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 😆
Similarly, I heard a kid call the Xbox 360 “vintage” the other day. I started to argue that it’s not that old. It only released in… (Checks release date)… 2005? Oh shit it’s over 20 years old. That’s the same as child-me considering the NES vintage when I was playing my PS1.
The PS1 came out 10 years after the NES not 20. So you considering the NES vintage in the latter half of the 90s would be like considering the PS1 vintage when the Xbox 360 came out.
Or more recently, thinking the Switch is vintage
Y2K was half a lifetime ago.
y2k really highlighted how stupid people were.
cause after it passed, there was soooo much about how it was stupid, pointless, etc, because nothing happened.
completely ignorant and oblivious to all the work that went into making sure it was boring do nothing event.
I ain’t dying at 50 but you do you
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)
I counted the other day for a different comment and I’ve not been speaking to my mother for 14 years.
Recently realized I’ve gained weight seemingly overnight. Used to be rather skinny. Then I started thinking when this must have started and it’s been 7 years.
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.
you, writing that 2004 is 22 years ago
My 20th high school reunion is coming up…
When an old, wrinkled, grey haired person, started talking to me about an old thing, and then didn’t have experience about the things before it, like I did.
This was a while back. It makes me pretty happy now when it happens tbh. The people are always surprised, and I now realize they don’t expect me to be that old. I’ve noticed that sometimes they seem to even be a little surprised when I know about whatever things they’re talking about to begin with.
I’m older than old people! I made it. Wtf?!
About 15 years ago I started hearing Nirvana on classic rock stations.
That all my fun symptoms are “just peri menopause” FML
Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior, HRT?
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?
Honestly, I’ve never felt old in my entire life.
But just from looking at me, most people cannot guess my actual age. Part of me is starting to worry that there’s a picture around here somewhere that I definitely should not look at.
I paid a couple kids to shovel my sidewalk. That was the moment I knew I was old.
With age came wisdom
And cash.
And back pain.
My class didn’t know who Quentin Tarantino is.
Jesus. When I was in college we’d catch the C-Train (subway) to Esso Plaza for the dollar-seat second-run cinema, which had Pulp Fiction playing.
I referred to “Shin Godzilla” as “That newer Godzilla movie.”
It came out 10 years ago.
I’ve always (at least since my teens) considered any movie that came out within the last ~10 years to be “relatively new/recent”. Anything less than 3 years is new/recent. Same for music.
