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>there was nothing fun to do before video games
Old styles of fun got more potent in every way.

>Movies used to be a place and TVs used to have 5 channels that ran only during late evening, then literally stopped for the night until 5AM the next day.
Today you could watch Netflix on your couch for the next decade, 8 hours a day, and you wouldn't even finish the existing catalogue, let alone the new stuff, let alone all the content not on Netflix but on, e.g, Disney Plus.

>Sex and sexual pleasure used to be a pretty time consuming or sordid affair to get on demand, requiring you to meet people in person, very slowly, for a long time, or buy seedy tapes and magazines in an in-person store
Today, if you don't have any standards, you can be cooming literally every single hour of every single day. Everyone with the internet has access to an endless stream of porn, cam models, onlyfans, hookup apps, dating apps, lewd snapchats, subreddits, forums, discords, instagram and finstagram, porn artistry on twitter and hentai, categorized to your heart's content, blasting dicks and vaginas into your skull faster than any human historically could ever hope to consume.

>Mediocre arcade games that cost 25 cents a play and required you to go to a physical place during waking hours(about 90 cents in today's money).
Today, even if all you had was an internet connection you can play free MOBAs, battle royale games, sports games, competitive FPSs and RTSs, and other F2P mobile and MMO games from now until the day you died.

>Food used to be kinda shitty and bland
There's a reason Americans are overwhelming majority obese - food has gotten better, more caloric, far more available, and globalization has greatly increased the variety a single person could hope to consume.

>Drugs used to be weak and hard to access
Criminal industries professionalized and started darkweb markets making drugs more accessible than ever, weed is now something like 10x more potent than your parents weed, and hallucinogenics are becoming decriminalized.

It's easier to be a fat, lazy, do-nothing piece of shit than any other point in history.