Vampiric_Luma

Vampiric_Luma , 7 months ago

Probably my father who had everything handed to him in his (still objectively shitty) upbringing before kicking me out with nothing and expecting me to flourish because it’s apparently just a matter of putting in some elbow grease.

I’ll just do that with the lack of knowledge they provided me and the lack of skills that the education system gave me.

Thank heavens I’ve met tons of understanding people that provided me the tools and support I needed to uplift myself without money. I can be much more productive to society and the people I love and care about within without having to worry about garbage like money or failing; I can keep getting back up and learn from my mistakes without suddenly going homeless one day.

But no, I was just “lazy”. Still apparently am.

Vampiric_Luma , 10 months ago

The archive link doesn’t load past the starting text. Can only read the introductory paragraph.

I’m gaming less the more time goes on. I’m so stressed from the current state of affairs I can barely focus on a game without thinking of my current responsibilities.

I absolutely am working less though. Why would I, its worthless where I am to make anything beyond survival. I’m in one of the most expensive places in Canada. Rather, that free time can be dedicated to getting out of this hole at least.

Buh, the glimpse I got from the article comes off like we’re slaves. “Luring young men from the workplace” sounds so insidious. Logically, they have to be able to afford that luxury. Thus, they need to work to play. A very small majority somehow exploit the system to play indefinitely, but they’re far less of a problem compared to actual financial exploiters (1% and… up?) What about TV? What about sports? ‘Sports is literally draining people of their time and energy that can be dedicated to work!!’ /s Fuck off, Justin Von Gooberville. I don’t know what I’m expecting from a financial opinion piece though. Especially one I can’t read completely lol. Maybe it all comes together at the end.

It comes together at the end, right? With well cited sources to boot?

Vampiric_Luma , 10 months ago

We are slaves, but in a widely interpret-able sense such in that we are slaves to our desires or materialism. That can be overcome to a degree, although I understand not wanting to and you shouldn’t have to.

What I’m referring to is Justin’s wording and how it implies we are working-class slaves to serve societies needs rather than our own first. Like, I wish your situation was better, but I’m glad you have something to fall back on that keeps ya truckin’ another day ya know? It feels like Justin expects you to reduce gaming and work more because “the numbers”. We’re humans! We have needs!

Like fuck, I re-read the limited article and he’s actually saying he’s interpreting one of his own sources:

… the survey doesn’t differentiate between electronic and non-electronic games, but most researchers assume it’s chiefly the former…

What researchers? It’s never cited. (or is it…?) This reads like rhetoric stink meant to farm anxiety and outrage from out-of-touch, financially-invested old farts, but again I can’t even read the article and clicking anywhere on web.archive causes the entire page to disappear q.q

Vampiric_Luma , 10 months ago

This is beautiful, thank you for sharing. <3 I love how the light is scattering from the droplet.