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Lightning Knight posted:A lot of the leftist punk crowd have surprisingly strong acoustic chops. That is still quite young tho yknow. Without being a patronizing dickhead, I personally was an absolute dumbass at age 24, and only marginally less so a decade later. The fact that one so young can rise to the lofty stature and purpose of dead forum mod fills me with malaise.
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Lightning Knight posted:
That's the year I graduated high school.
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:the children are our future, because while we weren't paying attention we became old people Oh god...
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Rent-A-Cop posted:I am the old man at the punk show aren't I? I was a good decade older than the median at the prog-metal show I went to on Sunday, and I left during the headliner (Tesseract) because they are some babymetal shite
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Dec 4, 2018 21:54
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The wall fell when I was in grade school and the other day I caught myself yelling at a cloud.
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Avril Lavigne's "Sk8er Boy" was about a man giving up his pursuit of the greedy lifestyle of the bourgeois and finding his true calling and passion working with the proletariat.
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Dec 4, 2018 21:55
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Doctor Butts posted:That's the year I graduated high school. lol look at this old fart.
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Dec 4, 2018 21:56
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ZypherIM posted:I'm always impressed by how.. unattractive all that racial purity makes these people. Also his argument is sort of like "I like the KKK for the kickass Halloween costumes". Overcompensation for having the physical appearance of what it feels like to touch raw chicken.
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Failed Imagineer posted:That is still quite young tho yknow. Without being a patronizing dickhead, I personally was an absolute dumbass at age 24, and only marginally less so a decade later. The fact that one so young can rise to the lofty stature and purpose of dead forum mod fills me with malaise. I mean it's true and I am a huge dumbass but what can ya do? Doctor Butts posted:That's the year I graduated high school. Which means you were born in what, '77?
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Dec 4, 2018 21:57
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Feldegast42 posted:Holy poo poo this twinged at my heart Never forget that smell of singed Japanese electronics.
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:They were probably too young to do it on the N64, but they may have been doing it on the GBA? I forget when the DS came out and cartridges finally died. But I certainly remember blowing on GBA carts, for all the 'good' that did. Some of us had hand-me-downs, if that makes you feel better.
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Dec 4, 2018 21:58
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quote:He made a dishonest case for war. Thirteen years before George W. Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction to justify his invasion and occupation of Iraq, his father made his own set of false claims to justify the aerial bombardment of that same country. The first Gulf War, as an investigation by journalist Joshua Holland concluded, “was sold on a mountain of war propaganda.” https://theintercept.com/2018/12/01/the-ignored-legacy-of-george-h-w-bush-war-crimes-racism-and-obstruction-of-justice/
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Dec 4, 2018 21:59
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St. Dogbert posted:Trudeau has less than a year. Canada’s next election is in October 2019, at which point the polls indicate that his Liberals will be trounced by the Conservatives behind leader Andrew “Where Charisma Goes to Die” Scheer. Ummmm no they don't. Trudeau's been rising in polls in recent months after falling behind in the summer during his embarrassing trip to India and just this week I saw the odds at something like 40% for another Liberal majority and like maybe a 15% chance that the Conservatives will gain a minority if the election were held today with a majority basically out of the question if you swear by the polling and historical forecasts. A lot could change in a year as it has in the last few months but right now Trudeau is the odds on bet for another majority or minority government. The only major news outlet I can see that keeps predicting a Sheer sweeping victory is the Sun Media stuff which is a right wing conservative hack tabloid organization with zero credibility. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-polls-2019-election-1.4870074 Basically the regular news media line for the last couple months has been about how A Trudeau re-election to majority government is far from guaranteed like many had assumed a year ago even if historically the incumbent party that's leading in the polls less than a year from election day goes on to win re-election. How someone gets from that to Liberals are going to get trounced (when they remain ahead in every credible poll if not by huge margins) and Sheer is a lock for the next PM is kind of their own journey to have.
