"Sister Kathaliynnry, you made a simple error, you only reset the Mirror of Many Pixels, not the Tower of Processing. My Millennial Master Father Steve taught me such, may the Omnissiah watch over his soul."

"I pray for the birth of the Star Millennial to usher in the new golden age of tech!"

Edit: I was kinda hoping the response to this post would more be people joking about my Warhammer reference, but instead y'all be posting serious analysis here. Real buzzkill.

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[–] IvarK@hexbear.net 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I agree with you somewhat, but i gotta say most of my peers who grew up pre smartphones/tablets being ubiquitous (late 2000s) with parents that were strict around screen time etc. “for their own good” didn’t really end up being thankful for the great habits that reinforced. Most just became resentful that they were excluded from partaking in their favorite activities with their friends (i.e. hanging out with irl friends in runescape or whatever you did in 2009)

[–] LittleFellaNamedBoof@hexbear.net 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Where do you disagree? Was this thing I said not directly related to the concern you mentioned?

If you teach them good habits and they grow into healthy adults they might not even realize what a favor you did for them, but their lives will certainly be better for it.

[–] IvarK@hexbear.net 1 points 3 hours ago

I’m sorry if you felt that I misunderstood your point. It was not my intention to do a bad-faith reading, my apologies if I inadvertently did.

I think I was more trying to express my gut reaction to what I perceived as a similar line of reasoning to what I grew up hearing from parents (mine were cool but others around me) of “you can play video games for an hour on weekends as a treat but otherwise you have to be outside and play sports whether you want to or not”. These types of arguments never went over well with any of my friends, and usually just resulted in resentment and them finding ways to sneak away and be on the computer at my house or whatever.

I hope that clarifies my feelings I was trying to express!