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27 points

All the young kids I know hate them. They think everything is going to be a touchscreen.

Especially when it comes to casual games, literal screams of frustration trying to coordinate mice.

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32 points

Do they know being frustrated by mice makes them boomers?

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So, it’s a generational sandwich. Gen Alpha and Boomers are the bread, and the mousers are the meat?

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I don’t like being the lucky pierre in this sandwich

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30 points

literal screams of frustration trying to coordinate mice.

Hold on boys, there’s an actual chance that our generation will be gamer gods for all time to come.

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I have an old computer set up with a bunch of games for my kids that teach them how to use the mouse and keyboard. I think part of the problem is that kids aren’t really taught how to use computers anymore. I remember going to a computer lab in grade one and being taught how to use the mouse and keyboard, how to save files (to a floppy disk), how to close windows and open programs, etc. Apparently they don’t do that anymore. They just expect kids will figure it out on their own. My kids still definitely prefer touchscreens, but they don’t mind the mouse or touchpad either.

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15 points

coordinate mice? how many mice are your kids using at once?

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I meant coordinate mice with onscreen movements, not with other mice!

Now you’ve got me imagining some sort of hellscape where there are different oldschool trackball mice strapped to someone’s hands and feet.

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Like a first time ice skater flailing on the ice except this time they have ice skates on both arms too lmao

Like a spider on rollerskates

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My dad told me when he got his first computer (1997, I was a young kid then) he was worried he wouldn’t be able to coordinate his mouse with the onscreen pointer. 😅 He’s almost 70 now and pretty much the nerd king

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Sample size of two, but mine don’t seem to have strong feelings on them either way. Although the older one (still in single digits) prefers Minecraft on the pc to the Switch, despite starting out on the latter.

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