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Re:Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person by Spivak on Thursday June 13, 2024 @05:42PM (#40675139)
That's a function of the games you play. Online games are a 3rd space for hanging out with your friends. Like sure if all you're doing is joining public matches on CoD or whatever then yeah it's pretty antisocial but hoping on Discord with your friends and playing Minecraft / Roblox / Fortnite / the current meme game de jour then it's a great time. My friends and I currently have a long-running game of Don't Starve Together going.

And it's one of the few activities you can do with friends when you're stuck home on a school night.

Re:Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person by hot_gril on Thursday June 13, 2024 @06:21PM (#40675497)
Oh our main thing was Minecraft. Must be the longest running popular video game ever.
Re:Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person by hammyhavoc on Friday June 14, 2024 @01:05PM (#40682567)
Minecraft isn't even close to World of Warcraft. Several times the billions and been around since 2004.