My Atari 2600. Xmas gift in the late 70s.
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John Grisham novels. Currently reading one from the 90s.
I like 80s movies too, but nothing I'd watch on a daily basis.
Your mom.
Oh wonderful, I'm glad to hear it. Don't suppose you have any tips for navigating her incessant quilting talk while you're here?
To put joking aside, I have been trying to make a sort of quilt pattern to add to one of my sweatshirts, but I'm not good at sewing and don't have a sewing machine. So I would probably listen to her talk about quilts and how to make the edges look good.
I would also take quilting advice from OP's mum
My wife
Came here to say, "my husband."
A handmade ceramic mug I bought when I first got out of homelessness. Probably about fifteen years old now. It's white with a flared base and motif of a bison on it.
Gonna need a pic mate
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Nice mug bro!
Back in 1989 I had a co-worker friend who went to Jamaica and returned with a custom coffee mug with my name on it. It wasn't a cheap printed one, the letters were formed out of clay. I don't use it every day anymore, because I'm afraid it will break, but it's in my rotation. It reminds me that some people used to care something about me, for some reason.
I care about you, stranger. I hope you're doing well.
My wife. 🥰
Their wife 🤭
OUR WIFE
It's the game of Go. Also known as baduk, weiqi, igo. It's a board game known for being pretty old.
Hell yeah. Go is amazing. Crazy that something with such simple rules can be so deep.. Wish I had some locals to play with
My knees
A manual transmission. It'll be a sad day when I have to go automatic/EV
I just bought my first manual transmission car! I'm loving it so far, definitely hold out as long as you can.
The Sun
(the firey ball of doom, not the garbage newspaper)
To be fair the newspaper is also a giant ball of Doom
Good point
I've got a trumpet (YTR-6320) from the 80s I bought used a bit back. It looks beat to hell but it just sings! It's as light as a feather aswell- I can play with one hand in my pocket.
Media-wise, I love some old 1930s swing and jazz tracks. It's super interesting to hear how similar some songs are to modern music.
That's freaking awesome! Trumpet is so cool, I have one that I wanna learn to play someday.
Hell yeah! It's a tough instrument, but it's the most expressive one (in my opinion). Trumpets always sound like the person who's playing them, almost like an extension of your personality. I think there's something wonderful about that.
My bifocal glasses. They were donated to me last year, and some fucking how, they're a perfect match for my prescription, and have absolutely no scratches.
They were manufactured in 1988, literally 2 years before I ever got my first pair of glasses.
I didn't exactly sign up for big ass thick bifocals, but the last prescription glasses I paid for cost me $217, are scratched to hell and back, and the frames split at the nose bridge.
They're big, they're ugly, but they just fucking work, even clearer than my most recent actual prescriptions.
You can't complain when it's free!
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My PS2. Thanks to Homebrew and some gadgets I bought I can to play a ton of games in their original hardware and it's been awesome.
I still got my PS2 with the HDD modded to load backups. Haha.
Fountain pens. They don't make custom alloys of gold specifically for their nibs any more because they're not ubiquitous. An old "wet noodle" italic Parker or Waterman is a writing experience to behold.
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My house was built in the late 1800s. That or a chair that my great great grandpa bought
My apartment. I don't like it very much but it was built in 1928. So "enjoy" is a stretch but I use it daily.
My jokes.
Normally, I'd answer my husband. But today, I'll say Skyrim. I picked it up again after multiple years, and I have loved and played this game since its release in 2011.
Talk all the shit you want, this is one of my favorite nostalgic kicks.
Video games in general, I've never stopped playing them.
There was a period of time where I thought I stopped liking them. But it was just because everything new was trash (early access slop or f2p nonsense) or my anti-genres.
Same here. I try not to nostalgia-hole myself too much, because I don't want to fall out of touch with the state of things and end up like a crotchety old person complaining about how great things used to be.
I found myself caring less and less about newer games, and thought I was just getting over gaming in general. But when going back to replay some old favorites on a whim, I realized I still enjoyed them just as much as I used to. I don't know if it's a style thing or just the difference between physical-only and newer digital release models, but it does feel like they don't make games like they used to.
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I have many things that are very old and enjoy but I don't use them on a daily basis. Maybe my typewriter is what I use more often.
Edith Piaf never gets old
For me it's definitely a game! I'll still boot up an emulator to play super metroid on SNES, and that game is 31 years old. I can't think of anything else I regularly do or enjoy that's quite that old, but I could definitely be forgetting something.
Edit: upon more thought chess is way older and I at least do a puzzle daily so maybe that counts. I don't play actual games that often though.
Sweet sleep. Speaking of which, back to bed I go. 😴💤
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