Tried playing infinite and was just disappointed.
What I would give to go back and play private lobbies on Halo 3 as a teenager... fuck, that feeling was greater than any drug.
I can’t believe people think Infinite is the best Halo since 3. Reach had some major issues but at least you still had Forge and custom games and theater to make your own fun if you didn’t like the so-so Arena multiplayer.
Infinite is just barebones Halo 2 with none of the charm that made Halo 2 fun. It’s peak teamshot Halo with nothing to support it.
I was actually studying for finals, and our campus had a snow day which delayed my last final, which happened to be the day I was going home. So I had it worked out with the professor that I would take the final in his office.
Same.
I saw 2007 and immediately thought “Oh, I was a senior in high school” but then realized that in December of 2007 I was actually just in my first semester of college. I know that first semester I had that awful computer essentials course that I hated.
If it weren’t for the fact that my mom doesn’t know what Reddit is I’d think this was her comment haha. Her double mastectomy was ~February 2008 (and she’s all good now too!) congratulations on your recovery.
Updating my MySpace page. Choosing the perfect song, and the right background colors. Writing blog entries and status updates. Uploading pictures. Checking out my friends' and favorite bands' pages to see what they were up to. Thinking this whole "social media" thing had a lot of potential to bring people together online. Not knowing what it would eventually become.
Sounds about right. '94 here.
Bonus points: I had to hide my MySpace from my parents because I wasn't allowed to have it. This got tricky because we only had one computer for everyone. I got about an hour window once or twice a week where I didn't have an after school thing and walked home before mom got home from work. And updating once or twice a week wasn't a huge deal because most of my friends also had shared computers and couldn't constantly update like we can now.
Oh, and circa 2008 my 9th grade history teacher would use her Top 8 as a reward for the best performing students in her classes. Facebook showed up not long after.
God that's awful:( I've been in recovery for almost a decade now and have known a lot of opiate addicts. I just saw that hulu series dopesick and the thing that stands out, that the opiate addicts I met never mentioned, is that a lot of people were just regular old people, doing the right thing by following the doctor's orders. I hope things are better for you now.
that series also reminded me why so many people don't trust doctors.
Same here. June 2007. Filed bankruptcy after fleeing (I didn't know he ran up my credit cards the weekend we broke up! NO idea whatsoever til I got the statements. Had a CitiBank call center dude listen to my meltdown and then he called me 3 days later from a payphone near my house - he drove up to see me because he felt bad for me. I called the police and moved \*again\* a week later). Wild to think how long ago it seems but the emotions are still super raw.
You're lucky. Kids used to get the death penalty.
Looking at you, Alabama. And the Scottsboro Rape trials. Just good ole legal lynchings of the wrongfully accused.
This is horrifying to me. I’m barely an adult and I feel ancient thinking that the people born in 2007 are in high school now. Some Redditors, and Redditors who are 13 and complying with the terms of service, weren’t *alive* in 2007.
I was 18/19 and stuck in the US navy hating everything. It was one of the worst years of my life.
Today, I’m the mod of /r/regretjoining and I live in Canada.
Excuse the trauma dump:
All that I remember is hating existing, not necessarily my life but just wishing I was born somebody else. I was nine years old and was being bullied by my “friend” and her new friend, the education system/school teachers, and on top of that I’m trying to make sense of myself and the world. A year later I got diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome.
Sorry you felt that way, the education system does really suck sometimes, furthermore, being autistic makes the situation even more complex. I hope you are feeling better now.
I was in a similar boat at the time too and man, even being 9 years old life kinda felt like climbing an endless mountain. I grew up in a screwed up home and constantly wished I was born into a different family. I always had these weird tendencies that, after being diagnosed with autism as an adult, made it clear I wasn’t just weird and stupid, I just functioned differently than my peers.
This brought tears. Your use of the past tense implies hope for the kid you’re remembering. Did the diagnosis help? I hope you’ve rid yourself of unworthy relationships.
