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xX_rAcE_wAr_420_Xx said:
I love my parents, and enjoy their company, they've helped me in life, and they're still boomers who don't get it.
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Same boat here, my parents love me to death and we get along great, but taking their advice on basically anything outside of small-scale interpersonal stuff is a massive mistake.

For example, my parents were mortified at the suggestion that I go to trade school, because in their minds, smart people go to college, fuck-ups and poor people go into the trades. Several years later, they never shut up about how much money there is in the trades. Same thing with them acting like I was insane for not wanting to go into IT because I could see the writing on the wall about all the outsourcing to China/India.

I think it's less of a generational economic thing, and more that having their culture and lives centered around television completely melted their sense of skepticism and ability to think critically. They're conditioned to only passively be spoonfed information, come to their conclusions about people and situations entirely through superficial audio-visual impressions, and to never organically think about the larger context around who is presenting said information and why.

The office drone must make more money and be more valuable to society than a plumber, because one does paperwork and wears a tie, the other is a blue collar guy with dirty, calloused hands. College has to be insanely expensive for a reason, right? There's no way we're all being lied to and ripped off, some important person would definitely tell us.

For many of them to acknowledge that things are harder for their children, they would have to hear a celebrity, pundit, or a politician tell them so, it's as simple as that.

(Not to say that's entirely unique to them, but the propaganda fog must've been so all-encompassing and impenetrable pre-Internet.)
 
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Eggplant Wizard said:
They couldn’t all live their dreams of being economic gods. As with all things involving competition between millions of people. some rose to the top, most achieved some form of mediocrity, and others fell.

The ones that fell honestly believe that none of their children should be successful. These are the types that start screeching with rage when their child does something remotely positive in life.

The (low) mediocre rage when their child does something positive outside of what the “social norm” is. (Example: Someone that “plays video games all day” [read: games as a hobby] having a decent job and a 7/10 wife.)

The ones higher up merely think they should be in charge of everything, usully get ruffled when told no, but otherwise only rage when their slice of the pie is threatened.
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Sorry but playing games all day is not a hobby. If you are just playing through games you’re a consoomer, no different than watching movies or reading books. A hobby implies something productive. If you are reviewing (like actual reviews, not shitposts on forums), or writing guides, or making let’s plays, or whatever, that could be a hobby. But simply playing games is not a hobby. Entertaining yourself is not a hobby.
 
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George Lucas said:
Entertaining yourself is not a hobby.
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Hobby
an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure

Something doesn’t have to be productive to be a hobby. You’re free to look down on people with hobbies that you consider to be unproductive, but that doesn’t make them not hobbies. Reading books, watching movies, and playing video games can all be hobbies even if they’re just for entertainment.
 
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Gar For Archer said:
Hobby
an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure

Something doesn’t have to be productive to be a hobby. You’re free to look down on people with hobbies that you consider to be unproductive, but that doesn’t make them not hobbies. Reading books, watching movies, and playing video games can all be hobbies even if they’re just for entertainment.
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I’m not looking down on anything. Consider my avatar. But we really should distinguish hobbies and entertainment. They have very different implications.
 
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George Lucas said:
I’m not looking down on anything. Consider my avatar. But we really should distinguish hobbies and entertainment. They have very different implications.
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You’re free to try and find me a dictionary definition of “hobby” where it specifies that it must be productive use of time. If YOU want to think that only productive hobbies count as hobbies that’s your prerogative, but that doesn’t make everyone else wrong for saying playing video games can be a hobby, that’s you disagreeing with the commonly held definition.
 
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Gar For Archer said:
You’re free to try and find me a dictionary definition of “hobby” where it specifies that it must be productive use of time. If YOU want to think that only productive hobbies count as hobbies that’s your prerogative, but that doesn’t make everyone else wrong for saying playing video games can be a hobby, that’s you disagreeing with the commonly held definition.
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Yes exactly.
 
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Come on guys, how hard is it to glomp up a clump of hamburger in your giant powerful mitt and fuckin plop it on a rip-roarin pan or griddle and smash it with your spatula into a nicely golden-seared thin piece of pure USDA-approved American pride?
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I buy the frozen patties from sams and keep them in the freezer for "oh shit, I forgot to take meat out of the freezer to defrost last night" or "I want a quick burger for lunch" times where it's not worth the time and effort to go out and get or defrost some ground beef and spend all that time making home made patties. Either way, making them fresh or buying them frozen in bulk is STILL lightyears ahead of going to McDeez or Burger Kangz.
 
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Barry McKockner said:
I buy the frozen patties from sams and keep them in the freezer for "oh shit, I forgot to take meat out of the freezer to defrost last night" or "I want a quick burger for lunch" times where it's not worth the time and effort to go out and get or defrost some ground beef and spend all that time making home made patties. Either way, making them fresh or buying them frozen in bulk is STILL lightyears ahead of going to McDeez or Burger Kangz.
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I only get the aldi-size pack, but yeah they replaced my drive-thru burgers years ago
 
Barry McKockner said:
I buy the frozen patties from sams and keep them in the freezer for "oh shit, I forgot to take meat out of the freezer to defrost last night" or "I want a quick burger for lunch" times where it's not worth the time and effort to go out and get or defrost some ground beef and spend all that time making home made patties. Either way, making them fresh or buying them frozen in bulk is STILL lightyears ahead of going to McDeez or Burger Kangz.
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Wendy's burgers have also gone to shit, they used to be good but now they keep the patties on the grill FOREVER to save money so you get a tough dry piece of baseball glove in your burger. Always fresh never frozen doesn't matter when you ultra well done that shit so you use less patties over the course of the day. Hurts the chili too
 
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Beige said:
(Not to say that's entirely unique to them, but the propaganda fog must've been so all-encompassing and impenetrable pre-Internet.
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Up until the late 80ies with Reagan striking down the Fairness Doctrine, then AM talk radio started, and internet started to become accessible to the public. It have been nothing but one long leftist communistic democrat propaganda fog. As the democrats controlled every mean of mass communication in print, radio and then TV.
 
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