bandario

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[–] bandario 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am having a really hard time being supportive of my daughter's use of Roblox.

We supervise reasonably closely so I'm not overly concerned about it from a child safety point of view even though the platform has a long history of not being a particularly safe online space.

The part that I'm worried about is that 99% of the content seems totally and utterly pointless. Most games have zero objectives and just centre on some stupid novelty game mechanic: oh, your neck gets longer, or you can be a wolf. What do we do now? Oh, we just walk around. We're a wolf.

There's nothing to achieve, there's no skill involved, no mastery of a game mechanic. It just seems completely without value to me. I'm stuck questioning if I'm just out of touch or if I should try and guide her towards taking on something a little more challenging.

The only part I like is that she plays with her school friends on the platform - they use external voice comms and just kind of hang out...I just wish they would do the same thing on a game that would challenge them in some way.

[–] bandario 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Well your album cover is easy to find, the Punkt phone. Obviously everyone knows what a blackberry was. The remainder of your images...I've no idea what I'm looking at. The top one and blue one look cool, but probably 10 years old if I had to guess. Do you know what they are?

[–] bandario 3 points 2 years ago

I have a Bekant electric lift corner desk and it is solid AF. Really simple and great design, super stable.

[–] bandario 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You can't get a wok hot enough across its entire surface to do actual stir-fry using electric or induction heating. What you end up with is a pitiful boil, not a stir-fry.

Thankfully they aren't about to ban gas bottles and the problem is fairly easily solved.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/285270854893

[–] bandario 9 points 2 years ago

They already did exactly the same thing with Android, and every single day it gets worse.

We don't need to use any guesswork as to where this is headed, their playbook is right there.

[–] bandario 16 points 2 years ago

It's from Monty Python and the holy grail and if that is news to you, this could change your entire life.

[–] bandario 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh shit, Beehawed again. I respect that. I don't think it's the place for me - I'm more into talking about real solutions to our problems, not just getting mad about shit.

[–] bandario 0 points 2 years ago (10 children)

If we were serious about having an actual impact on climate change, we should be talking about how long it is actually fair or reasonable for any human being to live.

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