switch-up-snowfox:

my-little-ninja:

terran-tophat:

my-little-ninja:

topographicocean:

joekewlio:

azzandra:

crtter:

zabam93:

crtter:

I was in 1st/2nd grade grade when the big Pokémon boom of the late 90s-early 00s happened. It was HUGE. Every kid was into it and we’d watch the show and play pretend and collect the cards and bring our game boys to school to trade Pokémon during recess. I was lucky to have supportive parents, but I remember how teachers and other adults would scoff and say how tired they were of Pokémon, how annoying and juvenile it was and how they couldn’t wait for us to “get over it already”. I might have been young, but I still remember how much these kinds of comments bummed me out. Why in the world are we being mean to little kids who like Fortnite

Why are you comparing pokemon to fortnite???

Because… Fortnite is very popular amongst children at the moment? And there are adults who dismiss it in the same way other adults did when Pokémon was big, calling it stupid, saying the dances are annoying, how much they can’t wait for the “fad to be over”, etc. It’s pretty much the same scenario.

Fortnite has a lootbox system that is glorified gambling, and can cause patterns of addiction in even adult minds, and that is in fact its intended goal in order for the game to make money from microtransactions. That’s how all games with lootboxes function. That’s how they draw in their customer base and squeeze more money out of them.

Like, I don’t judge kids who enjoy Fortnite. My little cousin plays Fortnite.

But last week, my little cousin also stole his mother’s credit card and spent about a month’s salary on microtransactions without his parents’ knowledge.

Modern gaming has become vile and predatory in ways that we didn’t have to deal with as children.

And we shouldn’t be mean to children about this, but we should definitely be coming down on these companies like a pile of fucking bricks.

Delicious.

Finally, some PROPER FORTNITE CRITICISM

Take it from a whale, this shit’s bad

I knew a kid who stole from his mom’s purse and went out and bought packs of pokemon trading cards

It was a frequent thing of kids spending their entire allowances on card packs in the hopes of getting Charizard or one of the other rare cards

Parents should keep a close eye on what their kids are playing and give them a stern talk about responsible consumer habits.

Honestly, if you’re letting your kid play Fortnite, what happens because of it is on you as a parent.

Exact same thing that comes up when people start complaining that kids are playing violent video games and that they should to be banned or restricted

Kids can’t just walk into a store put down $60 for the newest Call of Duty game and play on a $300 console on their own

Anyone that says that they have no idea what their kids are playing is just throwing money at their kids and not raising them

I grew up playing freaking NES games from the Christian bookstore until I was old enough to learn how to bargain with my Sunday school teacher of a mom on why this game was okay to play around my little brothers

I had to debate with her on what evolution meant in the Pokemon world and ended up coming up with a way that would make her believe in evolution from a creationist standpoint

If I broke down and started whining that would just get that object banned from any further discussion

Nowadays I see kids in stores just grabbing games off shelves and the parents are zombies with their credit cards buying them any game they get handed

And I’ve been seeing this shit for years

When Gears of War 2 came out, I saw a mom buying a copy for her 10 year old and the guy behind the counter stopped her and asked if she knew this game wasn’t suitable for minors and she just got all flabbergasted “they have games for adults only?”

“they have games for adults only?”

And the kid was all “but you bought me the 1st one”

Be a parent to your kids and watch them when they play video games and we wouldn’t have these problems!

• Kids wouldn’t be playing violent video games
• Kids wouldn’t be buying loot boxes
• Kids wouldn’t be online talking to strangers, learning swear words, and wouldn’t be sending or receiving death threats
• Adults wouldn’t be trying to restrict freedom of the consumer market in the name of the kids

….. sorry for the rant but this irks me

The videos of kids stealing their parent’s credit cards to buy V-bucks in fortnite is a concern to me but that’s a separate issue then just “fortnite popular must be bad”

slumberinggirl:

libertarirynn:

glocc-blocc:

0ctostim:

Male positivity? In my branding? It’s more likely than you think

I love this

memecucker:

memecucker:

You have not lived until a blog with actual literal porn on their blog calls you a “pervert” and then proceeds to link to sfw and fully clothed FGO fanart of Nitocris they picked at random as evidence

Like this is just fucking hilarious (note how they had to get pictures that I didn’t post) at this point given uh this tag on that persons blog (oh hey look at how that’s also all drawn but uh, something apps.

The double standard at hand is too fucking obvious at this point I don’t even feel like naming it and anyone that wants to say they don’t understand is playing dumb

I got called a pedophile for reblogging Ojamajo Doremi fanart, and it was of course nothing objectionable sfw fanart.

Apparently being nostalgic about a show you used to like in middle school is tantamount to pedophilia.

i-am-a-fish:

elainapoststhings:

i-am-a-fish:

let’s pour one out for all the janitors who clean and never get enough appreciation

Don’t they gotta clean up what we pour out

fuck stop it everyone the post is cancelled everyone please stop fuck what have I done

rootedinfiction:

the-kawaii-princess-hanney:

rootedinfiction:

showerthoughtsofficial:

“Woman steals 99 Dalmatian puppies to make a fur coat” sounds more like a news article from Florida than a Disney cartoon.

She only stole 15 puppies. She bought the other 85.

That doesn’t make it better 😂😂 only worse. She bought 85 puppies to make coats – that’s so sick.

I’m not saying it was better. I’m just pointing out that the supposed headline would have been inaccurate.

A more accurate headline would have been:

“Woman Steals 15 Puppies From College Friend. 85 More Dogs Found At Estate. Animal Cruelty Suspected.”