Daddy was one of the handful of lucky survivors who weren’t crushed by a SUV or abducted by a serial killer. Back then, families had, like, 13 kids so that at least one or two would survive the perils of playing outside.
In Mallorca I saw a playground. This playground had no trees around whatsoever. There was no possibility to be any shadow anywhere on this playground. And in the center, there was the highlight. A slide. A metal slide. Just standing there in broad daylight, no chance of ever getting any shade. This is where kids lost their bums.
Edit: found it
I remember the burning heat of the metal slide as a kid. Our play structures were much larger than this postage stamp tho. The area shown here was about the footprint of the structure, we also had a huge litter box… I mean sand box under it to limit broken bones from falling 12’+. Some kids bounced, others did not
What is even the point of a playground if you can’t spin around on a merry-go-round until you get sick, fly off, hit your head hard enough for it to get concussed and puke?
we had the tire swings with 3 chains that could spin while swinging. “I want off!” “What’s that? Spin faster? OK then.” oh the vomit lol
Stagger home, have a few pop-ice to numb the pain and sulk for a while, then back into the fray until dark
Goes outside
Gets RDM’d
I mean, idk how old OP is but Roblox is old enough that it’s theoretically ppssible
Yeah, if he had his first kid at age 12
Roblox released in 2006. Let’s say dad was 12 in 2006 and played it then. Dad would now be 30. Which means 8yo was born when dad was 22. Very plausible.
I came here to cry about this hitting me on a personal level and then you just went and did math.
Yeah, I remember the war between Roblox and Blockland back in the day (2008).
Ah good times.
Roblox came out in 2006? On what platform?
Windows.
iOS in 2012 and android in 2014.
Let’s say dad was 12 in 2006
Has mom gotten out of prison yet?
what?
my math is proving that dad could have played roblox at 12 and had a kid at 22. And said kid would be 8 now.
Oh sorry, I misread. I thought you meant he was a dad at 12.
Did you not?
I had Lego as a kid then I discovered Minecraft ,it was wonderful.
We had Minecraft and Lego as kids as well and still played outside a lot. I thought that mix was still mostly normal, is it not?
They widened the roads, increased the speed limits, and made the cars bigger and more blind.
So kids died, a lot, and parents banned going outside unaccompanied. Kids got tired of asking mum’s permission to go to the park like a baby, and just played video games instead.
That and the third place is being and has been turned into a place where you are expected to buy something(food+drink and merch)instead of just enjoying yourself and spend time with friends. There’s nowhere for kids of any age to go that doesn’t charge a fee to get in(some parks), doesn’t have rules against talking(libraries), hasn’t been made obsolete(malls, arcades), or is unreligious.
I had a lot of silly conversations before stumbling onto this.
You have restored my faith in lemmy. Thank you.
This was not on my Tiananmen Square bingo card.
I consumed Minecraft in a non healthy way like 8hours a day or more , that was beautiful.
I was like this about books as a teen, one time i accidentally pulled an all nighter on a school night. Well, I realized it was 5am and figured there’s no point in sleeping for 2 hours.
I had Legos so long ago that we still called them “Legos” and the Lego Men that came with them were called “Lego Men” and not “Minifigs.” Also, even the girls were Lego Men. They were just lady Lego Men.
I played with Legos and my Lego Men. And I will die on that personal hill.
Kids would be way better off outside than on the cesspool that is Roblox.
call it playing outside before the 90s simulator and I’m in.
Not going to lie, this is a game concept I would love to play.
Ngl, your title had me hyped for a minute there.
That’d be a great game. The entire neighbourhood is warfare. Cubby building, better sticks make for better guns, gotta make alliances with the right street, and make sure the kid with the fancy bike is on your side.
“Sir, we only have 20 mins to capture the park fort! I gotta go for dinner…”
