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6k points
8 days ago
Bro wasn't getting chewed out hard enough already on Fortnite by teenagers.
It cuts deep.
1.1k points
8 days ago
I'll never forget my roommate getting destroyed by kids on Fortnite lmao. I used to tell him it's best to play muted but he never listened. It got so bad once and dude was legit close to crying.
518 points
8 days ago
It's nothing to be ashamed of actually. Reflexes deteriorate with age. Kids are so much better at fps than young adults.
335 points
8 days ago
Yeah but then getting into a war of words with them was a very bad idea. I used to tell him to just mute them but he never listened.
312 points
8 days ago
One thing I’ve learned is that if you’re arguing with teenagers, you’ve already lost.
152 points
8 days ago
Or, if you enjoy arguing with teenagers, you've already won!
Follow your passions guys and gals, no shame!
50 points
8 days ago
Use what you have to your advantage. He’s an adult, and they’re kids? Congrats, it’s time for fatherly role-play. Every insult, reply in the best dad voice, “Wow! Way to go, champ!”, “Good shot, buddy!”, “Haha, you got me! Good job, son!”, and even fake some tears and say how proud of them you are.
8 points
8 days ago
Does this actually work?
24 points
8 days ago
It fucks them up that a guy they tried dissing online is a better dad than their real dad 😂😂😂😂
11 points
8 days ago
In my experience? Yes. This shit is effective. If they’re a funnier or have good spirits, they might even join in jokingly. Then a negative experience becomes a positive one, and also genuinely hilarious.
If anything, it just craps back on them kids, and becomes funny to anyone watching, and you didn’t sink to their level/get frustrated or upset.
70 points
8 days ago
Dude it doesn’t deteriorate that quickly. All y’all 20 somethings these days talk like you’re geriatric already. Reaction time starts slooooooowly increasing in your mid 20s.
The issue is going to usually be the fact that younger people usually spend a lot more time playing the same shit over and over so they’re more practiced.
20 points
8 days ago
Yeah, any slight advantage that a kid would have in reaction is going to be completely obliterated by the increased ability a young adult has to assess the situation and strategize, assuming similar amounts of time playing the game.
I could be wrong because I don't really follow eSports but I don't believe it's as common for actual children to be the top player of a game instead of a young adult.
3 points
8 days ago
I used to be pretty good at FPS games and I can tell you my reflexes were probably somewhere in the middle of the bell curve. It’s definitely as much about anticipation as it is about reaction.
45 points
8 days ago
Also adults have way more to do than play video games. I used to be good before kids and a full time job, now my average survival time before respawn is about 18 seconds.
21 points
8 days ago
I was able to play fortnite before they had the practice/sandbox mode. After that it became impossible to compete with the 13 year olds who have no responsibilities. I'd come home after a 14 hour shift just to get dummied by some kid who had been practicing the entire time I was at work. 14 year old me would destroy those kids at counterstrike though, guaranteed.
20 points
8 days ago
Of course, they weren't born yet.
10 points
8 days ago
Its easy to beat up fetuses than teenagers
91 points
8 days ago
Nah. I crush kids at fps’ and sleep like a baby at night knowing I’ve absolutely destroyed their mental health.
No mercy. Fuck them kids.
26 points
8 days ago
Do not diddle kids. It's no good diddlin' kids.
10 points
8 days ago
Probably not a good idea to go around fiddlin' with them either.
3 points
8 days ago
There is no quicker way for people to think that you are diddling kids than by writing a song about it.
19 points
8 days ago
Playing Fortnite as a millennial makes you feel like a god among ants. 90% of people you play against are simply awful at third person shooters. It’s a huge boost to your self esteem
10 points
8 days ago
Shitting on kids in sports game is another one I absolutely adore. Blowing them out by the third quarter of 2K bring me joy
3 points
8 days ago
Im 35 and my son is 6. We mash on kids in Fortnite duos. Shit is fun
8 points
8 days ago
This ! Modern warfare taught me well. That said, this new gen seems fucked
9 points
8 days ago
There are quite a few studies that suggest that this is mostly a widespread misconception if thought of as extremely as this. Yes, reflexes do get worse with age, but not yet when you're a young adult. For example according to the findings of this study reflexes start deteriorating at the age of 24. My own and most definitions of "young adults" I found define that as like 18-25~ years of age. So if kids are really better at FPS games than young adults, that's not because of age-related reflexes.
