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[–] Brimos 117 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Wait, you guys get to retire?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

My retirement plan is 10 grams of lead

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Real (real)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

My retirement plan is society collapsing on itself

[–] AdolfSchmitler 10 points 1 year ago

Ahh the old "Smith & Wesson Retirement Plan"

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[–] PunnyName 19 points 1 year ago

I'm gonna turn my on / off switch to "off".

[–] solidsnake2085 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got 27 years until I am old enough to get my pension.

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[–] peopleproblems 5 points 1 year ago

I plan to build up my retirement fund to buy my medication for a month and then we'll take it from there

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[–] obinice 77 points 1 year ago (15 children)

You think people our age will be able to afford to retire? Ha.

That's something the boomers and upper classes took with them.

[–] EmpathicVagrant 22 points 1 year ago

You think people our age will reach retirement age? Ha.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m not afraid of retirement, I’m afraid of needing to work on the day of my funeral.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

You and me both.

My mother is already kinda facing that and I feel like it's almost treason for politicians to keep extending the retirement age on all of us.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Retiring doesn't seem like an option from my perspective.. Better start gaming now

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Instructions unclear, got fired for gaming at work. I guess its early retirement for me.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Arthritis has entered the game

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Kahlenar 5 points 1 year ago

Probably have games that watch your eye movements and track biological changes your body feels when you want to pick something. Maybe

[–] atri 6 points 1 year ago

When my reaction time goes I switch to civ.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

by the time i retire i'm hoping we perfect brain interfaces (which looking at what we currently have isn't too far-fetched)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Or that medecine advances enough to solve these diseases and make our late days a bit more comfortable.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not the first day that's a challenge. It's the 100th day and beyond .

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yup. A hobby is fun because you do it on your spare time and as an escape from work. When it’s the only thing you do all day everday, the fun will eventually fizzle out. Obviously there are small exceptions.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it? During Covid lockdowns I gamed like there was no tomorrow. Sure, a little burnout at some point, but taking a break for a couple days usually fixed it and then I could start again to game as hard; I think that being able to go outside at will would help much more with the feeling of burnout, so I don't see gaming during retirement being not fun at any point haha

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I remember seeing news articles about how people were allegedly getting "stressed out from lack of social contact" and I'm over here with my family enjoying being left the hell alone, able to relax for a change and not deal with other peoples expectations and boring ass social events that we're usually forced to go to. Being able to just play 100 days of video games and only work when I absolutely had to was great.

What it showed us was that all the bullshit about having to be "productive members of society" and the focus on productivity was exactly that. Western society could function just fine and be a lot happier if the 1% didn't get handed yet another ivory back scratcher.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Totally agree! I too enjoy the time spent alone and with the few people close to me, while every other human interaction is unnecessary for my mental wellbeing haha absolutely not envious of those who need social contact to feel well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like both of you actually had social contacts. Many people live alone and weren't able to leave their homes.

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[–] Xanthrax 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I knew gentleman that was 100 (he literally turned 100 the year I met him). He was one of the most sharp people at the retirement home; I think a lot of it was the fact he loved the internet and gaming.

Edit: If any of you are history nerds with a good concept of time, you may have thought of something:

HE SAW CIVIL WAR VETERANS; HE WAS THAT OLD. I say "saw" because he only ever saw them in parades, never spoke to them. I asked him if they let the confederates on the floats and he just laughed and said "no" (I wish people had that common sense nowadays) . He also thought I was asking if he FOUGHT in the civil war, so that got a good laugh out of him aswell. Cool dude all around. He used to give me a lot of shit, but now he's just another grandpa to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It makes you wonder how much things have actually really changed under the surface when you realize that it's only their great grandkids that are still in charge of things today.

[–] 1847953620 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Minorities in many parts of the south don't have to wonder

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I hope people aren't counting on playing games that require fast reaction speeds. If your jam is turn-based games you're in luck, you should be good to 100. But, if you're a competitive online gamer, you're in for a rude shock if you think you're going to retire and compete against the 20-somethings.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, I'll just move to toplane and become a garen otp

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Every competitive game has a ranking system. I do not see any issue playing and trying to improve, just reduce your expectations.

A lot of 20 year olds are trash in a lot of competitive games

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not even 40 and my elbows are totally ruined from using a mouse and keyboard, game controller and phone too much... My gaming days are nearly over and it SUCKS

[–] applebusch 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hey I see you. I had some serious tennis elbow a few years ago that basically prevented me from using my dominant hand for a few weeks. I couldn't even lift a cup of water with it. I went to PT and they gave me some exercises and stretches to do. The stretches maybe helped but the exercises were trivially easy and did nothing for me. It feels like it got better just by leaving it alone more than anything. It's acted up every once in a while since then, mostly when I get cocky and do something stupid. Recently I decided to find out how to actually fix it, and I found out that the exercises they gave me were actually ineffective, according to the medical literature. In order to improve tendon health and heal chronic tendon injuries, you need to do resistance training. The best method to improve tendon strength and health is to do like 2 or 3 low rep sets, with as much weight as you can handle, every week. It takes high tension to grow tendons, with low tension doing basically nothing. You also want to do the exercises with slow deliberate motion to avoid sudden high loading of the tendons. I've been doing that for my tennis elbow for the past couple months and it has helped a lot. It was scary at first to load my elbow with a lot of weight, but I slowly worked up to it and was careful every time and haven't had a flareup since, despite doing more lifting than I have in my life. My suggestion is to find an exercise that works the problem tendons, and slowly increase the resistance over some weeks, to as much weight as you can lift. Always be slow and deliberate. It shouldn't cause you pain at any point, and if it does back off to where it doesn't.

Tldr; research says to improve tendon strength do high weight low rep exercises with slow deliberate motion. Growing tendons takes longer than muscles so take your time. Should help your pain. Is working forme.y

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[–] optissima 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you considered going to a PT?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Have done, best they could do was tell me to stop doing the things that trigger it... Great!

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[–] ShakeThatYam 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why accessibility features excite me. In addition to helping people with disabilities now, I foresee a future where I will be needing them in the nursing home.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

And for that, everyone should check out this site - caniplaythat.com - I'm also blind and this site comes in very handy to know which titles have options wise for accessibility needs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would probably party all day.

Well not all day. I also need a pause to regenerate and stuff. Also it's not fun doing it all the time

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