What is your old man yelling at the clouds in this age?

To anybody that's in their 30's and beyond what are some things that are starting to make you feel old? here's my list

• I hate today's music 70's, 80's and 90's to me can never be topped.
• I enjoy mall walking I find it peaceful as long as the mall isn't to busy.
• I hate loud music unless I'm the one playing it.
• I go to bed around 9:30 and I'm not even working right now. lol
• I watch old commercials on YouTube for nostalgia .... it's depressing as hell.

When people don't know what the name is for cartridges.

im not 30 but almost 25. i was the youngest of 6 and between my parents and my siblings I grew up up with everything from the 60's , We were poor and i only had a nes till 2 years after the ps2 release and my sister gave me her old ps1 that was chipped. i did have a pc that was out dated and it could only play duke nukem 3d style games. but ive got kids and im out of the loop with a lot (you loose friends when you have kids). like roasted had a different meaning, i dont like todays rap music. i find myself getting excited about homeware. i tend to watch the same style of shows my parents did when not even 10 years ago i wondered who would watch that shit.

I'm 32 and I'll just list of things I feel old to this younger generation:

• Rap Music from the 80's 90's will never be the same again.
• No more walking-in shopping in various stores and all that's been replace by online shopping.
• No more ranting movies/games from stores like Bluckbusters and streaming has taken over.
• Game Developers used to make good games that comes with everything in one game and now, it's all cut-out to be sold for DLC.
• 80's/90's action Cartoons with good quality episodes are all gone and today's cartoons are all nothing but sick-cons, that's just sad.
• Saturday Morning Cartoons from the 90's and early 00 was a thing for us kids growing up and Saturday morning cartoons is a thing in the past.
• Same-Sex is now a huge thing and we stray further from God more then ever.

I was never "hip" so I don't have this problem. But, I do feel old when people tell me things like Super Metroid just celebrated it's 24th anniversary.

I'm 31.

I keep telling myself that if I hear another asshole kid race down my street in his ricer, I'm going to wait on my front lawn with a rock.

I feel ya on these so much I miss NWA, Dr Dre, Snoop Doggy dog 90's version, Tupac, Cyrpress Hill ect.. I also hate that Malls are dying I understand why but I don't like it. I miss Blockbuster too I still have some keychains from them renting movies was fun especially if you go in blind and find a gem. I never seen so much greed from these gaming publishers now I miss when you bought a game with no microstraction it's a rarity these days. I loved Saturday morning cartoons in the early 90's I remember watching Garfield and friends and Teenage mutant ninja turtles I miss that simple time.

LMAO

this never angred me more until I had kids. there are places to race the suburbs are not that place.

If you listen to Hip-Hop music like Tupac or Notorious B.I.G from the 90's, there's a huge difference between old school and now what we have. Trust me, Rap/Hip-Hop has change in a big way and not in a good way either.

@thegerg: I been listening to Hard rock, Metal, and Nu Metal lately, I haven't really been keeping up with these new Rappers. Guess I should start listening to Rap again and see what's new.

@davillain-:That's not what he's saying. He's saying that the music from the 80's will always be the music from the 80's. Queen will always be Queen, etc. What you meant was that music now sucks compared to 80's and 90's but that's not what you wrote and you know Greg is very literal :)

I didn't get what he meant Mr. Korvus, but thank you for explaining that to me now. Guess I shouldn't hold on into the past.

You like what you like; why would you have to change when it's something that doesn't affect anyone else?

My "old man" moments usually come at work; I'm in a field populated with younger people because people get old quickly in my career and move on, but I've stayed (for whatever reason). Generally, it goes something like this:

Me: Do your job
Lazy Asshole Kid: Why?
Me: Because you're paid to do it.
LAK: But I worked some today already
Me: You have no idea how good you have, back when I started here they...

And, at that last point, that's when I do the "Back in my day, we had to walk to school, in the snow. Uphill. BOTH WAYS!" nonsense.

Oh and there's one kid at work that listens to punk, but it's the angsty modern nonsense where they have nothing to complain about. I think I actually asked him to turn down that "racket" or put on some good punk like Mike Ness, Mischief Brew, Andrew Jackson Jihad, or The Monks.

Of course the whole thing is ludicrous, I know there is no such thing as "good" or "bad" music. But there is...

Tupac and BIG are not "old school". They are the beginnings of the "new school" of rap. They, along with whatever Puff Daddy calls himself, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, DMX, Ludacris, and so many others began the commercialization of hip hop. In short, they took the soul out of hip hop.

"Old School" is Digable Planets, Nas, Slick Rick, Geto Boys, Mobb Deep...shit like that. I'd go further back, but frankly the really old school stuff is a little goofy for me.

