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Yeah, not trying to downplay the concern— kids have always been excited by wrapped up presents at Christmas and birthday times. But it does become a concern whe
by mikepurvis 7y ago
Yeah, not trying to downplay the concern— kids have always been excited by wrapped up presents at Christmas and birthday times. But it does become a concern when the only thing that can hold their attention is the new thing, especially if you find yourself in that death spiral of doing Marie Kondo style purges of all your "clutter" only to find yourself re-buying the same stuff over again for the acquisition hit.
I wonder about myself with this when comes time for things like humble bundle, or when you look at people trading massive backlogs back and forth on r/steamgameswap. Like, I definitely do get totally sucked into particular games (recently on a turn-based kick with Into the Breach and Invisible Inc), and I'm not going to force myself to play something that hasn't grabbed my interest, but like everyone else, I have lots of games in backlog, many of which will never be played or even downloaded. Is this healthy? Is it a good example to be setting for my kids?