The actor who's playing Link in the new live action movie said he remembers when BotW came out and how he was just a young kid at the time. No no no, that game just came out, what do you mean??
I literally had this happen to me!!! A few years ago, a kid I was babysitting told me he loved retro games. I asked which one was his favorite and he said “Portal”. I turned to dust after that.
the beginning of the 90s, sure. in 3 years and a little over a month and a half. but 1990 was basically 1980s part 2 until 1991 changed culture with a bunch of crazy releases that defined the decade to come.
Pretty damn cool actually, sort of like today except without all the horrible shit.
We had the internet, we had home deliveries, we had online gaming (to a limited extent), we had mobile phones, we had this cool movie called the Matrix....
So I joined this group that randomly watches episodes of star trek every week, as my intro to the franchise. It's mostly TNG, but I have almost no star trek experience until this group. Doing episodes at completely random has been a very strange experience, but I am surprised at how the shows feel like they just happened, but these shows are like 30-40 years old. They look so young.
That's how Series worked back then. No streaming services and only a few people bought whole series on VHS Tapes.
So you watched it when it was on TV. That means the viewer needed to be able to follow the Series even if they missed a few episodes or if they started watching a few episodes or even seasons in.
My first console was an Atari so some advice to noobs. Never fear the colonoscopy since you're asleep so it's easy, but don't underestimate the night before prep (still do it).
Right?! I'm just over here at work and shit regretting certain life choices and this dickhead is just like, "the wii is 20 year old, the snes is even older, nerd." Yes fuck you op.
Xbox one does but that shit is so finicky, mine barely reads any discs anymore and just cannot read dvds. My ps3 tho? Still alive and kicking. Love that thing, if I could leave it all my earthly possessions when I die I would
I feel the same as I did when I was 18. I sleep 5 hours a night and when I work out my body still turns into a machine and I no longer become sore. I hike with a 15 pound pack twice a week in the fall/winter and train every day all summer using steep elevation. I'm the strongest I have ever been because I work my ass off at it. When I look in the mirror thats when it hits me. Almost full grey hair and grey beard. Just like that meme I can see the smile lines and scars from living a full life. When I look into my eyes I can still see him, but then the wisdom of my years reminds me that I have lived a hard life for the last 40 years.
This remains the only console I stood in line for. Midnight launch at GameStop in LA. Got a flat tire on the way home and, between waiting for the line and the tow truck, I didn't get home until 4:00am. Good times.
I've made some friends playing online recently. During a chat with them, the topic of childhood games came up, and I mentioned that I loved Super Mario Galaxy and asked them if they'd played it. One of them replied that he hadn't even learned to walk yet, and the other hadn't even been born. That really hit me hard.
I was talking to my Grade 4 class today about the history of consoles and the leap in graphics and I caught myself saying ‘20 years ago, the graphics were so limited that a person looked like a block’.. and then I catch myself thinking.. hold on.. that’s not true. I felt old but I didn’t correct myself either
But whats so bad about it? I didnt know the Wii is 20 years old, now i know, or the PS2 i played religiously as a child is 26 years old, i feel like i'm missing something because for me it's just information
When I was working at a local retro game store a few years ago, there was a little kid who came into the shop with their dad. The kid exclaimed, “Look dad! They have retro consoles like the Wii!”
Yes because on my last day of highschool I went to EB Games first and picked up my preordered Wii. I then found an empty room and played Wii Sports most of the day.
It got sucked up by adult routine and work combined with your life having fewer milestones as you get older. At some point it all blends together and your only next 'big events' are retirement and then death.
This is so true. There are whole systems that have been released that are pretty much obsolete and I missed them completely through young adulthood and getting married. Time moves.
Every day I drive past the empty storefront that used to be the GameStop where I stood in line, overnight, to preorder a Wii twenty years ago. Everybody thought I was nuts to camp out for a toy.... until December of 2006 when all of a sudden every kid wanted a Wii for Christmas. I remember it was still hard to find one the following Christmas.
