The Cracked Thread

Admittedly, one thing that would have kept me from sending my family into a spiral of financial ruin would have been my fear of my parents' reaction. The silver lining of growing up in an emotionally abusive (and for a few years physically abusive) household!

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I am too stubbornly cheap and I refuse for paying shit I can get for free or doesn't serve any purpose besides cosmetic.

Also, F 2 P but P 2 W games? Not even once.

My general rule of thumb is that if I sunk more money into a F 2 P game than I would have buying a quality indie game, it's time to stop.

I guess part of it is about being tech savvy, I’d never give anyone access to a devise with my debit card info stored on it, but if you don’t realise that such a devise is the same as giving your child your card than the results can easily surprise you.

My mum never just handed me her credit card growing up, if I was using to for something I was coming strait back and putting it in her purse.

Also I was taught basic financial responsability from a younge age, which helps.

I don't understand how the most recent entry on this page correlates to a research failure. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=CriticalResearchFailure.Cracked

This is less of being tech savvy but more of having a common sense.

It's baffling how so many parents don't even realize this.

If I were a parent, I'd never give my kid access to my credit card or any of my devices that have credit card info on them (at least not out of my eyesight).

Instead, if they wanted to open a Steam account or something, I'd set up a bank account for them, give them some money to start off with, and give them their own debit card. Might as well teach them fiscal responsibility early. Of course, I'd also periodically check their Steam library to ensure that they haven't installed any age-inappropriate games and/or shitty asset flip games. No kid of mine is going to waste money on anything but quality games, dammit.

edited 19th Jun '18 7:53:18 PM by M84

I didn't start buying games until flipping college. Why in the hell are these parents leaving their card information right there for the kids to abuse?

I know it says to not judge the parents for blatant negligence but leaving the information right there for someone else using your account does not look good in anyway. It's why I only ever shared my Steam account with someone I absolutely trusted.

Because a lot of these parents probably aren't extremely up to date on cutting edge technology and games, and these games are built in such a way to try and exploit this very issue?

The fact that kids can accidentally rack up massive fees is an intended feature, not a bug.

I have little siblings. My parents never leave credit card information on any of their devices due to stuff like this.

Although I can agree that its blatantly obvious that the corporate has been exploiting this shit since it popped up. Lootboxes, skins, and other addictive features.

@lalalei2001

I don't understand how the most recent entry on this page correlates to a research failure. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=CriticalResearchFailure.Cracked

Neither do I. Looks like stealth complaining to me.

As the Cracked article notes, in the past, there used to be human barriers such as the cashier or the phone operator that helped prevent kids from pulling these stunts. The downside of online commerce is also its upside: it's automated and easy. There are no human barriers.

edited 20th Jun '18 2:50:16 AM by M84

I tend to use gift cards out of a general sense of paranoia. If my bank details aren't linked to any of my accounts, no-one can gain access to them through those accounts - so I buy the credit on physical cards, giving me the monetary value without the temptation to impulse-buy using my bank details.

That's probably the best way to go for parents - if you're going to give your kids money to spend online, get it in gift card form. You give your kids an exact limit on what they can spend, so your balance stays safe and your kids are operating within a definite, unexploitable boundary.

edited 20th Jun '18 6:53:03 PM by MrMallard

4 World-Famous Toys (That Have Creepy Dark Origins)

• View-masters were invented by a Nazi.

• Sea-Monkeys were sold by a friend of the KKK who used the proceeds of the sales to help them buy firearms.

• Rock'em-Sock'em Robots were invented by a miserable paranoid sexual predator.

• Barbie's Designer Was A Coke-Addled Sex Fiend — that is actually the header for that one. I couldn't think of a better description.

Yeah in the end when I was a young child we had to go out and by my games, PC world or somwhere was where we went. We did order some games though a magazine I suspect, but thouse wern’t paid for, I actully tested some PC games as a kid and got a free copy once the game was done.

That’s probably why I don’t like early access, I remember getting the game for free if I agreed to play it in a buggy state and report back issues.

Lego is an awesome company.

Edited by Silasw on Jun 27th 2018 at 1:56:59 PM

6 Underreported Reasons Why Facebook Is Just The Worst

• It has its roots in Zuckerberg's misogyny driven hacking of his college's student database.

• Facebook bugged Android users

• Facebook ignores Holocaust denial laws whenever they think they can get away with it

• Facebook encourages racist advertisers

• Facebook's monopoly on news makes it harder to track disease outbreaks

• Facebook is helping to facilitate the genocide in Myanmar

Never liked facebook. Always been a very private person

I was nearly one of the first people in Ireland to join Facebook.

Every time it's in the news, I'm glad I never got around to it.

I only post around every other day, either on my dog or food.

I still have an account I opened long ago, but I never really did anything with it. I didn't even post my photo on it or anything.

Facebook always made me uncomfortable as I never wanted my personal details everywhere.

Honestly, I see so much dumb shit being shared and so many outright backward comments being made, I don't even want to open that thing again.

It is either going to make me pissed off or I'll spend the time bemoaning about the stupidity of people who share things like.

Women shouldn't work and should take care of their homes - Posted by an female college colleague.

I support this reactionary dipshit - Someone in my timeline.

Durr human rights 'r bad hurr - Another someone in my timeline

Some jingoistic bullshit - Too many people to count.

News about something - blame libruls for it - Depressingly too common.

I’m glad I curate my Facebook so heavily, the only political stuff I get is hardcore socialists, anarcho-communists and a bunch of people from my old uni’s LGBT society.

Nobody right wing would last on my Facebook.

I usually don't add a lot of people to my FB page, though the number of people I actually keep tabs with can be cut down to 6, but I do however like to see the line of thought of different people. So I tend to not filter anything I see in my timeline, outside of some FB groups who were advocating sexism and racism, but even the news and trivia pages I still have to figure out if it is a person or a goddamned bot making the comments.

Random rant.

Why can't these "pictofact" articles show the sources for their entries? It baffles me so much because in the contest proper people actually post their entries with source.

I see that Seanbaby posted another article. About martial arts, no les!

5 Violently Debunked Martial Arts Myths

This paragraph particularly got me hard:

Edited by dRoy on Jul 5th 2018 at 6:04:45 PM