Well acshually… anything above 6x wasn’t actually what it said on the tin. CD data starts from the inside ring, and there’s a physical limit to how fast you can spin a plastic plate before it tears itself apart. So you only got the full 52x speed at the very last part of the burn on the outer ring, and even then only if you filled the whole disk.
I have to say that one of my biggest regrets in life is spending about 3,000 BTC on pizza. I'd be a millionaire or more if I wasn't drunk and in my first apartment.
Brag about how you spent 3000 BTC on pizza to EVERYONE to make up for it. Hell, start an alpha male podcast just to flex on the internet. If 2 luxury cars are enough surely that pizza is too.
Oh please let me wake up...I would do any kind of work just to prevent this future, I'd go to the coal mines, I'd beat up my parents until they let me.
My childhood! A friend named Derek and everything! I was even the one who'd be most likely to hit my head testing ramps we made out in the woods for our bikes lol
What’s weird is I saw this meme a couple of years ago with the same photo but the kid’s name was Cody. I don’t know what happened in between then and OP, I can only assume some in-joke that got lost
What can I say, I have Italian ancestry so I love garlic! That's what made it a competition as well, who could take the garlic breath the longest got a bike!
The Deftones shirt and the rage shirt gave it away. The kid wearing rage was obviously a poser and ended up in sales. I'm not sure what the shirt in the middle is but you can just tell on his face he's gonna get busted doing some dumb shit. Your point makes sense as well, Deftones fit that style for sure.
I miss getting home from rugby Saturday morning jumping on my bike and going house to house knocking on the door and in the most polite voice asking if my friend could please come hangout and stay the night. Each house the party size would increase then id finally get back to my house and all my friends would crowd around a tiny TV and we'd play wwe with a multi tap, 4 player splitscreen or die tries on a single player game for like 1 or 2 hours before my mum came and told us we had had enough time in front of screens and needed to go play outside.
Saw them at a festival a couple of years back. They know they're a bit cheesy and play into it, but they're a tight band and can still smash out all their hits.
Now, the fact that the festival could hardly afford anyone else because Filth were headlining, that was a problem, but it did mean that a few lesser-known bands got to play a decent set, so it's all good I suppose.
Baggy pants would be one thing, but the kids around here are wearing these gigantic jeans that are somehow the perfect length to not crinkle up anywhere, making them look like they just have super thick cylindrical legs. Honestly, it's pretty unique and I kinda like the look.
(I couldn't even find a good image online of what I mean because I don't know the word for it, but this is the closest approximation. Imagine the jeans were stiffer and straighter though, absolutely zero wrinkles)
Weird. I never got fashion trends. Then again, when I was the age the boys above are I looked more or less the same as them, only fatter. Absolutely hideous :D
I'm just waiting for bell bottom pants to come back. I bought a pair for a shaggy halloween costume one year, and not only are they super comfortable, they make my ass look amazing too.
"Hey common, we're going to Shaun's house and going to enter as many random numbers into the CD key input box as it takes to unlock our burned StarCraft copy we got from my older brother"
I just wish I had leaned in when it was reasonable to mine. I had a couple of computers running it, it I would have just let them run it for a couple of years....
Pyramid schemes are fine, but you need to be at the very top.
Oh would I looooove that! I'd 100% bully my own father, just show up to my current job as soon as I can legaly work, maybe even extra-legaly, farm the dumb kids for social points and write down my observations, get absurdly buff, and obviously rich.
The one in the middle just needs to do something with the hair. sure he's got a lot bracelets, and his pants are too long, but he'll trip over them enough to eventually figure it out.
The left one went a bit far the with pointless chain, but that his taste not mine, so whatever.
But the again the hair is bad. I'm not saying it's got to be neatly flat or something, but but some effort into it, throw in some actuall spikes, or a mowhak or anything really. Bed head ain't it. The kid on the right, he takes care of his hair.
It's a joke that the reality we're in isn't real. Someone like me who grew up in the 90s just woke up from a fall and all this was a dream. So we're back in the 90s when life was simpler and we're going back to a friend's house to play Tony Hawk and burn music cd's.
oh shit i gotta warn everybody about 9/11
I wanna do a show like 11/22/63 or whatever the date is, and instead of JFK it's save harambee and save the timeline.
Harambe is woke DEI fake news propaganda
You'd be arrested for 1)illegal time travelling; 2)ruining the American false flag op that allowed for the invasion of the Middle East!
That's why Trump's smart - he knows that the American people are fine with invasions without any explanation at all!
