• Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
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    2 天前

    I dunno. I grew up on He-Man, Transformers and G.I. Joe, and I think I turned out OK. I suppose I also grew up on Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, and The Neverending Story, which may have been just as formative in my nerdiness and are leagues ahead of those first three in terms of quality.

    • buttnugget@lemmy.world
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      2 天前

      I grew up on all of those exact same things and I’m not a nerd, so it’s basically a crapshoot anyhoot.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    2 天前

    It’s funny. I’m definitely a nerd and neuro-something-or-other, and I have really good friends who are into all this stuff, Linux, Terry Pratchett etc - all of it - but I absolutely bounced off this smug nerd culture and grind my teeth if a group all start yelling “Ni!” or make me listen to the “hilarious” Portal song. Possibly I’m just trying too hard to be an arch, diffident outsider, this is my tribe, and I’m just the tribe jerk.

    • KatakiY@lemmy.world
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      2 天前

      I feel you. I often hate things because too many people annoy me by liking them too much but ya know that’s nebulous and stupid. As I’ve gotten older I’ve just kinda stopped letting that happen and try to give things a chance

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 天前

    I would recommend introducin the son to a literal lemon in real life prior to playing Portal 2.

    … probably goes the same for a p0taTo.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    3 天前

    you don’t need to try so hard, just don’t let him have weird ideas about gender and hope he befriends at least one girl. that’ll be enough. all these idiots need is a female friend going “don’t be an idiot that’s not how things work”.

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 天前

      We won the lottery on this. Had twins, 1 boy 1 girl at birth. They’re too young to know if they’re gonna be friends, enemies, (probably both?)

    • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 天前

      Or a sister, or any woman who has the standing to tell you “your teeth are blotchy and your breath is bad, that’s why people won’t kiss you, go to the dentist”

      • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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        2 天前

        I always wonder where are the mothers of these shitty young men?

        Like.

        If I even thought of going into a misogynistic phase during my younger years, my mother would have put me in my place, yanno?

        Are anglo mothers less sprited than latin american mothers?

        • KatakiY@lemmy.world
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          2 天前

          It’s easy to imagine them however you want. Truth is a lot of those incels probably come across as normal on the surface and have a normal life and are just depressed people looking for something to blame

          • BreadOven@lemmy.world
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            2 天前

            Oof. Hard to read/think about. But I’m pretty sure that’s what’s happening.

            My kid won’t experience that (at least from their parents), thankfully. But we’re doing our best to instill an open mind and acceptance for our child.

  • Sauron@europe.pub
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    3 天前

    Click a picture of the little guy each and every day to show them later how things were when they were growing up. You can use something like DD-DigitalDiary Otherwise these memories will be lost forever. And it has better privacy than all other google slop

    Also i would suggest Audiobooks. Lots o them available for Free. In Youtube or Pitrats software. To learn how to act and live in life