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[โ€“] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago

Anon realizes why you don't usually invite your family to stay with you for a few weeks.

[โ€“] weirdwallace75@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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๐ŸŽบ๐ŸŽบ๐ŸŽบ
Video Games ๐ŸŽฎ cause violence ๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ‘Š๐Ÿผ,
Phone ๐Ÿ“ฑ bad ๐Ÿ‘Ž, book ๐Ÿ“š good ๐Ÿ‘
I hate ๐Ÿ˜’ my wife ๐Ÿ‘ฐ
Pause โธ๏ธ the Fortnite ๐Ÿฅ‡ please ๐Ÿ˜ค
Funny ๐Ÿคฃ Facebook ๐Ÿ˜œ minion ๐Ÿคญ memes ๐Ÿคช

[โ€“] JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have no connection to any of those except phone bad book good. That's just observable fact.

[โ€“] paultimate14@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

When books started being mass-produced and publicly available, there was push back against those. Readers were portrayed as detached from reality, academic snobs, losers. Even today, there are significant political pushes to ban books and defund libraries.

Television, telephones, railroads, electricity, the printing press. There always have been (and probably always will be) people afraid of change who blame new technologies for the evils they see in society.

[โ€“] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago

A lot of social media is addictive. And it has probably gotten worse over time, since the companies that make social media want to make it as addictive as possible.

[โ€“] bi_tux@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's that one coworker of mine with the "sigma grindset" he always complains how kids these days spent so much time on social media.

He's the only one in my friend group who uses corporate social media and spends his lunchbreak on his phone...

At this point I seriosly don't know if he's even serios (he always seems like it), or just doesn't realize what he's doing

[โ€“] SeabassDan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

He has to reach out to them where they are, so he's gotta hunt them down online to teach them the error of their ways.

[โ€“] Mrderisant@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is an "index card rpg?" Sounds fun

[โ€“] GentlemanLoser@reddthat.com 25 points 1 year ago

Usually a game where everything you need to play fits on an index card.

Check out Honey Heist for a good example

[โ€“] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

G.U.R.P.S. and T.W.E.R.P.S. are the two that I'm pretty sure are still around since the 90s

[โ€“] banana_meccanica@feddit.it 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yea...well we live in this dark times...but I think still there is something related with ourself as human begin and tech have just trigger this something inside.

Yeah, people were always horrible, technology just allows them to live their worst life, this story, if real, is a perfect example.

[โ€“] SeabassDan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I think my problem has been wanting to multitask while working or eating, etc. And the easiest thing is to browse my phone for something to read or watch, even if on mute, but that doesn't happen while playing board games, for some reason.

[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This shit happened to me after Hurricane Ivan (2004), nothing new here.

Had just moved here and lived in a house with 4 other guys. 3 of them stayed, or came back, after the storm. We spent 3 wonderful days bullshitting on the porch and otherwise fucking around. My gf came over and we laid on the roof and marveled at the sudden appearance of stars.

The second the power came on those dudes scattered like cockroaches, everyone straight back to their room.

I'll have you know that I haven't looked at a phone in ... -closes eyes- tenvdrgonre.I