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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is worse than Facebook and Twitter times
It’s not. It’s exactly the same.
The only difference is that you’re getting older, so you’re experiencing it more viscerally than when you were ten years younger and didn’t know better
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Uhh people spend like 8 hours on average on their phones now, that was most definitely not the case when I was growing up.
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
i was playing console games for 10 hours a day in the 80s and 90s
Glytch@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Functionally very different things. Those old games weren’t programmed to feed you a never-ending stream of content that’s designed to provoke ever more extreme reactions from you to keep you engaged with the feed. Did they provoke extreme reactions? Maybe, but that’s more because they needed to be hard enough that you couldn’t finish them during a rental period and you had to buy them.
conartistpanda@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Not the saem
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
People used to spend more time on the couch watching broadcast TV!
Bring it back!
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
If people brought their tv to every event and outing ever I’d have the same criticism
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Just make cell phones heavier.
Problem solved
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I would legitimately wish all 8 hours were instead spent trolling some naked in rust.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Man that’s what it is. Real life just sucks. So depressing.
I think it actually started, ironically, with the writers strike.