even if the games suck they can still be an important social connection

my parents never let me watch any of the “bad” tv that all the other kids were watching and this made it even harder for me to connect and make friends

and it also meant I never got the opportunity to decide to understand and experience for myself why these shows were bad

same can probably be said for the shitty mobile games tbh

maybe they’re more predatory than all that advertising directed at kids via tv back in my day but idk by how much really if you’re actively teaching your kids about what predatory practices look like

they have to learn, better for them to understand how to fight this stuff when they’re younger rather than when they get in over their heads gambling on counterstrike skins as teenagers

In the good timeline, multiple governments and international organizations launch peertube servers.

Probably not this timeline though.

*steamdb browser extension

not steam itself