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[-] cactus_head@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

You would get that question nowadays for the most part, now Every child has their phone or tablet not including console's

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 21 points 3 days ago

Get in the slice of life anime, Shinji

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago

I was at this gathering a while back and a kid I had never meet before came up to me and asked if I had any games on my phone. Are people in the habit of handing their cell phones to strange children? I said, 'I'm sorry, I don't speak English' and they seemed to accept that.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not exactly - it's way more simple than that:

Adults in this kid's life (parents) hand them a phone as a toy/treat/distraction (usually the last one). Or maybe they have something similar at home for themselves. So, a bored kid sees adult using a phone, so kid asks adult for phone.

I used to do this way before cellphones. When at a house where there was a personal computer sitting around, I was usually very disappointed at being told "no" after asking to play games on it. But I always asked. To a little five-year-old-warp-core, that's just what those were for.

Edit: ubiquitous portable computing (modern phones) would have probably rendered me inconsolable after a while.

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 2 days ago

Oh shit! Same with me with PCs, I used to play RTS with that one mythical ancient Greece game

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Not only was I not using a cell phone, I didn't even have one on me at the time. Kid was just fishing.

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

I had this only happen once in a doctor's waiting room. "Sorry, it's a work phone. Can't risk it." Then they went to ask someone else.

I have some rude thoughts about parents that allow their kids to do this to strangers.

I now carry toy cars in my bag and give them out to kids who seem restless in grocery stores, waiting rooms, etc. It's fun. (:

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago
[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 days ago

Her name is Yotsuba, and she doesn't deserve this slanderous association

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago
[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 3 days ago

I googled it. You are sadly incorrect

Yotsuba Koiwai

[-] shani66@ani.social 5 points 3 days ago

That's not '4chan girl' that's yotsuba, the slice of life kid.

[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 2 days ago

Insert "sonic vs santiago" type of meme here

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

No but I have 3DS

[-] x4740N@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago
[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Life's a bitch.

Especially in Shinji's case. Get in the ~~robot~~ existential world-ending crisis, Shinji!

[-] webpack@ani.social 3 points 2 days ago
[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 3 days ago

I don't know that anime but I think that this interaction would be possible.

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