YEK Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 51 minutes ago, Zephyr_Nova said: KFC would probably get more business if they fried a couple other meats too. Fried prawns would be especially popular. Idiots. KFF: Kentucky Fried Food Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 6 hours ago, yekker said: KFF: Kentucky Fried Food FFS Spoiler Fried Foodstuffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr_Nova Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Fried Food Society would of course be the new name. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 On 12/14/2020 at 7:37 PM, ambermonke said: Oh jeezus. Nearly a year ago I had two female coworkers (early to mid 20s) who would stream Disney+ nonstop at work. Sure, the majority of us watched the movies when we were kids, but you'd think they'd outgrow that shit by now. I'd like to say something about Zoomers and Millennials being more childish than the previous generations but I just played several hours of Super Mario Bros 3 so who am I to criticize. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Just now, zkom said: I'd like to say something about Zoomers and Millennials being more childish than the previous generations but I just played several hours of Super Mario Bros 3 so who am I to criticize. Gaming is for all ages...depending on the ESRB rating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drillkicker Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 15 hours ago, Zephyr_Nova said: KFC would probably get more business if they fried a couple other meats too. Fried prawns would be especially popular. Idiots. I've heard bad things about the prawn industry and its sustainability. I would go for fried mushrooms and eggplant, though. 4 hours ago, zkom said: I'd like to say something about Zoomers and Millennials being more childish than the previous generations but I just played several hours of Super Mario Bros 3 so who am I to criticize. Gen X is the most childish for their age from my perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 (edited) 9 hours ago, ambermonke said: Gaming is for all ages...depending on the ESRB rating It's now but back in 80s and early 90s video games were considered toys for children. Check this video about the SNES launch. Edited December 16, 2020 by zkom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 5 hours ago, drillkicker said: I've heard bad things about the prawn industry and its sustainability. I would go for fried mushrooms and eggplant, though. Gen X is the most childish for their age from my perspective. Yeah, the more I think the more I don't even know what I'm talking about. Something about changing media consumption habits and increasing leisure time probably. I've been listening to an audiobook version of Proust's In Search of Lost Time set mostly in the early 1900s and oh man lot of the characters are really juvenile even when they grow up, including the narrator who is kind of a dandy and seems to have way too much free time on his hands so he can worry about some pretty fucking trivial things. It's a nice series of books anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 6 hours ago, zkom said: It's now but back in 80s and early 90s video games were considered toys for children. Check this video about the SNES launch. I feel like gaming is generally a foreign concept to anyone older than Gen X. My own mother was stingy af about even letting me touch NES growing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braintree Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 My parents actually enjoyed playing Tetris together back in the 80s but they definitely don't play games much anymore. Maybe on their phones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 16 minutes ago, Braintree said: My parents actually enjoyed playing Tetris together back in the 80s but they definitely don't play games much anymore. Maybe on their phones. Seeing how my parents only play games like Tetris and maybe Candy Crush or something similar they kind of go into the same bin as crossword puzzles and sudokus as just simple time killers, even though they technically are video games. Anything that would take even a few hours to get into or where you need to engage with a plot or learn lots of game mechanics is out of the question. I'm not saying games like Tetris don't take any skill. It's just how and in what context they play them. Maybe comparable to watching feature film or following a TV series in comparison to watching video clips on Youtube or Facebook. I had basically stopped playing video games a few years ago until this fucking pandemic happened. Now I have probably a few hundred hours of playtime in Breath of the Wild since February.. I don't think I've been playing this much video games in the last 15 years or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berk Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 12 hours ago, zkom said: It's now but back in 80s and early 90s video games were considered toys for children. Check this video about the SNES launch. Lol I love that Tim & Eric move that starts at about 1 minute in 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 I feel bad for Gen X. Born too late to enjoy peak Capitalism. Born too early to enjoy having no other frame of reference than trough Capitalism. Doomed to a life of commodified nihilism 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prdctvsm Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 ^ "pity is worse than hate" - popular saying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 2 hours ago, Cryptowen said: I feel bad for Gen X. Born too late to enjoy peak Capitalism. Born too early to enjoy having no other frame of reference than trough Capitalism. Doomed to a life of commodified nihilism TBH, 90s was a pretty good time to be young. No social media, lots of freedom, good music. Cold war had just ended and 9/11 and war on terror were still in the future. