This is becoming retarded. The title says: The Tech Industry's War On Kids” - implying the tech industry sees kids as an enemy. This is not correct. They see kids as products, not as enemies. So the tech industry doesn't wage a war. Is this so hard to comprehend?
And yet if the enemy is destroyed or converted to a purpose no shots need be fired, as in a cold war or a coup or propaganda war, etc. You are not "really" thinking this through. Campaign is campaign, shots are shots. War is overbroad.
The use of "war on" as a media term is overused. The term retains its meaning despite that fail.
There still needs to be an enemy. Customers, clients, users, etc. are not enemies, they're buddies which the corporations want to turn into lovers.
Back in the day guys like Peter Molyneux were just the same, massively over-promising and under-delivering.
There's a difference. Black and White was received very well at release. it was, indeed, an excellent game. It won a Guiness World Record - that's gotta account for something. Black and White 2 was a bit worse but still a nice game, full of feature. Fable 3 was an excellent game as well, albeit its PC port was a bit crappy (most PC ports are like that).
While it's true that Molyneaux overpromised, if I'd make an analogy it would be:
Peter Molyneaux promised a rocket ship and delivered a Ferrari; Sean Murray promised a sports car and delivered a carriage.
I am one of the few (and I am not proud of it, quite the contrary) who aren't affected by rosy retrospection. When the Internet was young, it was difficult to access, difficult to use and didn't have much value outside of niche use(r)s.
MUDs were "multiplayer notepad" of sorts, and they were awesome because they were "the new thing". After a while, they stopped being that. It is debatable whether their replacement was an "improvement" or not. The best of them were very difficult to improve, even through adding multimedia files (images, audio, video,later 3D etc) - but this is valid for anything: it's difficult to improve something that is very good.
Legal action over false game advertising, heh, good luck with that. Of course, death threats are retarded but legal action doesn't work either.
I was one of the suckers who preordered it at full price months before it was released. gog.com refunded me in wallet money even though I had played it for 27 hours, on an exception basis, because of the scandal around the game. I thanked them for that and spent more on their platform. Steam wouldn't do that, Sony wouldn't do that. But gog, man, they rule.
(personal opinion, not a gog shill. I don't care where you buy from.)
My older son was sick, went through two major surgeries and a few minor ones, had stents inside him for 18 months (he's yet to receive a phone but uses computers). I had a choice: keep him still through coercion or provide him with the best possible form of entertainment. Between watching TV and playing computer games, I chose to offer him the latter.
He's better now and we go out for at least 2-3 hours a day, but he's still pretty hooked on PC gaming. I know it's not great and working on reducing his gaming time.
So yeah, my older son is a bit special, albeit not in a good way.
How about this. Sundar Pichai to give me 100 dollars for each app which comes preinstalled on my phone and I can't uninstall? I'll be a rich man in no time.
If it only were that easy. Yeah, maybe YOU were successful, it doesn't mean your methods (whichever they were) can be applied to every child out there. There will always be objective factors which would prevent your methods from being successful.
It is a problem when you can't switch from one behavior to the other. If you can't for the life of you stay still for 5 minutes while in the middle of an important exam, that's the problem right there. Kind of what Mr. Bean does in church... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Outdoor playing only fucks up matches for certain sports. Also, 50 years ago a football player had up to 5 seconds between receiving the ball and being attacked by an opponent, giving him plenty of time to figure out what the fuck should he do with it (keep, pass, advance, dribble, shoot, etc). today, that timeframe has reduced to an average of 0.5 seconds. That's what changed the game, not wherever the hell it's being played.
#1: flopping. #2: covertly injuring an opponent when the referee isn't looking #3: provoking an opponent (through swearing, racist calls, spitting, offensive gestures) when the referee isn't looking
etc.
The problem with this game is that it is so much about the money now that fair play has completely disappeared. Virtually ALL players are cheaters now, andd they receive intensive training on how to cheat better, especially when the match stakes are high.
It's no longer about winning a tournament or a cup, it's about the money that comes with that achievement.
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Amen to that :) :P)
(thanks for correcting me, I promise I'll do it again
I'm not American. It's impossible for me to defend a foreign politician. Also, it's impossible for me to defend any politician whatsoever.
Which really helped nobody.
Totally agreed. Therefore, the title is wrong :)
This is becoming retarded.
The title says: The Tech Industry's War On Kids” - implying the tech industry sees kids as an enemy. This is not correct.
They see kids as products, not as enemies. So the tech industry doesn't wage a war. Is this so hard to comprehend?
Wikipedia...
And yet if the enemy is destroyed or converted to a purpose no shots need be fired, as in a cold war or a coup or propaganda war, etc. You are not "really" thinking this through. Campaign is campaign, shots are shots. War is overbroad.
The use of "war on" as a media term is overused. The term retains its meaning despite that fail.
