Grew up playing games that took place mostly indoors, wishing I could go outside.
Then they started making open world games where you spend a lot of time outside and I was wishing I could go inside more places.
Me Gronk. This Gronk son. He called ‘Gronkson’. Me teach Gronkson to hunt mammoth. Gronkson think hunt mammoth easy. He never see real mammoth. Spend too much time on silly cave drawings. Gronkson go on first mammoth hunt. Make big mistake. Gronkson use wrong stick to bonk mammoth. Mammoth not die. Mammoth get very angry. Try to stomp Gronkson. Gronk bonk mammoth with big stick. Kill Mammoth. Gronkson dense but at least not dead.
…when Gronk same age as Gronkson, Gronk bonk mammoth with wrong stick. Gronk dad have to bonk mammoth with big stick. Save Gronk life.
Me Tor. Tor learn make woven grass from Tor-mum. Tor been make woven grass for long time. Tor forget when Tor small and not know how make woven grass. Tor only know that Tor make woven grass. It seem easy for Tor.
Tor had Tor-child. Tor-child not know how do thing that Tor do easy. Tor forget that Tor-child need be taught. Tor forget learn not come easy, that many mistake happen. Tor tell friends that Tor-child dumb as rock. Tor-child learn so slow. Tor-child must be lazy.
Tor-mum thought same thing. But all learn slow. All not know how until someone show how. Happenings make thoughts, become learning, become knowing - become rock where more learning and knowing be built. More rock, more knowing, easy learning. No rock, small knowing, hard learning. Tor should not think Tor better than Tor-child when Tor same age.
My boomer mom cannot exist without the TV on. She literally will wake up if you turn it off. When she switched to streaming instead of cable, the “are you still watching” messages were a big obstacle. Oh, and she spends more time on video games than I do.
Same with my dad. He needs therapy, but instead spends 18 hours a day watching westerns. Occasionally baseball, but there’s not a single second of cowboy-themed media he hasn’t seen at least 50 times.
It’s genuinely incomprehensible to me.
Comfort shows are trauma coping mechanisms. But he won’t acknowledge that he’s riddled with fear of the world around him and his trajectory in it, he “just likes westerns”
Actually, I can kinda see why that might be the case. Westerns are often set in tiny towns with like 50 people. That’s a comfortable number of people to coexist with and Amy problem is easy to understand and solve. But he lives in a sprawling boundless community of thousands or millions, infested with threads of arcane and existential problems that he barely understands, let alone has any control over
As an elder millennial:
s/outside/filesystems
s/boomers/millennials
Boomers ruined the outside by driving too much car
It’s like burning down your local bar then complaining about how nobody goes to the bar anymore.
Hyuk hyuk
There will always be something and older generation complains about younger generations but do bad shit themselves.
Folks used to complain about me and my friends playing video games indoors for only an hour. Well they sat and watched TV from sun up to sun down. My dad didn’t watch as much as my mom, but he drank all the time.
Really it boils down to self control. Every generation has to face some new entertainment they shouldn’t overindulge in. But just because you didn’t have it and don’t understand it, you shouldn’t beat people up about it. It’s valid to say someone is doing anything too much though.
I’m steaming mad that the next generation plays video games by watching their favourite streamer make smurf after smurf and then buy the skins they’re told to.
I feel justified there.
What does making a smurf mean?
This is the fediverse, so I can’t completely rule out the possibility that you casually use the word smurf like they do in the show, and I’m supposed to fill in the meaning from context.
It’s when a high ranking player makes a new account so they can play with newbies and destroy them
A smurf is an account you create to pretend to be a low level noob, when you’re actually an experienced player. The goal is to deceive the matchmaking algorithm into putting you with newer players so you can stomp them.
And by doing so making the experience worse for new players. Its not the end of the world but its basically cheating. And cheaters are losers.
I used to do this except see how high I could get ranked with some arbitrary restrictions, like only allowed to use knife and grenades in csgo.
I got to distinguished master guardian with pistols only.
Knife and grenades was tough to get into gold.
Honestly though, I took my (now ex) boyfriend to the mountains one time and he couldn’t stop saying how he thought such beautiful scenery was only possible in video games.
It is for most people
Yeah it’s very expensive to get through an oblivion gate.
The great outdoors used to be for drifters and hobos. Now it’s a luxury that many can only experience on their masturbation rectangles.
Did you ask him what he though inspired those landscapes? Why they all seem to look suspiciously similar in a foundational level?
I’m now thinking about Xen from half-life.
Buncha those when Pac-Man was the big thing too. Political cartoonists are 99% shitty comedians on par with the “White people drive like this, my race drives like this” standup guys and 1% moderately entertaining sometimes.
Gen-X here. Can confirm that boomers bullied my neighbor and I because we spent hours on his NES.
EDIT: Atari 2600 before that, but the NES sessions were proper long.
Also it is bothering me to no end, that the kid says “on my video games” which is just wrong. It is either “in my games” or “on my pc/console”. With really shows to me that the maker has absolutely no clue what they are talking about.
