Depends on your film genre though.
Currently I am old enough to be the mentor figure that gets killed off to motivate the hero.
Look, I’m sorry but the Hero has Refused the Call and we have to get them on their Journey somehow.
The worst thing is having to scroll farther and father down when selection your date of birth in online forms. I’m like “why does this start after 2000? kids don’t use this thing” and then I realize people born in 2008 are 18 now.
Personally, most cases that use a drop down to select a year are cases where I don’t care for them to know my actual birthdate, so just roll that mouse wheel like it’s the price is right and pick whatever year looks nice, you can be from the silent generation or the silent film generation!
Waaaaayyyy back in the day I did this and said I was born in like 1910 or something (which was an actual option on the wheel) and I got a pop-up that said something like “put in a real DOB.” What if I had actually been a tech-savvy ninety year old, huh?
Ah neat, I don’t usually go that old but was wondering how some handled ages going from reasonable to possible to unlikely to impossible. Especially since giving a “age too old” error could count as age discrimination.
Did I just say something vaguely threatening, or offer a foreshadowing clue to your survival and vital plot progression?
Who knows?
Better lock your oven then
No. Let the unknowable cosmic horror take me.
Can’t be worse than going to work every day for the rest of my life.
Don’t talk like that. That’s not your future!
You’ll be laid off at some point.
No. Let the unknowable cosmic horror take me.
But it’s only taking your spinal fluid. One sip at a time. Until one night there’s nothing left and you die seemingly from old people disease.
still better than going to work every day.
I might be sad about not writing my book, but I’m already sad about that so fuckit.
You still have to until you die ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Peacefully in my sleep? What’s the catch?
It takes weeks and you have to get up and live your regular life until then
Ugh
It’s got hands, it can’t be that unknowable
I’m the kooky conspiracy not-quite-middle-aged guy who tries to keep to himself that people try to avoid but turns out he was right the whole time
They won’t listen, such is life
You might age into store clerk who may or may not be murdered by Anton Chigurh before long.
Eventually, you morph into Danny Glover all the time. “I’m getting too old for this shit!”
I was given my first senior citizen discount today without asking 😩
F
You’re probably in the ripe age to be the center of the mystery in Files of X
But what if you work at Camp Muderblood? 🫣
Thank goodness I’m not quite old enough to be Mrs Voorhees.
Yeah, we should definitely have horror movie sequels where the ones who managed to get away from the stabber/slicer/decapitator is now a person living nearby and interacting with the new kids coming for their scandalous swimming/camping/drinking party time and warning them off being killed. It would be a cool callback.
It’s not the best part but it is a nice perk
Well, kudos to you. It is the best thing I’ve got going for me right now.
You can still be the guy selling chilli to the teenagers on a road trip before they head down the road and later find out where the meat for that chilli comes from.
I’m the middle aged paranoid techy guy that is locked in his fortress with cameras everywhere that will somehow end up dead the moment he let’s in that one person he helped online but they are followed by the bad guys.
Edit: middle aged
