>baby sitting my nephew until his mom gets back>he's playing games on his tablet>ask him if I could watch him play >the game literally just plays itself for the most part>barely requires any input from the user and even has an auto modeIs this how most mobile games are these days? How do kids think any of this actually fun to play?
>>731524673they need autoplay so they can scroll through tik tok shorts on the side while having netflix open in the background all at the same time
>>731524673Lel I had something similar>nephew wants to show me his mobile games>it's some free garbage physics game>after every stage, an ad for another trash game plays>the ads are so advanced now, they are interactive demos of the advertised game>instead of sticking to one game, he gets sucked into a rabbit hole every 20 seconds
Game?Based Raven 2 chad?
My nephew plays Minecraft all day
>>731526319Does he ever end up back at the original game after clicking enough links?
>>731526731He returned to the first game after the ads because I steered him away from the download links, but he pretty much couldn't focus on anything at all.
>>731526430Slime Quest 2
>>731526319Kind of concerning actually. As a zoomer learning to navigate and bypass all that bullshit was an important lesson
Why don't you literal uncs load up an emulator for them or something?
>>731524673had a niece do the same, I instead took out my laptop and showed her "sort the court" that old flash gameShe liked it a lot
>>731526910 Lmao he's not playing games anymore, he's just riding the dopamine rollercoaster. These ads are basically procedurally generating his entire gaming experience in 30-second chunks. Not even a short attention span, it's like attention diffusion at this point.
>>731524673>>731526319>adhd is on the rise>"we just don't know why"Uncle Ted was right
>>731527530At least he's smart so I hope he can pull himself up as he grows older. His mom is a retard single mother, he had unsupervised access to a smartphone way too early but I'm glad I'm here to tell him how this garbage works. I already got him off one of those predatory Youtuber-ran Minecraft servers that had lootboxes and sold premium passes with admin powers.>>731527710This shit doesn't cause ADHD, but I think the symptoms of having your dopamine receptors fried and attention span destroyed are very similar.
>>731524673Idk my kid been playing crackdown and teardown a lot on my xbox. He just turned 4. The mobile games he has on his tablet are mostly educational. I hate tablet games because most have ads and are heavily monetized.
>>731524673>Is this how most mobile games are these days? How do kids think any of this actually fun to play?My nephews, one who is old enough to know better and the other who has ridiculous ADHD, both play these kinds of games. Stand here to watch your money go up, stand here to deploy troops, run back over here to watch money go up again, press forward to build your stats. It's fucking retarded.
>>731528137Based responsible uncle. Wishing you never get accused of being a predator because single mommy doesn't like you're teaching her property to think.
>>731524673How old is your Nephew? He might not be old enough to play games yet. I used to hand my 4y/o niece my phone with pic related playing and would tell her to hit the buttons when they popped up and discard random dominos, and it would keep her busy long enough for me to drive or cook food.
>>731525349>mfw you’re right
>>731524673my nephews too. They spend all the money they're given on Robux and then spend it all on consumable items that let them auto-grind for BIGGER NUMBER with even less input
The youtubers are worse than anything. Caught my son watching this broccoli headed adhd slav with dubbed English just ranting about choo choo Charles in a room full of toys. Told my son to turn that faggot off my TV before I go kill the guy
Why do so many people have kids if they clearly don't give a shit about them and abandon them to be raised on this shit? How the fuck are population levels dropping when even shithead nonparents like this are breeding?
>>731528493>turning 4yo niece into a lesbian through chinese dominoesEvil
>>731528764They're retards with no impulse control
>>731528764Everyone has the answers when they're not a parent. I agree that just throwing your kid a a device to stare at or play with all day is shit parenting but im tired of reading or hearing from childless fags how they would raise their kid like a mighty Samurai and every second of every day would be productive.
>>731524673>barely requires any input from the user and even has an auto modeI've seen my boomer grandparents play almost fully automatic solitaire, some people are just able to get satisfaction without having to put their brains to work
It's gonna be funny when they hit 18 and realize they missed out on alot of good games.....if they're intelligent enough to realize that.
>>731528764>Why do so many people have kids if they clearly don't give a shit about them and abandon them to be raised on this shit?This is how the majority of kids were raised throughout all history. Plus free labor. Modern parents actually spend more of their time and lifestyle being sucked up by their kids than in the past. It's probably one of the contributing factors to the great ongoing reproduction death of the developed world.The problem is the easy option is so toxic. Just leaving them to fend for themselves in the fields with other kids might be slightly more dangerous, but it's also a lot more healthy for the kids' brains.
