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[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 150 points 2 years ago

The kids yearn for the mines

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 71 points 2 years ago

Is that why they play Minecraft?

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 years ago

Always has been

[-] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 years ago

Child labour in Frostpunk intensifies

[-] Sestren@lemmy.world 97 points 2 years ago

These things were NEVER fucking left open at the park near me. Could wait there the entire day and the same fucking kid would be using it the entire time, completely oblivious to your attempts to get him to move.

I swear, I probably only touched the thing once when i was a child. I came back with my daughter a few years ago and nobody was giving it a second glance. Used my kid as an excuse to finally get to play with the thing...

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

FYI: As an adult, you probably could have taken that kid in a fight. Possibly even if he used the crane as a weapon.

[-] zippycat9 6 points 2 years ago

If he uses the crane is it just the first boss of nier automata?

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[-] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 84 points 2 years ago

These were the shit growing up

[-] OsaErisXero@kbin.run 55 points 2 years ago

They still are

[-] xlash123@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I did not use one, but now I'm jealous

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago

Kids in my generation:

“Mom, can I have my GameBoy back?”

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

A girl in my class: proud owner of a PS1, plays Spyro and Medievil constantly.

Same girl as an adult: "I don't even knew what a video game was, I played outside."

[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Unless you had a GameGear (or, heaven help you, a Nomad). Then it was, "Mom, I need more AA batteries."

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

“12, to be exact. I have to beat scorpion and then I’ll get to face Goro and I can’t risk running out of batteries now.”

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[-] germanatlas 10 points 2 years ago
[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Kids asking for an entertainment device back basically exploded with the Atari 2600 and never died down.

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[-] SternburgExport@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

I remember opening parts of the blinds so the street lights would brighten my Gameboys display for some quality past bedtime gaming

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[-] asphalt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 2 years ago

Are we becoming boomer now? I certainly feel like it

[-] Zorg@lemmings.world 10 points 2 years ago

Smaller kids still love playgrounds, even if they also want/love screentime. Heck, it is not infrequent there are a group of younger teenagers at the playgrounds we frequent.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Boomers without any entitlements are just loosers

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 32 points 2 years ago

Best fucking toy out there. Me and my friends used to throw pennies into the sand and bury them, and the kid on the machine would dig them up.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

Where you a child during the industrial revolution

[-] ToastedPlanet 26 points 2 years ago

No, an even 'ironically' darker time. The 90's and the unpronounceable 00's.

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago
[-] Smc87@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 2 years ago
[-] variants@possumpat.io 10 points 2 years ago

The zips aka the zilch aka nadas

[-] mydoomlessaccount@infosec.pub 4 points 2 years ago

The Absolutely Nothings

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago
[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

Let's call them the zeds.

[-] germanatlas 6 points 2 years ago
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[-] arymandias@feddit.de 28 points 2 years ago

Core memory resurfaced from the playground near my late grandma’s house.

[-] Smorty 19 points 2 years ago

Still yearning

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

A huge chunk of my childhood was spent playing in the dirt and mud. I lived in bumfuck nowhere Pennsylvania, so that's all I had to do when the neighbor kids were busy.

[-] Emmie@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was playing with dried out dog shit in some forsaken sandpits of Eastern Europe just after the Soviet’s collapse.

I wish I could romanticise it somehow but no matter my attempts it never sounds super cool.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

We called that area Pennsyltucky

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[-] Senseless@feddit.de 17 points 2 years ago

Diggy Diggy hole

[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

These sand things just don’t exist where I am in the US. I remember when I was staying in Europe as a kid the setups with sand and water pumps being the most interesting part of a lot of playgrounds.

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[-] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Minecraft early access.

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

I've never seen one, do they have these for adults?

[-] Kattail_ 53 points 2 years ago
[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

I should not be trusted to operate one of those

[-] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

Not at all.

You can always operate via something like this:

https://www.extremesandbox.com/

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[-] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

And here I needed instructions just to play with Legos! I remember wondering how others had such active imaginations

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

What do you think they are playing on the iPad? Minecraft.

[-] mastod0n@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago
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[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

The children yearn for the mines

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We all played minecraft, just some of us played it in real life out of scrap metal and discarded bricks

[-] GlennicusM@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

What the hell! Wish I had that as a kid!

[-] HEXN3T 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I didn't have this cool ass crane, but I did have a chill ass nature trail.

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