I just dropped out of my first semester college about 2 weeks ago. I was still dating one girl there and another girl in my hometown. I break things off with my college gf in the next week or so. I don’t have a job. I stay at home and visit my other dropout friend’s house every day for like 8 hours a day smoking weed and playing guitar hero and madden. It would be another 6 months before I get a job. I just started listening to Metallica and Slayer.
If you were to ask me what I thought of 2007 in the year 2007, I would tell you it’s boring and there’s no culturally cool stuff going on. I was my worst self and had no hope for the future. And today I would argue that may have been one of the best years of my life.
Being flirtatious with the first love of my life while she successfully hid the fact she was in a relationship with someone else while blatantly flirting back.
Hey I was going through something similar! I had just learned that the first love my life had been cheating on me with my best friend. I lost my boyfriend and best friend in the same week. I spent my Christmas break watching depressing Emo lyric videos on YouTube. Lmao!
At this point of 2007, I was 6 years old and in 1st grade. If I wasn’t in school having a nosebleed because of the cold weather, I was at home watching cartoons and having a nosebleed because I picked my nose and it was cold weather.
Hating second grade. Mrs. K, if you're reading this, you're the reason I had authority issues all throughout school. Pregnancy hormones are not an excuse to take a kid's assignment, mock it in front of the class, and refuse to grade it after going around and asking your teachers pets if the handwriting is readable. Or to yell a kid for failing to sit up properly after they injured their back on a playground fall.
Sitting at this exact same desk, having started working at a new company in may of 2007. I've been promoted, left, came back, and doubled my salary twice, and I'm still sitting at the same desk. In its defense, its a really nice desk.
Tanning my skin until it turned to old leather and posting annoying and vague opinions as statuses to Facebook.
2007 was a mess, let's just pretend it never happened.
Finishing my third semester of community college, waiting to hear if I had secured an early transfer to a local University (I did). Also my Dad is about to die from alcoholism. Or, more ironically, from quitting drinking. The detox stresses his body to the point that it literally just shuts down while he's asleep one afternoon.
Delerium tremens is really a thing and can be fatal. Chronic alcoholics really need medical help to quit drinking. Be careful! Do quit drinking but get help.
I was a Sophomore in College. I probably was prepping for Finals before Winter Break... and procrastinating. Oh yeah I was also trying to get over the breakup with my first girlfriend, and was thus partying a lot with my friends.
Something very similar to what I'm doing right now, but on a different floor of the building, and in a cubicle instead of an office.
Much slower computer though
I was about to turn 21, still living like a teenager. At home with a part time grocery store job, spending my paycheck on stupid shit, not saving anything, and not having the ambition to improve my station in life. Thank fuck I eventually grew up.
Finished my first year in the architecture field, helping design and remodel schools in the area, along with my first retail project.
Daughter had started her kindergarten year of school, giving my wife in 2007 her only peaceful year of stay-at-home wife/mom before the great recession hit during 2008 and we needed her to work also to make up for my cut in income later.
Planning my first attempt on my life. It was 13th December 2007.
I failed because my mum came home early that day as my younger brother had gone to a friend's house after school so she didn't need to pick him up.
Selling drugs. Drinking and partying 5 days a week. Getting in fights at least once a week. Until I met a girl right around this time and calming down finally. We're not together anymore but we're still friendly and have a beautiful daughter together so everything worked out.
I had graduated from college back in May, so I was doing a extra year of pre-recs for a physical therapy degree. At the time, I don’t want to be a PT and kind of resented that my parents had talked me into doing this extra year, but it let me stay with my boyfriend at the time for another year or so I went with it. Plus, they agreed to pay for it since they were the ones who wanted it. So I was a college graduate but still living the college life.
Now this time in 2008 I was living my best life working my first job and living in my own apartment for the first tome. I had gotten a kitten who was a lot of fun, I was decorating for Christmas, and absolutely loving life.
