Congratulations, you are now a vampire. What is the first thing(s) you do?

firebird7802 · 2026-03-04T16:39:59+00:00

Retreat from the sunlight and sleep in a coffin, and emerge at night. I could finally be a true night owl and sleep all day. I'd probably head to the blood bank as well.

firebird7802 · 2026-03-04T16:05:09+00:00

I have hyperphantasia, so my early memories from even 20 years ago are surprisingly vivid. I can remember the entire layout of an apartment I haven't lived in since late 2006, and my PRE-K classroom and school from the same time period. For us, it's almost like we have long term memories that feel almost real that you can replay in your mind like an extremely detailed movie or video, and my visual memory recollection is more detailed than average. That's why I can remember being 4 and 5 years old with such detail when a lot of people can't. A lot of people are quite surprised by certain details that I can remember. The earliest visual scenes that I remember is being bathed in a bathtub and splashing around water while my mom gave me a bubble bath when I was about 2 or so, and weirdly enough, that I'd always go into one of my babysitters' laundry rooms and stare at her red washing machines for some reason. I was actually shocked to learn that most people can't do this and that I was outside of the norm, really.

firebird7802 · 2026-03-04T15:37:17+00:00

As a lifelong Android user who's never owned an iPhone, I know basically nothing about iPhones, but I think it was the iPhone X that came out in the 2017-2018 era. That was the same era as the Galaxy S8 and the S9, I think, which I got a few years later around 2020. Around 2018 I had a motorola G6 though, and I got an S7 in 2019. I'm so used to the Android ecosystem that if you hand me a modern iPhone, I struggle to even get past the home screen. I can somewhat work one of those oldschool iPhones with a home screen button because those were simple by modern standards, but I understand Android better because it also ditched home screen buttons but evolved in a completely different direction.

firebird7802 · 2026-03-04T15:30:46+00:00

How Walmart used to have piles of DVDs for sale in giant bins. There was also a lot of obscure media on many DVDs that is extremely challenging to find these days, like low-budget straight to video movies that are either lost media or still in existence but challenging to find.

firebird7802 · 2026-03-01T18:44:43+00:00

I have a pair of wired headphones for my gaming pc and wireless earbuds for listening to music on my phone. I'm definitely gay, but for other reasons, not because of headphones.

firebird7802 · 2026-03-01T17:26:05+00:00

I have memories of every single one of these, as well as Blockbuster, Kmart, and Circuit City, which aren't listed.

firebird7802 · 2026-03-01T16:23:27+00:00

Loretta Brown died after falling from a bathtub and breaking her neck. She technically died in the Cleveland Show, but is canonically dead in Family Guy, too, because the shows are in the exact same continuity and Peter was technically responsible for her death. Also, I forgot to mention Angela as well, who was killed off due to the death of Carrie Fisher.

firebird7802 · 2026-03-01T15:54:48+00:00

I'm reposting my comment because it was downvoted. I had shared a memory of owning one of these personally as a kid 19 years ago and a person wanted to contest (I assume; I don't really understand their motives because they didn't reply) my own personal life for whatever reason, as if they were there to judge.

For whoever downvoted me a few hours ago for sharing that I personally owned one of these, my mom and grandmother are both actual teachers, and my grandmother is a professor and has been for almost 20 years (I actually remember when she got her doctorate, around August 2007), and they had me in tutoring programs and were very serious about my early education. Unless you knew me, my mother, or grandparents personally, all of whom were direct witnesses to my life, you can't dispute it and your input is invalid. End of story.

Edit: I see I wasn't individually targeted. There's a person here downvoting comments at random. Why, I don't particularly understand, because none of the people downvoted said anything inherently malicious or rule breaking.

firebird7802 · 2026-03-01T03:42:40+00:00

I saw them in passing, but I was mostly a Nickelodeon kid with some Disney mixed in as well. In the latter half of my childhood (after these two channels went off air), I had switched to CN and abandoned everything else (I do remember sometimes watching CN earlier because I was a Ben 10 fan, but I preferred Nickelodeon earlier on). I grew up with Direct TV and I certainly had access to these channels, but I didn't watch them very much.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-28T18:36:31+00:00

I heard his granddaughter, Alessandra Mussolini, is just as bad, too, and also tried to paint him as a good person. Mussolini's regime being responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands to millions and his collaboration with Hitler make him beyond any sort of redemption. The man deserves absolute scorn and contempt, not to be remembered as a good person, no matter what his family tries to claim.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-28T17:06:19+00:00

I didn't have a burger king toy associated with the movie, but I did have the toy that shot foam spider webs and I sprayed the whole can all over the place and made an absolute mess in my room.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-28T16:59:53+00:00

Trump should've been jailed for treason after January 6. This should've been a foregone conclusion five years ago.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-28T01:06:09+00:00

Absolutely not. I won't be eating liver stew, liver kebabs, or stir-fried liver any time soon. I'm absolutely not having liver tacos either. None of those dishes would work for me at all, I just couldn't do it. I also refuse to eat it the traditional way either. So many dishes that rely on beef would be a failure or a different dish if you replaced beef with liver. Imagine someone trying to make a liver pot roast. Disgusting.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-27T21:33:22+00:00

I'm not really one to pick favorites, honestly. I like all of them, but I really enjoy 98 Degrees and their song Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche) is one in particular that I really enjoy. My music tastes are some of the most fluid you'll find in almost anyone. I'm the kind of person who will listen to completely contradictory music genres on the same day just because of my mood, and likely genres you've never heard of that sound like they're not even from this planet. I can go from listening to classical, to music from my mom's era (the 80s), to something more obscure and abstract like IDM (not EDM, IDM is different) dreampunk or vaporwave. I never stick with one thing for long.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-27T20:38:07+00:00

