Time really does fly, so what 'I feel old' moment have you come to realize based on how long it's been?
I'm currently going through the junior year of my high school, that was 20 years ago exactly. It has been 22 years since my favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, had finally broken their Curse of the Bambino in 2004. The Harry Potter main book series ended 19 years ago while the film series ended 15 years ago.
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That all my fun symptoms are "just peri menopause" FML
you, writing that 2004 is 22 years ago
My 20th high school reunion is coming up...
The Xbox 360 will be old enough to drink in a couple months.
Being told that my girlfriend was probably too old to have children naturally - technically about her age rather than mine, but we were close in age.
A few years earlier, seeing people born when I graduated from high school graduating from high school themselves.
Or before even that, living longer than my mom had - she died young but I hadn't really felt how young.
Realizing it's been 10 years I graduated high school. Or watching favourite youtube videos and it's posted "15+ years ago."
Last weekend I bought a switch 2, and a father and son were in front of me. I got the pokopia bundle, they got Mario kart. The kid was telling me pokopia was really good, and asked if I ever played Mario kart. So I told him the last time I played that was on the Nintendo 64 in like 1999 when I was about his age
The kid thinks for a bit, and goes "oh wow, I didn't know you were an old lady!"
Ha. Similarly, I was at a big music festival a few years ago, taking to a random 20- something dude. I mentioned which bands I was there to see and he just yelled "YOU'RE OOOLD!" at me.
Ahahaha
In a way he kinda complimented you! You don’t look or seem old, at least 😆
Yeah, it's sort of a compliment I guess.
Old meaning experienced gamer!
My kids keep asking me if I played the same games when I was their age (Mario Odyssey, Sonic and Mario at the Olympics, Ori and the Blind Forest, etc). I keep telling them that I played other sonic and Mario games, but these specific ones didn't exist back then. They're still confused about WTF sort of ancient historical time that was. Same with their Android tablets and asking me if I had one as a kid.
Similarly, I heard a kid call the Xbox 360 “vintage” the other day. I started to argue that it’s not that old. It only released in… (Checks release date)… 2005? Oh shit it’s over 20 years old. That’s the same as child-me considering the NES vintage when I was playing my PS1.
The PS1 came out 10 years after the NES not 20. So you considering the NES vintage in the latter half of the 90s would be like considering the PS1 vintage when the Xbox 360 came out.
Had friends over for dinner Saturday night. Realized that we're twice their age.
A lot of bands that I liked when I was in high school are now on 20th anniversary tours of their famous albums.
Also I saw a few Pokemon red 30th anniversary banners while in Japan
Honestly, I've never felt old in my entire life.
But just from looking at me, most people cannot guess my actual age. Part of me is starting to worry that there's a picture around here somewhere that I definitely should not look at.
About 15 years ago I started hearing Nirvana on classic rock stations.
A few years ago I started to hear "Guns n' Roses" songs in the local supermarket (think Walmart but in France). I almost vomit.
I remember Modest Mouse getting big and thinking at the time that it was for the generation after me. Just a few years ago I heard Float On in the grocery store. Real circle of life moment.
Snoop and Eminem are grandparents.
Ugh, okay, that hurt
I paid a couple kids to shovel my sidewalk. That was the moment I knew I was old.
With age came wisdom
And cash.
And back pain.
I finally really realized both that I am old and that I am mortal after both my parents died.
Got something you want to do? Get cracking.
Dad dying didn’t help, but more and more it’s the simple fact that I need a little ibuprofen to get through the day without my knees hurting.
My class didn't know who Quentin Tarantino is.
Jesus. When I was in college we'd catch the C-Train (subway) to Esso Plaza for the dollar-seat second-run cinema, which had Pulp Fiction playing.
Recently I was listening in on a conversation and someone said "It was 15 years ago" and my reaction to that was "So not that long ago" 💀
Seeing a Chevy S-10 90's model with an antique license plate.
When people stopped seeing me. If they notice me at all, they immediately avert their gaze and look right past me. I used to get more attention than that.
