You might be giving them a little too much credit there.

Isn’t the fuckass app for use with the smart buttplugs?

How is that not exactly what was described?

Certainly agree that I’ve never asked or been asked about this before!

My original thing, though, was that it couldn’t be used interchangeably for fractions or percentages, but could for whole numbers. So your example with 50% clearly doesn’t work, but 3 times more and 3 times as much could more easily mean the same thing.

I can absolutely see where you and that article are coming from, but it takes me so much more brainpower to reach that conclusion, whereas it intuitively feels like they should mean the same thing. And maybe that is because the two are used interchangeably in everyday speak so I’ve never had to think about the difference.

That only works if X is a fraction or percentage though? Because 3 times more and 3 times as much do mean the same thing.

Do you imagine this is a good way of addressing any addiction issues?

But part of the problem is that they’re not above the age rating, often things like Fifa are rated as suitable for children. And ultimately, the ratings are guidance, they’re not rules or law. There should definitely be a push for parents to actually look into it properly though, I do think that’s a big part of the issue, and leads to legislation such as age verification, which just makes things more difficult for everyone.

But how many children are playing those games and buying lootboxes without their parents’ knowledge?

I am absolutely in favour of less lootboxes in games though. They are an unfortunate natural progression of microtransactions, and the fact that they make so much money means they’re unlikely to go anywhere without any systemic measures being put in place.

I guess what I meant, but didn’t go as far as saying, is that lootboxes should be categorised as gambling, as they currently show up in games like Fifa, rated for children, which parents likely wouldn’t think twice about until they see their next credit card statement.

Ultimately parents need to do more to safeguard their kids, but the sneaky and insidious way lootboxes are used makes it significantly harder, and I would argue goes beyond what the average parent would reasonably be able to look out for.

Make it so that gambling leads to a higher age rating for the game, and then let parents manage that the same way they would violence or language in a game. I think (hope) this would lead to a huge drop in lootboxes, rather than changes to ratings, but either way works for me.

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Sounds an awful lot like a rule.

And yet there are no democrat riots. Despite things domestically being arguably worse than they ever were, at least in multiple decades, there are no democrat politicians inciting riots, no supporters storming the capitol with gallows.

So I’m going to stick with the argument that both sides are not the same, and that one is orders of magnitude worse. That doesn’t make democrats ‘good’, but there is no good faith argument to be made that they are ‘the same’.

I defended nobody, I mocked you trying to argue that republicans and democrats are the same, because that is demonstrably untrue.

Sorry, who’s my party?

Ooh, tell us more about how both sides are the same!

One shred is equivalent to three slams.

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