My problem is at least other games have some benefits. Hand eye coordination, reflexes, critical thinking, problem solving skills, reading and comprehension skills.
Mobile games are designed to be as simple, accessible and most importantly easy as possible. They want you to feel like you're winning over and over and over with no real effort on your part. Obviously there are some exceptions, but still.
If people I do trust are saying they have checked the code and it's good, then yeah.
For sure. I've never outright banned it if they get access such as from their nan or play them on their laptop when they have time on it. I agree with everything you said. I'm just also not going to let them sit on my phone mindlessly playing them either.
Those apps make them want to pay. They make them want to play every X amount of time to get daily and timed bonuses. They play stupid ads that convince them to download more shitty games that do the same thing.
I don't tell them what to do. But I do have conversations with them so they think about things. I never tell them I think the games are rubbish. Maybe they love that game. And I don't like adults telling kids things they love are trash. I just try to guide them best I can.
It's complicated to navigate.
It's so hard. I have an N64, Wii, Wii U, Switch, PS5. The N64, Wii and Wii U have every game available on them. Switch and PS5 have decent libraries.
I set a laptop up with emulators of the main consoles before N64 (Nintendo/Sega/Handhelds etc) with the top 100 games of each, all in a nice emulation station interface with box art and video previews, and my personal favourites favourited. I set up steam family sharing with my library of 500 games (with inappropriate ones filtered out but still massive).
Didn't ever buy them an ipad/tablet and never let them use my phone. Taught them how to use all of the things mentioned. Commonly play couch multiplayer games on these things with them. They're not bad at games either. Beat Celeste, Undertale, Super Metroid as a few examples.
And YET I'll still find my kids on the laptop playing rubbish flash games and shit, or asking their Nan to let them play on her phone.
"Some of my best servants are black!"
Pours half a cup of salt on my food
Why did you add 10x as much salt and ruin my food?
You are aware the inside of your food had salt anyway?
Damn chess is harder than I thought.
Lily Hoshikawa from Zombie Land Saga.
It doesn't exactly. It's like Lemmy, where it's self hosted/someone is hosting it. So it depends entirely on which instance you use and who is hosting it and how much you trust them/what their values are.
Most though would fit into the right in the same area as SWISSCOWS.
If I'm born with a 6th finger there's not necessarily anything wrong with that but at the same time if I want it amputated that should be my choice and my right.
Accepting yourself is preferable but I think it's just as valid to make choices about your own life if you can. Whether it's a disease or not isn't the issue.
Baseball, huh?
Do games count? I got scammed on runescape out of a 50mil item which was a lot at the time (this was sometime around 2003-2005). 50-100 hours of time for me to get it at an estimate. It was a stupid mistake that I thought I was smart enough to avoid, with what I now recognise as classic signs of a scam (slightly too good to be true, moving goal posts, slightly odd but not entirely unreasonable requests, time sensitive).
But I can tell you I'm glad I got scammed young on a game, because it was a good lesson with very low actual harm (only time lost realistically) and made me WAY more wary of things.