I’m currently going through the junior year of my high school, that was 20 years ago exactly. It has been 22 years since my favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, had finally broken their Curse of the Bambino in 2004. The Harry Potter main book series ended 19 years ago while the film series ended 15 years ago.
Last weekend I bought a switch 2, and a father and son were in front of me. I got the pokopia bundle, they got Mario kart. The kid was telling me pokopia was really good, and asked if I ever played Mario kart. So I told him the last time I played that was on the Nintendo 64 in like 1999 when I was about his age
The kid thinks for a bit, and goes “oh wow, I didn’t know you were an old lady!”
Ahahaha
In a way he kinda complimented you! You don’t look or seem old, at least 😆
Yeah, it’s sort of a compliment I guess.
Old meaning experienced gamer!
My kids keep asking me if I played the same games when I was their age (Mario Odyssey, Sonic and Mario at the Olympics, Ori and the Blind Forest, etc). I keep telling them that I played other sonic and Mario games, but these specific ones didn’t exist back then. They’re still confused about WTF sort of ancient historical time that was. Same with their Android tablets and asking me if I had one as a kid.
Ha. Similarly, I was at a big music festival a few years ago, taking to a random 20- something dude. I mentioned which bands I was there to see and he just yelled “YOU’RE OOOLD!” at me.
Tech. I hate new tech more and more every year. I used to love new tech it was awesome and exciting even enjoyably silly at times.
Now I hate it. Everything spies on you. Everything is used to persecute you. Being online used to be a refuge from the shit sandwich of life, now it’s become the destroyer of worlds. While there is still some good tech news, it’s too often just bullshit wrapped up in surveillance packages.
Want to just EMP the world now
I feel this.
Remember when tech was weird, innovative, and wacky? Doing crazy things, and not always successfully. Especially around desktop computers.
and yeah, now its all plastic slop that listens to everything you do and reports back to some big database, that gets sold to and merged with other databases to build massive profiles about you. Oh watched video about drugs in 2023? No health insurance for you in 2045 because the profile has labeled you a drug user.
I genuinely think the last tech thing I had any excitement over was the initial Ryzen release, cause the chiplet design and unbelievable amount of cores you could have were just technically interesting at the time… and yet, somehow, despite going from 4 threads to 12 threads, things are still slower and more clunky… and thats because no one bothers to optimize anymore and just relies on brute force CPU/GPU horsepower to get through.
technology now is not just creepware feeding the profile, its also just boring and unimpressive and stupid (like toasters that require a live service that cant make toast anymore after the company shuts down)
Snoop and Eminem are grandparents.
Ugh, okay, that hurt
About 15 years ago I started hearing Nirvana on classic rock stations.
A few years ago I started to hear “Guns n’ Roses” songs in the local supermarket (think Walmart but in France). I almost vomit.
I remember Modest Mouse getting big and thinking at the time that it was for the generation after me. Just a few years ago I heard Float On in the grocery store. Real circle of life moment.
I paid a couple kids to shovel my sidewalk. That was the moment I knew I was old.
With age came wisdom
And back pain.
And cash.
I finally really realized both that I am old and that I am mortal after both my parents died.
Got something you want to do? Get cracking.
Recently I was listening in on a conversation and someone said “It was 15 years ago” and my reaction to that was “So not that long ago” 💀
That all my fun symptoms are “just peri menopause” FML
Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior, HRT?
I do but apparently no doctor around me believes in anything but birth control 🙃
🫂 That’s pretty typical. Getting a doctor who will give a shit about your hormonal health and emotional well-being is hard. The only suggestions I have are to keep trying different doctors, advocate loudly for yourself, and try in a less conservative area.
Online doctors can frequently be more understanding as well, and if you are capable of research and monitoring your health mostly yourself, a good option.
That’s probably my plan when I’m employed again.
Dad dying didn’t help, but more and more it’s the simple fact that I need a little ibuprofen to get through the day without my knees hurting.
It’s Quake’s 30th anniversary this year.
It seems like five minutes, not five years, since the 25th.
Next year my age has a five in it, five years after it last did. I cannot comprehend this. I’m still the teen who became obsessed with Quake. How did this happen?
My class didn’t know who Quentin Tarantino is.
you, writing that 2004 is 22 years ago
My 20th high school reunion is coming up…
Have lived through the cycle of baggy pants, skinny pants, and now back to baggy pants.
(I’m sure someone older will be along that has gone through more cycles than that)
When people stopped seeing me. If they notice me at all, they immediately avert their gaze and look right past me. I used to get more attention than that.
Whenever someone posts “Are you this old?”, and it’s a picture of an original iPod, or an original Razr, or similar.
When I remember my son is the same age I was when I got married.
When I think about how many pets I’ve had, and they’re all dead now.
When 40-year-olds talk about how old they feel.
If it makes you feel any better, I’m 40 and I still feel like I’m barely out of my twenties
Jerry Cantrell has a song called “Psychotic Break” that has the line: “Chalking up my dead friends and loved ones long gone.” When I first heard that in 2002, I thought, “man, that must be an awful feeling.” I just heard it again yesterday and after I heard that line, now I get it.
When you’re a five year old, one year is 20% of your entire life. When you’re a 50 year old, it’s 2%. As you get older, time passing does speed up, at least from your older perspective.
For me, and I know it’s a bit of a meme, but the 1970s really do feel like they were only 30 years ago. It’s like my brain picked 2000 as the point from which I understand and reference the passage of time. I have no doubt that when I’ve been alive longer in the 2000s than the 1900s I still won’t feel like that’s true.
