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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

You keep joking about Doop and it's going to come true.

[–] metalsd@eviltoast.org 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Well and here we are! I don't even know if peeble and doop are real places online or she just made it up to make a point πŸ˜†

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 hours ago

Made it up. Please. Dear god. Please.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 16 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

When I hear "20 yrs ago" I still think 90s. 😭

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

I still think 90s when I hear 8-9 years ago.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 9 points 12 hours ago

I remember in 2010 when someone posted a meme on ragecomics that showed how sad they are that some people still use 'years ago' to refer to the early 90s...

[–] FatsoJackson@lemmy.ml 39 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

and we wondered why everything was a GameBoy or a Nintendo for our parents

[–] yopyop@feddit.nl 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

No no! THIS is different ! πŸ˜€ it's because it's funny to mess with kids.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

My routine when I walk into the room where my daughter is playing a game:

  1. Identify the game she is playing.
  2. Ask her how <activity in game she isn't currently playing> is going. Like if she's caught all the PokΓ©mon when she's playing Minecraft.

I'm not even trying to be subtle about it, but am still not sure she realizes I'm doing it deliberately. Either way, she corrects me with exasperation each time.

[–] Lucky13@lemmy.world 25 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I used to work at a hikers' hostel on the Appalachian Trail. A group of hikers needed a ride into town but were short on cash. One of them suggested they offer the hostel owner some weed in exchange for a ride. Another one said, "He doesn't smoke weed. He's old, like in his 40s." He actually was in his 50s and bought his weed from me lol

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 19 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

"We are the first to do this." -every young cohort going back through time

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Also "the fucking old people caused this mess and are standing in the way of fixing it. We need them to die off so we can turn it around"

There has never been a young generation not saying this. Many of them have been correct too, but few have turned anything around when it's their turn.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Yeah. But if we're talking about Baby Boomers, they really leaned into the "caused a mess and standing in the way of fixing it."

For over 50 years they had every advantage that's now denied young people, and as a cohort, Boomers are the shining example of failing upwards. They now roost at the top of whatever ladder they bumbled up and exist primarily to punch downwards.

So, I don't know that your pattern holds true for the specific epoch of the last 50-60 years, as, for the first time in modern history younger generations are worse off than their parents or grandparents. And that blame can readily be heaped at the feet of "Generation Me," who have broadly, and uniformly worked to maximize their personal wants at the cost of any economic, social, emotional, environmental, or financial impediment that got in their way. Even now, Baby Boomers suck the air out of politics and C-suites across the country, adamant that they are still relevant and that their opinions are as good as facts.

It's hard for me to feel sympathy for them, when instance after instance of what brought us to this point can be directly tied to their behavior.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I feel like GenX said, "The fucking old people caused this mess and are standing in the way of fixing it. We need them to die off so someone else can turn it around, but there aren't enough of us so it's probably up to the younger generations."

We never had a lot of collective ambition, which I guess is good because our parents still won't let go of power.

[–] Shapillon@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago

"The young ones are lacking conservative quality that we had" - Every old cohort going back through time

Ah the duality of humans :p

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I often need to remind myself that Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings are not recent movies.

It's the same as being a kid in the 80s, which I was, and thinking The Seven Year Itch was a recent movie. Now, I had seen that movie on TV, because my parents liked it, and I thought it was funny, but never did I think of it as "recent".

Still, you can't tell me that Harry Potter movies didn't happen in the last ten years.

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I have never (not asking for info, I can look it up) seen it, just heard it mentioned by name. Couldn't tell you the actors or even the genre off hand.

But I can tell you that every time I hear the movie my brain (for juuuust a second) always thinks it's a Star Trek movie that's specifically about pon farr.

For those not in the know, Vulcans (aka the race of aliens that Spock belongs to), while very disciplined, will get super horny every 7 years. So horny that they will just up and die if they don't bust a nut and for whatever reason they can't just take care of it themselves.

