What Makes You Feel Old?

[THEMILKMAN]

Everytime a new Pokemon generation comes out.

As far as I'm concerned every Pokemon after Mew doesn't exist...

Why does Pokemon after Mew not exist. Pokemon in the early 00s was still good during the Gold/Silver generation. How old are you? I'm 21, and was still in 4th/5th grade 2000/2001

Alright you got me. I'm 18 but I don't remember what grade I was in in 2000/2001 (1st or 2nd maybe?) I did overreact a bit. Pokemon Gold/Silver was good, damn good infact. But I will not budge on the fact that the 3rd generation and onward was total crap.

 

[Evidencebased]

On behalf of all the under 30 posters on this tread, I humbly apologize to the older members of the escapist community for the ignorance of my fellow youth.

That being said allow me to address the argument that, my friend has not heard of X show/movie/game, thus i am old. No, that just means your friend is too young. I was talking with a co worker yesterday and they were explaining that show Modern Family. They talked about one of the father's and i asked if she meant the one from Married with children. She did not know what i meant. That does not mean I'm old, that simply means she is too young to know about it. Plus Married with children was a little before my time anyway. So stop saying you feel old when you are under thirty people. In fifteen years you are going to look back at yourself and wonder "what was i thinking?"

For the record, I'm 24 turning 25. I am not old yet and I plan on taking full advantage of that.

Thanks for that apology on our behalves (from another <30 poster.) It was getting downright embarrassing with people saying, oh I'm 12 but I remember back when Twitter didn't exist LOL I'm so old! im 7 and i can reed now, i feel so old! i m noo beby n kan hit keeburd 2 tipe so olld! /very slight exaggeration ;p

 

[Evidencebased]

But yeah, my gameplan for aging is to try and turn all my "so old! " feelings into "so much smarter & wiser than younger people! " feelings. And then I'll only start feeling old very suddenly once I hit 90 years old. Superiority complex and denial all the way, bitchez! *firm nod*

 

[scorptatious]

Not sure if anyone has posted this yet but..

Spoiler

OT: Basically when I look at the year some of my favorite games came out.

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee: 1997

14 years ago... God damn I feel old.

I also feel old when I listen to 90's music. At the same time though, I feel nostalgic. So it isn't that bad.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Three words:

Saturday morning cartoons.

When they were awesome.

 

[Lear]

I heard Nirvana on the Oldies station today... nothing makes you feel quite so old as the songs you grew up on hitting those stations.

I did an informal poll of over 200 people at a recent anime convention and i found only about 40% had seen cowboy bebop, less then 30% had seen Akira, and i only found 5 people who'd seen Fist of the North Star. Granted one of those is older than i am, but they're still the anime that molded my tastes. Kinda discouraging to find so few who remember them, especially among a fan group.

 

[killercyclist]

i remember when i thought the show "all that" was amazing. also: slap bracelets

 

[Artina89]

I am 22 and where I live there are a load of Freshmen at my University that are, 18, 19 and they ask the guys in my flat if we want to party with them, and our idea of a good time is to sit in our rooms, watching films and drinking cups of tea.