>>731528640Same! I bought the guy Robux a few Christmases ago and do you know what he spends it on? Aura farming shit. I explained to him that he should be buying gear he can customize his character with and take into any experience and how a game you've been playing for years can suddenly stop receiving updates and then you've wasted money. I've learned to give him shoes instead.
>>731529076If you are implying for even a second that you have kids of your own, you are going to leave this site immediately and not post ever again, you disgusting normalfag trash.
>>731529232>buying gear on roblox
>>731528493>teaching a 4 year old the horrors of mahjongWhy would you inflict such torment on an innocent soul? She's not ready yet.
>>731528493>All the nyaggers in my games are actual toddlersGrim
>>731529243I have two awesome sons. I've been coming to this site since 07 and ill be reading bedtime books in 20 minutes. My comment wasnt just directed at 4chan parenting experts. I went to work the other day and I hear a group of actual incels in the break room commenting on modern parents. I just kept my mouth shut before I had kids and im glad I did.
>>731529232Roblox can suddenly stop receiving updates abd then that robux will be wasted money anyway
>>731529650>Couldn't refute parenting advice so he calls them incels on the internetI'll accept the concession in their stead
>>731528493>Inflicting mahjong upon your own familyAnon wtf
>>731529630Amazingly, since she doesn't have a real strategy, she never has her hand backfire on her and give another player RON, so she always finishes at least 3rd place. So if you finish 4th, just remember you're worse than an actual toddler.>>731530525>>731529546>>731528963If she was old enough to understand the rules I'd agree. If I were truly evil however I would introduce her to chess.
>>731529152At least with my nephew, he can make the distinction between trash and good games and prefers the latter. However, he can't really divest himself from garbage like Roblox and Fortnite because that's what his friends play. Social pressure and the need to fit in on the schoolyard play a role as well.
>>731529827There wasnt advice. It was commentary from the three biggest actual virgin faggots there. Yes a childless 32 year old stoner is the expert of parenting.
>>731531772We don't need to have kids of our own to know about parenting. It's enough to have a lot of much younger siblings and cousins or nephews and be forced to babysit them. I have siblings so young they could be my children and got to see 30 years of my parents changing their opinions about parenting and approaches to children.
Yup, my 11 year old nephew had gotten a Nintendo the Christmas before last and I'll be damned if I've seen him play it once since then. Few months ago I saw him watching a Mincraft YouTuber doing some dumb shit on his iPad and I asked him "You have Minecraft, why don't you play it yourself?" his only response was "This is better"We're doomed as a species.
>>731524673>How do kids think any of this actually fun to play?> implying thinking is involvedit's pure neurochemistry addiction, there is no thought involved, OP.>>731528764>Why do so many people have kids if they clearly don't give a shit about them and abandon them to be raised on this shit?Empty vessels filled with the first thing that enters them, anon... And the world is filled with shit.>How the fuck are population levels droppingThat particular line was always a broad-spectrum multiple level scam.The four horsemen of this scam are:"I want to sell more houses but there's not enough people around to shove into them" Land owners"I want more people to give high interest multi-decade loans to but everyone here already has a house" Bankers"I want more people to vote for me and my political party so i can stay in power indefinitely" Politicians"I want out of this shit hole that i've made by my own poor choices, but i don't want to work for a better world, i want it handed to me so i can be a parasite on the ass of society forever" Turd-worlders (africa, india, etc)
>>731532089>"This is better"Fuck you have to help guide him out of that nonsense anon.
>>731532183>Empty vessels filled with the first thing that enters them, anon... And the world is filled with shit.And semen.
>>731532186He won't listen or cooperate. Just throws tantrums, my sister pretty much made sure that her kids never contemplate respecting me or even listening to me.Not my problem. He's a little twat most of the time anyway, don't really like 'em.
>>731532089I don't get this mentality. Some zooms and younger kids try to explain it away with being conditioned to watch their older siblings play. When I was a kid I never enjoyed watching other kids or my uncles play, I wanted to get my hands on the keyboard or controller and play. Nothing pissed me off more than having to step aside and let little shits play.
