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Mother Shares How Video Games Radicalized Her Son To Run Around And Pick Up Coins
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I don't think it's trying to touch on monetisation at all, let alone minimise it. It's just mocking the gameplay loop in Mario and Sonic that involve you run around picking up coins (or rings in Sonic's case) for no apparent reason.
Yeah, I agree, and I think I tried to touch on that, but then it's 20-some years too late to be relevant. Then again, maybe "video games are corrupting the youth" is a timeless trope? It just seems to me more like taking shots at something that was relevant when I was a kid, perhaps for the nostalgia factor, but not something that matters much today.
The gambling monetization is an entirely new problem, but the "{something} is corrupting the youth" is both a trope and an utter joke. It used to be that television is corrupting the youth, and before that, radio. Any new media technology ends up with people decrying over their pearl-clutching, "but think of the children" reasons.