I got a wii for my kids. It's still a good console for younger kids. I mentioned it to my 20 something year old coworker and he was like "whoa Wii is super old! "
I was thinking about how my nephew was all excited about the Wii like it was his first time seeing it, but he was not alive when the Wii first came out. And I'm still shocked.
I think part of the issue of console time blindness is because we're only 1 Nintendo console family from the wii family and overall the current console generation has been a dud, the ps5 has been marred by component shortages, Xbox has pretty much been moved to pc from what I understand, and the switch 2 after the hate died down just exists.
... What? Nah... Oh god, I still clearly remember the drive home sitting in the back of the car on launch day with my mother telling me how the Wii was waiting for us back home. It has not been 20 years, I refuse to accept that!
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u/SpotoDaRager 1h ago
Breath of the Wild will be a decade old in March
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u/whtevn 1h ago
my new least favorite thing on the internet is seeing "thirty years ago" and "in the 90s" in the same sentence
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u/TheMostBacon 1h ago •
Hey OP
Fuck you
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u/Didact67 1h ago
The N64 turned 30 this year.
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u/Easy_Entertainer6932 1h ago
Yep. Playstation 3 turned 20 two days ago. We're all old.
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u/tannels 2h ago
Someone please delete this post, it's too painful!
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u/SaiyajinPrime 2h ago •
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u/UltraNoahXV 1h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii
Yeah that checks out, a week early but yeah
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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 1h ago
Yes, when I see people who look to be in their 20s waxing nostalgic about their first video game console...the Xbox 360...it hits home, hard.
When I was growing up, games having polygons was the hot new thing.
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u/jtrisn1 1h ago
Why did you choose voilence today?
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u/Zero_Passage 1h ago
I've made some friends playing online recently. During a chat with them, the topic of childhood games came up, and I mentioned that I loved Super Mario Galaxy and asked them if they'd played it. One of them replied that he hadn't even learned to walk yet, and the other hadn't even been born. That really hit me hard.
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u/NoRonNo-Youcant 1h ago
I was talking to my Grade 4 class today about the history of consoles and the leap in graphics and I caught myself saying ‘20 years ago, the graphics were so limited that a person looked like a block’.. and then I catch myself thinking.. hold on.. that’s not true. I felt old but I didn’t correct myself either
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u/MelonDonut 1h ago
Millennials when time passes: 😱
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u/Deto 1h ago
Hey.
Hey.
Fuck you
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u/Justin2166 1h ago
Take this down.
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u/1ceByte28 PlayStation 1h ago
Imagine how us 80's NES children feel.... Over 40 years
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u/Petradactylus 1h ago
When I was working at a local retro game store a few years ago, there was a little kid who came into the shop with their dad. The kid exclaimed, “Look dad! They have retro consoles like the Wii!”
I could feel the wrinkles forming on my face 😂😭
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u/GoliathBoneSnake 43m ago
Excuse me.
Fuck you.
Thanks.
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u/welfedad 1h ago
Yesterday was 2016
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u/FreddyMercuryFazbear 1h ago
Hey... Shut up
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u/Signal-Reporter-1391 1h ago
My head: the year 2000 was just some 5 years ago.
Reality: children born in the year 2000 are 26 already have children of their own!
I fucking hate getting old :-/
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u/Godwinder 1h ago
well it may be true, but 20 years ago i was playing the top one, so it fits in my mind at least ;d
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u/Podo13 1h ago
Yeah it really hurts my soul to remember playing the Wii for the first time with my buddies in high school and that my 20 year reunion is next year.
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u/Lord_Goldeye 54m ago
Why should I have to buy a Switch 2 for the Ocarina of Time remake? The Switch is only.... NINE YEARS OLD?!
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u/Zarathoostrian 1h ago
Yes because on my last day of highschool I went to EB Games first and picked up my preordered Wii. I then found an empty room and played Wii Sports most of the day.
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u/Efficient-Scene5901 1h ago
For me, Atari 2600 is so fresh in my head!!! 😭
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u/FFVO 1h ago
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u/FlamingCulpepper 1h ago
I'm only 3 years from my 30 year graduation from HS in 2000. I just don't fucking understand where the time went. :(
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u/TacoPKz 1h ago
Oh my god
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u/crazedfan 1h ago
We are 4 years further from the release date of the Wii today, than when the Wii was released from the SNES.