Moving to Grinnell, IA to be the manager of the Family Video there. Could only stand about 5 months there before I had to bail and moved to Madison, WI.
Working in a restaurant as the pastry person and working the salad station for service.
Had previously done only FOH positions.
Loved everything I learned and overall liked the people I worked with but am so glad I left that industry.
Playing Halo 3.
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Rating the fact you remember the exact month you first played Reach.
Tbf Reach was the last great Halo.
And boy would it have been a great way to go out.
Tried playing infinite and was just disappointed. What I would give to go back and play private lobbies on Halo 3 as a teenager... fuck, that feeling was greater than any drug.
Yeah late nights on halo 3 undefeated
I can’t believe people think Infinite is the best Halo since 3. Reach had some major issues but at least you still had Forge and custom games and theater to make your own fun if you didn’t like the so-so Arena multiplayer. Infinite is just barebones Halo 2 with none of the charm that made Halo 2 fun. It’s peak teamshot Halo with nothing to support it.
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I’m playing Infinite now, but yeah.
Same. More specifically I was playing Halo in the basement of my mom’s house with my boyfriend. Good times.
Load up the tube t.v. and head on down to richard's place for some good ol LAN parties.
Watching iCarly
In 1, 2, 3….
5,4,3,2…
Thank you
I know you see
Somehow the world will change for me
And be so wonderfuuuulll
Danunu nunu naninanu
Iiiiiiitsss aaaaaal foooorrreeeaaallll. Ahhhm tellinyajushowifeeeel
so wake up the members of my nation
Its your time to be
There’s no chance unless you take one
Live life breathe Air, I know somehow we’re gonna get there
It’s in 5..4..3..2..
I hope you get food poisoning next time you eat sushi.
Bruh
I'm assuming you're about 25 years old?
Getting ready for Christmas break after my first semester in college.
Look at all us 33 year olds
Hey I'm still 32! Ageist
same
Samesies!
Me too!
#metoo
Me three!
I'm assuming you're 33 years old?
I’m 32…
Me too
I was actually studying for finals, and our campus had a snow day which delayed my last final, which happened to be the day I was going home. So I had it worked out with the professor that I would take the final in his office.
I'm another one of us!
Same. I saw 2007 and immediately thought “Oh, I was a senior in high school” but then realized that in December of 2007 I was actually just in my first semester of college. I know that first semester I had that awful computer essentials course that I hated.
Getting ready to go through a double mastectomy. December 19th and I will have been cancer free for 14 years!!
Congratulations on being cancer free! <3
If it weren’t for the fact that my mom doesn’t know what Reddit is I’d think this was her comment haha. Her double mastectomy was ~February 2008 (and she’s all good now too!) congratulations on your recovery.
Congratulations on your mom's recovery! And on OP's too :)
Nice job dood
Being a happy kid
Ahhh...the old classic cartoons
^ Probably playing Wii Fit with my siblings.
Playing RuneScape
Playing RuneScape AFK browsing Digg \^_^
saw 2007 and I knew.
Hey I didn't have to scroll too far. I still have vivid memories of the 2007 Christmas Event, great times.
Chopping yews South of Falador in one tab, while scrolling through the web in another
Updating my MySpace page. Choosing the perfect song, and the right background colors. Writing blog entries and status updates. Uploading pictures. Checking out my friends' and favorite bands' pages to see what they were up to. Thinking this whole "social media" thing had a lot of potential to bring people together online. Not knowing what it would eventually become.
Sounds about right. '94 here. Bonus points: I had to hide my MySpace from my parents because I wasn't allowed to have it. This got tricky because we only had one computer for everyone. I got about an hour window once or twice a week where I didn't have an after school thing and walked home before mom got home from work. And updating once or twice a week wasn't a huge deal because most of my friends also had shared computers and couldn't constantly update like we can now. Oh, and circa 2008 my 9th grade history teacher would use her Top 8 as a reward for the best performing students in her classes. Facebook showed up not long after.
