The kids yearn for the mines
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Is that why they play Minecraft?
Always has been
Child labour in Frostpunk intensifies
These things were NEVER fucking left open at the park near me. Could wait there the entire day and the same fucking kid would be using it the entire time, completely oblivious to your attempts to get him to move.
I swear, I probably only touched the thing once when i was a child. I came back with my daughter a few years ago and nobody was giving it a second glance. Used my kid as an excuse to finally get to play with the thing...
FYI: As an adult, you probably could have taken that kid in a fight. Possibly even if he used the crane as a weapon.
Hahaha you and I had the same experience. Always watching, never actually getting a chance to use because of some kid hogging it the whole time you were there.
These were the shit growing up
They still are
Kids in my generation:
“Mom, can I have my GameBoy back?”
A girl in my class: proud owner of a PS1, plays Spyro and Medievil constantly.
Same girl as an adult: "I don't even knew what a video game was, I played outside."
Unless you had a GameGear (or, heaven help you, a Nomad). Then it was, "Mom, I need more AA batteries."
“12, to be exact. I have to beat scorpion and then I’ll get to face Goro and I can’t risk running out of batteries now.”
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Same but with NDS
Kids asking for an entertainment device back basically exploded with the Atari 2600 and never died down.
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I remember opening parts of the blinds so the street lights would brighten my Gameboys display for some quality past bedtime gaming
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Are we becoming boomer now? I certainly feel like it
Smaller kids still love playgrounds, even if they also want/love screentime. Heck, it is not infrequent there are a group of younger teenagers at the playgrounds we frequent.
Boomers without any entitlements are just loosers
Best fucking toy out there. Me and my friends used to throw pennies into the sand and bury them, and the kid on the machine would dig them up.
Where you a child during the industrial revolution
No, an even 'ironically' darker time. The 90's and the unpronounceable 00's.
The ‘aughts?
Naughties
The zips aka the zilch aka nadas
The Absolutely Nothings
The ots
Let's call them the zeds.
Zeroes
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Core memory resurfaced from the playground near my late grandma’s house.
Still yearning
A huge chunk of my childhood was spent playing in the dirt and mud. I lived in bumfuck nowhere Pennsylvania, so that's all I had to do when the neighbor kids were busy.
I was playing with dried out dog shit in some forsaken sandpits of Eastern Europe just after the Soviet’s collapse.
I wish I could romanticise it somehow but no matter my attempts it never sounds super cool.
Diggy Diggy hole
I've never seen one, do they have these for adults?
yea
I should not be trusted to operate one of those
Minecraft early access.
These sand things just don’t exist where I am in the US. I remember when I was staying in Europe as a kid the setups with sand and water pumps being the most interesting part of a lot of playgrounds.
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What do you think they are playing on the iPad? Minecraft.
And here I needed instructions just to play with Legos! I remember wondering how others had such active imaginations
We all played minecraft, just some of us played it in real life out of scrap metal and discarded bricks
The children yearn for the mines
What the hell! Wish I had that as a kid!
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