- Sunswipe
- Feb 5, 2016
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by Fluffdaddy
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80s theme tunes were just the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJkmY8CuE_g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVonyVSQoM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ragUeIkKA
Blue Thunder's seems like it'll be cool for a few seconds but turns out to be crap. So really appropriate for the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx_a-h9lspo
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- Sunswipe
- Feb 5, 2016
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by Fluffdaddy
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I feel like I kept up with the trends really well, I grew up on the internet, spent my life on the internet, I remember the war with ebaums and how that was such a big deal at the time, I saw the birth of youtube, I was involved in ytmnd back when that was somehow relevant... I never thought I'd hit the point where I felt old, but something in the past, 4? Years? The internet suddenly changed and I'm so confused by it. There are teenagers now making livelihoods by broadcasting and monetizing their entire lives, websites have been replaced with apps, the internet went from a thousand weird tiny islands to a handful of corporate-policed super-cities and I did not make the transition into it very well. I don't actually feel like I want to make the transition into it.
That article about the TikTok house is just, I cannot understand that, and I hate that. I really didn't think I'd ever have to feel old, I thought I'd be able to keep up. I'm old, and I no longer have legal rights, tbh. When I say I grew up on the internet, I mean I grew up having a dozen alts, fastidiously controlling what I said with what name, because the idea of anyone being able to know anything about you was super not good. Now everyone grows up documenting their life on public media?? It's alien to me, the world has become alien, and it's alien in a way I don't want to gain understanding of.
So I mod and play Morrowind, the same game I've been playing for 20 years, because that's the best familiarity I can get. I first played it when I was graduating highschool, in that liminal space where the future is at its most vague and promising, so other than being a really solid game still, it has a lot of that sort of... bittersweet nostalgia? Dramatic irony?
It's been that way for everyone who lived long enough. Douglas Adams summed it up:
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“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
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