>>731532078You keep your judgement to your fucking self. I was an uncle to four boys well before I had kids. Its nothing like being a parent
>>731532267>And semen.You're joking but the truth is it's real, because the world is immensely gay, and is looking to fuck you in the ass. Constantly.Hence the phrase "Fuck this gay earth." as a retaliation against getting fucked by life.
>>731532338He's got dyslexia and has instances where he gets overwhelmed and starts crying/hyperventilating. I dunno what it's like for him honestly I've never had that particular issue.
>>731532471Why can't children rate and review the parenting services they receive? Fuck off with your jewish mentality.
Why do you even care what happens to the next generations? After you die, nothing else gonna matter, just let them degradate as they want, anon.
>You keep your judgement to your fucking self.
>>731532953Object permanence
>>731532745Each circumstance is different. Kids aren't all the same.
>>731533042You will never be a man and fathet
>>731531665 Social pressure’s a hell of a drug, especially for kids. You can hand them a library of timeless single-player bangers but if it doesn’t have a battle pass or isn’t being screamed over by some Twitch zoomer with neon hair, it’s just “boring.” Honestly feels like they’re more into the social aspect than the actual games themselves.
>>731528493>>731530730based nyagger
>>731532953The memes, Jack.
>>731524673mobile games are basically movie games for babies and third worlders
>>731529214The natural state of children is to spend most of their time with or around their parents, or other adults that they look up to, trying to emulate them. Saying that kids should chiefly hang out with other kids is retarded. That's how you do truly get retarded kids. Combine that with schools making them do paperwork for 6 hours a day and absentee parents and you have the perfect recipe for empty, rudderless, mentally ill shells just waiting to be filled by the nearest superficial dopamine source and/or radical lunacy that provides some semblance of purpose to their worthless, meaningless lives.Parents unironically should be bringing their kids to work with them and teaching them how to do useful work, so that they don't grow up not knowing how to do anything and feeling deep within themselves on a primal level that they have nothing useful to provide to anyone.
>>731533409>Social pressure’s a hell of a drug, especially for kids.Yeah absolutely, my nephew notices the difference in quality when he plays non-slop games and you can really see how he's grasping at straws to try and make Roblox appealing to me because that's just a thing in his social sphere. He eventually resorted to showing me some dumbfuck youtuber (at which point he tries to convince me via the "humor" of this person he has a parasocial relationship with, instead of something from the game itself).He's very eager to talk about games that he can't talk about with his friends too. His older brother let him play Hitman and Elden Ring, fucking hell.
>>731531665This, by the way, is why the market has pivoted so hard to gambling billions on live service multiplayer games. Fortnite maintained enormous popularity through peer pressure.
>>731532471Lmao calm down uncYou also dont need to be a parent to critically judge parents
>>731532275>my sisterMan, these accounts of single mother sisters who can't raise their kids is all too common from anons here. Never any mention of the father, and they always have estranged relationships with anons, always keeping their kids at arms length away from other family members and trying to turn them against their uncles. Sucks to see
>>731524673Get that kid some real fuckin games.
>>731528493>Wanting to give the kid autism/schizophrenia
Do you think this makes them permanently retarded or do they grow out of it most of the time?
>>731528764>Why do so many people have kidsYou could have stopped there. I literally can't find a single argument in favor of having a kid. Maybe, just maybe, as a long term investment where you introduce it to sports or music very early, and you minmax their diet, but it's never worth the effort and the risk of anything failing is too high.Meanwhile, having no kids means more free time, more money (extremely easy to retire early), and fewer stress sources.
>>731536862I have a similar situation in my family too. One uncle who has two sisters, both single mothers and one of them has a brown kid on top of that. Sisters are praised by the wider family for being so brave and responsible in the sense that they haven't aborted the kids or put them up for adoption. Uncle is the black sheep of the family because he said that a real sense of responsibility is not having children when you can't afford them.
>>731532089>"This is better"Watching streamers play games is like entertainment cuckoldry.Depriving yourself of playing vidya just so you can watch someone else get paid to do it and beg you for money at the same time.I'd understand if it was like compshit learning strategies or you're trying to see how a game plays before buying it yourself for full price, but to actively choose it over a game you own? Just fucking strange.
