Millennials when they are old enough to make their own video games: Makes wholesome games about being a naughty goose. Also makes an RPG where you don't have to kill any of the enemy monsters but make friends with them because you feel bad for them

Violent AAA games don't count shut up, corporations aren't people.

The stark contrast between the stuff my generation makes in the indie scene compared to the corporate scene is pretty interesting though.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I remember my boomer parents screaming at me to get off the Sega Genesis because I was rotting my brain (yes I was a Sega loyalist kid and even had a Saturn)

    My mother has been addicted to candy crush and angry birds for 15 years now, any spare moment she's got her phone up. I've had to take her phone away while driving. My dad however has become like a woodland spirit and often spends weeks living in a tiny shack in the woods away from everyone.

    • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      My dad however has become like a woodland spirit and often spends weeks living in a tiny shack in the woods away from everyone.

      :a-guy:

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      My mom just lays on the couch and watches old movies day after day. Occasionally, she'll go to the Home Shopping Channel an blow a bunch of money on some stupid crap that she either doesn't use or she breaks almost immediately.

      Deeply depressing

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I've watched my parents become very paranoid and antisocial as time goes on. My mother has become a full on vocal racist calling for extermination of anyone who speaks Spanish. My father has actually chilled out on his racism and homophobia (he used to be a cop, yuck), but otherwise they're just these two aging people locked inside all the time with their eyes glued to the TV or some very mindless phone game. It's not the worst existence, and I'm not much better with all the time I spend inside alone, but it is depressing. I don't know what happened. My mother does the same as yours, buys stuff online or off TV she doesn't need. Buys a gold necklace just to put it in a box and never wear it.

        I've tried giving them other stuff to do, like traveling the world with all the money they saved up, or more mentally engaging things like board games or reading, but I'm failing.