>conversation pit
Aside from imitating a hot tub without being a water feature, that's actually designed to impress your guests with a less cluttered view of your supposedly expensive furniture.
Impressing people with your home was very important back then. Flaunting it was how you made friends and connections.
Can confirm. My grandparents house had 2 steps that led into the living room. I used to do karate kicks off of them and Dark Souls roll into the fireplace.
My parents recently sold my childhood home. When they were moving out they couldn't get something out of the basement so they literally built an extra door just to get it out. Whoever bought the house is going to be scratching their head as to why there are 2 doors into the garage which are 5 feet from each other.
I've been looking at houses recently. Found one house that is from 1900, but was recently gutted and renovated, new everything. It's very odd though, it sits right beside a small road, with hardly any room to park. It also has two front doors, both leading into the same room, though one directly faces a staircase when coming in. I'm pretty sure it was a store at one point, and that the door in front of the stairs lead to an upstairs apartment.
I always hated shit like this. Everyone just falling asleep at random in a room together would leave me anxious. Partially because everyone liked pranking me, but also because I'd inevitably wake up like an hour later feeling like shit.
I'd always stay up with the last person. This meant I ended up bonding with my uncle's friends a lot, but I always felt like I was just entertaining them and we weren't really friends or anything.
I'm 30 years old. While this would be fun to do with friends now, I think you just naturally age out of this shit. I'm sure the kids nowadays stay up all night playing Fortnite and making tiktoks and shit too
The late 90s smelled awful. Every house smelled like cat piss, cigarettes, and body spray. People had to empty entire cans of Lysol into rooms almost every day.
In 1995, 25% of ALL adults were smokers. It was everywhere. And even if you lived in a house with no smokers, like I did, family members and neighbors would come over and smoke in your house. My elementary school had a dedicated smoking room for the staff/teachers to go smoke in.
White middle class americans don't leave dogshit laying around their lawn and if for some reason would step in it, we clean our shoes immediately. The fricks wrong with you.
yes, i tend to take my shoes off and leave them near the door so i can put them on again before leaving, must seem so strange to europeans who leave their shoes outside
We had it good in the before-fore times and long to return.
Zoomies don't understand because they grew up in the thereafter. They don't know what was lost.
Spoken like someone who didn't catch their wife meeting up with their ex while your at work and have to smoke weed to sleep so you don't dream because otherwise literally actually every night you dream about still being in love with your wife and can't function having those thoughts and feelings waking up every day.
Spoken like a victim. If it was recent shitsux bro, if it happened a while ago let it the frick go and start learning how to look forward to things again.
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Yes, I am a victim of my wife's infidelity, that's exactly what I said. That quote is garbage only for someone who had a spouse that died and no one else
I have watched every good thing leave or be taken away from me. I'm a shell of man. I'm already dead, a walking corpse, completely broken. I don't care about what happens to me. I can't find joy in anything. I'm simply waiting to die.
Would I have been more functional if I never had a good thing at all? Probably. Maybe I wouldn't have been happy but I wouldn't have been completely broken and miserable either. I'd just be neutral or numb.
white boys would use sleepovers as an excuse to get together and do gay shit to each other like whoever lost first in Mario party had to give everyone else head
reminded me of the time some anon mentioned pulling pictures off an old digital camera and posted a creep shot of a cute scene chick with her face hidden but one of his friends leering in the corner with a "caught you bro" face
I will never get this back. I hate it. i hate being 32. I will never go over to my rich friends house and play manhunt in the fricking forest on his property ever again...
I love being 32 but I hate the other millennials who are too irony-poisoned to drop the feeling of being perceived to actually maintain a friendship with personal contact.
my best friend died who had dozens of lifelong friends and family across multiple states and there were 5 people at the wake including myself
i even wrote an attempt at a speech and everything
idk whats worse, losing your friend to death or losing your friend to life like this anon
"best" friend had a kid with his gf, one night said he was gonna hop on after putting his kid to sleep. he never did, hasn't replied to my dms for months, and whenever hes online hes playing a game with his gf. it is what it is
the latter is what I'm currently experiencing and I just don't know how to handle it. it makes me angry, but I try to keep myself busy too so I don't feel the emotions take over. I just hate how badly I want friends again.
it's made watching sol anime more melancholy for me, since i can't help but think about how inevitable it is to just drift apart from the people you used to know as life happens.
idk, it just bums me out when I get to see so many other people around me still have their day 1 friends and get to enjoy even a full week of time together, playing games or whatever. I can't even get a day or 5 minutes anymore. all because my friends drifted away and the last one I have wants to pursue fricking twitch of all things. he has plenty of friends but doesn't bother to hang out with me anymore. idk what the frick to do anymore and it's making me go insane, i just want to share laughs and goofs with cool friends again. some fricking bullshit, life is.
"best" friend had a kid with his gf, one night said he was gonna hop on after putting his kid to sleep. he never did, hasn't replied to my dms for months, and whenever hes online hes playing a game with his gf. it is what it is
Had a best friend for over 10 years. Made ironic/dark/racist/misogynistic jokes ALL of the time. Then moved somewhere else, we didn't talk/write to each other every day anymore. This went on for a little bit over a year. I always tried ti keep in touch all this time but always got turned down. Then he asked me out of nowhere to play Counter Strike with him. I was really happy.
Then we played for a bit and the whole thing was just awkward as frick. Went on for a while and I don't even remember anymore what I said, but his response was >I'm a feminist now
Told him I have to go ten minutes later and never talked more than a few sentences with him again.
that's an annoying thing with friends too...when they change. it's out of our control, but it's still a fricking bummer nontheless when you two share good jokes and memories with each other all for it to mean nothing. to amount to rubbish.
old best friend of mine transitioned and never was the same again. the rest of them moved on with wives or gfs, or just other friends. I'm just tired of trying now, I gave up reaching out.
2007 actually. When the first iPhone launched. Before then in order to post on the internet you had to be sitting at a computer. Giving every random Brazilian and Black person internet access 24/7 is what killed the world.
>Before then in order to post on the internet you had to be sitting at a computer.
No, we had blackberries and shit before then, and there were devices even earlier like palm pilots, the apple newton, that could use a mobile version of the internet. hell, even a bunch of nokia flip or slider phones had color screens that let you post things on phone internet blogs and send messages like in a chat. it just kind of sucked, it was cool but if you wanted a convo it was easier to call the person and you didnt want to spend all your time looking at some stupid phone when you could be living and meeting people IRL.
your sentiment though is correct, shit started rapidly going downhill once the iphone came out. I was too young (only 14) for the summer of 97 i.e. eternal september which apparently ruined usenet lol
Were Black folk and children using blackberries and palm pilots? No. The adoption of the smartphone by the masses is exactly why the internet went to shit.
Smartphone users cannot fathom how truly terrible the early mobile internet was. Hell, I had a Blackberry which came pretty late in that phase and it was still super awful to use for anything that wasn't just SMS. It was almost as bad as using a WebTV, and most of the time even slower.
Also Eternal September was 1993, the year of America Online.
Yeah. and thanks for the correction on the date. and speaking of smartphones, I swear I'm still faster on those old physical blackboard keyboards. also I was a beast at one handed T9 when not even looking doing stealth texting
I had WebTV when I was like fricking 9 or 10. My grandparents bought it for me. I will never forget the connection screen. It was like an image of a moving highway or something. I felt like I was in the fricking future. My grandparents are also insane.
>blackberries and shit
you were too young to know what you're talking about
before the iphone there was no such thing as a mobile browser that 1) rendered almost identical to how it would on a PC 2) ran flash really well.
All mobile browsers before the iphone were terrible web 1.0 html only poorly formatted unusable shit messes.
I'm not a iphone or apple dick rider but it's just a fact and anyone who says otherwise wasnt there. I had plenty of pre-iphone smart phones (palm treo 600, sony clio, original blackberry) and the iphone was just on a whole different level.
>clio
also it's clie and haha I had one of those until that stupid screen fricked up after just a year where every tap would register an inch to the side
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Anonymous
yeah you're right it is clie, it's been like 20 years since I even thought about that thing.
but all macho internet shit aside, I really do think you're wrong about the iphone. I was born in 87 and I bought the first iphone on release. I was really into any kind of mobile technology at the time and pretty much tried at all. We can agree to disagree but personally I found browsing on the iphone in a completely different league than anything else on the market at the time.
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I also got the iphone on release. hm, maybe you didn't read my initial post clearly enough? I said that the iphone was the downfall, but the person to whom I was replying had said that there wasn't mobile internet or anything like that before. I said that the iphone was revolutionary just like eternal september was revolutionary. but saying that there wasn't mobile internet culture and shit before the iphone is flat out wrong
No one cared about the first iPhone. They didn't arrive in the third world until much later, since they were expensive. Brazilians were on the internet for a long time, they used a platform called Orkut instead of Myspace.
>third worlders on the internet killed the world
Nah, that was you american homosexuals. You gays brought politics and used the internet as a weapon. Remember Occupy Wall Street? Yeah.
>The majority of internet users in the 90s are white middle class Americans >Internet is fantastic >Give Black folk and Europeans internet in their pocket at all times >Internet is garbage
>Remember Occupy Wall Street?
when billionaires shit themselves and started a culture war to make people in-fight to forget about the billionaires actually causing the problems?
yeah we all remember that
just no-one talks about it because they're too busy arguing why fat black women should/shouldnt be in everything now
>Giving every random Brazilian and Black person internet access 24/7 is what killed the world.
you are aware that it was mostly fricking mutts that ruined everything right?
O agree that "unilimited" intenet acces ruined society but the blame is on 1st world countries, spreading hedonism.
yeah this is true at least as far as the internet is concerned
a lot of shit happened in 2012 that flooded the internet with normalgays ruining it forever.
life and society in general, i feel like 2013 was the last proper good year. 2014 and 2015 werent bad but shit really started plummeting from 2016.
They were right.
That's when "IT" happened.
Things are not what they seem to be.
Things will only get worse forever.
People are lying to you in your personal life.
I was born in 88 and the good times just haven't stopped for me. Sure, there's been a lot of down times, times where I was unhappy, but life is what you make it and there can be enjoyment found in everything. I know not everyone can have this mindset but I wish they could, I legit feel bad for people who are constantly reminiscing about the "good old days" instead of trying to find happiness in the moment.
Being born close to or at the beginning of a new decade tends to alienate you from the sentiment of people born early in the previous one. Being born in 1988 is basically like being born in 1990, and people born in the '90s tend to be more optimistic than people who actually have memories of the '80s. That's my experience anyway.
i grew up. all my friends got gf's/wives (me included) and kids. fortunately my bird is fine with me fricking off for a few days on a bender around a mates still. only real difference is we have to book the stuff weeks/months in advance I guess.
I can at least trace the point of no return: Obama's presidency. >having no plans to pull out of Bush's forever wars in the middle east, and in fact his administration saw the widescale use of drone strikes on civilians >the complete upending of race relations in America >the gradual beginnings of deputizing left wing/minority crime to turn them into borderline shock troopers for the Democrat party >the gradual beginnings of attempting to poke the Russian bear and start global shit with them again >Occupy Wall Street being completely subverted and turning the mainstream voting left into embarrassing cryptocapitalist neolibs >the utter failure of Obamacare
One great example is the tray on martin case,
Black kid attacks a Mexican israelite in neighborhood where break ins were on the rise with tools used for breaking into homes in his backpack and gets killed while slamming the Mexican-jews head on the pavement and Obama basically came out and said it was completely white peoples fault because all white people are racist, trayvon dindu nuffin.
And now we have George Floyd. Most news caster refuse to tell us that it was a black that is doing all the crimes in the past decade, but they sure as hell will let us know if its white, asian, Hispanic, or any other race.
And then they vote everything that would make their life harder, like open borders, light on crime, sanctuary cites, and all the other stuff just because ORANGE MAN BAD. It pisses me off the war that is happening, the "peaceful protest", the giant inflation, all stems from those frickers. A good amount of them probably never work a day in their life or out of twitters.
Open borders has nothing to do with liberals. It's explicitly to decrease the value of your labor to increase corporate profits. Half of Trump's hotel staff are illegals. Its also why food prices have outrun inflation. It's ok if you can't afford a $12 Big Mac, because for every working class American that no longer can they're 3 Mexicans on the dole that can. Your business is no longer necessary.
again, it's all the boomers fault.
We could save the world by taking that generation out early. Unironically.
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Anonymous
Boomers are shit, but they're not the ones that have created the illegal immigration problem. That's directly a result of congressional lobbyists. Plenty of non boomer members of Congress on their payroll. Walmart and Coca Cola are why the country is being invaded.
The right hasn't actually won a presidential election in my lifetime.
I'm getting really sick of watching the guys with fewer votes ruin the country.
We thought Bush was a once in a century fluke, but THEN IT FRICKING HAPPENED AGAIN.
Cia killed Kennedy and has been installing their puppets ever since.
Lincoln was a whig, who wanted top down control of the USA to be returned to the crown, that switched to "republican" when he couldn't get a single vote.
Almost all American politics is boiling frogs to return control to international banks
3 months ago
Anonymous
I see you're a Tier 2 conspiracy theorist. I myself am a Tier 11.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Cia killed Kennedy and has been installing their puppets ever since.
Lincoln was a whig, who wanted top down control of the USA to be returned to the crown, that switched to "republican" when he couldn't get a single vote.
Almost all American politics is boiling frogs to return control to international banks
Actually I take that back, you're more like a tier 3.
3 months ago
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Do you have a tier list?