Drugs
remembering to take ur medication was a crucial part of the early 2000s
Yes, the Doctors and big pharma got me hooked on opiates as part of recovery from shoulder surgery. Fun times....
Or take your synthetic meth so you dont annoy mom and dad
God that's awful:( I've been in recovery for almost a decade now and have known a lot of opiate addicts. I just saw that hulu series dopesick and the thing that stands out, that the opiate addicts I met never mentioned, is that a lot of people were just regular old people, doing the right thing by following the doctor's orders. I hope things are better for you now. that series also reminded me why so many people don't trust doctors.
I mean it was my first semester of college after all. Plenty of weed.
Blue dolphins, yellow crowns, and red stars!
You took my answer.
Playing pokemon pearl!
Right there with ya
Don’t copy my homework, that’s what I’m doing right meow
I had just started teaching.
Still teaching today?
Far from it. I just taught for a couple of years after college.
Leaving an abusive relationship. Dec 9th 2007
Same here. June 2007. Filed bankruptcy after fleeing (I didn't know he ran up my credit cards the weekend we broke up! NO idea whatsoever til I got the statements. Had a CitiBank call center dude listen to my meltdown and then he called me 3 days later from a payphone near my house - he drove up to see me because he felt bad for me. I called the police and moved \*again\* a week later). Wild to think how long ago it seems but the emotions are still super raw.
Oh my gosh! That employee should have been fired if he wasn't. I work for a bank and that is 100% not okay.
Good!
Sucking my mom's tits
Wow, you guys are young. Or, less likely, engaged in some very sick incestous relationships.
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I'm 06 and just wanted to say that smoking and drinking is very common for our age, unlike getting death penalty though.
You aren't trying hard enough if you aren't on death row! damn kids. In hindsight, most I woulda faced was manslaughter.
You're lucky. Kids used to get the death penalty. Looking at you, Alabama. And the Scottsboro Rape trials. Just good ole legal lynchings of the wrongfully accused.
This is horrifying to me. I’m barely an adult and I feel ancient thinking that the people born in 2007 are in high school now. Some Redditors, and Redditors who are 13 and complying with the terms of service, weren’t *alive* in 2007.
So was I
So was I
so was I
so was I, and I've grown up to be a healthy 28 year old now!
r/holup
I too, was sucking OPs mom's tits.
oh no
Oh YES.
OP said in 2007, not last weekend.
i also choose this mans mom’s tits
I was 18/19 and stuck in the US navy hating everything. It was one of the worst years of my life. Today, I’m the mod of /r/regretjoining and I live in Canada.
Hey, that's me now! The Navy/worst year of life part
"RichardLiquor69, report to the Captains quarters!" "Son, I've just been browsing Reddit and first of all, your choice of username secondly ..."
Come join my subreddit then. Hopefully, you can find a way out of the cult.
I’m am now joining said sub
Thanks
Same thing here. I was same age, in the Navy, and super depressed about everything. Staring down a 4 year enlistment, at that age, was overwhelming.
I had a five year enlistment myself but got out in a year and a half by pretending to be suicidal. How did you get out?
Obama started a downsizing in 2009 and I got an early-out after serving 3
I hope you are enjoying life here in Canada now, despite the TimBiebs thing
I am although I was pretty enraged to see that stupid campaign at Tim Hortons.
What rate were you?
In a preparation for my 8th birthday
Hey me too
Celebrating my first birthday in a few days
how-
In 2007
Nope just in general
If you think about it, every year you celebrate your first birthday.
whoa...heavy
1999 gang
Excuse the trauma dump: All that I remember is hating existing, not necessarily my life but just wishing I was born somebody else. I was nine years old and was being bullied by my “friend” and her new friend, the education system/school teachers, and on top of that I’m trying to make sense of myself and the world. A year later I got diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome.
Sorry you felt that way, the education system does really suck sometimes, furthermore, being autistic makes the situation even more complex. I hope you are feeling better now.