There still needs to be an enemy.
Customers, clients, users, etc. are not enemies, they're buddies which the corporations want to turn into lovers.
Yes really.
It's not a war. War involves the other party being an enemy.
Yes, I stopped pre-ordering. As a matter of fact, I stopped buying AAA games at full price. I give them time to mature now :)
I feel the same about Starcraft and CS:GO :)
I don’t know who is more full of crap at this point, Sean or the author.
It's a tie.
Back in the day guys like Peter Molyneux were just the same, massively over-promising and under-delivering.
There's a difference.
Black and White was received very well at release. it was, indeed, an excellent game. It won a Guiness World Record - that's gotta account for something.
Black and White 2 was a bit worse but still a nice game, full of feature.
Fable 3 was an excellent game as well, albeit its PC port was a bit crappy (most PC ports are like that).
While it's true that Molyneaux overpromised, if I'd make an analogy it would be:
Peter Molyneaux promised a rocket ship and delivered a Ferrari;
Sean Murray promised a sports car and delivered a carriage.
Big difference.
I am one of the few (and I am not proud of it, quite the contrary) who aren't affected by rosy retrospection.
When the Internet was young, it was difficult to access, difficult to use and didn't have much value outside of niche use(r)s.
MUDs were "multiplayer notepad" of sorts, and they were awesome because they were "the new thing". After a while, they stopped being that. It is debatable whether their replacement was an "improvement" or not. The best of them were very difficult to improve, even through adding multimedia files (images, audio, video,later 3D etc) - but this is valid for anything: it's difficult to improve something that is very good.
Legal action over false game advertising, heh, good luck with that.
Of course, death threats are retarded but legal action doesn't work either.
I was one of the suckers who preordered it at full price months before it was released. gog.com refunded me in wallet money even though I had played it for 27 hours, on an exception basis, because of the scandal around the game. I thanked them for that and spent more on their platform.
Steam wouldn't do that, Sony wouldn't do that. But gog, man, they rule.
(personal opinion, not a gog shill. I don't care where you buy from.)
I'm an Average Joe in terms of mobiles. No clue what "Google Apps Bundle" contains.
Anyway, I took a look at all Google-provided apps on my phone:
- Authenticator: can uninstall
- Drive: can't uninstall
- GMail: can't uninstall.
- Google: can't uninstall.
- Google Play Games: can uninstall
- Google Play Music: can't uninstall
- Google Play Services: can't uninstall
- Google Play Store: can't uninstall.
- Google text-to-speech engine: can't uninstall.
- Hangouts: can't uninstall.
- Keep: can uninstall
- Maps: can't uninstall.
- Photos: can't uninstall
- Sheets: can uninstall
- Youtube: can't uninstall.
Can uninstall: 4
Can't uninstall: 11
Total: 15 apps.
Sundar Pichai, you owe me 1100 dollars.
My older son was sick, went through two major surgeries and a few minor ones, had stents inside him for 18 months (he's yet to receive a phone but uses computers). I had a choice: keep him still through coercion or provide him with the best possible form of entertainment. Between watching TV and playing computer games, I chose to offer him the latter.
He's better now and we go out for at least 2-3 hours a day, but he's still pretty hooked on PC gaming. I know it's not great and working on reducing his gaming time.
So yeah, my older son is a bit special, albeit not in a good way.
How about this. Sundar Pichai to give me 100 dollars for each app which comes preinstalled on my phone and I can't uninstall?
I'll be a rich man in no time.
If it only were that easy.
Yeah, maybe YOU were successful, it doesn't mean your methods (whichever they were) can be applied to every child out there. There will always be objective factors which would prevent your methods from being successful.
It is a problem when you can't switch from one behavior to the other.
If you can't for the life of you stay still for 5 minutes while in the middle of an important exam, that's the problem right there.
Kind of what Mr. Bean does in church... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Oh noez, they should do something about it, this is preposterous, tip a sports columnist or something.
Outdoor playing only fucks up matches for certain sports.
Also, 50 years ago a football player had up to 5 seconds between receiving the ball and being attacked by an opponent, giving him plenty of time to figure out what the fuck should he do with it (keep, pass, advance, dribble, shoot, etc). today, that timeframe has reduced to an average of 0.5 seconds. That's what changed the game, not wherever the hell it's being played.
Oblig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
#1: flopping.
#2: covertly injuring an opponent when the referee isn't looking
#3: provoking an opponent (through swearing, racist calls, spitting, offensive gestures) when the referee isn't looking
etc.
The problem with this game is that it is so much about the money now that fair play has completely disappeared. Virtually ALL players are cheaters now, andd they receive intensive training on how to cheat better, especially when the match stakes are high.
It's no longer about winning a tournament or a cup, it's about the money that comes with that achievement.