My tolerance is running low.
It's not genius level stuff. It's very simple. That's why it annoys me that people go dumb on it.
Y'know what, for real, you're being an arrogant cunt right now. I suggest you go examine yourself in the mirror and realize you're not an adult among children here.
You've explained your side before and tried to present a case for this being both significantly different and significantly worse for society than all the other horrible Skinner boxes we subject our children to. I found your case to be unsatisfactory, lacking in both logic and consistency, as well as demonstrating a ridiculous lack of awareness of your own blind spots with regards to this whole situation. Nothing has changed with the passage of time here.
Present your case, present it well, and use a little science to sway me. My field and passion is developmental psychology, so I'm not exactly ignorant or uneducated when it comes to how toys and games affect children's psychological development. If you make a good case to me as to why this is worse for children than Call of Duty, Pokemon, MMOs, GI Joe, Transformers, Barbie, Disney, etc, I'll listen to it, but you're going to have to do better than the frankly petulant and self-centred arguments you've presented thus far.
or you can just say fuck it, i'm not on the bore to take shit this seriously, get over yourself a bit, and learn to love the bomb
s'up to you
I'm not being an arrogant cunt. You're explanation of yourself shows you have misrepresented my side in your mind. I get that A LOT. It's insulting and a sign of disrespect that people don't take the time to understand what I say. I get that a lot. That's not unique amongst the internet, but I do get it at a high rate. I don't have to be nice about it. When it gets past a certain point, I tell people such as yourself to fuck off for you've earned that remark.
Aka, look in the mirror yourself, etc
The fact that people go straight to "BUT GI JOE", (like I said), shows they aren't really getting it. It's about grown adults acting like children (not you all acting like children, but grown adults behaving like a child still wanting toys and using their childhood desire for toys as an excuse to ignore what they know is bothersome), and the ON-DISC DLC being snuck into a more acceptable practice through children. I never said it was the worst child exploitation of all time. No, that's your strawman. I said it's different, and I said why, because it's a trojan horse for a business practice impacting people other than kids.
Now, if you think Activision won't use Skylanders success to further push on-disc DLC as an "accepted" practice because of Skylanders' poularity then you can argue that. That would be great, because that would mean you actually knew what was being said.
