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kraftiekortie
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14 Dec 2021, 12:30 pm

Many young people still use Facebook.

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14 Dec 2021, 7:25 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

I'm a Baby Boomer.

I still have a bit of trouble conceiving that multiple people could be playing video games together in widely disparate places around the world. I actually don't have too much trouble---but it's still awe-inspiring.

I go back to the age of Pinball. Pre-video games. Phones were things which you kept on the wall or desk, and you never took the phone out of the room where it resided.

I played pinball whenever I could find the vintage pinball games as a kid. Modern ones have too many bells and whistles on them sometimes. I came very close to buying a vintage 1960s pinball at an estate sale last year. It just would have taken up too much room in my apartment.

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14 Dec 2021, 7:35 pm

I used to pay 1 quarter for 2 "plays." The pinball machines certainly weren't like the "modern" ones today. They were like what you found on "Happy Days."

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14 Dec 2021, 8:11 pm

I wonder how many people remember arcades. Aside from places like Dave and Busters, you don't really see them much these days.

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14 Dec 2021, 8:53 pm

Lost_dragon wrote:

One time during University, our lecturer asked us how many of us are on Facebook. The majority of us voted that we were. He was baffled at the response. "Wait, but aren't you all Gen Z? This is an odd group, I thought you all were supposed to be leaving the platform!"

Fireblossom wrote:

I'm well under 30 and still using Facebook. Honest! :lol:

This illustrates what I am saying. I think people have much more individualised preferences than we are given credit for.
I'm very old fashioned and don't use social media at all. I opened facebook, twitter and linedin pages but never check them.

My 16yr old daughter doesn't use social media (we gave her the option and she wasn't interested *phew*)
But she spends a lot of her free time online using teen talk, google hangouts, email, sms, and other tools. Unfortunately we discovered she does do the typical Gen Z thing of swapping pictures of herself with people she met on teen talks or school.

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14 Dec 2021, 8:55 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:

I wonder how many people remember arcades. Aside from places like Dave and Busters, you don't really see them much these days.

I was a frogger, space invaders, Galaga type dude in the arcades.

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14 Dec 2021, 9:25 pm

I have a working Space Invaders arcade video game sitting in one of my storage units. There are two more arcade cocktail cabinet games there also. They were an impulse buy at an estate sale a decade ago for $600 delivered. I have been offered $2000 for the Space Invaders alone, but I would rather just keep it. Money is not everything. They are part of my memories from days long passed by.

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14 Dec 2021, 9:28 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

I used to pay 1 quarter for 2 "plays." The pinball machines certainly weren't like the "modern" ones today. They were like what you found on "Happy Days."

Some of the ones now cost almost a dollar to play if you use a playing card. I would rather use cash in my games.

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15 Dec 2021, 12:21 am

cyberdad wrote:

This has probably been done to death but there's a saying that hard times make hard people and soft times make soft people.

It's kind of a no brainer.

My grandmother left home and volunteered for christian mission work in the early 1930s where she met my grandfather overseas. They both endured war rations in the 1940s and living hand to mouth.

My grandfather's generation had it much tougher. During World War 2 he did many different things including running an orphanage (little known fact, the war created a lot of abandoned kids) and also a boarding house for disembarking and returning troops fighting the Japanese.

Every generation that came after had it easier. Kids these days are born staring at electronic gadgets from their cots and live on take-out/fast food and online education. They spend their days worrying how their social media profiles look.

You're right. In a lot of ways recent generations have it easier than early generations. Is this a bad thing? Or was making a better world for our kids the plan all along?

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15 Dec 2021, 12:30 am

kraftiekortie wrote:

Every time I think of online gaming I think of a quote from an early 90s movie (forget which one it was) that in the future you'll be able to play Mortal Kombat against a guy in Russia. The last 6 Mortal Kombat games have had online multiplayer so I guess that prediction came true.

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15 Dec 2021, 12:43 am

RetroGamer87 wrote:

You're right. In a lot of ways recent generations have it easier than early generations. Is this a bad thing? Or was making a better world for our kids the plan all along?

It's not necessarily a question of right or wrong or good or bad. It is what it is.

Many wealthy people deliberately give their children (usually sons) a hard time so they don't grow up soft/spoilt.

But yes the plan is to make things easier for the children

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15 Dec 2021, 8:24 am

In some ways, Millennials have it easier; in other ways, they have it harder.

All this generational hogwash really doesn't matter when it comes to individuals.

I certainly played no role, as a Baby Boomer, in making things hard for the later generations.

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15 Dec 2021, 2:51 pm

cyberdad wrote:

Tim_Tex wrote:

I wonder how many people remember arcades. Aside from places like Dave and Busters, you don't really see them much these days.

I was a frogger, space invaders, Galaga type dude in the arcades.

I was more of an OutRun, Bad Dudes, Rampage, Street Fighter (I and II) guy.

