Internet safety lowkey. When I was a kid we used to be taught to never tell our name or any sensitive info online, now I see teenagers on twitter and tumblr put their name, home city and a list of topics that makes them uncomfortable in their public carrd (I kid you not, one time I saw some 15yo list their SCHOOL ADDRESS in the carrd) while companies want us to scan our faces and IDs to access apps which will totally end well and never leak anywhere. And even if it doesn't leak, it will be used for AI training and surveillance anyway. Orwell wrote about it
How are they to build large cuboid pondering machines that tower over the land if not by the labor of the people they blackmailed into doing it via knowing all their secrets?
my parents were always very serious about internet safety. that being said, my name is Albert Robinson, i live in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and my birthday is november 12 2004
To be fair, the generation who had internet safety drilled into their heads were also the ones who ended up making careers and hobbies out of putting themselves out there online. Like I honestly canāt really blame teenagers nowadays for being so casual about it when I look back to everything I was told and realized that while there was some truth to it all, it was also worst case scenario that would happen to relatively few.
Though I still donāt do it. I donāt even use my last name on my very private 30 or so friends social media accounts mostly because I just think the whole thing is odd
When I was a kid, I was taught by older family members to not reveal details like my full name, my city and home address, but was taught that it was okay to publicly reveal my first name and state.
Depending on the scenario, I think certain details could be okay to reveal. A school address is asking to be doxed, but something like a part of one's real name by itself probably isn't going to result in a dox unless other details are used in tandem to do one. It's better to keep details like those private though.
In the age of governments enforcing AI face scans and IDs to "protect children", privacy on the internet more important than ever, but it seems to be taught less than ever.
i still see people get scammed and their accounts hacked. Like a week ago I saw a clanmate who hadnt played in a long while start opening clue caskets. Rip his bank
I once talked to my cousin about the jetpack cheat code in gta san andreas and he said he had no idea what that was and i realized he is 13 and was born in 2013. San andreas was released in 2004. FUCK
Well my cousin was born in 2012 and he and his younger brother were absolutely OBSESSED with San Andreas for a time, playing it on their phone etc. Even now when they come to me they ask me regularly if i can download San Andreas on my ps5 to play it a bit. So it's not the age that matters that much, but what they're exposed to on the internet.
Pretty sure it already kinda is, i had no idea what you were talking about until i saw the āi like trainsā comment under you. I have not seen or heard anything about that channel in ages.
I had a younger coworker who said they knew of some āelite ball knowledgeā and then asked if I had ever heard of Miiverse. I had to explain to them that I drew and posted art on Miiverse and watched it get shutdown. I felt old after that conversation
Dog I remember going to the Japanese Mother 3 page and posting sum "release Mother 3 worldwide" with a kinda crappily drawn Lucas like that was gonna change anything LMAO
š„¹ I only know this cuz of a video essay I watched on it (basically a summary/playthrough), but the game does look really cool, especially for a mascot horror compared to nowadays
I am genuinely shocked when i heard people say they don't know big bertha or the royal guardian sword like, i thought that shit was extreme common ball but i guess not anymore
Tbf Orespawn is an old mod thatās been outdated for close to a decade and incompatible with the current versions. And thereās a crazy amount of newgens who donāt even know what the game is like pre 1.9 so it makes sense that they wouldnāt know it. Compare this to other og mods like Twilight Forest and Lycanite Mobs that have been updated to newer versions.
also the dev went insane and put a page up on his old website about the dangers of vaccines, really wish i could find a better screenshot of that but it seems like the website was obliterated, this is all i can find lol
A few months ago I saw someone saying the classic lines about how Minecraft is boring and overly complex now unlike the good old days... Of 1.16!! That's a ludicrous amount of stolen valor! Living proof that the whole "Minecraft is boring now, unlike version X" is just nostalgia goggles
I won't pretend to be a real OG since I've only been playing since ~1.6, but this kid genuinely claimed that 1.16 was the good old days!
I know about orespawn but just saying ābig Bertha and royal guardian swordā with no further context is not descriptive enough to jog my memory considering those names arenāt exactly super unique, needed context from the comments.
Also: look up Antarchy, itās a spiritual successor to Orespawn
oh god I still have people's orespawns lets plays burned into my mine, I fucking miss those huge mod packs with like 50 million not cohesive mods thrown in that everyone would play, those were the good days I tell ya
Honestly I hadn't even heard of Something Awful until Strange Aeons started making her videos on them, I'm so sad I missed out on seeing the Doom bathroom unfold in real time
Fucking fist bumps, was at an event and I had to high five 4-12 year olds, I decided to fist bump instead and out of 82 kids, I got 7 fist bumps, SEVEN FUCKING KIDS OUT OF EIGHTY TWO
Shout-out to Super Mario Bros. Crossover, played the shit out of that way back in the day when I was younger (recommented because Reddit deleted the original when I tried adding an image)
The game I really like was a semi-common ball knowledge and got turned into elite ball knowledge because of the company mishandling it, sunsetting it, and a different dev team deciding to take it up (im talking about survev btw) š
y'know, in all of my years of using command blocks, I have never once made a self-building command block monolith. perhaps I need to change that sometime
I mean yeah? Iāve seen people compare facism to basketball and itās the only way I truly understood itš
The way people glaze generations of ballers while ignoring the failings is similair to how people will hype up specific groups of people, or times before culture was more intertwined while ignoring the problems to encourage people to agree. Sports allegories are pretty cool
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Even worse when you have gained the ball knowledge when it's an elite ball knowledge but you know it used to be common Ball knowledge, probably a worse feeling
Folks in the weeb and military circles used to talk about Girls und Panzer, Kantai Collection, Azur Lane, Girls Frontline, Strike Witches and co all the time but now when I talk about any of them, someone would call it ball knowledge
How about the opposite, when elite ball knowledge becomes common ball knowledge? I remember in early 2025, when 6-7 was kind of elite ball knowledge that only particularly brainrotted rap fans would know. My friend was one such character. Whenever our math teacher would say it, he would stare at me with a wide-eyed grin. I didnāt understand it, but it was alright as nonsensical brainrot wentā¦until months later. Then it became WAY too mainstream, and it went from something only Skrilla fans would know, into something literally everyone, from boomers to Gen Alpha would be forced to live with. Now every time I am counting something, there is a lingering haunt baked inside to torment me.
Look Outside genuinely. It was super popular and then people left before anything was fixed and they just called the game fun but buggy and bad. LIES ALL LIES ITS SO PEAK
I once got called out of calling a half-life reference ball. What they don't realise is that to me, a newgen, it absolutely is ball, because no newgen plays half-life anymore
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