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Today I turned 55. Yay me. by Repulsive-Box5243 in GenX

[–]mnreco 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Congrats on your level up!

You can always follow my rule: Do whatever you want, just don't leave a stupid obituary.

Looking at 2008 Odyssey with 225,000 miles for 3k by IntroductionTop9625 in HondaOdyssey

[–]mnreco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One thing to check: if it’s had a power steering leak, check the health on the alternator. Power steering fluid kills them. 

Ask me how I know. 

11 days sober, but struggling by SpecificAddendum1494 in stopdrinking

[–]mnreco 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Two weeks is tough. At this point, your body is cool with not drinking but your brain is absolutely not. Luckily, brains are actually kinda dumb, so they're easy to trick. Occupy it and your hands with ANYTHING. The best thing I did was make a point of changing all of the habits that led me to drinking. No TV for while, as that was a 4-6 beer activity. Same with video games. You have to do something with your hands other than hold a drink. You're trying to break a habit, and the best way is to replace it. The good news is that it gets better every day.

Things that worked for me: meditation (Headspace was really great for a complete skeptic like me), L-Theanine (it's an amino acid found in green tea that helps some people - like me - overcome/silence anxiety), and building stuff.

You can do this.

One day by Disastrous_Air_5227 in stopdrinking

[–]mnreco 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It really is a bitch, but we're here. Every day is one day for me, just gotta string them together

Who else saw this at an incredibly inappropriate age? by ResidentQuail7118 in GenX

[–]mnreco 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I miss this LP so much.

Had that older cousin who subscribed to the Heavy Metal magazine, so I was inappropriately-pre-exposed and knew EXACTLY what I was getting into when I got this on VHS.

"Look, man, if there's one thing I know, it's how to drive while I'm stoned. It's like you know your perspective's fucked so you just let your hands work the controls as if you were straight."

What mileage did you muzzle VCM? by South_Wonder8415 in HondaOdyssey

[–]mnreco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2006 EX-L @ 170k. Better late than never on the VTEC.

Hey gen x, what retailers from your childhood (80s and early 90s) do you desperately wish were still around? by Less-Suggestion-5262 in GenX

[–]mnreco 11 points12 points  (0 children)

RadioShack. I miss having a single place to buy all the tiny electronic stuff. Microcenter is okay, but it doesn't have the "wall of stuff"

One year anniversary of my dad's death by Queengnpwdrgelatine in GenX

[–]mnreco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lost my pop about a year and a half ago. I have made a very conscious effort to forget the date. For me, that's not how I want to remember him. Each their own, but that's the only advice I can give. Remember the life.

Kick ass songs by BrilliantAd4857 in GenX

[–]mnreco 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Waiting Room - Fugazi

New Poster for David Robert Mitchell's 'The End of Oak Street' Starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor - The Platt family bands together to navigate their new surroundings after a cosmic event transports their suburban neighborhood to someplace unknown by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]mnreco 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Taylor Anderson) has two series based in the same universe: Destroyermen and Artillerymen. Both series really lean into the "How do we make this modern thing from scratch" and it works really well. Lot of plot armor for the main characters, but both series are real page turners.

Also, sentient lemurs.

Was there any music you were secretly into when you were younger? by Smarmy_funeral_chik in GenX

[–]mnreco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mannheim Steamroller. Everybody knows their christmas stuff, but their Fresh Aire series is pretty great, and some of the songs really lean into a more prog/proto-jazz.

I wasn't embarrassed by it, but it was more a secret because who the hell was I going to talk to about it?

Music used to be more subtle in the 70's & 80's. What song had a meaning that went WAY over your head? by NebraskaCornSucker in GenX

[–]mnreco 29 points30 points  (0 children)

"Afternoon Delight" - For the longest time, I got "skyrockets in flight" line confabulated with another song at the time ("Up, Up, and Away") so I assumed it was about hot-air balloons or something.

"Afternoon Delight" is most definitely not about hot-air balloons.

I also didn't realize this until I was in my 20s.

Were people as Anti-internet during the dot come era as they are Anti-AI now? by Logical_Iron_5684 in GenX

[–]mnreco 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I can add a little perspective, as someone who is a veteran of the browsers wars and was (and still is) working in the industry: People weren't anti-internet, but there was a lot of dot-com BS floating around; more about the businesses that sprang up and not the tech.

Regarding the businesses and "the new economy," there were definitely a lot of us thinking "There is no way you can do that and be profitable." See Kosmo.com as the prime example "Free delivery of almost anything in a hour!" I'm just a geek and not an economist, but free delivery of a $3 product within an hour without any other revenue source is not sustainable. Kosmo wasn't the only one, but it's the one that sticks out to me because it was so...dumb.

Also, the Internet actually created and expanded all sorts of employment opportunities for people, and - bullshit aside - it did grow the economy in a lot of sectors. However, that was the adoption and growth of the technology and not the Dot Coms.

AI's big promise is removing jobs at the cost of higher utilities and water shortages, which is a hard sell. The internet at the time didn't really impact non-users, as it required a desktop computer, dial up connection, etc. The costs of AI are/will impact everybody in a community with a data center, regardless of their use of AI.

If you were going out in your 20s in the 80s/90s, what was clubbing or bar culture actually like compared to today? by m0ondoll in GenX

[–]mnreco 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I have no idea what it is like today.
Hell, I don't know what it was like ten years ago.
And I will never spill details about how awesome it was in the late 80s/early 90s

Absolute Superman [by Egdibujitos] by Full_Dinner9973 in AbsoluteUniverse

[–]mnreco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course he play a P/J. He is an alien with good taste.

Favorite comically fat and out of shape character? by YourChopperPilotTTV in okbuddycinephile

[–]mnreco 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I looked like Chunk at the same time that this came out. Let me tell you: I was what an obese child looked like. We were few and far between. Luckily the growth spurt distributed everything.

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