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Fair, I never played Starcraft- and only a very miniscule amount of WoW, so it was just OW/Diablo for me. I did play some HotS though and agree, they really did it dirty…
I’ve not played Horizon though it’s on my list, I got it on sale quite a long while back at this point. Ubisoft’s open-world formula is definitely very stale by now though, I agree. But the titles nowadays are at least gay, my partner sometimes wants to play AC, and as a history nerd I enjoy AC’s settings, so there’s that at least.
Of a similar age (debatably either oldest Gen Z or youngest millenial) and personally my take on it is “thank god (or science, or the universe, or whatever) for the internet, otherwise I’d have been even more fucked up” myself tbh. Growing up with a cultish, abusive family and as an extreme minority (Asian in the prairies) I feel there’d have been no hope for me otherwise to have any proper pride and dignity or grow into a better person, among other things.
That said- while I’d usually agree that maybe we should vet for kids (and libs… but then again I’d be perfectly fine with this space becoming near-wholly defederated even, probably) this space is about as kid-friendly as it gets. No porn, reactionary bullshit gets dunked on or banned real quick, hell, I saw that post where the 'grad decided not even to have gorier war footage in Ukraine- it’s as safe as it gets. FWIW also- if they’re sticking around here, I’d expect the opposite of brainrot to be happening. That’s a good thing.
Hell, even your examples of brainrot are… well, brainrot, yes, but the kind that could perhaps at least lead them down the right path (eventually). Better that than most youtube/FB reccs, their social sciences/history classes (if they live in the west- my experiences certainly were full of anti-communist propaganda), sermons at the church at bible camp or whatever, or pretty much any western mainstream news, isn’t it? Hell, I’d even say that frankly it’s better they’re thinking than being effectively lobotomized by such things… the internet may be responsible for a lot of brainrot, but I hold firmly to the position that it has been infinitely more beneficial than not all the same.
The only reason I can think of for vetting for minors in this case would be if we had issues with people being creeps. But as far as I’ve seen that doesn’t seem to be the case, and hasn’t popped up in the 'grad yet(?) We have good mods, a good community generally.