Poll: The next genrations "thing"

[stormcaller]

A interesting question was brought up by Daniel Floyd(He does funny psuedo-ZP video game teaching things) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFywW99Uvwc&feature=channel The part I'm talking about comes right at the end and there are some dodgy images before that but nothing full-on. You have been warned.

Anyhow he says when the time rolls around when we become the boring Parents and Grandparents of the future and when the next generation brings up their new "thing" (Ours is gaming, before us music,drugs etc.) are we going to attempt to burn down their new culture like is happening to gaming now or are we going to learn from our mistakes and accept the new culture?

I myself will be slightly "anti" by that I mean I'll blab about the "good old days when we played things on a screen" because I think one of the biggest part of being a gamer is the "counter-culture" feel of the whole thing.

(I'm not sure of your ages or whether you have kids already so I'm trying to talk rather broadly)

 

[RheynbowDash]

"Hey you kids!!! Get off my lawn!!"

 

[Graustein]

It depends entirely on the thing in question. If hard drugs become a norm among teenagers, I will oppose it with every fibre of my being. If the next "morally-bankrupt" thing that comes along is just a variation on comic books or games or whatever, I will have no right to complain. In fact, I very well may join in on it.

 

[shadow_pirate22]

I'll probably start to be anti, but then remember, "This reminds me of video games". After that, it depends if it's "frikkin'" cool.

Of course, video games will never die, just evolve, adapt, reform in ways humanity cannot.

 

[JonasBrothersSuck]

Meh, I'll probably hop on the bandwagon myself. I don't want to fall behind.

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

It depends.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I will pretend to be near deaf to annoy people.
"Sorry, what was that?" for the twentieth time.

 

[stormcaller]

I will pretend to be near deaf to annoy people.
"Sorry, what was that?" for the twentieth time.

This when I get really old.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Halo OSTHFLJSGR 9? You kids are odd. Back in my day, we had Halo, and that's the way we liked it!

 

[Dorian]

If it involves some degrading bullshit like the music thing, then I will try with my entire being to destroy it. You CAN'T deny it. The American music is so.... so... evil! I can't stand it! It's just commiting crimes, killing, drugs, sex, racism, blah blah blah and saying it with some idiot making a beat with his mouth and hands! Christ!

 

[Valiance]

*comfirm birthdate*
*see video title*
"lol, gee."
*x*

If you're asking how I'm going to treat new fads, it will be exactly the same as I always have and always will: as an outsider.

New activities, if they are interesting, I will gladly partake in, unless it's so far-fetched that I can't wrap my head around it and it would be better if I just let my kids do it and let them not be embarrassed by the equivalent of my friend's mom attempting to play DDR.

Basically, all I mean is that if it's interesting and fun, and relatively legal, I will be open to it. I'm sure my views will become jaded soon after everyone who does it shits on me for still playing kiddy games with a keyboard and mouse.

 

[stormcaller]

*comfirm birthdate*
*see video title*
"lol, gee."
*x*

and relatively legal,

First part of quote, huh?

Second "relatively" you say?....

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

I'm pretty sure by definition I'll be against it.

 

[Valiance]

*comfirm birthdate*
*see video title*
"lol, gee."
*x*

and relatively legal,

First part of quote, huh?

Second "relatively" you say?....

I was referring to the video linked. "Videogames and sex." I assume it hinted at the fact that in the future, everyone will have their pleasuredomes instead of arcades and you'd pay 200 dollars for half an hour in a virtual world where you can create and screw anyone you'd like to.

Relatively I say as in, like...

Like skateboarding is technically illegal where I am but it's not heavily enforced unless you do something incredibly stupid about it.
Like I wasn't supposed to buy games rated M when I was 12, but no one really cared until Hillary Clinton decided that the existence of the 'hot coffee' mod (yes, a MOD) for GTA:SA was too much to just let slide.

Etc.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Really depends what it is, binge drinking and smoking is quite the rage under the local youth, but I despise both with the intensity of a thousand suns.

 

[Ionami]

Depends. What if mass rapings become the "in" thing?

 

[Moonmover]

Them blasted kids and their holodecks! When I was your age, our fantasy worlds were FLAT! And you couldn't smell them neither! And you had to pay sixty dollars (that was with paper. 'couse you stupid children wouldn't know anything 'bout that, what with your credit-chips and whatnot.) for it, and you liked it! I'm gonna' take a nap now.

If it involves some degrading bullshit like the music thing, then I will try with my entire being to destroy it. You CAN'T deny it. The American music is so.... so... evil! I can't stand it! It's just commiting crimes, killing, drugs, sex, racism, blah blah blah and saying it with some idiot making a beat with his mouth and hands! Christ!

No, rap and hip-hop is that.

Please mind that country, rock-and-roll, jazz, bluegrass, and the Blues are also "the American music."

 

[Xvito]

That depends... If it's like video-games except it's more awesome then I'd be all for it, but if it's killing little babies with their bare hands then I probably wouldn't.

 

[Ace of Spades]

When the next generation comes up with a new idea for entertainment, then I'll be all for it. I'll be dead soon after anyway.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

Well I plan on never having kids, but if it is alot like video games, heck yeah, like tabletop role-playing, only they now have a virtual world generator, sure! New styles of martial arts, definitely! Any kind of drugs or binge drinking, drinking just to get drunk, highly dangerous, illegal, and/or immoral actions? I will oppose these every bit as much in the future as I do now!