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15 Dec 2021, 5:58 pm

In A Period of Two Days, Yesterday And Today,

A Young Man Notified me At 'Target' That i was/am A Local
Celebrity Last Night By Way of my 15,866 Miles of Public
Dance in the Last 100 Months, i Commonly Experience

This Everywhere i Go since 2014, in REAL LIFE;

IT'S TRUE, i have no 'idea' how to Dance, i have
no idea 'how' to write Free Verse Poetry Either;

i Just Do it For Fun; Not Unlike What
Forrest Gump Said When Folks

Asked Him Why He Ran Across
The United States Several Instances;

Yet Far Below, the Over Half the Distance
i have Danced in Public; Yes, Measuring
More Than Half the Distance Around the Globe

At The Equator; Not Only That Yet Only Today, And Yeah
Baby, Sure, i Can Provide Links And Quotes if Necessary

Hehe, One of the Nicest Muslim Women on The Planet Earth,
Living in Qatar Now in Response to a Poetic Response i Made

on Her Poetry Site

Replied And i Quote,

“One True Pure Soul On Earth”

As She Was Referring to the Character
Called me, So Why in the World Would

i Visit 'the Wrong Planet' Regularly where
i get Feedback Like i Recently Have that
i Write Like Someone in a Mental Institution
Tied Down; And If Whitman Wrote like me He'd

Starve to Death;

Well Let's Face

Facts Roses Grow

in Natural Manure More

Than Not Getting Any Manure At all;
Holy S88T That's what i'm Talking About,

Like my Wife Who Had to Climb 40 Foot Trees
at 8 Years-Old, To Pick Fruit to Eat in A Household

With no Food
or Water or

Electricity Either;
True, She Didn't Feel Very
Entitled Then Either; Yet it's
Also True, She Can Really Appreciate

Everything She Has Now; Not Unlike my 94 Year-Old Great
Aunt Jettie, Who was Still Thrilled, She Had a choice of Orange
Juice, Grape Juice, or Ice Cold Milk Out of Her Refrigerator And Yes!

Ice Cold Water

too as Where/When She

Grew up, There was None of that
Living By Candlelight at Night Then

And Using an Outhouse of Course
And Boiling Water for Baths Yet Hey!

Even When i Was a Child We Had to
Boil Water for Hot Baths too with NO
Hot Water Heater then; And True i

Really Still Appreciate Hot Baths

Now; And Yes True, Central Heat
And Air Conditioning in A Home/Car,
Particularly in Florida Hehe; As Humidity
And Heat Here is No Stranger; And Believe
it or Not Ripley and Horatio HAha, We Used to Have

to Pay For Our Music, And Didn't Get it All On YouTube
for All the Ages of Music And Practically All the Knowledge
At Our Finger Tips And Other Arts of Humankind Almost Free

With A Google Search;

And Yes For those

Who Saved all their
Money for a Penthouse
Magazine; Or Thought
They Had to Wait For 72 Virgins
After Death; Ahem That's No Longer

A BIG Issue at all at Least Vicariously AS Such Now...

Anyway, Here's Another Deal, too Much Instant Gratification

Can And Will Be As Much of A Struggle As Practically Living

Like my Wife Did With Little to Eat or Drink; Humans Are Like

Other Animals We

Are Evolved for

Intermittent

Gratification and

Unpacking Epigenetic Human

Potential More through Successful

Adaptation to Challenge; and if i Let Anything
Get me Down, Like Folks Telling Me Negative things,
i would Likely Never Hear Anywhere Else Now, How Weak

And Diluted

A Human

Being i Would

Be Not able to
Tolerate Anything
Negative in my Life;

True, the Saying No Pain
No Gain Means Either Ya Find
A Way to Do Bootcamp Each Day

Or You Just Don't Usually Meet Nearly
As Much of Your Human Potential That Ya
Could Possibly Otherwise Do with a Balance of

Challenge

And Success
in What Ya Do
In Life True too;

Of Course, However one
May Define that in Competition
or At Best in Cooperation for Everyone's Success...

A Metaphor i Often Use is, What if A Modern Day Mozart,
Beethoven, Jesus, Buddha, Or Lao Tzu Got caught At the

Bus Stops of Life Including A Real Forrest Gump True too

Playing Candy
Crush Endlessly

Drinking Orange Soda As such
For The Sugar High to Keep Playing
Candy Crush; What Would Be Left Out, Yes,

What Makes uS UNiQue And More Different Than Ever Before...

Actually Creating Producing Something Other than Being a Player
in Someone Else's Play...

Newer Generations

Have More Opportunities

Than Ever before, overall, if they

Just Figure Out How NOT TO GET

TRAPPED AT THE BUS STOP PLAYING

CANDY CRUSH AND WASTING THEIR
HUMAN POTENTIALS OTHER WISE NOW...

Will Everyone Adapt to Challenge, Survive, And Thrive;
i'm Surely not Suggesting Reality is Fair; Yet There is No Try for me, Only DO NoW

And While It's True, i Have All Generations of Ages of FRiEnDS, Some Who Are not
Fulfilled And Some Who Are Truly Happy In Life; It has Very Little, When Truly Joyfully

And Happy, to Do About External Circumstances And More About What's Generated Within;

No Doubt THere iS A Whole Lot of Misery, Suffering, And Pain And The Fact That Studies
Show 40 Percent of Folks Live Pay-Check to Pay-Check Making Now over 100 Thousand
Dollars A Year In that
Upper Middle
Class Range

Says A Lot about

Where Folks Priorities

Are And In May Cases Those

Yes are the Folks Who Struggle
Within, the Very Most i Know;

Life is Tricky THiS Way In What
Culture, Even Religion Says Success may

BE, The Furthest From Truth Within Free Now;

Sort of Like Folks Who Focus More on Life After
Death; and After the Next Paycheck Comes in too...

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15 Dec 2021, 6:18 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Tim_Tex wrote:

I wonder how many people remember arcades. Aside from places like Dave and Busters, you don't really see them much these days.

I was a frogger, space invaders, Galaga type dude in the arcades.

I was more of an OutRun, Bad Dudes, Rampage, Street Fighter (I and II) guy.

Yep I got 10 years on you dude :lol:

I was hitting the arcades in 1978-79 playing space invaders and listening to the song while playing it.

On the home consoles I stuck with shoot em ups - Castle Wolfenstein, Redneck Rampage

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