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>Tier 0 : Total ignorance. A temporary state that wears off sooner or later depending on intelligence level and media exposure. One can "take the red pill" at any age 8 and older, though children awakening is rare and reserved for savants and geniuses. >Tier 1 : Liminal awareness. You are aware that people in general keep secrets and lie about things, because you yourself do, though you are not aware of the extent of it. You still have faith in social institutions. >Tier 2: The redpill: one day after a certain amount of media exposure everything just "clicks", you rewatch the orignial matrix trilogy over and over and you understand "the game", but your mind is not yet ready to fully integrate the knowledge and you begin "the journey". >Tier 3 : political phase. This is where you begin exercising your conspiracy muscles by educating yourself on politics and social issues through out time as a way to understand the struggle between liberty and control that has consumed your mind. if you are an early teenager you will become obsessed with the assassins creed games. If you are older you will begin reading a large amount of political philosophy. >Tier 4: entered magicians apprentice. This is where you begin to learn about the occult and magical nature of reality, after finding out about the elite magical secret societies which govern the political world. At this point many will cease to care about the conspiracy world, and leave forever, those who stay begin learning a variety of magic disciplines and occult magic societies philosophies.
The world lost its goddamn mind, and the powers that be collectively went mask-off, all because of a moronic steak salesman becoming President of the United States. A guy who kissed the wall like a good little goy.
2014 is when the activist decade started. You know how cultural decades don't start arbitrarily on the 0 and all? Like the JFK 60s were more an extension of the 50s, they say the 60s ended in 1973. Well 2001-2004-ish to 2014 was the 2000s decade, and 2012 or 2014 is when it all just becomes activist political cultural war insanity.
So my hope is that 2024 will be the end of that decade, but god knows what the next will be. Right now and it's poised to be AI this AI that, so maybe it'll be people continuing to isolate themselves. Think about the unintended consequences of all the "We'll be able to AI make our own games and movies" types - how people are less sociable with matchmaking over dedicated servers (no community), how people don't socialize as much with LFG in MMOs (or play MMOs). If people can just generate their own games and media then they will have even less in common to bond or commiserate with others over.
Thought just jumped into my head, wonder if anyone relates
I was always an autistic fricking shutin weirdo
Yet somehow it disturbs and frightens me that the general public seems to be transforming to be MORE like me; that my once aberrant behavior is now closer to the norm
Our new app/remote work/social distancing world should be a paradise for me yet I loathe it and miss when I actually envied others
That's a trip to realize, isn't it? Shit that you did that was weird becomes normalized.
>My best friends who were a couple get divorced and I never see them again >My childhood best friend starts doing gay porn >My adult friends get into coke and ruin everything >The only two friends who could play fighting games move out of country >Old roommate who larped as a Nazi married a black woman and refused to talk to anyone in his old life
About the age of 30
I don't really know but I just want to log off. I feel like I'm stuck to the screen trying to make money just so that I can log off, and even when I do all I'll find are more people stuck to the screen. I sometimes watch videos of people visiting remote rural places and even there they have shitty cars, shitty bootleg sweatshop shirts, and plastic crap everywhere. Is there nowhere left untainted by bleak modernity? I have a rage boiling inside that grows every day
The hive of the machine will incorporate and assimilate all of reality.
The internet will encapsulate the entire galaxy in time when we finally travel to space.
Best friend got hooked on meth and simped out, quit his job, took his last remaining money of 10,000 bucarooos and took his crush to a festival. Got cucked and ran off during a bands first new song in 20 years. Still laugh about it today, but he turned into a homosexual fricked trannies. Now laughs on boomerbook to white men getting jumped by Black folk. Sad world
They haven't end for me yet. my childhood was the bad times, so as far as I'm concerned as long as I'm able to make my own decisions and keep a roof over my head without people twice my size making my life difficult, the times are good. I enjoy being an adult.
plus, it's our responsibility as adults to ensure that the next generation gets to have their own good times.
>it's our responsibility as adults to ensure that the next generation gets to have their own good times
anon... the next generation is absolutely fricked from the get go. There are no good times ahead for them, it was over before it even began
>things could be so much worse
things have been getting worse day by day, year by year and I don't see the trend slowing down. If anything its speeding up and we're on a roller coaster straight to the bottom and beyond
I realize they can and will get worse, but when that final boot crushes my skull in I will still be thinking about how I could have been conscious for one more boot.
They haven't end for me yet. my childhood was the bad times, so as far as I'm concerned as long as I'm able to make my own decisions and keep a roof over my head without people twice my size making my life difficult, the times are good. I enjoy being an adult.
plus, it's our responsibility as adults to ensure that the next generation gets to have their own good times.
I originally had no hope for the future, but then after some more critical thinking about the future, I regained hope. Not hope for any of you mind you, but hope for me! jk jk. MY biggest worry was the universal porn hivemind of cyber rape via brain computer interfaces, but now I realize humanity willa dapt and being a hacker will be like carrying a gun in the wild west, most will end up total slaves in the their brains, but the Neon-genesis Cowboys and Samurais will go on and change the world.
College was the biggest fricking mistake of my life.
I'm stuck with $50K of student debt that'll never be paid off because I never got a fricking job related to my field.
I should've never fallen for the "college will solve everything" meme.
yeah we got conned, I'm not so much in debt but only because I worked my ass off and managed to pay alot upfront and got Academic performance scolarships, but if it wasnt for that I would be drowning in debt.
"best" friend had a kid with his gf, one night said he was gonna hop on after putting his kid to sleep. he never did, hasn't replied to my dms for months, and whenever hes online hes playing a game with his gf. it is what it is
when my family started caring about having the latest iPhone and bragging about shit on facebook and using on iphone 24/7 and not eating dinner together
>when my family started caring about having the latest iPhone and bragging about shit on facebook and using on iphone 24/7 and not eating dinner together
I remember using the Computer for 2 hours back then and always getting >YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME >GO OUTSIDE >THIS MAKES YOU SICK
Now my parents hog their phones 24/7 to shitpost on facebook and watch fake news on tiktok and youtube.
Hahaha... yeahhhhhhhh buddy. I was terminally online as soon as AOL floppy disks flooded mailboxes. I was only 10, but once the floodgates opened, yeah. I got bullied so hard by my siblings.
>Boomers sit on their tablets scrolling facebook all day >Still can't figure out basic shit like connecting to their own wifi
Had do you use a device for literally thousands of hours and still not know the basic shit?
It's like driving a car for a decade but not knowing how to turn your brights on.
>Had do you use a device for literally thousands of hours and still not know the basic shit? >It's like driving a car for a decade but not knowing how to turn your brights on.
That's what these apps are literally designed for. >touch the big bright green button >magic happens
They can use it like this for 10000 years and will never get to know how any of it works. Literally cattle.
>Boomers sit on their tablets scrolling facebook all day >Still can't figure out basic shit like connecting to their own wifi
Had do you use a device for literally thousands of hours and still not know the basic shit?
It's like driving a car for a decade but not knowing how to turn your brights on.
>Had do you use a device for literally thousands of hours and still not know the basic shit? >It's like driving a car for a decade but not knowing how to turn your brights on.
That's what these apps are literally designed for. >touch the big bright green button >magic happens
They can use it like this for 10000 years and will never get to know how any of it works. Literally cattle.
There is the whole computer building, and there seem to be a giant push back against game modding from the zoomers. That part I will never get.
Thats true I guess. I wonder what the software field will look like in another 20 years. Right now most devs are in it for the money or have liked tinkering with computers from a young age.
That second camp is going to rapidly shrink over the coming years, until its just the camp A people.
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>I wonder what the software field will look like in another 20 years.
you already know the answer, the field in 20 years will be either 80% or 100% AI because Zoomers can't even index files.
2 year olds who can't even speak yet use tablets, that shit is designed for ease of use. it's why modern computers and web suck because they also got sucked into that design philosophy. like every windows version being worst than the last and deliberately striping out useful features to "streamline" it.
the next version of windows probably won't even have a start button or file explorer enabled and probably will require you to ask microsoft's new ai to fetch your files and open executables for you.
it's crazy how hard boomers got sucked into technology stuff when iphones started getting popular
It's bizarre to me how much everyone is obsessed with phones now.
I grew up using my PC for everything because phones were still in their infancy. When smartphones came out it seemed kind of redundant so I never got into them.
But the boomers never got into PCs and the zoomers were born with smartphones in their hands.
Any other millennials here experience this?
I feel weirdly old fashioned around both younger and older generations.
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It's bizarre to me how much everyone is obsessed with phones now.
I grew up using my PC for everything because phones were still in their infancy. When smartphones came out it seemed kind of redundant so I never got into them.
But the boomers never got into PCs and the zoomers were born with smartphones in their hands.
Any other millennials here experience this?
I feel weirdly old fashioned around both younger and older generations.
I only remember that we live during the flip phone and the nokia and people were texting and talking 24/7. And before that, it was just the cord phone and they would just talk through that.
I'm exactly the same, I use my phone form messaging apps wiht my coworkers and make an occasional purchase form Amazon, for everything else I use my PC.
i mean it's not like most millennials grew up around pcs either. iirc most people texted each other under their desk using clamshell phones and their entire understanding of computers was just doing stuff on myspace or aim. when the iphone came out, all of that stuff could now be done on a phone
Texting was still a pretty new concept for us back then. A lot of us still actually called each other because that's what we were used to. And phone plans often charged separately for texting so parents discouraged their kids from using it. I had a girlfriend who got angry at me for texting her for this reason.
And I didn't know anyone who didn't have a PC.
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Anonymous
Oh, and on a lot of those old phones you had to text with the fricking number keys. Where you pressed 1 three times to get the letter C or whatever. That fricking sucked. Texting didn't kick off until smartphones. Or at least phones with full physical keyboards.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Or at least phones with full physical keyboards.
Then touch screens happened and ruined fricking everything. I will never forgive Apple and their legion of iShitting idiots.
3 months ago
Anonymous
speaking of the t9 predictive text system, why the frick did smart tvs not adopt that shit for their remotes. that would honestly be better than the arrow key and enter button slow as shit system that you have to use to type anything into smart tv search bars
3 months ago
Anonymous
The archons demand those who watch TV experience the slow remote typing.
We did these odd things called "talking on the phone" and "hanging out in person" back then. Not fricking around on our Nokia. In fact I don't even remember texting at all in high school outside of AIM, which was on the computer.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Definitely talked to my friends on AIM more than on a phone.
Which goes back to my point that I did everything on the PC and the phone was an oddity.
I didn't even use my phone for music. I had an mp3 player for that. That flip phone era didn't have very good music playback features yet.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>when my friend calls and says "where you at?" but the call originated from inside the house.
3 months ago
Anonymous
did flip phones even have enough memory to use for song storage, because ringtones were limited to like 3 second clips.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Depending on the era, they probably didn't store PCM data at all. The Nokia bar-phone I had as a kid just did chiptunes and actually had a built-in sequencer to make custom ringtones.
3 months ago
Anonymous
That was one of the problems yeah. It was also tricky to actually get songs onto the phone. Had to load a microSD card or something.
In comparison, my mp3 player was basically a flash drive I could just plug in. Pic related.
You're a bit off, there. Core millennials in the suburbs of America had exposure to PCs as early as 1993, as well as retro gaming consoles. We were playing ski-free and MSDOS games before fourth grade, and using the full version of AOL. AIM as a stand alone app didn't come until later. We had basic Nokias before we had clamshells, and all the shit you're talking about didn't become normalized until the late 90s and early 00s. We saw tech evolve rapidly and adapted to it every step of the way. If you were living in Eastern Europe, then it might as well have been 1984 until the early 00s.
Yes. I don't know how many times I've had coworkers/friends tell me to watch X YouTube video, I tell them sure, I'll watch it when I get home. They then give that dead eyed stare and look at my smartphone and get irrationally angry that I don't want to watch a video on my phone. Phones are for phonecalls.
Kind of, if I really wanted to frick with them I'm sure I could easily jailbreak one and go wild.
But like you said I really have no interest, seems kinda pointless when I can just do whatever I want on my PC anyways and it will be faster and give me more control.
I now suddenly understand people who prefer manual cars over automatics.
I distinctively remember my parents saying every time I wanted to buy ANYTHING tech related (even with my own money mind you) >Do you need that, honey? >Do you REALLY need that?
This turned me into a real cheapskate. Fast forward to now and they are suckers for every single every tech scam imaginable. Pic very related.
Friends all started having families so I barely saw them. My girlfriend left me because she decided I deserved better than her which means she was probably cheating on me with some douchebag I'll never get to beat up. Before she broke up with me she made sure to disconnect, treat me like shit, made me walk on eggshells, let me know that everything bad happening is my fault etc.
You kind of lose your humanity after something like that. I stopped eating, don't sleep, and play games to fill up my free time as much as possible so my brain stays numb. My life is of no concern to me. I only feel a sense of fear when I think about the vast ocean of time and suffering ahead of me still. It feels incredibly daunting when I imagine having to live like this into my 80s.
i went through something similar. it wont get better, to be honest, but it WILL stop bothering you so much with time. don't do drugs/drink.
don't fall for the self-help meme either, unless you're fat or something obvious you could fix. just keep playing vidya, take walks and eventually you'll find someone tolerable to spend time with.
you'll be relatively fine.
>so when did you guys realize the good times were over
Mine are still going. I play (mostly) co-op games every few nights with muh wife and while she sucks shit at goldeneye deathmatch we still have pretty close bomberman matches. We recently played Trinity Trigger and it felt like playing Secret of Mana with a best friend who is hot and I could frick afterwards.
You just gotta choose well later in life brehs. And then you too can have a rad sleepover every night.
>When Toyota discontinued the MR2 >When Mitsubishi went out of buisness >Pokemon XY plays and looks like shit >Sims 4 looked like shit >SimCity is killed >Games in general arent pumping out like they used too like in the early 00s
So sometime around 2007 and falling down ever since
Funny thing is that just 100 years ago, women were MASSIVELY more prone to being conservative than men. Media propaganda did a huge thing to their little brains
A little over 100 years ago they didn't have voting rights since the thought was that they'd just duplicate the husband's vote anyway. They were right for a time, then they were corrupted by a freedom they didn't need.
Feminism is israeli btw. Never forgot ~~*who*~~ took it all away.
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Jesus are you rightards so far gone you want to undo women's suffrage now? Fricking hell you c**ts are off the deep end.
3 months ago
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I want a meritocracy. That is all.
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I guess I have to give you credit for advocating for what you think is right even if it means you'd personally have no rights.