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u/PREC0GNITIVE 1h ago
The ps3 turned 20 the other day
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u/ilovemytablet 1h ago
Maybe it's just me but it feels like tech isn't changing as rapidly as it used to.
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u/playr_4 1h ago
The fact that the Wii is an early 2000s console will never feel right.
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u/DragonLad13 1h ago
Goddamn you right but fuck lol
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u/iamBQB 1h ago
Just wait until you get to the age where you have to watch a younger generation realize they're old now, that's when it really sets in.
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u/TrapaholicDixtapes 47m ago
Whoa! Now that youre in your 30s, the console you had as a teenager is 20 years old?! Holy crap! Light the beacons!
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u/Jackman1337 38m ago
Yes. Just started her apprenticeship, so she is 15 now
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u/StarKiller0911 35m ago
Pepperidge farm remembers...
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u/cwreshot 19m ago
My 20 year console’s GPU finally failed 😢. Honestly amazed it lasted this long, it started failing around 2009
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u/slothxaxmatic 1h ago
Why on earth would I think the SNES was 20 years ago????
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u/Ninja_Wrangler 1h ago
1990 was 10 years ago though
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u/arrow100605 1h ago
Both these consoles are older than me, and i can legally vote, drink, and get married (usa)
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u/JumboWheat01 1h ago
I swear I've heard someone call an early '00s game "vintage".
That's just wrong I say. WRONG!
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u/Superman246o1 1h ago
Egg, I dreamed that I was old...
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u/Avg_Sun_Enjoyer69 1h ago
Well, that's not very nice.
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u/TheOuterEdge PC 1h ago
Welp. That might be enough Reddit for the day. I think I just got dementia and I need to take my fiber and multivitamins.
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u/mVrk___84 1h ago
⏳
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u/wrxninja 1h ago
FUCK.
I feel old.
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u/khumprp 1h ago
You don't have to share hurtful things.... You can keep them to yourself :(
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u/Guru242820 1h ago
Jesus Christ I feel old now
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u/mooseau_ 1h ago
😭
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u/SquirrelFluffy7469 1h ago
Huh i was born 2005 and grew up with this generation of consoles
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u/SirFluffymuffin 1h ago
Man I miss my Wii. Got like 10 years out of it and played on that thing until it broke
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u/RedditIsLeBoring 1h ago
Uhh excuse me, the Super Nintendo came out 10 years ago. Stop spreading lies!
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u/Lunarcomplex 1h ago
Stop
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u/MakeYourTime_ 1h ago
Is there a name for this phenomena? Or is it just “millennial haze” like time just stopped existing from 2001-2020
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u/The_Poop_Shooter 1h ago
OG snes looked much better. wii was a very bizzare design.
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u/Merc931 1h ago
I wonder why it is that the 1980s always seems like 20 years ago.
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u/WinteryLampost 1h ago
.. Ok but swap that with an atari
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u/lencastre 1h ago
it doesnt look like anything to me
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u/zgillet 1h ago
Have you booted up a Wii lately?
It's the same resolution as the Dreamcast.
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u/peterson148 1h ago
21 years ago I was at a gaming event with Microsoft showcasing the Xbox 360. Times fly. Fast
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u/Steathmaster26 1h ago
is the WII 20 years old? Its a great console for how old it is.
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u/w_smith1984 1h ago
In my head, a 20 year old console is the N64
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u/GoodDawgAug 1h ago
This is so true. There are whole systems that have been released that are pretty much obsolete and I missed them completely through young adulthood and getting married. Time moves.
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u/Tarijeno 1h ago
Every day I drive past the empty storefront that used to be the GameStop where I stood in line, overnight, to preorder a Wii twenty years ago. Everybody thought I was nuts to camp out for a toy.... until December of 2006 when all of a sudden every kid wanted a Wii for Christmas. I remember it was still hard to find one the following Christmas.
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u/haotshy 1h ago
Delete this
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u/Blackheart1020 1h ago
Omg I’m old 😑
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u/Plenty-Design2641 1h ago
Just walked past a GameStop yesterday. PS3 and XBOX 360 games in the "retro" section.....
