• @maxprime@lemmy.ml
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    I dunno. I game less and less every year. I think I’ll probably just play the odd n64 game by the time I retire.

    • @Graphy@lemmy.world
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      Yeah my hands started acting up when I was in my 30s. Now that I’m in my 40s they cramp and become useless when they’re any amounts of cold.

      My wife likes to rock climb but she will only go to the gym if I go. I can handle the pain but my fingers will literally just stop opening and closing. I haven’t gotten the courage to talk to her about it yet.

        • @Graphy@lemmy.world
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          I tried gloves for kayaking since my hands lock up during that but I didn’t feel a huge difference.

          I probably just gotta see another doctor. The last doctor I talked to wanted me off of adderall before they’d prescribe me anything but then I’d lose my job.

    • skulblaka
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      In a better timeline this is one of the many things a Neuralink could be good for

  • @superkret@feddit.org
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    Everyone I know who retired is at least as busy as before.
    The notion that without a job, people just sit around bored, is capitalist propaganda.

    • @sibachian@lemmy.ml
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      It’s insane to me that people think they will somehow go braindead the minute they don’t have a job. Is that how they act once they get home after a long and exhausting day of labouring? Just sit down in the couch and die, staring at the white wallpaper until they collapse? From my only related experience with actually existing in this life, I fucking hate how I don’t have time for anything, ANYTHING, ever, because work work work, only to go home and work work work some more as an adult with actual responsibilities. Retirement ya, i might get a quarter of my shit in order, at best, but I’d probably just stock it with more responsibilities that I really don’t have time for, but a window of more time means a window of thinking about more shit that has been neglected or needs doing because things always do.

      • comfy
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        Is that how they act once they get home after a long and exhausting day of labouring? Just sit down in the couch and die, staring at the white wallpaper until they collapse?

        Replace the wallpaper with a television and this is awfully familiar in my neighborhood.

      • A decent amount of people really do just park their ass on the couch and cease existing. I’ve watched more than a few people retire and die shortly after from having nothing to live for.

        • @jpeps@lemmy.world
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          I noticed over covid that many people were telling me that they were happy to be working again after being furloughed (temporarily paused employment in the UK) because they’d been losing their minds with nothing to do. I couldn’t understand it, I was busy and really happy.

          • Here in Canada we had a similar system and I had friends on CERB for some time. Many of them didn’t know what to do with themselves. The ones who took it well were already accustomed to finding their own fun in the world, and did everything from DIY renovations to prototyping products they want to sell.

            I wouldn’t know personally, I was working the whole time. Longest I’ve been off for was 3 months and I was more concerned with survival than keeping busy. But I’d like to think I have a lot of projects to work on. I’d love to move out of the suburbs into the country proper and have a workshop. Making custom furniture and electronics is so fun but I barely have time for it.

            • @jpeps@lemmy.world
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              Thanks for sharing. You’re definitely right about the divide. I just found that I had so much time I could do everything I needed and wanted to do (granted, within the confines of social distancing at the time). Housework was joyful because I could do a good job of it, and have time for hobbies, and have time to relax from both. Aside from all the suffering and madness in the world at the time, it was a genuinely satisfying experience at home.

              • I had a kid and was working at the office 5 days a week during COVID so my experience wasn’t nearly as peaceful lol. But I could see how much some people thrived from it and I hate so much that our societies have taken that back from them.

        • @teagrrl@lemmy.ml
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          What tying your entire purpose in life to how much you can enrich capitalists does to a motherfucker.

      • @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org
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        To be fair, that is exactly what I do some days after work because this shit is needlessly exhausting. I think I need like a year of sickly Victorian style bedrest because I have been so burned out for so long that I don’t really have much of a sense of self at this point.

    • @AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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      I somehow end up busier whenever I have long stretches of time off. Idle hands create hundreds of projects.

  • madjo
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    Retirement home LAN parties… That’s the dream

  • @LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    I’ve never understood people who get bored in retirement. I looked forward to it from the very start of my career, and now that I am retired I’ve gotten so into hobbies and interests that it feels like there still isn’t enough time for everything.

    • The Menemen
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      Yeah, I also have 5 hobbies and many more interests. I am only scared that I don’t have enough energy left in me once I retire.

      • @LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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        It’s amazing how much energy you get from waking up without the obligation to go somewhere and work on somebody else’s shit all day because you have to. Gives me a big smile every morning!

        • The Menemen
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          I work in public infrastructure, so at least I can comfort myself that I am trying to improve the lifes of everyone in my area. Still exhausting.

          • @LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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            Exactly. I was lucky to be in a field where I actually enjoyed the work itself (writing software) - it just didn’t leave much time or energy to geek out with my own projects like I can now. But it was worth waiting for.

      • The Menemen
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        Lol to thinking that it was better. Capitalism was always terrible for normal people.

