Call it battle royale 2 and end every match with a monologuing rugby man
whatâs worse, Genre of the Hour or IPAs
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The Genre of the Hour will change but 80% of my beer options have been macro or IPA for the last decade, so gonna go with that.
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I feel like Iâm being called out
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whats the four loko of video games
fortnite
fortnites not fun though
its the same
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how do children with internet access nowadays interact with video games, like for real
does anyone know. iâm kind of scared for the future and who these people will grow up to be/the things they are going to create
So far my almost six year old plays Lego games on my PS4 and a bunch of crappy mobile games on an ipad I will keep you updated
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I know from my mom who works in a middle school that most kids are playing Minecraft and fortnite, but there is one kid she knows whoâs completely obsessed with older video games.
So there is some hope in this world yet.
(Minecraft isnât bad though. Minecraft makes me think kids will be ok. Itâs everything else that makes me worried)
About 2 years ago I was working for a puzzle and board game store as part of a team that brought board games to bar mitzvahs, taught kids how to play them, and kept them entertained.
One day I went into a retro video game store and I saw a kid who had been at one of those bar mitzvahs. He was probably around 10-12 years old. He recognized me before I recognized him, and he waved me over. He was looking at their selection of Super Nintendo games. He started throwing all this surprisingly in-depth SNES trivia at me and then asked me if he should get Super Metroid. I wanted to say heck yeah, but I also was wary of putting pressure on this kidâs mom to buy the game for him. I glanced at her and she was staring daggers at me, like âwho is this strange adult man who my son apparently knows?!â
I sort of noncommittally grunted that the game was good and got the hell out of there.
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I know itâs not really a defensible position for a huge number of reasons but the idea of a kid growing up on todayâs media landscape is still completely horrifying to me and it would be very difficult for me to not try to ameliorate it somehow and I donât think I would react well if compelled to
though the overwhelming majority of my thoughts on kids are along similar lines, all standards which I would not realistically be able to hold myself or my household to anymore and rather than the letting go seeming healthy itâs intensely undesirable
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Fuck these parents, kids talking to adults is the only thing thatâs going to save them. Horn in and have normal natural conversations with children especially if their parents are giving you the stink eye about it
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my wifeâs nephew never shuts up about amiibos and friday night at freddyâs youtube videos and also all this other youtube personality algorithmed videogame stuff that Iâm not quite sure he understands are videogames at all per se it is hard to parse
also vidz about smash bros 3ds character skins he was v.into those last time he visited
My family recently started a Minecraft server to play with my 6-year-old nephew
He is a scourge who has destroyed many of our fortresses
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I think the one unquestionably different aspect of todayâs media landscape vs the one we grew up with is the effectively infinite expanse of it. As much as I was a Teenage Edgelord and flirted with all sorts of Not Great things on the internet, there was an end to it. And when I reached that end, I had to reflect whether I wanted to pursue that thing any further. That reflection often made me question its value to me and to the world. And it was at those points that I turned away from many things that I initially approached because they seemed dangerous or because I was angry and wanted to be offensive.
I canât say for certain that I wouldnât be a shitlord if I grew up today, if I could fall down and then get endlessly redirected towards infinitely deep rabbit holes of hatred and garbage.
I have two younger cousins. They both grew up in Ohio and love videogames. One of them developed an additional taste for anime. The one who likes anime gets fed very different content on the internet and, well, I wouldnât be that surprised if she wound up posting here in a few years. The other cousin, the one who only likes videogames, is quoting Stephen Crowder videos and talking about Mexicans taking our jobs, despite the fact that heâs 13 and legally canât even work.
My take is a simplification, but I donât believe it to be reductive to the point of being false.
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iâm way too high atm to say anything but that capitalism is to blame for everything
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also the only thing more repulsive and depressing than the idea of a 9 year old having favourite youtubers who they keep up with is the idea of not wanting a kid to raise themselves on the weirdest subcultures they can find, and actively working against it
believing that a lot of your generationâs formative experiences which were then the subject of moral panic are only now actually maladaptive is basically as traumatic as being aware of your own mortality
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Seems like a really great way to get punched imho
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