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[–] 100 points 4 months ago (24 children)

It does feel like the average person has the self control of a toddler.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    I don’t think they care as much as you think they do, it is how the average person would have purchased the game regardless

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Dude, just how much do you enjoy the taste of boot leather?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I don’t understand this. Do something else.

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    Somebody find me somebody to love

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It's more about personal principles and values, not self control. I make impulsive purchases all the time, but exactly 0% of them goes to scummy piece of shit corporations whose board of directors should be put on death row.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    There's an element of self control to sticking to values. I've seen people proclaim like they're going to boycott EA because of various reasons, but then some shiny new game comes out and those values fall.

    Maybe they never really had he values in the first place.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Most people just accept anything as "the way it is". They can't reason why things are the way they are beyond a certain point, and that's well before they reach the point where they realize they are being taken advantage of.

    It has to be a thing that has a very direct cause and effect for them to not accept it. Like COVID lockdowns for example.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago*

    The 'everyone is 12' joke-theory is actually just essentially true.

    In the US, the average adult person in fact is no more literate or 'numerate' than a 12 year old, a 5th grader.

    The average person literally is a tween, in terms of higher thought capacity.

    Again... this is not a joke, it is just actually true.

    Apply George Carlin logic to this.

    50% of American adults are less mentally capable than 12 year olds.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    The entire generation after the Millenials are impulsive and raised entirely on being nickeled and dimed to death.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I assume you're being downvoted because this is true for every generation for the past 150 years, give or take. However, I agree that it's gotten so much worse over the past ~20. Since phones, microtransactions, and subscriptions have become the norm, it's accelerated to an astounding degree.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Didn't even know I was honestly. I guess there is a nuance that comes with explaining a position like mine. It was 100% in sympathy of the newer generations, not an attack. They're so overwhelmed with subscriptions, FOMO, and legally children's gambling like loot boxes that it's fucking depressing.

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