Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become

• atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your premise would be true if kids were compelled to spend money. But I watch my kids’ spending habits like a hawk. If what you were saying were true, I’d notice transactions being made.

  Which leads me to believe that you’re either exaggerating or deliberately engaging in moral panic because others are having fun in your non-preferred way.

  My kid has spent more money on new Switch games than Roblox.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So because you do it correctly, everyone else should get fucked or what? Like, you know how many people have bad parents?

    So, congrats, your kids won’t suffer from that (or maybe they will once they have their own money because the path way of “spend a $1, get an in-game item, get an instant rush of feel-good hormones” is forming even with moderation). But other kids may, unless of course you think that it’s somehow their fault they have shitty parents.

    So no, I really don’t want this around kids whose lives will be ruined just so your kids can have a fun time (which they can have in other ways, including other games).

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    • atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I just spent the last two weeks in San Diego and hated it.

      I hated the freeways, the strip malls, and the car-centrism. More than that, I hated the complete and utter hostility towards walking.

      There were places that were 0.5 miles away. It would take three minutes to drive there yet an hour to walk because the assholes who designed the city couldn’t be bothered to build a pedestrian overpass.

      I feel very strongly that cities like this are everything wrong with the USA, and that the reason so much shit happens in the USA are because cities are simply unlivable.

      But Americans—specifically American voters—have decided this is what they aspire towards, and being antagonistic towards the average American is ultimately unhelpful.

      Now why do I mention this? Because there’s a host of things that suck, and there’s only so much bandwidth to give a damn.

      The real problem you’re talking about isn’t games. It’s financial literacy. Schools don’t teach it. Employers are hostile towards it. Governments just want you to spend—they don’t want you to save.

      Financial literacy is what saves people from making terrible financial decisions.

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