>>731537213>I literally can't find a single argument in favor of having a kid.There is one common reason that normalfags usually don't realize themselves. They gain access to little people who are stuck being lower in social hierarchy, have zero legal agency and are biologically programmed to love and look up to them. Parents can power trip like jannies, they can drive the kids so desperate for an ounce of approval that kids will sing praises about them and endure any abuse. Parents can brag, lie, paint themselves as the coolest people in the world, and children will believe it 100% because they don't have any frame of reference.
I feel like its too late for my older niece shes already fallen down the rabbit whole of shorts and non stop dopamine, the younger one at least watches actual cartoons that aren't just 30 seconds and plays real games
>>731527530Why do I feel like you're describing what I get out of Internet browsing?
>>731537213>15 year old shitskin shartyfag can't understand the desire to start a familyShocker, really.
>>731537682I thought shitskins were the ones reproducing without a care?
>>731537807Racists can never make they're mind up
>>731537807>>731537869Shitskins reproduce cause they want to have sex, not because they want to start families. The fact that had to be spelled out for you is insane, ESLs are truly sub-human.
>>731532953Boomer mindset
>>731527710>mfw it was actually those damn phones the entire time
>>731532471>The I'm always right type of parentAt least when your kids get older they'll be able to leave and cut contact with you. Don't abuse them too much
>>731536862>Single motherShe's still married, dipshit.
>>731527462I did. They couldn't navigate the file system to load roms. The idea of a file system was alien to them. I'm not sure if the kids will be alright. >>731527710Dude was crazy, but not wrong.
>>731537807It's Tyrone impregnating half the hood. Chudtavious is at home watching DBZ and jacking to anime
>>731539000checked
>>731538770then tell the dad to stop being a cuck and letting his son get corrupted by your sister. He clearly isn't very involved from the sound of things
>>731539148Okay, retard.
>I don't have kids but let me tell you all about kidsI remember being this delusional.
>>731540051niggers have 10 kids each, would you take advice from them
theyre called idle games buddy
>>731534778>older brotherI was the older brother and I can't really remember the time I had games I could play that my younger brother couldn't because it's been so short not comparatively to after. I don't remember ever introducing him to anything that my parents wouldn't have wanted him to play but I don't discount it having happened either. My parents were much more strict about me playing certain games than my younger brother, they started relaxing the more siblings I got.It was my dad who broke the rules for me, letting me play the Black Mesa Hazard Course tutorial level, which freaked my mother out when I mentioned it to her. Apparently I was supposed to keep that to myself, sorry dad. I still think it's strange though, because I was allowed to play stuff like America's Army multiplayer or Age of Empires, my mother's lines for acceptable violence confuse me to this day.
>>731528137>young son of a single mom raised by tablet games from a young ageThat kid is already cooked, load a new save
So what exactly does the government expect to do when everyone grows up to be a useless retard with turbo adhd?
>>731528137>having your dopamine receptors fried and attention span destroyedCan this be reversed?
>>731542689they expect to genocide white peopleit's intentional
>>731542794and then what?
>>731542689Nothing lol
>>731524673I know this post is fake because kids play Roblox and Fortnite on their tablets with 10,000 apm clicking all over the placeGacha autoplay and clash of clan tipoffs are millenial and boomer corr
>>731542842Rule over muslims who will kill them (jews) for looking white.Jews have always histrionically fucked themselves>kicked out of countries>Israel is 20% muslim alreadylol
>>731542842The moschiah will come, so says rabbi schmuley
>>731542902>10,000apmYeah right. Have a kid or visit family with kids. They are fucking retarded.
>nephews visit my place>computer is on, they ask what is it, explain to them>boot up minecraft and let them play, hear them laughing so its ok>ffw some weeks later>they are binge watching yt shorts in their home tv like it's nothingI am the one to blame for this
>>731542902i feel like roblox and fortnite are old news now. thats a zoomer thing. there must be new games that younger people play.
>>731542991>they ask what is itDo your relatives live in a remote mountain village in switzerland? Even the most retarded child knows what a compooter is.
>>731537615>Parents can power trip like janniesI'm not saying you're like this, but you just made me imagine there are 4chan/sharty addicted teens unironically calling their parents janny faggots and shit
>>731543084as crazy as it may sound, their parents only use phones and their smart tv's. they dont use computers at all
Demoralization thread
>>731543084loooool this nigga still in 2010
>>731524673Imma do you one better. >I saw a nephew watching a youtuber playing a mario game. >I went "oh I have that one" it was Mario Galaxy>Put it on my Wii and hand him over the controler.>10 minutes pass and he just got bored and picked up that smart phone to watch somebody else play what was in the very same TV in front of him.How does that even work? I remember a time where me and my cousins used to fight over the controler.
