specialseaweed
@specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 6 days ago:
My 13 and 15 year olds are PC first gamers, then consoles, then mobile. I raised them that way on purpose because I wanted to avoid tablet and phone screens. I could control access better that way.
And yea, also because I’m a pc and console gamer and wanted to play my favorite games with them.
The older one has started playing mobile games more often and yea, it’s Genshin and Honkai. That kid was always in love with Fire Emblem, so Honkai makes sense to me. The stories are all kind of the same.
A friend stayed with us for a few days and they have a 12 and 10 year old. I have every console imaginable, PCs on big screens, and they never left their tablets.
I think once kids get on the tablet/phone/mobile games, they don’t really leave. I don’t know that I would have either.
- Comment on Hacker advertises alleged database of 89 million Steam 2FA codes 1 month ago:
Aside from this being false, it’s kinda crazy that Steam has had no significant public leaks.
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 2 months ago:
Yes, that’s why I said my explanation was quick and dirty.
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 2 months ago:
No. The far more likely way to handle it is with flocculation/coagulation since plants are already set up to support this.
- Comment on just got this captcha 2 months ago:
How would you know it’s the green?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
Just moved my Win10 machine to Pop OS. No issues at all. Haven’t tried Steam VR on it yet.
- Comment on I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it? 2 months ago:
The same way you grew up in a world where horrible shit had happened 20 years before you were born. You just sort of internalize it over time. Or not.
- Comment on Do kids of rich people feel loved, or are their rich parents toxic? 3 months ago:
Everything is relative, and trauma not dealt with is passed down.
I was not raised wealthy. Laying in my bed, in a room in a 2br public housing apt I shared with my two brothers, I could hear my parents fighting over money at night. I used to daydream about a rando giving us money and in my vision of how that would go it was never that we would have stuff, it was just that my parents wouldn’t have to fight over it anymore. I was homeless when I left home, sleeping in my beater broke down ass car and taking showers in public showers. I joined the US Army because I ran out of options. Just to give my broke ass credentials. It wasn’t the bottom, but it was close.
I am wealthy now. I live in a wealthy neighborhood. My kids go to a public “rich kid” school. They’re both teenagers, so I have a fairly good knowledge of the neighborhood kids since our house has always been the hangout house.
It’s weird. Being rich is sort of exactly what I thought it would be. We don’t argue over bills. My wife was not crazy town poor, but she was definitely lower middle class. We are both extremely frugal. We torture them dollars. I ain’t goin back. My kids have never known that world cause we hit the job lottery and the money showed up right before the first one was born.
Anyway.
All these kids are the exact same kids with the exact same problems as the ones I knew growing up, but the parents have more money and therefore more tools to help support their kids. The only real difference is the trauma of being broke as fuck isn’t there but it’s replaced with the pressure of expectations. When I was a kid if I had gotten a job as a mail delivery person, that would have been seen as a total success on my part. Life long stable job with a retirement at the end. I fucking won the game of life. For rich kids, that would be seen as an abject failure.
It’s not that they don’t have empathy. It’s that their entire community is economically high performers. Everyone they meet in their lives fucking won the game of capitalism. The only regular humans they run into wait on them or teach them. In their minds, how hard can it be? They know all these normal looking people and they’re all rich as fuck so how hard can it be?
Because that’s the mind fuck. Rich people aren’t better than you. Some shit went their way and that’s the difference. Elite earners don’t work harder than janitors. And so rich kids grow up in that world and it’s just normalized. It’s not a lack of empathy, it’s that they internalize it as “normal”.
Then a middle class kid runs into them and sees them as lacking in empathy.
You’re right though. It is more luxurious. I let fruit rot on the counter because I won’t eat it after I buy it because if I eat it I won’t have it anymore. These fuckers eat all my oranges and blueberries because that’s what they’re for. Rich assholes.
- Comment on If you're not attracted to anyone "in your league", but you cannot choose who you are attracted to, then what are you supposed to do? 5 months ago:
Wonderful post. Thanks is for taking the time to write it.
- Comment on If you can’t discriminate based on age, how are there 55+ neighborhoods? 5 months ago:
Great comment. Thanks for posting it.
- Comment on In a bit of a pre upgrade slump, what do you recommend? 7 months ago:
Mad Max was way better than it had any right to be.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Yes please. Right on.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 8 months ago:
I love you both very much.
I still play SSX3 GameCube version on my Wii.
- Comment on What careers are relatively easy to get into with decent unions behind them? 8 months ago:
My brother is a journeyman plumber in Seattle WA. He only does new pipe on metal frame (big buildings) for new build. He makes $130k a year not counting overtime.
Great job. Amazing job.
- Comment on Empires fall 9 months ago:
Circuit City was great until it wasn’t.
Sucks.
- Comment on Explosions in the Sky 10 months ago:
I’ve got tix to see them in Seattle on Sept 30!
- Comment on Explosions in the Sky 10 months ago:
I’ve got tix at the end of the month!
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Continue To Crater With Massive 42% Revenue Drop - Slashdot 11 months ago:
I have two kids. Both prefer pc or switch for exclusives. They haven’t touched the PlayStation or Xbox in months if not years. I don’t even think they know how to turn them on.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
The Democrats have an unusually deep bench right now. Honestly there’s probably at least 5 very high quality candidates for Veep. Another 5 won’t take it because they plan on running for Prez themselves and don’t want to backbench when their current gig is going so well.
The veep choice won’t be a problem.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 1 year ago:
Another for the wishlist. Thanks for posting that.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 1 year ago:
Thanks for that. Added to my wishlist.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 1 year ago:
My kids played this till their eyes bled. Great local screen party game.
- Comment on Capes has released, XCOM-like TBS with unique superhero characters - Reviews: 77 average, 75% recommended 1 year ago:
Looked great at PAX last year. Excited for it.
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 1 year ago:
I just want to play with a controller.
- Comment on Formerly Anti-Union Volkswagen Worker Explains Why He Switched to Pro-Union 1 year ago:
Good video. The guy was well spoken.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 4 Isn't Next For Larian; Something Bigger Is Coming | Spot On | Gamespot 1 year ago:
Absolutely.