marvingray wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 6:50 am
reptile12 wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 6:34 am
So I dunno, I'd much rather be my older self / current age today, then my young self in the 90s/00s, even with all the personal crap I had recently.
This is a good outlook to have. It's better to look at the opportunities you have in life than reflect on some lost feeling you are desperately trying to relive. We all get nostalgic and opine about how things used to be, but it's important to not get stuck in that frame of mind, and if you are feeling bored or down about a thing you used to love, mix it up and try something new. We live in a time of unprecedented outlets to entertain ourselves and create our own happiness, and if you are able to it's important you seize that for the time you have on this earth.
It's kind of like the AI talk, you can either take advantage of it and use it as a tool to enhance your creativity, or you can freak out and worry about how it's going to cause the end of the world, but I think the people that freak out aren't much different than those that thought heavy metal and D&D were tools of Satan. Sorry to anyone that's an AI worrier, if there are somehow any of them here.
yeah exactly. But AI... Can of worms. I still don't know what to make of it. I don't use it still. I should get into it I guess but I like to do things manually to learn how it works. The Adobe AI stuff in photoshop and the upscaling stuff is the most interesting for me personally but I'm still waiting for the upscalers to be like super detailed and realistic if they ever reach that point.
Night457 wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 7:13 am
reptile12 wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 6:34 am
This is kind of off topic but going on the topic title...
I had to come up with SOMETHING to title it, so I quoted a portion of a post. Maybe without quoting I could have chosen "Rants by cranky old people", maybe?
Now there is information on everything and there are so many things to get into, compared to 90s/00s.
I have information overload, without time or mental energy to watch even a fraction of what I download. So I give up the effort and rewatch TV shows I have seen over and over already.
So I dunno, I'd much rather be my older self / current age today, then my young self in the 90s/00s
I would like to time travel my surely much wiser self in the future and take over my young self from even further back in what is currently past, but I would probably only end up encouraging really bad behavior. "Oh you kid, if only you KNEW now what you will learn later in life. Everything you think is important now is actually utterly meaningless."
I do the same thing where I watch mostly old stuff or stuff I know on repeat. I have only seen like less than a handful of tv shows in the past few years, and my taste is incredibly specific, but now I can have all the shows on disk and I can discover ALL the old shows via databases which was harder back then.
The information overload thing is interesting though because while I do feel similar, I also don't feel it at the same time, because I'm not interested in just random information, I just want the correct information in as densely packaged format as possible, related to what I'm interested in then and there. Back in the 90s/00s, there was much lower chance the information was out there or if it was that was findable in an easy way, now it seems to be. I basically have a mental list of everything relevant and then I ask myself if I can learn it and most of the time it's possible, though not always. Back in the 00s the list was a lot longer and I kept trying to but couldn't achieve it. Or something.
So IDK, there is a part of me that feels like everything is totally crazy and off the walls, there's this underlying chaos everywhere that I dunno how to make sense of but I try to (perhaps at my own peril) limit myself to being exposed to all that, idk what im even saying but yeah, craziness