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I know you're trolling, but besides leftoids genuinely not knowing history, few conservatives know the semetic origins of feminism.
3 months ago
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Women working = your labor is worth 50% of what it should be. Fact.
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Should people so dumb they believed jussie smollett have the right to vote? How well do you actually think that works out, assuming your goal is a strong country and not destroying it.
Just getting older does that for you. You start to see how everything is basically a house of cards. I know it's cliche, but it gets me every time.
is right.
They were only good times because you didn't have the whole picture yet. Once you learn enough, you can only really appreciate how sheltered you were (or weren't) from how fricked up the world was and always will be.
it was flooded with rest of Ganker refugees and zoomers after the fappening. Ganker was the last refuge for actual oldgays and made the best memes. It only got worse after that. These days it's not even scientific or funny anymore. Just broscience and /misc/tards who will never make it
N64 was shite. I was 17 when it came out here so i wasn't having gay little sleepovers like that in my mums basement.
PS1 and Saturn were far better and i have retroarch hooked up to a CRT in my bedroom these days so i can play them whenever i want.
Nobody took anything from you, you're just technologically illiterate.
It's not that uncommon, there even used to be a little thumbstick overlay you could put over the arrow keys to make it like a joystick (it didn't work well.)
>(it didn't work well.)
I'm not surprised at all to hear this lmao
It's not that uncommon, there even used to be a little thumbstick overlay you could put over the arrow keys to make it like a joystick (it didn't work well.)
WASD honestly didnt really kick off until the early-mid 00s.
people still unironically used cursor keys for Q3 and UT99
first i remember using WASD was MOHAA and Black Hawk Down
It was a bother lugging those CRTs but some comfy memories. >Friday: CS 1.6 >Saturday: Diablo II >Sunday: Everyone too tired from barely having slept for two days, just trying to copy as much warez as possible before people pack up and the network is pulled down
I never did and I'm 35. I think LAN parties are late Gen X or early Millennial. Where the hell do you even find enough PCgay nerds to even have one as a teen?
I don't remember when they stopped being a thing, but I'm 38 and went to plenty. At least in my immediate circles PC gaming seemed way more popular than console, probably due to piracy. Sharing burned CDs and talking about the latest cracked releases was pretty common in junior high, but maybe that was a Yurop thing.
'89 here
Never did a LAN party. Too much of a pain in the ass to take your PC to a party.
But we did bring our xbox 360's and wired them together with multiple TVs. Then we did big Halo 3 multiplayer matches. That was a lot of fun.
We were kind of poor so my house never looked like that, but sometimes my older sisters would bring me with babysitting and everyone else's playroom looked exactly like that picture.
>we had our last sleepover without knowing it would be our last sleepover >we had lots of first times and we probably won't realize the last times we have something >someday we will eat our final meal
our final coom.
anyone got their ass beat in front of their mates at one of these? dad whooped the shit out of me for not doing my homework. he couldnt fricking wait till they were all gone? lol
No but my dad kicked my friends out of our apartment because "they were the reason I wasn't working" (I had already applied for work and was set to start the following week)
My friend Andrew Young use to have his floors covered in dog shit. The dog even shit in the bed a few times. Patio was covered in shit. I use to stay the night at his house because he lived close, my family situation sucked, and he had thps1 and dragonball z fighting games.
Internet took more away from me than the death of splitscreen. I miss gathering in front of the old vacuum tube TV, throwing in a porno VHS, and jerking off to it together
I remember when one of my friends wanted to show us porn on VHS he found that his dad had. Everyone said he was gay for wanting to hang out and watch porn with us.
meh.
You're just saying the generation immediately older than you is shitty, which all young people do. I doubt anyone around 20 years old is educated enough in recent history to have a real opinion on the older generations.
>susceptible to propaganda
Normies have always been susceptible to propaganda. I don't know about now but Ganker doesn't take politics seriously, it's just a way to troll normies. The "alt-right" is just a troll op against society because normies are normies.
How was it taken? You can buy furniture just like that now. That game has been ported to every Nintendo system since the N64 and can be emulated on even an actual toaster today.
90s kids had a culture so tailored made for adolescence that it makes me think the matrix simulation architects had children in that age group. >pokemon >yugioh >tones of other shit tailor designed for kids like the beginning of the internet and video games.
Because you speak in Ganker memes and probably think in them as well.
internet brain rot.
Read a book "unironically".
No one on this site has anything worth reading unless they read it out of a book first.
Because when everybody gets to be in their 30s they don't have time to just get together like this anymore. The ones that even manage to show up are so burnt out from adulting all week they just get drunk and veg out for a few hours.
These days kids just do this remotely.
They get together on discord or whatever and play a game together. They miss out on some in-person fun, but they can do this a lot more frequently and then sleep in their own beds. I wish I had that growing up. We could only do big parties once a month or something.
This is also why kids these days are less interested in learning to drive. They don't have to go to their friend's house to hang out anymore.
I'm 35 and didn't get a license until I was 23 years old. Wanting a license is fricking insane when you realize how fricking stupid most people operating vehicles are. MUH CAR, VROOM VROOM, LOUD EXHAUST, TEXTING WHILE I DRIVE, OOPS I'M HIGH ON DRUGS, MAYBE I'LL KILL SOMEONE, OH AN OLD PERSON WITH CATERACTS, NEAT
What did they take from me? Playing Mario 64 with some dudes, taking turns to play becuase it's a fricking single player game and then fall sleep next to their smelly asses? Sounds gay. Thanks for that, israelites.
If local multiplayer video games actually end up completely dead by the 2040s I am probably going to change careers and dedicate my life to bringing them back.
>grew up poor as dirt with a methhead mom and a dad who's been in and out of prison >barely passed high school due to having to take care of my five younger siblings as mom did the bare minimum (OD'd five different times, haven't spoken with her since I turned 18) >knew cops on a first-name basis due to all the shit going down in our park >by 2010, managed to get into HVAC work and going up from there >life has only gotten better for me since, just bought my home last year
It's really strange observing people becry the fall of a nation, it strikes me as very much a middle class issue that only once these things started creeping up on them, it became a problem. Things can absolutely be better, but I've seen the worst of low society and most people are nowhere close to that. The fact that people are willingly going into online arguments and culture war debates is such an odd concept to me when I saw shit like people swinging cats by their tails or mutilating animals on a daily basis or straight up shooting their neighbor's trailer because they were bored. And this was back in the '90s going into the '00s.
soft but smart, just now the problems of the world are too complicated for them to fix. There's more money in causing problems anyway, since total brain enslavement is coming down the pipeline with neural link.
Someones about to win the game.
>holding the fight stick
The whole point of those things is to put them on the floor/table not fricking hold them. You'd be tired in no time trying to play through games waving that shit around
Well, I lost all my friends due to work and what not, but I'm living with my younger sister so I'm not alone, plus she's into gaming and we share my bed every now and then
if I never had a single friend throughout all of my childhood but my boyfriend has a really strong friend group (all of which who game) well into young adulthood, do you think I'd be able to get them all together and have the sleepover I never got to have as a kid? how realistic is my nefarious plan if I plan it around a birthday or something Ganker
Its pretty crazy to see how utterly fricking dead malls are now.
The reasoning makes sense, why would anybody spend half a day in overpriced clothing/appliance stores when you can just order than shit online now?
But still, it could fun to just fart around in the mall sometimes.
>Its pretty crazy to see how utterly fricking dead malls are now.
where?
they're still the one thing to do here
fricking impossible to get parking within 15min walk of one on a thurs night, fri night or a weekend.
We don't have a 3rd place anymore.
Malls were the last bastion, and they got killed.
There's nowhere you can go to just hang out without paying money.
>without paying money.
Thought just jumped into my head, wonder if anyone relates
I was always an autistic fricking shutin weirdo
Yet somehow it disturbs and frightens me that the general public seems to be transforming to be MORE like me; that my once aberrant behavior is now closer to the norm
Our new app/remote work/social distancing world should be a paradise for me yet I loathe it and miss when I actually envied others
someone needs to take the piss out of the boomers with some news headlines >"Just like woodstock" remarks incontinent diaper wearing 60 year old who smokes weed on SSI all day.
It's kind of crazy how that one person not only hung their fluffy coat on the back of a dirty ass public seat (inside now dirty), but also let the ends of it touch down and drag all over the floor like that. I can't imagine doing that today, when did everything become so disgusting
In 1993 I lived close to Manhattan. I was 6, but I vividly remember my dad taking me and my brother to the malls in that area. The women who worked at Hot Topic were on another level and awakened my sexuality immediately. I can't even begin to explain how raw (in a hot way) these goth/grunge/skate rat chicks looked. All the poser shit I grew up with never held a candle, and alt girls today are just copies of a copy.
Thought just jumped into my head, wonder if anyone relates
I was always an autistic fricking shutin weirdo
Yet somehow it disturbs and frightens me that the general public seems to be transforming to be MORE like me; that my once aberrant behavior is now closer to the norm
Our new app/remote work/social distancing world should be a paradise for me yet I loathe it and miss when I actually envied others
You have to become a white knight Christian now to remain contrarian and as someone whose been attempting it I can tell you it's work. You have to go hard because people will punk on you for being a goody two shoes also.
When you are brought up without any kind of struggle or difficulty and everything becomes offensive and unnaceptable you have current gen z and alpha.
They are told they are entitled to everything and anything bad that happens is blamed on a third party.
I just want to be left alone now and would have love to work at home. I don't give a shit about being special or all that crap. That shit ship in highschool.
I see zoomers everywhere every time I do happen to go out, and I see them everywhere online, they still seem like perfect normalgays though maybe much of it has moved online. They're on Discord 24/7 or otherwise constantly talking about their little friend group chats or being in each others DMs or posting about oomfies. I think they're just faking/rebranding all their various little idiosyncrasies as anxieties for victim points, and even if they're not it's usually minuscule stuff like that pic anyway.
The dyed hair thing was pretty popular in my highschool back around 2006. Especially among the goth/emo/scene groups.
Had a crush on a girl with green hair, but we were in different social circles.
>Especially among the goth/emo/scene groups.
I never fricking understood that sub culture.
Was it all a cover for satanism? I don't understand how you can make being a whiny b***h an entire sub culture?
I really want LAN parties to come back but there is really no point unless everyone you know lives relatively close to you and isnt busy with their jobs/life/etc
>Biden implements a 60% inheritance tax >House value quadruples in a year
Sure hope you have $500,000 laying around to pay the taxes on that free house anon, otherwise it's going to the IRS.
That's my biggest fear. That when my parents die I find out they gave all their shit away to the bank in exchange for retirement money.
The ultimate boomer move. Setting all the generational wealth on fire and completely fricking over their kids.
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Sounds like a peak boomer moment to me.
3 months ago
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>Setting all the generational wealth on fire and completely fricking over their kids.
this happens a lot more than you think it does. and not a single person is allowed to talk about it.
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I unironically think that the entire boomer generation made a pact with Satan or Cthulhu. Like when they all took LSD they all had the same vision of Satan and pledged themselves to him.
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Western boomers. Combination of that and israelites. They really think they're that special and do no wrong and always support them every step in the way
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If our reality was fiction then it would be utterly poetic to the point of chekov-gun-too-on-the-nose for boomers to 'end the world'. I don't mean kill all humanity but rather destroy the post WW2 international liberal yadda yadda order. Which when faced with globo-homosexual shit might sound like 'good.png' but instead it'd be a collapse into famine and death and destruction and a much worse world for the short term. Just think about how poetic that'd be. They were born at the start of the time of plenty and living conditions universally skyrocketing pretty much everywhere in the world (Even barring conflicts and crises). If you were writing a story wouldn't you have this generation be the one to destroy it?
It'd be like having one Greek generation inherit some golden age and also be the ones to end said golden age. It's poetic.
3 months ago
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Well, in the boomer mind the USA is evil because they were christian and disapproved of sex orgies and made women wear dresses.
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>tfw know a good friend in H&R block and his will to live is declining every single year because half of the boomers he does taxes for are putting reverse mortgages on their houses >he told me that one of the clients he had is currently in a tax nightmare because they reverse mortgaged eight different properties and they nearly assaulted him once he told him that the income they make comes out to something like 30% of their gross income for the year, of which they spent almost all of it >they were expecting a tax return >if they had simply done half of their reverse mortgages, they would have more money than they did now, but their rationale for doing so was that they wanted their kids to "earn it on their own"
Boomers, not even once
3 months ago
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The USA boomers have always hated America and have waged a sort of jihad on the concept of America and american society since they were young.
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Has any single generation done more damage to the world than baby boomers?
People will be talking about reaganomics 200 years from now.
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the boomers are legendarily spiteful and malicious to their own society.
Are boomers the most failed generation? I mean zoomers are getting up there too but they've still got some time left to turn things around.
Boomers though? They fricked it up for future generations. Who knows how many.
Somehow they also couldn't find success themselves. Some did but most of them didn't. They just became alcoholics, fat, and poor. They bought a house for the price of potato with hardly any mortgage payments. Yet they have problems paying bills because they spend most of their money on booze and lottery tickets.
Zoomers seem to be ending up equally moronic (if not more thanks to covid) but they won't have the opportunities of boomers. I'm thinking there'll be a homeless epidemic in a decade.
zoomers think that millennials are what boomers are and think millennials caused the problems boomers caused.
3 months ago
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Why would they even think that.
3 months ago
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Common core.
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Because they are idiots, I mean that literally.
Zoomers grew up with the "no child left behind" initiative in school. So most of them were just passed up the chain without having to actually learn anything.
Well that make sense, educational wise. All schools only "teach" them how to pass a stupid test just to get money.
Well they literally think that millennials are boomers. They seem to think that "boomer" just means "old" rather than referring to a specific generation.
That pretty dumb, yeah
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Because they are idiots, I mean that literally.
Zoomers grew up with the "no child left behind" initiative in school. So most of them were just passed up the chain without having to actually learn anything.
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Well they literally think that millennials are boomers. They seem to think that "boomer" just means "old" rather than referring to a specific generation.