But, overall, I do agree: rap these days is garbage, for the most part. I totally get that "swagger" is a major part of rap culture, but they've taken it to a stupid level of superficiality. It sucks. Kanye? GTFO of here, and take Kendrick Lamar with you.

I don't think modern music sucks--in fact, I think the music is as good as it has ever been--but you have to search harder for the good stuff because it's being buried under a mountain of shit. I don't fault anyone for thinking music is no good these days, it takes a lot of work to find something quality.

I see, pretty much every kid here now walks around with a cell/mobile phone that can take pictures, play games, surf the web etc...

Like, when I was a kid, I had a Master System with 5 games and had to slot £1 into a phone box.

@warmblur:

My list is similar to yours. The music that the kids are raging about sounds terrible and artificial to me. I just can’t relate. 80’s music I can listen to all day. I feel like I’ll be yelling at kids to get off my lawn any time now.

When kids refer to the image of a floppy disk as "the save icon".

Im 25, I am learning excercises to reconnect with my inner child

24 and still act like a child in some ways.

I am emotionally stunted.

Only up to date pop music I like these days are the ones with out robot voice covering up there crappy voice and that is quite rare these days. When they say the new star trek films and tv series are good too. Im a big trek fan but not even touched discovery. I always say watch TNG and they say but that's old. They wouldn't understand it any way as most TNG and even Voyager is more story and no pew pew pew in it.

my 2 nephews LOOOOOVE to watch guys in their 30s playing videogames on YT and they're all the same.

stick a video of your head in the lower left/right of the screen and make obnoxious comments about whats happening on screen.. over act being shocked by something you KNEW was going to happen, then cut to an advertisement.

i guess me saying "why don't you actually PLAY the game you are watching a video about?" is the equivalent of my parents saying "why don't you go outside and play football in real life rather than in a videogame?"

what's next? kids watching other people watch youtube videos about playing a video game in some kind of weird endless recursion?

/rant

@comp_atkins: This! Surely it is more enjoyable to play the actual game. I’m also pretty sure there are actual videos of reactions, of reactions to videos...sad times

@davillain-: lmao were we ever close to God what with how much humans make each other suffer. Honestly the 4 horseman of the apocalypse are much closer. We fight needless wars, we made food too expensive, healthcare cause so much so disease and injury are allowed to linger, and domestically we're hurting and killing each other. If two people loving each other is straying from God then what about the stuff I wrote above.

Onto the topic yes I feel old. I get bored too easily with my games and only a handful of TV shows keep me entertained and I feel like a lot media is oversimplified. It's as if complexity is a thing of the past

Agree with you mainly, but, if it doesn't affect you, what do you find bad about same-sex relationships?

Isn't that exactly what the REACT YT channel is?

i don't know what that it.

Actually, quality of life (generally) continues to improve. Overall, people are healthier and safer than they've ever been in modern times.

@comp_atkins: It's a channel where they invite group of people (kids, teens, elders, etc) and show them YT videos and film their reactions. Sometimes it's music that is not from their generation, other times it's cultural issues, sometimes it's videogames...Sometimes it goes to extremes like "teens react to kids reacting to PewDiePie reacting to his own videos" sort of BS...

@MrGeezer: not in Syria they're being bombed to heck. And the younger African countries are facing the usual issues that immature countries tend to deal with

dear lord

You have no idea...

I've never gotten people who walk around, constantly looking at their phone with their headphones on. I'd be afraid someone would rob me or I'd walk in front of a car.

have we hit internet botton yet?

@warmblur: I’m not on social media...anywhere...including LinkedIn which is almost a mandate in my line of work. However, if you won’t hire me because my personal info isn’t posted on a wall on the internet, the problem is you, not me.

To be fair however, objectively speaking in ways I can not describe in detail there is no question that music between around 1967 to about 1981 is still the best era ever.

kind of like how now is the best era in games

My little sister doesn't know what a video tape is or a cassette or a floppy disk. When she found an old mix tape of mine she was like 'What is this... What's it for?' I was stunned. I didn't realize that she couldn't have known. She probably thought it was a tool for spies. She doesn't recognize the sound of dial-up over the phone line. Maybe games look good enough now to be compared to movies. Either way, graphics have never impressed her at all; she thinks they all range from looking terrible to looking bad.

Back in the day people here used to say memory and (disk) space. These days people say RAM and memory which can be a little annoying to get used to.

And she doesn't know what it was like before cellphones or high speed internet. Doesn't know what a fax is, which is probably for the best. A lot has changed in like 10-15 years. Who knows what the next 15 years will hold? CRISPR? Bring it on.