You reply in the comments, and i try to guess your age based on a short conversation we have. That’s it!
Oh this is such a neat idea for a game! I’ll give you a misleading hint: I grew up watching the Andy Griffith show.
Well that tells me you’re not a boomer, and most probably not Gen X, at least not early Gen X. So late 80’s 90’s or Gen Z are my initial deductions.
So what do you watch? Do you watch any cable TV?
What do I watch currently? Mostly just anime and YouTube. You’re basically spot on. I’m 28, so just like right on the line between GenZ and Millennial.
You didn’t even let me guess🙁. Yeah that’s 1996. I probably would’ve gotten it right though :P
Oh, whoops. I guess I read that as a guess. I don’t know, I just got off of a closing shift at work, brain sleepy.
Nah it’s fine. You should get to resting then
Hello there!
Hey buddy! What goals are you working towards right now?
Wow, that’s kinda tough to answer without revealing a lot of clues about my age!
Let’s see, I guess I’m trying to be more mindful of my body in taking care of it. But it’s not going so well :/
Also trying to find some motivation/energy/time to play some video games since I didn’t have too much access to them while growing up
What made you want to start caring more for your body? Are you talking more in terms of losing weight or just getting fit?
Don’t feel pressured into answering if you don’t want to
Getting fit. Mostly about staying active. I realised I could be a lot better not just in sports but also daily life in general if I put in some efforts towards being fit
Oh yeah i definitely agree with that. I just had a huge scare when it came to my health that requires me to stay fit in order to not “relapse”, so i try to do at least cardio everyday.
You said you’re trying to get into video games. What video games have you played so far, or are currently eyeing?
I wanna make my way through the Valve classics. Portal and the Half life series. Ooh and Satisfactory has also caught my eye!
A lot of cool games there. Tell me about your interpersonal relationships. With friends, family and maybe even a partner. Which if these are you trying to develop, or striving for something more in?
I think this is a pretty entertaining game. Good idea
Thanks. Ready to get your age guessed?
Looking forward to it! Do your worst!
Alright let’s start. What do you do to wind down when you’re done for the day?
Cook dinner, and right now I’m watching Yellowstone Season 2.
If I weren’t doing that, I would likely be playing a video game.
Ooh I haven’t seen Yellowstone. I hear it’s good though.
What video games do you typically play?
Yellowstone is fantastic! I’m loving it
Right now I am playing a lot of Balatro, some Satisfactory, some BG3, some No Mans Sky. Minecraft is also regularly in rotation.
Ooh, an OG gamer. I like it. So far so normal. Everything you’ve said has been pretty run of the mill 20s to 30s hobbies.
At your current stage of life, do you feel like there’s still more to be explored or that you’ve attained self actualisation?
I am an antenna engineer and I quit because I hated the company I worked for as they embraced the corporate American model.
Wow, antenna engineer is a new one for me haha. So what have you been doing since then/plan to do now that you’ve quit the old job?
Basically I do what I want when I want. Typically building things. I’m constantly fixing or modifying my cars(they are all old and constantly broken). And I play a lot of disc golf.
Mmm, so you’re at that point where you feel like you don’t need to go back to working, at least for the meantime?
Correct.
Do you have friends that you spend some time with as well outside your other hobbies. Maybe going to a bar or some other event on a regular - semi-regular basis?
Man I answered and I don’t see it.
Yes. I play disc golf with some. Get together infrequently with some close long-term friends, pay video games online every Monday with my best friend that moved to the UK and zoom with a couple of high school buddies every month or so.
That’s nice that you still have a group of people surrounding you. So I’m guessing you’re quite satisfied with the way things are going? You aren’t really looking for any change at the moment?
The Grammar Police fails to capitalize the pronoun “I”? 🤔
Hey pal, I’m here to enforce laws not follow them
You have made that abundantly clear so far. And in so little space!
Gotta let you know what you’re dealing with.
Anyways, let’s get to the age verification shall we?
I assumed we were operating on your schedule.
Right right we were. What’s a word that accurately defines your personality?
“Thoughtful”.
What makes you thoughtful? Are you talking about thoughtfulness in the empathetic sense?
5318008!
And to that good sir, i respond 93N15
Nice. But how old am I???
You’re 14
Ahhh nope calculator only days. Give you a hint, my calculator looked like an owl. Or something like that.
Don’t tell me you’re in your early 40s. 43 maybe
Much closer! 50 next month! And I’m a girl BTW. 😜
Holy hell. Sorry for calling you 14 mom
One my favorite hobbies begins with the letter “J”. Guess the hobby and also my age!
Jerking off. The age i can’t say until i have enough clues
Actually it was a different hobby but I certainly enjoy that one too. Maybe I should try to guess your age?
You are a funny guy. Have a crack at it. Try to guess my age.
Early 20s!
I glaned through your post history but I’m not sure how spot on I am at all.
