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  • HuskerNation@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world[Deleted]
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    5 days ago

    Yes and no. I used to be a night owl regardless but as I’ve aged staying up past midnight gets harder. during softball season for my daughter when we are literally never home in the evening I can usually do an hour or 2 after wife or kid falls asleep.

    During the day spring summer I find I can’t play games because I always feel like I should be doing something else even if I have nothing going on. During the winter I find it a bit easier.







  • As a gen X, 47, part of the latch key generation. You just did things yourself and became resilient yourself. Parents always had a set of phone numbers to call if needed. You had access to a phone book but mostly you just called your friends and got a group together to do something with. Go fishing, Ride bikes, hangout, pickup baseball sandlot style, basketball, swimming, or Nintendo when it was hot out during the summer.

    And we all taught each other stuff, some of us knew how to change a bike tire, some of us knew how to tie fishing knots and what baits to use. And we all had our way of getting some stuff for free or discounted stuff from a parents business, restraunt or arcade.

    We all knew who’s dads had porno mags and where they were hidden. And on occasion we could sneak some cigarettes or beer.

    There would be days during the summer I’d be out of the house before my parents and they wouldn’t see me well past sunset. Shit was just easier and the world less scary I guess.

    As far as driving in cities we didn’t live in, I have no idea how my parents found shit. Lincoln, grand island I can find things easily without Gps. And any rural town with 300 miles of them. Omaha I can’t find shit without Gps

    I struggle with my daughter because her mother is afraid of everything and that’s been passed to her. Some things I get, and I’m glad she has a phone with her, I’d like her to take more initiative in finding things to do herself and I push her and my wife to let her be more independent





  • I have to ask why sports? Surely there is some sport you are interested in.

    I’ve recently discovered I’ve been lying to myself on baseball, and how much I loved the game as a kid and I regret not pursuing it after highschool all because of the mlb strikes in the 90s. I just stopped watching and participating. For me and a lot of people during that time I guess the mindset was, I work in the heat all day, not just for 3 hours and those players are bitching about the millions they make aren’t enough. There’s some truth to that but it completely blinded me to what I loved, now I’m to old to even compete in men’s slow pitch leagues

    Since my daughter is now playing softball, just playing catch and working with her on pitching has made me truly realize how great the game is, the feel of the glove, the sound of the bat cracking, or the sound of a fastball hitting a glove.

    For a game that’s been played as much for so long and there are still records being broken or first time for something is truly amazing.

    My interest in football is at a all time low, no longer follow NFL, but still love college even though it’s becoming a shadow of its former self.

    And volleyball is peaking because of my daughter as well


  • My problem is doni have time for new games, we have a switch for my daughter and we barely play it. I like Nintendo games but I have a hard enough time completing any game. I think there’s one or two games in my entire Xbox collection I’ve actually completed.

    My problem is only having maybe an hour or two late evening I’ll play something for a week, try something else because I get tired of playing the same thing then forget what I was doing in the other game and want to start over.

    If I was going to get a handheld I think I’d much prefer the new Asus rog that Xbox worked on