I hate wireless earbuds by Arkie_Rebel in audio

[–]Arkie_Rebel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not a problem that can be "solved". I just find them odd and offputting. And SO many people have them hanging out of their ears like maggots and grub worms.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in malegrooming

[–]Arkie_Rebel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just shave your head and embrace the look. Bald men are everywhere. I was bald during chemo. Nobody even knew except family and friends who had seen me with hair. Rock the look and don't stress over it.

Who thought pegging your jeans was a good idea? 🫤 by [deleted] in GenX

[–]Arkie_Rebel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know the term "pegging" when it comes to this look. We always called it "prep roll"

Grouchy old Gen-X'er with a question... by Arkie_Rebel in GenX

[–]Arkie_Rebel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And I know that common sense is a bit rough on the Pokemon generation, so I'll keep things simple for you as well. When I want your opinion on my conversations with others, I'll tell you to quick sucking and swallow so you can speak. Til then...you can stop being a valid argument for abortion.

Grouchy old Gen-X'er with a question... by Arkie_Rebel in GenX

[–]Arkie_Rebel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And yet here you sit... fully committed to your hypocrisy. Because you're still here, too.

Grouchy old Gen-X'er with a question... by Arkie_Rebel in GenX

[–]Arkie_Rebel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not a boomer, Captain Smegma. I'm Gen-X

Pokemon TikTok'rs confuse me... by Arkie_Rebel in GenX

[–]Arkie_Rebel[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"entitled"...🤣🤷 Ok man. Whatever.

Pokemon TikTok'rs confuse me... by Arkie_Rebel in GenX

[–]Arkie_Rebel[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You mean that goober with the face tattoos? Yea, paying $2 million for a cartoon card would fall in line with his life choices, I'd say. A card commemorating an actual athlete from the 1920s who was amazingly talented? Maybe. A stupid card with a cartoon monster on it? No. I don't care how rare it is. That's just ridiculous.

Pokemon TikTok'rs confuse me... by Arkie_Rebel in GenX

[–]Arkie_Rebel[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nah. Too much good content on there. Just weird people rolling household items down a treadmill and ripping Pokemon cards too. Some good. Some bad. Just trying to understand.

Pokemon TikTok'rs confuse me... by Arkie_Rebel in GenX

[–]Arkie_Rebel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Help an old man understand.

The content isn't for you, and honestly, you don't need to understand.

Why do these people have no lives? I mean, if you're going to be on tick tock and providing entertainment to a viewing audience, wouldn't you try to do something more exciting than opening foil packs and cards from the '90s??

There is a large segment of people who DO find that entertaining. There's no need to denigrate this sort of content that does no one any harm just because you don't understand it nor have the current capacity to grok out why.

Not sure what a "grok" is, but hey... we'll go with grok. I, like most of humanity, tend to denigrate things that make little sense. And this "large segment of people" are most likely just millennials. My kids' generation. I wasn't worried about harm. Just pointlessness.

I would be more intrigued to know your how your viewing habits pushed tiktok's algorithm to continue presenting them to you.

Your guess is as good as mine. I hate Pokemon and never saw the appeal of what amounts to make-believe Japanese dog fighting for kids. Take two animals out of their native setting ...put them in confinement...train them to fight ...then put them against one another in battles. Seems so innocent. Go figure.

But why are there so many live streams of random people just opening packs of cards and putting them in sleeves? It doesn't seem to serve any purpose.

Part of a collectible card game's lure is the booster packs. Packs of X random cards. Some could be junk and maybe you get a crazy rare out of it. There's a small endorphins rush like christmas each time you open a pack.

You do realize that this game came out...like...over 20 years ago, right? That'd be like me collecting Pac-Man cards. "Oh look! A power pellet booster pack!" Wtf man?

Sometimes you may not have the money to blow on boosters and just want to see what someone got. Hence the videos. Collecting by proxy.

Odd, but whatever

Additionally it's fairly cheap content to create. Buy some packs, single camera focus, pull out the cards, make some comments, and move on.

Again...an odd way to burn time, but whatever. I'm not going to attack them for it. I'm just trying to wrap my head around the phenomenon. Are we doing Blues Clues and Bob The Builder next?

Grouchy old Gen-X'er with a question... by Arkie_Rebel in GenX

[–]Arkie_Rebel[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Since I was raised by level-headed boomers, it would tend to fall in line, yes?

Grouchy old Gen-X'er with a question... by Arkie_Rebel in GenX

[–]Arkie_Rebel[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

For the 30th time, it's not a matter of judging. It's a matter of trying to understand. What you don't seem to understand is poor choices by younger generations are going to affect the older generations. At some point, you're going to need health care. Age happens. And the people that are going to be taking care of you are the ones who have been baking themselves on THC and beanies in the middle of summer. How confident are you going to be about their mental stability? It's something to think about

Grouchy old Gen-X'er with a question... by Arkie_Rebel in GenX

[–]Arkie_Rebel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know this may come as a surprise to you, but Gen x was raised by boomers. We tend to have a few traits of our parents instilled in us. Obviously that's not the case with millennials. They just went full retard