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Dec 4, 2018 22:00
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Lightning Knight posted:Which means you were born in what, '77? Yup, that's true. I remember talking about the Berlin Wall falling in my German class. My teacher was, ecstatic. He had fled East Germany a million years ago (in my childhood mind) and never thought he'd see Germany whole again. Also, LK, I know it's a joke around here but... if you're any indication of folks your age, y'all really are gonna save us all. I'm echoing the "When I was 24 I was an idiot" sentiment.
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Katt posted:Never forget that smell of singed Japanese electronics. My best friend still has the mark on his palm from twirling the joystick in Mario Party games These scrub kiddies will never know that feel Also I'm 31 and I'll confirm I'm still a dumbass Feldegast42 fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Dec 4, 2018 |
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Dec 4, 2018 22:01
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Nah most 24 year olds are still dummies. Source: my siblings and their friends
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Rent-A-Cop posted:I am the old man at the punk show aren't I? I went to the Anti-Flag and Rise Against show in September and hurt my neck/shoulder from rocking too hard. Then I couldn't sleep very well and got a cold and was basically out of commission for 5 days from one concert. But I would absolutely do it again.
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Lightning Knight posted:I mean it's true and I am a huge dumbass but what can ya do? Yes. I really thought that all the hopes and dreams of the 90's would come true and there are times I can even laugh at Portlandia.
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Dec 4, 2018 22:02
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Rent-A-Cop posted:I am the old man at the punk show aren't I? If you give a gently caress you aren't punk enough to be there anyway.
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Dec 4, 2018 22:03
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Feldegast42 posted:My best friend still has the mark on his palm from twirling the joystick in Mario Party games I wonder what the modern equivalent of being given the Madcatz controller is.
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Dec 4, 2018 22:04
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Dow down 800 now.
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Tatsuta Age posted:Nah most 24 year olds are still dummies. Source: my siblings and their friends While this is true they are also far more able to see the world around them and actually want to do something as compared with most of the people my age I knew when I was 24 in the early aughts.
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Born in 76, raised by libs who are still libs, have gotten leftier as I got older, but reading the Obama admin via LF was what really converted me to an anti capitalist dirtbag. Edit: For me, getting older has meant less worry about making rent (I got extremely lucky by accident and have a good career) and much more about worry about meaning and fulfillment, and making the world better. When I was younger I wanted leftist policies because I needed relief. Now that I don’t need relief, I want them just as much because I want to think there’s hope for a better world. selec fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Dec 4, 2018 |
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:They were probably too young to do it on the N64, but they may have been doing it on the GBA? I forget when the DS came out and cartridges finally died. But I certainly remember blowing on GBA carts, for all the 'good' that did. Dude the Switch uses cartridges and it's probably outselling the N64 by the end of the year. Not to mention the 3ds sitting at double that. And Sony just patented a new cartridge format.
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Uncleanly Cleric posted:Also, LK, I know it's a joke around here but... if you're any indication of folks your age, y'all really are gonna save us all. I'm echoing the "When I was 24 I was an idiot" sentiment. I've already reconciled myself to the idea that my generation is doomed and it's why I keep saying that alarmism and "hey things actually aren't getting better fast enough" are warranted sentiments in the face of global warming. We Are Out Of Time. It's why even though I have fairly low faith in the Democratic Party to do things I still participate, because it is better to me than simply waiting for the end. Doctor Butts posted:Yes. I really thought that all the hopes and dreams of the 90's would come true and there are times I can even laugh at Portlandia. I remember the very tail end of the '90s and a little bit of the 2000 election. I actually have a reasonably ok recollection of the time before 2012 but I don't trust my memories of it because I grew up in a deeply, deeply conservative environment. My classmates were being brainwashed to support Bush in the 2004 elections and we were in grade school.