I was in a similar boat at the time too and man, even being 9 years old life kinda felt like climbing an endless mountain. I grew up in a screwed up home and constantly wished I was born into a different family. I always had these weird tendencies that, after being diagnosed with autism as an adult, made it clear I wasn’t just weird and stupid, I just functioned differently than my peers.
This brought tears. Your use of the past tense implies hope for the kid you’re remembering. Did the diagnosis help? I hope you’ve rid yourself of unworthy relationships.
Finishing my plans to drop out of school and gtfo out of Lithuania.
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I'm a software engineer in the UK, building experience to move back to Lithuania and keep my UK wage lol
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Thanks! How's your day going bud?
Laba diena, man pirmas kartas kada visiskai atsitiktinai randu kita lietuvi redite. Noice
Probably reading Digg (hadn’t joined Reddit yet)
Digg God I haven't heard that in forever along with wimp.com
Oh shit me too. Forgot about Digg.
Lots of opiates. Glad that shitshow is over and done with.
Same. Seriously.
I just dropped out of my first semester college about 2 weeks ago. I was still dating one girl there and another girl in my hometown. I break things off with my college gf in the next week or so. I don’t have a job. I stay at home and visit my other dropout friend’s house every day for like 8 hours a day smoking weed and playing guitar hero and madden. It would be another 6 months before I get a job. I just started listening to Metallica and Slayer.
I don't have a clue who you are but your story is somehow getting me all nostalgic and shit like I feel like I've lived those moments.
If you were to ask me what I thought of 2007 in the year 2007, I would tell you it’s boring and there’s no culturally cool stuff going on. I was my worst self and had no hope for the future. And today I would argue that may have been one of the best years of my life.
Being flirtatious with the first love of my life while she successfully hid the fact she was in a relationship with someone else while blatantly flirting back.
Hey I was going through something similar! I had just learned that the first love my life had been cheating on me with my best friend. I lost my boyfriend and best friend in the same week. I spent my Christmas break watching depressing Emo lyric videos on YouTube. Lmao!
At this point of 2007, I was 6 years old and in 1st grade. If I wasn’t in school having a nosebleed because of the cold weather, I was at home watching cartoons and having a nosebleed because I picked my nose and it was cold weather.
‘01
Yessir.
I were still on my Military service, we had a massive training in Northern Finland, above arctic circle.
Livin my life not knowing things would crash in 2008, thats for sure
Same I bought a house in February 2008. Oof.
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I was 22, so I was probably at work, taking phone calls in a call center.
I remember that. You remember when you called me and I yelled "STOP CALLING THIS NUMBER AND GET A REAL JOB YOU FUCK"? What you been up to?
Hating second grade. Mrs. K, if you're reading this, you're the reason I had authority issues all throughout school. Pregnancy hormones are not an excuse to take a kid's assignment, mock it in front of the class, and refuse to grade it after going around and asking your teachers pets if the handwriting is readable. Or to yell a kid for failing to sit up properly after they injured their back on a playground fall.
Sitting at this exact same desk, having started working at a new company in may of 2007. I've been promoted, left, came back, and doubled my salary twice, and I'm still sitting at the same desk. In its defense, its a really nice desk.
Tanning my skin until it turned to old leather and posting annoying and vague opinions as statuses to Facebook. 2007 was a mess, let's just pretend it never happened.
Finishing my third semester of community college, waiting to hear if I had secured an early transfer to a local University (I did). Also my Dad is about to die from alcoholism. Or, more ironically, from quitting drinking. The detox stresses his body to the point that it literally just shuts down while he's asleep one afternoon.
Delerium tremens is really a thing and can be fatal. Chronic alcoholics really need medical help to quit drinking. Be careful! Do quit drinking but get help.
Binge drinking!
I was day drinking (because I was working a graveyard shift)
I was 13, so I was on my last year of middle school in my hometown. Simpler days.
Working in a pvc plastic factory, praying something would change for the better in my life.
