I am in my late-20s so most of my memorable childhood was in the ’90s, and that would make me part of a generation that grew up playing videos games. So anyway, I was at work recently on lunch break, and I was having a conversation with others who are around my age too. The topic was video games that we used to play as teens, then out of nowhere a gentleman sitting close to us (in his late 50s) speaks up and says sarcastically and in a condescending tone, “Yeah, cause that’s all I wanted to do when I was a teenager! Stay inside and play video games!”
STFU you dumbass, what video games even existed when you were a teen? The closest thing to a video game was probably Monopoly. There weren’t the same distractions back then as there were when I was a teen. I’m sure if I was a teen in the ’60s or ’70s I would have spent more time outdoors.
It’s kind of like if my Grandma said, “Kids these days are spending too much time on their cellphones. I never spent that much time on my cellphone when I was a kid.” —I Like Pie. See, Being “Random” is not Funny at All
This article appears in Sep 15-21, 2011.
Your reponse is exactly what the fellow was talking about … and you took it hook, line & sinker.
Random.
Yawn…
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Recognise this guy? Sure you do 😉
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It’s a right for us old-timers to speak up and make derisive comments to youngsters.j/k
It is a world of difference between generations, so many youngsters (35 and younger) spend most of their waking hours looking at computer screens or iphonesques gadgets. I really don’t know if I was brought up with all this technology, I wouldn’t be the same way.
Too soon to tell what the long term effects will be but I tend to think impatience and short attention span might be the negative while manual dexterity (with the thumb anyway) and a better general knowledge might be the positive.
OP, I think the gentleman was probably just needling you. Get a thicker skin.
WE HAD PONG, AND ATARI YOU IMPUDENT WHELP. WATCH THE BETAMAX TAPE OF BLADE RUNNER SOMETIME. TALK ABOUT PRODUCT PLACEMENT – ATARI LOGOS ALL THROUGH THAT PICTURE SHOW. BLOODY SELF ENTITLED HOOLIGANS. TRY READING A BOOK, SOMETIME. YOU KNOW WHAT A BOOK IS, RIGHT? THINK OF IT AS A SMARTPHONE RECYCLED FROM A DEAD TREE.
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I hate old farts who pull this kind of shit – if it weren’t for your generation, my 57 year old self wouldn’t have 2000 tunes on her iPod. I salute you.
I would have said “yeah, chances are you were too busy butting into other people’s conversations” Then i would have moved my chair away and made a big deal of talking in whispers.
What is with this generation of older punks who have no goddamned manners? Didn’t their parents teach them better?
Hmmm gentleman in his late 50’s??? Chances are he probably spent the majority of his late-teens/early twenties hanging out at the local burger joint or penny arcade playing pin ball.
That is, when he wasn’t walking to school and back, every day…in his dad’s boots….in snow up to his waist…..up hill…..both ways. Don’t let it eat you up.
…AND ANOTHER THING. THERE WAS JUST AS MUCH FUCKING NOT GOING ON BACK IN MY DAY AS THERE ISN’T NOW. THINK ABOUT THAT!
or perhaps…..(GASP)…..billiards! Eeeeeek! Truly the tell-tale sign of a misspent youth.
He probably spent his teen years churning butter and listening to detective stories on a wooden radio.
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OP, swarm him. At least it’s an outdoor activity, something gramps never had in his day.
Yeah and he like has only like 6 friends,(no wait 5,someone unfriended him) and like “talks “on a phone .OMG .His status says”going to bed”Man that 50 year old like has no life ,hes like so tired from all the exercise hes getting.
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lol sodeypop…I was going to say something about tiddlywinks, but you pretty much covered it. Oh old people..
I only play one on-line game, guess I’m not much of a gamer:(
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The old ass whistle was probably smoking a pound of dope a day behind the garden shed and doesn’t remember fuck about being young.
most original game concepts were developed in the 70s and 80s. In the 90s, most games were just a tech update to something older.
just think o.p., you’ll be 50 one of these days. and the kids from 30 plus years in the future, will be playing holographic games, and think you are a fucking dinosaur too.don’t be too fucing quick to lip off. the older ones, were the better ones. no jumping all over the fucking place, and you didn’t get deafened by the shit that passes for music on them.gta, is a great example of loud shit, andthrows your driving off badly. and yes, i have played a hell of a lot of video games, and still do. so, suck my 61 year old balls.
“OP, swarm him. At least it’s an outdoor activity, something gramps never had in his day.”
Could you imagine getting swarmed by a group of faggots? It would either be like being punched by feather dusters, a 30 second make-over or a disgusting rape and the old dude would go home with that AIDS on his knuckles.
But, either way, video games are fucking lame.
I remember the good old days, when you lost in a computer game, you died and had to start all over again.
There are too many cry babies out there that couldn’t handle the concept of dying. Hence, with the new games, you are all losers, even the winners have died thousands of times.
As an old fucker I surely miss the chariot races and the “chucking the christians to the lions” bonanzas on Sundays, this after toiling hard 18 hours a day in the hot sun, without that pussy sunscreen or fly repellent, going home to the soddy in Sprytown and having to draw water from the well, unfiltered REAL water you fucking pansies, none of that designer pony piss you young ‘uns swill today.
Smacks of Monty Python a little, you lucky bastards.
Truthfully, I love being an old fucker, and love the gadgets and gizmos that are available these days, not a gamer, but can understand buddies point. Speaking of new gizmos, I just got an I-Mac 27″ and fucking love it, by the time I figure everything out I’ll be dead.
Pong rocks! Its almost as good as Gears of War!
And to think you can get pong for the iPad…cool!
I love vidya games. They have desensitized me so that I don’t get all bothered when someone says “sex” or “poo”.
I’m in my early 20’s and I don’t get the obsession. I feel like it’s a waste of time.. but then again so is bitching on The Coast, so I can’t really judge.
It is annoying when someone asks you to hang out and then refuses to pry themselves away from Call of Duty though..
Response:
“So you settled for whacking off with your Mom’s panties… real cool.”
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