Never been in touch!

Get some help big dawg! Life is dope and people are too 😎

Not all of us liked Annoying Orange, but Annoying Orange didn't get a Hollywood movie either.

Looksmaxxing is manosphere shit and aurafarming is just rebranded swagger.

If you are an American president children are always right.

When kids didnt know what CDs were. Or when people didnt know what the address bar or Ctrl+F does.

To be fair I live 30 years in the past when I can so I'm not susprised.

The day my boss, who asked for my help, said "That's not what GPT said" and promptly ignored my input, wasted 2 days of a customer's time and $700 of their money (refuses to walk back his time doing what GPT said), then finally allowed me to fix the actual problem using my meat popsicle intelligence's output, which took 14 minutes.

We're doomed. He votes.

No, but it did get a two season TV show.

The children are wrong.

For me it was about ten years ago, when i started working in a company with a lot of people 10 years younger than me. They all listened to new French rap, so i gave it a shot as i am a fan of the 90s stuff so i figured i'd like it. The truth is i couldn't understand any of it... not that i hated it, but it was just so alien to me. I didn't understand enough of it to even form an opinion.

I realized that i had missed not only that moment in music, but also all of its precursors, so i really had no point of reference to it. I guess the pop music i grew up with, even the stuff i hated, was always one or two generations away from some genre of music i could identify. But this was based on a whole chain of influences that was unknown to me. A great feeling tbh.

I concur, but that masking brings so many other issues and stress.

Brother I have never once been "with it", as the kids say, and the rock I live under gets comfier every year so I probably won't try to change that.

I searched my newsgroup indexer by year and all of the movie titles since 2020 looked like the fake ones from Seinfeld.

I would fail a grammy nominee or tiktok "creator"? challenge.

Like... 5th or 6th grade. I could at least hang up til then. I walked into class on the first day after summer break one year and was just like "wtf is everyone talking about? Why does the brand of clothes I'm wearing matter? Why're everyone being dicks?"

Just don't start... Adding elipses... All over...

And ahh instead of ass ._.

67

What was the new rap they recommended?

Literally never. Not once. I was your nerd at school who'd find joy in a science encyclopedia, and really thought everyone else my age acted like the dumbest people on Earth.

Today's "67" was yesterday's something else. And it's never not made me cringe.

What year is it?

All I know is there's many printed on my romantic sheet music

I can feel it happening now. I don't know what's going on on the real internet anymore.

Once I was a spry young adult and all the memes and culture was made for me. Now I don't even know what the kids are saying its like a different language.

I'll watch the minority report even though I'm not a fan of getting my info from YouTube, and I wonder if I'm the boomer watching fox news now. I don't even really like Sam sedar just with the boomers dying out media is made for millenials now and I'll click, click bait if I see it. I try to absorb everything through RSS feed if possible, and add sources like minority report to there so I can keep up, and fuck more and more it feels like the news hits me like it hit my fox news grandpa, and I'm developing my own figure heads I shake my fist at angrily and triggers. I'm starting to get old people junk mail. I haven't used windows so every time I stupidly agree to help someone I actually have to ask them where a specific menu is or how to interact with their ui. It threw me off when they removed file extensions from being visible.

I can feel the process, I'm kind of losing touch with normal people, the youths, a lot of people I used to relate to. I see people in public watching short form content and I judge them slightly, so many small things I've noticed becoming what I would describe as a ignorant old man. Someone's going to try to make me use a new app or I'm going to get confused and scared when I can't use Linux.

Its partially by choice but man the world just isn't really made for me like it used to be. Maybe being out of touch is the inability to change with the times. Mainstream media is just doing millenial fanfare now and milking us like they used to milk the boomers, so now everything I used to like has this weird corperate nolstalgic haze added to it. They're brining back mike myers to do a new Austin powers movie which will be fine and I'll watch it but it will feel alienating like they're trying too hard to appeal to me like they're trying to playcate a child. And all the cool new shit is made by tiktokers and stuff I'm too old to understand. I don't know what the hell the backrooms are or understand why I'm invested but thats what's probably actually where the "real" culture is at. The semi organic culture that is the most free flowing and inventive is often with the youths, and you just slowly lose touch with that.

When I saw a bunch of headlines about some movie award ceremony. "Who's So-and-so's mystery date?" "Everything you need to know about NepoKid, Jane Paddle's actress daughter", and so on... But I didn't even know who were So-and-So, Jane Paddle, or any of the famous people whose relatives we were talking about.
I'm out of touch, twice.

