Ask Lemmy

I was around 10 so I was probably playing games like Crash Bandicoot and Need for Speed on my PS2 and playing at the parks around town

I was coming into my own as an adult.

I'd been in an adult job for a couple of years and I bought a car and started renting my own place. I was able to travel a lot in those days and life was more interesting and affordable, as the 2008 crash hadn't yet occurred and most third spaces were still around and thriving.

It felt like we all had a good future ahead for the most part.

I graduated highschool in '07

Finishing up high school. Had a passion for animation, was practicing flash animation for a while.

Was in scouts, specifically venturers. Was at the age where I finally was able to have some confidence and just enjoy life, had some camps that I remember fondly to this day.

In highschool with a huge red mohawk and playing bass.

That would've about been the year that I dropped out of college and quit my job to play world of warcraft every waking hour of my life

I was 12 years old in middle school learning to talk to girls without pulling a Stan Marsh and throwing up all over lol

My side hustle website got big enough in 2007 to allow me to quit my day job and go all in with it.

Getting ready for the birth of my first kid

getting rolled around in my stroller at marching band shows

I officially graduated early and was working drywall while taking a light college workload. I crashed my old schools senior day with a 30 block to see my friends who were finishing their last year of highschool and got kicked out lol. What else.. I was going to post hardcore shows at little venues that would close within 3 years and I was a warlock class leader for my world of Warcraft guild, getting bored of 4chan and phasing out of insurgen.CC. I think at this point i also started looking for a fake ID and got recs from coworkers with stolen SSNs but most of the contacts wouldn't bite. I was also playing bass in a metal band but got alcohol poisoning and had to drop out.

Toontown I think

Finishing up College and feeling generally anxious about entering the "adult" world.

Finishing senior year of high school, completely unaware that it was nothing but downhill from there.

It took me over a decade after high school just to find a job that actually paid enough to move out of my parents house. And then another 8 years for me to find someone and settle down. But now I feel too old and out of energy to start a family. I'm just barely starting my life and it's already halfway over.

We don't get enough time on this planet.

That was my junior to senior year of college. I was majoring in aeronautics at ERAU.

We had heated debates about force fields in my kindergarten class during recess lol

I was a few years into my first post-college job. It ended up involving a lot more coordination than I thought.

I was a kid, can barely talk, didn't even speak a word of English, I was still in mainland China, probably in kindergarden or something, no internet access (too poor and live in slums), bored as fuck when at home, barely any entertainment, I don't think I had much toys, if I did, I broke them, my parents would leave me and my older brother* at home and my parents warned me not to climb near the windows (lived live around 5 stories high), there's a "safety cage" around the windows so like I wouldn't fall out or anything, but still I had intrusive thoughts, also told me not to touch the electricity stuff so I don't get zapped to death, also don't touch the plant fertilizer stuff because... poisonus to humans or something... (lived in the city, but there are houseplants and there are people that grow stuff on land in a mountain nearby).

I vaguely remember Mr. Bean, 猫和老鼠 (Cat and Mouse... aka: Tom and Jerry), and um... yea I don't remember much, since I kinda suppressed the memories because something bad happens around this time.

So... shit is about to go down...

So basically, because... you know... I was a kid, I kinda touched my older brother's toys... he's like 5 yeard older than me btw... and I'm not even sure if those count as "his" because resource in the house is kinda pooled, I viewed it as communal property (unrelated to the political-economic system btw, it just my worldview as a child, since my parents always used the words “你哋”/“你们” (you in plural form) when on the topic of buying toys and stuff, so I assumed its shared).

So I think this is how it goes: I might've touched "his" toys, he got mad at me, he used plastic zip ties and he fucking tied me up. WHAT THE FUCK?!? Also "CPS" isn't a thing, so I was just his hostage for a FEW HOURS, until parents got come. WHAT THE FUCK FUCK FUCK.

Also dude plays with fire in the house (separate incident), he pours white-out liquod onto a piece of paper, then IGNITE IT ON FIRE. My retrospective reaction rn: 😱 Like how the f we didn't die? Concrete/cement buildings is probably a factor, if it was a wooden house, it's GGs.

And then shit went down when one time, we had fight, he was chasing me around the house, so I ran and went to find my mother, grandmother was at home but bitch didn't stop shit. I could've gotten kidnaoped that day. Cops were searching the neighborhood but they didn't expect me to take a bus all the fucking way to my mother's workplace. (Bus drivers didn't give a fuck lol), I couldn't find her, so then I later came back home. I missed a few stops and then I had to backtrack. My most lonely moment in my life, and my first Adverse Childhood Experience. I wasn't even 8 years old at the time.

*For context, I was not supposed to be born, my mother violated the "One Child Policy" and gave birth to me.

God damn, my older brother has the "Little Emperor Syndrome", got so jealous that other kids were their parents sole attention, but my parents had to split attention, dude was probably so furious he didn't get all the attention he could've gotten had I not been born, since that's the situation in almost every other family.

Wrong spawn location, I need to restart this game, it sucks. NORWAY PLSSSS 😭

Actually fuck Earth, give me a Type III civillization, and PLS NO "HIVE MIND" SPECIES, I HATE THOSE.

My wife and I had just moved 400 miles the previous year and bought a house. She started a new job and we had our first child, who apparently is the same age as you.

Playing with dolls mostly likely since I was a toddler at the time.

Oh man, probably deep into World of Warcraft, absolutely “no-lifing” it. Dropping in and out of community college. Not many friends. Living on my own for the first time. Not taking care of myself.

D&D

being a grad student and living on 10K a year income.

i used to buy expired food a lot to not starve and barely ate any protein. but i was living the dream and realized it was actually a nightmare.

2007 the first iPhone was released.

All within about a month, early summer:

• working at a startup
• got married
• honeymoon (visited 2 new countries)
• moved into a new job-role
• first IPO

Playing Supreme Commander on a PC I just built.

Sex drugs and rock n roll

My son was also born in 2007. So, I was up to all the excitement and worry about becoming a new dad, is what I was up to the most of 2007!

Also, painting and putting together a lot of baby furniture. And reading the baby books. And feeling more terrified than I ever had before. And also more excited, than I had been for anything in my life.

Great year.

Still vaguely optimistic I'd graduate from uni some day in the near future and find work as a translator for English and Japanese. (I only stopped trying to graduate 10 years later and I have been paid a lifetime total of 150 euros for translations.)

I was also able to sleep 8 hours most nights. Those truly were the days.

On the upside, I hadn't yet discovered Doctor Who which two years later would, depending on who you ask, either greatly improve my life (quote me) or make me an obsessed weirdo (quote the husband).

Watching Smosh. That channel has certainly changed.

Frolicking around in the evenings while all the other neighborhood kids looked on in annoyance.

I was in college, fresh out of high school. I started learning PHP that year. I think I was working at One Stop Systems, a company that produces enterprise PCIe equipment.

I was still using Windows at that point, and I would switch to Linux the next year.