“Now” is relative, right?
I’m 60, and the list is long, but I read /r/Teachers and seriously don’t get what’s going on in public schools now. I can say that public school was CERTAINLY better when I was a kid. Grades mattered, kids got held back (and other kids shamed them for it), no eating in class, turn your assignments in on time, stay in your seat, pay attention, and shut up. Apparently, none of that applies now?
And, don’t try to say “it’s Covid”. Yeah, it’s gotten a little worse since then, but this shit has been increasing since long before five years ago. Also, yeah, “parents”, but schools traditionally have been the place where kids got an education in spite of how dumb their parents were, that was the fucking point.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, there’s a cloud outside my window that needs a dressing down.
My back hurts.
I refuse to support or use subscription software, because back in my day we paid for software once and if we wanted a newer version we had the choice to just stew in our bug ridden version lacking the latest features forever and WE WERE HAPPY TO DO SO
I miss the days where you would actually own a copy of what you purchased. I also miss going to movie rental places.
When this happened.
These youngunns and their docker containers…
It’s fine and all, but I prefer to run stuff without them
Can’t code without a mouse. What the fuck does a mouse have to do with code! If I want to shoot nazis, I’ll go plug my mouse in.
Or if I’m coding a game that requires a mouse to play. Fuckin peeks and pokes. I miss my good old INPUT “What do?”, cmd$
Seeing fashion from the 90’s and early 2000’s come back into style.
Seeing much younger versions of myself wearing the goth stuff I kept for nostalgia reasons made me try it on again.
Turns out my parents were right, it was a phase. Damnit.
(Again)
My knees randomly hurt for no reason!
I woke up this morning barely able to walk on my left foot. No idea what happened to it, was fine yesterday.
67 did it for me. I tried to understand it and reflexivity said “well that’s fucking dumb” before realizing that’s literally the point. And we’ve all done anti-authority shit at some point. This random act of nothing is what a constantly surveilled generation does to elicit a reaction against a system that has proven it can ignore everyone.
I need to hold my phone further and further away for the letters to not be blurry
Some of them I have given up on 🤦
Me as a kid “Man, those grownups who don’t like kids are evil people. I’ll never become one of them.”
Me 30 years later: “Goddammit.”
Technology is stupid, things where better in the old days
Tech peaked around 2010 ish. Nothing after that is needed and is mostly to steal data for advertising and spying.
“I used to be ‘with it’, then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’, and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me”
—Abe SimpsonI’ve always been an old soul, and unfortunately an old body as well. I had shingles when I was 10, developed cataracts at 30 and arthritis at 35.
EDIT:
I think it was 12 not 10 that I had shingles. I also had shingles again a few years ago.
Easily get tired of dumb questions on Lemmy.
Back when that South Park episode aired, where the kids are into rockband, but don’t care about Randy’s ability to play real guitar. Randy doesn’t get it. This is then compared to Kyle’s baby brother Ike who likes to watch Lets Play streamers but does not actually play the damn video games. Kyle doesn’t get it. To me, that’s when divergence between me and the next generation settled in. I do not understand the appeal of streamers. I do not want to watch people play games, I want to play games myself.
Since then, a number of other things have popped up, but that was basically the recognized turning point.
I started watching people play games because I got old. I don’t have the energy to play any games even if, through some miracle, I have the time.
Yeah I do play one game but resisted for the longest time. There’s no way I can invest the time to get good enough to have fun.
Even learning the controller was a huge time investment - so different from the simple joystick I learned on as a teenager
Eventually I did but only to game with my kids. It’s been a ton of fun …… because they know what they’re doing. However in the last few years they’ve moved on to other games and no longer want to play “the one”. While I understand that, now I’m back at step one, I don’t know how to play and don’t have the time to invest. At least I’m familiar with a controller but ….
I’m fine watching them play, and I’ll stick with the casual games that really don’t require an investment
Then you may consider requesting from your government to facilitate and fund research to develop real aging-reversal therapies. They will not be available next year, but with right focus they could be here in 10-20 years.
Bttf2 had it right, when the kids are like, you have to play the game? (When marty shows them how good he is at the arcade game). Thats like a stupid baby game!!"
Made me laugh because its so true now.
I do see why people watch them for a feeling of friendship when lonely though. Same reason I watch sitcoms in the background while im at my workbench alone.
It was around 2016, I was about 25, and I went camping with some friends for a few days.
Up until that point, I felt like I had managed to stay relatively “with-it”
But we had little to no Internet access for a few days, because that’s how camping works.
I came back and dat boi was all over the internet.
I had no idea what was going on with that meme, it never quite clicked for me
And from there it was all downhill, more and more new memes just stopped making sense to me.
That’s the best part of getting older. 6,7? Don’t know Don’t care