Now I'm no kid from the 60s, but I did hear of it first with Tuvok in the Voyager series. And now that reference is just as dated now as the original show was when I watched Voyager. And I just had a whole existential moment between those 2 sentences in this paragraph. I'm so old now.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 7 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Holy hell, the last movie was released in 2011.

I remember how much anticipation and agony people were complaining about waiting for it, that it couldn't come soon enough.

I recently picked up a new game: RoboCop: rogue city..... It hits all of the nostalgia about the original movie so far. Marching through an office building blowing off people's hands and ripping machine guns off turrets and mowing down rooms full of enemies in all the gory, bloody detail..... It gives me all the warm and fuzzy feelings.

The sound track is on point too.

Hard to believe it's source material is from 1987. The game almost looks as good as the movie did. It's not as polished as big name titles. People will talk and their mouth won't move, some of the idle animations for NPCs is very repetitive and robotic.... But the visuals... MMM. If you liked the original, and want to partake in some thug killing mayhem as Murphey himself, I'd recommend it.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

It's actually only $9.99 right now with the Steam spring sale, normally $49.99...fuck. I might have to play it.

[–] Devmapall@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago

That game is a blast to play. Some bugs like you said but well worth the 20 bucks or whatever I spent on it.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I refuse to ever call Harry Potter a classic.

[–] knexcar@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

But it is a classic

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I'm a school bus driver and my elementary school kids go on about somebody named "Queso" (sp?) on Youtube and I find myself constantly fighting the urge to see what he's all about. It can't possibly be good.

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

He's a streamer whose chat makes fun of him for being fat. Caseoh.

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[–] 257m@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago (8 children)

As somebody who was born in 2007, I have no clue who modern celebrities are either. People consider me out of touch but I have no idea what half of what people around me are saying. The acronyms don't help and I am too scared to search them up.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Woah, 2007ers are 18 now. πŸ‘΄

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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

There's a whole lot of people who are basically famous with being famous...

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

In the distant future, when we look back on scattered social media caps, we will regret that the date of posting is not shown. Like scattered pages from books unknown, page numbers elided.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (7 children)

The fun thing is that none of this stuff is going to survive long-term at all. Databases are backed up onto forms of media that have a very short lifespan. Only material that is endlessly copied forward (like DNA) will still be around, and nobody is going to pay for that kind of archiving, at least not for the generally trivial bullshit that comprises social media. FWIW this fact make me happy.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

As civilization has progressed, we've done more and more writing and record keeping and done so an less and less durable media. From stone to clay to papyrus/parchment to paper to film to digital media.

I feel like there needs to be some kind of write once media that's extremely durable and reasonably dense for digital data specifically for long term archival purposes. What's the digital equivalent to carving something on a stone tablet, that a thousand years from now despite age and weathering could be dug up in a field somewhere and still hypothetically be at least mostly readable?

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

If you want reliable media to last on a timeline relevant to our lives and even several generations, look into M disc blurays. Though, similar to dual layer dvds back in the day, it's much easier to find a writer than the media itself. But it claims lifespans of centuries to millennia rather than decades usually associated with other disc media. They are actually etched instead of just using some fancy ink. Readable by normal drives, too. It's just on the writing side that you need one that can specifically handle M discs. It also supports multi-layers, but those are even harder to find and get pretty pricey.

Still not likely a way to pass information ahead to civilizations even tens of thousands of years away, and even before they break down, a new civilization would need to figure out how to read and interpret them (when we had trouble reading hieroglyphs from known civilizations that we could read directly with our eyes).

But at least they should be relatively safe to write, verify, then forget about for a few decades until you find them and want to take a walk down memory lane. Assuming you can still get a bluray reader at that point, or held on to one. Pack them together and future you or your heirs might be grateful.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

I randomly download scattered memes that I will want to repost endlessly in the future. I assume other people do the same.

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