And then you die because a blood clot that formed in your leg came loose and shot up into your brain, because you’ve been sitting for weeks playing videogames.
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Get one of those fancy massage chairs to help blood flow
By the time I retire it'll probably be an omnidirectional treadmill for VR gaming
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Everyone I know who retired is at least as busy as before.
The notion that without a job, people just sit around bored, is capitalist propaganda.
It's insane to me that people think they will somehow go braindead the minute they don't have a job. Is that how they act once they get home after a long and exhausting day of labouring? Just sit down in the couch and die, staring at the white wallpaper until they collapse? From my only related experience with actually existing in this life, I fucking hate how I don't have time for anything, ANYTHING, ever, because work work work, only to go home and work work work some more as an adult with actual responsibilities. Retirement ya, i might get a quarter of my shit in order, at best, but I'd probably just stock it with more responsibilities that I really don't have time for, but a window of more time means a window of thinking about more shit that has been neglected or needs doing because things always do.
To be fair, that is exactly what I do some days after work because this shit is needlessly exhausting. I think I need like a year of sickly Victorian style bedrest because I have been so burned out for so long that I don't really have much of a sense of self at this point.
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A decent amount of people really do just park their ass on the couch and cease existing. I've watched more than a few people retire and die shortly after from having nothing to live for.
I noticed over covid that many people were telling me that they were happy to be working again after being furloughed (temporarily paused employment in the UK) because they'd been losing their minds with nothing to do. I couldn't understand it, I was busy and really happy.
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What tying your entire purpose in life to how much you can enrich capitalists does to a motherfucker.
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I dunno. I game less and less every year. I think I’ll probably just play the odd n64 game by the time I retire.
Yep, most of us won't really have the energy to get into a 100 hours + game, a platform, an indie or a retro beloved game? Yeah I can see that.
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You have to pick one n64 game. Go.
Do not disappoint me.
I know you'll be disappointed, but Mario 64 has a fair number of levels and star missions. So, either that or Star Fox (your score can always be a little better).
Not disappointed at all.
Superman 64
Ocarina of Time. Randomizer.
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Just plug my old ass into the matrix. If I live to see 80 we'll probably have some kind of full dive VR by that point. Or at least something approaching it.
We will but the interface used to full dive will be used to influence your thoughts and getting you to buy stuff
Jokes on them, I won't have any money to buy stuff
I just hope my hands hold out long enough. I already have terrible arthritis in both hands.
In a better timeline this is one of the many things a Neuralink could be good for
I'm still holding out hope for full-dive VR in the next 20-30 years.
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VR gaming bro.
Yeah my hands started acting up when I was in my 30s. Now that I’m in my 40s they cramp and become useless when they’re any amounts of cold.
My wife likes to rock climb but she will only go to the gym if I go. I can handle the pain but my fingers will literally just stop opening and closing. I haven’t gotten the courage to talk to her about it yet.
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What's retirement?
It's a carrot on the end of the stick that's tied to your back
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Wow… nice.
Sorry, no SS for you. Back to the office.
Parkinson's disease in 3,2,1...
Gonna be kicking ass on dynasty warriors!
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Day 3170 here.. that's still what I'm doing... But in Athens, and mouse+keyboard.
Me and the homes in the old person dorm. Playing games, watching movies, doing community service.