I've learned to be wary of anyone who likes anything that comes from Japan. But that's more of a good idea than something that ruined me really.1stGear posted:I can't read or hear "69" without automatically appending "Nice." Same, a grumpy Polish coworker has to pick up something every morning by saying "b-69" and every time I say "nice." He thinks I'm weird.
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I can't figure out snapchat. I recently rejoined Facebook for the first time since 2011 due to it having groups that I can't find anywhere else (Canadians in Australia) and my friends list is a ghost town. No one under 40 posts anything. Weird that it killed almost all forums but may not outlive SA.
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Guy Mann posted:In terms of actually ruining me I think the biggest negative effect SA had on my life was the way its PC gaming culture simultaneously prolonged the amount of time I spent immersed in gaming while spending less time actually playing games and not enjoying them nearly as much when I did. The fixation on deals and saving and gaming various systems especially, the Steam thread and the like are one huge community of people spending hundreds and even thousands of dollars on games they'll never play while patting themselves on the back for "saving" so much money and making the countless hours spent monitoring deals and bundles and idling for cards to sell for pennies of "free" money worth it. And having more games than you could ever play while you continue to buy even more makes people focus on minmaxing their gaming time even further; there are entire threads and websites built around forcing people to play games to a certain play time or percentage completion just for the purpose of checking them off of some list, arguments and guides about how many hours you have to sink into a game or game series before it actually gets fun to play, and deep battle trenches dug over exactly what combination of mods and DLC and character builds are the Objectively Superior Gaming Experience. Factor in the increasingly loud, angry, and fragmented culture wars over everything from DLC prices to the hair color of default protagonists and it's just a morass of unhappy people who seem to spend more time arguing about games than actually playing them and for all the time and energy they spend following coverage of new games spend most of their actual gaming time just playing the same map game or roguelite day in and day out year after year. On this note, SA made me realize how repugnant "gamers" were so I sold everything and am trying to live in reality and be mentally and physically healthy. But since I live in a place that never stops raining and is 10C/50F until May I have just ended up catching up on decades of tv and movies. Black Mirror is pretty dope (two episodes in)
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:You know you can just... play video games and act like a normal, decent human being? Nah I just don't want to play video games anymore. It does nothing but harm, and it gets more pronounced as you get closer to your 40s. I stopped enjoying them. Plus I'm moving across the world to somewhere with warmth and actual daylight year round. Last time I lived there (4 years) I never thought about firing up the ol vidya game console.
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The Bloop posted:lmao words of deep wisdom from the 30 something Yeah you're the type I'm talking about
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