>>731542740pretty easily on paper, it's just do the opposite for a little whileplay/view slower burn, higher investment over a longer period of time with more effort required for success/payoffs kinds of games and mediaor at least just consume less (over a long period of time) obscenely fast paced, bright/shiny lights everywhere, low-to-no effort stuff that tries to give you payoffs to keep you engaged,but this is kind of hard for our brain to do this because it likes dopamine, and will actively try to subvert itself (you) to try and sneak away and get more, easily accessed this is something you have to actively want to break or change about yourself and you have to actively keep yourself in check that said, this can get so bad that it can get classified as an addiction, especially if it hinders your way of life, however that may look. at that point, you'd see a doctor and check for any actual neurological divergency that you need to be aware of and work with
>>731542991yt shorts are genuinely fucked. I remember seeing them for the first time not long ago with my nephews.>Some stolen scene from a YT video that may or may not be AI generated>AI voice about needing to click the like button>Some random shit on the other side like a ball bouncing around or some random task being done>It ends and they just scroll to the next oneI was genuinely wondering if they were sentient at the time. They aren't even actively paying attention it was making them retards in real time.Only time they pay attention is for deals on vbucks or robucks where I need to tell them that it's a scam and they'll lose their accounts.They couldn't even tell the same scam video popped up three times while they were scrolling.
>>731530730A brilliant strategy. If you have no idea what you're doing your opponent can never figure you out.
>>731543092The kids are gonna be alright
>>731542969i'm sorry your offspring is retarded anon. watching my nephew play roblox or minecraft on ipad, and he's doing shit at lightning speed.
>>731529076Just read to your kids lol
>>731528764The mom and dad were bored and couldn't be bothered to use protection. Likely the case for most kids.
>>731544620 Sun Tzu would be proud. Truly, the 4000 IQ strat of mashing buttons while entering a fugue state-unreadable, unpredictable, unbeatable.
>>731527710>>adhd is on the risei cant believe niggers like you get to vote
>>731524673Sounds like a gacha enjoyer.
>>731543036lol you wish
>pamtshitting weirdo pedophile uncle thread>if you're an actual father, you're a normie piece of shitCool thread
>>731529076I'm giving my kid a computer before I'd even consider even giving him a smart phone
>>731540051I was a kid once
>>731548505WHAT?!
>You're just old anon>Older generations felt frustrated at what you liked as well>It'll pass anonYeah sure, surely things haven't gotten worse at all
>>731541441Not him but parenting is something you need to experience really. What you think will happen or play out with children is often the opposite so you're hypothetical plans are really meaningless. Not you but some people think because their dad fucked up with them, that they just d the opposite of what their dad did. In reality, they're likely to make the same mistakes
>>731528493Probably in gold before me too. Fuck me.
>>731528764It was the same with you. You just were lucky to not born in this digital hellscape.
>>731540051My youngest sibling is 17 years younger than me, so maybe I know a bit more about parenting than you do
>>731548930You should have been out of the house when he was 1 so you probably dont. Grown manbabies really dont know shit.
It’s some sort of undiagnosed mental disorder where people feel accomplished for delegating. How can you get any satisfaction from clicking a few times then it doing the rest I dunno.
I remember how, many years ago, during summer break when I was spending it at grandparents house, I was visited by my then 11 year old or something nephew (I was 20 or something back then). Oldups told me to show him some games but I had only few with me but still, showed him C&C 3 I was replaying at this point. He was mesmerized despite rather getting his ass kicked. I was showing him how to use shortcuts instead of just mouse and use attack move command. Later showed him AoE II and he liked it even more so I bought him a copy of AoE I + II set.He actually played it for quite some time, only stopped due to pressure from his classmates that preferred Call of Duty. But these were good memories.
>>731529232You do know gear is universally banned now right
>>731548269this bahahahahahahahahahadont forget that the 30 year old millennial khvs also daydream about fucking zoomettes daily
>>731549142us boomer forgets about the 2008 housing crisis
>>731543371Someone else failing doesn't matter as the video will progress anyway. They don't have the skillset to play the game yet, so they'll fail but learning from failure isn't an automatic process. Now they'll need to learn to progress, but failure as a part of the hobby has been severely limited or monetized (i.e. watch an ad or p2w) so this is an unfair and boring roadblock to them.
