It sounds like you are doing your best to connect with him (I'd have loved for my parents to take an interest in my hobbies back when I was a teen), but not all kids take the stresses of going through adolescence the same way.
... And they're very influenced by other kids, so if his friend circle puts emphasis on material things, it might be that he feels like he's struggling to keep up with them or is actually feeling FOMO, and is taking that out on you.
Either way, best thing you can do is to keep extending that olive branch to him. Perhaps try to see if there's any other hobbies he has that you might be able to connect with him over?
Hopefully it's just a combination of puberty stress and misplaced teenage FOMO.
If you're doing your best with what you have, that's all you can do, and hope that he learns to appreciate that in time.
You might feel like a failure, but you're not. It's not your fault that the tides turned against you, and by the sounds of it you're doing your best with what you have to keep you and your son above water.
Your son sounds like a good kid, and I have no doubt that your situation will serve as a good lesson for him - to be prepared for what life can throw at you, and that financial success isn't everything.
I'm honestly more inclined to agree with longer interpretations, as I'm sceptical that he was enough of a natural at all the skills he demonstrates in the movie to have perfected them all in just 6 weeks
Considering how historically ineffective age bans have been online, I'm surprised that countries keep trying for this.
Telling kids, esoecually teenagers, that they're not allowed to use social media will only make them want to use it more, and thus bypass any restrictions, defeating the purpose of the ban.
It's like CoD being 18+ yet somehow still full of prepubescent squeakers who all apparently fucked your mother last night and have Dads who work for Xbox.
Forcing social media companies to put in place appropriate safeguards for kids who do end up on social media like this "digital duty of care" is probably more effective in the long run than playing an endless cat and mouse race.
Bloody hell, this is the US version of Brexit... this world would be such a better place if people just did the bareminimum of reading into what they were actually voting for before they fucking voted!
Also, seeing the other top searches being about the tariffs would have me creasing if it weren't so disappointingly stupid that these peoole seemingly knew nothing about Trumps most advertised economic policy before (assumably) voting for him
While it sounds a bit defeatist, he does make a brilliant point.
All of this is no good if all the leaders of the worst offenders outright refuse to attend these events and actually commit their countries to meaningful change.
Honestly. I'd be fine with a touchscreen for things you wouldn't likely be adjusting on the go anyways - but basic stuff like the radio and AC/Fans should always be easy to distinguish, don't need to look away from the road to operate buttons. Making basic stuff require touchscreen is inconvenient at best and outright dangerous at worst.
You might not get somebody's POV, you might think it's weird or bizarre, hell you might have no fucking clue how they got there, but the end of the day, as long as they're not harming other people in the process, does it matter how they view the world?
Being exposed to all different walks of life is a good thing, no matter whether it's Tumblr fetishes or real-world diversity. There's a reason that higher education leads people to be less bigoted, and this is a big part of it.
Edit: Just adding on. I know myself I used to be a lot more close-minded than I am now, and I credit going to university with that - as said above, it opened my mind to different POVs and walks of life. Albeit I'm still not quite ready for whatever fetish pooltoys involves haha
Bloodletting is actually still used to treat some diseases - for example it is the primary way to treat Haemochromatosis.
Until recently, in the UK at least, people with this condition couldn't donate blood, so it was just thrown away like back then too - though more recently they started allowing donations to help treat hospitalised anaemia.
When you consider that left leaning folk are more likely to lean into voting apathy that the right-wing, the DNC were fools to assume they had all the left-wing votes in the bag without actually doing anything to appeal to them.
For Christ's sake, Harris got in because people wanted change over Biden, her campaign was for change, yet the first thing she says is she doesn't plan to do anything different to Biden - and if that's not a momentum killer, I don't know what is.
Considering even MySpace and Digg stuck around despite falling into irrelevancy, I doubt Reddit will ever truly die off...
But I suspect that even irrelevancy won't happen anytime soon, simply because there's no slot-in replacement for Reddit.
As much as I like the Fediverse, we're not a slot-in replacement. Decentralisation helps make us more free, but it limits how big we can get as a platform.
You would need a centralised competitor, something like what Xitter is going through right now with BlueSky and Threads. But for as much as Spez is a piece of shit, he's no Elon Musk just yet.
The only shame (for me at least) is that this is a VR title, so I won't be able to play it despite being hungry for another Metro game since finishing Exodus
The people that refused to vote entirely on the basis of the Gaza have effectively shot themselves, and everyone else, in the foot.