Whenever someone posts "Are you this old?", and it's a picture of an original iPod, or an original Razr, or similar.
When I remember my son is the same age I was when I got married.
When I think about how many pets I've had, and they're all dead now.
When 40-year-olds talk about how old they feel.
If it makes you feel any better, I'm 40 and I still feel like I'm barely out of my twenties
Jerry Cantrell has a song called "Psychotic Break" that has the line: "Chalking up my dead friends and loved ones long gone." When I first heard that in 2002, I thought, "man, that must be an awful feeling." I just heard it again yesterday and after I heard that line, now I get it.
It's Quake's 30th anniversary this year.
It seems like five minutes, not five years, since the 25th.
Next year my age has a five in it, five years after it last did. I cannot comprehend this. I'm still the teen who became obsessed with Quake. How did this happen?
Group of neighbirhood children lighting stuff on fire with a magnifying glass in the parking lot all panicked and tried to hide what they were doing as I walked to my car. 👴 Guess I'm too old for classic summer fun.
I was recently thinking about the Rocky Horror Picture Show 15th anniversary box set I bought when it came out, then realized that RHPS is now just over 50 years old.
I felt rather disconnected from youth/young adult fashion when those brokkoli hairdos became widespread. I wasn't ever particularly interested in fashion anyway, but those look like complete ass to me.
Also, Skyrim release was 15 years ago and they keep reminding you of their old-ass game by rereleasing it instead of a successor (I doubt it would be any good, anyway).
When I realised I've had my job for almost twenty years now. At the beginning I though, well it's good enough while I search for something else.
If you were born in 1980 then a 1975 vehicle was old, made before you were born. To a 16-year-old kid born in 2010 a car built in 2005 is old, made before they were born.
Sonic games have been playable on Nintendo systems for over double the amount of time they were a Sega exclusive. Heck, Sonic has been playable in the same game as Mario for longer than he's been a Sega exclusive (Mario & Sonic at the Olympic games and Smash Bros Brawl).
Also, when some coworkers waxed nostalgic about Minecraft the same way I do about Super Mario 3. Minecraft came out after I graduated from college.
The pandemic ended half a decade ago (depending on where and who's counting).
And here we are where it has come full circle to where, we're seeing Master Chief on a freaking Playstation 5 cover case.
The adult in me recognizes that the console wars were stupid, but the kid in me laments the culture they created. If I had to give a concrete reason why I think each console filled a niche and had a unique identity.
This was a couple months ago, but I had a conversation with a college-age extended family member. He brought up some games he was playing, mentioning Call of Duty.
I said something along the lines of 'oh, I liked so and so feature that was in World at War or Black Ops 1'. Kid hits me with "wow, those are old. idk if I was even born yet."
I referred to "Shin Godzilla" as "That newer Godzilla movie."
It came out 10 years ago.
I've always (at least since my teens) considered any movie that came out within the last ~10 years to be "relatively new/recent". Anything less than 3 years is new/recent. Same for music.
The Beloit/Mindset list that comes out every year. It takes the form of "This year's college freshman have always/never ______". For instance, they've always had GPS in their pocket. They've never used a desktop computer. $Celebrity has always been dead. It's always been a post-9/11 world.
Each year, that list always makes me feel old.
When young people started to wear slim jeans. You would have been bullied for wearing such a thing when I was young.
Then a few months later when they started to wear 80s jeans again. Fashion changes every five minutes it seems.
I have shirts that have gone in and out of style three times, according to people who pay attention to such things.
It's nice how easy it finally is to get baggy pants and good flannels again. Need to stock up before they go out of style again.
everything. all sorts of media and such seems like just a bit ago and its measured in decades.
In a few months Grand Theft Auto 6 will be released. GTA5 came out in 2013. The time difference between the release of GTA6 and GTA5 is about the same as the time difference between GTA5 and the turn of the millennium.
I can't believe we got existential dread from comparing GTA release dates before we got GTA6.
Was looking up one hit wonders and there was a grouping of them that my best friend in high school had burned onto a CD for me....
Twenty years ago.
God