Here’s a confession: My five year old was the *least* of my worries.ĭuring the pandemic I had three teens at home, a school that required internet access for every activity, and even my attempts at limiting junk was thwarted because the school required full youtube access (teachers regularly assigned videos YouTube considered restricted) as well as access to other sites I no longer allow on my home network (which sites would I absolutely not allow for my kids? Post coming soon!). In my last post I shared the story of my kindergartener stumbling on some very inappropriate videos on YouTube. After all, this wasn’t a forty-year-old sleezeball asking for her address, it was her BFF. She later said she was afraid to tell her friend she didn’t want these conversations (not that wanting makes a difference-at fifteen there’s no such thing as consent), and fear of breaking confidences or losing her device that kept her from bringing the situation to her mom. With every message, her daughter felt conflicted: disgust, shame, fear. The messages were coming from her daughter’s closest, most trusted teenage friend. Between the two was a running dialogue that spanned days, weeks.įor weeks-as her teen daughter had been growing more anxious, more quiet, more withdrawn and exhausted-she was receiving messages, sometimes hundreds a day, so explicit, so violent, that they belonged in a hardcore-porn chatroom.Īnd the messages weren’t coming from some mid-aged sleaze-ball who could be chased down, arrested, prosecuted. She scrolled back through her daughter’s public profile, then clicked on her daughter’s BFF. Her breaths caught and the chill outdoors crept inside like fingers of ice… She pulled her daughter’s account up on her phone, and, on a bitter cold December morning, began to read. She knew the name of the website her daughter chatted on thanks to a conversation they’d had about internet safety a few months earlier. The mother couldn’t shake the feeling… It gnawed at her, rising up inside her in the middle of the night as if the Spirit of God were whispering straight into her heart. She’d flip it screen-down whenever anyone came in the room, and always kept it less than an arm’s reach away. She snapped at her younger siblings, disappeared into her room during family time, and started guarding her phone like it was the last scrap of meat in the dogyard. “I can’t sleep otherwise.”Īnd their daughter began to change. They asked about her online activities and suggested she not take her phone to bed. They took their daughter to the doctor for blood work, sought a counselor for symptoms of ADHD. Though I do definitely sympathise with the whole controller thing: that definitely sucks.Her parents grew concerned. People need to be smarter consumers, simple as that. As if I've said, the changes have been a very pleasant surprise for me and as I've also said, anyone who doesn't like such surprises shouldn't buy until they read reviews. I didn't buy this until day of release, thought "♥♥♥♥ it, I'm up for it right now", and forked over my next-to-full price. I personally don't even get my expectations up for anything any more. Many people will STILL feel this is "just a walking simulator with a few easy puzzles and really easy chase sequences". I honestly applaud sequels taking some risks, and clearly, this still has an ENORMOUS amount in common with the first. And then we could compare movies like Alien versus Aliens, haha, so.I dunno. And you're not the only person to complain about that, so.yes, that appears to be a legitimate grievance.Īs for the "different game".well, I dunno, did you like many others get angry about Outlast 2? Many felt that was unreasonably different to the first. If a game is essentially not playable with gamepad, why the hell making gamepad support for it and advertising it that way? I can't comment on the gamepad thing, since I always use keyboard and mouse. If Blizzard would make the next Diablo, but while it might have the Diablo setting it isn't an Action-RPG anymore but rather something like Elder Scrolls and they don't say a word about this fact, fans of this series would have full reason to be upset.Īlso I have played fully through Outlast 2 with my Steam Controller too and never had such finnicky chasing sequences that it was impossible to survive them with a gamepad. If it is not a Layers of Fear, it shouldn't be called like that. They make a second game with this name, so it's reasonable to expect that it's similar the first one, but this is gameplay wise totally different. They create a brand called Layers of Fear. It really is that simple.The problem is that: Then if it doesn't sound like you, move on. Originally posted by rjmacready:Wait for the reviews, people.
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