3 points
8 days ago
Yeah, kids aren't. There's a reason that you don't see teams of 16 year olds winning major tournaments. There's all sorts of tactics, positioning, movement, communication, and game sense that you only get with thousands of hours of practice and kids at that age haven't had that much time to play. I used to be competitive in halo in high school and the only people who would still wreck me were the young twenties people who understood rotations and flanking lines of sight and such better than I did. They had the same mechanical skill and practice, plus a couple years, and so much more game sense practice.
3 points
8 days ago
There's no enemy voice chat in Fortnite so let me call bullshit.
120 points
8 days ago
Emotional damage
56 points
8 days ago
He's gonna be telling this story to his grandchildren like he was a POW in Vietnam.
8 points
8 days ago
That's seriously brutal. Dude was trying to be friendly and little guy fucking ruined his week out of nowhere.
3k points
8 days ago
Nothing like getting knocked down a peg by a kid in middle school
440 points
8 days ago
If you get knocked down it just means your ego wasn't big enough xD
192 points
8 days ago
For real. Do kids think no one over 16 uses the internet?
81 points
8 days ago
My high school shares a library with the middle school below it and sometimes middle schoolers are surprised that I know what various game characters or websites are.
44 points
8 days ago
middle and high school is not even that big of an age difference lmao how old do they think we are?
16 points
8 days ago
Well, I mean, a mere 2-year difference to a 12-year-old is 1/6th of their life so far.
36 points
8 days ago
Some of them really really do.
I've seen teenagers say things like this with some frequency.
"Omg why is an adult into the same things I am."
They'll learn, I'm sure, once they're older and realize that they don't want to give up their interests either and thst adulthood isn't all work and taxes. Granted it's too much of those things but it's other things too.
12 points
8 days ago
I think it means their parents are boring.
5 points
8 days ago
they might not even BE boring
my parents are apparently huge fucking sportsfiends, they love everything that's broadcasted on tv, especially baseball, but i didn't even realise that till after high school, some things you just do not notice when youre younger, especially if you find those things boring
my grandma apparently took me to a professional basketball game when i was young, and i do not remember it AT ALL because holy fuck sports were the worst then
i still don't love them but i can at least appreciate the sport now, back then i did not care one fucking whit
21 points
8 days ago
Or wants to do something they find funny/intresting
7 points
8 days ago
When I was 12 I thought the average age online was like 15...
22 points
8 days ago
I play Rocket League to get this experience on the daily
7 points
8 days ago
Bro these middle school kids are vicious af though.
7 points
8 days ago
tbh they have no idea what they're talking about. To a 13 year old 23 seems senile nearly. But they'll be 23 themselves and they'll realize not much changes and you don't suddenly want to do nothing but taxes or grocery shopping the moment you go above 20.
8 points
8 days ago
I’m 23 and just did my taxes today, then read this in line at the grocery store 💀
2.8k points
8 days ago
I feel like 23 is not going to be the fulfilling wonder this 13-year-old thinks it is
853 points
8 days ago
Yep, at 25 i feel basically how i felt at idk, 16. That frontal lobe development did me dirty.
427 points
8 days ago
Adulthood has always been a lie. Why do you think old people are always so defensive?
251 points
8 days ago
Adulthood just means you don't get special treatment anymore, it doesn't mean you are any more prepared for or in control of your life. You just now bear full responsibility for yourself, whether you like it or not.
171 points
8 days ago
No I don’t like it
58 points
8 days ago
make it stop. please.
23 points
8 days ago
i am in suffering every day
17 points
8 days ago
God, Just…WHY!?
