Ask Lemmy

you, writing that 2004 is 22 years ago

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!"

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.

Snoop and Eminem are grandparents.

I paid a couple kids to shovel my sidewalk. That was the moment I knew I was old.

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.

Seeing a Chevy S-10 90's model with an antique license plate.

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" 💀

My class didn't know who Quentin Tarantino is.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

I referred to "Shin Godzilla" as "That newer Godzilla movie."

It came out 10 years ago.

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."

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.

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.