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☆☆Kids these days☆☆

So I have a son who is now ten years old, and about to turn 11. He mostly lives with his father, but lately, I have been seeing him more, and learning about his game habits. Something that I have come across, is the fact that he usually will play a game on the easy difficulty. When I asked him why, it came down to the fact that he doesn't want it to be too hard, and therefore a challenge. I have noticed that this trend is a lot more prevalent than I thought. Fortunately, I have been getting him to start actually playing games on at least regular level, and he is dying a lot more. But this has got me thinking, have kids gone soft and wussy these days?

Now I understand that it makes sense to sometimes play a game on easy in order to get the hang of how the game works, especially if you are not already good at video games in general. But when does it become lame to not cross the threshold to a harder skill level. I remember when I was a kid that games didn't have difficulty settings, and they were just plain god-damn hard. It would take hours to get really good at a game, and when you did, you probably had died like a million times. Even today, some games of old are still really freaking hard.

So what are your thoughts? Did you play on easy first, then switch it up a notch, or did you just go straight for HARD? Do you think kids are lamer today than in the past? If so, what are some good ways to teach them that making something a challenge is better than just easily skating through something, and that the harder it is, the more reward?

Well, till next time.

Love Ya❣❣❣

☆Megan☆

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Well, me and my good friend managed to play shit like this when we were about 6 years old. WITH THE REALISM SETTING ON.

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Jesus, this was back when the F-22 was barely just a thing.

As with anything tricky, it's simply a function of time and effort in order to gain mastery over it. If you have both of these things you can do nearly anything that you set your mind to. And that includes flying night time laser-guided bombing runs against enemy targets, whilst fending off Russian fighters and heavy anti-air cover, whilst at the controls of a super advanced aircraft that most people in the world didn't even know about yet.

The feeling once we scored that one-in-one-hundred chance of completing a mission? It was mother fucking fresh banana milkshake time.

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People should play games to have the kind of fun they want to have. I don't get all the hand-wringing over whether or not kids have gone soft.