• josefo@leminal.space
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    7 hours ago

    I thought about this, but arthritis is a thing sadly. It’s probably fine for non action games, but forget about playing smash

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      Yeah smash destroys the hands of 30 years olds in the scene.

      What I’m looking forward to in retirement is finally cracking into games like Dwarf Fortress, Factorio, and Caves of Qud

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        Now you mention it, I would like to die taking some fascists with me, rather than from some suck ass old age pathology. Now I have way too much to loose, but in my old age, I’m going to be dead anyways, so why not. Maybe we see a rise in Luigis

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    Well, hopefully those wealthy millennials will enjoy their distractions, homes, and retirement while the rest of us are dropped into the industrial grinders they use to reclaim the nutrients from our bodies.

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    14 hours ago

    We have a collection of millennials and Gen z at our retirement home as staff. (Ofc)

    We joke about this but it is put in place by us saying we’d also have to be picking up shifts to even live there. It would have to be a sort of inmates running the asylum situation because we’re all working til we’re in the ground.

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    Oh sweet summer child… There isn’t going to be many elderly millennials. Most of us will die off from our fifth “once in a generation” financial crisis, WW3, or the collapse of the environment. Hopefully the younger generations use our bones to build a better society.

    • HistoryPug@lemmy.mlBanned
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      12 hours ago

      Right?! I don’t know any millennial whose retirement plan isn’t just hitting a certain age and killing ourselves.

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      On top of the fact that you need to have saved money to pay to live in a retirement home.

      Are… Are there people that sort of really hope to just go from their patents’ basement to a retirement home?

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        Well if they bothered to submit those patents instead of leaving them in the basement then they might be able to live in a retirement home

      • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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        How many of us are still in our parents’ basements? I’m nearly 40, struggling through our 20s was one thing but by now…

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          I dunno. Depends on the acceptability of calling it a “multi - generational household” because Boomers locked up to much wealth and now have to live with the consequences.

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      A major problem is that the demographics for Millennial retirement are a lot worse than for Boomers. Boomers at least had a decent number of millennials to help support them in retirement.

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        Oh my God not this birthrate bullshit.

        Birthrates aren’t down by much globally. Just learn a language and don’t be a piece of shit to the rest of the world.

        Maybe rationalize labor practices and add some automation while you’re at it.

        What’s really gonna stop us retiring is climate change

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      Hopefully the younger generations use our bones to build a better society.

      Knowing people, they’ll use them to bash each other in the face, more likely…

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    It’s extremely unlikely that social security will still exist by the time we’re old enough to retire, so retirement will be yet another thing reserved for the rich.

    Unless you live in a civilized country (not the US) in which case enjoy your retirement you lucky bastard.

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      I just hope that the current crisis in the US is a hallmark of the downfall of American capitalism and that the status quo can change long term. Remains to be seen if that’d be good or bad, though.

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    Maybe The Elder Scrolls 7 or Grand Theft Auto 7 will be out by the time I retire. Probably not. Weird that both those games have their 6th installments coming out next.

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    Zoomers dabbing in their retirement homes whilst their cloned grandkids look on in cringed puzzlement

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      “Meh.”

      My Gen Z cousin had zero respect for me til they PvP’d me on an old-school Street Fighter arcade machine.

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    Finally I can max out my Runescape character!
    *Logs in to Jagex, sees a blank screen*
    No… it’s not fair… there was time now…!