        But many people just don’t have a lot of hobbies. Change is also scary for many people.

        • @LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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          Objectively I know millions of people simply go to work, come home, eat dinner, watch TV and go to bed. Repeat until dead. I just personally find it hard to relate to that frame of mind. Maybe they fear retirement would be boring because their lives are already boring and the only stimulation they get is at work - but to me that’s sad to imagine.

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        Oh yeah I forgot, careers were an endlessly fulfilling series of fun exciting tasks. And job interviews were like, “A white male with a college degree? You’re hired!” Everybodty’s ignorant fantasies about the past are staggeringly accurate!

  • @collapse_already@lemmy.ml
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    I don’t think any amount of achievable retirement savings is enough to give me confidence that I could cover escalating health care costs enough that I could retire. Even if I had $10M in the bank, I would worry that the cost of health care will rise fast enough to impoverish me.

    • @tburkhol@lemmy.world
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      If you make it to Medicare age, it gets a lot less stressful. eg: my folks have had 4 knees replaced with very little out-of-pocket cost. There’s still supplemental insurance, but Medicare, not the profit-driven insurance company, determines what gets covered, and they mostly listen to doctors. There’s always edge cases, where some treatment might not be covered, but I feel like those are uncommon.

      One way or the other, my ultimate health care plan is 9mm.

        • @LePoisson@lemmy.world
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          Maybe in our lifetime we will see an expansion of Medicare to be a single payer system for all Americans as a publicly available option (ie: the minimum standards other insurance would need to meet to be competitive).

          That would be nice. Idk I’m just hopeful in like 25 years we may see some real change ushered in when it comes to that. Probably very naively hopeful but I have to at least occasionally believe in a better future.

          • @collapse_already@lemmy.ml
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            I get more pessimistic every year and I started out extremely pessimistic. I think humanity going extinct in my lifetime is more likely than the US getting single payer in my lifetime.

            • @LePoisson@lemmy.world
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              Humans won’t ever go extinct save some absolute batshit scenario that wipes the world completely clean of all life, give or take.

              We’re too resourceful and we like fucking too much for humans to go extinct but it could be a pretty bleak existence for the human race at some point.

              • @collapse_already@lemmy.ml
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                Nevertheless, I stand by my view. We are already trying our hardest to make the atmosphere replicate the atmosphere of the K-T extinction.

      • @InputZero@lemmy.world
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        I’m surprised that Trump doesn’t use Obama care to prescribe 9mm medication to people. It’s a lot cheaper to pay a one time cost of a 9mm that reoccurring costs of medication. Think about it, health care costs plumit and firearms sales skyrocket. It’s a republican wet dream.

  • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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    1414 days ago

    You ever actually spent most of your time just playing video games? It gets old real quick.

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      Yes, and it was a lot more fun that working.

      Maybe you played shitty games?

    • @Alk@sh.itjust.works
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      I don’t know, I was unemployed for a while and literally spent every waking hour gaming for many months straight. It was the happiest time of my life. I’d give up a lot to be so financially stable I could do that again.

    • @Fizz@lemmy.nz
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      If you mix video games and diy projects it can be satisfying and fulfilling for years.

      For me the social aspect is the hardest because i don’t make friends online and am bad at keeping in regular contact with my real life friends.

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        I substitute socialising with small streaming channels. Like the ones that have less than 5-10 people watching ever. You can come and go as you please and no one cares, and you can make real connections and have actual conversions with both the streamer and other viewers. People with channels that small aren’t doing it for the money, they’re doing it to have people to chill with while they play.

        Some would say they aren’t real friends but I think there’s a point you can get to where I would disagree.

        • @priapus@sh.itjust.works
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          I have a friend with a small stream and she definitely considers a lot of the people she’s met in chat friends.

    • @priapus@sh.itjust.works
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      Having one thing be your only hobby will get boring for the majority of people, so just have some extra hobbies. I could definitely spend 75% of my time gaming and the rest on other hobbies and feel great.

  • @elatedCatfish@lemm.ee
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    Gaming and smoking a shit ton of weed in retirement is gonna be great… if we still have social security and access to 401k’s at that point lmao

    • @Lucky_777@lemmy.world
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      If they cut the system, we’ll get the money in our pay. So at least we can control it. Just don’t spend it on games that will hit your backlog and sit for years. I’m personally guilty btw.

      • @AlwaysRushesIn@lemm.ee
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        Just don’t spend it on games that will hit your backlog and sit for years.

        What do you think I plan on doing in my retirement?

  • Cruxifux
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    Walking dog, feeding homeless, getting drunk, magic the gathering and dnd with my other retired friends. That’s what I would do if I ever retired, which I probably won’t because of everything.

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    And then you die because a blood clot that formed in your leg came loose and shot up into your brain, because you’ve been sitting for weeks playing videogames.