My life:
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Play video games despite my father’s immense disapproval.
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Learn to program so I can make my own video games.
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Get a job where I’m paid to program.
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Never actually finish any of my own games.
I do still play video games and he does still disapprove but I’m older now than he was when I started playing and he started disapproving so that’s probably not going to change.
Are you me?
I actually learned so I could make a website about music, and then later wanted to make games. I’m still at step 4. :)
Are you two me, then? Only difference is that my dad actually enabled my gaming addiction and was an enjoyer back then, I vividly recall him playing Red Alert, Age of Empires and Civilization 2.
I’m on step 4 mostly thanks to godot, tho. Might give Ebitengine (Go) a try in some months. That or DragonRuby, as I qualified for a free license and Amir very quickly replied to my email.
1990: “Our comic readers have only heard of one video game ever, but we need to stretch this to look like an entire newspaper page.”
I think it’s a nested joke, where that one game totally dominates the kid’s free time, with the clueless parents thinking that’s the only relevant game in existence.
Also, at the time every game was “the Nintendo” to parents, and still was for a couple decades after. Mario had an enormous impact.
I didn’t understand that as a kid and I still don’t understand it. Why would you take so little interest in what your kids like? I don’t even have kids and I still know who Mr Beast is. I can’t imagine having people I love, living in my house, who are into this stuff and not knowing all about it. The only way this kind of parental apathy can possibly make sense to me is if those parents just don’t love their kids. It doesn’t make sense to me.
The one that got me was when my mom referred to a game console as a game. I even called her on it and her response was something like “oh, it’s all just games to me”. I know she understands the difference between a VCR or DVD player and a movie, so I don’t know why she wouldn’t distinguish between a piece of media and the hardware that plays it when talking about games. I think many boomers are just so actively dismissive of games that they make of point of not learning even the most basic vocabulary.
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This aged well
Now the mother is addicted to games on her phone.
And dad achieves most of his self esteem by posting poorly-done, sexist or racist memes to a cloistered Facebook group of similarly brave folks.
