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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Aging. Hate entropy a lot.
It was fun, until it wasn't
Capitalism and people that say they would be in the "political center" or "unpolitical".
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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.
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Republicans and other parasites. Pop culture. Social media, and I never liked it at all.
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".
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?
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- 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.
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People, which is saying a lot confessing considering my misanthropy dates back to before puberty
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.
US politics. It wasn't very great to start, but now...
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