Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Aeson]

then i look at some actress/actor's ages and get irritated they are younger than me.

It's all all the hard drinking and hard living you did back in your roadie for Wham! days.

 

[CleverNickName]

I remember watching Casablanca with my dad when I was a boy. It was only 40 years old but it felt ancient--old video format, old songs, old slang, old actors in old costumes telling an old story about an old war. I was 8 years old.

An 8-year old boy today might have the same feelings about Top Gun or Platoon.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

An 8-year old boy today might have the same feelings about Top Gun or Platoon.

My kids give me baffled looks when I try to explain the cultural impact of the Vietnam War. It's just too far back for them now.

 

[gnarlygninja]

some times i forget how young i am compared to everyone else here, but then i read something "I saw in a theater as a kid" and I'm like oh wow that was before i was born

There was a movie theater near me that was doing Flashback Wednesdays for a year or so before it closed and the first time they played a movie I remember seeing in the theater as kid (Forrest Gump, which is actually the first movie I remember seeing in theater) I took some psychic damage.
And then while I was waiting for popcorn I heard a little girl make fun of her parents for being old because they saw the movie when it was released and took some again.

 

[trappedslider]

It's all all the hard drinking and hard living you did back in your roadie for Wham! days.

that means nothing to me.

 

[gnarlygninja]

Several years ago, two of my friends both complained to me about an argument they had. Both of them framed it as an argument around something absurd the other one said, and after listening to them both and constructing what actually happened I realized both of them were wrong because each person was taking a very dumb position.
Something reminded me of that today, and when I told them about it, they both immediately took up their just goofily wrong arguments again. So now I can look forward to one person insisting that youtube has no value as a source of information and another person insisting that it's gatekeeping to expect people talking about a book to have read that book.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Several years ago, two of my friends both complained to me about an argument they had. Both of them framed it as an argument around something absurd the other one said, and after listening to them both and constructing what actually happened I realized both of them were wrong because each person was taking a very dumb position.
Something reminded me of that today, and when I told them about it, they both immediately took up their just goofily wrong arguments again. So now I can look forward to one person insisting that youtube has no value as a source of information and another person insisting that it's gatekeeping to expect people talking about a book to have read that book.

Can we get them in here and ask their opinions about how D&D used to be and the direction Star Wars is going in?

 

[gnarlygninja]

Can we get them in here and ask their opinions about how D&D used to be and the direction Star Wars is going in?

I don't think either of them would last very long without getting banned. You have accurately guessed two things they have had loud arguments over though, despite one of them not playing D&D in about a decade and one never really playing it very often.

 

[trappedslider]

because we can (maybe?) NASA Commits to Plan to Build a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon by 2030

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

because we can (maybe?) NASA Commits to Plan to Build a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon by 2030

Despite all the kind of dopey decisions happening with NASA and government-funded right now, this one actually makes sense.

Conventional solar power is not a reliable source of power on the moon for much of a lunar day, so they have to come up with an alternative and nuclear is probably the most practical.