Since we’re in casual conversation I gotta say something regarding the “girls taking a shit” post. That has always been a personal mind trick for me when I’ve caught myself idolizing people I’m attracted to or thinking they are out of my league. I just remember “hey, she takes nasty shits just like the rest of us. Probably even nastier.” Puts me in check and brings me back down to reality if I’m nervous when interacting with someone. Anyways, thought I would just over share.
Good guess. I’m 19.
Also, how did you know about that post? I thought it was supposed to be deleted by the mods. It just hit me like a fucking truck all of a sudden and i was getting shade for it in the comments like wtf, this is groundbreaking stuff guys. Sabrina Carpenter? She takes shits. Jennifer Lawrence? Takes shits. And there’s no way it could be classy. But your mind trick seems like it might solve my approach anxiety problem, so thanks for that.
Oh I can’t actually see the post itself. But if I click on your user profile, I can see all your replies to that post still. I am using the Voyager app FYI
Hmm I haven’t tried Voyager. I’ll see. But i still have to guess your age. I would say early to mid 20s, so 21-26. A specific age would be 24, but it’s mostly a guess
I play video games, like sports, eat my vegitables, and think the world is currently a dumpster fire.
Let’s see what you got. I like to longboard. I’m pretty big into hip-hop, metal core, and viking metal. I’m also quite passionate about OpSec and Cyber Security.
Viking metal eh? I recently found Brothers of Metal and they’re banging. What else do you recommend?
Tyr is really good and similar to Brothers of Metal. Check out Hold the Heathen Hammer High. If you want heavier, I’d recommend Amon Amarth or Ensiferum. The songs Axe of Judgement, One Man Army, or Twilight of the Thunder God get my blood pumping something fierce
Thanks for the recommendations, I will check everything out!
Cool, that’s a lot of interest! What are some of your favourite artists or bands in those genres, and viking metal? That’s a first lol
Ski Mask tha Slump God, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Die Antwoord, Polaris, Architects, Knocked Loose. uhh… Tyr, Amon Amarth, Ensiferum. Think that’s a pretty broad net.
How do i not know any of these except for Die Antwoord💀. Yeah, it’s pretty broad i tell ya.
Longboarding, one of theore dangerous boarding activities. How long have you been doing that?
My brain is skibidi tier rotten and I have absolutely no money in my pockets, but Boxxy is still the queen and fr fr nobody can prove me wrong.
…sorry, I’m doing it on purpose to throw you off tracks. How’s going?
The grammar pedant in me did not appreciate that first paragraph.
It’s going great for now. Tell me about some of your niche interests. Nerd out about it if you want
If it’s any consolation, the grammar pedant in me didn’t like it either. Even if I was the one writing it. (Also, I’m glad that things are going great for you.)
As for niche interests: gardening, cooking, simulation games, constructed languages, ancient languages. Some tidbits of oil painting, but frankly, I suck at it; perhaps I should stick to digital watercolours. (This reminds me Island - the main character was recalling his travels through Switzerland, his mum painting a watercolour, and his dad sarcastically saying “The milk chocolate advertisement that [brand] rejected.”)
But I digress. My gardening is currently pepper plants, I’m trying to breed a new variety following very specific criteria - heat, colour, shape, size. Once I’m done I’m going to spread the seeds here and there, through the city, as some small act of anarchy.
That’s a lot of niche interests. Constructed languages particularly are quite the interesting… interest. I never bothered with it because i found no utility for them.
How long have you been gardening?
Well, constructed languages aren’t something insanely useful, unless you’re into Linguistics or also into constructed worlds. For the former, it’s a good way to explore some “boundaries” of natural languages - conlangs can go beyond natlangs in certain features, but the opposite is almost never true. And for the later it’s that extra step to make the world within a story feel livelier, fleshing out the culture of its inhabitants.
Although my reasons are probably not too far from Tolkien’s, who called constructed languages a “secret vice”. It’s mostly for fun.
How long have you been gardening?
Five years or so, I guess? I mean, beyond simple stuff like planting radishes in my backyard as a kid. I still joke about it with my mum - she outright hated it. “My house is no farm dammit!” (The radishes tasted great though.)
You make a good point about conlangs that’s for sure. At some point, i was deep in the Toki Pona rabbit hole, but decided I’d rather spend that time learning Spanish or German, since I’d like to visit countries that use those languages some day.
What do you do for a living?
If you’re into language learning for pragmatic reasons then I think that the only conlang that could be useful would be Esperanto, and even then it’s like squeezing water from a rock. (I do it mostly for the fun, though. That’s also my attitude towards ancient languages - I’m not exactly using Latin everyday, and Sanskrit will be likely in the same bag.)
German is a great choice but be aware that proficient German/English bilinguals tend to use English as soon as they notice that you can speak it. It’s kind of funny because I’ve seen French speakers with the opposite reaction - as if one side saw a language as a tool, another as a cultural root. (It’s both.)
What do you do for a living?