Not false flag but they did let it happen as a convenient excuse to invade the middle east, especially as a pretext for Iraq, for their resources.
I usually had the fastest CD burner available. Bought my discs in 50 packs.
Convenience is a 52x disc burner which can burn a disc in less than a minute
Wisdom is burning at 1x anyway because it results in a higher quality burn
(this may not apply to burning music, I usually burn PSX games)
The original 23 wire modchip installation was not for the faint of heart.
You can do the swap trick once to make a freepsxboot memory card now. It's essentially a soft-modded ps1.
happy squeak noise ahh Swap Disk! Memories :)
I burned out my Wii disc drive by playing too many ganes burned too quickly.
I don't think my Wii disc drive does anything but rip games nowadays, I can't remember the last time I put in a disc to play the game on there.
Back in my day, we used the 52x to burn 52 discs simultaneously at 1x speed.
Well acshually… anything above 6x wasn’t actually what it said on the tin. CD data starts from the inside ring, and there’s a physical limit to how fast you can spin a plastic plate before it tears itself apart. So you only got the full 52x speed at the very last part of the burn on the outer ring, and even then only if you filled the whole disk.
Same here, I probably still have some sealed spindles of black discs hiding on boxes.
I have to say that one of my biggest regrets in life is spending about 3,000 BTC on pizza. I'd be a millionaire or more if I wasn't drunk and in my first apartment.
Brag about how you spent 3000 BTC on pizza to EVERYONE to make up for it. Hell, start an alpha male podcast just to flex on the internet. If 2 luxury cars are enough surely that pizza is too.
So, since I am female, starting an alpha male podcast might be the most sigma move ever 🤔
Just DOOOO IIIIT! Don't let your dreams be bygones!
Hey you hit your head pretty hard bro it's 2007 shia lebouf is okay and halo 3 just came out
Oh please let me wake up...I would do any kind of work just to prevent this future, I'd go to the coal mines, I'd beat up my parents until they let me.
Do not despair. If you hadn’t spent that 3,000 BTC on pizza, it never would have been worth anything to begin with.
Now it's extra tragic. They should have just made a meal at home and stopped crypto.
3000 BTC? That's about $354,000,000 (ish) at the time of writing this.
Everybody who bought pizza back then paid the same opportunity cost.
I hope they’re doing well. I’m guessing they’re about 38 now?
I'm 39, so yes.
My childhood! A friend named Derek and everything! I was even the one who'd be most likely to hit my head testing ramps we made out in the woods for our bikes lol
Hell yeah, I built BMX ramps in the woods with my neighbor too!
What’s weird is I saw this meme a couple of years ago with the same photo but the kid’s name was Cody. I don’t know what happened in between then and OP, I can only assume some in-joke that got lost
So you hung out in the woods, ate ramps, and earned bikes in some sort of make out competition?
Not judging, but I think this might be a somewhat singular upbringing you experienced.
What can I say, I have Italian ancestry so I love garlic! That's what made it a competition as well, who could take the garlic breath the longest got a bike!
You made out in the woods?
With the ramps. Dirt ramps don't kiss very well though...
These kids work in accounting, sales, and one is in jail.
I'll let you figure out who went where.
100% kid in the middle is in jail. Sales on the left, accounting on the right.
Spot on! Dude on the right also probably did a few tours in the sandbox.
The Deftones shirt and the rage shirt gave it away. The kid wearing rage was obviously a poser and ended up in sales. I'm not sure what the shirt in the middle is but you can just tell on his face he's gonna get busted doing some dumb shit. Your point makes sense as well, Deftones fit that style for sure.
I miss getting home from rugby Saturday morning jumping on my bike and going house to house knocking on the door and in the most polite voice asking if my friend could please come hangout and stay the night. Each house the party size would increase then id finally get back to my house and all my friends would crowd around a tiny TV and we'd play wwe with a multi tap, 4 player splitscreen or die tries on a single player game for like 1 or 2 hours before my mum came and told us we had had enough time in front of screens and needed to go play outside.
Fun times
Barely a day goes by that I dont hope this happens
Cradle of Filth! I used to have some shorts with their logo :))
Saw them at a festival a couple of years back. They know they're a bit cheesy and play into it, but they're a tight band and can still smash out all their hits.
Now, the fact that the festival could hardly afford anyone else because Filth were headlining, that was a problem, but it did mean that a few lesser-known bands got to play a decent set, so it's all good I suppose.
Thank you! I couldn't read the shirt and was wondering what the middle one was.
