• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    We had Minecraft and Lego as kids as well and still played outside a lot. I thought that mix was still mostly normal, is it not?

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      14 hours ago

      They widened the roads, increased the speed limits, and made the cars bigger and more blind.

      So kids died, a lot, and parents banned going outside unaccompanied. Kids got tired of asking mum’s permission to go to the park like a baby, and just played video games instead.

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        7 hours ago

        That and the third place is being and has been turned into a place where you are expected to buy something(food+drink and merch)instead of just enjoying yourself and spend time with friends. There’s nowhere for kids of any age to go that doesn’t charge a fee to get in(some parks), doesn’t have rules against talking(libraries), hasn’t been made obsolete(malls, arcades), or is unreligious.

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        13 hours ago

        I had a lot of silly conversations before stumbling onto this.

        You have restored my faith in lemmy. Thank you.

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        10 hours ago

        I was like this about books as a teen, one time i accidentally pulled an all nighter on a school night. Well, I realized it was 5am and figured there’s no point in sleeping for 2 hours.