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Yeah, no. Nintendo, as the other poster said. Random stranger interaction == bad. Can’t verify age == bad. Can only add your friends for chat? Is fine. I feel
by lll-o-lll 11mo ago
Yeah, no. Nintendo, as the other poster said. Random stranger interaction == bad. Can’t verify age == bad.
Can only add your friends for chat? Is fine.
I feel like this same strategy is sane for adults also. Before the internet, we did fine making friends and playing games with people we actually know. So much of the awfulness of the modern online space comes from anonymous interactions with strangers. I don’t think human social connections are able to scale in the way the internet enables.
- yreg 11mo ago> Can only add your friends for chat? Is fine. I'm not saying it's not fine (depending on the age), but you won't convince me it's safer then playing Sim City 3000. It is inherently less safe.
- lll-o-lll 11mo agoAs the parent, I have complete control over who my children can connect with on Nintendo (not so with Roblox and others). That makes it safe, because I can double check with parent of said friend. It’s completely fine.
- DonHopkins 11mo agoI beg your pardon! SimCity incipiently indoctrinates children to believe in crazy stuff like the 9-9-9 tax plan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9%E2%80%939%E2%80%939_Plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9%E2%80%939%E2%80%939_Plan
- atmavatar 11mo agoIt can also indoctrinate them to becoming mass murderers by spawning huge zombie outbreaks.
- mghackerlady 11mo agoIt's not even that stranger interaction is inherently bad, Nintendos Splatoon series is very multiplayer with strangers centric but it manages to stay safe for kids because of the lack of chat and user generated content for the most part