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Money and the wealthy. Everything I was told to look forward to when I got older was smashed and lit on fire in front of my fucking eyes by people who have never wanted for anything. I’m 40, now. I saw the birth of videogames and the Internet, only to watch it get burned down around me so some nepo-baby with a silver spoon can have another zero in their bank account.
We are one of the only generations to have their life be WORSE OFF than their parents, and it hurts the most because those parents likely participated in, or voted for, the very mechanisms that led here. If I’m ever terminally diagnosed with some illness, you’ll see me become the Mario to our modern Luigi.
Your opsec better be tight after saying something like that nowadays
I can confirm I have zero journalists on my Signal contact list!
The internet. I remember the internet being less commercialized… I used to read up on PC games or post on forums. Now I go outside and walk or focus on hobbies that disconnect me from my PC or phone.
You aren’t disliking the internet because you get older. You dislike it because it is taken over by enshittifying corporations.
At least it’s like that for me.
It’ like that with almost anything nowadays too. In the last couple of decades, it’s seems like every public corporation has pivoted from decisions primarily based on customer value, to primarily shareholder value.
That is part of my dislike of the internet, I agree.
I hate the way that all the user content has moved from personal sites to social media. I miss all the random fan sites dedicated to Z list celebrities. There’s like 10 companies that just run the internet now.
Also, all the tracking. I just want to browse the internet, I’ll look at your stupid adverts, just stop tracking me.
I personally find social media to be our biggest problem.
People.
Working in a cubicle.
Kids.
Honestly, I’m kinda the opposite these days.
- People suck in general. But once in a while you meet someone who makes it worth everything
- Working in an old cubicle sure beats a noisy open floor plan with white noise generators to compensate by adding yet more noise
- I like (mosr) kids more than I like their parents
Myself
Noise. I want to go quiet places and do quiet things. When I was older I loved dancing on tables in nightclubs now I just want silence
I’m exhausted by modern music blasting in retail and restaurants. I’ve started wearing earbuds with white noise everywhere.
I hear you there! Are you neurodiverse? I’m wondering if there’s some sensory overload going on
Over-auto-tuned hip-hop and reggaeton in Japanese themed restaurants. Might as well play death metal. Neither fit the vibe at all.
When I was older I loved dancing on tables in nightclubs now I just want silence
“But I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now” --Bob Dylan
god i wish all old people were vehemently anti noise, i have autism and noise just kinda makes me unable to function and no one else seems to give a shit about constant incessant noise in all parts of life and it drives me insane.
Mate I’m neurodiverse too, I totally get it. It’s not just noise it’s picking sounds out from each other, like if there’s two conversations near me. It’s fucking awful
they recently lowered the speed limit on a major road near me from 70km/h to 60km/h and holy shit it’s so much better, suddenly i can actually talk to people and the lowered noise outright makes the world feel different (better).
But how will you stay apprised of the latest trash-pop songs if I don’t blast them for you from my shitty Temu Bluetooth speaker on wilderness trails and in urban public places?
There’s noise and then there’s noise caused by people. Listening to a distant train or a pack of coyotes howling in the night is fine. Listening to anyone nearby, across the street even, coughing, is soul stabbing and needs to stop.
Pain amplifies this so very much. I’m always sensitive to noise but occasionally I’m sensitive to light.
Oh yes, I was going to say crowd. But I think it is actually noise. Unless it’s birds and bees, rain and wind…
It’s not just nightclubs. Restaurants have become super loud too. Last weekend I was at a restaurant with friends and we had to keep asking each other to repeat what we said all the time because damn restaurant was so loud you couldn’t hear the person sitting right next to you.
Normally this restaurant has oldies music from the 20th century but you couldn’t even hear that over all the noise. It was awful!
Benjamin Button?
Humans in general.
Its the opposite for me. Ive held a lot of resentment but have been working through it. I’m seeing more of the good in people, just needed to build stronger boundaries for myself
I am sincerely jealous.
Capitalism and people that say they would be in the “political center” or “unpolitical”.
Yes, let’s always be on the extremes. Yes No, Left Right, Up Down, Good Evil. Having no middle ground is amazing. It’s done wonders for the US.
