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Restricting kids from the mobile games is like restricting kids from drinking vodka you have in your bar. Everyone should do it. Those things are not games they

by tlear 5y ago

Restricting kids from the mobile games is like restricting kids from drinking vodka you have in your bar. Everyone should do it. Those things are not games they are whale seeking mind fucking drugs that no child should have to try and deal with. Anyway school my kids are in uses older version of the inventor, librarian runs a class with that twice a week both my 8 and 6 year old LOVE IT. Meaning that is their topic of conversation and they remember which days they have it during the week. Couple days ago 8year olds class had a bring your parent to school day so I did a presentation mentioning a game I hacked with a debugger as an ice breaker. Forget what I actually do for next 20 minutes all I was asked is how to hack Minecraft, how to hack some online game I don't know :o and not get caught. Blew my mind, teacher was looking sideways at me :) Now I promised to compile a set or resource about modding Minecraft for the class. I am also thinking about setting up a website that kids can mess with using developer tool in the browser(super simple html with hidden "password" etc)

hnthrowaway0315 5y ago
> Restricting kids from the mobile games is like restricting kids from drinking vodka you have in your bar. Everyone should do it. Those things are not games they are whale seeking mind fucking drugs that no child should have to try and deal with. Absolutely. I work in the industry so I know exactly the monetization culture there. It is so deeply rooted that there is way to avoid that, at least on Android. I think Apple is slightly better but maybe not really. I'm sad that the whole industry got trained in that mindset :( > Couple days ago 8year olds class had a bring your parent to school day so I did a presentation mentioning a game I hacked with a debugger as an ice breaker. Forget what I actually do for next 20 minutes all I was asked is how to hack Minecraft, how to hack some online game I don't know :o and not get caught. Blew my mind, teacher was looking sideways at me :) This is really very good experience :) I guess it's also very proud of your children to have a cool parent.
foobarian 5y ago
I'm struggling with what to do about Roblox. There are many different subgames on it, some of which really focused on money, some not, some focused on grinding, etc. But restricting Roblox wholesale then misses the opportunity to get into the creative/coding side of things. But then if the focus of that is going to be monetization...
- ddingus 5y ago
  This concerns me too. I have arrived at the task of just getting into Roblox enough to manage the problems. It's like crack to my younger one. The pandemic has limited social contact, and she's ultra social! Like 11 on a scale of 10. The moment she understood there are OTHER PEOPLE IN THAT THING, boom. Donzo, it's all she wants to do.

by tlear 5y ago

hnthrowaway0315 5y ago

> Restricting kids from the mobile games is like restricting kids from drinking vodka you have in your bar. Everyone should do it. Those things are not games they are whale seeking mind fucking drugs that no child should have to try and deal with. Absolutely. I work in the industry so I know exactly the monetization culture there. It is so deeply rooted that there is way to avoid that, at least on Android. I think Apple is slightly better but maybe not really. I'm sad that the whole industry got trained in that mindset :( > Couple days ago 8year olds class had a bring your parent to school day so I did a presentation mentioning a game I hacked with a debugger as an ice breaker. Forget what I actually do for next 20 minutes all I was asked is how to hack Minecraft, how to hack some online game I don't know :o and not get caught. Blew my mind, teacher was looking sideways at me :) This is really very good experience :) I guess it's also very proud of your children to have a cool parent.

foobarian 5y ago

I'm struggling with what to do about Roblox. There are many different subgames on it, some of which really focused on money, some not, some focused on grinding, etc. But restricting Roblox wholesale then misses the opportunity to get into the creative/coding side of things. But then if the focus of that is going to be monetization...

ddingus 5y ago
This concerns me too. I have arrived at the task of just getting into Roblox enough to manage the problems. It's like crack to my younger one. The pandemic has limited social contact, and she's ultra social! Like 11 on a scale of 10. The moment she understood there are OTHER PEOPLE IN THAT THING, boom. Donzo, it's all she wants to do.