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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:55 am Post subject:
Getting older Subject description: When does someone take me out back?
So a combination of things happened today. I realized a friend may never stop being retarded, or at least during my lifespan. I saw a twitter from someone in the younger generation asking when the older generations would move on or die already so they could step up, totally discarding the fact that the most common denominator about the lower generations in MY field are that they are entitled, underqualified morons. Finally, I noticed a Souper was born in 1993.
My first car is older than this person. I had it up until a few years ago in fact and it worked fine. Let's note also:
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The first season of the science fiction television series The X-Files commenced airing on the Fox network in the United States on September 10, 1993
I've watched this show start to end, and they just BARELY are older than it. By a few meager months. Not even SIX months.
Is this what it's like? NIN songs I started with are 20 years old, The Cosmos series is incredibly old (and no longer well known!), when you tell people you started using the internet on BBS, they say that they too used a BBS forum (referring to PHP-based forums such as this) and the people you looked up to are dying off.
Sonic is something incredibly different from what I knew. Metal Gear...fuck. Technical or hacking skills that were once...commonplace to programmers and hackers are now NICHE AMONG DEVELOPERS/PROGRAMMERS.
"What, you use Linux other than Debian, Redhat or Ubuntu? What's Ratpoison window manager? You can log into your computer remotely, without (insert shit remote software or remote desktop)? What do you mean you don't use an overexpensive antivirus program?"
The list goes on.
Anyone else feeling this? This paired with no-Vita has me majorly down recently. I don't even want to play videogames really or program outside of work. I just sit around playing guitar or reading.
Ah yeah, the getting older thing. My nerdiness phases it out often-times (cartoons, comics and whatnot) and thanks to the clusterfuck that is the economy, I'm an unemployed 27-year-old who lives with his parents (or at least, very close to them). Makes it hard to let the age settle in.
I realized I was getting older a couple of years back, when my body's responses changed altogether. It takes longer to heal or rest, harder to lose weight or hold my liquer and I need to warm up a lot before working out.
But the funniest realization came a few years back, when it hit me that I was still watching Power Rangers, which had cast people considerably younger than me.
Haha, I jest. To be fair I dont remember exact years, I have to reference them from events of the time. Random things like Asterix in America and Mrs. Doubfire. I remember my parents being concerned that The Nightmare Before Christmas would freak me out. Batman The Animated series was being shown at the time. I remember liking Batman a lot and being annoyed we missed the start of Batman Forever at the cinema and demanding we get it on video later. In fact the cinema and department store in question no longer exist.
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Ah yeah, the getting older thing. My nerdiness phases it out often-times (cartoons, comics and whatnot) and thanks to the clusterfuck that is the economy, I'm an unemployed 27-year-old who lives with his parents (or at least, very close to them). Makes it hard to let the age settle in.
Ah my nerding out is ever present, probably because I don't live with parents and have an equally nerdy other half to live with the last 5 years.
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:38 am Post subject:
The song Sk8er Boi was just 10 yrs. old. That I couldn't believe. But time usually goes so fast for me anyway. I feel rather older when I see my brother still going to Prom and other HS events, but then on the other hand, they can seem just like yesterday. I live most in the moment I think anyway. I don't think of anyone as old..unless they act like they are or complain of the things they wish they would have done when younger. I don't think it's ever too late to begin something new. I sometimes still think of going to school for Orthodonics or Teaching. As long as you have interests, I don't think the feeling of growing old, getting old or feeling old would be a thought. I mean, you are the age you are, and lots of things come with that age. I think it's rather awesome.
But yes, I can do that too. I remember when my dad was away in the Navy and he was coming home the same weekend Disney's Tarzan came out in theaters in 99' or when my friend jumped infront of a train to kill herself when we were all in the 10th grade and I think of where she would be right now in her life if she got better from her problems.
Getting older to me is a gift. I'm just very happy to get from one year to the next.
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Zerim
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Location: Istanbul - Turkey Gender: Male Age: 22
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:32 pm Post subject:
I first wrote paragraphs of text to reply with, talking about how this is a cycle of nature and how people who feel old today, used to be the kids of yesterday and that everyone's a newcomer at some point and so on and so forth, but then I realized I was trying to give advice about getting old to a guy older than me so I stopped and wrote this instead.
-Hey Zerim, is Deus Ex really all you ever think about?
-Yes.
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Location: Los Angeles, CA MGO Name: Ravi Singh Gender: Male Age: 25
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:35 pm Post subject:
When I found out that Whitney Houston died today and I heard someone go "Who's Whitney Houston?" I felt old.
Then again, I feel old at bars and clubs because all the guys are drinking beers and shit while I'm drinking my bourban in ice or Long Island Iced Tea.
Zerim
Cool Raiden moving without awkward feel in 60 frames
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:44 pm Post subject:
I don't feel old yet. I don't feel "young" either though.
I'm totally out of touch with every generation, don't know their social norms or any of that shit. So if I have to label it, I'd say I feel like an outcast more than anything. And that I think is really what people mean by "old"- cast out, left behind.
And so, because I can't belong in my generation, I'll never actually feel "old". I've never been a member of the "current" generation, so I'll never experience being kicked out of that club. Whether that's a good or a bad thing I have no idea.
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"Credibility lasts about two cycles of bad material, and then you'll probably never get it back." - Louis C.K.
Then again, I feel old at bars and clubs because all the guys are drinking beers and shit while I'm drinking my bourban in ice or Long Island Iced Tea.
Word. I can attest to that as well. It's ten times worse when I'm drinking alone in a bar.
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