My old person trait is that I think ‘ghosting’ is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.
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Mine is that I miss the days when physical media (DVDs, VHS, etc) was the main way to own media
Guess whose 4K Blu-Ray player is out for delivery today?!
Which one did you get? I’ve been eyeing that Panasonic ub820 for years
Panasonic DP-UB420-K - It’s the best mid-range I could afford and find and I’m pretty happy with it. The sound on it with just a Sony stereo sound bar and stereo conversion is a lot better than any other sound coming out of any of my other devices.
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
Gas was less than a dollar per gallon when I started driving.
I remember my bestie in 1995 complaining up a storm at the ridiculousness of paying 43 cents a litre in Ontario, Canada…
My trait is I think cars are too digital and should be analogue. Giant touch panels are distracting and have generally bad UI design. You can control an A/C with 3 dials, 4 if you have zones and don’t need to look down at all. Pinnacle of engineering.
I will never own a car that has features behind a paywall or that I can’t directly control. Computer cars are fine as long as I have root.
I am old, so, you know, lots of them. ;) (58 next week) - Black coffee. Stick shift. Movies in the theater. Undershirts. Frugality. etc.
Undershirts are a necessity in the South just to keep your shirt from being drenched.
This. SO uncomfortable without one.
Not disagreeing with you, but one time I visited Atlanta in the Summer for work and I walked out of the motel room freshly showered and holy crap by the time I got to the office I was soaked all the way through the undershirt and the shirt above it. Now that was humidity.
From Georgia, now living in South Carolina, that’s a daily occurrence between June and September.
But then isn’t the undershirt just drenched? I never understood how this works
Yes it is, but it can contain the outer shirt from looking like you ran through a car wash.
You can just tape a maxi-pad under each armpit.
My person, in the summer, you sweat EVERYWHERE. Armpits are just a small part of the overall equation.
My old person triat is that this revolt against the major social media platforms is not unprecedented. I have seen it at least 4 times before in my adult life. Fuck I’m old. 😞
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My old person trait is that none of the things mentioned in the linked image happened on accident.
They happened because capitalism doesn’t give a fuck about anything except bleeding as much money as conceivably possible out of each and every human.
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Apps allow companies to suck more data out of your device than a website, allowing them to sell more of your data and… make more money.
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Video games needing access to the internet is simply Digital Rights Management and a way to prevent piracy and… make more money. Remember, most companies view something pirated as a “lost sale,” not that you would have never purchased it to begin with. As Gabe Newell once said:
“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,” he said. “If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable."
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This one speaks for itself. Being able to be in control of the products you buy is freedom. Having products controlled remotely by a corporation is giving them carte blanche to make more money off of you.
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Removing accessible customer service means more people will just give up on trying to get their problem solved, effectively allowing the company to steal from people and… shocker… make more money.
I agree, in theory, in respect to ghosting, but we live in a society that teaches us to be isolated, and doesn’t teach interpersonal skills unless the interpersonal skill is “Fuck you, got mine.” (which is, not surprisingly, a thing about making more money.)
In other words, these aren’t old people opinions. These are “I’m not gonna let capitalism absolutely fuck me endlessly” opinions.
- Well said, I’m going to save this for when my friends inevitably say something about it and I have to explain why the economy, expessially in the US sucks and why I might eventually leave
Lol
In terms of piracy, I wonder how much could be prevented by having demos, like Factorio does
Funny how Steam has been making sales and events around demos for a while (called Next Fests) and some games absolutely blow up out of nowhere thanks to them.
Also some people think FF16 having a demo was some weird, oddball marketing move by Square Enix, except they have been making “try now, continue later” demos for games since Bravely Default.
Demos used to be everywhere back in the day! I think they have a huge impact, because it’s a way to try to play a game without dumping all the money on it without knowing what the gameplay is like and if its actually fun.
When I was a kid, DOOM having the first episode of the game available as shareware was huge and I used to walk to my friends place after school and watch him play until he would get bored and let me play for a while.
From an old interview in 1999 with John Carmack about this very subject (emphasis mine):
Carmack: DOOM 2 was explicitly a commercial release. We sort of half heartedly did some shareware distribution with Quake, but I think the industry has almost unanimously decided that the three or so level demo is the best test vehicle.
A lot of people consider themselves to have “finished DOOM” when they just finished the shareware episode.> l
It’s specifically capitalism driven by GDP. Capitalism is bad but adding GDP is like removing any ethic and moral compass.
At least in Europe I suspect those of us who grew up before neoliberalism took over in the 80s have a different take on the normality of the whole “being treated as a mark to scam money of 24/7” thing…
Where do I sign up to buy the awards around here?
Kidding…great post, tho
That’s what the emojis are for. Unlike the shitshow most of us just came from, here it doesn’t cost real money to add a tiny picture of 🏅 to a comment.
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Restaurant menus should be on paper, not a QR code.
My old person trait is that instructions do not need to be videos.
I might end up wanting a video, but there is so much low-quality content in search results. I can click into and out of six bad sets of written instructions in the time it takes me to watch one video far enough through to realize it doesn’t answer my question. Please, search engines, place more written instructions higher up.
Can I marry you?
That was the only qualification? Nice
i’m a little iffy on this one… if it’s something complicated/with lots of parts like how to repair your phone screen or something i prefer the video format, but for things like how to install certain softwares i totally agree with you
if I’m reading documentation for a software library, i want that written.
cuz i can read useful paragraphs faster than how ppl talk
but if it’s something highly visual, maybe a video is better
Shouting at young people who blast bad auto tuned rap music in front of my house :D Or"answering" with very very loud good rap music or black metal :D
These are not old person traits, these are just things that most people agree upon.
Most people are, in fact, “old” ( i.e. over 30)
I don’t get why people think that way. 30 is not that old, it would be considered old if you lived in middle ages but not now.
Average lifespan in the US is 76 years, 30 is only 8 years shy of halfway through average life expectancy.
Especially since average lifespan in the US is massively offset by the rich living longer, healthier lives, and the poor leading shorter, unhealthy, and broken lives, you’re looking at 30 probably being about halfway through life for anyone who isn’t obscenely rich.
If you’re halfway through life, I’d classify that as “over the hill” or “old.”
Now me? I’ve been old since I was 22, because I was always a cranky, ornery bastard.
You are all making me feel old and I’m in my twenties https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa9rwMp-Bi4
I’m 38, wife is 33. We both dreaded entering our 30s but we both agree it’s the best decade (so far).
These are just things capitalism ruined in the last 10-20 years
Exactly.
Apps either cost subscription fees or are optimized for showing mobile ads.
The internet is where in-game microtransactions happen.
They can’t make any more money off of you after a sale of something if you can maintain the product by yourself.
Why pay lot people in customer service when fewer offshore people do trick
My old person trait is that I always prefer physical media over streaming media.
My old person trait thinks far left are bloody stupid, far right are slightly better.
The ‘far’ anything is going to be further than you’d like. But what counts is ‘far’ depends on who is talking. So saying things like “the far left are bloody stupid” tells us very little, other than that you hate someone. (And saying “the far right are slightly better” suggests you are aligning yourself with a group whose identity is based on hating people…)
Yeah that line was used by my abusers way to often. They just “can’t understand” why I’d go no contact. As if the last 300 explanations were somehow non existent. Nope. I don’t owe you anything.
And my old person trait is my walking stick I suppose.
