Gaming Kids Don’t Know How Good They Have It

9 responses to “Gaming Kids Don’t Know How Good They Have It”

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   bazuden

   February 18, 2012 at 8:39 am

   Lucky bastards. Gets worse when you have a woman. Then you have no time, no video games, and no money 🙁

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      Nicholas

      February 18, 2012 at 9:16 am

      Ah i have it lucky just starting UNI plenty of time to play video games and no women in my life :] and i have a part time job to pay for my games and pc.
      Guess i do have it lucky

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      Link

      February 18, 2012 at 11:41 am

      You forgot no sex

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   Seegrey

   February 18, 2012 at 10:02 am

   For gaming, yeah, but have you seen the quality of children these days? I’d be on the poster for social reject and happy about it. Ugh, demographics.

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   Anna Recsik

   February 18, 2012 at 1:31 pm

   I want kids to have to experience the constant annoyance of dial up. Let them know how much easier things have gotten for them…

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      Andrew

      February 18, 2012 at 4:19 pm

      What’s more sickening is these same little snots, in the future when their children have almost every device seamlessly interconnected via Internet etc. Thye will complain and talk about “how annoying it was to have to transfer data via usb drives” and such.

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   2. 

      Ben

      February 18, 2012 at 6:07 pm

      Here you go! http://youtu.be/0QPg0hkWiOM?t=47s

      This whole series is really good, and it shows how amazingly fast technology has progressed in the space of thirty years.

      (It’s also hilarious to see the boy kick up a fuss when he has to make do with the Mega Drive instead of getting the SNES!)

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4. 

   Personiguy

   February 18, 2012 at 6:07 pm

   As the younger demographic here, I completely agree that there are some ungrateful kids my age who just piss and moan about not getting the newest game…

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5. 

   AerintheADEQUATE

   February 21, 2012 at 7:03 am

   *Relating slightly to the “Zelda is getting worse” article*

   Over the weekend there was some family visiting. A semi-related child begged me to let him play Skyward Sword because he loves to play Zelda games. He’s a pretty cool kid and doesn’t break things, so I relented. As time dragged on I realized what he meant by ‘play Zelda games’.

   Step 1: Enter area/room/etc.
   Step 2: Pause the game and stare at the ‘fully colored and annotated in-game map that is fully revealed from the get-go’ for 5 minutes
   Step 3: Turn around, if I’m not in the room come find me, then ask “Where am I supposed to go now?” Repeat, until told exactly what to do and how to do it.
   Step 4: See Step 1…

   And people wonder why games are full of AI teammates named “FOLLOW!” and glaring neon signs broadcasting your next move. 😛

   The thing that frustrated me the most was that this kid is actually pretty smart for his age. I tried telling him to ‘just figure it out’ but that concept in the context of playing a game was so foreign to him that it never quite clicked.

   I feel like I’m getting to be an ‘old man’, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, but kids these days… amirite? 😛

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