Dozzi92

Sometimes I feel like the difficulty of access for old video games and music made it even more exciting. When everything is a button click away, it loses some luster.

My kids can watch literally anything on tv. I try to tell them about a time when, sure, there were 30 or 40 channels, but only a handful of them catered to me. Maybe TGIF on ABC, or Sunday nights on Fox, and Nickelodeon was always good. Disney was pay to play. Might get lucky and get something good on TNT. When you flipped to a channel and something good was on, it was awesome. Even when they started putting guides on the channels, or the TV Guide channel, you could get lucky and find something, and that was nice.

Obviously same goes for radio, and not counting the whole station not coming in and the song being half static.

This isn't just the '50s and '60s. This lifestyle existed in the '80s and '90s, although presumably that was the beginning of the end.

I'm curious, are you suggesting it was crimes against women being taken seriously that brought about this economic downturn? Just trying to find a nexus between the post and your comment.

But they joked about money all the time! The struggle!

Oddly enough, they don't joke about that in shows as much anymore. Wonder why?

Dump a can of black beans in a pot, unrinsed and undrained. Add adobo seasoning. Serve over rice. I am white.

That's it? Only protein? Or are they more than meets the eye?

Next you'll tell me they're not a magical fruit!

I get powder from Costco. They have Kirky brand that is not only about half the price of Metanucil, but the dosage is also about a third, so in reality you're getting like 4-6 times as much, depending on your definition of "rounded." Kirky is also sugar free, using stevia I think, although I'm sitting in a car right now so this is all from memory, and my memory ain't the best.

Yeah, it's just a common thing generationally to pine for the days of olde, and for my generation it was apparently playing outside and then early internet, and OP was there for the YouTube heyday, and I can probably commiserate with them, but by the same token I'm like, well, YouTube ruined my favorite medium, whatever that was.

It extends into everything. Music, my favorite band's earlier records were better, the new kids in the scene have ruined it, etc. etc. Nostalgia is a real bitch, unfortunately, and we're all just stuck on Mr. Bones wild ride with no way off it.

I think part of it is experience. You've seen it. You've heard it. You were there for it, and it now just feels old. But I always tell people who never watched The Wire or Breaking Bad that I'm jealous that they get to experience then for the first time. There are only so many greats out there, and you experience them, and you reflect on everything else you experience in that light now.

That's all not to say that there won't be some great shit you'll experience again. You've just experienced so much great shit already that this new great shit has a higher bar. It's your first love. The first time you ate apple pie ice cream. The first time you heard a song that just touched you. Everything else gets measured up against it, and at 15, for the first time, shit seemed better, but only by comparison.

Getting old is a ride OP. The biggest hill on the rollercoaster is always the first one, but that doesn't mean that we can't enjoy the corkscrew or that sharp turn later on. I'm sitting here at Kalahari with my kids, and I go down slides on my own and they don't hit the same, but going down ones with my kid all of a sudden puts a new spice on an old recipe.

I have friends who continue to chase the dragon, and that works for them. Do what you wanna do, don't feel like you need to stick in the same circles and routines you used to. And if your medium isn't entertaining to you anymore, just put it down. I don't play games the way I used to, and that's okay. I pick back up here and there, the same way I pick up my guitar, and the same way I'm thinking about strapping on the skates to play hockey again. And I've positioned myself in a way that I can do these things too, if I want. And if I don't, I don't.

Love ya OP. Go out there and have fun, that's what I always say when anyone asks just about anything.

I'm okay with inheriting property, but you gotta pay for it. The whole passing it down is ludicrous, but I also feel like never owning anything is also not great. Goddamn nuance strikes again unfortunately.

The constantly connected seem to have a tough time parsing available housing and homelessness. Like, there are 100 homeless and 200 houses, why problem?!

"Go away, I'm batin'!"

Bergen County, NJ, likes to put Rs in where they don't belong, and orifice is absolutely a way I've heard people say office. And swiping an article is odd to me, but I've written zero articles so I don't know.

Yeah, this seems to me like talk to text. Punctuation usually shit, and orifice office is just an accent problem.