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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: luckee on January 09, 2003, 03:47:19 PM
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Here\'s a little email I just got and I thought it was kinda funny and thought you guys would enjoy it...
This is Funny,Sad,but very true.........
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious
diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with
walking twenty-five miles to school every morning uphill both ways through
year \'round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to
their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A average
despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where
they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from
starving to death!
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in
hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I
had it and how easy they\'ve got it!
But....
Now that I\'ve reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine, I can\'t help but
look around and notice the youth of today.
You\'ve got it so ****in\' easy!
I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you don\'t know how good you\'ve got
it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn\'t have The
Internet--we wanted to know something, we had to go to the stinking
Library and look it up ourselves! And there was no email! We had to
actually write somebody a letter--with a pen!--and then you had to walk all
the way across the street and put it in the ****in\' mailbox and it would
take like a week to get there!
And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to
go to the damn record store and shoplift it
yourself! Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the
DJ\'d usually talk over the beginning and screw it all up!
You want to hear about hardship?
You couldn\'t just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy
you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! It was either that or peep at the
lingerie section of the JC Penney catalog!
Those were your options!
We didn\'t have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and
somebody else called they got a busy signal!
And we didn\'t have fancy Caller ID Boxes either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was it could be your boss,
your Mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn\'t know!!! You
just had to pick it up and take your chances, asshole!
And we didn\'t have any fancy Sony Playstation
videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With
games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked! Your
guy was a little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no
multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could
never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died!
Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there was no such thing as stadium
seating! All the seats were the same height! A tall guy sat in front of
you, you were screwed!
And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20
channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book
called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday
morning... ...Ya hear what I\'m saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK, you
spoiled little bastards!
That\'s exactly what I\'m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy
You\'re spoiled, I swear to God! You guys wouldn\'t last five minutes back in
1984 !
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I read the first 2 sentances and got bored.
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Yeah... thats why it\'s 2003 numnuts... :p
1980\'s were cool, but people back then were fags. :)
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I remember having to constantly get up to change the channel for my dad. Damn, that bastard. Although I make Bog Log throw stuff away for me. What comes around goes around I guess.
Oh yeah, and what about dialing the freaking phone? No more circular dial phones. Not only was it a pain on the fingers, but I never could ever dial correctly the first time. It was a pain in the ass. You touch tone kids are losers.
And if you missed a show it was gone. No TiVo, no VCR. No nothing.
And one other thing. How many of you have never even seen the ABC Wide World of Sports open?
you bunch of losers with your jackass and tom green shit.
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preach on pops.
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Too late, this youngin has already lived 5 minutes in 1984 :)
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I was born in late 86 so I only experienced 3 years of the 80s. Good times those first 3 years of my life.
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I was born in 76 so i lived through the 80\'s I was in elementary school in the 80\'s (it has been a long time.............) my 10 year class reunion is next year.....sad...........and me with no GF..........LIFE SUX!
:hat:ScottyJ:hat:
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80s IMO, had the best cartoons I\'ve ever seen. I wish I can go and relive the 80s. I wish I was born earlier.
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I survived through 84. I may not have been old enough to remember it, but I survived. And yeah, people like that complain too much.
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I feel old.
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I\'m the same age as luckee and totally agree with everything he say\'s.
You "Lucky Lucky Bastards"
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The fact that some of you weren\'t even born when I graduated HS makes me sick. The only solace I have its that you will all get old eventually.
Ace
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I was 9 years old in 1984, and things have changed. Kids today don\'t walk to school anymore, they all get a lift in their parents cars and JAM UP THE ROADS SO I AM LATE FOR WORK!!!!!
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In my day we didn\'t have any DVDs or VCRs or cable television! We had to ride our bicycles through the blazing arizona sun to the Cine Capri theater to see "The Empire Strikes Back." We got dehydrated during the ride, and ended up puking behind the seats in the theater. (Well, I did anyway).
We didn\'t have any home videogames worth a damn; just "PONG" or an Atari 2600 IF YOU WERE LUCKY! The rich kids had an Intellivision. Everyone else had to save the money from their paper route so they could pour quarters into the Defender machine at the 7-11. Also, just like he was saying, you can never win it; it just keeps getting harder and harder until you die, just like life!
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Yea, I wasn\'t even born yet in 84.
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Pfft, 1984 was a breeze. Perhaps because I was 3.
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I loved the 80\'s. I hope that doesn\'t make me too big a fag. In fact, the coolest shows aired in the 80\'s. Knight Rider, A-Team, Batle Star Galactica, Buck Rodgers...Damn! That was some good times. Not to mention the movie Breakin\'! I love the days of my youth!!!1
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I was born in 83 so I lived a little in 84, so this guy needs to quit whining, I had to get up to change the tv, look for stuff in the library its called technological advancement every generation has it and the previous one gets to bitch about it.
