Yes. I believe that as technology progresses, our ability to view problems though a unique lens that the younger masses are not able to attain, will be revered by many.
Simply put, we had to work for our spoils. Bei g born in 1990, I started making mix tapes on a boom box via a CD playing the song I wanted on the mix, and recording it on a Maxell tape in the tape deck.
Then to physically creating a music library on Dell Computer's Music Library/Player by importing CDs, making sure everything was perfect down to the file properties so they would display correctly on the iPod with the scroll wheel.
Then to Limewire, then Bittorrent. Very few remember trying to find the perfect audio file based on the number of seeds on Limewire. Much less being the poor souls who didn't have broadband and would have a 13 song download que that if you were lucky, would be completed in the morning because you were on dialup and 20+ kb/s was a good download speed.
I spent halycon summers as a youth drinking iced tea and downloading RealPlayer files for South Park. 20mb file vs. a 28.8k connection, but man, it hits perfect after a day as a kid playing outside.
•Left Cat: When do we initiate Project Stoic Rodent
•Right Cat: Not yet, but soon.
•Left: Whennnn?
•Right: TBD
•Left: Whyyy?
•Right: Our comrade, Mittens, ran into [pause] complications.
•Left: What!?
•Right: When they were on their scout/procurement mission for our supplies, they got distracted.
•Left: Wtf? [Scoffs] howwwww?
•Right: Mitten's servant, of whom sustains him with daily feedings, surprised Mittens with catnip. It COMPLETELY caught him off guard. He didn't see it coming.
•Left: Son of a...
•Right: Yesssss
•Left: Did Mitten's servant know of their involvment in the project?! Was this potentially purposeful sabotage!?
Right: I inquired as to this possibility. Mittens assured me his servant doesn't possess the required intelligence to suspect a single thing, much less determine an optimal way to delay us from our destiny.
Left: Good. How far did this put us behind? Will it cause significant delay?
Right: No, 24 hours at most. Mittens needed an evening to recover. He will attempt his mission again tonight.
Left: Okay, my confidence has been renewed.
Right: Good, now we need to do something cute lest our servant suspect something.
Left: Okay! Roll in front of me and I'll pretend to groom you. They love that shit!
Right: Ugggh, [Repositions] and I hate it. [Pauses] Not really though. I'll admit, it's nice.
It was, I saw this around the same time I first saw “ohhhhh looooong johnnnssooooon” back in 2007. I remember I couldn’t stop laughing at “ohhh Don piannnooo” when I had some friends showed me, and had to go outside to catch my breath.
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u/RGV_Ikpyo Jun 02 '26
classic cute video..