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It's interesting how we've gone from heavily regulating content in shows and games made for children to putting kids in digital Skinner boxes that extract the w
by ravenstine 5y ago
It's interesting how we've gone from heavily regulating content in shows and games made for children to putting kids in digital Skinner boxes that extract the wealth of their parents in exchange for conceptual things of which there is no shortage.
On the other hand, how different are loot boxes and DLC from the days where we played games at an arcade and had to insert 6 more quarters to complete a level, sometimes even if the player still has health? I guess the difference is that you leave behind an arcade, whereas modern video games stay with kids at all times and are designed to addict kids to an even greater degree than anything I ever played at TILT! arcades.