I think that’s one of the key things that makes folk generally feel happier when they’re older. I’m 48 and have never been so comfortable in my own skin, despite naturally being less physically healthy and attractive than in my teens.

I used to care so much about what peers thought, but now I’ve lived long enough to realise how few of the people I was worried about pleasing are still in my life and how unimportant they are as the journey of life plays out.

If I’d have known this in my teens I’d have been way happier. You just have to treat people well and, where it’s not reciprocated, forget about them and move on.

Pretty much. It’s great as I get an alert when she’s 5 mins from home so I can peel myself off the sofa before she’s back and look productive.

Saw this on Reddit years ago. Looks like posting it has become something of a tradition!

Alien 3 hate is curious to me. I had it on VHS, back when you could only watch what you had on tape, so like all kids with limited movies they would get re- watched a lot, regardless of quality.

As a result, I can quote nearly as much of that movie as I can the first two (which, of course, are infinitely better).

So what I’m saying is I’ve got a soft spot for it. I’ll also defend the characters, who were well acted and portrayed. The overall atmosphere of a hostile planet was also pretty well executed.

Killing off Hicks, Newt & Bishop was a terrible start, but if you overlook that massive narrative fuck up, what else do people really hate about it?

Maybe on some other planet, where success is deemed as failure and they all have USB ports for genitals.

They don’t compare… RATS!

Yep, an Atari ST man myself, but I had the STFM and then the STE, so TOS was in ROM. Wonderful machines. Still going to this day.

Edge. It’s called Edge now. I have no idea why.

Those distros even have a GUI? Amiga Workbench on 720k all the way! 😁

Don’t get me wrong - I spent many a lunchtime in the library and the computer lab. Loved it. But by 16 I had to repress it and get into drinking and music (which, honestly wasn’t hard), just to fit in and meet girls.

The taboo of IT stayed with me, so I never openly discussed my interest in it.

Happily, online life has been normalised and teens and adults game all the time without it being seen as odd.

Ironically, despite being into 16-bit games in my teens I never really allowed myself to get into gaming in the suceeding years.

I regret that now, as I reckon I missed out on a Golden age of gaming that I would have enjoyed had I just been born a decade or so later and been less uptight about what people think.

When I was a kid being interested in computers was a sure-fire way to avoid getting laid.

All my childhood faves have either been removed or hideously ‘improved’ beyond recognition. Hell, even 10 years ago the soda I liked here in the UK was way better (now it’s all Aspartame and AcuflameK).

Just last week I noticed that they’ve changed my goto crisp (Squares) by making them thinner, changing the whole experience.

It’s oddly jarring when they fuck with something they were hard selling you as a perfection for decades.

This rumour control, here are the facts: I had Alien 3 on VHS. It remains my 3rd fave alien movie, just because I watched it so often. I appreciate that it’s far, far from perfect, but back in the day we had so few vids that it’s etched into my mind!

I get it. I have zero tattoos and plan on keeping it that way. For my generation that actually makes me more unique! Never understood the idea of having something permanently embedded, as you say, which is a good way of putting it. I can certainly appreciate the art, but I’d rather hang it on my wall that wear it forever.

Maybe it’s like some local guy in SE Asia that got it? Like their equivalent to the westerner who comes back home thinking he has some profound statement in Thai tattooed on him, but it’s really just gibberish from a takeout menu.

Honestly, family crest feels like a solid choice.

We don’t have one so that’s out for me, and although my kids are my world, I don’t feel the inclination to get 'em tattooed on me.

Is the crest a classy design? If so I’d say go for it.

Though I personally am not a tattoo fan, I can appreciate that some look cool. However, the fact that there’s a lucrative business in laser removal shows that a great many people seemingly do not appreciate the permanence of a tattoo, which shows an incredible lack of forward thinking.

Isn’t it time you checked in on Carol?

Maybe time to start identifying as a lobster…

I agree. My real abhorrence, however, is for the countless bootlickers who themselves live in near poverty yet loudly support their overlords in a sycophantic and unquestioning fashion. These class traitors, masquerading as real Americans are as culpable as the mentally deranged hoarders they prop up.

I don’t feel like there’s a way to get through to these sheep-like collaborators, so it’s difficult to imagine anything will change in the near future.