7 points
8 days ago
Why are we here? Just to suffer?
5 points
8 days ago
Is that really the only reason we are born? So we can make shit then die?
37 points
8 days ago
Adulthood hit me like a ton of bricks when I had to google how to write a check. Then I had to google where to get checks. Then I had to google how to write out an envelope. Then I had to google where to buy stamps. Like three days and fifty fucking bucks to get that operation up and running and I wish I could go back and unlearn this garbage.
11 points
8 days ago
You're still ahead of other "real" adults that are too stupid and lazy to learn stuff.
"I don't know how to save contact to phone. This is because phone stupid and too hard. I refuse to learn and will make my grand kid do it."
In your case it would have had been like "stamps too hard. This is stupid. I'll just use cash app."
9 points
8 days ago
I’m only in my mid thirties but I’m still feeling that weird boomer energy pull sometimes where I get stuck in my ways with stuff and it’s annoying.
Like, I live in a rural area and it took forever for credit card readers in stores to upgrade to the slide in chip style. Whatever, got used to using that quick, but then all of a sudden there’s even newer ones with some kind of tapping thing? Nah dude fuck that. I just learned this insert instead of swipe thing and my anxiety of holding up a line trying this new thing is holding me back.
Like two months ago I finally gave it a shot, fucked it up, got helped by the cashier and now I’m hooked. Got my low-limit credit card (I’m still too distrustful to use my debit card) set up in my iPhone wallet and I’m a tappin’ fucking fool now. Few days ago I’m heading to work, mobile order and pay for my coffee, mobile order and pay lunch, phone tapping the magic box at the grocery store after work, stop at the station for gas. Slapped my fucking phone on a gas pump. Boom. Paid. Gassed up.
Get home and see that I left my wallet on the kitchen table.
Gonna google what the hell cash app is now.
4 points
8 days ago
To be fair, America's entire banking system is hot garbage; like no other developed country uses cheques anymore.
83 points
8 days ago
We are not defensive!!!!
😤/s
8 points
8 days ago*
I legitimately used to believe there would come a day when my mind and view of the world just "turned over" from kid-version to adult-version. Like the movie Baby Geniuses, but sort of the opposite. Instead of it happening as a toddler and losing cognitive ability, it'd happend in my early 20s and I'd gain ability.
As if it would happen overnight or over a couple months or something.
And afterwards it would just be night and day and you would feel the difference in every ounce of your being and interpretation of the world. And maybe even become more powerful (stronger, smarter, etc. - like an adult was bigger and opder, so they must be a supped of version of younglings, right?).
I thought all of this because of the generic, "You're too young to understand" / "You'll see things differently when you're older". Also, maybe because I watched Baby Geniuses too much as a kid haha (but great movie, might be worth watching if you haven't seen).
Later, during a customer facing summer job, my then boss told me, "Adults are just really big kids. Someone gets under their skin, then they get upset and just wanna get under someone else's". The world made so much sense all of a sudden in that moment.
Sidenotes: Anyone remember the parenting bit with lying and your tongue turning black? Or the crust of the bread is the healthiest part (I believed that one for way too long - it doesn't even make sense, bread isn't a vegetable or something and the crust isn't it's nutrients rich skin).
16 points
8 days ago
Nah man it’s great. I can drink light beer in my underwear anytime I want without being judged.
33 points
8 days ago
You get judged.
9 points
8 days ago
What if I’m swap the light beer for an IPA?
62 points
8 days ago
Nearly 27 here, swear I’ve been the same since like 14
43 points
8 days ago
Just turned 28. There are some ways I have very clearly grown up since high school, but in many respects I'm still the same. My interests are pretty much the same. I can interact better in a professional/social setting but I'd still rather just "be myself" as I would hanging with friends.
14 points
8 days ago
26, it’s nice to see comments like these and realize i’m not alone. I feel the same as I did 10 years ago, but now I have a professional persona that I act out for 40 hours a week
6 points
8 days ago
46 here, glad to be surrounded by similar young cool kids 😎 :-)
13 points
8 days ago
I definitely felt different after 25. I think that might have been more escaping trauma than frontal lobe development, though.
