• enkers@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I agree, and I think I tried to touch on that, but then it’s 20-some years too late to be relevant. Then again, maybe “video games are corrupting the youth” is a timeless trope? It just seems to me more like taking shots at something that was relevant when I was a kid, perhaps for the nostalgia factor, but not something that matters much today.

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      1 year ago

      The gambling monetization is an entirely new problem, but the “{something} is corrupting the youth” is both a trope and an utter joke. It used to be that television is corrupting the youth, and before that, radio. Any new media technology ends up with people decrying over their pearl-clutching, “but think of the children” reasons.