Fitting slogan for a pair of teenage shorts
“Just kidding, it is 2026 - everyone just dresses like it’s the 90s this year.”
tbf I noticed this trend partly. Especially with the baggy pants.
Baggy pants would be one thing, but the kids around here are wearing these gigantic jeans that are somehow the perfect length to not crinkle up anywhere, making them look like they just have super thick cylindrical legs. Honestly, it's pretty unique and I kinda like the look.
(I couldn't even find a good image online of what I mean because I don't know the word for it, but this is the closest approximation. Imagine the jeans were stiffer and straighter though, absolutely zero wrinkles)
Weird. I never got fashion trends. Then again, when I was the age the boys above are I looked more or less the same as them, only fatter. Absolutely hideous :D
I'm just waiting for bell bottom pants to come back. I bought a pair for a shaggy halloween costume one year, and not only are they super comfortable, they make my ass look amazing too.
Prove it.
time for hardcore shuffle to make a comeback?
"Hey common, we're going to Shaun's house and going to enter as many random numbers into the CD key input box as it takes to unlock our burned StarCraft copy we got from my older brother"
I'll bring the ditchweed.
30 bucks for an oz? Whew boy sign me up
I had that exact Rage shirt and I'm fucking mad now
Pretty sure I had that Cradle of Filth shirt
Don't forget to grab the wired controllers, I’m not playing Pro Skater on a 3rd party one with a sticky button.
God I miss my jncos
I miss my Lee Pipes because Jncos were too expensive back then
Yeah, I only had one pair that got with way too often. But definitely had a pair of pipes too! Those were resilient AF!
fuck dude. I've gotta head to new york for some....business....
Joke's on all of y'all. I still burn CDs. My car has a four disc CD changer.
How did you find a pic of me in high school??
Wcw vs Nwo revenge on N64 while listening to savage garden
Savage garden? Not gonna pretend I didnt listen to them, but not during n64 nights with the buds.
No judgement, but they are a different vibe from the bands on those shirts.
Oh god no, not that time again, no, NOOOO!
Smart kids. Bitcoin is a pyramid scam anyway, don't let all of the fancy "techy" words fool you.
I just wish I had leaned in when it was reasonable to mine. I had a couple of computers running it, it I would have just let them run it for a couple of years....
Pyramid schemes are fine, but you need to be at the very top.
IDK man part of me wishes I had picked up a few at 50 cents a piece when I first heard about it.
you and at least 100 million other feel exactly the same
including me
you mean: idk man, its pretty awesome being at the top of the pyramid
Well, it would be. It would be really nice to not have to work. I have enough hobbies to fill all my time.
Closest I got handy is Twisted Metal Head On for
PSPmy tablet..Oh would I looooove that! I'd 100% bully my own father, just show up to my current job as soon as I can legaly work, maybe even extra-legaly, farm the dumb kids for social points and write down my observations, get absurdly buff, and obviously rich.
When was this so I can point out how high the murder rate was, how much homophobia there was, etc.?
And the current us gov is bringing it back! Fukkin hooray /s
00s.
Thanks
Come on though, if you had to see people dressed like this every day you might snap too
The kid on the right looks fine.
The one in the middle just needs to do something with the hair. sure he's got a lot bracelets, and his pants are too long, but he'll trip over them enough to eventually figure it out.
The left one went a bit far the with pointless chain, but that his taste not mine, so whatever. But the again the hair is bad. I'm not saying it's got to be neatly flat or something, but but some effort into it, throw in some actuall spikes, or a mowhak or anything really. Bed head ain't it. The kid on the right, he takes care of his hair.
So 9/11, Iraq War 2: Electric Boogalie, recession, dot bomb. Cool cool.
what
ELI5
It's a joke that the reality we're in isn't real. Someone like me who grew up in the 90s just woke up from a fall and all this was a dream. So we're back in the 90s when life was simpler and we're going back to a friend's house to play Tony Hawk and burn music cd's.
It was a great time. Felt like less racism, big brother hadn't been built, pirating was easy, cost of living was low, and the music was lit.
To you. I promise you, racism has always been a huge problem.
Yup, racism hasn't changed that much; you just hear about it now, which I suppose is a tiny change.
It's true. But I've been alive a long time, and it's pretty fucking bad right now.
They look like they are 40 but I know they are 14
AI doesn't know any better, but i do.
This isn't ai. It's been around for a long time.
Still were privileged little shits whose mommy and daddy's bought them edgy clothes so they could appear as counter culture.
My parents refused to buy me this shit so I just haunted thrift stores for shit other parents made their kids get rid of.