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> Everyone also laughed when I in the 90'ies said you would one day be able to score girls from being good at playing computer games. I legitimately can't tell
by TheDong 9y ago
> Everyone also laughed when I in the 90'ies said you would one day be able to score girls from being good at playing computer games.
I legitimately can't tell if this is trolling or sarcastic.
Regardless, the fact that something else seemed ridiculous but ended up not being so has no bearing.
People can predict arbitrary things and will only remember the ones that turned out right; for every thing that seemed wrong but succeeded, there are a million things which seemed wrong and were wrong.
Just because there are examples of things succeeding in spite of predictions of failure doesn't mean predictions of failure are signs of success.
- ThomPete 9y agoWhy do you assume it's trolling? You forgot the sentence which came before here is the entire argument. "Every new generation growing up is a new generation who will be affected by other things than the previous generation. Everyone also laughed when I in the 90'ies said you would one day be able to score girls from being good at playing computer games." The point is that looking at your own generation is not a good indicator of where things will go. Look at those younger generations which haven't yet been affected by what is right or wrong. That was my argument. Girls will grow up knowing what it takes to be good at a computer game it won't just be something nerds do, but something they themselves do. The point here is to understand what allows progress. Sure something might or might not come to fruition but this one my predictions were based on understanding what it would take for it to be popular. I am not trolling but 100% serious.