Music, game, novel, show, what have you. What do you love that’s particularly old?
My Atari 2600. Xmas gift in the late 70s.
backgammon
hard to be older than that
The Royal Game of Ur.
They should really call it backthengammon.
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!
Retro is always in. Rock it!
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 knees
Probably this ball of water and dirt we’re living on.
Grateful for it every day
That big ball of nuclear fusion you can see sometimes is also pretty alright
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 WILLY
John Grisham novels. Currently reading one from the 90s.
I like 80s movies too, but nothing I’d watch on a daily basis.
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.
My house was built in the late 1800s. That or a chair that my great great grandpa bought
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 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.
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
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.
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 player and I think there’s something really beautiful about that.