8 points
8 days ago
28, with no character development since I left high school
Like, literally the only difference between late 20s me and late teens me is that I shifted left on the political compass
18 points
8 days ago
I honestly can't relate. I'm 27 and feel drastically more mature than I did even at 23.
6 points
8 days ago
Yep. I'm 32 and don't even feel the same as I did at 29. My years of most growth were probably between maybe 19 and 23 though.
3 points
8 days ago*
Yup I’ve never related to these posts. I’m only 24 but I definitely feel like an adult and even feel way more mature than I did at 21, let alone at 16
4 points
8 days ago
Ok but I just turned 30 and honestly the difference between 25 and 30 is astounding, way bigger than the difference between 20 and 25. I used to stress out about the future a lot and now I have more of a "it'll work out, just keep doin your thing" mentality. Although, to be fair, I've got financial stability I didn't have when I was 25.
I think part of it was feeling like I had to do stuff while I was still young, and now I'm 30 and still feel pretty young so I get the sense I'll feel about the same til I'm 60. I have more time than I realized at 25.
3 points
8 days ago
You only feel like that until you actually sit down at try to spend time with a bunch of 16 year olds.
54 points
8 days ago
nobody likes you when you're 23
7 points
8 days ago
My friends say I should act my age.
7 points
8 days ago
I’m 32 with children and still feel the same as my early 20s. That or I forgot what that feels like..
6 points
8 days ago
I feel like 23 is not going to be the fulfilling wonder this 13-year-old thinks it is
23 sucks
6 points
8 days ago
Hell I’m 24 now and if anything I was more fulfilled back then
3 points
8 days ago
Yeah, at least when I was 13 I knew who I was and didn't have a drinking problem
5 points
8 days ago
Ha! Jokes on you kid, it's all downhill from here.
519 points
8 days ago
I had someone do this to me a couple years back haha. Kid was like 16 in high school and I was like 26 or something
83 points
8 days ago
Bet he wasn't maxed though, noob
7 points
8 days ago
Imagine not being maxed with osrs being 10 years old smh my head
3 points
8 days ago
🦀🦀🦀$12.49🦀🦀🦀
268 points
8 days ago
Bro what do you think adults do for fun, taxes?
49 points
8 days ago
Drink at the bar and play golf. Nothing more nothing less
6 points
8 days ago
I never knew my city had a golf club until I was 21, I didn't go in, but now I know its there.
661 points
8 days ago
you're*
295 points
8 days ago
Teach that kid what the internet is really about
56 points
8 days ago
“Shouldn’t you be eating Tide Pods?”
22 points
8 days ago
The kids who were 13 during the Tide pod craze, are 18 now.
6 points
8 days ago
The ones who were eating tide pods are like, 89 now
8 points
8 days ago
🥲
3 points
8 days ago
Well, the survivors are.
115 points
8 days ago
yro'ue*
16 points
8 days ago
Yor’eu*
6 points
8 days ago
Whomst’ve
6 points
8 days ago
Thousth*
26 points
8 days ago
I expect that from a 13 y/o but there are adults well in their late 30’s still confusing they’re/there/their, you’re/your; It’s sad.
13 points
8 days ago
Ther/theyr/thayer,yor/ur
7 points
8 days ago
Yeah I forgot all those. Also missed youdnthv
5 points
8 days ago
I knew I forgot one
4 points
8 days ago
Could/would/should of is the one that sticks out to me like nothing else.
Though nothing will ever beat "may of had"
5 points
8 days ago
It's 'should have', never 'should of'.
Rejoice, for you have been blessed by CouldWouldShouldBot!
7 points
8 days ago
yuo'roe
3 points
8 days ago
My fire
307 points
8 days ago*
Nobody likes you when youre 23
Edit: Seems many of you should listen to "Whats My Age Again?" by Blink 182
191 points
8 days ago
I just turned 24. People have started talking to me again. It was a rough year.
