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lacktheknack

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Binnsyboy said:
This is in date enough to be relevant.



I've not had that yet, but it's coming like a freight train :D
Finding Nemo came out NINE YEARS AGO?!

OT: ...I wasn't feeling old twenty seconds ago...
 

Volstag9

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Supercereal said:
there are people alive today who can, Vote, drink, smoke, get married, etc that were born after Kurt Cobain died

Also as an Australian i must let everyone know that it has almost been Six years since Steve Irwin died.
Six goddamn years. It still seems like yesterday :(
 

Dire Sloth

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I'd like to feel a little older. I'm 21, but my baby face says "17". Suuuucks! Apparently that will be great when I do finally reach 30 and so on, but it sure makes getting drinks at the bar a hassle.
 

TheMann

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Well, from a gaming related point of view, someone on these forums once remarked that Halo was the first FPS they'd ever played when they were a kid.

The first FPS I ever played was Wolfenstein 3D, which came out in 1991. I was 11 years old at the time.

Ouch.
 

Fappy

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Sober Thal said:
EDIT: What really makes me feel old, is that after posting in this thread, it got me to thinking... I remember being 16 years old, and having a one night stand. If that girl became pregnant from that time, our child would be the average age of posters on these forums.

*Shivers
That is... not a good way to look at it XD
 

shrekfan246

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TheMann said:
Well, from a gaming related point of view, someone on these forums once remarked that Halo was the first FPS they'd ever played when they were a kid.

The first FPS I ever played was Wolfenstein 3D, which came out in 1991. I was 11 years old at the time.

Ouch.
Yikes. Even I had played Doom and Star Wars: Dark Forces/Dark Forces II long before Halo was released.

Also, Shadowcaster. Nobody ever talks about that game. Or Betrayal at Krondor. I technically shouldn't even remember those, myself, but I do! Mostly because my computer isn't ancient enough to actually play the old disc of Betrayal at Krondor that my dad owns.

I never did beat that game...

EDIT: Oh, here we go:

The last desktop computer I actually owned, had Windows 98 on it.
 

Iyon

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I feel old when I read posts by people younger than me talking about how old they feel...

EDIT: Also, my receding hairline. Grow back hair! PLEASE?!

I'll just keep screaming at it... that works right?
 

Fappy

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shrekfan246 said:
TheMann said:
Well, from a gaming related point of view, someone on these forums once remarked that Halo was the first FPS they'd ever played when they were a kid.

The first FPS I ever played was Wolfenstein 3D, which came out in 1991. I was 11 years old at the time.

Ouch.
Yikes. Even I had played Doom and Star Wars: Dark Forces/Dark Forces II long before Halo was released.

Also, Shadowcaster. Nobody ever talks about that game. Or Betrayal at Krondor. I technically shouldn't even remember those, myself, but I do! Mostly because my computer isn't ancient enough to actually play the old disc of Betrayal at Krondor that my dad owns.

I never did beat that game...
My first FPS was probably Goldeneye, but that's likely due to that fact that I didn't have a pc to play games on until 2000ish. I was a little young for Doom during the 90's anyway.
 

Redlin5_v1legacy

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Something not related to media getting older? My nephew is in the same elementary school I went to now.

...

Damn, that hits me every time.
 

frizzlebyte

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I've really been hit hard by the whole "quarter-life crisis" of late.

When I realized I was turning 24 this year, having taken life easy for so long that I have barely gotten any "real-life" experience, and still have a good 2 and a half years before I get my bachelor's degree, and not achieved all that much compared to my peers...oh yeah, I definitely feel old.

I think mostly it's the idea that I've wasted what are supposed to be my "best years" by just taking life easy that's snuck up on me.
 

Joey Bolzenius

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As a 24 year old I don't know what to say. I have plenty of time, but I'm going batshit crazy over how to spend it. Lets see, taught myself Maya, Photoshop, Zbrush, still struggling with the whole dame thing, fuck you Autism and severe anxiety disorder!!!! I've seen enough great movies, played enough great games, made a few of both, not good ones mind you, honestly the last thing I need to do before I am satisfied with my age/life is finish college and make the beast with two backs. The Matrix is 13 years old?!!!

Funny thing though, the shows on Cartoon Network now would have still been huge back in the 90s, look at Adventure Time good lord these kids are so lucky for getting a show that blows so much else especially from the 70s/80s out of the fucking water! Damn those Hanna Barbara crapfests(the Flinstones is okay) and the marketing tools that were Transformers and G.I. Joe featured terribly stiff, boring animation compared to Adventure Time. Ninjago is good too. Yes I love my Dexter's Lab and Rugrats, but for me animation and story-telling in animation has stayed great, not gotten worse as some nostalgic idiots my age and older might say.

One more thing, I guess I do know what to say.
 

Blow_Pop

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Yes. Everytime someone says that there is this great new group called Daft Punk. I fight the urge to smack them and tell them to go research music to find out how "new" Daft Punk is and the fact that they existed before Tron: Legacy. Also that Tron was released 3 years before I was born making it 30 years old now and I've been in love with it for over 20 years now.

Also being told by the library that due to money issues that since the city refuses to hire me I can't volunteer because I am too old and they can't do the background checks for me to volunteer. Even if I paid for them myself I wouldn't qualify just because of my age. Regardless of the fact I practically live at the library.
 

FalloutJack

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Feeling old...

Well, I GUESS I should, considering I'm 31, but somehow I juuust can't get around to it.

Heh heh heh heh heh...
 

frizzlebyte

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Joey Bolzenius said:
As a 24 year old I don't know what to say. I have plenty of time, but I'm going batshit crazy over how to spend it. Lets see, taught myself Maya, Photoshop, Zbrush, still struggling with the whole dame thing, fuck you Autism and severe anxiety disorder!!!! I've seen enough great movies, played enough great games, made a few of both, not good ones mind you, honestly the last thing I need to do before I am satisfied with my age/life is finish college and make the beast with two backs. The Matrix is 13 years old?!!!

Funny thing though, the shows on Cartoon Network now would have still been huge back in the 90s, look at Adventure Time good lord these kids are so lucky for getting a show that blows so much else especially from the 70s/80s out of the fucking water! Damn those Hanna Barbara crapfests(the Flinstones is okay) and the marketing tools that were Transformers and G.I. Joe featured terribly stiff, boring animation compared to Adventure Time. Ninjago is good too. Yes I love my Dexter's Lab and Rugrats, but for me animation and story-telling in animation has stayed great, not gotten worse as some nostalgic idiots my age and older might say.

One more thing, I guess I do know what to say.
Sounds a lot like me, actually. Asife from the learning all those CGI programs. I find that procrastination gets the better of me quite a bit.
 

octafish

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Zhukov said:
The other day I overheard a teenage kid asking if Australia had ever hosted an Olympic games.

...

Yeesh.
Now I feel even older because I thought of '56...

I'm only 37 damn it! I saw The Empire Strikes Back with my family at the Drive In.
 

Shoggoth2588

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Fappy said:
... Oh, and The Matrix came out 13 years ago. Fuck.
The Matrix is...13 years old...? The funny thing is I didn't like the movie when it came out...it put me to sleep.

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Recently I realized that I really, REALLY wanted some kidney beans and/or spinach while at the same time wanting nothing to do with red velvet cake. I'm 24 by the way.
 

kortin

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Fappy said:
Also, sorry if the whole "kids here are younger than the N64" thing caught any of you off-guard and triggered this phenomenon. I feel you bro.
...wha...I was convinced that I was the youngest user here (17 though technically 18 in 18 days...heh.). Oh god. There are people younger than me that come here?