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Less chance than they'll get thisI wonder if some so called Gen-Z guys can figure out what is it for![]()
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Less chance than they'll get thisI wonder if some so called Gen-Z guys can figure out what is it for![]()
Less chance than they'll get this
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Despise my age (37=2x18+1 , 38 in December - geez Louise , I can still recall my 18th birthday party :O) I still feel rather young although whenever I see one of these babies (I still got a few) :
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it reminds me of the passage of time. I wonder if some so called Gen-Z guys can figure out what is it for![]()
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Speaking of which, how many people here know what this is?
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Speaking of tape records - I still got my VHS player somewhere in the attic. People of the Netflix kingdom do not appreciate what they have now - I mean : blockbusters (and that company "copies" abroad) ! When I think of it now it feels like a scam comparing to what people enjoy today + it also makes me feel old. Sure renting a video on a tape was worse than just a few clicks of a mouse in home but it had it's charm too. heh I feel like nostalgia coming over me all of a sudden.
Yeah paying a subscription fee just to be able to pay more is definitely a scam.Heh. Paying for memberships at video stores. Some charged $75/year for the privilege of renting videos.
We had a science fiction convention in Red Deer, back in the mid-'80s. I was on the committee, so one of my jobs was coming up with stuff for people to do.
I had a friend in Calgary who had VHS tapes of all the Tom Baker Doctor Who stories (everything PBS had shown so far). I asked if she'd bring them to Red Deer so we could have a Doctor Who video room for people to come and watch. I paid her way to Red Deer, the committee rented an extra VHS machine, and we kept our hotel room door open for several hours a day for anyone to come and watch Doctor Who if they wanted. It went over well.
To this day, I cannot figure out why the most popular choice was Pyramids of Mars. That's the one in the Victorian mansion with the mummies. I've come to hate that story...
Eventually the stores dropped the subscription fees to the point that there weren't any. The rental fees got quite cheap, as the place where we had our membership put in a "7 movies for 7 days" deal. So each week I'd hop the bus, drop off the movies we'd seen, and picked new ones - a mix of science fiction for me, westerns for my dad, and family-type ones for my grandmother. It got to the point where I could be in and out of the store in 10-15 minutes, in time to catch the inbound bus and make it home again.Yeah paying a subscription fee just to be able to pay more is definitely a scam.![]()
Conventions nowadays have very little resemblance to those I attended in the '80s/'90s. Mind you, it's the difference between fan-run and professional/corporate-run conventions, and the difference between what type of guests you have and who your target attendees are.That convention You've described : Well that's what I am talking about when I say "charm" . I think people were more social back than. More open and outgoing. I mean live contact in person not a "phony" one over social media or the zoom communicator. In the advent of smart technology even Your smart refrigerator can order Your groceries for You so You don't even have to go outside and see live people - well except maybe see a delivery guy once in a while. Maybe old ways were less efficient but they were still good in my opinion. Technology favors introverts though![]()
Sorry I cannot relate to Doctor Who, because I have not watched the show.
The Original Series version of Kirk has an unfair reputation when it comes to womanizing. He may have kissed and flirted with most of the female characters, but he actually verifiably only had sex 3 times (and once strongly implied). Two of those times resulted in children, though one didn't live to be born (Miramanee was killed in "The Paradise Syndrome") . The other was, of course, David Marcus (who was also killed off).I still very much like Star Trek , although Captain Kirk was actually a terrible captain in my opinionI used to think of him as a model Star Fleet officer but now I mostly see him as a reckless daredevil and a womanizer xD
Rewatching friends and comparing Jennifer Aniston then and now.
Despise my age (37=2x18+1 , 38 in December - geez Louise , I can still recall my 18th birthday party :O) I still feel rather young although whenever I see one of these babies (I still got a few) :
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it reminds me of the passage of time. I wonder if some so called Gen-Z guys can figure out what is it for![]()
It's possible the RPG from 30 years ago is more interesting than people you've met recently.I can still remember my 18th 40 years ago, its last week I have trouble with.
Memory is very selective and mine has decided rules from RPGs I haven't played in over 30 years are more important than the names of people I've met recently.
I can still remember my 18th 40 years ago, its last week I have trouble with.
Memory is very selective and mine has decided rules from RPGs I haven't played in over 30 years are more important than the names of people I've met recently.
Rules from RPGs you last played 30 years ago are undoubtedly more important than people you've met recently.It's possible the RPG from 30 years ago is more interesting than people you've met recently.
I have trouble with names but I think it's because my mind is skeptical about whether people I meet will be relevant to my life as so many have come & gone from my life.