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What makes a good game has changed over time. Pacman is, honestly, boring as shit now.

Mappy, weirdly enough, holds up well. Bubble Bobble, still good. Mortal Kombat 1, meh.

Some of my favorite classic games, almost unplayable now. Tastes have changed dramatically.

Movies are the same. Very few movies hold up after multiple decades. Some do. But even some great ones don't.

A couple of the UX people who worked on Win8 told me that some of the UX study results were faked to give the desired results that justified the new Win8 design changes.

Def the sort of stories you hear at at a bar after work.

> Christ, at least let the kid think about it on his own and ask questions later! Don't know about your kid, but I don't know ANY person, at any age, that would not feel like they're enduring an insufferable school class with behaviour like this.

Depends on the age of the kid. Started doing this when my son was 3, it helped him learn lots of words for different emotions and it helped him learn to use words to describe other's emotions.

Now that he is older I do this less, it depends on what we are watching though.

Active listening to stories, and actively engaging with media, is a learned skill. It isn't automatic.

I read to him together, a lot, and he'll stop and ask me questions about what is happening in the book. When I'm reading to him and other kids at the same time, other kids will notice him asking questions and then realize they can also ask questions, and pretty soon I am answering more and more questions about what is going on.

> I say this as a parent - hogwash. Fred Rogers looked into children's souls and spoke to them deeply at a nice comfortable pace and kids felt that, whereas today's modern screens utterly eviscerate their attention spans.

I turned on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood for the first time for my son a few days ago. After a few minutes I asked how the show felt. "Relaxing".

We sat down and watched the Music episode together for 20 or so minutes.

Parents can choose what their kids watch and listen to. Ignore the feed.

If you don't give kids a tablet and instead give them a stack of toys, the kids will grumble and eventually start playing with the toys.

Hell give a bunch of bored kids enough rocks and they'll find a way to build a small village out of said rocks using mud as a connecting material.

> Although this isn't a phone, it's a device designed for kids with hopefully some apps that have a little more educational value than the typical phone apps.

HAHAHA no its not. Amazon Kids+ is an endless stream of product tie in mass market commercial junk content.

The quality has gone down over time (amazingly), curation doesn't exist, and discoverability of the little bit of good content that is there is pretty much impossible.

> The discourse on tablets for kids tends to degenerate into a very judgy, black-and-white debate of so-called “tablet kids” vs… not, which I find really reductive.

Some of the kids in my neighborhood derisively called another kid a "tablet kid" because he'd rather stay inside on his tablet than go outside in the summer and play.

Personally, tablet time is reserved for airplanes and trains. We also have a color eink android tablet that is hooked up to Libby and isn't used for anything else but reading.

TV screen time is limited to watching shows together with one of us, or when my son is sick.

Video/computer games are always played together.

Same goes for movies, movies are always co-watched, we sit through the movie, pause and discuss what is going on, I'll ask about why people are doing certain things, what emotions different characters are having in a scene, and so forth.

I was thinking have people from Boston just spell water as waddah and up here in the Pacific North West we can just not bother typing the last few letters on most words.

Controversial hot take:

Simplify the orthography to make it phonic, and then people spell words however they are pronounced in their local dialect.

By hand. I've been gardening for years now and I only have a loose idea what a rototiller is.

But in any given year I maybe plant a dozen new plants tops. 6 tomato plants and half a dozen other random things.

Wait a few decades until your infrastructure needs replacing.

Old water pipes have been the financial downfall of many suburbs.

Odds are you don't have a lot of heavy fright coming through, so your roads don't need constant replacing. You likely don't have bridges that carry heavy freight, those are a maintenance nightmare.

But once all the buried pipes need replacing, suddenly all the roads need tearing up, and that is expensive.

It was reintroduced, in the form of jsx.

Sure there is some embedded JS in there as well but ignore that and JSX is thr XHTML comeback story.

Yeah I've been to Europe plenty. I didn't say not walking is universal, but huge swaths of the US continue to be built out, to this day, with 0 walkability.

Even countries like China have built lots of new car first infrastructure.

Just came back from Hamburg. Everything was tap to pay. Never used cash once.

Maybe in smaller cities, but I haven't hit a major city on my travels for some time now that wasn't digital payment first.

I live in a very outdoors city in a very walkable neighborhood.

I also travel a lot and have visited many places where walking around is just not possible.