u/Candid-Frosting-1825

I know there are quite a few posts that come and go on here about people getting weak about their precautions and thinking of 'giving in to temptation' of the 'just live your life' crowd.

It is not that exactly, well it is, but not through outside peer pressure but more a rational examination that if we all stay at home hoping for some silver bullet that may never come then we have just wasted our lives so what would have been the point then?

I know many on here say "oh I never liked talking to people anyway so I am just fine living as a hermit" well that is nice for you but not for all of us. I was by no means an extrovert but losing the ability to go into social environments when I wanted to I am thinking what is the point of even living like this for the rest of my life?

I also think that sooner or later we would end up like this in old age and retirement anyway but for most people historically they got to live their wilder days and get it out of their system - I know not always and no pandemic lots of people would also have regrets they wasted their lives in a dead end job or unsatisfying relationship or whatever but that is their situation and this is ours. I would have felt horrible about wasting my life in those other situations too.

I know that we could 'just live your life' and end up with LC - I already have it but mild and I think now, in heavy self imposed lockdown, of all the times in my life I didn't live for the moment and take advantages on what I had before and now that makes me think what if I waste the rest of my relative good health (I am mid 40s so not a spring chicken exactly either so feel all the more like the clock is ticking) just stuck in isolation then I end up old and then that is that.

Going out and risking getting worse LC is certainly a risk but so is staying in solitude and having a hum drum existence with society never improving, the risk being wasting what relative health I have left just sitting at home doing nothing of note again.

I don't have a chance in hell of playing them on my modest laptop but it can be fun to follow developments as this is one of my favourite genres. The open world games are too resource heavy but enjoy just watching videos and information about them all the same. Hey I am not the only one a guess with the popularlity of "let's plays".

I would imagine it was all there was back then with no GUI?

How has behavior changed, and when did GUIs come in, with the advent of GUI?

I began using computers in the mid 90s probably, maybe a bit before if you count using my grandfather's commodores and zx spectrum, but that was just toying around and rarely got anything useful or fun out of them. I remember those times as mostly frustrating as the tapes wouldn't work or things like that. Very hard and unwieldy keys on the commodore for my dainty child hands at the time.