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Music, game, novel, show, what have you. What do you love that's particularly old?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

My house was built in the late 1800s. That or a chair that my great great grandpa bought

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

My house was built in the late 1800s. That or a chair that my great great grandpa bought

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's freaking awesome! Trumpet is so cool, I have one that I wanna learn to play someday.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A manual transmission. It'll be a sad day when I have to go automatic/EV

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I just bought my first manual transmission car! I'm loving it so far, definitely hold out as long as you can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Probably this ball of water and dirt we're living on.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

hard to be older than that

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We went here to say the same. Hey fellow hydrohomie!

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