>"[These are] the sort of people who, for example, might want to watch a movie. They might want to go to Disneyland," he said.>"Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me it's kind of a pathetic thing. They do not know how interesting it is if you move one step further and try to challenge yourself [with more advanced games]."
>>731524673Reported you to CPS, enjoy your pedo charges
>>731543371Learned helplessness.Basically, these kids grow up on games where you can't lose, and so when they play a game where they do lose, they think it's broken.
>>731524673My nephew is 6 and just sits on his iPad all day. He isn't bright enough to plug in the charger by himself and apparently hasn't mastered the art of jumping AND moving in Roblox, and began crying and throwing a tantrum because of it. Kids really shouldn't be allowed to have these kinds of devices. We tried to warn my brother and SIL in advance but they didn't listen.
>>731534506The industrial revolution has been a disaster. We were better off when the father worked at home alongside his children and didn't commute to work every day working in some shitty plant or in a coal mine.
>>731528764>Why do so many people have kids if they clearly don't give a shit about them and abandon them to be raised on this shit?Nature (or God if you believe in him) made sex pleasurable to incentivize animals to breed, and most humans have low impulse control. Also historically children have been used as a retirement plan, as you can condition them to take care of you in your old age.
>>731551561Sex feels like nothing
>>731542689Democide. You'll be worked until your body breaks down, then your physician will recommend assisted suicide or maybe the government will go full mask off and just force it on you instead.
>>731551085>you either strongly prefer games>or watching movies, TV series and negroballAnyone ITT breaks this pattern?
>>731551347That's a half-baked dough
>>731551347I was playing Sonic when I was 3 and getting tilted about the barrel, I don't think I'll ever comprehend how fucking stupid kids are these days after having literally anything they could ever want at their fingertips since birth, so they avoid anything painful.
Go to a family reunion. Cousins are annoying and have mixed raced little shits. They don't know about Roblox yet. Buy them some gift cards for it when I go up to the store for more alcohol. Install it on their tablets. Before I leave their parents are already screaming at them for playing it.
>>731551382It's just that before, 8 out of 10 children died.
>>731524673Stop being a dumb fagget and show him better games, you have to pretend that game is better than whatever brainrot that kid is playing, that's how you save them from jewish brainrot.Its lobotomizing the kid at an early age, they'll be retarded as zoomers and lose grasp on reality.
>>731551920Unless the game is more psychologically abusive they'll just go back to whatever skinner box they were playing before.
>>731528764Most parents now and probably throughout history never actually wanted to be parents in the first place, they just accidentally stumble into it since they were just too dumb or had extremely poor impulse control to avoid having a kid which is fucking saying something about modern parents, they have every contraceptive given to them on a silver platter with almost 0 social stigma attached yet they STILL end up with kids they don't want. In the modern age its probably harder to be a good (not a decent) parent though, since everything in the world is designed to be as predatory as possible for children and adults alike.As for people actively breeding less than before I would attribute that to three things:>Extremely easy access to contraceptives for both sexes, even being able to cancel pregnancies as a last resort with almost no social consequences influencing decisions around fertility and parenthood>People have actually been getting "smarter" over the last 100 years so they now understand the positives and negatives of parenthood more clearly>The social contract around parenthood was broken sometime around when the baby boomers were born, no more positive reinforcement loops around parenthood since everyone's childhood was more or less filled with neglect and social stability problems
>>731526319I remember my nephew was like that years ago.Then Fortnite dragged him away from it.Never expected to sing the praises for Fortnite, but this is an undeniable good thing that the game did.
>>731526319>>the ads are so advanced now, they are interactive demos of the advertised gameWe already had that like 15 years ago, when flas was still a thing
>>731552047>Most parents now and probably throughout history never actually wanted to be parents in the first placeYeah sorry about your parents, but maybe stop saying stupid shit?
>>731542991same, i got minecraft on my tablet so he could play but he'd rather watch roblox/minecraft videos on yt
>>731552721It's cute you act like most people aren't just slaves to their biological impulses hard coded into us to breed
I'm playing underailed with my nephew. We keep loosing around 400, I believe this happens because by then his brain is fried and I'm super bored
>>731552882That's right bro, you're so deep and cool.
