I've always wanted a pet, but since I was born to a family of bugmen city-dwellers, there wasn't enough space in my apartment and my parents don't seem to like animals. Later I adopted some mice, but that's a subject for a different thread.
In early elementary school I had one of these classic Tamagotchi devices (possibly a knock-off) and later (in late elementary school and early middle school) I had a fancier Littlest Pet Shop virtual pet device.
I've never discovered NeoPets, because they weren't popular in my country, but I'm sure I'd love them. These virtual pets were a great source of joy for me, even if they were very basic and nowhere near an actual animal.
I've heard about normies abandoning their virtual pets and letting them starve. This has never happened to me, my virtual pets died of old age and at some point I've stopped "creating" new ones (the second device broke down at some point, I think). Of course, it's just a silly program your average Joe with no programming experience could recreate in a modern programming language within a month, but I think it says a lot about your character. Even back then, I knew it was just electricity and pixels, but I still wouldn't just abandon them.
I guess it's a seemingly innocent early indication of psychopathy or just irresponsibility. Normies are known for their cruelty towards animals (including humans). Chad was creating new virtual "lives" just to torture them by letting them starve either on purpose or just because he was too busy slaying minifoids to take care of his virtual pet. Meanwhile the incel was taking care of his virtual pet and even bonded with it to some extent, because the 32x16 pixel display has shown him more compassion that any normie.
I've thought about buying one nowadays, but I think it'd be too simple to satisfy me and I'd look like the absolute king of autism if I started taking care of my Tamagotchi during a lecture at uni (once they resume irl classes).
Mobile apps emphasize wrong aspects of having a pet, it's just minigames to get enough money for costumes and such: I'd prefer the pet to have a personality, preferences, be able to be "in mood for something" (like you can't just keep on petting it forever to gain points or something; sometimes it should be preferable to leave it alone like with some real pets) and the game being about finding out about his/her likes. I'm at this point in life that I could program something like this myself (I won't be able to create a dedicated device, but I could do a phone app, a PC program or just a website, Neopets-style) and I may do it sometime.
In early elementary school I had one of these classic Tamagotchi devices (possibly a knock-off) and later (in late elementary school and early middle school) I had a fancier Littlest Pet Shop virtual pet device.
I've never discovered NeoPets, because they weren't popular in my country, but I'm sure I'd love them. These virtual pets were a great source of joy for me, even if they were very basic and nowhere near an actual animal.
I've heard about normies abandoning their virtual pets and letting them starve. This has never happened to me, my virtual pets died of old age and at some point I've stopped "creating" new ones (the second device broke down at some point, I think). Of course, it's just a silly program your average Joe with no programming experience could recreate in a modern programming language within a month, but I think it says a lot about your character. Even back then, I knew it was just electricity and pixels, but I still wouldn't just abandon them.
I guess it's a seemingly innocent early indication of psychopathy or just irresponsibility. Normies are known for their cruelty towards animals (including humans). Chad was creating new virtual "lives" just to torture them by letting them starve either on purpose or just because he was too busy slaying minifoids to take care of his virtual pet. Meanwhile the incel was taking care of his virtual pet and even bonded with it to some extent, because the 32x16 pixel display has shown him more compassion that any normie.
I've thought about buying one nowadays, but I think it'd be too simple to satisfy me and I'd look like the absolute king of autism if I started taking care of my Tamagotchi during a lecture at uni (once they resume irl classes).
Mobile apps emphasize wrong aspects of having a pet, it's just minigames to get enough money for costumes and such: I'd prefer the pet to have a personality, preferences, be able to be "in mood for something" (like you can't just keep on petting it forever to gain points or something; sometimes it should be preferable to leave it alone like with some real pets) and the game being about finding out about his/her likes. I'm at this point in life that I could program something like this myself (I won't be able to create a dedicated device, but I could do a phone app, a PC program or just a website, Neopets-style) and I may do it sometime.
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