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It's ironic since we call them zoomers and they seem to be aging faster than millennials.
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Not sure how frickin' true that is, mate. Millennials and Zoomers are the most identical generations to be separated by a decade in all of recorded human history. The only difference is that Millennials grew up with the internet and Zoomers were born into it.
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>The only difference is that Millennials grew up with the internet and Zoomers were born into it.
That's a big difference. Millennials grew up learning both the old way and the new way. We have cell phones but we also remember house phones. We had wikipedia but we had to cite sources from library books.
We have a perspective and breadth of knowledge that zoomers don't.
Many zoomers have troubles using computers now because everything became too user friendly and they're too accustomed to phones. You would think that growing up with computers ingrained in their lives would make them better than us, but it's the opposite.
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Well, yes, but that seems more like a Gen X problem, which makes no fricking sense since they had to assimilate in the 90s. You'd think they would've raised zoomers better. Expecting public institutions to raise your kids didn't work in the 90s or early 00s and it sure as frick isn't going to work now. Whatever the frick the curriculum looks like now, parents need to actually parent their fricking kids. I don't plan on having kids until my 40s or 50s, but I sure as frick will not be letting them go to public schools if they're even around by then.
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This is mostly schools faults. They got rid of computer classes because they assume zoomers just magically know these things since theyre the "tech generation".
In reality your average zoomer is as tech illerate as an average baby boomer, its just one sits on tiktok all day while the other sits on facebook.
No amount of generational would fix the fact that if you're not black or an illegal beaner and you're family with within that gangbanging area, you're fricked. You can't go outside, you get picked anywhere, and your family has to be poor to live there, so you get jack shit. I fricking hate this shit.
Pussy. Ive beaten the shit out of Black folk and spics, that’s why they travel in groups now because of me. Y’all gonna lose the race war against whites
I actually had vidya parties back in the day. We played PS1 games with 4 controllers, mostly Crash Team Racing and Smack Down and we had Winning Eleven tournaments. Shit was SO cash. Having nerdy friends in high school was cool.
Me and a few friends pooled our allowances together to buy a router and several meters of cables and we threw them between our buildings making a lan. We had to take it down 4 months later after the parent's of the friend who had the router complained about the internet usage.
It was the best summer vacation we ever had tho.
Time took this away, no one else.
No, I don't think my friends from 20+ years ago will come over for sleep over. Mainly because we are nearly 40 years old and have jobs/families to take care of. Some of them moved across the state or even out of state.
>2007Complete.jpg, 2007 killed the world 2007 bad 2007 terrible everything got worse after 2007 >This is what they took from you >Zoomies will never understand >Scrubs: Kino or bino >What was the true kid kino >1980-2005 Ganker
Used to have these at a friend's house, his mom was really poor so they lived in a dump rental. His mom smoked so bad that the entire house was saturated with the smell of heavy smoke and cat piss. Said friend also never showered, so his room smelled of the worst BO imaginable. Had fun playing games, but gtfo as soon as dawn hit.
>alphies will never understand the magic and comradery that forms at the sleepovers. >alphies will never experience a room of boys playing vidya. >alphies will never understand how amazing it was to play games until 3 am and everyone just passed out somewhere. >alphies will never get to wake up to their best friend jerkin' it at 4am. >alphies will never get to make fun of the kid who brough a porno and thought there was going to be a group JO session. >alphies will only know twitch and yt streamies. >alphies will be detached from real people in favor of parasocial relationships. >alphies will unioronically yell "chat"
I'm sorry for the world we made for you Gen Alpha. I'm sorry I didn't try harder to keep the magic, instead of destroying it.
And how can we act? All the jobs are gone or given to H1B when we left college. We all work in shitty warehouses or mcdonalds. And then there is that whole Occupy wall street. The only one that had powers are trust fund kids that are leftist that invaded in all gaming news and reviews and took over.
Seriously. I got a CS degree, and it took 2 years to get a part time job in local government with the benefit of a family connection.
7 years later I'm still in that same job because I don't want to go through that shit again.
>alphies will never get to wake up to their best friend jerkin' it at 4am.
Thankfully I missed that part since my friends had the decency to not jack off for one fricking night while at their friends house.
One friend did get blown by another friends mom however.
>alphies will never get to make fun of the kid who brough a porno and thought there was going to be a group JO session
Once at a sleepover it was late at night and we randomly put on the TV because we were too tired to play games anymore.
There was nothing on except Girls Gone Wild infomercials. So we fricking watched that shit.
Nobody started jacking it, but we awkwardly hid our boners.
I remember jerking it to victoria's secret catalogues before internet porn was a thing.
I jsut regret that I discovered hentai in 7th grade and got my rocks off to that. My dad didn't even know how to have that conversation.
For me it was '90s gaming magazines which sometimes had booba models on the cover, or ads for games like SiN, and I also found a nude photoshoot of some Korean model nested deep in a folder on one of those burned CD-Rs full of pirated games that sometimes got passed around. Similarly, the first hardcore porn I ever saw I also found on some CD-R full of random stuff like midis, mp3s, wallpapers and games. It was the Pamela Anderson leaked video and it almost made me puke.
It's going to lead to normies being as big of bawds as porno prostitutes are since normies are all monkey see monkey do.
getting laid will be easier than tying your shoes eventually.
The future contrarians will be straight laced Christians and everyone else will be a turbo druggy porno prostitute. We're already seeing places like fricking Ganker turn into right wing "trad" types and eventually they'll go full Templar.
I used to play through a shitty flash game in the adult section on newgrounds. Just to unlock 4 pretty softcore hentai images that I would jerk to. That was my first fap.
In 2001, my autistic school friend had me sleep over. He invited his local friends to join us and we had a local LAN party by linking our XBOXs and played Halo all fricking night on his rich dad's giant fricking projection flatscreen. We were the last two awake and he decided to put on PPV porn. To this day it's some of the hottest shit I can remember, and I wish to god I knew the fricking name of it. The plot was amazing and the women were unreal. None of this ultra HD shit you get today. We took turns jerking off in his bathroom until like 3 AM.
This old ass house architecture always interests me i love any house with the little steps leading down to another room
this is usually because the house ended there and this room didn't exist or was a garage, later renovated into room.
i would not say usually. This is fairly common intentional design in 70s houses.
For what purpose? Toddler containment zone?
Small artistic flourish. It looks more artsy you have to take just two steps down or up to an adjacent room.
>Trying to find logic in 70s architectural design
never tried it but looks comfy
Damn I wanna live there.
honestly it just looks fricking cool. Imagine buttfricking a few hoes in that pit
The hoes need to have giant bushes and you need to be high on cocaine, for the proper 70s experience.
Hell yeah
I think thats based off of hasheesh (hash) bars. That little table would have a multi-use bong on it.
>conversation pit
Aside from imitating a hot tub without being a water feature, that's actually designed to impress your guests with a less cluttered view of your supposedly expensive furniture.
Impressing people with your home was very important back then. Flaunting it was how you made friends and connections.
>get drunk
>fall into your conversation pit and break your neck
makes sense they dont exist anymore
We also don't have unlimited money to just burn on silly shit like this either.
>sorry, your conversation pit is a preexisting condition
wrong. it was intentional design in old houses because it was supposed to give an illusion of something that you might like
Zoomers see these houses and be like
>liminal spaces
>add vhs effect and its HoRoR
Baby boomer houses are wild, so many little 2-3 step areas and doors that go nowhere.
Can confirm. My grandparents house had 2 steps that led into the living room. I used to do karate kicks off of them and Dark Souls roll into the fireplace.
My parents recently sold my childhood home. When they were moving out they couldn't get something out of the basement so they literally built an extra door just to get it out. Whoever bought the house is going to be scratching their head as to why there are 2 doors into the garage which are 5 feet from each other.
I've been looking at houses recently. Found one house that is from 1900, but was recently gutted and renovated, new everything. It's very odd though, it sits right beside a small road, with hardly any room to park. It also has two front doors, both leading into the same room, though one directly faces a staircase when coming in. I'm pretty sure it was a store at one point, and that the door in front of the stairs lead to an upstairs apartment.
Looks like it's a sun room added later based on the windows.
SOVL room.
I never did this. I never had friends I always had sleepovers at my relatives houses
did the molestations end once you upgraded to a Gamecube?
Who’s they… it’s Israel isn’t it. Why do they want the world so fricking shitty? Just keep cutting off part of your dick to yourselves what the frick.
Why yes I did cuddle and spent the night bing binging with a bunch of dudes how could you tell?
You are a Biden voter.
You say that as if it were a bad thing
It is.
You should Kys immediately
grim. was it a gas leak?
I was that loser that always fell asleep first so I can't say sleepovers and shit were exactly that thrilling
I was always the one who fell asleep last and I wouldn't prank you but I'm still furious you wussies couldn't hang.
I always hated shit like this. Everyone just falling asleep at random in a room together would leave me anxious. Partially because everyone liked pranking me, but also because I'd inevitably wake up like an hour later feeling like shit.
I'd always stay up with the last person. This meant I ended up bonding with my uncle's friends a lot, but I always felt like I was just entertaining them and we weren't really friends or anything.
I'm 30 years old. While this would be fun to do with friends now, I think you just naturally age out of this shit. I'm sure the kids nowadays stay up all night playing Fortnite and making tiktoks and shit too
>sleeping next to a bunch of dirty shoes in your face
imagine the smell
The late 90s smelled awful. Every house smelled like cat piss, cigarettes, and body spray. People had to empty entire cans of Lysol into rooms almost every day.
most people did not smoke in the 90s. the exception being lower class/working class.
my parents did smoke, but always outside.
In 1995, 25% of ALL adults were smokers. It was everywhere. And even if you lived in a house with no smokers, like I did, family members and neighbors would come over and smoke in your house. My elementary school had a dedicated smoking room for the staff/teachers to go smoke in.
My high school had ashtrays built into the students desks.
>shoes indoors
Do Americans really?
>shoes are off
>one can clearly be seen in his socks
>WTF AM ABURBICAN RILLY!?!?!
>tracks dogshit right to the middle of the living room
>"their shoes are off! see!?"
lol...
lmao...
White middle class americans don't leave dogshit laying around their lawn and if for some reason would step in it, we clean our shoes immediately. The fricks wrong with you.
Europoors that say that are gay and annoying. Most people just ignore them because they’re subhumans.
yes, i tend to take my shoes off and leave them near the door so i can put them on again before leaving, must seem so strange to europeans who leave their shoes outside
in hindsight i should've spent my childhood looking for a gf
frick video games
Just because you got one back then doesn't mean you'd keep them to today
>it's another Basedlennial still living in the past and refusing to grow the frick up already
Imagine my shock!
Goddamn kids these days and their gay sex orgies. Back in my day we payed yugioh and maybe wrestled but it was never gay.
We had it good in the before-fore times and long to return.
Zoomies don't understand because they grew up in the thereafter. They don't know what was lost.
we still had time before mass internet and I really pitty Zoomers and beyond for not having that.
they really don't understand they never got.
whats worse, to have had a good thing and watch it be taken away from you or to have never had a good thing in the first place?
Spoken like someone who didn't catch their wife meeting up with their ex while your at work and have to smoke weed to sleep so you don't dream because otherwise literally actually every night you dream about still being in love with your wife and can't function having those thoughts and feelings waking up every day.
Spoken like a victim. If it was recent shitsux bro, if it happened a while ago let it the frick go and start learning how to look forward to things again.
Yes, I am a victim of my wife's infidelity, that's exactly what I said. That quote is garbage only for someone who had a spouse that died and no one else
Skill issue.
I have watched every good thing leave or be taken away from me. I'm a shell of man. I'm already dead, a walking corpse, completely broken. I don't care about what happens to me. I can't find joy in anything. I'm simply waiting to die.
Would I have been more functional if I never had a good thing at all? Probably. Maybe I wouldn't have been happy but I wouldn't have been completely broken and miserable either. I'd just be neutral or numb.
white boys would use sleepovers as an excuse to get together and do gay shit to each other like whoever lost first in Mario party had to give everyone else head
Yes. And it was fun and exciting.
we would give each other handjobs
Pft, I didn't even need an excuse to do this shit.
No game in the system.
There are two N64s.
wait a minute, this image is cursed
The N64 has no cartridge, why is the tv on with the image of SM64?
There's another N64 behind the grey shirt kid on the left.
Why do they have 2 64s hooked to a single tv
There are 2 TVs
There is a second smaller tv. There are 8 people here, the likelihood is they were both playing 4 player mario kart or goldeneye all together at once
8 player perfect dark vs.
Disregard the second n64, the image on the TV was shopped on there
>that kid smelling all the shoes
he is dead, anon
>mario
So the aftermath of a gay orgy?
Yeah, I had these moments with my brothers and a few friends. It’s not like people can’t still do this, it’s just that the ‘90s were simpler times.
reminded me of the time some anon mentioned pulling pictures off an old digital camera and posted a creep shot of a cute scene chick with her face hidden but one of his friends leering in the corner with a "caught you bro" face
I will never get this back. I hate it. i hate being 32. I will never go over to my rich friends house and play manhunt in the fricking forest on his property ever again...
I hated being a kid, I would like being 17 again, but only because I was young, everything else sucked ass
I love being 32 but I hate the other millennials who are too irony-poisoned to drop the feeling of being perceived to actually maintain a friendship with personal contact.
>Wheat thins
>Tostitos with no dip
Actually disgusting. Jerry's mom is a fricking c**t. I bet they were even drinking water.
so when did you guys realize the good times were over
When these were discontinued.
>Inb4 some zoomer post a generic pizza flavored chip
No. Unless they're made with pizza dough it's not the same.
Wait you can make chips out of pizza dough?
Keebler can. You can't.
You're not my real dad, I'm gonna make chips out of pizza dough and you can't stop me
This. Everything went to shit when cheese pizza was discontinued.
