Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time

• INeedMana@piefed.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s a lot more to what destroyed hanging out in the pub than scheduling

  For sure but even if you switch out computer games to board games, that is still not the same. People moved, a lot of games need space and hauling the box, etc

  In school we used to have breaks, we were hanging out just because of that. Now most often we don’t even work together anymore. Unless one has a job that forces them to come to the office or is one of that ~1% of the workforce that prefers to, and can have a chat at the water stand, I think for many people the reality is that if not for online games, they wouldn’t hang out with anyone anymore

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, funny enough, I head to a pub to play board games every other week, including tonight. I was more referring to suburbia and sprawl destroying “third places”, as well as younger folks’ tendency to drink less. It’s possible that online gaming expanded our ability to choose our social circle more than simple geography used to dictate.

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