Great USAian take. I guess the cancer of two party system thinking has spread.
ah yes both my username and avatar just scream america
No they don’t, but your mind has been infested. It’s been infected to believe that there is no middle ground. That if I’m not with you, I’m against you. That there is no center, because the center means being right-wing. If you see the center as an enemy, you have already given into the USAian mindset.
I invite you to consume less USAian media, go outside, touch grass, talk to people who have differing opinions that you do, try and ask them why and how they came to their conclusions, ask them where they come from. I would even encourage you to join a political party of your choosing and try to see how consensus is formed within it. You might come to realise that world isn’t black and white.
i’m literally a member of the socialist party in sweden but pop off my man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD7Ol0gz11kI’m guessing it’s not doing you much good if you still think there’s only 2 sides.
The problem is when those people with differing opinions want to see me in an asylum for daring to not fit into their narrow view of gender roles and sexualities.
I don’t know in which utopian country you live but in mine the centrist parties adopt more and more policies of a party that would stand close before being banned if they didn’t get a fifth of the votes in the last election meaning that the vote to ban them will now get delayed until the fascists are in power.
There are nazis that call themselves left because they have the word “socialist” in their name. Pepe was used by nazis and the news focused on that despite it being used for nothing related to right-wing shit for ages before. I could claim I’m a cat and that the trees are blue. J.K Rowling can claim she’s a feminist.
Making arguments as if there is no middle ground, no center, no gray, no middle, is an absolutist, USAian perspective.
I’m afraid there’s not much grass in Sweden at this time of year my man
US American culture and politics. I wish people would stop worshipping that country just because it exports popular films and music. They have destroyed and still destroy democracies all over the world, fuel wars, exploit developing countries, still sell the image of them being “a free country” and “the american dream”.
The USA. Hate to put it so starkly, but right now I wish the USA would just vanish without a trace.
As a child and teenager I was a USA-stan. Then I was “so bored with the USA”. Now I wish it would just shut the fuck up and go away.
Drinking alcohol. The 2-3 day hangover just isn’t worth it.
Yeah, I gave up on it and do not miss the headaches.
It will just trigger a migraine if I’m not drinking like a 2:1 ratio of water to liquor
Videogames. Most of them assume an unreasonable amount of time to enjoy a fraction of the content, AND they are expensive as hell… I’m defaulting to stuff that is fun from the start or short indie titles
Same, a lot of new games are just voluntary jobs with no pay. Grinding, item collecting, time killing bait framed as “challenging” or " doesn’t hold your hand" .
Games should be fun.
When you have small children, “short games” are the only games. I was very hyped for the FFVII rebirth, but it’s padded to hell and back. I haven’t touched it i 6 months
something i miss with a lot of AAA titles is finishing the game.
its a happy/sad moment when you complete a game - you have that sadness that its all over, but the joy of completion. completing a full story, seeing character growth, and being able to put the game down for good (or at least for a long time).
i dont want to play my games for an infinite amount of time with no end and infinite amounts of DLC… i want to finish my games. i enjoy the emotions i get from it.
I really like well told stories in games. And a good story needs an ending. I don’t just want lore thrown in there and backstory. I want a full features story.
Republicans and other parasites. Pop culture. Social media, and I never liked it at all.
My father. He’s always been a selfish shit of a person but growing up with it and not having a choice I guess I was somewhat conditioned to it. In my 40s now and I realise that I don’t owe him anything nor do I have to listen to his bullshit for the rest of my life. Reap what you sow cunt.
This would have to be my answer too. As a kid I always felt guilty when he told me I don’t reach out to him enough. As an adult I know now that it shouldn’t have been my job to do that. He lives 1000 miles away from me, but one day he just showed up at my job to surprise me and ask i I was free to go out to dinner. I said yes as long as my girlfriend could come and they could meet each other. My girlfriend is of a different race and he immediately backed out and said he had to return home. I saw on Facebook the real reason he was in my area was because he was visiting some of his old friends, i was an afterthought. That was 2 years ago and I haven’t spoken with him since.
Tech
I was the guy building linux systems from the trash in 1999. And then complicated distributed systems for fun. Now I want to leave everything at defaults, or just turn on dark mode and be done with it.
Working in tech has ruined tech for me. Hopefully not forever…
The complete disintegration of what I used to stand for.
In what sense?
