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I'm down with this
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That's going to be our dementia towns isn't it? No 1950s world for us. We'll all be sat there playing Mario 64, listening to The Prodigy, and wondering who that nice old lady is that lives with us...
Honestly, if I start to loose my mind, that's where I'd want to be. :(
Personally if my mind starts going haul me to the desert and give me a loaded gun. It's not like I'll be on meds so the cultures wont be sickened by my corpse.
What culture won't be sickened?
The problem with that thinking is that you're thinking now as an outside observer who can look at your mental decay and say "that guy should kill himself". But, when you're in the body apparently it's different. My friend's dad died of alzheimers, it took more than a decade.
At first he was just a bit forgetful and absent-minded. But, he was still driving, doing woodworking projects, taking care of his grand kids, helping around the house, etc. Then he had to give up driving, but he was fine taking the bus, and he just made sure to have his cell phone on him all the time in case he needed some help. He even took a camping and hiking trip with my friend and his kids later in the process when he was regularly mistaking people for other people and couldn't do much anything unsupervised. Eventually he had to go into a specialty care home.
At what point in the process would you, as an outside observer, think "ok, it's time to kill yourself"? And, do you think he felt that way in his own head? Even when he had noticeably diminished capacity, he still enjoyed spending time with his family and friends.
Well for one I have no intention of having friends and family and for two given my familial medical history I'll probably get cancer around the same time. My end goal would be to put myself into a situation where survival is minimum, so even if I can't kill myself with a bullet then heat stroke, dehydration, or exposure will finish the job.
But I'll also admit I'm kinda hoping I get killed before I'm 30, want to beat my grandfather's record of 32. Passive suicidality ftw.
Yeah I have zero intention of experiencing dementia from a first-person perspective regardless of what my government has to say on the matter, if I outlive my wits then something has gone horribly wrong in my view.
Uh, "Golden Eye"; pyramid level, slaps only, no Odd Job.
It's too bad that a lot of the games that kids of the 80s/90s played were platformers, or "action games", or other games where your coordination and reaction speeds matter. When you get to be 70/80, your reaction speed will be crap, so those kinds of games won't be as fun (unless you can play on an emulator that lets you slow things down).
But, turn based games like Final Fantasy will still work. The selection of those games on older consoles was mediocre. But, if you include newer Steam games, there are decades of good turn based games you could play in an old folks home.
I wonder what happens when the first generation that played games online starts hitting old folks homes. Will there be a seniors home with a minecraft (Java Edition) server? Will there be a wow classic server for the residents? That could actually be fun.