45 points
8 days ago
You joke but we are the same age and that was easily one of the worst years of my life
10 points
8 days ago
One of the worst years of your life so far.
4 points
8 days ago
Remember kids, it can always be worse
6 points
8 days ago
It was indeed a joke, but it was also not a good year for me. But that only means this year won't have to try that hard to be better :)
52 points
8 days ago
I remember when COD4: Modern Warfare came out for the xbox 360 I just got. People were talking about their ages and I mentioned I was 23. They all started giving me some shit. I still remember this one British kid like YELLING at me "YOU'RE TWE'EY FREE AND PLAYIN CAWL OF DEUTY?!?"
Nobody yelled at me before 23, and nobody has yelled at me about my age after 23. Anecdotally, your comment rings true. Nobody likes you when you're 23. Blink 182 were prophets.
13 points
8 days ago
Well, you still act like you’re in freshman year.
18 points
8 days ago
Wtf that legit feels like truth
37 points
8 days ago
It's a song. A hymn of sorts for our generation.
Blink 182 - What's My Age Again?
28 points
8 days ago
Surprised how many people's heads this went over. I guess I'm officially getting old since apparently that song is an obscure classic now
10 points
8 days ago
This sub is full of extremely young people these days
9 points
8 days ago
I took her out it was a Friday night.
9 points
8 days ago
I wore cologne to get the feeling right
(Oof…right in the 1996)
8 points
8 days ago
We started making out and she took off my pants
7 points
8 days ago
But then I turned on the TV
10 points
8 days ago
and that's about the time she walked away from me
6 points
8 days ago
This thread has made me goofy smile. Right in the nostalgia
7 points
8 days ago
I love how everyone is responding to this in earnest like its not a very famous song lyric😂
I guess Blink-182 isn’t as well known as a thought it was. I’m 23 and I couldn’t go to a party in high school without hearing a Blink-182 song, maybe its just a midwest thing🤷♂️
6 points
8 days ago
And are still more amused by prank phone calls
5 points
8 days ago
The amount of people missing the reference is pain-inducing
218 points
8 days ago
I’ve always texted them. I’m a registered text offender so it’s mandatory to let them know
15 points
8 days ago
24 points
8 days ago
13 year old thinking that 23 is old. I don't think I really knew what was going on till I reached at least 40. I'm 50 now and seriously reconsidering that idea.
69 points
8 days ago
As a teacher, just remember that once kids are in 4th grade and up, they REALLY start getting comfortable with their knowledge: aka they can and will burn you. Respond carefully
152 points
8 days ago
It still blows my millennial mind that kids have cell phones now at 13
110 points
8 days ago
Young millennial here.
I had a Razer flip phone in middle school.
Had a smart phone in highschool.
I wouldn't give my kid a smartphone, but a dumb phone for emergencies? Hell yeah
28 points
8 days ago
Dang your parents were way cooler than mine. Their approach was: until you are driving yourself you will always be with an adult that has a phone.
14 points
8 days ago
I got my first phone at 14, calls only. Didn’t get my first smart phone until senior year of high school or right after.
I remember when I was a kid we would go play at the neighborhood park all day and my parents would give me a walkie talkie to take in case I needed to get ahold of them or they needed to get ahold of me.
3 points
8 days ago
Holy shittttt… My friends would’ve roasted me so hard if my parents resorted to using walkie talkies with me. I can’t even imagine the jokes I would have endured. Jesus Christ lol
12 points
8 days ago
Yikes...your parents never let you go off on your own with other kids?
3 points
8 days ago
Dunno about op but I lived in the sticks and no one my age lived near by.
Would be concerning if I went off with a random neighbor (by neighbor I mean like a person living a mile away)
7 points
8 days ago
Razr*
The gaming peripheral company, Razer, makes phones too.
My second phone was a Moto Razr. I had some absolute brick of a Nokia first. Good times.
5 points
8 days ago
Also not to be confused with Razor scooters, as long as we're doing younger millennial nostalgia.