When some actress died recently and there was like 30 posts on reddit and all I could think is who the hell is this? And to be honest, I realized I didn't care and it's time to leave reddit. Then I thought, I'm getting old, I don't need a virtual obituary and just want to see cat pictures or something funny after work.

At 40, I don't think I really am. I've never kept up with pop culture, so if you asked me who the hottest musical act is right now, I wouldn't have a clue. My MP3 collection is so eclectic that even Lemmy probably wouldn't recognize half of what I listen to. So, if that's what you mean by being out of touch, then perhaps.

However, I do make an effort to stay abreast of current events, political movements, and what's happening in the world.

That said, I do feel myself becoming somewhat disconnected from the general cultural zeitgeist as I get older. I'm much more focused on my family these days than on keeping up with what my kids are into. For example, I genuinely don't understand the humor behind things like Skibidi Toilet, nor do I have any idea what the hell MrBeast is doing. I couldn't tell you what the most popular YouTube channels are, either.

So perhaps I'm not out of touch with the world itself, but I'm definitely becoming less connected to the culture of the younger generations. And honestly, I'm not entirely sure that's a bad thing.

I remember Damso's "lithopedion" album, and there were some other rappers with vocoder which I forgot. Even Booba was unknown territory to me

i am an “old hat” in my fire dept. been here 21 years. know a lot. seen a lot. still learning a lot. trained a lot of the newbs. who are mostly 20-30 now. and definitely a cohort of their own. eager. but also dismissive of some of us old guys sometimes. lately i feel like it’s time. i kinda want to transition to a more academic life too. but am grappling with the fomo when the next big job comes in, though i have been at a lot of local history making fires. just kinda feeling invisible, so maybe it’s time to retire.

I started realizing I was out of touch musically when there were big festival lineups and I didn't know 95% of the bands.

So uh, what's that?

Ass-face? Or asshole?

Means "this", or maybe "this shit".

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ts-this

Did you listen to nerdcore? It's a shame it died out, but I still listen to some of the songs.

The only thing I can think of is the South Park episode with Caesar Milan tss-ing Cartman. I'm probably wrong though cause I'm out of touch.

Whenever there is some viral story about some youtube/ticktock celebrity.

For anyone reading, this guy is a great example of why not to serve in a military. In case your normal human aversion to hierarchy and violence isn't enough. The abuse they put you through to shape you into something willing to kill for them (and the killing etc itself of course) has lifelong consequences.

To "redditmodssucks", you find what you look for and there's a lot that makes life worth living. Always for love, never from fear. I hope you find some peace and maybe even a little joy. Hope is real, good luck out there.

I've always been into jazz and funk.

Solid choices.

In middle school/junior high, when everybody started talking about rock music and rap music and stopped talking about video games and anime! Lol

Neither, just ass

I find myself actually going back and consuming pop culture from my time line that I looked down on as a hormonal teenager. I was extreamly judgemental of pop culture and hated specific genres of music, movies, how people dressed, whatever.

Its all my culture now and whatever personal bias I had due to precieved cultural differences are minimal. Now that we have matured its easier to appreciate the shared experience you have with someone in your age group and you're more willing to branch out with that perspective.

I'm still out of touch and regressive holding on to nostalgia rather than trying something new, but I think thats just what's supposed to happen. I think it would be more embarrassing if I tried to keep up and get into mumble ai rap or whatever's cool now.

There is always light at the end of the tunnel you just have to want to see it. These are useless words that mean nothing to you in the moment. But do know that in the end you will come to this realisation on your own time.

Your brain will get in depressive loops and you sort of have to fake it to be able to gain the function to do thing's that move you forward. Its like when you start working out again after years of doing nothing. Its hard and sucks and you have to spend a lot of time forcing your body into a state it doesn't want to be in. Your brains elastic and it needs to be in a state other than depressed to see anything other than depression. Your brain only has a hammer as its tool right now, and when something happens the hammer is the only thing it can reach for. And at some point you do unfortunately have to make a conceeded effort to push through the initial barrier. Much like working out it doesn't get easier right away, but it doesn't get better if you don't try. The more you don't try the harder it gets later. And remember that doesn't mean it gets impossible to fix ever.

