The whole discussion started because guy I talked to defended it saying kids want to play games with their friends and I point out vbucks isn’t a requirement to play Fornite and even gives it for free. And they just keep shifting goal posts from there pointing to kids not getting concept of budgeting and so on. They just wanted to defend the existence of vbucks.

The whole discussion started because guy I talked to defended it saying kids want to play games with their friends and I point out vbucks isn’t a requirement to play Fornite and even gives it for free. And they just keep shifting goal posts from there pointing to kids not getting concept of budgeting and so on. They just wanted to defend the existence of vbucks.

You just keep changing excuses to keep defending buying vbucks. First it was kids don’t want to be left out of playing games. Then I pointed out vbucks isn’t necessary to play Fortnite. Then you said kids don’t have impulse control. I pointed out kids are capable of budgeting. You keep shifting goal posts.

There are a lot of lousy parents.

You don’t need vbucks to play the game or any of the modes. When I was little I wanted money to buy games I couldn’t play without money.

And I guess I did understand budgeting since I had to save money to be able to buy games. And also learned pirating to try to further extend my budget when I was little, and friends lending each other games.

I think people underestimate kids and how quickly they catch onto the basic concepts of money and time required to acquire what they want. They fully know money isn’t infinite. And when you are a kid you don’t get instant gratification because you don’t have enough money, and often have to wait because it’s not up to you.

Well I guess rich kids just got everything instantly, but I don’t think that’s the case for most kids.

I did, but you don’t need vbucks to play Fortnite. Also, one thing didn’t keep my attention for long, so I preferred more games when I was a kid. Vbucks just buys skins. And you get free skins just playing the game and free vbucks just playing the game.

So pretty stupid to spend most of the limited money as a kid on skins year after year when it’s pretty much thrown at you so you don’t have to stick to default skins.

Cutting services as opposed to complying is the better approach, since the other is a endorsement of it without consequences for regions putting it in place.

Things change for the worse overall even for those not subject to living in those regions when there’s no consequence to problematic decisions, and just shows those who enacted those changes can keep getting away with it.

Appeasement doesn’t tend to work out, and instead has a tendency to have the ideology of the troublesome region spread.

Get a cheap minipc or laptop and get the same adblocking options that you get on a desktop. Best of all you can disconnect your TV from the internet if you had been relying on the TV apps to watch stuff with the spyware behavior of TVs.

Sports fans know well. Streams that just cut to silence instead of showing ads are so much better. Commercials just enrage me.

Scariest ads are the ones if you accidentally click redirects and opens up another site on your browser.

I like freetube for desktop and pipepipe for Android. Both, block ads, block channels, let you subscribe and make playlists locally, skip sponsors, download videos.

More reliable than browser and adblock. Only when it breaks due to some youtube change do I use browser, but the app still functions like a rss providing you with your subscription feed to launch it in browser.

Would be some next level stuff where governments would be able to track and shut down protest attempts before it even happened. And identify those who have expressed critical views of their government and disappear them. And disappear people who bring up people being disappeared.

Until eventually just the thought of speaking freely in such a manner is killed off completely on the Internet.

Do you really trust your government to know every single account associated with you? Do you trust the current leader and future leaders of your country to have every internet activity easily linked to you? Countries like the US will no longer have to subpoena for that information like they recently did for reddit users critical of ICE.

So does it really make you feel better to have the government in control of a universal ID system?

Does it not send off alarm bells seeing meta stated as one of the lobbyists? Do they really have a track record that makes you think device would be any better?

Its sad entire world despite calls for boycott of US are letting themselves be controlled and joining hands with US based Palantir in the most important sector when it comes to tech and privacy.

Who is behind it? The whole world collectively decided to start pushing it. So what big money is behind it? It doesn’t seem organic.

I like them. They’ve given me incentive to try out playstyles I wouldn’t have like the ghost achievement for Dishonored where you can’t alert or kill random npcs in the game.

I haven’t run into many scenarios where mods disabled achievements and if they did I would play with the mod over achievements if it brought enough quality of life improvements.

If it is a career that doesn’t need a degree then could also argue they don’t even need to go the conventional academic route to succeed in the field with lot of free resources and universities even putting up lectures online for free if learning is the only goal.

But, for university I think just ability to pass a test is a really bare minimum bar to pass in route to degrees that require certification. These aren’t grade school kids being asked of it but adults.

So I think the whole trying to accommodate for inability to take an exam or discussions of is it really applicable to measuring proficiency among poor test takers at a university level no longer applies. University I think is about networking and exams are just a really easy method to catch people who shouldn’t waste further years and money, since passing them is going to end up hurting them more in the long run.

I find it okay for writing programs since you can verify it to see if the output is correct.

But, actual analysis not so much, since when verifying what comes out that its not completely reliable even for things it should be like numbers. Now numbers might be close, but still off

Abstract stuff might be fine. But, its still not something to entirely trust on analysis because of errors. There’s a lot of double checking that needs to be going on.

I can vouch for them since I too am the most reliable so that’s double reliability.