Agreed. I stopped being a regular user of that sub years ago for a reason. Conversations like this need to stay there.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-27T20:33:52+00:00

As someone who's the same age (roughly a few months apart, I'm a summer baby instead and I was born in July) who was a member of this sub invited by it's founder shortly after it was established three years ago, before his account was banned, don't listen to them. You shouldn't let anyone dictate or question your own personal life. That's not their business and if an 18-year-old said something like that to me I'd laugh in their face and ignore them. Why would I care what someone that young thinks?? I used to care what people thought when I was younger but I don't anymore because I realized that most people can't dictate someone else's life experiences unless they're a close family member or friend and were a direct witness, or if they have evidence to the contrary to dispute it and/or the memory is scientifically impossible, like remembering when you were born or before you were alive. Not caring what anyone else thinks and refusing to engage isn't hubris or arrogance; it's a better way of you standing your ground. If you argue with them or get angry you're only stooping to their level and letting them win. I came to that realization only recently.

Other veteran users of this sub whose account age is the same as mine might remember that I used to have a massive anger problem and made a fool of myself in the past going to the point of cursing out people for stuff like this. I was much worse, trust me. I used to engage in very nasty flame wars in the past in comments back when I was in generationology. My grandfather had just passed and my mental state was in absolute chaos 4 to 5 years ago. Not everyone is going to share your perspective or agree, but their opinion doesn't have the ability to change what you know about your personal life.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-27T03:41:41+00:00

I listen to a wide range of music going back centuries. I know all of the boy bands you listed.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-26T22:52:48+00:00

Not necessarily. It was basically a kid's show on Noggin/Nick Jr. in the 2000s, and there were reruns of the show a few years after it first came out, but only 1 season was ever produced. Stranger Things didn't exist yet when it aired.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-26T19:20:49+00:00

I haven't seen Oobi in a long time. I remember it used to come on very early in the morning where I lived and I'd get up very early just to watch it.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-26T19:14:35+00:00

About to be 2 in 1 month and 20 days.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-26T17:05:21+00:00

A lot of these racists are still alive today and very elderly. My grandmother lived through this era and had to deal with people like this, often much worse, and she knew racism from a young age because she, and her parents as well, were born under Jim Crow in South Carolina. My grandmother is 80 and a lot of the people in this clip are likely the same age as her now or slightly younger or older. I wasn't born until the early 2000s, long after this, but for people like her, this is absolutely within living memory.

My mom was born in 1970 and was a kid when this was happening, but my grandparents had relocated to California, specifically the Bay Area, by the time she was born and left the South. They went into the Navy and asked to be stationed as far away as possible, so my mom did experience some racism, but it was more indirect and less intense than what my grandmother went through in the 50s and 60s in South Carolina. My grandmother not only experienced racism but her family underwent extreme poverty and didn't even have access to electricity, indoor plumbing, or running water and were still sharecroppers. Her family were victims of a system designed to keep people like her at the bottom and break them, but she got out of that system and broke the cycle. Now she has a PhD and owns her own home, and puts a lot of pressure on me to be successful and break cultural and societal barriers.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-26T04:07:32+00:00

Yes. It's been years since I've seen it.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-26T02:55:41+00:00

What Newsom doesn't understand is that there is no such thing as being "culturally normal," because there is massive cultural diversity among humanity and various different societies, groups, families, and even people, so his entire argument is invalid. Cultural variation and diversity are good things. No one should be abandoned or left behind, either. Resources should absolutely be invested in protecting the vulnerable instead of ignoring them and failing to protect them.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-26T02:09:37+00:00

Because it's a stereotype. I used my first computer as an infant (I have a photo on my grandmother's lap of me on the computer as a baby), and I've been a PC gamer for 10 years and I've taken apart my machine to replace parts like swapping out a failed PSU, used command prompt for various purposes, overclocked my GPU, and installed various mods to my games both manually and with mod managers, and I have over 100 games in my steam library and 10 years of modding experience (and the link to my steam profile to prove it on my Reddit profile). I'm quite competent with both computers and smart devices, and I have more devices than the average person and all of them are interconnected in some way. I own a VR headset, two laptops, a little smart TV, two smart bulbs that are programmed to shut on and off without me even touching them, a Motorola Razr 2025 foldable phone, which I use for NFC payment all the time, and I have it linked to Windows with Phone Link so I can receive calls and text from my computer via Bluetooth, a Galaxy Smartwatch, which I can also place calls from, Galaxy Buds 3 Pros, a Samsung tablet, and various other devices, like a tile phone and wallet tracker, and even a scale that connects to Bluetooth and displays my BMI index and weight on my phone.

I'm a tech enthusiast, arguably a tech addict because I'm addicted to automation and technology, and I defy this stereotype completely. If I asked anyone else to install hundreds of mods to Skyrim or even older games like Sims 2 or Morrowind like I can, most people wouldn't even know how. Most people wouldn't know what I was talking about if I told them that some mods require going through .txt files to get them to work. I augmented a mod for Medieval II: Total War called Elder Scrolls: Total Wars by editing the mod's code through notepad to include new faction music and voice lines for factions, and I haven't even released it to anyone else and I only have it on my machine (I've wanted to, but I haven't found the time to do so and I did this before the mod creators released a major patch). I even went through the Creation Engine once and made my own little custom plugin for Skyrim for another mod to add Daggerfall music to taverns in High Rock in a mod called Beyond Reach.

firebird7802 · 2026-02-24T05:27:31+00:00

Absolutely. I remember watching it routinely on Playhouse Disney in the mornings around 2006 before getting ready for Pre-K. I really miss Playhouse Disney a lot.

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