Kids today are dumb.

Cube said:
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PURGE IT WITH FIRE!!!11
 
Youn said:
oh, I didn't mean sugars and carbs found naturally in foods, I was talking about the processed junk. I do believe, however to a smaller extent of course, that this includes the widely used "white flour" that is stripped of all fiber and nutrients.

I would say I was kinda joking, putting blame solely on one particular thing. Food is a big one though, and often overlooked.
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:) I have too many allergies (especially food & respiratory), so I understand what you mean quite well. Most foods are the equivalent of painful landmines for me...
 
YEAH! Like how music today sucks!!...........?

I feel sorry for closed minded suckers.
 
lilbabycat said:
To correct the original poster, kids today aren't "dumb"....

Kids today lack imagination. Kids today lack a sense of wonder. Kids today lack a sense of adventure and wonder. They have EVERYTHING available to them (at least visually) instantly. Dinosaurs, Aliens, Laser beams, Monsters, Toys, entire worlds. It's all right there. Their minds don't need to think up this stuff, because a little box of plastic and silicon can give it to them.

So what's that do to the kids? They don't ask questions, they don't wonder about things, they don't dream, they don't explore. And, this might be stretching, I feel this is effecting how they learn; that they aren't grasping key methods of thought that translate into critical thinking skills, that translate into striving for innovation, that translate into wanting some more in life.
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Yeah, having tons of information at their fingertips is making kids dumber.:rolleyes:

Oh, yeah most of the kids that I grew up with were real geniuses. ;)

Little Billy will grow up to be an accountant, and he'll be damned if he'll have even a shred of a clue on how to change a fuse in his car.
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Yeah because its not like thats the type of information that you can't figure out from google or youtube.

Some people just don't have common sense. That hasn't changed through the years. Do you know how many service calls that I've done for tripped circuit breakers or GFCIs? "Oh, I didn't know that I couldn't plug in two huge space heaters into my living room while vacuuming."
 
Wouldn't "kids" not know who the old guy was because they'd never seen the cartoon? Or is that supposed to be some innate knowledge humans all have? :p
 
I'm sure that there weren't any kids that "lacked exploration skills" twenty years ago. Yup, every last one was sharp as a tack.
 
The kids who lacked exploration skills twenty years ago didn't play video games, or if they did, were incredibly frustrated with them, quit and did something else. No internet or gamefaqs to refer to, only the kid down the street who you heard rumors that he beat the game without losing a life and he saw the princess's boobs if you beat it in under an hour. And he was usually a liar.
 
Dark Shade said:
The kids who lacked exploration skills twenty years ago didn't play video games, or if they did, were incredibly frustrated with them, quit and did something else. No internet or gamefaqs to refer to, only the kid down the street who you heard rumors that he beat the game without losing a life and he saw the princess's boobs if you beat it in under an hour. And he was usually a liar.
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What provable or non anecdotal crap is there amongst the ramblings of an "old dude"?

There was game magazines and guides wasn't there. Also phone lines with tips and mail in fact sheets. :p
 
DeathPrincess said:
What provable or non anecdotal crap is there amongst the ramblings of an "old dude"?

There was game magazines and guides wasn't there. Also phone lines with tips and mail in fact sheets. :p
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There were game guides and magazines, after a while. Of course you'd have to have a subscription to them, or hopefully the 'next issue' covers the game you're playing. Calling the Hotline was a last resort, and often would result in everyone laughing at you for doing it. Good times :D
 
Dark Shade said:
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There were game guides and magazines, after a while. Of course you'd have to have a subscription to them, or hopefully the 'next issue' covers the game you're playing. Calling the Hotline was a last resort, and often would result in everyone laughing at you for doing it. Good times :D
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So all the Magnavox players were probably sitting around laughing at you noobs. Because all of you lacked any exploration ability as all the games had guides and little children's magazine's idiots guide to Mario to help you. :p
 
DeathPrincess said:
So all the Magnavox players were probably sitting around laughing at you noobs. Because all of you lacked any exploration ability as all the games had guides and little children's magazine's idiots guide to Mario to help you. :p
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Who are the 'you noobs' you are referring to?
 
DeathPrincess said:
The NES/SNES using noobs who so utterly lacked exploration skills that they had to use guides and phone lines to beat dumbed down crap like Mario. :p
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It's even worse now because gaming is mainstream and every Tom, Dick and Harry gets stuck at the same places we used to breeze through. So silly :D
 
I grew up playing those old games but I don't get any enjoyment playing them now.
I tried and just can't get back into those old games at all.
 
Why is the gaming forum always capped with a thread indicating that gamers are getting old?
 
One of the main reasons I play rpgs is for exploration. I love getting lost in the world, I hate linear games.
 
xnikx said:
hey i remember being a kid and getting stuck a lot in super metroid!
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The thing is, we snark at that sort of situation...

...but if we had had the internet back in the late 1980s, we'd have been asking the exact same things. :cool:
 
:rolleyes:

Yeah, like none of you had subscriptions to nintendo power, gamepro, or the like before the internet. Or talked to your friends about the game. Or just bought the stradegy guide for a particular game.
 
ya kno people are afraid or scared it seems, almost as if they are worrying... like similar to those who know they might have started a fire but did nothing to put it out... hoping someone is out there ready and brave enough to put it out.... lol
i kno plenty of people with extra-ordinary childhoods in the digital age.
its more of the parents who actually game, and their kids do the same, and they do nothing to enrich their lives.. :O
 
XvMMvX said:
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Yeah, like none of you had subscriptions to nintendo power, gamepro, or the like before the internet. Or talked to your friends about the game. Or just bought the stradegy guide for a particular game.
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Riven. The first game to make me break down and buy the strategy guide. I felt like a loser buying that guide. Then shortly after that the FF VII guide became my best friend to get that damned gold chocobo. Since then, I have come to be friends with the guides. Makes life easier when I don't have as much time to dedicate to exploring every facet of a game.
 
I just love video games. Old, new...it doesn't matter to me. On the weekends, I will fire up my modded original Xbox with emus/roms and get some old school gaming going. My wife will even join me. :) Just feels good to relive some memories and make some new ones with the new games out. :)
 
another funny thing
my two cousins came over, 6 years old.
they wanted to play video games
i offered them to play crysis 3, they said nope we want to play pac man!
 
It's simply a matter of generational upbringing, not intellegence. Video games grew from this state of a kids only medium and as the medium grew in along with technology, it presented an opportunity to allow players to interact with there games in more of a movie like experiance, where you have beautiful cutscenes and a prominent story arch.

All games today and from the 2000's decade are not all linear and do in fact incorperate things like easter eggs and secrets, it's just that there is less of an incentive for kids to do so, they can already explore if they want and they have a story to keep them tied into the game, they do not seem to require or seek these things out.

It's not that the children have devolved, it's just that the medium developed hence changing the perception of what an enjoyable gaming experience is. So then you have the older people who chim in with "back when i was a kid, things i did made us smarter and i had a sence of imagination" etc. which will continue throughour history as the medium developers, i'm sure when we hit a mature level with VR the same will be same said, that we didn't need to feel like we were in the game to experience it.
 
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