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I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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As we all know, Roblox is garbage tier gameplay structured around psychological cues to get children to fill an endless pit with fake money bought with real money.

So I banned my kid from it. He used it a little bit socially with a few friends of his. What online or local multiplayer games should I help him to replace it with? (He's 10, so please don't recommend Diablo 4 or anything else that has quite that much gore)

He and his friends have an Xbox Series X|S at home.

Edit: keep your judgemental shit out of here. His whole social group (5 kids he knows from school) got banned on the same day. Me and the other parents are trying to be nice and replace it with better quality games so it isn't just a punishment.

Edit2: Thanks guys. I got him Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

yeah this should be the immediate next step. The kid shouldn't feel punished. It shouldn't be a "you're not allowed because I said so." Kids can be smart and might be able to understand why Roblox is exploitative.

At least this is a better reason to take a way a kid's video game. My parents banned me from certain games/movies because they had positive depictions of black people.

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My parents banned me from certain games/movies because they had positive depictions of black people.

Holy crap, that's nuts. Are they KKK or something?

[–] axont@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

no, just very idiosyncratic white American racists. I don't even know where they got it from. My grandparents weren't racists and my parents never listened to Rush Limbaugh or anything.

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they got it from fox news?

[–] axont@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nah, they don't watch that either. They're very detached and only watch football or movies with Humphrey Bogart. My best guess is they felt some kind of resentment their whole lives because they were always the poorest ones out of their siblings. All my aunts and uncles formed businesses or got moderately wealthy, whereas I grew up on the lower middle side of that spectrum. And that turned into standard American racism.

[–] CharadeYouAreNot@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Watch professional sports where over half of the participants are not white. LMAO

[–] axont@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah and you wouldn't believe how many slurs they scream during an average game