I’m a translator by trade. I stick mostly to Portuguese, Italian, and English - those are the languages that I’m actually proficient with. Sometimes I pick something from German too, but I don’t typically translate things into German to avoid going full “ich bin ein Berliner”, like that American president. (That reminds me that I promised the old lady next-door to give her some Berlin balls once I prepare them. Her avocado ice cream was amazing. Also, sorry for the amount of off-topic that I tend to go into, but I guess that it’s more data to guess my age?)
Oh you’re a translator, i guess that explains the fascination with languages. How did you get into it, and how long have you been doing it?
Also, sorry for the amount of off-topic that I tend to go into, but I guess that it’s more data to guess my age?)
I was just gonna say, you go on a lot of tangents lmao, but yes it should all help when i deliver the coup de grace
Come at me bro
Okay bro, what do you feel like you’re missing out on?
Life in general tbh
Can you go into more detail about that? Maybe you spend so much of your time indoors and online, and wish to be outside and hanging out with friends. Maybe you’re looking for a relationship. Or maybe it’s a combination of both and/or more things. Tell me more
Mm I spend almost all my time outdoors and I go out to socialize at least 3x a week. But a friend of mine died recently. Everything feels hollow and meaningless. I guess I don’t feel like my life has a purpose – a fairly common and first-world problem to have, but a problem nevertheless.
Sorry to hear about your friend’s passing. It’s completely normal to feel hollow after the passing of someone important to. Don’t feel a need to diminish your problems because they are first world. A problem is a problem. How have you been coping with this?
Been writing about it and sharing memories with people who knew my friend. It will take time.
I want to touch as many people’s lives as they did. As I am right now/the way my life is now, that is not on track to happen. Need to change things.
You will move past this; I guarantee it.
Do you feel like the career path you chose is not in line with your goal of touching people’s lives? Or you’ve simply lost your sense of direction as a result of your friend’s passing?
You choose the topic.
Alright let’s go. What’s your favourite movie/film genre? And what are some movies/films that fall under it?
No movie genre really stands out to me. I like movies of all genres.
So then what are your favourite movies/films in general?
Lord of the Rings, the Game of Thrones movie, the fourth Matrix.
Game of Thrones is based even though they ruined the last 2 seasons. Still haven’t gotten the time to watch LoTR though.
The fourth matrix? That’s an unpopular choice. I’ve yet to meet someone who enjoyed that last movie. They should’ve left it at the 3rd one.
I watched the first three a while ago but they felt dragged on and not very eye-opening. The fourth one had a good sense of interpretation to it.
Interesting. What are some of your other passtimes?
Hi, want to play OSU!?
Geometry dash is my go to rhythm game. I have yet to play OSU sadly.
How’s it going bud?
What’s happening, youngster?
Okay, if you’re not Gen X then i would be disappointed. How’s the family?
Not Gen X, dude. I just got back from a hockey game I played in with a couple guys in an adult league though.
Not gen X but calling me youngster? I wonder how old you are really🤔
How did the game go?
I was trying to throw you off. I’m 37. We won 7-2
Okay, mid millennial. Oh well. Congrats on the win
Given your username if I fuck up the reply do I get some sirens?
Actually hard to cause issues my phone fixes it and I guess almost nothing I type requires punctuation.
You definitely get forcefully shoved to the ground and violently ordered to stop resisting while i kneel on your neck.
Okay, mundane jokes aside, autocorrect just seems to cause more problems than it attempts to fix imo, so i have it turned off. Besides, you could’ve used a comma before the “and”’ in: “and I guess almost nothing…” cuz a comma must precede a conjunction that precedes a pronoun, so i guess you were wrong.
My autocorrect isn’t consistent. Depends on what app is being the keyboard, SwiftKey is better to type on and has a better layout but has significantly worse autocorrect than gboard.
Except my new phone has a gap at the bottom the size of a spare bar that I can’t seemingly remove so it took a week to stop having my typing look like crap.
If you want to correct my grammar look at anything long I type, I type like I talk which is non-stop until I’m done so I get really long run on sentences.
Hmm. What do you like to talk about?
Generally whatever i’ve just done and/or seen. If I play a game, something will probably stick out to me as a moment worth talking about, or if i watched a particularly interesting video. Unfortunately all i’ve done today is drive, eat a burrito and then drive back so that isn’t super interesting to talk about. Nothing fancy on the roads today, at least that i noticed, but a lot of people who seem scared to be near the speed limit which is rather inconvenient but there isn’t a whole lot of space to do anything about that.
Interesting or maybe not idk. What do you drive?
Got a Nissan skyline 370gt a couple months ago, so that until I can’t get in it anymore. Wasn’t my planned car, but it’s excellent. If you are American you would know it as an Infiniti G37, but Infiniti doesn’t really exist in my country. Fun car, parts sometimes require being imported though.
Looks like a modest car. I’m not a huge car guy though, so i can’t really say much about it. I’m assuming your driving was to and from work? What do you do?
