Still happening to me at 52 years old. Fuck growing up.
free time
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jjlinux@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 weeks ago
You can still do all the fun stuff after work. Weekends exist too you know.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
They already said they play video games, watch cartoons, youtube, & learn useless facts in their free time.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 weeks ago
The thing is, you can do all of that. There’s enough time for boring adult stuff and fun.
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Im at the point in my life where my children consume all of that. I get time after everyone in my house is asleep. Thankfully I function on 6.5 hours of sleep, so i can get some time
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
If you can function adequately on 5, there is another 1.5 hours of gaming time available.
Just kidding. Get the sleep you need so your brain will function well for longer and you can get those missed hours of fun back when your kids don’t require all your attention.
protist@retrofed.com 3 weeks ago
I don’t know how old your kids are, but I have my 8 year old playing Final Fantasy with me, and I’m playing Minecraft Dungeons with him
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 weeks ago
You can also combine kids and fun. You just need to be a bit creative.
lolrightythen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I thought weekends were the fum stuff after work
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 weeks ago
Who said you can’t spend a few hours gaming during weekdays. Traditionally, people have spent those hours watching low quality trash on TV. Shooting space bugs with rockets and flame throwers is a lot more fun IMO.
chunk6235@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I just do all that after I do the grown up stuff I have to do
xylol@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
You sound like some kind of modern human being that exists on earth
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Stern@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They’re busy cheering for grown folks playing different kids games, or playing less intense/more popular games like Farmville, Modern Warfare, GTA5, or whatev. They aren’t getting their giggles from cartoons but from Modern Family or Young Sheldon.
Biggest difference is social acceptability.
OmegaMouse@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Those damn kids on their Nintendos! They should be enjoying proper content like the intellectual cartoons I enjoy, 10 hour video essays, and browsing Lemmy!
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
True.
In my case, the self proclaimed “grown up” people my age are busy:
- taking hard drugs
- binge drinking
- not saving money, burning through parents cash
- investing in literally “shitcoins” for the thrill of it then turning around to criticise people for playing videogames
- binging on dopamine from vanity gym-ing
- driving very fast sometimes under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
- spamming AI generated slop images in Instagram groupchats
- constantly cyver bullying each other (don’t ask me to explain why)
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
If by grown stuff you mean work, taxes, chores… You can do whatever you want afterwards, you earned it.
That’s what grown up stuff is, responsibilities.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I don’t think these are opposed concepts.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
goddamn right.
good luck with your kid though. guess climate change is their problem now.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Viewing things you enjoy as something you’re not allowed to do because you are an adult is easily the most childish thing you can do. Don’t live your life as though you are an animal trained to perform for others.
epicstove@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
None of that is “childish”.
You go to work like an adult, come home and:
Play an M rated video game Watch an adult oriented animated show/film, Watch YouTube video that reached about some complex topic that you have an interest in (science, history, etc) or a video of someone playing those aforementioned M rated games.
Live your life, have fun with it.
Kraiden@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The only thing that’s childish is thinking your age means you have to stop doing the things you enjoy. I’m in my late 30’s and you’re basically describing my weekends. Well, the ones I actually have free that is. Sadly, responsibilities eat into that more and more the older you get. All the more reason to actually enjoy your free time when you have it
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I do this that and the other. All the things
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There are no useless facts. Only growing knowledge. You are a full time student for the rest of your life.
IamMoonPie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I feel this in my soul. I’m an adult in that I pay rent, feed my kid, etc. but I’m also overly traumatized by the world around me so I retreated into the same things that made me happy as a kid. Also, my brain is wholly convinced I’m 12 not 36.
myyass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If being an adult is having children and being married or even having a girlfriend (or whatever you like); then I’m good with just having a house, cars, hobbies, being able to travel, and endless entertainment.
herculeskan@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Uufff based
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
its not really free. your mortgaging your future unless youre retired already in which case it actually is free time
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Time enjoyed is not time wasted.
AmyAye@nord.pub 3 weeks ago
I am mid 40s and still do all that fun stuff. One thing worth learning as you get older, who gives a shit what others do or what their opinion of you is. If they want to be a boring stick in the mud, crabbing at everything, probably also a miserable alcoholic, let them. Play your games, buy dumb shit, enjoy what you want.
architect@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Lots of wasted time on things people don’t enjoy and I’m talking things like video games. Make sure you actually enjoy them and aren’t just doing it because your friends are/that’s what you’ve always done.
hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
NOOOO WORK AND OBLIGATIONS IS WHAT DEFINES THE MEANING OF LIFE!