You know also look into therapy or medication, you could just be chemically imbalanced or could benifit/suffer from something else. I can guess from your personality therapy will feel stupid, a lot of it will be CBT and will make you feel like a child. Really it does help, and I wish I could sell you the idea of it but explaining it makes it sound dumb. Just remember your brain only really holds on to a emotion for 8 seconds and you have become neurotic from the traumas of life which is a natural response. Your brain keeps working in loops so when you get a emotional response your brain will dwell on it, and the more you think about it you just keep refreshing that 8 second timer keeping you in a state you can't think of alternatives. If you play league of legends its like when someone is tilting and suddenly can't play the game properly because of their mood state. Depression for me at least was partially breaking that cycle.

And listen man I don't want to come off as preachy or pretend to know or try to compare our two struggles. I just want you to know it is possible and you gotta fight for it like they made you fight your way through boot camp. And i can tell you got a lot of fight left in you, so pick yourself up by your boot straps and what not.

When I joined Lemmy. But it's a good thing

Usually when I go back and check something out that I have shunned I feel vindicated because it was indeed awful. Just because it was just popular at the time does not mean it was ever good.

For example Friends, Seinfeld, The Office or The Sopranos are all just unwatchable garbage to me. I did go back and watch Breaking Bad after seeing Better Call Saul, It (breaking bad) was no where near as good (as better call saul) but I didn't hate it.

I also liked Dexter for a few seasons when I finally broke down and watched it though I admit I have never finished it because it just got so bad.

For the most part though I found I missed very little because what I skipped then still sucks now.

I mean much of it is still garbage but I am much more open to it than I was in the past. Maybe I made it sound all to encompassing but it has opened me up to more media I wouldn't of listened to before, and is easier for me to get into than whatever spotifiy would suggest to me.

There's a comfort in it even though its bad that feels safer than new. I found myself tapping my toe in line at the store when they had shania twian playing recently.

Not being able to afford first class plane tickets isn't suffering.

But lots of folks seem to think it is.

Just like the weirdos here who think the world is abusing them because the price of RAM went up and and their $3000 Gaming PC is now $5000.

This idea that everyone is 'suffering' is so utterly absurd and akin to hippies thinking we are all 'unenlightened' because we're not constantly tripping balls on lsd.

Have you ever been hungry? slept in the freezing cold? lived without medical or dental care? That is legitimate struggle and suffering. Not being a whiny bitch about how you're not rich enough to afford luxuries that could feed people for years...

truth is maybe if folks did legit suffer they'd have more perspective on life. Daddy not buying you a Porsche for your birthday isn't suffering, Daddy beating you on your birthday for wanting a birthday cake is. And sadly way too many people can't seem to understand the difference anymore.

Let me help clear it up for you

Not being able to afford first class plane tickets isn't suffering

They cant afford to travel at all, let alone an(y) airplane ticket.

Just like the weirdos here who think the world is abusing them because the price of RAM went up and and their $3000 Gaming PC is now $5000.

The gripe is an $850 gaming PC is now $3000

This idea that everyone is 'suffering' is so utterly absurd and akin to hippies thinking we are all 'unenlightened' because we're not constantly tripping balls on lsd.

We cant afford LSD

Have you ever been hungry? slept in the freezing cold? lived without medical or dental care? That is legitimate struggle and suffering. Not being a whiny bitch about how you're not rich enough to afford luxuries that could feed people for years...

• We are hungry (grocery prices are insane right now)
• We arent cold, we are hot (global warming)
• we cant afford medical or dental visits. Opting out as much as we can so we can buy groceries (see above)
• We definitely cant afford luxuries. We cant even buy something as necessary as our own home. We are renting because we dont have a down payment. We cant save for a down payment because landlords keep jacking up rent.

truth is maybe if folks did legit suffer they'd have more perspective on life. Daddy not buying you a Porsche for your birthday isn't suffering, Daddy beating you on your birthday for wanting a birthday cake is. And sadly way too many people can't seem to understand the difference anymore.

Trust me, we have a ton of perspective that anyone who isnt in the bottom 50% of the poverty could never understand. Daddy owns a barely functional truck and has 3 teeth left to chew with. He was a jerk when we were kids, and has calmed the fuck down since he isn't able to realistically abuse anyone anymore.

Maybe you are too well off from whatever success you had during covid. If you want to be around people who are truly suffering, go volunteer at a food kitchen and feed the homeless.

Lets help people.

I’m not reading any of that shit thanks for wasting your time all that makes me want to kill myself more please fuck off happy joy joy people like you make me fucking sick.