i'm in a field filled with big ego/low emotional intelligence people and it'd wild to me how obsessed with "legacy" so many of them are.

no one even knows about you, why would they care about your family line? the most history will remember 99.999% of us is some obituary in a newspaper noone reads. the only way you really impact those odds is by being a creative or making in impact in your community/ie. joining political stage

all caught up in the rat race wasting their lifes chasing a fulfillment/acknowledgement they'll never recieve from the boss/org while burning what little potential for human connection they actually have by overworking so much.

My dad: “if you don’t have kids, the family name and lineage dies with you.”

Me:

If you start tracing family's back far enough you find that most "lineages" get murky pretty fast.

Anyone walking around doing spermatogenesis without a vasectomy is a fucking idiot.

But it's all locked down and outdated.

*PS2

*steam machine

My mom's twin has grandbabies and now grandchildren. Non of my mom's children have had a child yet, so she will go their family gatherings with her twin sister

Yeah do have any idea how much gaming as a hobby has cost me?

You can't even legally inherit a steam account...

Well my mum didn't buy me a ps2 because she knew I wouldn't have kids. It was prevenge

Yeah, well, my mom didn't buy a PlayStation because she couldn't afford it. She also couldn't afford me. Or my older sister.

There's a kind of a streak of maybe well intentioned but pretty relentless humourlessness on Lemmy. Apologies for being argumentative, but did you think this 2 panel comic strip was representative of an actual scenario someone's experiencing? Do you think they really are as you say, making big life decisions based on what their parents did or did not but them as a child? Or do you not think maybe the decision to depict this scenario in this format might indicate it's more likely a joke?

Kinda hope people are not making big life changing decisions like this based on what their parents did or did not buy them as a child.

I think you're taking this meme way too seriously.

And parents should not be pressuring their kids to have kids they don’t want.

Oh honey...

We call this hyperbolic dark humor. It's meant to be irrational and to sound unhinged. That's where the humor lies.

I don't need attention and praise for not having kids. New parents can have all that. I'll gladly sleep in on weekends, come home from work and put my feet up, and enjoy my freedom as an adult.

I'm a selfish piece of shit and that's why I don't want and will never have kids. I like my freedom. I like my partner and I tossing the dogs into the car and just going out somewhere. I like coming home from work and just having a quiet evening with no responsibilities. I like only having to buy groceries for two people.

The PS2 was a good console, in its time. So was Sony, well they were better than now. Actually that's selling the console short, cause most families didn't get it because it played games, they got it to play DVDs and it was by far the first affordable DVD player in it's time.

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