>Playing a game, have to sing a song to impress some NPCs
>Pull out a fiddle and make an elongated Devil Went Down to Georgia reference
>Only one other player understands it
Am I just old? Is that an old man song?
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Nah they're just uncultured.
Its over 40 years old and since the 00's the acceleration of cultures and trends went absolutely batshit. The reference you posted is from when 20/25 years ago? If something exists for more than a year in zoomer culture its already ancient. You are basically quoting Gartnait II after he dropped a mean line about Uradechs mom in ancient gaelic at this point.
Also that feel when you name a Futurama character as analogy and the guy you are talking to says: Isnt that this space simpsons thing from the memes? My dad used to watch this too!
>You are basically quoting Gartnait II after he dropped a mean line about Uradechs mom in ancient gaelic at this point.
Based frick Ur*dech and frick Ui Brian.
>futurama has a new season
>fry is now 70 years old
>simpsons has culturally outlived futurama, the funnier show
>Funnier
the problem with futurama is that it was mostly "just good"
It's bad episodes are better than simpsons bad episodes, but its best episodes were never as good as the simpsons best episodes.
Combine that with the fact that quite a bit of its humor expected you to understand basic shit about the world, whether it be math, science, or bureaucracy (not even complex or esoteric bits, just basic ones) and you have a show that already eliminates a great deal of its own audience.
So it's going to stick less in the minds of people and its going to have less people to begin with.
Given I knew 50-60 year olds who loved to wax on about 80s and 90s conventions, yeah, you're just completing the cycle.
>but its best episodes were never as good as the simpsons best episodes
Zapp Brannigan episodes got quite close though
Bro, that song is from 1979.
Yes, so it's 45 years old, which is more than 40 years which is what he said. Bro.
Then why do zoomers always basedjak when Stranger Things use an old song?
My friends were watching those in the '10s. Feelsgoodman.
>Then why do zoomers always basedjak when Stranger Things use an old song?
Because they have been conditioned to be clamoring for the presented pastiche, regardless of its original substance, which they are unable to comprehend, newfriend.
My current friends like only 5-10 y.o. younger than me and they only understand 10% of references I make despite we are all nerdy weebs of the same nation. The time has changed.
Let me tell you it sucks being a 20-something with older taste. You'd expect my cohorts to have at least heard of Futurama but not a one of them has seen it. Same goes for anything from Zulu to the Jetsons.
Frick, even the weebs I know give me deadeyes when I ask them if they've seen shit like Vampire Hunter D or Appleseed.
> if they've seen shit like Vampire Hunter D or Appleseed.
DMing for a group of 20-sonething weebs is unironically amazing for me. I'm only 34, and they think I'm some sort of ancient wizard when I recommended to them FMA:B, Helsing, and Soul Eater or tell them stories of conventions from the mid to late 00's. I always wonder if this is how the grogs who came before me felt. It's a strange sort of melancholy pride.
I had a conversation about anime with a kid at work, talking about some of the most important series for anime in America (I was thinking Ranma, Cowboy bebop, Evangelion, Akira...even back to Speed Racer and the like). He called Naruto a 'foundational' anime and I instantly turned into dust.
>*sigh* I was born in the wrong generation
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>Friend from work wants me to play cyberpunk with him and his friends.
>name my character Lee-Loo Multipass for a giggle.
>group of 20 somethings just stare blankly at me.
>start to tell them about the fith element.
>blank stares.
>kind of shocked these self avowed "cyber punk" fanatics haven't even heard of that movie.
At this point it felt I was talking to aliens.
>make a joke about that they probably haven't even seen blade runner.
>"that old Ryan gosling movie?"
>"yeah the chair flip meme movie"
>realise that shity sequel is 7 years old
And then I felt super fricking old at this point.
Needless to say I haven't gone to play with them again.
>realise that shity sequel is 7 years old
What the frick.
Ask someone about the Karate Kid if you ever want to feel ancient.
I'm honestly really baffled by the lack of exposure younger people have to anything outside their current year bubble.
The ones I know are generally too busy to do anything except watch phone memes on the bus.
Motherfricks can't even clear three hours of gametime most weeks it's depressing.
Memes used to be something incidental. Something that would emerge from communication when you went home and fricked around on your desktop or laptop. Now memes are something you do actively throughout the day on your phone, and now "meme culture" is a thing. I hate when I hear people talking about memes. It's something we've all (almost, atleast) done, but sometimes it just dominates conversation now, which is really weird.
They're about as condensed as you can make media, which means the greatest accessibility.
If we want our in jokes to be less widespread we need only to make them longer and less understandable at a glance.
lmao, no. I hope the phenomenon of memes dies. Probably won't unless the internet as we know it collapses.
Naruto only aired in the US 4 years later, and it probably had a wider impact. Bebop probably just landed better with a different, albeit older and smaller audience, though.
>If we want our in jokes to be less widespread we need only to make them longer and less understandable at a glance.
This is why normies could never figure out Baneposting
me and all my zoomer friends love this song. depends where ur from i guess.
Look up the Jerry Reed cover. It’s awesome too.
>Am I just old?
The mere fact that you ask means the answer is yes.
Instead of feeling old, insult them for being uncultured, ignorant children.
Kill uncultured zombie players.
Dropkick zoom-zooms into the ground.
Behead rootless zogbots.
Throw atomized playpigs into the trash.
If they're in their twenties they should get it because it was in Guitar Hero 3, that's how I discovered it.