Re:Back in my day... (Score 1)

indeed these days and in the future children will be rotten little buggers. When i was a year and a half, my parents bought an Atari (have no clue what model, with the cartridge putting in part in the keyboard and cassette tape drive). Soon afterward they taught me to play pacman, spent much of childhood doing such.. Later I advanced to Zork and Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy and loved it :) When I was 5ish, I began playing dungeons and dragons with my cousin (he was like 11 or so) over a bbs we had to phone into 400 km away, and we loved it. The slowness, or the fact that it was text only didn't bother us, we were excercising our minds and talking to other ppl who actually liked what they were doing as well and that was why we loved it. Unlike today. Icq used to be a communications utility, now it is just pap with thousands (dare I say millions) of stupid, sheep such as jocks and ditzes who use AOL thinking its the best thing since sliced bread, just msging -anyone- looking for some cyber. The internet is being ruined by the sheep who have never known the coolness of being the only comp-interested person you know to have a computer of some sort that is -not- a mac, or being beaten up by classmates for being the only one who did assignments on a computer with spell checker, or played any of the classic games. Instead, their minds are feed the pap and do not even know how things used to, how things should be. Instead, they just go on flooding irc channels with "asl, wanna c ma pic?" and play their stupid games with none of the stimuli of those of yesteryear, such as the Sims and Black and White (granted there might be games out there which are mentally stimulating, I have been told to play Baldur's Gate, just haven't found a copy yet). Guided games (either in its nature or throw possible actions to take) ruin ppl's minds in their simplicity. Oh for Pandora Directive or Crystal Caves! ~me