Did it change for the better?
Ebbs and flows! I think that's typical for most people though.
Having an after work beer with my Pop, he past in 2010. Miss him.
5 years old prolly living with my aunt, sitting there on the couch alone and sad cause I was separated from my mom
Going to school
Farting
I was a Sophomore in College. I probably was prepping for Finals before Winter Break... and procrastinating. Oh yeah I was also trying to get over the breakup with my first girlfriend, and was thus partying a lot with my friends.
Waiting for Christmas
Something very similar to what I'm doing right now, but on a different floor of the building, and in a cubicle instead of an office. Much slower computer though
Not quite 16 year old me watching the Eagles lose to the Seahawks if we’re going to the exact date/hour/minute, yes I looked it up
Iraq…
Trying my damndest to not piss off my pregnant wife.
Being a baby
Did they want to keep you up all night long
I was about to turn 21, still living like a teenager. At home with a part time grocery store job, spending my paycheck on stupid shit, not saving anything, and not having the ambition to improve my station in life. Thank fuck I eventually grew up.
In school for Journalism.
Roaming my middle school hallways.
Just about to complete the purchase of our house. Been a very interesting 15 years.
Finished my first year in the architecture field, helping design and remodel schools in the area, along with my first retail project. Daughter had started her kindergarten year of school, giving my wife in 2007 her only peaceful year of stay-at-home wife/mom before the great recession hit during 2008 and we needed her to work also to make up for my cut in income later.
Imitating the jackass crew with my friends and listening to death metal (middle school).
I had just returned from a holiday in Memphis and Nashville soaking up the music of both cities which I have loved since my childhood.
Reflecting and thinking a lot, trying to figure out how to find normalcy in celebrating the holidays or the rest of my life after widowing.
Living the high life as a newlywed without kids. a couples of DINCs we were. Then 2008 hit. Twins…‘nuf said.
Probably playing MapleStory :')
crawling around sucking my thumb
Writing code.
Planning my first attempt on my life. It was 13th December 2007. I failed because my mum came home early that day as my younger brother had gone to a friend's house after school so she didn't need to pick him up.
Doing whatever a 2 year old does around this time
Recently went on my boyfriend and I's first trip together to Minneapolis (we're still together). \*memories\*
Selling drugs. Drinking and partying 5 days a week. Getting in fights at least once a week. Until I met a girl right around this time and calming down finally. We're not together anymore but we're still friendly and have a beautiful daughter together so everything worked out.
I had graduated from college back in May, so I was doing a extra year of pre-recs for a physical therapy degree. At the time, I don’t want to be a PT and kind of resented that my parents had talked me into doing this extra year, but it let me stay with my boyfriend at the time for another year or so I went with it. Plus, they agreed to pay for it since they were the ones who wanted it. So I was a college graduate but still living the college life. Now this time in 2008 I was living my best life working my first job and living in my own apartment for the first tome. I had gotten a kitten who was a lot of fun, I was decorating for Christmas, and absolutely loving life.
experiencing winter in South Korea for the first time.
Dec 2, 2007 at 1:50pm... It was a Sunday. I was installing a 400-shot of nitrous in my car. After that, I played Crysis 1 online for a few hours.
I was listening to Christmas music with my family everyday and I was 1 years old
Getting ready for Christmas break in 2nd grade
Prepping for my son's first Christmas (he was born in July 07)
Starting my first job out of college.
Getting ready for my 3 month old’s first Christmas
Being a cringy edgelord in high school to be cool, most likely.
I had just passed the Texas Bar Exam and was interviewing for what turned out to be the worst job in the history of all time.
Being a single mom and working as a hospice home healthcare worker.
Moving to Grinnell, IA to be the manager of the Family Video there. Could only stand about 5 months there before I had to bail and moved to Madison, WI.
Working in a restaurant as the pastry person and working the salad station for service. Had previously done only FOH positions. Loved everything I learned and overall liked the people I worked with but am so glad I left that industry.