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Re:Sludge Videos Are Taking over TikTok–and People's Mind by raffraffraff on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:25AM (#38948512)
My nephew can't focus on one video game at a time. While he's starting one he starts talking about another, but the next thing you know he's in the play store installing some ad-filled garbage that he'll use for 20s before uninstalling. He asked me the other day if I knew any good rugby games. He has 3 already (one being pretty good). "yeah, I played those". I said "you played them maybe twice, but you didn't play long enough to get good enough to enjoy it". He doesn't really get it. To much on offer to pick one thing. Adding an online store to any video game system is cancer for the attention span.

It's insane. He's only 5 but seriously, it's not a good start. I've told his dad but "whaddaya gonna do?" is the response. At that age I got days out of a rubber band.

Re:Sludge Videos Are Taking over TikTok–and People's Mind by tanseydavid on Friday January 12, 2024 @01:12PM (#38971679)
>> He's only 5...

Wow, did not see that coming!

My nephew and I have a similar connection but he's 30, so my mental picture was way off.