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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Liiya wrote: »
    Solar wrote: »
    I think you'll only be excited to get cracking anyway, and getting paid sooner will be ideal!

    You are probably right! :biggrin:

    Of course

    I am as wise as the ancient trees

  • lonelyahavalonelyahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    @Liiya I've been watching a random show on Netflix calld "Big Dreams, Small Spaces" and it's starring this guy named Monty Don and everybody seems to be super duper excited and he's apparently the top gardener in the UK and It makes me think of you.

    One day, you will have your own TV show with excited people fawning over you and your designs.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Solar wrote: »
    Liiya wrote: »
    Solar wrote: »
    I think you'll only be excited to get cracking anyway, and getting paid sooner will be ideal!

    You are probably right! :biggrin:

    Of course

    I am as wise as the ancient trees

    Aren’t you, like... 7?

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Wise as the ancient trees, foolish one, not old as

    Also I'm 8 and 3/4!

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited July 2018
    Let’s be honest, you’re probably about as wise as like, a good solid, middle aged tree. You know, the kind that doesn’t complain about millennials.

    Wait, are millennials middled aged now?

    Edit: Job thread, i’m Posting from my phone in my new apartment and oh my Goooooooood my new bed is sooooooo much more comfortable than the one in my old plaaaaaace.

    This bed is fucking wonderfuuuuuulllllll.

    sarukun on
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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Millennial cutoff is 1981, apparently, and middle-aged is usually 40-45, I believe. So, us millennials just miss middle age for a few more years yet.

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  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    @Liiya I've been watching a random show on Netflix calld "Big Dreams, Small Spaces" and it's starring this guy named Monty Don and everybody seems to be super duper excited and he's apparently the top gardener in the UK and It makes me think of you.

    One day, you will have your own TV show with excited people fawning over you and your designs.

    Ah yes he's very well known here ! : )

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Millennial cutoff is 1981, apparently, and middle-aged is usually 40-45, I believe. So, us millennials just miss middle age for a few more years yet.

    I though 1981 was still gen X?

  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    81 is the weird between generation that is a mix of both

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Now there is an in between generation which is like (this could be wrong) from like 79-84.

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  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Now there is an in between generation which is like (this could be wrong) from like 79-84.

    Which might seem overly granular at first blush, but as someone in that range I definitely feel like it makes sense. It basically means you're old enough to remember how things were before the Internet, but young enough that the Internet still shaped your adolescence/teen years. Being even a few years older than that means you were already an adult when the Internet became ubiquitous, and a few years younger means you probably don't remember a world without Internet.

    For me at least, that distinction feels meaningful and I definitely feel more a part of that mid group than I do gen-X or millennial.

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    I actually discovered this a while back apparently the term for this is Xennial, or my favorite, the Oregon Trail Generation. The latter I feel is really descriptive, at least for an American. I don’t know how ubiquitous the Apple 2 in the early years of school were for other countries.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    I have never played the Oregon trail.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited July 2018
    Your loss, that shit rules.

    Edit:The zombie-themed indie knock off, Organ Trail, is also pretty excellent.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    I was born in 84

    I lived in the rural areas

    I played a fair amount of Oregon trail

    Interesting

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
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    I was born in 84

    I lived in the rural areas

    I played a fair amount of Oregon trail

    Interesting

    Brother.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2018
    I feel like being a lower middle class rural kid meant, at the time, that everything was five years late

    I was definitely watching 80s TV well into the 90s, for example, MacGuyver and a very confusion inducing randomized sequence of the awful Dukes of Hazzard, are the two that come to mind

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  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    I'm '85. Do remember pre-internet days. Did not play Oregon Trail. I dunno if it was a thing in the UK.

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  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2018
    I mean Oregon Trail was mainly an educational game focused on the exploration and settling of the American West, I'd be pretty surprised if many folks outside the U.S. ever had much experience with it when it was modern.

    Personally I know I played it but when it comes to computer games I played at school, I have much stronger memories of DinoPark Tycoon.

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    I feel like being a lower middle class rural kid meant, at the time, that everything was five years late

    I was definitely watching 80s TV well into the 90s, for example, MacGuyver and a very confusion inducing randomized sequence of the awful Dukes of Hazzard, are the two that come to mind

    I was born in 86, played a ton of Oregon trail and number muncher, as everything else you described

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Oregon Trail was great, mostly because it was the only educational game that didn't feel like thinly-veiled homework.

    Lookin' at you, Number Munchers and Quotient Quest.

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    I totally had Apple II’s in class growing up but can’t recall if I ever actually played Oregon Trail. I can’t recall what I did play on there though. I remember playing Sim City on a color Apple later much more vividly.

  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    edited July 2018
    I was born in 1989 and can barely remember what it was like before we got dial-up internet at home. I think I was 10 when we got it, because that was around the time my parents bought our first home PC. I know we didn't have internet access in my grade school until around the same time as well, but we were using computers well before then, older Intel 486 machines. Being 10, the pre and post internet age transition didn't seem as crazy at the time.

    Definitely played Oregon Trail in school.

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  • KakodaimonosKakodaimonos Code fondler Helping the 1% get richerRegistered User regular
    I remember Oregon Trail and the little Logo programs.

    And Gopher. Man I wasted a lot of time with Gopher.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited July 2018
    I remember Carmen Sandiago making its way to our PCs at some point.

    And then in high school someone managed to get my beta disc for Ultima Online installed on one of the library PCs.

    edit: Actually I can't recall if this actually happened or not. I think it did. All I recall is I kind of hated UO even though I was a massive Ultima fan since I was 3.

