• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Let me air out two unrelated but similar things that annoyed the shit out of me back in the day.

    Your parents then: “That floor mat thingy (referring to the Power Pad) doesn’t count as exercise because it’s still Nintendo. You need to go outside!!!”

    Adults now: Middle school phys-ed classes consisting of playing Dance Dance Revolution apparently somehow now “counts” as real exercise.

    And,

    Your parents then: “The problem with you kids is you spend all day in front of that tube, watching those stupid movies and playing video games all day instead of reading books. It’s stunting your ability to differentiate fantasy from reality!!!”

    Your parents now: Instantly believe every damn fool thing they see on Facebook, even and especially when it is clearly horseshit.

    So yeah. I can totally believe that some moron would unironically believe that staring at a screen containing an office application is somehow automatically more “wholesome” than staring at a screen displaying any other content for the same amount of time.