This was me, skiing with my dad when I was a kid. Brand new Amiga 500 waiting in my room, along with 200 borrowed floppies, and dad wants to spend the Saturday skiing. Yay.
It’s great that dad wanted to spend time, but could also spend time doing stuff the kid likes or wants too.
As a lifelong avid gamer who’s definitely more an inside cat than an outdoors lad, I always immensely appreciate pops, gf, or the crew whenever they lovingly push me out into nature biz. Yes, the fishing trips can be boring af in the moment. Yes, I’ve wondered if camping is worth the effort. For sure, I’ve been on hikes where I fantasize about that hot new game at home.
In the end I’m always reflecting on the time fondly.
It’s good to be out of your comfort zone sometimes. And nearly everybody could use more fresh air these days.
That’s just sad. I had an NES, a Gameboy, an SNES, and an N64 when they came out and I ALWAYS like doing things and getting out. My mom, granddad, and one aunt would all go skiing in the winter and bike riding in the summer, and I enjoyed every fucking minute of it. I also enjoy every fucking minute of my video games. But I knew they’d still be there when I got done having other kinds of fun.
I was very fortunate and extremely lucky in many ways. Like how our next-door neighbor got tickets to a local amusement park every year from his pension and since he and has wife were old farts and their kids were grown, he always gave them to us and we’d just buy extra for other family members that wanted to go along. I won’t deny I had an amazing childhood in so many ways, but that doesn’t forgive the lies and trauma.
I’ve used to do semi-competitive swimming as a child. Honestly one of the worst (as in boring, great for health and fixed my scoliosis) types of sport to do for an agitated child who wants to explore the world.
For an hour and a half you do laps while staring at the tiles on the bottom of your olympic pool. Would spend the entire time memorizing every crack on the tiles as well as doing entire video game playthroughs in my head lol
I feel called out
This was me in church every Sunday calculating how many lobsters id have to sell to buy a full set of Rune armor in RuneScape
Old school RuneScape is pretty great. I do fishing and stuff on the treadmill and then PvP when I’m on my PC.
Jagex has made it a pain in the ass to cancel membership now, so they finally fucked up enough to get me to quit for good.