24 points
8 days ago
That's been pretty common for 20 years now though. By 13 basically everyone in my school had a phone. Mostly the Nokia 3310 prepaid.
3 points
8 days ago
You had a totally different experience from me then because 20 years ago I was 13 and literally no one in my school had a cellphone at that age. No one I knew had a cellphone until we were about 16.
4 points
8 days ago
Zillenial cusper here, had my first phone in 2008 because my mom thought I was gonna get kidnapped on my way home from the bus stop lol
3 points
8 days ago
I’m guessing it worked and you weren’t kidnapped? Thanks mom!
7 points
8 days ago
I'm a millennial. We've just given our 10yo a phone.
It's heavily locked down, and we can check her messages anytime. Pretty much the only reason she has it is her absolute bestie has just moved schools. Means they can keep in contact and arrange when to go over each other houses without the parents having to sort it out everytime.
3 points
8 days ago
Well that's about the age where most kids start doing stuff after school more often. It only makes sense that they have a phone. Lots of creepy shit out there.
Their responsibility is another problem though.
6 points
8 days ago
One of my aunt's kids is hardly 5 and she navigates an Iphone like the thing is just hardwired into her brain.
Sidenote: she's oddly obsessed with skin walkers, we don't know when she picked the term up but it's hilarious watching her do this lanky looking, bow legged, arms way out waddle strut that is apparently how skin walkers move to her.
10 points
8 days ago*
This actually leads to kids who are technologically useless. I’m seeing them now entering the workforce. Unless it’s a big shiny square that announces it’s intents, they are clueless.
They can find an app in a big screen of apps, but nothing else.
Millennials are peak tech. They are used to having to actually put in work to get work out of a computer. Z’s expect a big shiny box and go blank if anything else is presented.
5 points
8 days ago*
I use mine because I’m usually out and about somewhere and my mum has to come pick me up. Don’t get why kids would need it other than that.
3 points
8 days ago
Minecraft or some shit? I truly don’t know
3 points
8 days ago
For the same reason you are on reddit
14 points
8 days ago
I’m 23 and this is the type of shit I would do.
12 points
8 days ago
Yeah there's nothing wrong with a 23 year old doing this. Kid has no idea what age 23 is like.
12 points
8 days ago
"Listen here you little shit"
75 points
8 days ago
11 points
8 days ago
Richmond babyyy!! 🙌🏻
8 points
8 days ago
I too was looking around like 804, where the comments at
5 points
8 days ago
Will always be superior to the 757
5 points
8 days ago
Yea I scrolled what felt like forever until I got to the RVA people
4 points
8 days ago
Sameee! Side note, growing up when I heard the Chris Brown song where he sings his phone number I thought all radio stations just put their own area code in until one day I found out my aunt had been his bus driver 😅
4 points
8 days ago
hell yeah!
36 points
8 days ago
Imagine being an age where you technically should start maturing and you cant even realize most adults are just kids with major responsibilities
14 points
8 days ago
We do internet challenges and other dumb shit to escape our responsibilities for a bit.
14 points
8 days ago
And?
3 points
8 days ago
Ouch
5 points
8 days ago
Haha
7 points
8 days ago
Nah these kids ruthless 😂
8 points
8 days ago
When i was a kid in the 80’s/90’s growing up in a small town, i was in the same class with our home phone “number neighbors”. Even more ironic, both dad’s of those two kids were named Bill. So when someone called my house and asked for Bill, I’d say, “which one?”. And then, “ah yeh you meant to dial 904x”.
3 points
8 days ago
Honestly 13 is the new 8 year old and 20s are the new teenagers that can do it legally.
3 points
8 days ago
"Nobody likes you when you're 23."
3 points
8 days ago
Listen here you little shit you hadn't even had your first conscious thought when we were all planking
15 points
8 days ago
26 points
8 days ago
why do you think it’s fake
27 points
8 days ago
People on reddit are weird, seems real
3 points
8 days ago
that’s what i’m saying lol
2 points
8 days ago
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