Re:Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a ma...
by nicoco on Thursday May 05, 2022 @02:36AM
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I agree with you on something: too many discussions mention 'screen time' as if anything done on a screen was perfectly equivalent. I really feel that playing a videogame/coding/doomscrolling/watching ads/reading/... are all very different activities with different consequences.
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Re:Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a ma...
by xiphias2 on Thursday May 05, 2022 @04:05AM
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There’s a huge difference between video games as well. I wanted to show my nieces what I was playing as a kid, so I bought them aladdin and lion king pack on a Nintendo Switch that I bought for them, but they just want to play Mario Kart, which I think is boring, as it contains so many random elements, that they don’t really have to put in the effort to go through the levels.
Re:Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a ma...
by nicoco on Monday May 09, 2022 @04:10AM
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I agree that there is a difference between video games.
However, I do not agree with your example. Elements of randomness don't mean a (video) game is trash, and I personally think Mario Kart requires effort to be good at. :)
Re:Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a ma...
by unicornfinder on Thursday May 05, 2022 @06:36AM
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Indeed. As someone in their 20s one of my regrets, genuinely, is that when I was younger I didn't just spend more time playing video games rather than doomscrolling...