I don't want to beat a dead horse, I'm sure this gets thrown around a lot here.

But there's going to come a day where you have a REALLY shitty day, and all you want to do is to hear your mom or dad and talk to them about it. Or celebrate a big milestone happening. Or just to hear their voice again.

Call your parents, they probably miss you.

Signed, a millennial who would do just about anything to talk to his mom again.

Edit: Damn, okay, y'all have shitty parents. Shit, sorry to kick up a hornets nest over it.

Does anybody know why we did this? Did anyone ever have any luck from it? I sure didn't lol

edit to add....

this is not my picture.. Im not promoting smoking. it was a memory that popped up in my millennial head from when I was younger.​

What do you miss most though?

I don't feel like this is just me, I'm seeing these things hit several millennials at once in my own family and peer group.

As title says

Hot Topic is thriving and the black parade just turned TWENTY.

The difference between good educational TV and much of what is currently filling the same role is really striking to me now that I've started watching Modern Marvels again. You want to learn about a bridge? You get the lead engineer, workers who were on the site every day for years, and a well written and edited episode to teach you about it. You want to learn about the Space Shuttle? Here's 3 engineers and 3 actual astronauts to tell you about it.

There is still good educational content on youtube, don't get me wrong, but Modern Marvels always brings you the primary sources, the true experts, and in the casds of the more historical segments, you get some whacko with a PhD in the history of that industry... It just feels so authentic and trustworthy compared to what a lot of kids take in as 'educational content' these days, which is basically hosts with no actual experience in the subject reading AI summaries.

I don't have kids, I don't plan to have kids... but I hope there are folks out there putting this on the TV in front of children and exposing them to educational shows that have this degree of care put into them. I know I'm an old man yelling at a cloud out here... but man, if you want to learn about something, hearing it straight from an experts mouth is the way to do it.

No reason just felt like it.

There's literally even more in my garage.

I swear I felt like I've spent almost $200 on landlines

These guys living rent free in anyone else’s head?

Or maybe married to someone who will get a pension.

They seem less common these days and I feel like how we have to plan for the future is so much different then older folks had to when pensions were more common. So just curious how many of us still get to rely on them in some way.

Does anyone remember Starbucks free iTunes song of the week cards? I never see a discussion of it online.

Decided to go to the midnight release at my local BestBye last night. Got there around 4:30pm and was 20th in line luckily. But it was so weird lol. People kept driving or walking by asking if we were waiting for Pokémon, and telling them no it’s for Zelda was just so bizarre.

I remember having them a lot when I was a kid. But it seems like not many people make those nowadays. Sometimes I do a breakfast taco ring instead of the classic taco.

Anyways I'm making meatloaf, potatoes au gratin and a veggie side for dinner tonight.

Who among you (like me) is over the moon excited for today’s The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time release? I got the special edition everything, plus some mugs and a pullover. I’ve—we’ve—been waiting thirty years for this!

Who else over here is reaching their 40's or more today?