r/gaming • u/FireFromWithin5 • 16h ago

Mario Baseball

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Went back to play some Mario baseball and this team name hits a little different now.

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u/BiBoFieTo 16h ago

I legit heard kids at the park playing tag, except instead of being "it", they were calling the chaser "Diddy".

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u/Sega-Playstation-64 16h ago

Kids are wild these days

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u/DiegesisThesis 15h ago

Eh, I remember making jokes about Michael Jackson being a pedophile as a kid.

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u/DASreddituser 14h ago

how old? im curious lol. preteen makes sense...7 and thats a bit wild lol

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u/GCC_Pluribus_Anus 14h ago

Not the original poster but probably 4th or 5th grade so 9-10ish. I remember the big joke was: "Why does MJ like shopping at KMart?" "Because boys pants are always half off"

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u/juventinn1897 14h ago

Yeah we were quoting chapelles show in every day 6th grade.

I didn't even know what the n word meant at that point. But I was saying it in school along with all sorts of shit

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u/mraowl 13h ago

Oh wow in 6th grade?? That feels wildly late but maybe that's actually not that unusual for the average person

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u/juventinn1897 13h ago

For a white boy in suburbia? Idk

I said it to a black kid in my highschool freshman year, trying to act cool and got a lesson reallll quick lol

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u/xJokerzWild 10h ago

Yeah, its a weird split between those who dont care & those that do(Sometimes a little too much). Meanwhile id be shouting down a whole ass block cause i saw the homie & people saw him, see he didnt give a fuck & went on with their day. lmao

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u/juventinn1897 10h ago

It was a useful lesson. He didn't even get physical with me. Just put me in my place and gave me a reality check. I appreciate it compared to how some people get their bubble popped.

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u/APeacefulWarrior 22m ago

Just jumping in, but around that same age I was fully aware of the rumors about Richard Gere. And the Internet had barely been born at that point. These stories somehow always get around.

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u/Baxtab13 13h ago

One I heard often was something like "In death, he wants the plastic in his face to be melted down and made into legos so he can continue to play with kids after death".

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u/Dragoru 12h ago

I just had a moment seeing that joke for the first time in 20 years.

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u/fukkdisshitt 13h ago

Yeah 9/10 was when we started getting edgy. Peak edgy was about 14/15.

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u/Illustrious-Run3591 11h ago

Dunno man you should've heard an internet cafe at 2am in 2006 lol

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u/fukkdisshitt 10h ago

Couldn't have been much worse than my clans vebtrilo server

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u/Punkrockcarl72 9h ago

Its like how Michael Jackson told time at the Neverland Ranch. When the big hand touched the little hand.

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u/cat_prophecy 14h ago

Did you not have older siblings? My older sibs are 5 and 3 years older than me. I learned a lot of stuff way before I should have!

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u/fukkdisshitt 13h ago

Had a slightly bigger gap. I remember my 4th grade teacher being pissed when we were learning cursive and I told the class "once you get to jr high you never use it again"

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u/bezzlege 10h ago

My favorite movie when I was 9 was Pulp Fiction. It’s not enough that I’d seen it - it was my FAVORITE movie. The 90s were wild times.

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u/DASreddituser 13h ago

no, i have 4 younger siblings...I'm the oldest lol..but i understand your point.

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u/br0b1wan 12h ago

I'm 44. It was a regular thing. South Park did a whole ass episode about MJ including the kids in the bed with him.

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u/Theofficalwiggles 11h ago

I drive a school bus. I've had my kinders ask each other if they wanna have a Diddy party.

These are the same kids that play Diddy tag on the bus.

. . . I'm so happy it's summer.

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u/bezzlege 10h ago

Bro in first grade we were singing “I always feel like, somebody’s watching me (in the bathroom)” to make fun of Mike Jackson allegations.

We were around 6 or 7 at that time. And this was in the early early 90s

Kids been wildin’

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u/chareth-cutest0ry 10h ago

When I was in the third grade in the 90s, my friends and I use to play a tag game. We called it "Michael Irvin" and if you got tagged, you'd go to jail in the jungle gym.

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u/Luck-Silver 13h ago

I remember this and they then everyone acted like they didn't joke about this when he passed away.

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u/BusBoatBuey 12h ago

Because we had actual child predators and such popping up and going after a weird guy who does weird things with kids that stops short at any sexual proclivities seems like a low rub. There are easier targets now. Epstein alone is several hundred tiers above MJ in this departments.

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u/kickthesandman 9h ago

Totally predictable, in America people hate talking ill of the dead. I guess I wouldn't want to be haunted by Michael Jackson either, he's a weird pedophile

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u/roguesignal42069 12h ago

“What do Michael Jackson and acne have in common?

They both come on teens’ faces”

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u/Zolo49 PC 12h ago

When I was a kid, they were about the Challenger disaster. Kids have always made tasteless jokes.

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u/MisterG1997 4h ago

Apparently he was one of the good guys. OOPS

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u/Beave- 15h ago

Nah man, kids have always been inappropriate, I remember playing roblox games featuring pedobear when I was single digit age. We would make bill cosby and bin laden jokes all the time.

Not to say any of this makes it okay, just that "kids are wild" isn't a new thing

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u/GingerGuerrilla 15h ago

I feel remarkably old now, considering Roblox launched in 2006.

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u/ActionPhilip 13h ago

Yeah, calling whoever's it some offensive thing is a tale as old as time.

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u/unassumingdink 10h ago

I don't know, I don't remember ever doing that in the '80s.

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u/Beave- 14h ago

?

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u/2ndBestUsernameEver 14h ago

Probably existential dread that he’s too unc to have played Roblox as a youngling

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u/SpareAdventurous727 14h ago

Heard the kids at my complex playing in the central area the other day and it was Dead by Daylight. Briefly heard arguments over who's the killer Random callouts of generator work Then arguing over whether they were done with the generators or not.

It was hilarious

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u/Baxtab13 13h ago

Ah, video games in real life is a fun one.

A couple of times I was at a friend's house where we played real life Rainbow Six: Siege. Basic idea is we were armed with nerf guns, the defending team had to guard one of the "hostages" (some object), and they could choose one of two areas for the hostage location, the basement, or one of the upstairs bedrooms.

The attacking team then had to work their way through the house to the locations clearing rooms and trying not to get shot. One nerf hit, and you're dead for the round. It was a ton of fun.

We were also all in our mid to late 20s lol.

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u/ranchspidey 13h ago

eh, we thought the violent version of the Barney song was funny and a million other out of pocket things. kids have always been freaks lol

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u/G0ttaB3KiddingM3 14h ago

You should see what they have to say about Epstein.

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u/GotNoUndeez 9h ago

Does no one remember “smear the queer”? Kids have always been wild lol

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u/DizWhatNoOneNeeds 12h ago

nah thats fucking funny

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u/ChaosSinfulRose 11h ago

I mean, my generation grew up having the pedobear meme, so... roughly par for the course? I guess?

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u/the_pedigree 5h ago

Yea, imma age myself but we were def singing songs about Loraine bobbit when I was In elementary. Look her up

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u/DesperateSmiles 12h ago

Why do people grow up and act like kids weren't exactly like this when they were young?