There was never a real choice to stop Israel on the ballet, but now with Trump in office, even deescalation is off the cards.
It must be great for these folks to be able to wash their hands of it like Ponchus Pilot, whilst Trump gives Israel the go-ahead to annhilate the people of Gaza.
Them saying that is like me saying Bizmuth isn't radioactive because it's half-life is many, many times longer than even the most conservative estimates for the heat-death of the universe.
In finite time that's effectively true, because the universe itself would decay before a block of bizmuth lost any significant weight - but it isn't physically true, because with infinite time a block of bizmuth left completely alone would evaporate away via alpha decay.
And that's the point of infinite time - to let you throw away time and probabilities as obstacles and strictly focus on whether something couldphysically happen, rather than the odds of it occurring.
Microsoft got the grift of a century. Make Win11 so bad that people will literally pay you NOT to force them onto it! /s
Seriously though, fuck Microsoft - $30 per year to roll out the occasional security update is obscene! They can go stuff themselves with their $3 trillion market cap
Look, I'm not here for a pointless back and forth where we just call each other wrong over and over again, so I'm making one last comment then I'm leaving it at that.
The interviewer asked him to give an explanation for why people hate Denuvo. The reasons are varied, so no matter what he says, that answer is not going to represent every single gamer.
Yes, his major hypothesis being that the most vocal people about these apparently non-existent issues (their critics) are the pirate community who want game publishers not to use Denuvo's software, and as such influence non-pirates who don't see any benefit to using Denuvo (because it adds bloat and messes with their games).
Basically, two different parties are going into online discussions with their own relatively biased goals of changing opinions about Denuvo. [...] He's making the point that pirate groups are the other.
Which is to say that he thinks the ones trying to influence people away from Denuvo, as in those criticising Denuvo for its issues, are pirates.
You grasp that, yet when I say the quiet part out loud that they're implying all their critics are pirates, you disagree with me.
Nowhere in that paragraph that I quoted did I see anything even implying "All gamers are X"
And nowhere in my post did I imply he meant all gamers were pirates. I said he believes their critics are salty pirates, as to dismiss those in the gaming community whoare vocal about thinking Denuvo hurts their games.
Lastly, what did you even mean about burning a bridge?
This whole article is about Denuvo attempting to win back over the gaming community, so them turning around and effectively labeling the most vocal in the community as pirates is (in a phrase) burning the bridge with thr gamimg community they're claiming to be trying to fix.
Clearly we disagree on the interpretation of what this guy said, and I doubt any comment I could make would sway yo on that front, but I don't think it's a very hard conclusion to draw based on his own words.
RPS: Why do you think Denuvo has garnered such a poor reputation?
Andreas Ullmann: I think two main reasons. First, our solution simply works. Pirates cannot play games which are using our solution over quite long time periods, usually until the publisher decides to patch out our solution. So there is a huge community, a lot of people on this planet who are not able to play their favorite video games, because they are not willing to pay for them, and therefore they have a lot of time to spend in communities and share their view and try to blame Denuvo for a lot of things - trying to make the gaming publishers to not use our solutions so they can start playing pirate copies of games for free again.
Yeah, people don't talk like what you said, but they do make implications, like he did exactly here. He isn't directly stating all their critics are just salty pirates, but he sure as shit is implying it.
He goes on to say about the plight of gamers, but stating this first and foremost makes it very clear what he thinks.
Logic-wise, this whole article is about their "attempt" to reconcile with the gaming community - so while I also don't get the logic behind burning the bridge while claiming to be trying to fix it, that is what they're doing.
Exactly. Labeling their critics as salty pirates and dismissing them out of hand shows how disingenuous they are...
Though that's to be expected considering they cherrypicked the hell out of the study they were referencing, then criticised it because the authors dared to suggest that Denuvo was only important for the first couple of months of a game's lifespan
It sounds like you are doing your best to connect with him (I'd have loved for my parents to take an interest in my hobbies back when I was a teen), but not all kids take the stresses of going through adolescence the same way.
... And they're very influenced by other kids, so if his friend circle puts emphasis on material things, it might be that he feels like he's struggling to keep up with them or is actually feeling FOMO, and is taking that out on you.
Either way, best thing you can do is to keep extending that olive branch to him. Perhaps try to see if there's any other hobbies he has that you might be able to connect with him over?