What were you up to in 2007?

[imgurrefugee114@reddthat.com]

Erotic roleplay via SQL...

DELETE FROM wardrobe
WHERE item = 'pants' AND owner = 'you';

[drstevebrule@mander.xyz]

I was pretty young but I remember being so awed by the "big" graphical updates between 2005-2007 lol

[stinerman@midwest.social]

I graduated with a degree in Mathematics and ended up working part time delivering newspapers.

[harneytoker@lemmy.world]

Yes, there was a sweet spot in the graphics updates right before they enshittified the whole game.

[endingruby579@lemmy.world]

I was 12 years old in middle school learning to talk to girls without pulling a Stan Marsh and throwing up all over lol

[rooty@lemmy.world]

Finishing up College and feeling generally anxious about entering the "adult" world.

[nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

getting rolled around in my stroller at marching band shows

[unknown@piefed.social]

I was taking fuck tonnes of party drugs at psytrance squat raves in abandoned mansions or under random motorway overpasses and occasionally remembering to go to college on weekdays. London was a really fun place to be a teenager back then.

[vandals_handle@lemmy.world]

Oh noes, now my microcode is accessible, better apply a PTF and IPL

[hikingvet@lemmy.ca]

Fisheries patrols and exercises mostly. I was a marine mechanic in the RCN.

[needyplatter@lemmy.ca]

Playing with dolls mostly likely since I was a toddler at the time.

[justas@sh.itjust.works]

Preparing for my high school graduation exams, playing computer games and drawing shit.

[semi_hemi_demigod@lemmy.world]

Getting ready for the birth of my first kid

[psythik@lemmy.world]

Finishing senior year of high school, completely unaware that it was nothing but downhill from there.

It took me over a decade after high school just to find a job that actually paid enough to move out of my parents house. And then another 8 years for me to find someone and settle down. But now I feel too old and out of energy to start a family. I'm just barely starting my life and it's already halfway over.

We don't get enough time on this planet.

[thejesusaurus@sh.itjust.works]

I graduated highschool in '07

[zotethemighty@lemmy.zip]

I learned this trick where if I sold mortgages as a bundle deal, they would be considered less risky than if I were to sell those mortgages separately. It tuns out I could just keep doing this and make a ton of money and there was absolutely no downside!

[hperrin@lemmy.ca]

I was in college, fresh out of high school. I started learning PHP that year. I think I was working at One Stop Systems, a company that produces enterprise PCIe equipment.

I was still using Windows at that point, and I would switch to Linux the next year.

[hobbitfoot@thelemmy.club]

I was a few years into my first post-college job. It ended up involving a lot more coordination than I thought.

[deathbybigsad@sh.itjust.works]

I was a kid, can barely talk, didn't even speak a word of English, I was still in mainland China, probably in kindergarden or something, no internet access (too poor and live in slums), bored as fuck when at home, barely any entertainment, I don't think I had much toys, if I did, I broke them, my parents would leave me and my older brother* at home and my parents warned me not to climb near the windows (lived live around 5 stories high), there's a "safety cage" around the windows so like I wouldn't fall out or anything, but still I had intrusive thoughts, also told me not to touch the electricity stuff so I don't get zapped to death, also don't touch the plant fertilizer stuff because... poisonus to humans or something... (lived in the city, but there are houseplants and there are people that grow stuff on land in a mountain nearby).

I vaguely remember Mr. Bean, 猫和老鼠 (Cat and Mouse... aka: Tom and Jerry), and um... yea I don't remember much, since I kinda suppressed the memories because something bad happens around this time.

So... shit is about to go down...

So basically, because... you know... I was a kid, I kinda touched my older brother's toys... he's like 5 yeard older than me btw... and I'm not even sure if those count as "his" because resource in the house is kinda pooled, I viewed it as communal property (unrelated to the political-economic system btw, it just my worldview as a child, since my parents always used the words “你哋”/“你们” (you in plural form) when on the topic of buying toys and stuff, so I assumed its shared).

So I think this is how it goes: I might've touched "his" toys, he got mad at me, he used plastic zip ties and he fucking tied me up. WHAT THE FUCK?!? Also "CPS" isn't a thing, so I was just his hostage for a FEW HOURS, until parents got come. WHAT THE FUCK FUCK FUCK.

Also dude plays with fire in the house (separate incident), he pours white-out liquod onto a piece of paper, then IGNITE IT ON FIRE. My retrospective reaction rn: Like how the f we didn't die? Concrete/cement buildings is probably a factor, if it was a wooden house, it's GGs.

And then shit went down when one time, we had fight, he was chasing me around the house, so I ran and went to find my mother, grandmother was at home but bitch didn't stop shit. I could've gotten kidnaoped that day. Cops were searching the neighborhood but they didn't expect me to take a bus all the fucking way to my mother's workplace. (Bus drivers didn't give a fuck lol), I couldn't find her, so then I later came back home. I missed a few stops and then I had to backtrack. My most lonely moment in my life, and my first Adverse Childhood Experience. I wasn't even 8 years old at the time.

*For context, I was not supposed to be born, my mother violated the "One Child Policy" and gave birth to me.

God damn, my older brother has the "Little Emperor Syndrome", got so jealous that other kids were their parents sole attention, but my parents had to split attention, dude was probably so furious he didn't get all the attention he could've gotten had I not been born, since that's the situation in almost every other family.

Wrong spawn location, I need to restart this game, it sucks. NORWAY PLSSSS

Actually fuck Earth, give me a Type III civillization, and PLS NO "HIVE MIND" SPECIES, I HATE THOSE.

[territorial@piefed.ca]

I was in a (very) long distance relationship at the time, and decided it was worth taking risks and making bold moves, so I moved to close the distance. We got married in 2008, and are married still, so that worked out great. I tried keeping in touch with friends, but over time our life experiences diverged to the point where we just didn't have a lot to talk about anymore, and old friendships fizzled out. I learned many things, got new jobs and made new friends, and overall life is good.