re: American culture seems constipated right now

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What’s sad is their memories will be isolated and lonely. I can reminisce about playing Goldeneye and drinking Surge with my closest friends. Today’s kids will remember sitting in a room by themselves playing Fortnite with a headset.

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While I get your point and share your first point, someone of us did use online gaming to keep in touch with friends and make new ones. In the mid 2010s, my buddy was working a few thousand miles away and we would play GTA V to relive the glory days and keep in touch. Good times. We randomly came across these group of friends from the UK who were a little younger than us who were basically doing the same thing and we played together with them for months and we would talk about life and growing up and crazy stuff they did over there and what we would do here and talk about food and differences in culture and all kinds of shite. Probably silly to an outsider but I’ll never forget doing that even though we are nearly a decade past that.