I thought I would never tire of vidya. And then one day I realised I was basically done gaming. Maybe when my body starts failing me I will come back to it, but I don’t know…
This was me for many years when I joined the military. But then it fucked me up and gave me PTSD and now it’s about the most productive thing I’m capable of aside from posting terrible memes so I can totally see how our generation will retire back into video game connoisseurs now.
It’s a weird thing. I never really stopped playing video games. There were games I played pretty kuch daily, if only for half an hour or so. Then if i stop for some reason (vacation, girlfriend, no time, whatever) and i didn’t play any video games for a week or two, i don’t have any urge to go back really. And then i fire up a old ir brand new game and i remember how much i like it.
@BruceTwarzen @Kushia @Flyberius, i’m 70 Jears old and i still like good Videogames in a spare time. Keeps the mind fresh.
Wait, you guys get to retire?
Retiring doesn’t seem like an option from my perspective… Better start gaming now
Arthritis has entered the game
by the time i retire i’m hoping we perfect brain interfaces (which looking at what we currently have isn’t too far-fetched)
Never understood that attitude. As folks mention the math for most of us does not seem to include any type of voluntary retirement and when we do its going to be because we are so messed up we can’t work which likely means we won’t be able to game. Seriously though, even before our electronic age, there are so many worthwhile things to do outside of clocking into a job.
I’m going to take up birdwatching and hope I die in the wetlands to the sound of a thousand red-winged blackbirds singing their mating calls.
At risk of sounding depressing as fuck, after I lost my dad this past spring, I had the most cathartic outletting emotion to that exact sound while hiking at a wildlife reserve with my wife. There’s something insanely deep and meaningful to me in those calls, and I love to hear them every spring - even if it only lasts a month or so. I live on the other side of the continent from home, but the blackbirds and robins are still a constant that come every spring and I’m so thankful for them.
You’re dealing with a generation retiring where a significant minority dedicated themselves to their jobs 100% to fulfill their family duty of being a provider. So they became boring ass people chasing overtime and money to the detriment of developing themselves as people.
Once these people retire, they don’t know what to do with themselves.
I mean this is me to some degree. My job pays for everything. Is super important and I have to constantly be about the job in my life (unfortunately). I even like what I do to some degree, but all the same there is much more than it in this world.
you can, though, at any time and (mobility permitting) take up any kind of bizarre hobby.
clowning, clog dancing, building box cars, collecting skulls, yodelling…
