Myself
Money and the wealthy. Everything I was told to look forward to when I got older was smashed and lit on fire in front of my fucking eyes by people who have never wanted for anything. I'm 40, now. I saw the birth of videogames and the Internet, only to watch it get burned down around me so some nepo-baby with a silver spoon can have another zero in their bank account.
We are one of the only generations to have their life be WORSE OFF than their parents, and it hurts the most because those parents likely participated in, or voted for, the very mechanisms that led here. If I'm ever terminally diagnosed with some illness, you'll see me become the Mario to our modern Luigi.
Your opsec better be tight after saying something like that nowadays
I can confirm I have zero journalists on my Signal contact list!
The internet. I remember the internet being less commercialized.. I used to read up on PC games or post on forums. Now I go outside and walk or focus on hobbies that disconnect me from my PC or phone.
You aren't disliking the internet because you get older. You dislike it because it is taken over by enshittifying corporations.
At least it's like that for me.
It' like that with almost anything nowadays too. In the last couple of decades, it's seems like every public corporation has pivoted from decisions primarily based on customer value, to primarily shareholder value.
That is part of my dislike of the internet, I agree.
I hate the way that all the user content has moved from personal sites to social media. I miss all the random fan sites dedicated to Z list celebrities. There’s like 10 companies that just run the internet now.
Also, all the tracking. I just want to browse the internet, I’ll look at your stupid adverts, just stop tracking me.
I personally find social media to be our biggest problem.
People.
Working in a cubicle.
Kids.
Honestly, I'm kinda the opposite these days.
- People suck in general. But once in a while you meet someone who makes it worth everything
- Working in an old cubicle sure beats a noisy open floor plan with white noise generators to compensate by adding yet more noise
- I like (mosr) kids more than I like their parents
Humans in general.
Its the opposite for me. Ive held a lot of resentment but have been working through it. I'm seeing more of the good in people, just needed to build stronger boundaries for myself
I am sincerely jealous.
Noise. I want to go quiet places and do quiet things. When I was older I loved dancing on tables in nightclubs now I just want silence
I’m exhausted by modern music blasting in retail and restaurants. I’ve started wearing earbuds with white noise everywhere.
I hear you there! Are you neurodiverse? I'm wondering if there's some sensory overload going on
Over-auto-tuned hip-hop and reggaeton in Japanese themed restaurants. Might as well play death metal. Neither fit the vibe at all.
When I was older I loved dancing on tables in nightclubs now I just want silence
"But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now" --Bob Dylan
god i wish all old people were vehemently anti noise, i have autism and noise just kinda makes me unable to function and no one else seems to give a shit about constant incessant noise in all parts of life and it drives me insane.
But how will you stay apprised of the latest trash-pop songs if I don't blast them for you from my shitty Temu Bluetooth speaker on wilderness trails and in urban public places?
It’s not just nightclubs. Restaurants have become super loud too. Last weekend I was at a restaurant with friends and we had to keep asking each other to repeat what we said all the time because damn restaurant was so loud you couldn’t hear the person sitting right next to you.
Normally this restaurant has oldies music from the 20th century but you couldn’t even hear that over all the noise. It was awful!
There’s noise and then there’s noise caused by people. Listening to a distant train or a pack of coyotes howling in the night is fine. Listening to anyone nearby, across the street even, coughing, is soul stabbing and needs to stop.
Pain amplifies this so very much. I'm always sensitive to noise but occasionally I'm sensitive to light.
Oh yes, I was going to say crowd. But I think it is actually noise. Unless it’s birds and bees, rain and wind…
Benjamin Button?
The USA. Hate to put it so starkly, but right now I wish the USA would just vanish without a trace.
As a child and teenager I was a USA-stan. Then I was "so bored with the USA". Now I wish it would just shut the fuck up and go away.
US American culture and politics. I wish people would stop worshipping that country just because it exports popular films and music. They have destroyed and still destroy democracies all over the world, fuel wars, exploit developing countries, still sell the image of them being "a free country" and "the american dream".
My father. He's always been a selfish shit of a person but growing up with it and not having a choice I guess I was somewhat conditioned to it. In my 40s now and I realise that I don't owe him anything nor do I have to listen to his bullshit for the rest of my life. Reap what you sow cunt.
This would have to be my answer too. As a kid I always felt guilty when he told me I don't reach out to him enough. As an adult I know now that it shouldn't have been my job to do that. He lives 1000 miles away from me, but one day he just showed up at my job to surprise me and ask i I was free to go out to dinner. I said yes as long as my girlfriend could come and they could meet each other. My girlfriend is of a different race and he immediately backed out and said he had to return home. I saw on Facebook the real reason he was in my area was because he was visiting some of his old friends, i was an afterthought. That was 2 years ago and I haven't spoken with him since.