After high school
my best friend died who had dozens of lifelong friends and family across multiple states and there were 5 people at the wake including myself
i even wrote an attempt at a speech and everything
that's rough anon, sorry for your loss
idk whats worse, losing your friend to death or losing your friend to life like this anon
the latter is what I'm currently experiencing and I just don't know how to handle it. it makes me angry, but I try to keep myself busy too so I don't feel the emotions take over. I just hate how badly I want friends again.
it's made watching sol anime more melancholy for me, since i can't help but think about how inevitable it is to just drift apart from the people you used to know as life happens.
idk, it just bums me out when I get to see so many other people around me still have their day 1 friends and get to enjoy even a full week of time together, playing games or whatever. I can't even get a day or 5 minutes anymore. all because my friends drifted away and the last one I have wants to pursue fricking twitch of all things. he has plenty of friends but doesn't bother to hang out with me anymore. idk what the frick to do anymore and it's making me go insane, i just want to share laughs and goofs with cool friends again. some fricking bullshit, life is.
Had a best friend for over 10 years. Made ironic/dark/racist/misogynistic jokes ALL of the time. Then moved somewhere else, we didn't talk/write to each other every day anymore. This went on for a little bit over a year. I always tried ti keep in touch all this time but always got turned down. Then he asked me out of nowhere to play Counter Strike with him. I was really happy.
Then we played for a bit and the whole thing was just awkward as frick. Went on for a while and I don't even remember anymore what I said, but his response was
>I'm a feminist now
Told him I have to go ten minutes later and never talked more than a few sentences with him again.
that's an annoying thing with friends too...when they change. it's out of our control, but it's still a fricking bummer nontheless when you two share good jokes and memories with each other all for it to mean nothing. to amount to rubbish.
old best friend of mine transitioned and never was the same again. the rest of them moved on with wives or gfs, or just other friends. I'm just tired of trying now, I gave up reaching out.
>>I'm a feminist now
They never began, Black person. 9/11 though
when I was the only one down for day drinking
The year my best friend died
About ten years ago. I was an optimistic person though so I didn't realize it had been kinda shitty for a while.
2012. I unironically believe the Mayans were into something.
2007 actually. When the first iPhone launched. Before then in order to post on the internet you had to be sitting at a computer. Giving every random Brazilian and Black person internet access 24/7 is what killed the world.
>Before then in order to post on the internet you had to be sitting at a computer.
No, we had blackberries and shit before then, and there were devices even earlier like palm pilots, the apple newton, that could use a mobile version of the internet. hell, even a bunch of nokia flip or slider phones had color screens that let you post things on phone internet blogs and send messages like in a chat. it just kind of sucked, it was cool but if you wanted a convo it was easier to call the person and you didnt want to spend all your time looking at some stupid phone when you could be living and meeting people IRL.
your sentiment though is correct, shit started rapidly going downhill once the iphone came out. I was too young (only 14) for the summer of 97 i.e. eternal september which apparently ruined usenet lol
Were Black folk and children using blackberries and palm pilots? No. The adoption of the smartphone by the masses is exactly why the internet went to shit.
how about you read posts before replying to them? just a suggestion
I did read it. You mentioned some irrelevant shit and then agreed. I was pointing out that your irrelevant shit was irrelevant.
>Umm, ACKSUALLY
First day on Ganker? Just learning what greentext is?
>Implying
Smartphone users cannot fathom how truly terrible the early mobile internet was. Hell, I had a Blackberry which came pretty late in that phase and it was still super awful to use for anything that wasn't just SMS. It was almost as bad as using a WebTV, and most of the time even slower.
Also Eternal September was 1993, the year of America Online.
Yeah. and thanks for the correction on the date. and speaking of smartphones, I swear I'm still faster on those old physical blackboard keyboards. also I was a beast at one handed T9 when not even looking doing stealth texting
I had WebTV when I was like fricking 9 or 10. My grandparents bought it for me. I will never forget the connection screen. It was like an image of a moving highway or something. I felt like I was in the fricking future. My grandparents are also insane.
>blackberries and shit
you were too young to know what you're talking about
before the iphone there was no such thing as a mobile browser that 1) rendered almost identical to how it would on a PC 2) ran flash really well.
All mobile browsers before the iphone were terrible web 1.0 html only poorly formatted unusable shit messes.
I'm not a iphone or apple dick rider but it's just a fact and anyone who says otherwise wasnt there. I had plenty of pre-iphone smart phones (palm treo 600, sony clio, original blackberry) and the iphone was just on a whole different level.
I was born in 83, in a relatively affluent part of america. you're the zoomer who can't imagine anything before smartphones
>clio
also it's clie and haha I had one of those until that stupid screen fricked up after just a year where every tap would register an inch to the side
yeah you're right it is clie, it's been like 20 years since I even thought about that thing.
but all macho internet shit aside, I really do think you're wrong about the iphone. I was born in 87 and I bought the first iphone on release. I was really into any kind of mobile technology at the time and pretty much tried at all. We can agree to disagree but personally I found browsing on the iphone in a completely different league than anything else on the market at the time.
I also got the iphone on release. hm, maybe you didn't read my initial post clearly enough? I said that the iphone was the downfall, but the person to whom I was replying had said that there wasn't mobile internet or anything like that before. I said that the iphone was revolutionary just like eternal september was revolutionary. but saying that there wasn't mobile internet culture and shit before the iphone is flat out wrong
No one cared about the first iPhone. They didn't arrive in the third world until much later, since they were expensive. Brazilians were on the internet for a long time, they used a platform called Orkut instead of Myspace.
>third worlders on the internet killed the world
Nah, that was you american homosexuals. You gays brought politics and used the internet as a weapon. Remember Occupy Wall Street? Yeah.
>The majority of internet users in the 90s are white middle class Americans
>Internet is fantastic
>Give Black folk and Europeans internet in their pocket at all times
>Internet is garbage
I rest my case.
*middle class with college background/relatives and tech literate
Then it got to the rest of undesirables, which is most of your population.
And all of your population.
Nope, we are pretty white and educated. Even more back then.
I like that you posted that in American English. Otherwise you might as well be communicating with a wall.
You must be the wall since Mexicans are hopping all over you and taking over your country.
Not a single non white person in a 200 mile radius of me. Not an exaggeration. Can you say the same? Texas and California aren't my problem.
>b-but I can't see them
Yet they control every aspect of your life. Even the internet, which is probably where you spend most of it.
Like I thought, you have brown neighbors.
I don't live in Berlin so you'd are wrong. 56%, remember. Even France is still at 85%.
>You'd are wrong
If that's how you wish to cope, be my guest.
well you are so fat you might as well be the wall
btw I speak british english, that's what they teach in school
I also remember when only intelligent people had access to the internet.
Such a long long time ago.
>Remember Occupy Wall Street?
when billionaires shit themselves and started a culture war to make people in-fight to forget about the billionaires actually causing the problems?
yeah we all remember that
just no-one talks about it because they're too busy arguing why fat black women should/shouldnt be in everything now
and they'll keep shoving it down our throats so long as we keep arguing about it
>Giving every random Brazilian and Black person internet access 24/7 is what killed the world.
you are aware that it was mostly fricking mutts that ruined everything right?
O agree that "unilimited" intenet acces ruined society but the blame is on 1st world countries, spreading hedonism.
yeah, the predicted occuppy wall street
yeah this is true at least as far as the internet is concerned
a lot of shit happened in 2012 that flooded the internet with normalgays ruining it forever.
life and society in general, i feel like 2013 was the last proper good year. 2014 and 2015 werent bad but shit really started plummeting from 2016.
They were right.
That's when "IT" happened.
Things are not what they seem to be.
Things will only get worse forever.
People are lying to you in your personal life.
I legitimately feel the same. this is when games started to lose quality and turn to shit when you think back at it in retrospect.
2010
I was born in 88 and the good times just haven't stopped for me. Sure, there's been a lot of down times, times where I was unhappy, but life is what you make it and there can be enjoyment found in everything. I know not everyone can have this mindset but I wish they could, I legit feel bad for people who are constantly reminiscing about the "good old days" instead of trying to find happiness in the moment.
the good times. Hand them over, I need them more than you
the good times never existed in our lifetimes, it only got way worse
Being born close to or at the beginning of a new decade tends to alienate you from the sentiment of people born early in the previous one. Being born in 1988 is basically like being born in 1990, and people born in the '90s tend to be more optimistic than people who actually have memories of the '80s. That's my experience anyway.
Bad enough life is shit, we got mr (hiv) positive here “feeling bad for us”
Frick you, pal
based take from my fellow 88 brother in christ
literally stay positive. everything is tight if you look at it in the right way
I would have endless sex with this version of Fillian
i grew up. all my friends got gf's/wives (me included) and kids. fortunately my bird is fine with me fricking off for a few days on a bender around a mates still. only real difference is we have to book the stuff weeks/months in advance I guess.
before finishing high school while my moronic friends were celebrating le growing up and shit
they are still that moronic
I can at least trace the point of no return: Obama's presidency.
>having no plans to pull out of Bush's forever wars in the middle east, and in fact his administration saw the widescale use of drone strikes on civilians
>the complete upending of race relations in America
>the gradual beginnings of deputizing left wing/minority crime to turn them into borderline shock troopers for the Democrat party
>the gradual beginnings of attempting to poke the Russian bear and start global shit with them again
>Occupy Wall Street being completely subverted and turning the mainstream voting left into embarrassing cryptocapitalist neolibs
>the utter failure of Obamacare
>>the complete upending of race relations in America
how so
One great example is the tray on martin case,
Black kid attacks a Mexican israelite in neighborhood where break ins were on the rise with tools used for breaking into homes in his backpack and gets killed while slamming the Mexican-jews head on the pavement and Obama basically came out and said it was completely white peoples fault because all white people are racist, trayvon dindu nuffin.
And now we have George Floyd. Most news caster refuse to tell us that it was a black that is doing all the crimes in the past decade, but they sure as hell will let us know if its white, asian, Hispanic, or any other race.
This. But he’s praised by the shadow government for being Le black but he made every problem worse. Motherfricker is the devil in the flesh
You could say it was an Obama Nation.
Leftists really believed they would never lose an election ever again after Obama, it's why Trump broke them so bad
And then they vote everything that would make their life harder, like open borders, light on crime, sanctuary cites, and all the other stuff just because ORANGE MAN BAD. It pisses me off the war that is happening, the "peaceful protest", the giant inflation, all stems from those frickers. A good amount of them probably never work a day in their life or out of twitters.
Leftists are direct inheritors of the boomers will.
Open borders has nothing to do with liberals. It's explicitly to decrease the value of your labor to increase corporate profits. Half of Trump's hotel staff are illegals. Its also why food prices have outrun inflation. It's ok if you can't afford a $12 Big Mac, because for every working class American that no longer can they're 3 Mexicans on the dole that can. Your business is no longer necessary.
again, it's all the boomers fault.
We could save the world by taking that generation out early. Unironically.
Boomers are shit, but they're not the ones that have created the illegal immigration problem. That's directly a result of congressional lobbyists. Plenty of non boomer members of Congress on their payroll. Walmart and Coca Cola are why the country is being invaded.
The right hasn't actually won a presidential election in my lifetime.
I'm getting really sick of watching the guys with fewer votes ruin the country.
We thought Bush was a once in a century fluke, but THEN IT FRICKING HAPPENED AGAIN.
Neither party has won an election since Kennedy, nor before him after Lincoln and to think otherwise is uninformed moronation.
wut
Cia killed Kennedy and has been installing their puppets ever since.
Lincoln was a whig, who wanted top down control of the USA to be returned to the crown, that switched to "republican" when he couldn't get a single vote.
Almost all American politics is boiling frogs to return control to international banks
I see you're a Tier 2 conspiracy theorist. I myself am a Tier 11.
Actually I take that back, you're more like a tier 3.
Do you have a tier list?
>Tier 0 : Total ignorance. A temporary state that wears off sooner or later depending on intelligence level and media exposure. One can "take the red pill" at any age 8 and older, though children awakening is rare and reserved for savants and geniuses.
>Tier 1 : Liminal awareness. You are aware that people in general keep secrets and lie about things, because you yourself do, though you are not aware of the extent of it. You still have faith in social institutions.
>Tier 2: The redpill: one day after a certain amount of media exposure everything just "clicks", you rewatch the orignial matrix trilogy over and over and you understand "the game", but your mind is not yet ready to fully integrate the knowledge and you begin "the journey".
>Tier 3 : political phase. This is where you begin exercising your conspiracy muscles by educating yourself on politics and social issues through out time as a way to understand the struggle between liberty and control that has consumed your mind. if you are an early teenager you will become obsessed with the assassins creed games. If you are older you will begin reading a large amount of political philosophy.
>Tier 4: entered magicians apprentice. This is where you begin to learn about the occult and magical nature of reality, after finding out about the elite magical secret societies which govern the political world. At this point many will cease to care about the conspiracy world, and leave forever, those who stay begin learning a variety of magic disciplines and occult magic societies philosophies.
It goes on of course, that's just the first 4.
Mid to late 2010s. Yeah you can argue the cancer started sooner, but that's when it went metastatic.
The world lost its goddamn mind, and the powers that be collectively went mask-off, all because of a moronic steak salesman becoming President of the United States. A guy who kissed the wall like a good little goy.
didn't know obama used to sell steaks
Nah, he just sold MIS-steaks!
Okay you dirty Hispanic, that was a good one.
weird, that's the same time social media got really popular.....
You just grew up. Nobody took that from you. Even if you could have this again, it wouldn't feel the same.
>~~*Singer*~~
Every time.
Me in the middle.
Noise cancelling headphones have made life so much better.
2014 is when the activist decade started. You know how cultural decades don't start arbitrarily on the 0 and all? Like the JFK 60s were more an extension of the 50s, they say the 60s ended in 1973. Well 2001-2004-ish to 2014 was the 2000s decade, and 2012 or 2014 is when it all just becomes activist political cultural war insanity.
So my hope is that 2024 will be the end of that decade, but god knows what the next will be. Right now and it's poised to be AI this AI that, so maybe it'll be people continuing to isolate themselves. Think about the unintended consequences of all the "We'll be able to AI make our own games and movies" types - how people are less sociable with matchmaking over dedicated servers (no community), how people don't socialize as much with LFG in MMOs (or play MMOs). If people can just generate their own games and media then they will have even less in common to bond or commiserate with others over.
