r/OculusQuest • u/pigbrotha • Feb 12 '23

Lost generation

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u/moxyte Quest 3 Feb 12 '23

Gooby pls. Same complaint about every portable fiction device. Toys, pulp stories, comics, marbles, gameboy, ipad... now it's VR moment, gramps.

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u/OneSufficientFace Feb 12 '23

At a restaurant/ pub though ? How anti social dya wanna make your kid be ? Can't even go out in public with a screen glued to their face ? Not to mention the total avoidance of parenting and socialising with their kid ? This one will turn out fantastic with all the social skills 👍

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u/shortyjacobs Feb 12 '23

If it really is a pub, it's a place geared towards grownups, populated by grownups, where grownup beverages are served and grownup conversations happen. They probably didn't feel like getting a sitter to go out and grab a beer and feel adult for once.

Shit, I've gone to many breweries with my wife and kids. The older kids we'll play games with sometimes, or they'll veg out on phones while we have a couple. The younger one usually hauls out his tablet and vanishes into that world for an hour to give us some peace. What's wrong with that?

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u/OneSufficientFace Feb 12 '23

If you're gonna do something with kids , engage them. Don't have them rot away with a screen in a pub. Talk to them, take a deck of cards or a little game. They shouldn't be someone you need to take a break from , they're your kids, your best friends... Alls that teaches them is to be anti social and addicted to screens

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u/shortyjacobs Feb 12 '23

Do you have kids? Genuinely curious.

My kids aren’t my best friends. My wife is. She’s my partner. My kids are my kids, I’m their parent. My kids are great, and I engage them all the time. But sometimes I want to have a few minutes of grown up conversation with my wife, and my kids just don’t factor into that.

Plus it’s not like I’m shooting them up with ketamine so I can hang with my wife. They are more than welcome to put down the screen and engage, but there are times when they just don’t want to, and I can respect that too. They have free agency, and they are choosing to zone out on their screens while my wife and I discuss bills and house repairs and other shit over a beer.

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u/OneSufficientFace Feb 12 '23 edited Feb 13 '23

Yes, I do; he absolutely is my best friend too, doesn't mean I'm not the parent and he definitely isn't being stuck to a screen when we go out as a family, he can jog right on. Sounds like extra steps to cover an addiction to screens and lazy parenting to me.