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[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 149 points 5 months ago

The kids yearn for the mines

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 71 points 5 months ago

Is that why they play Minecraft?

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 44 points 5 months ago

Always has been

[-] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 months ago

Child labour in Frostpunk intensifies

[-] Sestren@lemmy.world 96 points 5 months 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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 months ago

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

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[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 6 points 5 months ago

Hahaha you and I had the same experience. Always watching, never actually getting a chance to use because of some kid hogging it the whole time you were there.

[-] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 85 points 5 months ago

These were the shit growing up

[-] OsaErisXero@kbin.run 56 points 5 months ago

They still are

[-] xlash123@sh.itjust.works 37 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 59 points 5 months ago

Kids in my generation:

“Mom, can I have my GameBoy back?”

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months 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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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 5 months 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 months ago
[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months 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 5 months 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 48 points 5 months ago

Are we becoming boomer now? I certainly feel like it

[-] Zorg@lemmings.world 10 points 5 months 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 5 months ago

Boomers without any entitlements are just loosers

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 32 points 5 months 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 5 months ago

Where you a child during the industrial revolution

[-] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 5 months ago

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

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago
[-] Smc87@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 5 months ago
[-] variants@possumpat.io 10 points 5 months ago

The zips aka the zilch aka nadas

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[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago
[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago

Let's call them the zeds.

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[-] arymandias@feddit.de 28 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 5 months ago

Still yearning

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months 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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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 5 months ago

We called that area Pennsyltucky

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[-] Senseless@feddit.de 17 points 5 months ago

Diggy Diggy hole

[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months 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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[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Kattail_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 5 months ago
[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

I should not be trusted to operate one of those

[-] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago

Not at all.

You can always operate via something like this:

https://www.extremesandbox.com/

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I think I know what I'm doing for my birthday this year.

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[-] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Minecraft early access.

[-] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

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

[-] mastod0n@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago
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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

The children yearn for the mines

[-] GlennicusM@beehaw.org 5 points 5 months ago

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

[-] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

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