people’s fears are often irrational and disproportional to actual dangers. people typically are paranoid about things that have very low probabilities of happening, and don’t even think about dangers that are common.

some people are paranoid and rig up cameras in every part of their house under the guise it will keep them secure from criminals.

no

OK, must be nice? I don’t care about that. I just want to play games on my couch. PC gaming is a huge pain in the fucking ass so I stopped PC gaming like 5 years ago. I am too old to be spend hours try to fix broken games.

Video games aren’t a part of my political or moral beliefs. they are just entertainment.

who, kids?

it’s all relative. anything before the living memory of teens is retro. that’s why it takes 20 years for stuff go to become cool again.

when i was a teenager everything 70s was retro and cool. around 2005 it became the 80s.

for my teenage nephews anything more than 1-2 years old is ‘ancient’. they think elden ring is a super old game, for example. it came out in '22. last year they wanted to show me this ‘cool old game and had i ever heard of it’.

because that’s what the majority of people play.

the majority of people buy 1-2 games a year and play them all year. COD, sports games, the big popular shooters or whatever is trendy at the moment.

they are casual fans. they don’t give a shit about stuff like Expedition 33 and would be totally uninterested in a game like that as boring and stupid. these are the same people who only watch marvel movies or hollywood action crap.

all my friends/family who play games think I’m a gay weirdo for liking non sports, non military, non racing games.

They probably won’t play games once they go to college. They are very concerned with popularity and being cool, and once playing games isn’t cool they will stop.

They don’t really care about video games as a genre/hobby anymore than they do about movies outside of Marvel films. They like what is popular because other people like it.

they are the epitome of filthy casuals, but that’s where the money is. they play games on mid level laptops and think i’m a weirdo nerd for having a ps5.

90s are retro cool now.

another few years and the 2000s will be retro cool

yeah. it’s like saying you shouldn’t give you kid a smart phone.

you will basically destroy their social development because literally every kid has one. and the worst thing for a kid is to be socially excluded. children desperately crave peer acceptance.

he’s a child. he has no idea want things cost or what they are worth.

all he knows is the intense urge to get more robux

and disney was probably more about his parents. my parents made me go to disney twice even though i had no interest and told me what an ungrateful shit iw as the entire time. it was never about me. it was about them.

i was happier hanging out win the woods with my friends, or even alone, than going to disney. i hated it.

ironically i wanted to go six flags but my parents never took me, even thought it was in driving distance and way cheaper… because everything was about them. the rides were so much better.

because FOMO

someone else has it and you don’t. that’s a huge motivator for most people, and super important for kids.

i have four nephews. 3 of them want fortnight/roblox money. the other one doesn’t care about games at all.

i try to get them into different games and they won’t have it. they are addicts for these freemium bullshit games. the concept of buying a game is weird to them. they expect them to be free, but they have normalized paying money for in game items.

and they have been playing these games for years now. 6+ years playing the same game. probably 10,000+ hours in them. but all they care about is playing with tehir friends and competing over who is best at fortnite.

yes. it also prevents attacks. it’s basically a necessity these days.

if you host your own stuff and get any traffic you’ll get DDoSed by bots. cloudflare prevents this by detaching your DNS from your IP and distributing requests.

just port forwarding on your home network these days… and you’ll get dozens of attacks per hour.

the internet is not ‘nice’ anymore. services like cloudflare are a necessity for any active services beyond personal use. long gone are the days you could host a web server from your bedroom.

No, I’m saying people are stupid and ignorant and it’s not some big conspiracy. It’s just business.

that’s how pretty much all business works though.

as your company grows it’s preferable to have fewer larger providers for services. when you are small you have multiple vendors.

largerly because the vendors that provide extensive services… cater to larger companies, not smaller ones.

because calling it authoritarianism makes it sound big and scary… and make sit sound like a battle of good vs evil for all time.

what you are describing… which is simply the routine processes that have gone on for 100s of years in governments… isn’t big and scary.

people like this need to look up the Dutch East India company.

because when they run a background check on you they see you were charged. and that’s all that matters. you are untouchable to most employers.

most consumers don’t need upload speeds. they aren’t uploading anything. most people’s internet traffic is like 99.9% streaming videos at this point.

because it made them feel feelings.

same reason anyone has any parasocial relationship. apparently people watch people stream or influence and develop feelings for them.

i don’t personally expereince any of this so it bafflest he crap otu of me… but apparently that makes me mentally ill in the current technology economy where it’s considered ‘normal’ to gift people 100/1000s of dollars to listen to them whine online.

at least with Nintendo I am playing for a console and a game to play. not for the experiencing of living viscerally though somebody else.

the issue with becoming more knowledgable about the world is you feel less special.

and people are desperate to feel special. our entire consumer economy is built around exploiting folks insecurities and convincing them that their purchases make them better than other people.