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I remember my Civics teacher being worried about the creeping fascism he saw as ol' Rudy got revved up about being crowned mayor for life, and Bush started passing surveillance laws, and white people were beating Muslim folks in the street. We had soldiers stationed in the subway with assault rifles for a long time. To keep us "safe".

When 9/11 happened, I was a senior in high school, I was a ferry ride away from lower Manhattan, could see smoke from the towers burning outside the window, and classmates were crying and freaking out that their parents were dead.

My biggest fear that day was that we were going to war, but fortunately everything turned out ok oh oops no, everything is even worse than I could ever imagined.

Facebook sucks because you get friend requests from your sister's former roommate, who you haven't seen in 3 years and barely ever talked to

My favorite ska band is Splatoon 2

Can't wait for all the dudes in the neighborhood with Blue Lives Matter bumperstickers to start jerking off about the WTC

Someone who experienced 9/11 in a cornfield thousands of miles away and who got furiously insulted when an Islamic center tried to open in lower Manhattan: I was really scared that day, never forget, support the troops, yeehaw

White guy walking around with assault rifles on his shirt: Defend pop punk

Apple? That company that made the laptop that broke on me twice?

Sega should just put those games all on the Nintendo Switch because they feel like Switch games that came out 2 decades too early.

The problem was, gamers in 1999 did not like color or having fun.

They wanted ugly block men shooting at one another and being angsty over ridiculous, sub-B movie plotlines. That's what a hit game was in 1999.

The Dreamcast had those intense, cyberpunk, body horror ads, and then the games were like, "funny cartoon boxing!" or "wacky cab driving!" or "put the cute mousies on the rocket ship"

Sending my partners romantic mixtapes, such as a Spotify playlist containing 45 minutes of music about cats

I'm going to form a band and call it The Real Beatles

Naming your cartoon The Real Ghostbusters was some shade