Videogames. Most of them assume an unreasonable amount of time to enjoy a fraction of the content, AND they are expensive as hell... I'm defaulting to stuff that is fun from the start or short indie titles
Same, a lot of new games are just voluntary jobs with no pay. Grinding, item collecting, time killing bait framed as "challenging" or " doesn't hold your hand" .
Games should be fun.
When you have small children, "short games" are the only games. I was very hyped for the FFVII rebirth, but it's padded to hell and back. I haven't touched it i 6 months
something i miss with a lot of AAA titles is finishing the game.
its a happy/sad moment when you complete a game - you have that sadness that its all over, but the joy of completion. completing a full story, seeing character growth, and being able to put the game down for good (or at least for a long time).
i dont want to play my games for an infinite amount of time with no end and infinite amounts of DLC..... i want to finish my games. i enjoy the emotions i get from it.
I really like well told stories in games. And a good story needs an ending. I don't just want lore thrown in there and backstory. I want a full features story.
Aging. Hate entropy a lot.
It was fun, until it wasn't
Drinking alcohol. The 2-3 day hangover just isn't worth it.
Yeah, I gave up on it and do not miss the headaches.
It will just trigger a migraine if I'm not drinking like a 2:1 ratio of water to liquor
Republicans and other parasites. Pop culture. Social media, and I never liked it at all.
Tech
I was the guy building linux systems from the trash in 1999. And then complicated distributed systems for fun. Now I want to leave everything at defaults, or just turn on dark mode and be done with it.
Working in tech has ruined tech for me. Hopefully not forever...
Aging
candy, though i think it's more that i've gotten better at eating healthy as time goes on.
but man, i just don't really find most candy appealing anymore, why would i eat candy when i could instead eat the same calories worth of schnitzel?
I eat 90%-95% less candy than at my personal peak candy era, and while I do still like it a lot, it's WAY more intense to eat it now, so it feels to me that because I eat less of it, I'm satisfied with a smaller amount of it. Kind of useful to keep that caloric intake nice and low.
I also sometimes bake/roast/grill meats instead of opting for processed snacks and candy, but that still takes more time then just opening the bag (of chips/candy) and shoving it in my facehole.
The complete disintegration of what I used to stand for.
In what sense?
- Conservatives, right wingers, conformity and religion
- Men
- Alcohol
- The pop music industry
- Billionaires
- Politicians
Maybe not entirely the same thing, but I have less tolerance for bullshit.
To varying degrees of politeness, depending on circumstance, I will not spend a moment listening to your bullshit once I realize you are going to be any kind of pain in my ass. I'm not talking about any specific kind of bullshit. Any interaction I have with someone where they are fake/rude/aggressive or even just seemingly unwilling to proceed smoothly with the the reason for our interaction will involve me leaving the interaction, calling that person out explicitly, or moving the interaction in another direction, whether overtly or not.
I used to just sort of patiently wait for such things to play out most of the time. Ain't nobody got time for that shit.
I need more of that in my life.
US politics. It wasn't very great to start, but now...
People, which is saying a lot confessing considering my misanthropy dates back to before puberty
Hard rock and metal—I used to love them. I would buy any and all albums, from the most popular to the most obscure. Now, it all just sounds like manic noise to me. Even most of the 80s pop I liked is too manic for me. I never thought I would turn into this.
I played in a grindcore band for many years. I primarily listen to neoclassical now.
Ooooh, very interesting! I float from preferred genre to preferred genre all the time, but I can't think of any one genre that really fell out of my grace like how you mention.
It seems so unnecessarily angry now
Overly edited videos
Sweet foods, my tolerance for sweet things decreases with age. Overall I feel more tolerant, like many more kinds of music, food, drink than I did when younger. But less and less sweet stuff.
Late nights and late meals. In stereotypical old person fashion, I prefer lunch or tea as a big meal and in bed asleep before midnight.
Good shoes - I am kind of sad about this but I just don't feel like putting on "real shoes" it's converse or jogging sneakers all the time.
Good shoes
it's converse or jogging sneakers all the time
Are running shoes not "good" shoes?
For the office, no. I had lovely loafers, high heeled pumps, good looking shoes. They didn't even allow sneakers until post-Covid, the dress code relaxed.
Late nights. I was always a night owl but after years of a routine I kinda like to go to bed early and get up early even on weekends.
Unhealthy food
Me too! I don't know if it's my mind or body that doesn't want it
The state of America 🫣
My hairline.
Prices. I feel like my grandfather (WW2 vet) right now, complaining about prices.
I moved out and paid my own way in the 90s which has irrevocably impacted my opinion on pricing. And subscriptions.
Aside from the obvious, sweets.
