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Very smart people talk about how "screen time" is different *now* due to "superstimuli." This is a very reasonable-sounding argument, but no more so than the arguments a generation back. Indeed, messing around in the terminal or on geocities was quite addictive for a lot of kids.
eSports becoming an actual profession should have shook a lot more parents, IMOpic.twitter.com/g3LbgGcSTt
been thinking about this too, re: trusting your instincts / following your nose. There's this counter-point that, left to their own devices, kids/people will just end up eating candy and playing video games mindlessly and not do anything constructive ever – which I feel is untrue
I will readily admit that I myself don't have any ~substantial evidence~ for this one way or another – but my feelings/anecdata is... people who end up really trapped in toxic addiction patterns, their problem is usually something upstream of the stimulihttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1085421837268541441 …
I think most are still unaware it even exists. Like, for the North American League of Legends pros the median salary is $320k
They'd be in shock watching a high profile twitch stream. "People are just donating money? Constantly?"
Most don’t know it exists.
@cwgabriel and @TychoBrahe have written (and drawn) at length about their experiences navigating parenting and gaming.
For instance:https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2015/04/08/i-spoke-at-our-pta-about-games …
and https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/06/30 … Click the txt icon next to that title for yet another blog post (and the following one as well). It’s all been interesting, and even they don’t always agree with each other on it.
From 1995, and this year has seen more than 2 000 such ads. Larson couldn’t imagine streaming, microtransactions and working adults willing to pay for gaming content.pic.twitter.com/W1BA9TGThw
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