We also got to see the rise of the Internet and the home computer revolution, as well as smartphones later on. We are the last ones to know what the world was like before all that. When you had to bike your ass to the local library just to look up a cake recipe, and “please allow six weeks for delivery” was the standard.
Anyway, does anyone wanna play Pogs? I got some cool new slammers here…
Let me just feed my tamagotchi quickly and then I’m in.
“if the Tamagotchi doesn’t grew into adult in 5 minutes, i don’t want to do nothing with it”
I miss the old days of intenet when youtube didnt exist. When gmail was still beta and giving away invites…
Go back just a bit further to the days of AltaVista and I’m good. When it was still possible to store an entire website’s markup and its images on one floppy disk. When people were running servers out of their basement and jumpstarting the early web.
Edit: The Fediverse certainly has that 1996 “wild west” feel to it though, I gotta say. We’re just missing webrings and ugly-ass tiled backgrounds.
I did a bunch of school works when google didn’t yet exist. It was a wild ride searching obscure sites and finding information in green webpages with lots of blinking texts and colors. Had to borrow the 5 cds encyclopaedia from a friend to get any historical information for some works. Wikipedia was barely starting and having info there for some things was amazing.
Damn days of downloading a random mp3 file 128kpbs quality of 3.4 MBs that took 1 or 2 days with computer turned on all night long.
I prefer mid 2000s internet
That’s so true
Dude, I still have a slammer that’s solid copper. I’m going to win all your pogs. So yes, let’s play.
I’ll bring my talkboy.
I’m glad I wasn’t born in the ww1/2 generation.
I’ll take economic and ecological collapse over trench warfare any day of the week. I get to type this critique in air conditioning, while those dudes drowned in shell crater cesspools just trying to take a shit.
Not to discount how horrible our future will be. At least compared to what our ancestors went though, we’ve got it good.
Well, COVID struck the silent generation most, so if anything that generation rolled a natural 1 on their d20 dice.
Lmao they did just get fucked by God every step of the way.
“Stay silent, bitch” - Fate
You could say, they took silent in Silent Generation literally.
Or even simpler things that people take for granted, like antibiotics, which weren’t discovered until 1942 and weren’t widely available until 1945. Can you imagine how awful things like strep throat or a minor infection were to deal with before penicillin.
I grew up dirt poor without healthcare until I got to the Army aat 18.
I’ve gone through many infections without antibiotics. Nearly died from sepsis once because I didn’t go to the ER until the line in my arm was halfway to my shoulder.
There was very little trench warfare in WW2. Unless you’re talking about the trenches for the death camps. Those were some really big wide trenches.
You have a point. At the same time, the silent generations kids, the boomers, lived through every technological breakthrough, on times of huge economic growth. Also they owned cheap house, had almost free tertiary education and a better labor market. Lastly they had access to banking dept and never woried about the environment. Now they are reaking all these benefits and while they fucked around for us to find out.
Hate to break it to them, but the worst is likely yet to come.
We’re aware. I propose we eat the boomers. Gen X is okay, though.
so what would that worst look like?
I suppose this. https://youtu.be/kQkyouPOrD4?si=usnYe3XhJDJhdhgs
I feel lucky to have bought a house in the sliver of time that I had when things lined up perfectly. Fuck
You should feel lucky. I am never going to own a home. Granted, I’m disabled and so broke my Internet is gonna be cut off in 36 hours, but still. Ain’t never gonna be a chance for me. My grandmother was able to buy a house by herself while raising two kids. My mother bought a house when she was 24. I’m 31 and gonna die in a cardbox box that I rent for $1800 a month.
$1800/month? That’s fucking insane. Look in to community living groups. I was turned on to it while I was in school (at 35 🤷🏻♂️) as a cheap option while I went back. I know we’ve all had room mate horror stories, but there are people out there who are willing to co-operate and work towards having a home.
Four years on and now I’m running the house (it’s just a rental with lots of rooms) and we have a great group of 5 that’s been together for over a year, including a 9 year old. (Most of us have been together 2 years now, we had a housemate leave amicably last summer).
I’ll admit the first two years were kinda rough. It took me a bit to recognize the red flags I needed to - and to build up the courage to be able to say “no, you wouldn’t be a good fit” to people I’ve known for years. I had some dramatic experiences trying to find the right people, but we’ve got a nice home now and we each pay around $600/month for a whole-ass home!
It does take work; physical, mental, and emotional, but saving $1200/month is worth it. You’ve gotta be able to communicate your needs respectfully and be able to look at yourself and acknowledge where you need to improve to be able to get along with people.
The rewards are worth it. We all work less now so we have weekly dinner and D&D and movie nights and it’s really quite nice. We still bump elbows from time to time, but we all know each other well enough now that it’s easy to solve conflict calmly.
The $1800 was an exaggeration of what I expect to happen. But I am in an apartment that isn’t cheap. I’m screwed either way
1800 is cheap where I am.
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Same but I’m self aware that I got a house thanks to society falling apart and couldn’t have done it otherwise.
2008 crisis + foreclosure + house needed tons of work.
I’ve made it nice with serious updates, but I couldn’t happily rebuy my own house and that’s scary
One little crisis and my mom got scared, she said “you’re moving to your uncle and aunt in Europe”
I pulled up to the house about seven or eight And I yelled to the cabbie, “Yo holmes, smell ya later” I looked at my kingdom I was finally there
Only to realize that the crisis in Europe was just as bad as there.
Actually, we’re well on our way to a 4th economic crash.
Hooray!
potentially
Let’s see some more can-do attitude, mkay?
No, definitely
But wait, it gets worse!
Damn, this image really makes me feel sorry for Will Smith. He’s so pussy whipped, and it’s not even funny. His wife is in Scientology and basically uses the church and the threat of taking his kids away and hiding them within the church to get Will to toe into line, so much so that she cucked him with their son’s rapper friend (who she groomed after his mother died). This image is from her “red table” internet talk show where she had Will on and they both said they were ok with her sleeping around.
Still though, he gave me my wifi SSID, “KeepMyWiFisNameOutYourF-ingMouth”. It literally only just fits lol.
Feel sorry for people that actually deserve it. Don’t waste any emotional energy on this dipshit.
All people deserve empathy
Nah, some don’t. Wouldn’t say Will Smith is one of them, though.
That attitude is destructive and harmful to humanity.
Wait what’s he do?
laugh/sobs in living with parents
You’d think that people who face a crisis every few years would be familiar enough with the word to know that the plural is “crises”.
As a French j’approuve
Ton pseudo est poétique
Merci c’est gentil
Too young to know who Mike Oldfield is.
Slides Tubular Bells LP out of its sleeve
“crisipodes”
Ah yes, lost two jobs in three months, waiting for my rent to go up, and live in a tent while at uni for the next three years. There is no affordable housing where I live, and employers can fire us at any time. Makes total sense.
At least I don’t have to worry about kids.
Or having a house
We can have avocado toasts which are basically the only high end thing we can afford and enjoy.
It’s definitely making me bitter towards the concept of owning property
We’ll all basically be Joel in the coming social collapse.
Maybe YOU will but I’ll be killed and eaten within 29 hours.
Joel who, Joel Hodgson?
TLOU
I’m already dead and nothing’s changed
Damn that really sucks. I bet the ping is pretty awful from over there too
Nah ping is pretty good