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Penny Arcade - Comic
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Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Well, yeah, but I wonder if you've never had children. It's a complicated situation for which easy answers are usually just uninformed opinions, let me just say that. The last thing you need to have to work on when trying to wrangle two kids is to also lock down all your systems better than most of the corporate world.
The only good thing is that kids think they're the smartest one in the room much earlier than they actually are, so it's usually easy to catch them when they're young. Clever teens are a bitch to stop though. The thinking capacity and build of an adult, with none of the experience to explain why their brilliant ideas won't work. Good fucking luck.
Yup.
Every system/device that's locked is one more that they'll need unlocked at the moment that is least convenient.
Also I think it's easier than ever for our children to steal from their parents. Only now video game companies are actively attempting to temp children to this life of crime.
Yeah, that second sentence is redundant. The thing about kids is that they don't really work nearly as logically as you would want, especially at younger ages. Plus they have almost zero concept of money from a practical standpoint, what with not having a job and bills and such. I mean, yeah, it's cute, get them to buy stuff. But where did they get that money? Probably from some adult who has a godlike amount of money when it comes to the kinds of things a kid would want to buy.
Even from the emotional standpoint, it's quite hard to explain. At least, in my experience. My oldest kid is non-neurotypical, so who knows how it will be when my five year-old gets his age. The other thing about being a parent is that your experience may differ vastly from other parents. Yet other parents give a lot of "advice" as well.
So what you'll find if you do have kids is that not only did you definitely not have any idea what you were talking about before you had kids, you still don't have any idea what you're doing and nobody else does, either. I think 90% of parenthood is trying not to traumatize them while running out the clock until they become fully human (mid-20s).
I highly doubt he stole his dads password, Mike probably just trusted him not to spend money on youtube and learned that trust can be broken.
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That is a shocking limit and I had to read it twice to see that it really said $500 and not $50 or perhaps even $5.
Doesn't surprise me, Youtube is still trying to compete with twitch for live streams and part of competing is making sure content creators can get paid.
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YouTube doesn't want your wallet to get worn out too quick.
They like a little friction.
Ultimately this isn't that much different from going into your mom's purse when she isn't looking, and it's just a part of parenting to have to figure out a way to let your kids know it's wrong.
Unless you want to call the police on them, which is a whole different discussion.
The caveat is that most moms don't have a purse that refills with $500 a day that they don't notice is missing until they check their account online. Most of the time, though, the issuing bank just reverses the charges and leaves the merchant holding the bag. As long as the golden goose keeps laying more than enough gilded eggs to more than cover that small percentage, some platforms are willing to live with that. So it's a kind of détente.
In the past, when people have called the police on their kid for similar things, it has sometimes backfired spectacularly. Even best case, I just picture a very uncomfortable officer thinking "what did I do in a past life to deserve being dropped in the middle of this?" Sooooo, yeah, whole other discussion.
Just wanna emphasize that last part. A lot of people think that late teens is the end of it, but last I read neuroscience is saying the changes & development we associate with teenagers doesn't really level out until well into our 20's.
Who the fuck is repeating the consonant to indicate the stretching of a sound made by the vowel?
Most I do tops is add a few at the end to indicate a hard or soft finish to the word, "looooooooot" vs "looooooooottt"
If you ever see me add more than two call the police I'm being held hostage
I mean, there are consonants that you can hold, like "s", "r", "v". We don't typically do that, but you can. But I can't for the life of me figure out a way to sustain a "t" that doesn't make me sound like I'm in the middle of a neurological event.
Definitely no good way that doesn't just turn in to a confusing s sound.
That motherfucker.
Seriously, though, he's not stretching the sound made by the vowel, but the consonant. So that makes sense.
Nah. I checked youtube.