That's a trip to realize, isn't it? Shit that you did that was weird becomes normalized.
>My best friends who were a couple get divorced and I never see them again
>My childhood best friend starts doing gay porn
>My adult friends get into coke and ruin everything
>The only two friends who could play fighting games move out of country
>Old roommate who larped as a Nazi married a black woman and refused to talk to anyone in his old life
About the age of 30
You have the most normie fricking friend group I have ever heard of.
At least I had friends. I miss them.
meh.
Of all the friends I had growing up only a few turned out to not be frick ups, and funny enough none of the successful ones were white.
YA YA YA YA YA
They never began, my whole life has been nothing but lukewarm times.
32
Depends on what you mean but Trump not literally being Caesar was pretty disappointing, probably around 2017-2018.
I don't really know but I just want to log off. I feel like I'm stuck to the screen trying to make money just so that I can log off, and even when I do all I'll find are more people stuck to the screen. I sometimes watch videos of people visiting remote rural places and even there they have shitty cars, shitty bootleg sweatshop shirts, and plastic crap everywhere. Is there nowhere left untainted by bleak modernity? I have a rage boiling inside that grows every day
The hive of the machine will incorporate and assimilate all of reality.
The internet will encapsulate the entire galaxy in time when we finally travel to space.
Best friend got hooked on meth and simped out, quit his job, took his last remaining money of 10,000 bucarooos and took his crush to a festival. Got cucked and ran off during a bands first new song in 20 years. Still laugh about it today, but he turned into a homosexual fricked trannies. Now laughs on boomerbook to white men getting jumped by Black folk. Sad world
when i graduated college
They haven't end for me yet. my childhood was the bad times, so as far as I'm concerned as long as I'm able to make my own decisions and keep a roof over my head without people twice my size making my life difficult, the times are good. I enjoy being an adult.
plus, it's our responsibility as adults to ensure that the next generation gets to have their own good times.
>it's our responsibility as adults to ensure that the next generation gets to have their own good times
anon... the next generation is absolutely fricked from the get go. There are no good times ahead for them, it was over before it even began
jeez, anon. they won't get any better with that attitude. things could be so much worse. you truly have no idea.
>things could be so much worse
things have been getting worse day by day, year by year and I don't see the trend slowing down. If anything its speeding up and we're on a roller coaster straight to the bottom and beyond
I realize they can and will get worse, but when that final boot crushes my skull in I will still be thinking about how I could have been conscious for one more boot.
yeah scary.
I originally had no hope for the future, but then after some more critical thinking about the future, I regained hope. Not hope for any of you mind you, but hope for me! jk jk. MY biggest worry was the universal porn hivemind of cyber rape via brain computer interfaces, but now I realize humanity willa dapt and being a hacker will be like carrying a gun in the wild west, most will end up total slaves in the their brains, but the Neon-genesis Cowboys and Samurais will go on and change the world.
Wake up Dr.Freeman, the AI already control your reality.... You've been living in a dream world Dr.Freeman.
Whoa there, buddy. It's no one's obligation to ensure good times for anyone.
2008-2009. Obama and the iPhone fricked things for good, and I was getting older (26).
I was 18 in 2008 and I voted for OBAMA.
You are the harbinger of OBAMA NATION.
when my birthdays werent fun anymore
2006 when I got my first job at 16.
I also did get a job (part time) at that age, but shit didn't start to "get real" until college.
College was the biggest fricking mistake of my life.
I'm stuck with $50K of student debt that'll never be paid off because I never got a fricking job related to my field.
I should've never fallen for the "college will solve everything" meme.
yeah we got conned, I'm not so much in debt but only because I worked my ass off and managed to pay alot upfront and got Academic performance scolarships, but if it wasnt for that I would be drowning in debt.
>so when did you guys realize the good times were over
im waiting on the good times now
I'm turning 30 this year
I don't think my life was ever good
And I don't think it will get better
"best" friend had a kid with his gf, one night said he was gonna hop on after putting his kid to sleep. he never did, hasn't replied to my dms for months, and whenever hes online hes playing a game with his gf. it is what it is
when my family started caring about having the latest iPhone and bragging about shit on facebook and using on iphone 24/7 and not eating dinner together
fricking iphone and social media
>when my family started caring about having the latest iPhone and bragging about shit on facebook and using on iphone 24/7 and not eating dinner together
I remember using the Computer for 2 hours back then and always getting
>YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME
>GO OUTSIDE
>THIS MAKES YOU SICK
Now my parents hog their phones 24/7 to shitpost on facebook and watch fake news on tiktok and youtube.
it's crazy how hard boomers got sucked into technology stuff when iphones started getting popular
It's tech made for stupid people, up until then they couldn't figure that shit out save for the wizard boomers that were tech OGs.
Hahaha... yeahhhhhhhh buddy. I was terminally online as soon as AOL floppy disks flooded mailboxes. I was only 10, but once the floodgates opened, yeah. I got bullied so hard by my siblings.
>Now my parents hog their phones 24/7 to shitpost on facebook and watch fake news on tiktok and youtube.
Truly the most stupid generation
>Boomers sit on their tablets scrolling facebook all day
>Still can't figure out basic shit like connecting to their own wifi
Had do you use a device for literally thousands of hours and still not know the basic shit?
It's like driving a car for a decade but not knowing how to turn your brights on.
>Had do you use a device for literally thousands of hours and still not know the basic shit?
>It's like driving a car for a decade but not knowing how to turn your brights on.
That's what these apps are literally designed for.
>touch the big bright green button
>magic happens
They can use it like this for 10000 years and will never get to know how any of it works. Literally cattle.
to be fair, that's not just boomers, only X-ers and Basedllennials are tech savy
There is the whole computer building, and there seem to be a giant push back against game modding from the zoomers. That part I will never get.
Thats true I guess. I wonder what the software field will look like in another 20 years. Right now most devs are in it for the money or have liked tinkering with computers from a young age.
That second camp is going to rapidly shrink over the coming years, until its just the camp A people.
>I wonder what the software field will look like in another 20 years.
you already know the answer, the field in 20 years will be either 80% or 100% AI because Zoomers can't even index files.
2 year olds who can't even speak yet use tablets, that shit is designed for ease of use. it's why modern computers and web suck because they also got sucked into that design philosophy. like every windows version being worst than the last and deliberately striping out useful features to "streamline" it.
the next version of windows probably won't even have a start button or file explorer enabled and probably will require you to ask microsoft's new ai to fetch your files and open executables for you.
It's bizarre to me how much everyone is obsessed with phones now.
I grew up using my PC for everything because phones were still in their infancy. When smartphones came out it seemed kind of redundant so I never got into them.
But the boomers never got into PCs and the zoomers were born with smartphones in their hands.
Any other millennials here experience this?
I feel weirdly old fashioned around both younger and older generations.
>Any other millennials here experience this?
Literally everybody in the same age bracket as us.
I only remember that we live during the flip phone and the nokia and people were texting and talking 24/7. And before that, it was just the cord phone and they would just talk through that.
I'm exactly the same, I use my phone form messaging apps wiht my coworkers and make an occasional purchase form Amazon, for everything else I use my PC.
i mean it's not like most millennials grew up around pcs either. iirc most people texted each other under their desk using clamshell phones and their entire understanding of computers was just doing stuff on myspace or aim. when the iphone came out, all of that stuff could now be done on a phone
>Most millennials didn't grow up around PCs
Stop.
Texting was still a pretty new concept for us back then. A lot of us still actually called each other because that's what we were used to. And phone plans often charged separately for texting so parents discouraged their kids from using it. I had a girlfriend who got angry at me for texting her for this reason.
And I didn't know anyone who didn't have a PC.
Oh, and on a lot of those old phones you had to text with the fricking number keys. Where you pressed 1 three times to get the letter C or whatever. That fricking sucked. Texting didn't kick off until smartphones. Or at least phones with full physical keyboards.
>Or at least phones with full physical keyboards.
Then touch screens happened and ruined fricking everything. I will never forgive Apple and their legion of iShitting idiots.
speaking of the t9 predictive text system, why the frick did smart tvs not adopt that shit for their remotes. that would honestly be better than the arrow key and enter button slow as shit system that you have to use to type anything into smart tv search bars
The archons demand those who watch TV experience the slow remote typing.
>i mean it's not like most millennials grew up around pcs either.
We did these odd things called "talking on the phone" and "hanging out in person" back then. Not fricking around on our Nokia. In fact I don't even remember texting at all in high school outside of AIM, which was on the computer.
Definitely talked to my friends on AIM more than on a phone.
Which goes back to my point that I did everything on the PC and the phone was an oddity.
I didn't even use my phone for music. I had an mp3 player for that. That flip phone era didn't have very good music playback features yet.
>when my friend calls and says "where you at?" but the call originated from inside the house.
did flip phones even have enough memory to use for song storage, because ringtones were limited to like 3 second clips.
Depending on the era, they probably didn't store PCM data at all. The Nokia bar-phone I had as a kid just did chiptunes and actually had a built-in sequencer to make custom ringtones.
That was one of the problems yeah. It was also tricky to actually get songs onto the phone. Had to load a microSD card or something.
In comparison, my mp3 player was basically a flash drive I could just plug in. Pic related.
You're a bit off, there. Core millennials in the suburbs of America had exposure to PCs as early as 1993, as well as retro gaming consoles. We were playing ski-free and MSDOS games before fourth grade, and using the full version of AOL. AIM as a stand alone app didn't come until later. We had basic Nokias before we had clamshells, and all the shit you're talking about didn't become normalized until the late 90s and early 00s. We saw tech evolve rapidly and adapted to it every step of the way. If you were living in Eastern Europe, then it might as well have been 1984 until the early 00s.
Yes. I don't know how many times I've had coworkers/friends tell me to watch X YouTube video, I tell them sure, I'll watch it when I get home. They then give that dead eyed stare and look at my smartphone and get irrationally angry that I don't want to watch a video on my phone. Phones are for phonecalls.
Kind of, if I really wanted to frick with them I'm sure I could easily jailbreak one and go wild.
But like you said I really have no interest, seems kinda pointless when I can just do whatever I want on my PC anyways and it will be faster and give me more control.
I now suddenly understand people who prefer manual cars over automatics.
I distinctively remember my parents saying every time I wanted to buy ANYTHING tech related (even with my own money mind you)
>Do you need that, honey?
>Do you REALLY need that?
This turned me into a real cheapskate. Fast forward to now and they are suckers for every single every tech scam imaginable. Pic very related.
Friends all started having families so I barely saw them. My girlfriend left me because she decided I deserved better than her which means she was probably cheating on me with some douchebag I'll never get to beat up. Before she broke up with me she made sure to disconnect, treat me like shit, made me walk on eggshells, let me know that everything bad happening is my fault etc.
You kind of lose your humanity after something like that. I stopped eating, don't sleep, and play games to fill up my free time as much as possible so my brain stays numb. My life is of no concern to me. I only feel a sense of fear when I think about the vast ocean of time and suffering ahead of me still. It feels incredibly daunting when I imagine having to live like this into my 80s.
i went through something similar. it wont get better, to be honest, but it WILL stop bothering you so much with time. don't do drugs/drink.
don't fall for the self-help meme either, unless you're fat or something obvious you could fix. just keep playing vidya, take walks and eventually you'll find someone tolerable to spend time with.
you'll be relatively fine.
2014ish
>so when did you guys realize the good times were over
Mine are still going. I play (mostly) co-op games every few nights with muh wife and while she sucks shit at goldeneye deathmatch we still have pretty close bomberman matches. We recently played Trinity Trigger and it felt like playing Secret of Mana with a best friend who is hot and I could frick afterwards.
You just gotta choose well later in life brehs. And then you too can have a rad sleepover every night.
2016 for me.
>When Toyota discontinued the MR2
>When Mitsubishi went out of buisness
>Pokemon XY plays and looks like shit
>Sims 4 looked like shit
>SimCity is killed
>Games in general arent pumping out like they used too like in the early 00s
So sometime around 2007 and falling down ever since
You forgot one thing: Horse Armor
You forgot one:
>WHEN SPORE WAS RE-DESIGNED INTO COMPLTE SHITE BECAUSE OF WOMEN AND FRICKING CASUALS
2008 innit
In highschool, when all of my freinds started dating girls and moving away. I knew my fun times were over and I would have to be a wagie, like my dad.
When Muslims were caught raping women during New Years and Feminists started defending the muslims raping women.
Surreal
These btiches is cereal
>Feminists
LIBERALS*
Fixed that for you
its the same fricking shit, no feminist is conservative, not a single one.
Funny thing is that just 100 years ago, women were MASSIVELY more prone to being conservative than men. Media propaganda did a huge thing to their little brains
Good thing we gave them voting rights
A little over 100 years ago they didn't have voting rights since the thought was that they'd just duplicate the husband's vote anyway. They were right for a time, then they were corrupted by a freedom they didn't need.
Feminism is israeli btw. Never forgot ~~*who*~~ took it all away.
Jesus are you rightards so far gone you want to undo women's suffrage now? Fricking hell you c**ts are off the deep end.
I want a meritocracy. That is all.
I guess I have to give you credit for advocating for what you think is right even if it means you'd personally have no rights.
I know you're trolling, but besides leftoids genuinely not knowing history, few conservatives know the semetic origins of feminism.
Women working = your labor is worth 50% of what it should be. Fact.
Should people so dumb they believed jussie smollett have the right to vote? How well do you actually think that works out, assuming your goal is a strong country and not destroying it.
No such thing as a conservative feminist.
Just getting older does that for you. You start to see how everything is basically a house of cards. I know it's cliche, but it gets me every time.
is right.
They were only good times because you didn't have the whole picture yet. Once you learn enough, you can only really appreciate how sheltered you were (or weren't) from how fricked up the world was and always will be.
