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I know, right? I got the same feeling for WoW’s 20th anniversary.

somenameforme 2mo ago
Here's a "fun" one. The XBox 360 release is closer to the US release of the NES, than it is to today. I read this one before and had to double check it, because that stings lol. But yeah, it's true. If you're planning to have kids, don't wait til a good time, because wow do the decades fly by - and "good times" like you might envision never come. There's always something that could be better, and with the world going through so many inflection points - predicting the future now is less possible than ever before.
- jambalaya8 2mo ago
  I would've said, if you plan to have your wisdom teeth removed, to be more inclusive. Actually, I think it is far easier to predict the future than ever before, but only because we are heading down some pretty distressing pathways where predicting and creating are more intertwined than ever before. ps: no thanks to trading names :)
  - somenameforme 2mo ago
    Kids are a real issue, because age just sneaks up on you. By the time a woman starts hitting her mid to late 30s, it starts getting very hard to have children. And you are in a constant race against menopause, made even more stressful if you want to have multiple children. My wife and I got very lucky on this front, but nobody in their right mind should ever plan to start anywhere near this age. And the worst part is that we both turned out to love having children which is kind of ironic because neither of us are especially fond of kids, at least other peoples' kids I guess. We'd probably have 5+ if we'd started earlier, but the chance of that happening now are near zero. I regret almost nothing in my life, except for not having children earlier, and the only reason that didn't happen is because I wasn't really aware that sometime in your mid 20s we all apparently just step into a time machine.
- epiccoleman 2mo ago
  Good god. The 360 and the NES are perfectly chosen to sting me personally (and I'm sure many others of my generation). A story I've told too many times at work: I was born in 1991. The first game console I owned was an NES which we got one year, for Christmas, new in box.[0] I can't imagine I was any younger than 5 or 6, first off because I remember the Christmas and second off because I don't think my parents would have bought a game console for me as a toddler. So that means they'd have bought it in 96 or 97. But the N64 released in '96! So we were two console generations ahead of the NES by that year. So when I tell this story to co-workers, I always end: "where did they find it?? Anyway, the 360 was also a sort of signpost in my gaming career. I don't think it was the first console I self-purchased, but it was kinda the first "grown up" console, I guess. Many happy evenings spent during high school with friends on XBL. tl;dr - thanks, I hate your fun fact [0]: From some quick research it appears to have been the "NES Challenge Set," and I saw reports of people buying them as late as 1997, so maybe I'm not as unique as I thought.
- UltraSane 2mo ago
  My parents bought the original NES when it still came with the R.O.B. robot.

Here's a "fun" one. The XBox 360 release is closer to the US release of the NES, than it is to today. I read this one before and had to double check it, because that stings lol. But yeah, it's true. If you're planning to have kids, don't wait til a good time, because wow do the decades fly by - and "good times" like you might envision never come. There's always something that could be better, and with the world going through so many inflection points - predicting the future now is less possible than ever before.

jambalaya8 2mo ago
I would've said, if you plan to have your wisdom teeth removed, to be more inclusive. Actually, I think it is far easier to predict the future than ever before, but only because we are heading down some pretty distressing pathways where predicting and creating are more intertwined than ever before. ps: no thanks to trading names :)
- somenameforme 2mo ago
  Kids are a real issue, because age just sneaks up on you. By the time a woman starts hitting her mid to late 30s, it starts getting very hard to have children. And you are in a constant race against menopause, made even more stressful if you want to have multiple children. My wife and I got very lucky on this front, but nobody in their right mind should ever plan to start anywhere near this age. And the worst part is that we both turned out to love having children which is kind of ironic because neither of us are especially fond of kids, at least other peoples' kids I guess. We'd probably have 5+ if we'd started earlier, but the chance of that happening now are near zero. I regret almost nothing in my life, except for not having children earlier, and the only reason that didn't happen is because I wasn't really aware that sometime in your mid 20s we all apparently just step into a time machine.
epiccoleman 2mo ago
Good god. The 360 and the NES are perfectly chosen to sting me personally (and I'm sure many others of my generation). A story I've told too many times at work: I was born in 1991. The first game console I owned was an NES which we got one year, for Christmas, new in box.[0] I can't imagine I was any younger than 5 or 6, first off because I remember the Christmas and second off because I don't think my parents would have bought a game console for me as a toddler. So that means they'd have bought it in 96 or 97. But the N64 released in '96! So we were two console generations ahead of the NES by that year. So when I tell this story to co-workers, I always end: "where did they find it?? Anyway, the 360 was also a sort of signpost in my gaming career. I don't think it was the first console I self-purchased, but it was kinda the first "grown up" console, I guess. Many happy evenings spent during high school with friends on XBL. tl;dr - thanks, I hate your fun fact [0]: From some quick research it appears to have been the "NES Challenge Set," and I saw reports of people buying them as late as 1997, so maybe I'm not as unique as I thought.
UltraSane 2mo ago
My parents bought the original NES when it still came with the R.O.B. robot.