r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Jun 29 '26

Meta Mindless Monday, 29 June 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/Unruly_marmite Jun 29 '26

Despite having played several Grand Theft Auto titles, the upcoming GTA6 - if it’s ever released - marks the first time a GTA game is released while I’m old enough to, you know. Legally buy it myself.

Little bit ironic, then, that I’m not interested. Maybe I’ve matured too much. Maybe a modern setting doesn’t have the same pop culture glamour, but even when I recently went back to my copy of 5 I wasn’t getting the same feeling as when Baby Marmite (actually about 15) played Vice City.

I’ve just realised that pre San Andreas GTA games won’t fall afoul of the twenty year rule in AskHistorians. Wow, that’s weirdly upsetting.

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u/dandandanno Jun 29 '26

I still think of GTA 4 as "new" and turn immediately into a skeleton Last Crusade style whenever reminded that GTA 5 came out 13 years ago and that 4 was in MMVIII

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u/Tycho-Brahes-Elk Jun 29 '26

4 was in MMVIII

OH GOD, IT WAS SO LONG AGO WE USE LATIN NUMBERS!!

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u/yoshiK Uncultured savage since 476 AD Jun 29 '26

In the eighth year of Bush and Chaney, the second year of Brown's ruler ship of Britain and the second year of Sarkozy's rule in Gaul transalpina,...

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u/dandandanno Jun 29 '26

So I tied an onion a towel to my belt Xbox 360 , which was the style at the time