So Alaska gives out Hi-Chews? As in the ones you find at convenience stores in Japan? (ハイチュウ)

As a child in the 90s, I remember Saturday and Sunday afternoons being incredibly boring if we didn’t go out. TV was shit (still is), and on rainy afternoons you were basically locked at home.

By the late 90s, at age 10, with no internet access in my county, I was mapping ways to beat the Water Temple in Ocarina of Time. I remember scheming for hours, using Farore’s Wind to take me to the beginning of the dungeon and jumping to the platform on the 2nd floor. This way, I was not using the only key I had on the middle pillar, which is what almost everyone got stuck on.

But yeah, I remember the tail-end of this at that time and starting a whole new game to try this out. And it worked. Still proud of 10 year old me. It’s interesting but I hadn’t felt boredom in a really long time.

El Salvador was the other one aside from Ecuador and Panamá.

Puerto Rico is a us Territory and uses USD. Costa Rica has their own currency with cute sloths and monkeys on their notes.

…and I have a monster dong.

More like forced into it by these multiple “once-in-a-lifetime” economic crisis.

BofA deez nutz!

I’m pretty sure there are Lemmy communities covering that topic in graphic detail. All you have to do is swipe that “Hide NSFW” switch.

Holy Santa Claus! The ecosystem underneath that must be insane.

The good boy that can burn down your house

I already knew what that was before clicking on it.

A full-back squirtle squad would be awesome!

Just channeling my inner anxiety!

Holy shit! It’s a marsupial, too! I had totally forgotten about that one.

Only if she gets James!

Get it on you lower back! Y2K fashion is right now haha

RIP space luge

I had read this in another thread, but radio was one of the first (if not first) media form to be entshittified. Decades before we even had a term for it.

Oh absolutely agree!

Some of us got lucky a lot of our stupid, cringe phase was deleted from the internet during the huge data loss that MySpace had. And people back then weren’t on smartphones screenshooting social media posts to Digg, twitter, et al. All in all, I kind of feel bad for teens now.

Smart phones, social media and their terrible algorithms combined created a perfect storm for the most narcissistic people and traits to really shine in real time.

Back then, you had a camera, had to take out that SD card, load it on the computer. Then go through the photos / videos and slowly and painfully upload them on to a site like Myspace. That or some 250px flip-phone picture was annoying as hell to bring into your PC and upload it. Unless, you had a T-Mobile Sidekick and uploaded that shit via AIM… but I was too poor for that lol

Also back then, at least in my case, and because you had to do all that, you sometimes gave it a bit of thought on whether you should publish something or not. Now it’s just instant and you don’t really think about it.

At least those are my theories.

Good Charlotte and AFI shirts will be back in a few years along with studded belts.

Maybe they’ll finally deliver the death blow to golf courses, country clubs, guest rooms, diamonds and other shit we can’t afford… Or would really care to, if we’d have the means.

A lot of teenagers in our age cohort thought that Heidi and Spencer Pratt were cool. Obviously, lots of us didn’t; which I assume is also the case for Zoomers and the Pauls.

But some of them will grow out of the Pauls, some of them won’t. But just as the Pratts, they’ll slowly fade into oblivion as time passes.

I’m about to hear a lot more of José “hongos mágicos” Rogan outside of the internet now.