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Darwin

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Something I am wondering...
« on: August 5, 2003 05:05 am CDT »
For a few months now I have started to notice this, and its starting to really bug me.  What is happening to our generation?  Let me explain.

No, this is not about drugs or violence.  Its about computers.


For the past couple months, my sister would have a friend over at the house.  Immediately, they would get on AIM and chat with friends for hours on end.  I dont mean like 1 hour at a time.  I mean for the ENTIRE DAY.  I see my girlfriend, who stays on AIM til 4am every morning, play Dope Wars (I introduced it to her today) for over 7 hours!  Shes still playing it!

At 2am, I am sitting here staring at my computer screen.  When Im not chatting with another person on AIM, then I am checking this forum every 30 FAZZLEWERTING SECONDS!


I dont understand why I am so riled up about this, but I am beginning to think that I hate computers.  All they do is cause problems in my life, and this DAMN HANTARA VIRUS ALERT KEEPS POPPING UP EVERY 5 FREAKING MINUTES!  ARG!
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« Reply #1 on: August 5, 2003 05:16 am CDT »
its called ppl drugged on comp
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« Reply #2 on: August 5, 2003 05:17 am CDT »
Perhaps its my monitor refresh rate thats bothering me, i dunno.  Ill lower it to get a better refresh...


*changes*

Ahh, i feel better now.
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« Reply #3 on: August 5, 2003 05:37 am CDT »
No you were prolly high or something when you wrote that post, or, MAJORLY bored....as always
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« Reply #4 on: August 5, 2003 05:49 am CDT »
i dunno why girls would GET together and hang out.. to then go online and talk on aim=\ should THEY ALL just hang out together.... well heh mystery.
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« Reply #5 on: August 5, 2003 05:54 am CDT »
heh, darwin, i feel the same way sometimes... like, my dad if we get in an argument, will sometimes bring up how much time i used to spend on the comp, and so i feel like taking the comp, and throwing it out into the street cause it would solve so many probs in my life.. but then, i remember how addicted i am to talking to people on aim, and playing DAoC, and i quickly tell myself how crazy that would be.. almost as crazy as cuttin of the twig and berries... but im not taht crazy :-P
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« Reply #6 on: August 5, 2003 06:28 am CDT »
DAMN


I have the EXACT same problem. I got into computers in about the 7th grade, but never spent more than a couple of hours on them a day. Still don't. But my sisters... My god... they'd get up at 8 AM, stay on ALL day until 6 AM the next morning... that's like 22 hours, and do it all over again. I don't see how they survive doing that, it's just DISGUSTING!

There's ALWAYS a line for my computer, just so they can sit here and talk to no-one, and be totally unproductive. I mean I have one sister that sits there and watches her away message, it's SO sad.

I've come to the realization about 6 months ago that I hate computers more than anything, and that it was the biggest waste of life learning 7 different programming languages, and doing all the other malarkey I used to do on them.

I mean look at them, they're unreliable, big and clunky, outdated in a matter of months... WHO NEEDS THIS malarkey?
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« Reply #7 on: August 5, 2003 07:03 am CDT »
We do...

Quote from: "Nivek"
i dunno why girls would GET together and hang out.. to then go online and talk on aim=\ should THEY ALL just hang out together.... well heh mystery.


They should all just get together and put on lesbian shows for us.  That would be productive *pun not intended to women of forum*

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Well, optional  :wink:
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« Reply #8 on: August 5, 2003 07:27 am CDT »
Hahah, seriously.. I don't know what I would do without a computer.

I don't ever watch TV anymore, and I usually do my reading online.  About the only other thing I do at home for entertainment is play console games.

My family has three computers networked up so I usually don't have that problem of waiting for family to get off.. Except for my dad, he always wants to use the computer I'm on, and NOW he plays Morrowind.. he's such a newbie to games. I come down the stairs and watch him sit there staring at the inventory screen for a couple of minutes (on morrowind).
It's pathetic he asks me questions about morrowind everytime he's on now. Today he played for 7 hours and he just got off about 30 minutes ago (around 1:45 AM).
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« Reply #9 on: August 5, 2003 07:41 am CDT »
Whatever you do... um... dont allow him to play that game for 7 hours straight!  My gf's brother used to do that, and now he is pro-nazi!  I am not kidding!
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« Reply #10 on: August 5, 2003 08:18 am CDT »
Too late he's already a nazi.. lol
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« Reply #11 on: August 5, 2003 02:57 am CDT »
yeah ive been spending alot of time chatting....  but ive been forcing myself to get dressed... and go out and go on road trips and junk

but sometimes its fun to chat for HOURS on end... its only bad when u stop getting exercise.... or stop having real life socialization
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« Reply #12 on: August 5, 2003 03:17 pm CDT »
whatever happened to the stuff i did when i was a kid? community softball games, sled riding, all night hide and seek games ect?
it used to be the streets would be full of kids playing but anymore, they are all on the comp or vidio games. :(
im glad that my nephews get out some even if it IS skateboarding.
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« Reply #13 on: August 5, 2003 03:19 pm CDT »
Ohh, I remember those all night hide and seek games... before I got the internet...
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« Reply #14 on: August 5, 2003 04:16 pm CDT »
Quote from: "EVIL_INC"
whatever happened to the stuff i did when i was a kid? community softball games, sled riding, all night hide and seek games ect?
it used to be the streets would be full of kids playing but anymore, they are all on the comp or vidio games. :(
im glad that my nephews get out some even if it IS skateboarding.


That's how it used to be when I was a kid, all the way up to like age 13... then I got absorbed into computers.


It's sad though, my little brother is 8 and he stays in side all day with his friends playing 007 Nightfire, or Mario Party 4, or even Smashbro's for his Gamecube.  I mean I can't argue with him because I spend as much time on the computer as he does on console games, but still.. he's only 8. He's gonna grow up and realize his childhood consisted of nothing but Nintendo.
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