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One wish (slrpnk.net)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 41 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Now I must know what a goose wishes for.

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  • [–] 66 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    honk

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  • [–] -4 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    In here I am, on the other end of that, as some Gen X asshole who doesn’t get DragonBall references

    At least we can both take a lesson from this: life is not fair. Although, what I take from this, is that the Internet does not “owe“ me a laugh. And even if I don’t get the joke, I can at least appreciate the literal decades of pop, cultural familiarity a person has to have in order to “get it “.

    But that just makes me feel older, because I used to always “get it “, but now I’m too old to “get it” anymore.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago*

    At the risk of sounding obnoxious, the only reference point you need here is the main plot device of the Dragonball series: collect 7 balls > get a wish.

    I'm asking sincerely, not rhetorically: is this niche cultural knowledge? In my mind it's like understanding the point of pokemon is capturing animals in balls, or that P. Sherman lives at 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney. Harry Potter is a wizard.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    This made me wonder, since the TV series came out a long time ago. Generation X ended ~1980. The original Dragon Ball series started in 1986. So there are Gen X that were kids (not that you have to be a kid to watch it, but that's the most likely audience) when it aired.

    Just musing over that particular thing. I feel it's safe to say it's generally outside of Gen X culture.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago*

    I'm firmly a millennial and know dragonball from the version where the Pig guy wishes for underwear at the end I have no problem believing gen xers were too old for the dragonball I remember and the later ones on cartoon network or wherever.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    You shouldn't even need to know what dragon ball is for this with basic reading comprehension, I'm sorry.

    Being appears, asks what the goose wants, then says "as you wish"

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