2013 when Ganker died with reddit normies flooding Ganker after the fappening
>2013 when Ganker died
How did it die?
it was flooded with rest of Ganker refugees and zoomers after the fappening. Ganker was the last refuge for actual oldgays and made the best memes. It only got worse after that. These days it's not even scientific or funny anymore. Just broscience and /misc/tards who will never make it
>normies
friends drifted away after high school and I never made new ones. They all moved on but I didn't, clearly
When Zyzz died
N64 was shite. I was 17 when it came out here so i wasn't having gay little sleepovers like that in my mums basement.
PS1 and Saturn were far better and i have retroarch hooked up to a CRT in my bedroom these days so i can play them whenever i want.
Nobody took anything from you, you're just technologically illiterate.
>Shite
>Mum
Kek. You played games in grandma mode.
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Zoomers will never experience this
>Using the arrows instead of WASD
>Zoomer doesn't know what a numpad is
Not a zoomer, and it's still a piece of shit.
>(it didn't work well.)
I'm not surprised at all to hear this lmao
Stay mad zoom zoom.
It's not that uncommon, there even used to be a little thumbstick overlay you could put over the arrow keys to make it like a joystick (it didn't work well.)
WASD didn't come along until Half Life
WASD honestly didnt really kick off until the early-mid 00s.
people still unironically used cursor keys for Q3 and UT99
first i remember using WASD was MOHAA and Black Hawk Down
Yes.
>Die TRUMAN
wtf what did he do
It was a bother lugging those CRTs but some comfy memories.
>Friday: CS 1.6
>Saturday: Diablo II
>Sunday: Everyone too tired from barely having slept for two days, just trying to copy as much warez as possible before people pack up and the network is pulled down
I never did and I'm 35. I think LAN parties are late Gen X or early Millennial. Where the hell do you even find enough PCgay nerds to even have one as a teen?
35 and I did once but it was with the OG xbox. Halo all night, it was fricking rad.
I don't remember when they stopped being a thing, but I'm 38 and went to plenty. At least in my immediate circles PC gaming seemed way more popular than console, probably due to piracy. Sharing burned CDs and talking about the latest cracked releases was pretty common in junior high, but maybe that was a Yurop thing.
Not only did we have LAN parties every week we even used the PS1 link cable to play Armored Core and Wipeout.
'89 here
Never did a LAN party. Too much of a pain in the ass to take your PC to a party.
But we did bring our xbox 360's and wired them together with multiple TVs. Then we did big Halo 3 multiplayer matches. That was a lot of fun.
VGH...back when i was a teen and my dad paid for my luxurious lifestyle. why did black people take this away from me?
I had that South Park poster. They're expensive now.
We were kind of poor so my house never looked like that, but sometimes my older sisters would bring me with babysitting and everyone else's playroom looked exactly like that picture.
>staying up all night playing warcraft 3 with the homies
take me back
I miss shit like this like you wouldn't believe.
needs moar pizza boxes and 2 liters of soda tho
t. born in 1983
Imagine sleeping by the dirty shoes
>THEY TOOK THIS FROM YOU
Took what? What could of they possibly taken? I don't get it. I don't think the mysterious they made time pass.
The time israelites made me grow up.
I really do wish I could go back to the days of late night gaming with the bros. Nowadays I can barely stay up throughout the day without coffee.
>we had our last sleepover without knowing it would be our last sleepover
>we had lots of first times and we probably won't realize the last times we have something
>someday we will eat our final meal
our final coom.
>one day your parents put you down and never picked you up again
Frick
I can't believe ~~*they*~~ took away my ability to sleep on the floor!
it’s all because of “metoo” and the israelites. 2015 was still an era based. “Geralt and his harem”, “quiet in mgs5” etc.
the 10's will go down as the Dark times, so much bad shit happened.
anyone got their ass beat in front of their mates at one of these? dad whooped the shit out of me for not doing my homework. he couldnt fricking wait till they were all gone? lol
No but my dad kicked my friends out of our apartment because "they were the reason I wasn't working" (I had already applied for work and was set to start the following week)
My friend Andrew Young use to have his floors covered in dog shit. The dog even shit in the bed a few times. Patio was covered in shit. I use to stay the night at his house because he lived close, my family situation sucked, and he had thps1 and dragonball z fighting games.
It was awesome.
The only people who hate nostalgia are zoomers
They're too young to have nostalgia. They'll have it soon.
Thats why they hate it
The oldest zoomer is 27 though
bro this would be cozy. just having the mario 64 "demo" screen going all night
We use to pass out with mario 3 overworld map music playing
if that's what you want, what's keeping you from doing this?
Israel. Israel came and took away my bing bing cartridges and replaced them with foreskins.
Internet took more away from me than the death of splitscreen. I miss gathering in front of the old vacuum tube TV, throwing in a porno VHS, and jerking off to it together
I remember when one of my friends wanted to show us porn on VHS he found that his dad had. Everyone said he was gay for wanting to hang out and watch porn with us.
They? You mean adulthood?
milennials truly are the most obnoxious, entitled generation
they are worse than boomers because they dont stay contained in facebook
meh.
You're just saying the generation immediately older than you is shitty, which all young people do. I doubt anyone around 20 years old is educated enough in recent history to have a real opinion on the older generations.
your generation is the more schizophrenic and easily susceptible to propaganda in history
that's cool bro
it's lit fr
*flosses*
>susceptible to propaganda
Normies have always been susceptible to propaganda. I don't know about now but Ganker doesn't take politics seriously, it's just a way to troll normies. The "alt-right" is just a troll op against society because normies are normies.
It wasn't all good times, to be sure. But it was memorable.
Whats it like being tall bros
How was it taken? You can buy furniture just like that now. That game has been ported to every Nintendo system since the N64 and can be emulated on even an actual toaster today.
>you must be le child.................FOREVER
why are millenoids like this
These are zoomers, they never grow up.
It's this. Zoomers didn't have a real childhood so they're nostalgic for the fake one from millennial '90s kids' memes
90s kids had a culture so tailored made for adolescence that it makes me think the matrix simulation architects had children in that age group.
>pokemon
>yugioh
>tones of other shit tailor designed for kids like the beginning of the internet and video games.
Because you speak in Ganker memes and probably think in them as well.
internet brain rot.
Read a book "unironically".
No one on this site has anything worth reading unless they read it out of a book first.
>he dosen't host bi-monthly LAN parties with his friends
Why not?
Because when everybody gets to be in their 30s they don't have time to just get together like this anymore. The ones that even manage to show up are so burnt out from adulting all week they just get drunk and veg out for a few hours.
Especially when they start having kids. If your friend has a kid he's gone forever.
These days kids just do this remotely.
They get together on discord or whatever and play a game together. They miss out on some in-person fun, but they can do this a lot more frequently and then sleep in their own beds. I wish I had that growing up. We could only do big parties once a month or something.
This is also why kids these days are less interested in learning to drive. They don't have to go to their friend's house to hang out anymore.
I call them POD BORN
I'm 35 and didn't get a license until I was 23 years old. Wanting a license is fricking insane when you realize how fricking stupid most people operating vehicles are. MUH CAR, VROOM VROOM, LOUD EXHAUST, TEXTING WHILE I DRIVE, OOPS I'M HIGH ON DRUGS, MAYBE I'LL KILL SOMEONE, OH AN OLD PERSON WITH CATERACTS, NEAT
What did they take from me? Playing Mario 64 with some dudes, taking turns to play becuase it's a fricking single player game and then fall sleep next to their smelly asses? Sounds gay. Thanks for that, israelites.
yeah honestly having friends sucked ass but I needed a reason to get away from my physically violent and abusive parents.
I was too poor to have sleepovers at my house.
I always went to a rich friend's house.
At night, when everyone was asleep, I would quietly jerk off on the couch and deposit my seed underneath the sofa cushions.
It made me feel powerful.
If local multiplayer video games actually end up completely dead by the 2040s I am probably going to change careers and dedicate my life to bringing them back.
how far back do we need to go lads
we'd never be satisfied if we could actually go back. we'd be sad we couldn't completely escape the timeline and mope about that instead
Balatro popping off even back then
The decay of that society noticed by that artist inevitably resulted in the collapse of that society as well.
>grew up poor as dirt with a methhead mom and a dad who's been in and out of prison
>barely passed high school due to having to take care of my five younger siblings as mom did the bare minimum (OD'd five different times, haven't spoken with her since I turned 18)
>knew cops on a first-name basis due to all the shit going down in our park
>by 2010, managed to get into HVAC work and going up from there
>life has only gotten better for me since, just bought my home last year
It's really strange observing people becry the fall of a nation, it strikes me as very much a middle class issue that only once these things started creeping up on them, it became a problem. Things can absolutely be better, but I've seen the worst of low society and most people are nowhere close to that. The fact that people are willingly going into online arguments and culture war debates is such an odd concept to me when I saw shit like people swinging cats by their tails or mutilating animals on a daily basis or straight up shooting their neighbor's trailer because they were bored. And this was back in the '90s going into the '00s.
You don't count, darkie. This is a space for whites only.
But I'm white, I grew up in a trailer park, not section 8.
that's real anon. you don't know how soft the middle class is.
soft but smart, just now the problems of the world are too complicated for them to fix. There's more money in causing problems anyway, since total brain enslavement is coming down the pipeline with neural link.
Someones about to win the game.
and one more; see if you can hear this one
this is from a show about a guy who spent 20 years in prison btw
what's the show called?
Rectify
>this is from a show about a guy who spent 20 years in prison btw
i spent 20 years in my mental prison
didn't we all
YO MY homie WILDIN OUT
>me after working a soulless corporate job for a decade and coming back to video games during the plandemic
>holding the fight stick
The whole point of those things is to put them on the floor/table not fricking hold them. You'd be tired in no time trying to play through games waving that shit around
Well, I lost all my friends due to work and what not, but I'm living with my younger sister so I'm not alone, plus she's into gaming and we share my bed every now and then
This was literally me in 1997. Frick. I want to go back, bros.
nobody took anything from you, you're just out of college now
i wont...
She ain't no Anne Hathaway
>there are no more "next door girl" kind actresses anymore.
Feminism is a fricking blight.
The closest I get to this is playing warhammer with the bros at the hobby shop. That feeling isn't totally unachievable anon, you can still enjoy it.
I miss having friends
you can still have sleep overs with your boyfriends anon
if I never had a single friend throughout all of my childhood but my boyfriend has a really strong friend group (all of which who game) well into young adulthood, do you think I'd be able to get them all together and have the sleepover I never got to have as a kid? how realistic is my nefarious plan if I plan it around a birthday or something Ganker
don't force it if your boyfriend isn't into it but definitely bring it up. could be fun
This was life
HE HAS A GUN GET DOWN
Its pretty crazy to see how utterly fricking dead malls are now.
The reasoning makes sense, why would anybody spend half a day in overpriced clothing/appliance stores when you can just order than shit online now?
But still, it could fun to just fart around in the mall sometimes.
Minneapolis Mall is still busy
UAV online
Explain
I hope this is sufficient explanation
MN got flooded with somalians long before floyd.
They must be giving out free casios
Damn I'm planning to go to the MOA in a week or two, it's literally going to be little somalia isn't it. Just like st cloud.
>Its pretty crazy to see how utterly fricking dead malls are now.
where?
they're still the one thing to do here
fricking impossible to get parking within 15min walk of one on a thurs night, fri night or a weekend.
We don't have a 3rd place anymore.
Malls were the last bastion, and they got killed.
There's nowhere you can go to just hang out without paying money.
bowling alley, roller rink.
clubs if you're a single hedonist.
oh sorry you said
>without paying money.
someone needs to take the piss out of the boomers with some news headlines
>"Just like woodstock" remarks incontinent diaper wearing 60 year old who smokes weed on SSI all day.
It's kind of crazy how that one person not only hung their fluffy coat on the back of a dirty ass public seat (inside now dirty), but also let the ends of it touch down and drag all over the floor like that. I can't imagine doing that today, when did everything become so disgusting
In 1993 I lived close to Manhattan. I was 6, but I vividly remember my dad taking me and my brother to the malls in that area. The women who worked at Hot Topic were on another level and awakened my sexuality immediately. I can't even begin to explain how raw (in a hot way) these goth/grunge/skate rat chicks looked. All the poser shit I grew up with never held a candle, and alt girls today are just copies of a copy.
Modern alt girls are definitely watered down, but I'm still a thirsty man. The hex girls ruined millions.
Thought just jumped into my head, wonder if anyone relates
I was always an autistic fricking shutin weirdo
Yet somehow it disturbs and frightens me that the general public seems to be transforming to be MORE like me; that my once aberrant behavior is now closer to the norm
Our new app/remote work/social distancing world should be a paradise for me yet I loathe it and miss when I actually envied others
We are the prototypes, anon. This whole thing has been an experiment.
Yes absolutely. It is bizarre and confusing to watch normalgays become shut-ins and even more so than I ever was
we were simply constantly online before it was cool. the writing on the wall to the malaise of modern society
for me, i feel the same, but mostly because contrarianism runs through my veins and i'll never get over the feeling of realizing i'm not special
You have to become a white knight Christian now to remain contrarian and as someone whose been attempting it I can tell you it's work. You have to go hard because people will punk on you for being a goody two shoes also.
When you are brought up without any kind of struggle or difficulty and everything becomes offensive and unnaceptable you have current gen z and alpha.
They are told they are entitled to everything and anything bad that happens is blamed on a third party.
I just want to be left alone now and would have love to work at home. I don't give a shit about being special or all that crap. That shit ship in highschool.
I see zoomers everywhere every time I do happen to go out, and I see them everywhere online, they still seem like perfect normalgays though maybe much of it has moved online. They're on Discord 24/7 or otherwise constantly talking about their little friend group chats or being in each others DMs or posting about oomfies. I think they're just faking/rebranding all their various little idiosyncrasies as anxieties for victim points, and even if they're not it's usually minuscule stuff like that pic anyway.
>No cart in the N64
That's a second one hooked up to a smaller tv.
so fake
It's pretty fricking accurate
Isnt this girl one of those zoomers hoping on the "god I wish I was a millennial" thing?
