hexbears talking to me be like

Me telling a friend's kid about how there used to be a lot more bugs before the climate apocalypse

And birds.
- "There used to be swarms of pigeons so large it would blot out the sky, then people killed them all."
Being born in the late 1900s sucks. Young enough to remember nature existing, too young to have fully appreciated it.

I miss the birds I'd hear at 6 am after a marathon runescape session circa 2008. I miss lizards. I miss bugs. I miss seeing life during my day but I didn't care about it when I could.
- Don't worry, the kids born in the 2020s will have vastly more wildlife than the next generation
- what the fuck is going on in america
  
  my garden is full of bugs, bees, lizards, birds and even frogs
  
  there tend to be plenty in the city too
I remember needing to clean a windshield almost everytime I drived.

Petition to defed from lemmygrad deeper-sadness

Who's the bully now :sicko-yes:
Putting in the gen z in genzedong
- as long as no one tries to put their dong in there
Petition to defed from Poland
- KURWA BŁAGAM NIE PRZEPRASZAM NAPRAWDĘ TO SIĘ NIE POWTÓRZY NIE RÓBCIE MI TEGO PROSZĘ :kitty-cri-screm:

Remember kids, Lenin was nicknamed "Old Man" by his fellow revolutionaries. In his 20s.

TBF have you seen what Lenin looked like as a kid? Dude looked 50 by age 12
- patrick stewart really is like an echo of lenin in appearance

I had grey hairs in the year two thousand sadness-abysmal

come on gramps get back in the coffin you dont belong out here anymore
- I'm forty goddamnit I have just achieved actual sentience

imagine being born before the millenium

imagine being born after 9/11

Unlike you zoomers, i know firsthand the horrors that communism wrought on Russia.

I was born in 1989...

thanks for reminding me i have this megaman game on my phone emulator I-was-saying

dont fuckin tell me you play goddamn ds games on a goddmamn PHONE of all things

ew :disgost:
- DS? what are you, a middle schooler?
- Actually not the worst choice, considering the DS had a touchscreen and some games made use of the in-built microphone. You just need to keep button inputs off the screen.

imagine being born before the millenium

I don't have to fucking imagine it kiddo. Log off and do your homework

at least homework is the most of my worries grandpa :sicko-zoomer:
- I may be a 'grandpa' but at least I will likely be long gone before the water wars, meanwhile you will probably be still kicking...sad!

I-was-saying

kitty-cri

chomsky-yes-honey

Imagine growing up and playing the Red Alert Soviet campaign was not part of your childhood.

Yes I feel bad for the kids who never got to experience this.

Yes I feel bad for the kids who never got to experience this.

I feel targeted

imagine being born before the millenium

yells-at-cloud We had better music and our TV shows weren't breaks between Pharma ads!

Our music was better, yes, but or TV shows absolutely were just breaks between Pharma ads. As a kid in the 90s I remember despising having to wait through seemingly endless obnoxious fucking commercials (never understood why no one else around me really seemed to mind that much). And every single show would make like a mini cliff hanger for the very purpose of cutting to ads at that moment. God that pissed me off, totally destroyed any tension that they might have built. But now, since the advent of adblockers, I haven't watched media interrupted by commercials (at least of the non-diagetic kind) in well over a decade. Maybe the commercials and time lengths are worse now, but I wouldn't know because I can simply choose not see them. A godsend.
- It did have the benefit of giving me breaks for my adhd ass brain to play gameboy for 5 minutes or do something else which generally led to me paying attention to the show itself better than I can sometimes without the breaks.
Ads are easier to avoid now than ever before.

Listen here, you little anarchist shit

you kids talk about the fifteen recessions you've been through so far like you've seen something, but have you heard of 18% interest rates on mortgages?

I wish I was born after the millennium. Life could've played out a bit differently for me.

30 is old? Christ I'm practically dust then.

I'm glad to have seen, albeit very young at the time, the world pre Internet/smart phone.

Back in my day you just had to ask to the old man how to catch a pokémon, fly to cinnabar island, swim around near the coast, catch missingno and then you had infinite slurp juice to use on your pokémon

Now I am the old man and none of you know what I'm talking about flattened-bernie

Yeah how about instead missing no, you go to the safari instead to farm chancies on the coast like a proper exploiter B)))
Pokémon Go to the polls? How about MissingNo to the polls instead?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msxsu448JmE

I'm almost 40 I-was-saying

Bros literally my dad

Hi dad :33333

Smdh, kids too young to have participated in The Long March are posting now. I feel old

not-listening

I was born at with just the right timing for a global catastrophe to occur roughly every 10 years of my life. Soviet Union collapsed a few months after my birth, 9/11 happened right before I turned 10 and covid happened less than a year before I was 30

I've always considered people who weren't old enough to remember watching 9/11 on TV to be "posts" and have always struggled to take their existence seriously

literally cannot imagine being older than the iraq war

you probably mean the second one, don't you?
- Actually I meant the third one 😎 I'm from the future baby

Can you even legally drown yourself in booze, kid?

Did that last night 😎😎😎
- Based. Carry on.

Being an old can be pretty cool. My 30's are definitely going better than my 20's.

I was there, Gandalf

Hey! Friendly fire!

p.s. *you're stinky x

pffff just got out of the shower you ain't got nothing on me :garf-troll:

touch-grass

I really liked those mega man battle network games. I am sad they never got any traction.

I played Mega Man Star Force (this is from that series, not Battle Network) a year ago at a low point when I had begun studying and it has become the most impactful game in my life because of how strongly it resonated with me
- Oh damn, hell yeah. That's awesome. I feel like star force never got the room to breathe it needed.
Battle Network on the gba was the shit man, loved those games as a kid. The ds games never were that good in my opinion, just didn't have the same charm I guess.
- The battle network was a super tight mix of card and fight games that was Lazer targeted to the brains of such a very specific small group of people. There are a few projects now to use that system and make new things with it and they have all been fun and interesting at least.

Imagine being born after Robbie Williams released his magnum opus Millennium as an ode to the new Millennium. It's one of those things that you don't forget where you were when it was released.