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Just got back from visiting my friend with my brother. We watched Gemini Man so that was fun

@sean
😂 I'm sure there are better games on those systems! We never played games like that as kids, it was mostly sports and adventure/open world games for us

Minecraft is still quite the treat

@sean
Yeah... Older systems like a DS or PS2 or something would be better for a kid IMHO

@realcaseyrollins it's kind of just a perfect storm.

✅ Full-time Job Mom
✅ Pandemic
✅ No friends in area
✅ Can't really go anywhere

Devices are pretty much the only thing there is to do here, so I'm not unsympathetic. It's just hard to watch them fight over a device that's only capable of serving up shitty games designed to get people addicted.

@Elfie@neckbeard.xyz
That's cool! My upbringing was similar, except minus the LAN and games after 2004 or so wouldn't work cuz it was a machine with 256 MB of RAM.

But I got a gamepad from a thrift store for like five bucks and played NHL 2000 and Lego Soccer Mania with my brother. Those were good times...
@sean

@Elfie @realcaseyrollins thankfully, it's just a crummy Kindle Fire tablet that's locked down.

But in hindsight, I grew up with a hand-me-down PC with no connection outside of the LAN, and the experience of playing games with my family or by myself was superb. It served as my gateway into Linux and game development.

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People don't understand, , not the government, controls the populace and holds all the cards

Any news channel could have anyone assassinated in a day and get away with it too

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@Lainyboy@neckbeard.xyz I skimmed it but it didn't seem to be more than society at large, right? Like is definitely not pulling the strings here

@sean Hmm...is it the device, or the parenting that is the issue here?

Devices are addictive, but without them perhaps they would fight over something else...

Watching my girlfriend's kids fight over who gets to use the tablet makes me think that maybe giving kids mobile devices is a terrible idea.

Get desktop PCs and destroy each other in Command and Conquer like normal children.
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