• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    32·
    3 months ago

    My life:

    1. Play video games despite my father’s immense disapproval.

    2. Learn to program so I can make my own video games.

    3. Get a job where I’m paid to program.

    4. Never actually finish any of my own games.

    I do still play video games and he does still disapprove but I’m older now than he was when I started playing and he started disapproving so that’s probably not going to change.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
        2·
        3 months ago

        Are you two me, then? Only difference is that my dad actually enabled my gaming addiction and was an enjoyer back then, I vividly recall him playing Red Alert, Age of Empires and Civilization 2.

        I’m on step 4 mostly thanks to godot, tho. Might give Ebitengine (Go) a try in some months. That or DragonRuby, as I qualified for a free license and Amir very quickly replied to my email.

  • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
    231·
    3 months ago

    1990: “Our comic readers have only heard of one video game ever, but we need to stretch this to look like an entire newspaper page.”

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
      18·
      3 months ago

      I think it’s a nested joke, where that one game totally dominates the kid’s free time, with the clueless parents thinking that’s the only relevant game in existence.

      • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
        10·
        3 months ago

        Also, at the time every game was “the Nintendo” to parents, and still was for a couple decades after. Mario had an enormous impact.

        • exocrinous@startrek.websiteEnglish
          71·
          3 months ago

          I didn’t understand that as a kid and I still don’t understand it. Why would you take so little interest in what your kids like? I don’t even have kids and I still know who Mr Beast is. I can’t imagine having people I love, living in my house, who are into this stuff and not knowing all about it. The only way this kind of parental apathy can possibly make sense to me is if those parents just don’t love their kids. It doesn’t make sense to me.

          • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
            5·
            3 months ago

            Video games are pretty new. Most parents of those kids perfectly related tp their kids watching TV and movies. They could bond over Star Wars and have no concept of ‘gaming’ and remain completely ignorant beyond them Mario Twins and the Pokemans.

            • exocrinous@startrek.websiteEnglish
              41·
              3 months ago

              If experiencing the world through fresh eyes isn’t one of the main points of having a kid, what are we even doing as a species? How can you not be infected by a little one’s curiosity about a changing world and learn along with them? I’m childfree and I still understand that much. How can someone choose to have kids and not want to share their kid’s eagerness to learn?

                • exocrinous@startrek.websiteEnglish
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  There is no amount of exhaustion that could persuade me not to learn the name of my loved one’s favourite toy for years on end.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
      8·
      3 months ago

      And dad achieves most of his self esteem by posting poorly-done, sexist or racist memes to a cloistered Facebook group of similarly brave folks.

  • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    To be fair, I ended up being paid $300-400/hr consulting on the future of technology with a particular focus on video games not that long after the date of the paper in the comic, so job opportunities dependent on knowing games really well did end up existing, even if not filling up the entire newspaper listings.