None of that is “childish”.
You go to work like an adult, come home and:
Play an M rated video game Watch an adult oriented animated show/film, Watch YouTube video that reached about some complex topic that you have an interest in (science, history, etc) or a video of someone playing those aforementioned M rated games.
Live your life, have fun with it.
I do this that and the other. All the things
Viewing things you enjoy as something you’re not allowed to do because you are an adult is easily the most childish thing you can do. Don’t live your life as though you are an animal trained to perform for others.
There are no useless facts. Only growing knowledge. You are a full time student for the rest of your life.
I don’t think these are opposed concepts.
If being an adult is having children and being married or even having a girlfriend (or whatever you like); then I’m good with just having a house, cars, hobbies, being able to travel, and endless entertainment.
goddamn right.
good luck with your kid though. guess climate change is their problem now.
I feel this in my soul. I’m an adult in that I pay rent, feed my kid, etc. but I’m also overly traumatized by the world around me so I retreated into the same things that made me happy as a kid. Also, my brain is wholly convinced I’m 12 not 36.
They’re busy cheering for grown folks playing different kids games, or playing less intense/more popular games like Farmville, Modern Warfare, GTA5, or whatev. They aren’t getting their giggles from cartoons but from Modern Family or Young Sheldon. They are 100% doomscrolling.
Biggest difference is social acceptability.
True.
In my case, the self proclaimed “grown up” people my age are busy:
- taking hard drugs
- binge drinking
- not saving money, burning through parents cash
- investing in literally “shitcoins” for the thrill of it then turning around to criticise people for playing videogames
- binging on dopamine from vanity gym-ing
- driving very fast sometimes under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
- spamming AI generated slop images in Instagram groupchats
- constantly cyver bullying each other (don’t ask me to explain why)
GenZ has a having fun problem. When people take up normal healthy hobbies like climbing or knitting, the boomers and Gen-Xers at mainstream cable news publish stories
making fun of themessentially decrying “have we failed them??”We’ve ended up with part of the generation focused on their own survival, and the other part are busy chasing the traditional road-well-travelled that boomers set out; basically conversion therapy to bring them into the folds of thrill-seeking capitalist dictatorship. As with the Boomers before them, these Gen Zs believe they are being “rebellious” and “individualistic” when they go down this road.
its not really free. your mortgaging your future unless youre retired already in which case it actually is free time
