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I'm not dogmatic about tech though, I just don't care for companies telling me what I can and cannot do.
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Maybe the internet is a different place now but if these restrictions were placed on me as a kid I never would have grown up to be who I am today.
What percentage of these technologies were available when you were a kid? Chances are addictive nature of these engagement driven websites would have sucked up our curiosity and autodidactism to an extent that there wouldn’t be much time left for actually doing hands on experimentation, self-directing our research, coming to our own conclusions and experience inventiveness that come from boredom. I think this downsid…
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Consoles are consumption devices. PCs are creation devices.
Sometimes when you want to play a game you don't want to sit in an office chair at the same desk workstation that you use for your home office.
It's not for everyone, but it can be a heck of a lot less expensive and some games are simply better with the third-party mods.
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Consoles are consumption devices. PCs are creation devices.
Sometimes when you want to play a game you don't want to sit in an office chair at the same desk workstation that you use for your home office.
Since I grew up on FPS with kbm, I hate using a controller for them, so I'll happily sit at my desktop.
But Steam Link lets me play controller based games on the couch in front of the TV. At least until my wife comes home :)
Rules for my kids: If you're over 10 years of age you should know what your limits are. I'm always going to be here for advice and help to get yourself back up from an accident or something that went wrong. I won't block content. I won't demand access to their phones. I won't shame them in any way. I'm also planning on being sex and body positive. Nudity isn't inherently sexual and shame is a social construct. Nothin…
I think 12/13 is about the time they start understanding that some limits exist, not just because mom and dad put them in place.
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Its a dumb reason applied to an adult.
> applied to an adult. I agree. But this was for his kids when they were kids living at his house. If he want's to maintain the no consoles rule at his house later on, meh whatever. That's his business. Edit: Also, what makes it reasonable to enforce this while his kids were young was that he actively encouraged learning about PC's, not just consumption through a different "Magic Box".
I am genuinely sick to death of people taking up arms in some sort of faction war against their supposed "opponent" technology. I see it everywhere. PlayStation or Xbox! PCMR or Console! MacOS or Windows! iOS or Android! Disturbing tribalism. Liking Apple does not make you cool, not liking Apple does not make you cool. Apple produces hardware and software, it is not a religion. I see so many people taking up arms aga…
Back in the day, having a MacBook gave you way more nerd cred than the school issued Thinkpad or cheap ass Dell that everyone had. More exotic power tools are similar. Before I start butchering a project, anyone with a clue can spot my Ryobi or harbor freight junk and know I’m a noob.
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Fair enough, obviously OP has the right to parent as he pleases. I think that my tinkering intuition has led me to many of my professional successes, and this talent was garnered by experimentation with computers as a child.
No disagreement from me. Without gaming on Windows systems I would may never gotten involved in programming in the first place. I'm currently watching what looked like my nephews Roblox/Minecraft addiction turn into some real amazing content creation utilizing youtube as a very real learning source.
It's a preference for quality over quantity.
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Sometimes when you want to play a game you don't want to sit in an office chair at the same desk workstation that you use for your home office.
You can connect a PC to a television (or get a device to stream the game from a PC to a television) connect a controller, and crash on a couch. It's not for everyone, but it can be a heck of a lot less expensive and some games are simply better with the third-party mods.
> It's not for everyone, but it can be a heck of a lot less expensive and some games are simply better with the third-party mods.
This is what I do 90% of my time, I often make my gaming choices based on which games have good controller support
I am genuinely sick to death of people taking up arms in some sort of faction war against their supposed "opponent" technology. I see it everywhere. PlayStation or Xbox! PCMR or Console! MacOS or Windows! iOS or Android! Disturbing tribalism. Liking Apple does not make you cool, not liking Apple does not make you cool. Apple produces hardware and software, it is not a religion. I see so many people taking up arms aga…
I don't really care what OS people use, they might have reasons I don't see after all. On the other hand I did work in an IT department and saw people getting 3k€ devices where I know there is no way on earth they are going to need that horsepower, and I knew because I helped them using it daily. And guess what: it is usually Apple. The shiniest new thing just for the good of their own souls. 3k+ devices for sending…
The power is just the fig leaf to rationalize it.