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“yeah mom… who said I wanted to go out tonight? I want to play video games with my friends all weekend. like I do every weekend” ~ probably the response.
I am not terribly bullish on the state of video games in another ten or fifteen years. Seems like enshitification is turning that entire industry into a cesspool.
We’ll have parents confused as to why their kids keep screaming and shoving away the Torment Nexus box, when they were so fond of playing Don’t Invent The Torment Nexus at that age.
15 years more Rimworld expansions is a future I want to see.
“I can’t believe I survived being stuck inside my house for several years!” Says person with no friends who typically never leaves their house anyway.
So does the apostrophe. That wasn’t it.
All I heard was people bitching about it and going outside with any excuse they had.
I went out more during covid than I did before it
The trick with being a shut-in is that its only really practical when other people still have to go out and do things on your behalf.
As soon as you can’t get DoorDash or you A/C fails or the office fires you for clinging to “Work From Home” too long, shit gets real really quickly.
I hear people bitching about not being allowed to go outside, even though where I live you were always to go outside
The actual reason for most was from people embarrassed to wear facemasks at the grocery store. Otherwise, most people didn’t go out and socialize very often anyway, most people LOVED having an excuse to cancel the big, annoying jumping-castle birthday party.
The right capitalized on this petty whinging and made people feel validated for hating to change their habits in the most minor way and played it up to catastrophic levels to secure a rightward swing in the US.
And it worked fantastically well. This is the generation of apathy and laziness and self-entitlement and the left is equally guilty of succumbing to this long before the pandemic even.
Everyone is stuck up in their own asses because we have a million different comforts that we cling to and will scream and bargain to not have to make changes.
Here people thought they can’t go out to parks or nature even though that was never forbidden. I think American cultural wars played into that
I just worked through the entire thing. Woooo! /s
I’m essential! [Chuckles] I’m in danger!
Essentially fucked. Amirite?
Yeah I work for a flooring distributor. My company labeled us essential so I too work through the whole thing. So did my wife as a dog bather. Guess Petsmart figured they were essential too.
Yeah, we got labeled essential by general Mills even though we hadn’t sold them any equipment in 4 years.
Me too. That’s why I am still salty about it. Just stay home and it can be fixed sooner.
I know its a meme, but, don’t you still technically have to go outside? I mean, your packages aren’t gonna go inside your house because most delivery people arent gonna actually step inside your house so you still need to touch the outside for the few seconds to grab your things.
Factorio can teach us to automate this. Package conveyor belt.
Technically only your hands need to pass the threshold. You don’t need to touch anything outside, bar the package itself.
But the air is on the outside. It goes by international airspace rules, I didn’t make them rules :P
Anything inside my house is mine. I donate lots of air as well.
But also, consider: Sometimes they leave the package like a few steps from your door and you would have to step foot onto the ground outside to retrieve it, especially if its a heavy item or if there’s a few steps of stairs and you can’t just pull a broom stick to flick it closer to your house.
So conclusion, ths score is:
Outside – 1 ; You – 0
Outside always wins xD
Most people social life didn’t really change during the pandemic, thus the pandemic.
I remember my neighbors, whose mother was a cancer patient, would still had family meetups for diner all weeks.
Most people social life didn’t really change during the pandemic
Honestly, I think I got more social during the pandemic. All the neighbors would meet out on the driveways, desperate for something to do other than staring at a screen all day. The parks were full from people who weren’t constantly traveling for work or fun. Kids and parents alike were out and about because they didn’t need to waste time commuting.
Everyone slathered themselves in hand sanitizer and do all the pro-forma things to not be a contagion risk. But at a certain point, when you’re already out in the 'burbs… We’ve been “socially distanced” since White Flight in the 1980s.
On the other hand, I see the lasting effects isolation did to social skills in kids and teenagers…
Yeah fucked up my kids senior year. Didn’t even get to walk across the aisle or have prom. Fucked up. He had just finished a theater project when Covid took hold. Sucked he really enjoy it and had potential. All taken away.
How much of that is modern tech and social media? I’d argue the Gen Z xoome meeting blank stare can be blamed as much on tech as the pandemic. This is the first generation that grew up living as much online as they do in the “real world”
This is the first generation that grew up living as much online as they do in the “real world”
Idk about that. The internet was already heavily adopted by the mid-00s. Millennials are as online as any generation after them. Hell, the Boomers are the most terminally online. Facebook hit the Olds like crack hit the inner cities.
GenZ might be the first generation that’s self-aware enough to notice how fucked it all is. They’re the ones gagging on the excess of social media and AI slop, which older generations seem to be swallowing placidly.
I think, a lot. The shift during the pandemic of requesting uniquely online presence definitely sped up a trend that could already be detected. And because it was unprecedented, “adults” weren’t able to guide younger ones along the transition.
It may just be generational changes. I do not socialize same as my parents, and they do not socialize same as their parents.
I definitely became less domesticated during the pandemic and I’m still not where I was beforehand, socially. I was even in my late twenties when the pandemic hit, so I should be less susceptible than teenagers/younger children were. It was worth it not to kill a bunch of people by spreading disease, but it wasn’t easy.
That said, I also lived alone and went over 8 months without seeing another person in the flesh, which is unlikely to be the case for younger people.
I would guess most people socialize less as the get older. Having kids and constantly drowning in work and household obligations will kill your social life real quick.
Depends on what type of socialization you’re referring to. Socializing with coworkers and other parents through your kids activities is not uncommon.
The reply is still OK boomer
Ok millennial doesn’t have the same ring to it
My kid would have to be 36 for this to ring true, and I’m a millennial.
Better than being called a boomer or a boomer I suppose, we’d still roll out eyes at them regardless.
Ok boomer
Millennials are starting to get a bit old to have futire kids. Not impossible obviously, but wouldn’t that apply more to zoomers?
Seriously? You realize the youngest millenials just turned 30, right? When do you think menopause hits?
I’m not talking about menopause, but about the scenario in the meme. Some millennials already had children five years ago, so what age target are we talking about when we say “when I was your age”?
I’m and old millennial but even some of my younger friends already have teenagers that lived through the pandemic.
I’m 32 and having a kid soon, so not sure where you see the problem? Sure some of them had kids very early, but that doesn’t change the fact many didn’t.
Ok Zoomer
They also be waxing poetic about having to look at screens to watch videos instead of just closing their eyes.
God dammit. Beat me to it
Ok Boomer
not sure people will want to go out that much, that oxygen flask is kind of heavy, the mask is annoying and then there’s the heat…
Can’t risk being captured and having my water extracted.
The wind is strong enough to mitigate the radioactives dust but not enough to thorn the suit
The local militia was bombed and we are not expecting raids for a few days
There is a less contaminated water source a few miles north and I want to check the community there
WHEN I WAS YUR AGE I WAS STAYIN AT HOME
I love you mom but I should have sold you to the slave trader
I suppose this makes sense if we all lived in Fallout 1.
Which, by the way, I hope to Holy hell nobody ever, ever, ever has to live in Fallout 1.
When I finally had job and money to go out and finally enjoy my life, pandemic happened. But I had saved even MORE money because I stayed home with my parents during those times. However, I’m now too old to go out lol.
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