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 17 hours ago, zkom said: TBH, 90s was a pretty good time to be young. No social media, lots of freedom, good music. Cold war had just ended and 9/11 and war on terror were still in the future. I can remember thinking at some point back in the '90s, that the '90s are so bland. there's nothing remarkable about this decade, as opposed to the '60s, '70s, '80s, which all have clear mental associations and pop culture references attached with each. I was also a wallowing teenager back then, not at all realizing that we were soon going to be entering the blandest series of years of them all - the 2000's. the rise of internet culture essentially made the past 20 years all blend into one big globalized and unremarkable clump...mentally I can't really set apart stuff from 2008 to 2018. the fashion trends, popular music, etc. are all just so similar. so yeah, compared to 2000 - 2020, the '90s were a great time to be young. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 3 hours ago, zero said: I can remember thinking at some point back in the '90s, that the '90s are so bland. there's nothing remarkable about this decade, as opposed to the '60s, '70s, '80s, which all have clear mental associations and pop culture references attached with each. I was also a wallowing teenager back then, not at all realizing that we were soon going to be entering the blandest series of years of them all - the 2000's. the rise of internet culture essentially made the past 20 years all blend into one big globalized and unremarkable clump...mentally I can't really set apart stuff from 2008 to 2018. the fashion trends, popular music, etc. are all just so similar. so yeah, compared to 2000 - 2020, the '90s were a great time to be young. Also things like personal freedom for youngsters, like it was in the 90s, is pretty much gone now. I can't even imagine what's it like to be a teenager now. Your parents can contact you 24/7 by cellphones, monitor your internet usage and check the social media for your friends and contacts. Back in the 90s I could be gone for days being somewhere in an "off the grid" cabin with my friends and because there was no landline we were basically unreachable. Sometimes I would just leave a note in the kitchen that I'm gone for the day or night if I was expecting to be coming back in 24h. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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milkface Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 21 hours ago, zkom said: Also things like personal freedom for youngsters, like it was in the 90s, is pretty much gone now. I can't even imagine what's it like to be a teenager now. Your parents can contact you 24/7 by cellphones, monitor your internet usage and check the social media for your friends and contacts. Back in the 90s I could be gone for days being somewhere in an "off the grid" cabin with my friends and because there was no landline we were basically unreachable. Sometimes I would just leave a note in the kitchen that I'm gone for the day or night if I was expecting to be coming back in 24h. for real man i was born feb '01 and i hate it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcom Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) I AM BEER Spoiler My first name is Nuutti, it's rather rare so it's weird to see a beer with my name on it. I don't drink beer, though. Edited December 19, 2020 by dcom 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 29 minutes ago, dcom said: I AM BEER Hide contents My first name is Nuutti, it's rather rare so it's weird to see a beer with my name on it. I don't drink beer, though. It's a pretty decent beer. I've had it a couple of times. Rest of the Hiisi Brewery beers also have names based on the more obscure beings, things and concepts in Finnish mythology and traditions, like Iku-Turso, Kipinätär and Itse. I guess in this case "Nuutti" is a reference to Nuuttipukki or Nuutinpäivä and not really the first name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcom Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 12 minutes ago, zkom said: I guess in this case "Nuutti" is a reference to Nuuttipukki or Nuutinpäivä and not really the first name. After 46-odd years of living with the name I'm rather well versed in the meaning and traditional practices in regards to it (there ïs almost four pages on the subject in Kustaa Vilkunan Vuotuinen Ajantieto) - just to give the non-Finns some perspective on the subject, there is an old Finnish proverb "good Tuomas (Thomas) brings Christmas, evil Nuutti takes it away"; this is based on Finnish namedays, where Christmastime starts on December 21st (Tuomas' nameday) and ends on January 13th (Nuutti's nameday); see St. Knut's Day for details - I rather like the idea of being a Finnish Krampus. Anyway, I was trying to be humorous (see also I AM GROOT), this is your pointless thoughts and observations - not teach WATMM about weird Finnish traditions and customs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) Double Edited December 19, 2020 by zkom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Ah fuck, don't know what happened. Elves at work? 13 minutes ago, dcom said: Anyway, I was trying to be humorous (see also I AM GROOT), this is your pointless thoughts and observations - not teach WATMM about weird Finnish traditions and customs. I just get easily tempted to go on about this stuff now that I've been reading on Finnish necromantic practices, spirits of the graveyards, and other weird stuff lately while in isolation. So I end up talking about them so much that my friends and family are starting to get weirded out. And I add fuel to the fire by joking that I see "invisible little people" that tell me things. All in good fun until I get sent to a psychiatrist and I need to try to explain myself out of this situation. Hopefully the medication is at least nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braintree Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 4 hours ago, dcom said: I AM BEER Hide contents My first name is Nuutti, it's rather rare so it's weird to see a beer with my name on it. I don't drink beer, though. We have a thread for that: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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