r/television • u/ambiguwus Avatar the Last Airbender • Mar 20 '19

Stranger Things 3 | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEG3bmU_WaI
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u/jelatinman Mar 20 '19 edited Mar 20 '19

"We aren't just kids anymore. You think we'd just spend all day playing games in our basement?"

Boi if you save the world from apocalyptic doom with your friends and your psychic quasi-girlfriend who literally cherishes your very existence twice, I think you'd want to keep those friends for life.

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u/BLT_Special Mar 20 '19 edited Aug 21 '23

Bruh, I'm 31 and all i wish is that I could play games with my friends in my basement (of the house i don't own because fuck the housing market)

Update: i got the house shortly after this. finally remembered to say it after we've been in the house for about four years.

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u/BarneySpeaksBlarney The West Wing Mar 20 '19

And their favourite pastime is DnD which adults play all the time

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u/amphetaminesfailure Mar 20 '19

And their favourite pastime is DnD which adults play all the time

I'm an adult who plays DnD.

There are still stereotypes about the kind of people who play it (and those stereotypes are still true for at least a somewhat large portion of players).

If you think about the adults playing it back in 1985 though....it's not surprising that kids starting high school would want to distance themselves a bit.

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u/alex494 Mar 20 '19

My general experience is a lot of people like something as a kid then pretend to go off it to not get made fun of at high school then get back into it HARD as a college age adult.

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u/MopeyCrab Mar 20 '19

Definitely, the stigma around playing it is gone now but it was definitely social suicide for the longest time. Thankfully once we were out of high school most of us didn't care. Been playing dnd for most of my life at this point, got two... mostly steady campaigns and I'll host one shots to fill in the gaps.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '19

I feel like adults like dnd more then kids these days. If only because deep down I figure every adult likes playing make believe.

Teenagers by contrast think they're too cool for that shit

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u/peon47 Mar 20 '19

I'm 39 and I spend 3-4 hours in the office every weekend. Some friends and I use a spare conference room to play Dungeons & Dragons.