wide bodies like the 767 and A330. Man I miss the wide body trijets too like the DC10 and L1011.

A fucking DC-9 flew over my place two days ago. Haven’t seen one of them where at am for at least 4 years. Wuflu is a hell of a drug.