Ask Lemmy

Water

Your mom.

My wife

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.

My wife. 🥰

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.

My knees

It's the game of Go. Also known as baduk, weiqi, igo. It's a board game known for being pretty old.

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

The Sun

(the firey ball of doom, not the garbage newspaper)

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

My jokes.

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.

backgammon

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.

Earth?

But to give more sensible answer: Computer Chronicles, and it's on YouTube.

Edith Piaf never gets old

I still keep a few old things around but I'm not near them or using them on a daily basis.

The only exception is one necklace, which I always keep on even when showering. I started using it about a decade ago, but it belonged to my mother since her teenager years.

So yes, that's an item that's old and I enjoy on a daily basis

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

Sweet sleep. Speaking of which, back to bed I go. 😴💤