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Robviously posted:While this is true they are also far more able to see the world around them and actually want to do something as compared with most of the people my age I knew when I was 24 in the early aughts. It's possible, and I certainly hope it's true 
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I remember the Obamarama threads here. Those were over 10 years ago.  pillowpants's spreadsheets.I wasn't noticeably different at 24 than I am now though. I'm more left now and I drink a lot less, that's about it. my first political memory was the election of 96 where I liked Bill Clinton because he played the saxophone like I did. Then the impeachment where I knew the President did something wrong and a lady was involved but I didn't really understand it.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Dude the Switch uses cartridges and it's probably outselling the N64 by the end of the year. Not to mention the 3ds sitting at double that. And Sony just patented a new cartridge format. Cartridges are back baby! It was only a matter of time.
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axeil posted:I remember the Obamarama threads here. Those were over 10 years ago. Same
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Your Taint posted:Dow down 800 now. petition to change the national anthem to Goofy’s “ya-ha-ha-hooie” on repeat until the end of the Trump admin.
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So when's the Trump tweet that blames Democrats for the market plummet?
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I never got the cartridge hate. I remember when the Playstation and N64 where a thing and the playstation had loading times. Like instead of a level starting. You watched a loading bar move from one side to the other. That was unacceptable to me. And for the past 10 years or so a USB stick the size of a thumbnail holds like 20 GB and comes free with the purchase of a cereal box or happy meal. Cartridges should have returned and replaced CDs. Cartridges also stacked better and didn't scratch.
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Katt posted:I never got the cartridge hate. I remember when the Playstation and N64 where a thing and the playstation had loading times. They were expensive to produce and couldn't hold the same amount of data that was needed back in the day.
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Fart City posted:petition to change the national anthem to Goofy’s “ya-ha-ha-hooie” on repeat until the end of the Trump admin. If I take a knee every time I watch Goof Troop I'm going to need surgery.
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Katt posted:And for the past 10 years or so a USB stick the size of a thumbnail holds like 20 GB and comes free with the purchase of a cereal box or happy meal. Cartridges should have returned and replaced CDs. They kind of have, the Switch uses carts. But it's all getting replaced by digital purchases anyway.
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I started an antibush insurgency during the Scholastic mock election in first grade. My antiintellectual bent was strong, but I knew that Gore was an okay dude doing his best. My liberal teacher was disappointed by my rationale but gently caress it, (THIS USER WAS PUT IN TIME OUT)
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Katt posted:I never got the cartridge hate. I remember when the Playstation and N64 where a thing and the playstation had loading times. FYI you can fit like 400GB in that size lol, I remember buying my first flash drive when they came out. Spent like $50 on 256 MEGAbytes
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EdithUpwards posted:I started an antibush insurgency during the Scholastic mock election in first grade. I wish I was as cool as you were in first grade. I was probably always destined to be some kind of liberal or leftist tho, I went to Catholic school for all of my primary and secondary education and I was always more interested in the "why are there poor people and how can we help them?" parts than the "how do we best tell gay people to gently caress off?" parts.
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Toobly posted:FYI you can fit like 400GB in that size lol, I remember buying my first flash drive when they came out. Spent like $50 on 256 MEGAbytes LOL at you kids who's first flash drive had 3 digits in it's size.
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Katt posted:I never got the cartridge hate. I remember when the Playstation and N64 where a thing and the playstation had loading times. Unfortunately for you this isn't how the gaming industry works anymore and like nobody is crying for the cartridge to come back except for extreme weirdos who have this weird nostalgia about them. They were terrible for sound quality and didn't have enough space on them to have anything resembling actual video quality as well as being super expensive. The USB Flash Drive found in your cereal or happy meal is also going to have a drastically noticeable slowdown when it comes to read and transfer speed so you won't instantly have a level loaded there either. This is why there are still loading times on the switch even though they've moved back to an SD card, technology has changed and for the better and one of the downsizes was a loading bar (that most gaming companies have gotten to just 1 load time anyway) Like I can't stress the importance of how that space being made available has allowed companies to experiment and push the boundaries that a cartridge didn't even dream of doing in the first place but that isn't for the USPOL thread tbh.
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