>>731527710ADHD doesn't exists
>>731542991Shorts are incredibly fucked. I caught myself scrolling through them whenever a friend sent me one. It's like crack.I installed some addon to block them and haven't looked at a single one since then.I can't imagine how much this stuff fucks up kids that get hooked on them.
>>731552721>yeah MY parents wanted me, they said so
>>731524673Yes, children's video games are almost like toys nowadays. It's not like it used to be, where children had to play Mega Man, or Contra, or some impossible shoot 'em up at the arcade, and they played out of sheer stubbornness.
>>731543185no, this time it's actually an insight thread on how future gaming audience is developing, we must cease being lazy motherfuckers and tell our kids about all the good stuff they're missing out on
I remember I was using Gamesharks and shit when I was 9.I'm curious the hoops one has to go through to learn how to pirate or bypass shit. Do you basically need somebody in your life to even teach you it's possible, let alone do it?
>>731532089Yup, my 51 year old dad had gotten a football the Christmas before last and I'll be damned if I've seen him play it once since then. Few months ago I saw him watching a football player doing some dumb shit on his TV and I asked him "You have a football, why don't you play it yourself?" his only response was "This is better"We're doomed as a species.
>>731554723>Do you basically need somebody in your life to even teach you it's possible, let alone do itYoutube does all the teaching nowadays, hell, that's how I myself learnt how to pirate games on pirate bay 22 years ago
>>731554821ok zoomc
>>731554723There are some tutorials on youtube and subreddits for piracy, that was never the problem. The problem is zoomers are scared of pirating because of malware/FBI or worse, they genuinely believe it is stealing and they gave a moral obligation to pay $70+tip for everything
>>731524673>Nephew has a tablet but can only play educational games or this roblox-alike with no chat tied to his school ID>Every time I babysit I bring my switch and even though he's not very good yet he fucking LOVES Streets of Rage 2. Can't get enough of it.>He also really likes Mario Odyssey and is slowly learning how to control and platform in 3D spaceSorry for your lots, OP.For his 8th birthday I'm thinking about making him an emulator box with a pi.
>>731555287>I'll make my nephew that one weird kid
>>731555687Oh he was always going to be. Extreme ADHD and 99th percentile IQ.
>>731524673>WHAAAAAAAA WHY DON'T ALL CHILDREN PLAY SOULSLOP AND OTHER ''''''''''''''''''REAL""""""""""""""" VIDEOGAMESretard
>>731554821If you play football yourself a few times a month, I get watching it can be fun. You get to see higher level play than you can manage and appreciate it. But if you ONLY watch football, and don't practice it, you are a sports cuckold.
>>731528137>This shit doesn't cause ADHD>proceeds to describe adhd
>>731526319Between this and shit like tiktok, no wonder they all have ADHD.
>>731543840>>731554125I have had them blocked ever since I opened them once and spent 6 hours straight just scrolling. Afterwards, I felt like I was in withdrawal. Genuinely devilish shit.
>>731554131>parents want a child>get twinsNo, they did not "want" me, but I'm not over here pretending the reason people have children is mostly by accident like a retard.
>>731526319>warioware for zoomers>it's literal ads for other gamesI can't express how sad this is.
>>731556793Alright, here we go.ADHD is not just LOL NO DOPAMINEThere are lower levels of dopamine in general, certainly, but research has shown that the actual attention issues are NOT dopaminergic in nature as was once thought. Stimulants are not directly treating the ADHD.In ADHD patients there is something that essentially causes their focus to be all-or-nothing. When the brain is panicked or views a task as rewarding (ie there is a dopamine increase when you go to BEGIN the task - dopamine is a primer) the ADHD patient is pushed into a state of hyperfocus. This is the actual nature of ADHD, unfocused and hyper focused being the two modes instead of there being a spectrum.Stimulants "treat" ADHD by flooding the system with Dopamine so that nearly any task can invoke hyperfocus.
>>731555687These days "that one wierd kid" is the kid who has both of his biological parents hapily married to one another, shows no signs of being gay or a commie and is not under a fuckton of medication for fake mental problems.
