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by rpdillon 1y ago
I think you've articulated his point better than I could!
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by rpdillon 1y ago
Ah, I see. I had taken the "one of" much more heavily than "the best things", as to mean: "I think this was a good decision I made that I'm proud of". I was taken aback by you concluding they were a total
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by rpdillon 1y ago
A comment asserted that natural evolution of AI algos would result in women getting fewer ads for mechanic jobs, because society has that bias. You responded with: > Nope. What you eventually get is women not getting a variety of jobs th
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by rpdillon 1y ago
Yes! I'm a huge fan of those. Increasingly rare, though. Was trying to play No Man's Sky, Sniper Elite v2, Quake/Quake2 Enhanced recently with the kids and all required centralized multiplayer. Super disappointing. I do run
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by rpdillon 1y ago
I don't see the pretension. We're simply making decisions about how to spend our time. Many times that doesn't align with what the majority of people like to spend their time doing. That's fine.
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by rpdillon 1y ago
Not really. I tend to favor single-player games because they can be effectively archived and played in several decades. Multiplayer games routinely just get killed by their publishers. So I do view single player games as intrinsically more
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by rpdillon 1y ago
I can't reply to you anymore, but the study you cited is at least a couple of steps removed from the discussion. First, it's about offloading navigation to a computer, and observing that humans use less of their navigation skills
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by rpdillon 1y ago
I'm proud of my decisions and I'm not here to defend them. I'm here for the conversation because I'm interested in the topic. I vetoed Minecraft and replaced it with MineTest because Minecraft has the hypixel community,
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by rpdillon 1y ago
I substitute my judgment for theirs as a parent; that's intrinsic in the nature of the job. As I said in my previous comment, my kids chose the From Software titles because their friend group plays it, so I don't think that's
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by rpdillon 1y ago
When I think about enduring titles, I think about whether the kind of game that you'd pick up 20 years later and still consider to be a good game. I raised them on a curriculum of games starting with 80s titles and as they got older I
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by rpdillon 1y ago
My job is to guide them and use my judgment where their judgment is poor. That is intrinsic in the nature of parenting. Thank you for the guidance though. I understand that you feel strongly and that you hope my kids can be happy even thoug
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by rpdillon 1y ago
My kids play games with their friends, just to be clear. What we don't do is pick up any game that their friends happen to be playing without evaluating it first. And this is a discussion that I have with my children, not some mandate
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by rpdillon 1y ago
I didn't want to paraphrase what he said too much, but since you're inquiring, I think the general idea is that multiplayer games strive for particular types of engagement and the techniques that companies use to drive that engage
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by rpdillon 1y ago
Sounds like you'd expect a study on this to show that use of tap to pay leads to mental health decline. I think we've strayed too far from the original study.
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by rpdillon 1y ago
You seem to be arguing about avoiding constant connectivity. This is very different than not owning a smartphone. I think the conversation has gone off the rails, as I was critiquing your desire to impose a no smartphone lifestyle on others
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by rpdillon 1y ago
The study we're discussing drew no such conclusion. There's a very disturbing pattern of studies coming out and being summarized by people with an agenda that choose to draw conclusions that are not supported by the study they&#x2
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by rpdillon 1y ago
We don't get many kids coming to the house on Halloween. Only two this year. We buy this big bag of candy at Costco, and we always end up with a lot of extra, and my kids end up sitting and eating it. Not great.
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by rpdillon 1y ago
We avoid fads because they come and go too quickly. My kids connect with their friends on games that are more enduring, like the From Software titles.
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by rpdillon 1y ago
My boys are sitting and reading through this with me as I make comments. They are very surprised by the resentment expressed by many of the comments. My eldest read your comment and said that Battlefield and Fortnite are trash because of th
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by rpdillon 1y ago
The purpose of my comment was to point out that just because you've found a solution that works for you does not mean it is generalizable and should be turned into a rule for the entire population.
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by rpdillon 1y ago
That's a good point. My oldest has root on his own System76 laptop, and he's quite accomplished at administering it. But he is able to play and beat Elden Ring in Dark Souls, which would not have been an option five years ago in t
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by rpdillon 1y ago
Absolutely agree. It just has nothing to do with self-reported memory and cognitive decline, which is the subject of the article.
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by rpdillon 1y ago
The study does not point to a cause. The comment I'm responding to is drawing conclusions based on a sensationalist blog post and then wishing they could report other parents for abuse. I think the study is well done, but we can't
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by rpdillon 1y ago
I was ready to dismiss the article on the basis of its sensationalist writing, but I wanted to dig into the study as well. After reading through it, I asked my wife, who's a sociologist and researcher, what she thought about these conc
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by rpdillon 1y ago
The article is already fairly sensationalist in its conclusions and language, but avoiding tap-to-pay because you don't have a phone is a non-sequitur; debit and credit cards support tap to pay just fine. Similarly with folks saying th
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by rpdillon 1y ago
> Whenever I see parents scrolling, and handing a kid a phone as well to pacify them, I wish I could report them for child abuse. Consider that you might not have everything figured out for everyone. I'm glad you found something tha
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by rpdillon 1y ago
It's not the complexity of the words that's causing the misunderstanding. It's getting down to ground truth about what the job searching experience is like for actual individuals that will be impacted by this legislation. So
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by rpdillon 1y ago
> discussing currently relevant games We shun most of this as faddish and low quality. Fortnite and Battlefield are replaced with OpenMW and Veloran. If you're doing things blindly in Linux, there's no point. The value is in un
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by rpdillon 1y ago
> she did not have much interest in the power/freedom The reason I started with Linux with my kids is so they were aware that that power and freedom exists. Kids that grow up in a mobile ecosystem (and increasingly both the Microsof
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by rpdillon 1y ago
Steam? I'm not sure what you're referring to by "this". All they're recommending is a standard setup that millions of people have. If your co-worker's son turned into a 400 pound 20 something, that sounds like

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