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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 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
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
Me personally I think this is sad because it further cements how little children actually exist in the real world anymore
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.