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I can't sleep any which way in bed (or elsewhere) these days, no more half side/half stomach kip. Oh no it's zero gravity setting on the bed on my back, with a low density down pillow for my head or on my side with a flat bed and a higher density down pillow under my head, a wool pillow between my knees and another low density down pillow for my arms. My back is a mess so it hurts to change positions. My ankles hate each other and can't stand to be stacked so I have to make sure the knee pillow covers the ankles too.

My husband builds his own pillow fort every night too.

I envy the cats who can sleep every which way and do so all day long.

Cardef1121 said:
Noticing that my Gmail/Google account is old enough to drink due to realizing how offended I would be if Youtube asked me to verify my age.
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I used the age thing with life events too. My marriage is finally old enough to run for president plus a hand's worth of fingers more years.
 
JaanTaam said:
The music young people listen to is fucking awful.

No matter what the year is, that's what everyone who is getting old has to say about young people's music right?
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That's almost the guaranteed proof you're old is if you bitch about the music young people listen to these days. It actually is fucking awful, though. Tbh I didn't really like the music young people were listening to when I was one, either.
 
JaanTaam said:
The music young people listen to is fucking awful.

No matter what the year is, that's what everyone who is getting old has to say about young people's music right?
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It's not even music. Either it's something completely unintelligible or just autotuned so hard there's not really a voice anymore.
 
AnOminous said:
That's almost the guaranteed proof you're old is if you bitch about the music young people listen to these days. It actually is fucking awful, though. Tbh I didn't really like the music young people were listening to when I was one, either.
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Idk if anybody else gets this vibe, but for a lot of songs these days the tone just feels less serious. Like every song feels some level of ironic, in a way where basically everything that's popular was specifically written to be "popular". It feels like very few songs come out of nowhere these days, and you never just hear a something and go "Oh, well that's different".
 
It's weird being an older zoomie and playing all those timeless 15 - 20 year old games (minecraft, team fortress 2, garry's mod, the original dark souls / demon souls), then talking to randoms online and realizing they weren't even born when those games came out
"I've been playing Minecraft since I was 5 - in 2014" made my joints hurt
this nigga was also EPI'd by DELTARUNE fans, not even undertale fans, but DELTARUNE fans, didn't know who idubbz or filthy frank were, and called limp bizkit "oldies music"

editing this message to make fun of the people who got EPI'd by Homestuck fans KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK you're like 35 now
 
Randy Facalding said:
It's weird being an older zoomie and playing all those timeless 15 - 20 year old games (minecraft, team fortress 2, garry's mod, the original dark souls / demon souls), then talking to randoms online and realizing they weren't even born when those games came out
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It's also crazy to realize that Minecraft Steve is likely much more Iconic than someone like Master Chief simply because of just how many kids played and are still playing Minecraft versus how many people grew up playing Halo.

It just points to a weird reality that while to people mid-late 20's and older Master Chief is obviously one of the most iconic characters of all time, there are probably 10x more people who've played Minecraft than people who played Halo.
 
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Rap has been ruined by SoundCloud mumbleshit. I’ll hear about some rapper named Lil Yung Nigg and how his single Mumble Mumble Muhfugga featuring Playboi Carti went 13x platinum, is called the voice of a generation by some wanky Rolling Stone article, and has more Grammy nominations than The Beatles! Then two years later his ass is back on SoundCloud again and nobody ever talks about Lil Yung Nigg again.

I don’t get it. Seems like it’s just a nonstop hype cycle where there’s a hit single and then that’s it for them.
 
getting sick and going on sick leave is no longer all yay videogames sleepy times fun times, its a pain in the ass and every day youre just praying for it to be over.
illnesses in general feel like on hard mode when youre older
 
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This was considered comically obese in 1995
 
I see a baby and may think "that kid's gonna be in his 20s in the 2040s".

Can you imagine how ass this would could be, in the far off year of 2040?

:thinking:
 
Irregardless said:
It's also crazy to realize that Minecraft Steve is likely much more Iconic than someone like Master Chief simply because of just how many kids played and are still playing Minecraft versus how many people grew up playing Halo.

It just points to a weird reality that while to people mid-late 20's and older Master Chief is obviously one of the most iconic characters of all time, there are probably 10x more people who've played Minecraft than people who played Halo.
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It feels like gaming mascots today have shifted radically since the 90s and 2000s.

90s: Sonic, Mario, Crash Bandicoot
2000s: Sonic, Mario, Master Chief
2010s: Sonic, Mario, Minecraft Steve, Kratos maybe?
2020s: Same.

Obviously, only Mario and Sonic remain the consistent mascots. The funny thing is that today's players will see Minecraft as a Microsoft thing when it was an acquisition deal, when Minecraft had no affiliation besides itself before the acquisition.

Speaking of games, getting older, I thought it was a myth that people only talked online about. But, you do tend to start giving less and less of a shit about some of your hobbies. There just comes this level of expectancy in your life that you're supposed to behave like. It feels like I'm supposed to care about sports, go out to bars and fuck around in life being a wage slave while cracking unfunny jokes with friends who managed to stick by me. Like as if life is supposed to be boring while everything gang rapes you out of money, health and happiness.
 
pyrinyx said:
It feels like gaming mascots today have shifted radically since the 90s and 2000s.

90s: Sonic, Mario, Crash Bandicoot
2000s: Sonic, Mario, Master Chief
2010s: Sonic, Mario, Minecraft Steve, Kratos maybe?
2020s: Same.

Obviously, only Mario and Sonic remain the consistent mascots. The funny thing is that today's players will see Minecraft as a Microsoft thing when it was an acquisition deal, when Minecraft had no affiliation besides itself before the acquisition.

Speaking of games, getting older, I thought it was a myth that people only talked online about. But, you do tend to start giving less and less of a shit about some of your hobbies. There just comes this level of expectancy in your life that you're supposed to behave like. It feels like I'm supposed to care about sports, go out to bars and fuck around in life being a wage slave while cracking unfunny jokes with friends who managed to stick by me. Like as if life is supposed to be boring while everything gang rapes you out of money, health and happiness.
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It’s because vidya accomplishments are hollow and empty. The things you do in the “real world” are a lot more significant. Beating a 40 hour RPG felt awesome as a 10 year old but if you just finished managing a multimillion dollar project or some shit, the RPG just does not compare. Then if you add in a family, a couple hours of quiet time is even more satisfying than a video game. It sucks because now that I have the money, I don’t have the time or interest.
 
I just watched the first episode of Uramichi Oniisan. All of the characters are severely burnt out, and they're all younger than I am.
 
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