#especially since basically every game is online anymore so a hardline ban would be like. only games pre-2015 | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

rohirric-hunter · 1 month ago

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The more I play online games the more I understand and kind of agree with all the boomers I know refusing to let their kids play online games until they hit 17. I'm not a parent, but if I was I wouldn't want my kids interacting with people like that either.

#its so entitled #you just know these are the same people who scream and cry at retail workers and threaten to get them fired #because the store is out of something #and yeah. i would not want my kids to have unsupervised (or really any) contact with those people #until i was able to instill the values of 'be polite to people who are providing you a service'#and 'learn what kind of issues are actually worth screaming and crying and demanding compensation over' (a hint: not very many)#now theres a happy middle ground. my adopted siblings were all allowed to play mmos or whatever #as soon as they were 13 #but they were simply not to be involved in the world chat. at all.#curbed 90% of issues #i heard this from my mom and that was the day that i logged onto lotro and filtered out wc for every character #and it made the world a little brighter #but that might not work for all children #my adopted siblings are all smart and dont like to misbehave for fun #so idk. it works in combination with some exercise of self control #which not all kids have #i shy away from the hardline ban #especially since basically every game is online anymore so a hardline ban would be like. only games pre-2015 #which may not even run anymore when i have kids #but i also grow to understand the problem with not worrying about it at all

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