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The list was going very well until the last bit about “No Consoles”. Now the rest of its credibility is shot.

by xwdv 6y ago

Shared404 6y ago
See this reply by the GP. I have to agree with him. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324462 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324462
- meddlepal 6y ago
  Its a dumb reason applied to an adult.
  - Shared404 6y ago
    > applied to an adult. I agree. But this was for his kids when they were kids living at his house. If he want's to maintain the no consoles rule at his house later on, meh whatever. That's his business. Edit: Also, what makes it reasonable to enforce this while his kids were young was that he actively encouraged learning about PC's, not just consumption through a different "Magic Box".
    - TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
      My children also learned to type very well at a young age because we did not have consoles.
      - elliekelly 6y ago
        AIM did more for my typing skills than any of my middle school “keyboarding” classes. a s d f j k l ; Who decided typing that on loop is how you learn to touch type?
        Shared404 6y ago
        In my case, gaming taught me to type quickly, and keyboarding class taught me to type well. That being said, my keyboarding class included copying out bodies of text as well, not just patterns on loop (There certainly was that though).
        ficklepickle 6y ago
        Mario Teaches Typing on win 3.11 or DOS (can't recall which). It looked like a Mario game but progress was controlled by typing correctly.
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httpsterio 6y ago
At least they didn't say no games at all. What's so different with "having" to game on a computer vs a console? Consoles don't come with a learning opportunity, are vendor locked devices and they're just more expensive for their value compared to a PC. There's a small number of games that are exclusive but you'd have to buy 2-3 different consoles just to get access to them all anyways, which is not a realistic choice. And yeah, some online multi-player games are console-only but as a parent I wouldn't want to be "forced" to buy a certain console make just because other kids might or might not have it. My friends had Xbox 360, I had PS3 and we're still buddies and we mostly played together on PCs anyways. How many Xbox One / PS4 / Switch games can you get for free? A small handful if any. On PC, thousands literally. If you're not too picky, one could just play free games and never have to even pay for them.

The list was going very well until the last bit about “No Consoles”. Now the rest of its credibility is shot.

by xwdv 6y ago

The list was going very well until the last bit about “No Consoles”. Now the rest of its credibility is shot.

See this reply by the GP. I have to agree with him. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324462 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324462

meddlepal 6y ago
Its a dumb reason applied to an adult.
- Shared404 6y ago
  > applied to an adult. I agree. But this was for his kids when they were kids living at his house. If he want's to maintain the no consoles rule at his house later on, meh whatever. That's his business. Edit: Also, what makes it reasonable to enforce this while his kids were young was that he actively encouraged learning about PC's, not just consumption through a different "Magic Box".
  - TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
    My children also learned to type very well at a young age because we did not have consoles.
    - elliekelly 6y ago
      AIM did more for my typing skills than any of my middle school “keyboarding” classes. a s d f j k l ; Who decided typing that on loop is how you learn to touch type?
      - Shared404 6y ago
        In my case, gaming taught me to type quickly, and keyboarding class taught me to type well. That being said, my keyboarding class included copying out bodies of text as well, not just patterns on loop (There certainly was that though).
        ficklepickle 6y ago
        Mario Teaches Typing on win 3.11 or DOS (can't recall which). It looked like a Mario game but progress was controlled by typing correctly.
    - deleted 6y ago
      [deleted]

httpsterio 6y ago

At least they didn't say no games at all. What's so different with "having" to game on a computer vs a console? Consoles don't come with a learning opportunity, are vendor locked devices and they're just more expensive for their value compared to a PC. There's a small number of games that are exclusive but you'd have to buy 2-3 different consoles just to get access to them all anyways, which is not a realistic choice. And yeah, some online multi-player games are console-only but as a parent I wouldn't want to be "forced" to buy a certain console make just because other kids might or might not have it. My friends had Xbox 360, I had PS3 and we're still buddies and we mostly played together on PCs anyways. How many Xbox One / PS4 / Switch games can you get for free? A small handful if any. On PC, thousands literally. If you're not too picky, one could just play free games and never have to even pay for them.