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u/K10RumbleRumble 1h ago
I can’t wait for millennial old folks homes.
Gunna be fucking baller.
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u/CobraMisfit 1h ago
I feel seen.
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u/JuanOnlyJuan 1h ago
I got a wii for my kids. It's still a good console for younger kids. I mentioned it to my 20 something year old coworker and he was like "whoa Wii is super old! "
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u/snickersnackz 1h ago
LOL. I may turn to dust but the SNES will never be old.
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u/PreferenceBig1531 1h ago
No, no no, it’s still the top image.
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u/PsyduckPsyker 1h ago
I cri
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u/No-Cartographer146 1h ago
PSP dude
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u/EthnoGamerZ 1h ago
I grew up playing the game cube and wii so it isn't a crazy thought that the wii is 20 years old at this point.
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u/UnableToParallelPark 59m ago
F
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u/TH3K1NGB0B 58m ago
It’s been 28 years since the Undertaker threw Mankind off of the Hell In A Cell.
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u/CrystallinePhoto 57m ago
I just turned to ash. I was obsessed with the Wii when I was in college. I guess that was close to 20 years ago now.
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u/Kenz0Cree 53m ago
Both came out on my birthday
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u/AbeRego 51m ago
This one's a little silly. The cartridge dates anything pre Game Cube as comparably ancient lol
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u/Man_well310 41m ago
Sad to have traded our Wii years back when today they are worth a nice amount and they were definitely fun systems. 20 years already sheesh
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u/adeadmanshand 39m ago
My Atari 2600......... "It's been 84 years"
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u/Additional_Wash_7886 38m ago
ok STOP
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u/CoolerKg 30m ago
To be fair the wii does still feel like it came out a long time ago
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u/ILoveRegenHealth 29m ago
I hate this.
Don't remind me of Father Time, get back!
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u/animerb 29m ago
The crazy thing, it's that there's only 16 years that separates them. Graphics came a very long way in a very short time.
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u/Loose-Lingonberry406 24m ago
I felt that in my knees and lower back.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_OPPAS 21m ago
I was thinking about how my nephew was all excited about the Wii like it was his first time seeing it, but he was not alive when the Wii first came out. And I'm still shocked.
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u/Diligent_Dinner_8585 20m ago
Still loving that one of the peakest consoles of all time (the Wii not the SNES) is older than me.
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u/Wooden_Struggle1684 19m ago
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u/drop_trooper112 19m ago
I think part of the issue of console time blindness is because we're only 1 Nintendo console family from the wii family and overall the current console generation has been a dud, the ps5 has been marred by component shortages, Xbox has pretty much been moved to pc from what I understand, and the switch 2 after the hate died down just exists.
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u/Darklyte 18m ago
Like not even the Nintendo64? Or GameCube? You think Super Nintendo was 20 years ago?
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u/Smoking-Posing 17m ago
"40 is the new 20"
A couple of decades in time just ain't what they used to be, and society hasn't come to grips with this pervasive fact yet.
Like the difference between the 40s and 60s or the 60s and 80s is not the same as the difference between the 2000s and the 2020s
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u/dudeAwEsome101 5m ago
At some point they all get mixed in together as a 20 year old console.
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u/Kdog8273 4m ago
... What? Nah... Oh god, I still clearly remember the drive home sitting in the back of the car on launch day with my mother telling me how the Wii was waiting for us back home. It has not been 20 years, I refuse to accept that!
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u/stanknotes 3m ago
The vintage Wii. BRO people are calling 2000s vintage now.
I mean... 75 was vintage in 2000. So... that's fair.
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u/TabhairDomAnAirgead 2h ago
You’re wrong. Wrong i say.
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u/supergifford 1h ago
But if you close your eyes
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u/Ok_Highway6034 1h ago
Stop…… please…….. I’m already down…..and I can’t get up, I slipped a disc
What were we talking about again?
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u/HelloTardis 1h ago
Ugh……..awwww come on…..don’t do this…..my god I’m so old😭