He mentioned 500MHz.
I'm 20, I also feel old and I thought I was teh only person aroun that felt that way. I act like an old guy in front of schoolkids... I say things like "back in the day when Doom came out..." just 'cause I like saying it. 20 is not old however. But I still want to invent some bony-clensing nanonanobot that can prolong my lifetime significantly...
As for lost time... I hate that. I have a bunch of hobbies and games to play and things to do, but not time to do them all. I used to spend unbelievable amounts of time on a single videogame sometimes, doing pountless things... (250 hours of FFVIII perfecting, and ultimately intricately mastering it's entirety). These days though I barely have the time to play/master an RPG... unless it's REALLY good...
I have found though that if I had never gotten into YR modding and/or forums like this, I would now have thousands of hours of free time. A lot of which should have been spent sleeping.
More about feeling old... Ren said he witnessed generations of technology pass him by, thus adding to the "I'm getting old!" effect. I also witnessed this of course, but for me it wasn't the technology. I'm used to computers changing fast. For me, it was one major thing: young people's culture/attitudes. Mobile phones. Kids today cannopt live without them they claim... yet I have one, and I have not purchased a top-up card for it for over a YEAR. Sounds like a death sentence for some, but fact is I just live without it, like millions of people did befgore they squirmed into the mainstream. It's probably saved me a massive amount of money's worth of phone cards.
And not just phnes. It's the whole attitude of kids, the things they do, act like, watch on TV... my sisters do the exact same thing every day after school. They sit and watch Nickelodeon cartoons and American sitcoms like That's So Raven. They watch Malcom in the Middle, Kim Possible, and countless other crap that seems to dull their minds. And they act exactly like the characters in these programmes do - they are far ruder than I ever was and they are full of themselves, always recreating the scenes they see on TV to be "cool" in front of their friends. Worst offender really is Malcom in the Middle. Seems like my sisters take that show to be the norm for all of society.
OK, I've bashed TV...
Now the last thing that makes me feel old is when I'm at work or at Taekwon-Do class. At TKD class there are kids aged around 13 everywhere, and they talk to me all the time. They talk about Yu-Gi-Oh and many, many other kid-related current affairs. While I listen with interest and converse with them, I can't help but feel distanced from them. I know I can relate to their topics since I used to be their age, but I can only relate in a way such that I cannot do it directly or accurately. E.g. they discuss Yu-Gi-Oh, I can relate to card/trading games but not directly to Yu-Gi-Oh. It makes me feel a bit left out. They also talk to me about some things that seem blatantly obvious to me, and as such they appear to be newbies, or in most cases, n00bs. When I was their age, n00bs and newbies were not even a concept. Now though, all the time I get kids saying the stupidest things to me about all manner of things... the words newbie and n00b are in my dictionary.
As for work, I have found myself in a group away from my "own kind". I work full time, with adults ranging from 21 - 60 years old. It's in a large supermarket. What happens here is that during the day, I work with these adults in a mature environment. But at 4:00,. we get the late afternoon/evening staff in - 95% of them are schoolkids. I do not work with them for too long since I usually go home at about 5:30, but I do talk to them a lot in ways that any teenager would. Teenage conversations. It's a welcome break from the mature environment of the morning. I feel younger with these conversations, but recently I was placed in a position of authority; authority over my teenage workmates on some of their late shifts. Talking with them now (during work hours) is a different story. I cannot act immaturely with them anymore while working. I must act responsibly. And I believe I do. And because of that, I have come to feel old... because they now speak to me with a different tone. They seem to have more respect for me, but it's a kind of repect that I would have for a stranger who is clearly older and wiser that I am. I tell them, even hint at telling them to do something, and they do it. You don't get that when you're at school chatting away with your friends. Just try it if you don't believe me
Hell, these poor teenagers can't even go to to the toilet for a minute without my permission. Now THIS sort of thing is what really makes me feel old. Belive me, I want to act like them, like a teenager again, but I just can't; for the sake of my job and my next promotion.
...I still have fun at work though, so it's not like I'm some kind of overlord. I'm sure they don't ALL hate me
*notices the 80-year old guy laughing at our little discussion about age*
ON TOPIC: changing your mind yet death? Still wanna release a mod update every month or so? :lol: Well about release dates, WR V1.5 was planned to be a quick 1 or 2 month job at most ... at the end of 2002... and now here we are in 2005 :lol:
So 8 months late is nothing bobing! I wonder if I hold a record.