>>731557623Guy making the pi for my nephew hereFuck off retard I don't need or want your help
>>731557623thisSad times ahead
>>731526319>>the ads are so advanced now, they are interactive demos of the advertised gameI can almost guarantee that these aren't actually demos. For some reason mobile game developers make demos that are completely unrelated and more fun than the actual game.If you remember all those ads for Evony with the platform/ physics puzzles and then the gameplay is just one of those shitty p2w fake mobile "RTS" games where it takes 72 irl hours to upgrade your guild hall so you can promote footsoldiers to level 2 and increase their damage by 0.1 points.
>>731536862Having a sister is effectively equivalent to being an indentured cuck.
>Visit family for Christmas >See my niece playing on her tablet>Games are exactly as you describe>Just drag and drop thing on thing>Give her my switch>Let her play Mario Odyssey >Not even 10 minutes go by>"This is boring!">Goes back to cleaning Elsa's teeth or some shitIf you thought zoomers only playing their preferred live service was ruining gaming gen alpha is going to be even worse.
>>731530730>Anon's niece 15 years later
>>731542902I must agree with anon here. Alpha and very late zoomers (2010 and after) are addicted to Roblox and fortnite. Of course, there exists the vegetables who do nothing but watch tiktok. A generation of screen addicted extremes.
Phones aren't the inherent issue it's the people exploiting them like this. Unironically making brainrot like Elsagate needs to be death penalty for the betterment of mankind.
>>731561536It's mostly brown kids who watch that stuff. Not being racist just observing.
>>731562340My 2 white nephews watch that crap too.
>>731528764https://youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA
>>731528493>turning your niece into a tech slaveWhy
>>731534174Is this Genshin?
>>731548698Maybe that's because you >>731540051 neglect outside perspectives in the first place dumbass.
>>731557221It IS mostly by accident, if you were actually mature enough to hold a conversation with you'd notice that most people say three things about being a parent:>I wasn't ready for when it happened or what it meant>I learned to like it and made it work>When I look back at it I recognize that it made me a better person and that the only regrets I have about it is that I didn't do it betterMost people don't set out to be parents specifically, some do but they are in the minority, most just stumble into being one regardless of motivation to be one. It's not even a recent thing, read any literature from any time in human history and it will tell you the same thing, that most kids literally just happen by circumstance unless parenthood is instilled into the generation that birthed them.
>>731528493D-Does she actually understand how to play mahjong? Because I still can't get it for the life of me
>>731562491Do they watch ishowspeed or kai cenat too?
>>731563975Sad if true for first-worlders.
>>731554131>>731552047Oh, being the one that they wanted isn't always the best. My folks' tongue slipped one day and I learned early that my younger bitch sister was an accident. I feigned nonchalance and they forgot I ever knew.She turned out the golden child, of course, they felt guilty over it. If only I could use it against that bitch, would be such amazing getback for being the scapegoat of YEARS of her narc bullshit. I fear for the day she has kids, would turn out like some of you guys' nephews for sure.
I bought my family some decent kids games, that I hope will seed an interest in stuff that isn't FTP slop.I dunno though. The one of them really doesn't like losing at anything, and the both of them seem to have trouble with menus, reading, tutorials, cutscenes even. Anything that gets between them and just mashing buttons seems to cause frustration. I'll tell them "you can skip through this", but by that point they have already checked out.I hope this is all developmental, and the kids' brains aren't all just fried.
>>731528493that should be considered child abuse what you're doing to her
>>731564476No it's like Cocomelon and something else.
>>731551758I've noticed people who grew up playing challenging games can also enjoy passive entertainment media.
>>731565094>Anything that gets between them and just mashing buttons seems to cause frustration.Met a thirteen year old who had never played a Switch and let him try it for a bit. He lost his attention span in the tutorial for Mega Man 11 and the intro cutscene of Hyrule Warriors.I don't think it's developmental.
>>731527710>people responding to this post have no idea how peaceful the world was before ADHD and autism were so prevalent>in fact they think it's normal to the point where you get ridiculed for pointing out the problemWe need a hero.
>>731565002Sounds like you're just a loser
>>731524673Remember, a decade prior (2015-2016) was THE peak of mobile games. Zoomers grew up during this era before COVID, and you can see that the blueprints of their retardation were evident. Zoomers got conditioned to accept mediocre trash at a young age so anything that isn't utter putrid dogshit is considered "peak" and "goated".TLDR: the Zoomers were the iPad kids.
