Yep. Walking to a corner store that had a 7 Up sign hanging over the entrance. Houses that were hot as hell and running to get to the box fan for just a few seconds beforegoing back outside. I never caredfor baseball but everytime I hear a baseball game on a.m. radio I mis it. Waiting for the trashy kids to open the fire hydrant so you could join in without getting into trouble. Hearing people in your neighborhood becsuse the windows wrre always open.
Now its fucking TikTok all goddamn day long , xbox and youtube, fuvking "gamers" and e-sports whatever the fuck that is. Not just kids either I know alot of adults do that shit every minute of free time they have. So many 20 somethings and 30 somethings in my neighborhood are pasty, shapeless, toneless, formless asexuals that look like they haven't seen the sun in their entire adult lives.
A carpenter on site was griping about how he can't pry his kid away from Fortnight. The kid apparently lost interest in anything else he used to like, throws full blown tantrums if it's taken away (kid is something like 12). Sounded like a proper addiction.
Those things are engineered tap right in to dopamine channels in a very sophisticated way imo. The games which don't can't survive the marketplace, so it's a race to create the most addictive thing you can.
On the other hand, I don't really give a shit if young men are dopamine addicted marshmallows. I'll do my calisthenics and fuck their girls for them. Fine by me.
