I used to drink water out of a hosepipe and played in the street all the time.
Casual Conversation
Share a story, ask a question, or start a conversation about (almost) anything you desire. Maybe you'll make some friends in the process.
RULES (updated 01/22/25)
- Be respectful: no harassment, hate speech, bigotry, and/or trolling. To be concise, disrespect is defined by escalation.
- Encourage conversation in your OP. This means including heavily implicative subject matter when you can and also engaging in your thread when possible. You won't be punished for trying.
- Avoid controversial topics (politics or societal debates come to mind, though we are not saying not to talk about anything that resembles these). There's a guide in the protocol book offered as a mod model that can be used for that; it's vague until you realize it was made for things like the rule in question. At least four purple answers must apply to a "controversial" message for it to be allowed.
- Keep it clean and SFW: No illegal content or anything gross and inappropriate. A rule of thumb is if a recording of a conversation put on another platform would get someone a COPPA violation response, that exact exchange should be avoided when possible.
- No solicitation such as ads, promotional content, spam, surveys etc. The chart redirected to above applies to spam material as well, which is one of the reasons its wording is vague, as it applies to a few things. Again, a "spammy" message must be applicable to four purple answers before it's allowed.
- Respect privacy as well as truth: Don’t ask for or share any personal information or slander anyone. A rule of thumb is if something is enough info to go by that it "would be a copyright violation if the info was art" as another group put it, or that it alone can be used to narrow someone down to 150 physical humans (Dunbar's Number) or less, it's considered an excess breach of privacy. Slander is defined by intentional utilitarian misguidance at the expense (positive or negative) of a sentient entity. This often links back to or mixes with rule one, which implies, for example, that even something that is true can still amount to what slander is trying to achieve, and that will be looked down upon.
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1957
Pokemon. Good luck.
1992
Best year
2021
I used to play with he-man toys on my front lawn in only my whitey tightys
White dog turds.
Monty Python and Terry Pratchett
1978
Approx 10 years out.
Probably a classic, but I feel like my childhood ended with 9/11
Are you 37 like literally all of Lemmy?
I'm in my early 20's though.
Video arcades. My favorite place to be.
Yu-Gi-Oh
Star Wars (A New Hope) - Lucas had a particular age of audience in mind. I was that age when it was released, and he hit the target.
1970?
Lucas has said that we wanted it to appeal to 12 year olds - and I was.
1965 then.
I was much younger when it came out and was transfixed... but also fell asleep before it was over.
Pogs
Not the first CD I bought, but it was the first CD I really loved: Oasis - What's the Story (morning glory)
And yes, dear fellow party goer, I do know how to play Wonderwall 🎸
1987?
1983
Playing King’s Quest 4 on our family’s 386.
Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina
Family PC with RTS, HoMM. Minecraft at school's psychologist PC ;0 Lots of flashgames..
When friends would sleepover, I would download a bunch of games demos from happypuppy.com.
Duck Hunt / Super Mario
Tandy 1000 / Jill of the Jungle
Hello fellow early-mid 80s child!
Close, late 80's
Still my millennial homie! 😊
Got a Cabbage patch Kid doll at the height of their popularity. It came named Ulrica.
Warrior cats (book series), the 3d zelda games and mario games, YouTube (like fred, pewdiepie, you know)
Star Wars.
Before it was called "Episode IV".
Throw your cares away, clap clap!
worries for another day,
And let the music play, clap clap!
down in Fraggle Rock!
To The Extreme by Vanilla Ice was one of my first cassette tape purchases.