Something like that, but I don't know how they were able to nail it so hard. This looks like my step sisters room in 1996.
I'm 34 and I still dream about hanging out with my highschool friends and GF.
Things will never be that good again.
the funny thing is that this would've been 100% accurate had it not been for the fricking arctic monkeys AM poster which came out in 2012
and the post-2010 style dyed hair, not exactly the fashion trend among geek girls back then
Colored hair is usually a signal that you are bi-sexual, gay, and/or open to group sex.
The dyed hair thing was pretty popular in my highschool back around 2006. Especially among the goth/emo/scene groups.
Had a crush on a girl with green hair, but we were in different social circles.
>Especially among the goth/emo/scene groups.
I never fricking understood that sub culture.
Was it all a cover for satanism? I don't understand how you can make being a whiny b***h an entire sub culture?
They want attention. For Emo and Scene,they also grew up with deviantart, Invader Zim, and myspace.
Most of them were weirdos or gay. So they went full counterculture against the people who looked down on them.
'00s Emo was modern day Dandyism for sad kids. In general, dark subcultures are about finding community through mental illness.
this must be why purple cabbage and red onions tastes like shit
purple cabbage is delicious frick you
I think your tastebuds are borked.
please don't compare red onions to abominations
Cabbage is delicious and you are very gay
I'm eating some cabbage and corned beef right now. Really tasty. Looking forward to farting like a demon.
>those layers
god i wanna eat that fricker, mmmmm
That's a word I've integrated into my lexicon.
Uh pozz muh tism, if curious.
Nobody knows what it means so it's an opportunity to introduce a concept.
As
observed, it's a good method of identifying people who are corrupted and probably harbor STDs.
took it away from yourself because you never grew up
I really want LAN parties to come back but there is really no point unless everyone you know lives relatively close to you and isnt busy with their jobs/life/etc
All the quakecons I went to after 2010 felt pointless. Games don't even have LAN play in their menus anymore.
Millennials need to die.
Nah, were just gonna chill for another decade until WW3 when we're too old to be conscripted and watch all you homosexuals die in Israel.
Get fricked.
Gen Z need to be genocided
He could be gen x.
>could be gen x
either way Gen Z are a bunch of lazy entitled children
Boomers need to die. So we can inherit all their houses and finally start our lives.
>So we can inherit all their houses
*blocks you're path*
>Biden implements a 60% inheritance tax
>House value quadruples in a year
Sure hope you have $500,000 laying around to pay the taxes on that free house anon, otherwise it's going to the IRS.
Estate tax doesn't apply to anything under $10 million.
Biden's most ambitious proposal is to lower that to $3.5 million.
>Reverse mortgage
That's my biggest fear. That when my parents die I find out they gave all their shit away to the bank in exchange for retirement money.
The ultimate boomer move. Setting all the generational wealth on fire and completely fricking over their kids.
Sounds like a peak boomer moment to me.
>Setting all the generational wealth on fire and completely fricking over their kids.
this happens a lot more than you think it does. and not a single person is allowed to talk about it.
I unironically think that the entire boomer generation made a pact with Satan or Cthulhu. Like when they all took LSD they all had the same vision of Satan and pledged themselves to him.
Western boomers. Combination of that and israelites. They really think they're that special and do no wrong and always support them every step in the way
If our reality was fiction then it would be utterly poetic to the point of chekov-gun-too-on-the-nose for boomers to 'end the world'. I don't mean kill all humanity but rather destroy the post WW2 international liberal yadda yadda order. Which when faced with globo-homosexual shit might sound like 'good.png' but instead it'd be a collapse into famine and death and destruction and a much worse world for the short term. Just think about how poetic that'd be. They were born at the start of the time of plenty and living conditions universally skyrocketing pretty much everywhere in the world (Even barring conflicts and crises). If you were writing a story wouldn't you have this generation be the one to destroy it?
It'd be like having one Greek generation inherit some golden age and also be the ones to end said golden age. It's poetic.
Well, in the boomer mind the USA is evil because they were christian and disapproved of sex orgies and made women wear dresses.
>tfw know a good friend in H&R block and his will to live is declining every single year because half of the boomers he does taxes for are putting reverse mortgages on their houses
>he told me that one of the clients he had is currently in a tax nightmare because they reverse mortgaged eight different properties and they nearly assaulted him once he told him that the income they make comes out to something like 30% of their gross income for the year, of which they spent almost all of it
>they were expecting a tax return
>if they had simply done half of their reverse mortgages, they would have more money than they did now, but their rationale for doing so was that they wanted their kids to "earn it on their own"
Boomers, not even once
The USA boomers have always hated America and have waged a sort of jihad on the concept of America and american society since they were young.
Has any single generation done more damage to the world than baby boomers?
People will be talking about reaganomics 200 years from now.
the boomers are legendarily spiteful and malicious to their own society.
Are boomers the most failed generation? I mean zoomers are getting up there too but they've still got some time left to turn things around.
Boomers though? They fricked it up for future generations. Who knows how many.
Somehow they also couldn't find success themselves. Some did but most of them didn't. They just became alcoholics, fat, and poor. They bought a house for the price of potato with hardly any mortgage payments. Yet they have problems paying bills because they spend most of their money on booze and lottery tickets.
Zoomers seem to be ending up equally moronic (if not more thanks to covid) but they won't have the opportunities of boomers. I'm thinking there'll be a homeless epidemic in a decade.
boomers are easily the worst generation of the past 100 years.
zoomers think that millennials are what boomers are and think millennials caused the problems boomers caused.
Why would they even think that.
Common core.
Well that make sense, educational wise. All schools only "teach" them how to pass a stupid test just to get money.
That pretty dumb, yeah
Because they are idiots, I mean that literally.
Zoomers grew up with the "no child left behind" initiative in school. So most of them were just passed up the chain without having to actually learn anything.
Well they literally think that millennials are boomers. They seem to think that "boomer" just means "old" rather than referring to a specific generation.
It's ironic since we call them zoomers and they seem to be aging faster than millennials.
Not sure how frickin' true that is, mate. Millennials and Zoomers are the most identical generations to be separated by a decade in all of recorded human history. The only difference is that Millennials grew up with the internet and Zoomers were born into it.
>The only difference is that Millennials grew up with the internet and Zoomers were born into it.
That's a big difference. Millennials grew up learning both the old way and the new way. We have cell phones but we also remember house phones. We had wikipedia but we had to cite sources from library books.
We have a perspective and breadth of knowledge that zoomers don't.
Many zoomers have troubles using computers now because everything became too user friendly and they're too accustomed to phones. You would think that growing up with computers ingrained in their lives would make them better than us, but it's the opposite.
Well, yes, but that seems more like a Gen X problem, which makes no fricking sense since they had to assimilate in the 90s. You'd think they would've raised zoomers better. Expecting public institutions to raise your kids didn't work in the 90s or early 00s and it sure as frick isn't going to work now. Whatever the frick the curriculum looks like now, parents need to actually parent their fricking kids. I don't plan on having kids until my 40s or 50s, but I sure as frick will not be letting them go to public schools if they're even around by then.
This is mostly schools faults. They got rid of computer classes because they assume zoomers just magically know these things since theyre the "tech generation".
In reality your average zoomer is as tech illerate as an average baby boomer, its just one sits on tiktok all day while the other sits on facebook.
>no cartridge in the n64
But who was Mario??
There are two N64's in the room.
No amount of generational would fix the fact that if you're not black or an illegal beaner and you're family with within that gangbanging area, you're fricked. You can't go outside, you get picked anywhere, and your family has to be poor to live there, so you get jack shit. I fricking hate this shit.
Pussy. Ive beaten the shit out of Black folk and spics, that’s why they travel in groups now because of me. Y’all gonna lose the race war against whites
I actually had vidya parties back in the day. We played PS1 games with 4 controllers, mostly Crash Team Racing and Smack Down and we had Winning Eleven tournaments. Shit was SO cash. Having nerdy friends in high school was cool.
video games you fricking Black folk
What mad lad pulled the cartridge out of the N64 before turning it off?
moron
Thanks Israel
>that red stick with yellow wrapping at the bottom
bottle rocket?
Thanks op man. I somehow really needed to see this pic today.
early half of 2010s. I wasn't aware off it but it felt like time stopped in a abstract way.
Me and a few friends pooled our allowances together to buy a router and several meters of cables and we threw them between our buildings making a lan. We had to take it down 4 months later after the parent's of the friend who had the router complained about the internet usage.
It was the best summer vacation we ever had tho.
Time took this away, no one else.
No, I don't think my friends from 20+ years ago will come over for sleep over. Mainly because we are nearly 40 years old and have jobs/families to take care of. Some of them moved across the state or even out of state.
the N64 has no cartridge but mario is on the TV
is this edited in?
also kind of odd to play a solo game at a sleepover
there are two n64s
There are two N64s, and the one with no cart goes with another TV
i never got to frick my friends but i sure did try
this wasn't taken from me, i just grew up
i can be happy i was there to experience it though
Imagine the smell.
Op is a spammer who repeats the same threads on Ganker every few days
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>2007Complete.jpg, 2007 killed the world 2007 bad 2007 terrible everything got worse after 2007
>This is what they took from you
>Zoomies will never understand
>Scrubs: Kino or bino
>What was the true kid kino
>1980-2005 Ganker
>Likes scrubs
>Hates zoomers
I'm supposed to dislike this person?
Used to have these at a friend's house, his mom was really poor so they lived in a dump rental. His mom smoked so bad that the entire house was saturated with the smell of heavy smoke and cat piss. Said friend also never showered, so his room smelled of the worst BO imaginable. Had fun playing games, but gtfo as soon as dawn hit.
>alphies will never understand the magic and comradery that forms at the sleepovers.
>alphies will never experience a room of boys playing vidya.
>alphies will never understand how amazing it was to play games until 3 am and everyone just passed out somewhere.
>alphies will never get to wake up to their best friend jerkin' it at 4am.
>alphies will never get to make fun of the kid who brough a porno and thought there was going to be a group JO session.
>alphies will only know twitch and yt streamies.
>alphies will be detached from real people in favor of parasocial relationships.
>alphies will unioronically yell "chat"
I'm sorry for the world we made for you Gen Alpha. I'm sorry I didn't try harder to keep the magic, instead of destroying it.
>we made
We didn't do frick shit.
>We didn't do frick shit.
This.
We are not in chargfe. ~~*we*~~ are in charge
Inaction is an action anon. The current state is our fault.
And how can we act? All the jobs are gone or given to H1B when we left college. We all work in shitty warehouses or mcdonalds. And then there is that whole Occupy wall street. The only one that had powers are trust fund kids that are leftist that invaded in all gaming news and reviews and took over.
start a criminal gang with your friends.
Seriously. I got a CS degree, and it took 2 years to get a part time job in local government with the benefit of a family connection.
7 years later I'm still in that same job because I don't want to go through that shit again.
>alphies will never get to wake up to their best friend jerkin' it at 4am.
Thankfully I missed that part since my friends had the decency to not jack off for one fricking night while at their friends house.
One friend did get blown by another friends mom however.
>One friend did get blown by another friends mom however.
fake as frick
It was a rumor of course.
It was 100% fake anon, you guys got baited.
>alphies will never get to make fun of the kid who brough a porno and thought there was going to be a group JO session
Once at a sleepover it was late at night and we randomly put on the TV because we were too tired to play games anymore.
There was nothing on except Girls Gone Wild infomercials. So we fricking watched that shit.
Nobody started jacking it, but we awkwardly hid our boners.
i'm really glad the internet has made porn easily accessible, i cringe at the shit i had to do as a teen
I remember jerking it to victoria's secret catalogues before internet porn was a thing.
I jsut regret that I discovered hentai in 7th grade and got my rocks off to that. My dad didn't even know how to have that conversation.
i used to use those aerobics infomercials, i still have a fetish for leotards because of it.
I started jerking off to Bulma from DBZ before I saw hentai. Once I discovered people drew cartoons having sex for a living, shit was over.
For me it was '90s gaming magazines which sometimes had booba models on the cover, or ads for games like SiN, and I also found a nude photoshoot of some Korean model nested deep in a folder on one of those burned CD-Rs full of pirated games that sometimes got passed around. Similarly, the first hardcore porn I ever saw I also found on some CD-R full of random stuff like midis, mp3s, wallpapers and games. It was the Pamela Anderson leaked video and it almost made me puke.
It's going to lead to normies being as big of bawds as porno prostitutes are since normies are all monkey see monkey do.
getting laid will be easier than tying your shoes eventually.
The future contrarians will be straight laced Christians and everyone else will be a turbo druggy porno prostitute. We're already seeing places like fricking Ganker turn into right wing "trad" types and eventually they'll go full Templar.
If you have a decent looking face getting laid is already easier than tying your shoes.
Well and if you don't it's like climbing the Mount Everest with a backpack full of stones
I used to play through a shitty flash game in the adult section on newgrounds. Just to unlock 4 pretty softcore hentai images that I would jerk to. That was my first fap.
the fricking coof.
while I really appreciate WFH it fricked up the world and I don't think it was worth it.
Nerve gas?
Mustard
In 2001, my autistic school friend had me sleep over. He invited his local friends to join us and we had a local LAN party by linking our XBOXs and played Halo all fricking night on his rich dad's giant fricking projection flatscreen. We were the last two awake and he decided to put on PPV porn. To this day it's some of the hottest shit I can remember, and I wish to god I knew the fricking name of it. The plot was amazing and the women were unreal. None of this ultra HD shit you get today. We took turns jerking off in his bathroom until like 3 AM.
>We took turns jerking off in his bathroom until like 3 AM.
You are real OGs
>they took away smelly rooms and dumbass fake friends
oh no
anyway
real
>185P
>bump limit
life needs a change already if this many of us are experiencing broken bonds and fake friendships.
>>bump limit
Oh shit
Have a nice day, frens
Hope things get better
same anon
It's been an honor nostalgiagayging and doomerposting with you.