Pandemic certainly has it's uses

The reply is still OK boomer

Ok millennial doesn’t have the same ring to it
- My kid would have to be 36 for this to ring true, and I'm a millennial.
- Better than being called a boomer or a boomer I suppose, we'd still roll out eyes at them regardless.
- Millennials are starting to get a bit old to have futire kids. Not impossible obviously, but wouldn't that apply more to zoomers?
- Okay Yoomer
Ok Zoomer
- God dammit. Beat me to it
- They also be waxing poetic about having to look at screens to watch videos instead of just closing their eyes.

All I heard was people bitching about it and going outside with any excuse they had.

I just worked through the entire thing. Woooo! /s
- I'm essential! [Chuckles] I'm in danger!
- Me too. That's why I am still salty about it. Just stay home and it can be fixed sooner.
I hear people bitching about not being allowed to go outside, even though where I live you were always to go outside
- The actual reason for most was from people embarrassed to wear facemasks at the grocery store. Otherwise, most people didn't go out and socialize very often anyway, most people LOVED having an excuse to cancel the big, annoying jumping-castle birthday party.
  The right capitalized on this petty whinging and made people feel validated for hating to change their habits in the most minor way and played it up to catastrophic levels to secure a rightward swing in the US.
  And it worked fantastically well. This is the generation of apathy and laziness and self-entitlement and the left is equally guilty of succumbing to this long before the pandemic even.
  Everyone is stuck up in their own asses because we have a million different comforts that we cling to and will scream and bargain to not have to make changes.
I went out more during covid than I did before it
- Why?
The trick with being a shut-in is that its only really practical when other people still have to go out and do things on your behalf.
As soon as you can't get DoorDash or you A/C fails or the office fires you for clinging to "Work From Home" too long, shit gets real really quickly.

Most people social life didn't really change during the pandemic, thus the pandemic.

I remember my neighbors, whose mother was a cancer patient, would still had family meetups for diner all weeks.

On the other hand, I see the lasting effects isolation did to social skills in kids and teenagers…
- It may just be generational changes. I do not socialize same as my parents, and they do not socialize same as their parents.
- How much of that is modern tech and social media? I'd argue the Gen Z xoome meeting blank stare can be blamed as much on tech as the pandemic. This is the first generation that grew up living as much online as they do in the "real world"
Most people social life didn’t really change during the pandemic
Honestly, I think I got more social during the pandemic. All the neighbors would meet out on the driveways, desperate for something to do other than staring at a screen all day. The parks were full from people who weren't constantly traveling for work or fun. Kids and parents alike were out and about because they didn't need to waste time commuting.
Everyone slathered themselves in hand sanitizer and do all the pro-forma things to not be a contagion risk. But at a certain point, when you're already out in the 'burbs... We've been "socially distanced" since White Flight in the 1980s.

"I can't believe I survived being stuck inside my house for several years!" Says person with no friends who typically never leaves their house anyway.

"yeah mom... who said I wanted to go out tonight? I want to play video games with my friends all weekend. like I do every weekend" ~ probably the response.

You're missing something about hanging out with my AI girlfriend while playing whatever takes the place of fortnite.
I am not terribly bullish on the state of video games in another ten or fifteen years. Seems like enshitification is turning that entire industry into a cesspool.
We'll have parents confused as to why their kids keep screaming and shoving away the Torment Nexus box, when they were so fond of playing Don't Invent The Torment Nexus at that age.
- 15 years more Rimworld expansions is a future I want to see.

not sure people will want to go out that much, that oxygen flask is kind of heavy, the mask is annoying and then there's the heat...

Can't risk being captured and having my water extracted.

The wind is strong enough to mitigate the radioactives dust but not enough to thorn the suit

The local militia was bombed and we are not expecting raids for a few days

There is a less contaminated water source a few miles north and I want to check the community there

WHEN I WAS YUR AGE I WAS STAYIN AT HOME

I love you mom but I should have sold you to the slave trader

I suppose this makes sense if we all lived in Fallout 1.
Which, by the way, I hope to Holy hell nobody ever, ever, ever has to live in Fallout 1.

When I finally had job and money to go out and finally enjoy my life, pandemic happened. But I had saved even MORE money because I stayed home with my parents during those times. However, I'm now too old to go out lol.

So does the apostrophe. That wasn't it.

I know its a meme, but, don't you still technically have to go outside? I mean, your packages aren't gonna go inside your house because most delivery people arent gonna actually step inside your house so you still need to touch the outside for the few seconds to grab your things.

Factorio can teach us to automate this. Package conveyor belt.
- get pneumatic tubes back in fashion.
Technically only your hands need to pass the threshold. You don't need to touch anything outside, bar the package itself.
- But the air is on the outside. It goes by international airspace rules, I didn't make them rules :P