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  • Lord_AsmodeusLord_Asmodeus goeticSobriquet: Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered User regular
    So at work we're apparently the only building that is meeting or exceeding our cleaning schedule, partially due to a lack of personnel in other buildings, among other issues. This is good... but it also means, if we're TOO efficient, they might make us go help the other buildings which according to my coworkers would be "bad"

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited July 2018
    Alright fuckers, there's a substantial difference between two chicks in bikinis and a freaking football team, and when you call me to report shit, your language should accurately dictate the difference between the two so that i am not hauling ass down the freeway expecting to call the cops on a dozen drunken horny idiots

    Edit:
    My dear mother made me a proto blerd at age 5 with this

    https://youtu.be/jwF_vnr0BFU

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  • NightDragonNightDragon 6th Grade Username Registered User regular
    OREGON TRAIL RULEDDDDDDD

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    OREGON TRAIL RULEDDDDDDD

    Making for Oregon is suicide as the dos game showed

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  • NobodyNobody Registered User regular
    Never played Oregon Trail, my game during that time was Sopwith

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    The number one thing I learned in Oregon Trail was that you never try to ford the river. Pay the damn ferryman.

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  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    I actually discovered this a while back apparently the term for this is Xennial, or my favorite, the Oregon Trail Generation. The latter I feel is really descriptive, at least for an American. I don’t know how ubiquitous the Apple 2 in the early years of school were for other countries.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

    I feel like in the end what you're going to find is that the tail end of Gen X and the front end of Gen Z are both going to end up under the Millennial umbrella as X Millennials, Y Millennials, and Z Millennials.

    Currently my lines are X Millennials are old enough to remember The wall coming down and the fall of the Soviet Union but they don't really remember the Cold War and have no experience with it. On the other end, Z Millennials don't remember 9/11 but experienced things changing as a result and that sort of thing.

    Core "Gen Y" Millennials to me are about '85 to '96ish, but the Millennial umbrella covers probably late '79 all the way to '00, culturally speaking. At least here in the US.

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    Tox wrote: »
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    I actually discovered this a while back apparently the term for this is Xennial, or my favorite, the Oregon Trail Generation. The latter I feel is really descriptive, at least for an American. I don’t know how ubiquitous the Apple 2 in the early years of school were for other countries.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

    I feel like in the end what you're going to find is that the tail end of Gen X and the front end of Gen Z are both going to end up under the Millennial umbrella as X Millennials, Y Millennials, and Z Millennials.

    Currently my lines are X Millennials are old enough to remember The wall coming down and the fall of the Soviet Union but they don't really remember the Cold War and have no experience with it. On the other end, Z Millennials don't remember 9/11 but experienced things changing as a result and that sort of thing.

    Core "Gen Y" Millennials to me are about '85 to '96ish, but the Millennial umbrella covers probably late '79 all the way to '00, culturally speaking. At least here in the US.

    I think a big meaningful question for this is when you first got your personal cell phone and when you were first routinely on the internet. Both a big cultural shifts that have happened in our lifetimes.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    Millennial isn't a time, it's a state of being.

    Did any potential career path become royally fucked due to the recession? If yes, you're probably a millennial.

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  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    Javen wrote: »
    Millennial isn't a time, it's a state of being.

    Did any potential career path become royally fucked due to the recession? If yes, you're probably a millennial.

    That completely misses the latter years included in the Millennial timeline that was still in school for the recession. Hell, I was in middle school in 2008.

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  • EnigmedicEnigmedic Registered User regular
    Tox wrote: »
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    I actually discovered this a while back apparently the term for this is Xennial, or my favorite, the Oregon Trail Generation. The latter I feel is really descriptive, at least for an American. I don’t know how ubiquitous the Apple 2 in the early years of school were for other countries.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

    I feel like in the end what you're going to find is that the tail end of Gen X and the front end of Gen Z are both going to end up under the Millennial umbrella as X Millennials, Y Millennials, and Z Millennials.

    Currently my lines are X Millennials are old enough to remember The wall coming down and the fall of the Soviet Union but they don't really remember the Cold War and have no experience with it. On the other end, Z Millennials don't remember 9/11 but experienced things changing as a result and that sort of thing.

    Core "Gen Y" Millennials to me are about '85 to '96ish, but the Millennial umbrella covers probably late '79 all the way to '00, culturally speaking. At least here in the US.

    Well the "came of age during the 00's" seems like a pretty big part of the definition, which can kind of be people born early 80s to mid 90s. But like people born in 98 were 12 in 2010 which doesn't really seem like quite coming of age in the new millennium. American media seems to portray it as anyone born after 1980... Like they call kids that are in grade school now, millennials. I'm pretty sure I have nothing in common with a 5th grader other than that we live in the same country.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Javen wrote: »
    Millennial isn't a time, it's a state of being.

    Did any potential career path become royally fucked due to the recession? If yes, you're probably a millennial.

    That completely misses the latter years included in the Millennial timeline that was still in school for the recession. Hell, I was in middle school in 2008.

    If you were born after 1996, you're post millennial

  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    Javen wrote: »
    Millennial isn't a time, it's a state of being.

    Did any potential career path become royally fucked due to the recession? If yes, you're probably a millennial.

    That completely misses the latter years included in the Millennial timeline that was still in school for the recession. Hell, I was in middle school in 2008.

    If you were born after 1996, you're post millennial

    1995!

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    The number one thing I learned in Oregon Trail was that you never try to ford the river. Pay the damn ferryman.

    But not until he gets you to the other side.

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  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    Carmen sandiego is why I'm so good at geography and flags.
    Javen wrote: »
    Millennial isn't a time, it's a state of being.

    Did any potential career path become royally fucked due to the recession? If yes, you're probably a millennial.

    That completely misses the latter years included in the Millennial timeline that was still in school for the recession. Hell, I was in middle school in 2008.

    If you were born after 1996, you're post millennial

    1995!

    Get off my lawn!

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