Hexbear: Wow kids want fake in game currency to get cosmetics for a game they won’t even play in a few years? This is bad and sad.
Me, an intellectual: Wow kids can get the gift they want, get excited about it for 5 minutes, and then throw it away anyway without making plastic waste and filling a landfill? Sounds great sign me up.
I’m fairly sure almost nobody in this thread has kids or knows kids or remembers the dumb shit they wanted, got, and immediately forgot about in a closet until it got thrown away many years later
i mean, yes. i don’t think the argument is really “this specific kind of consumerism bad but other consumerism good”, and more that it’s really fucking awful consumerism is forced onto kids this much in the games they play
I get it, I wanted stupid shit as a kid, but this stuff still sucks no matter how you slice it. It’s a different kind of waste and it encourages immediate gratification
So many people have been conditioned to create as much microplastic as possible. Be it Christmas nostalgia or the physical media radicals who can’t get their heads around piracy.
Hexbear: Wow kids want fake in game currency to get cosmetics for a game they won’t even play in a few years? This is bad and sad.
Me, an intellectual: Wow kids can get the gift they want, get excited about it for 5 minutes, and then throw it away anyway without making plastic waste and filling a landfill? Sounds great sign me up.
I’m fairly sure almost nobody in this thread has kids or knows kids or remembers the dumb shit they wanted, got, and immediately forgot about in a closet until it got thrown away many years later
Me personally I think this is sad because it further cements how little children actually exist in the real world anymore
i mean, yes. i don’t think the argument is really “this specific kind of consumerism bad but other consumerism good”, and more that it’s really fucking awful consumerism is forced onto kids this much in the games they play
I get it, I wanted stupid shit as a kid, but this stuff still sucks no matter how you slice it. It’s a different kind of waste and it encourages immediate gratification
It’s really not that different from giving them gift cards. Hell I think I got Wii points one year lol
I got a stack of Wii points that I never even spent
So many people have been conditioned to create as much microplastic as possible. Be it Christmas nostalgia or the physical media radicals who can’t get their heads around piracy.