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What the hell are the ol\' 1984\'ers complaining about? Agreed, Internet is a good thing, a priviledge. E-mail is a good thing. Message-boards are a good thing. But. Internet creates addiction. These days young minds are messed up due to the addiction the freedomness of the Internet creates. We have internet-junkies, nerds whom have no life what-so-ever. E-mail makes international communication easy, simple and free - but at the same time opens a doorway for countless of post-box spammers and virus-senders. Indeed - you couldn\'t get infected by checking your inbox during the good ol\' 1984 unless you were on the Black List of some anonymous terrorist-group or underground-mob. Message-Boards are fast-paced, cool and time-consuming, making communication even easier. But they are also havens for countless of n00bs whom only spam and violate the rules. Back in 1984 you just didn\'t have huge amounts of 12-year-old children running around your house, speaking 1337, shouting all the time and covering the walls with nasty pictures, now did you? Back in 1984 video-games couldn\'t generate violence among children, now could they? I\'ll be damned if Asteroids brought murderous thoughts into a player\'s mind. Media didn\'t have total control over the youth, now did it? Stop complaining and enjoy the positive factors the year 2003 brings, and realize: the youth is still having a hard time!
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Hey Coredweller I was there too Opening day for Star Wars freagin TV cameras and all wasnt that the coolest theater till the bastards tore it down.
Darth Yoda it’s a rhetorical statement, only meant to be funny and only proves your point to the exact. Every generation has its own “difficulties” and some day you will be telling your kids “ You have it soooo easy with you damn solar powered hover cars why I remember….”
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I LIVED the 80\'s and yeah i have to say most of you Young ones wouldn\'t even hack the pace.
WE lived the Dream and didn\'t care about anything else (we were a Old Age persons shakey hand away from Nuclear war)
plus we had Kick ass Role Models such as
The A Team
Buck Rodgers
Mc Gyver
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yeah well, I was an 80\'s child and I found nothing wrong with it. We got the 80\'s and we have now. The objective is to stay young forever... thats the trick. I have to stay alive to see the playstation 9.... (Did anyone see that add)
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Originally posted by Kaldertaut
Hey Coredweller I was there too Opening day for Star Wars freagin TV cameras and all wasnt that the coolest theater till the bastards tore it down.
Later on, I actually worked at that theater for 3 months when I was is high school. You wouldn\'t believe the sh1t they had stowed behind the screen. Every crazy ass lobby standee and homemade display and decoration they ever used in that theater since it was built. I also met the troll projectionist, and saw all the secret rooms. There was a lot of that theater that ordinary people never saw. Yeah, a piece of my childhood died when they tore it down. Damn Arizona developers. :mad:
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I htought there were VCRs in the 80s. I know there were TVs with remotes because we have one in my parents room. I would have liked to live in the 80s. Too bad I was born in 86.
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the were called BETAS
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Then VHS came out and screwed BETA over, right? And weren\'t BETAs around in the late 70s?
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BETA\'s were quickly over-run by VHS in the late 70\'s I think. My father still has a BETA-player somewhere.
Some question why VHS became so popular. BETA\'s offered better on-screen-quality, were small and cheaper. Or so I have been told.
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I was born in 1986 and don\'t remember jack shit from the 80\'s.
"I... I just died in your arms tonight..."
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Originally posted by Vapor Snake
I was born in 1986 and don\'t remember jack shit from the 80\'s.
"I... I just died in your arms tonight..."
I was born the same year - yet I do remember many things from the 80\'s.
The healthy side of Michael Jackson, McGyver, TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles, Batman...
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Actually I do remember Stephen Baldwin for some reason.
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...the horrible clothing-style, punks, Indiana Joneses, Star Warses etc.
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Originally posted by luckee
We had the Atari 2600! With
games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked! Your
guy was a little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no
multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could
never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died!
Just like LIFE!
That made me laugh,so true.
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Originally posted by Darth Joyda
BETA\'s were quickly over-run by VHS in the late 70\'s I think. My father still has a BETA-player somewhere.
Some question why VHS became so popular. BETA\'s offered better on-screen-quality, were small and cheaper. Or so I have been told.
Probably marketing and stuff.
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Originally posted by Titan
Probably marketing and stuff.
Definately stuff
Trust me, I was there.;)
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Originally posted by luckee
And we didn\'t have any fancy Sony Playstation
videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With
games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked! Your
guy was a little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no
multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could
never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died!
Just like LIFE!
There\'s one problem in this message, though. The graphics, back then, were unbelievable. Back in 1984 Asteroids looked incredibly sweet. Why? They hadn\'t seen anything better. Simply said, Asteroids looks tedious and dull now, but it didn\'t back then.
Unreal Tournament 2003 looks sweet by today\'s standards. Doom III will look sweet by tomorrow\'s standards. In the future, even Doom III will look unrealistic and bad. But for us it looks golden. Get my point?
You just can not complain about graphics.
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To an extent,But even when Pong,Space Invaders and asteroids where the shit,I never really looked at them and thought WOW look at those graphics.
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The fact is those games kept me coming back for more. I wish I could say the same about todays games.
Just my opinion.
Ace
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I think that is because they didn\'t finish,you can always try to beat your record but most games these days have ends which makes you feel like you don\'t need to come back.
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Originally posted by Heat
I read the first 2 sentances and got bored.
And another thing, back in my day - we had attention spans!
ZING
-Eik