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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] games which are totally inappropriate( Fortnite/ roblox).  I want I tell these kids parents WTF- what’s wrong with you?

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I have zero roblox experience, my kid is solidly in the Minecraft camp, but what is so totally inappropriate about roblox?  [/quote]

Roblox is awful. I don’t know where to start but the popular games on Roblox seem much more like mindless dopamine rush repetitive games with inappropriate themes and unmoderated chat functions. I’m generalizing of course, but we prohibited Roblox at the beginning of the school year and my child’s mental health is markedly improved. Not kidding. It was scary. I thought it was harmless because a teacher had introduced the kids to one of the games during the pandemic. I much prefer the Nintendo games like Mario and Zelda etc. that my child can stop without being penalized bc he’s missing his “streak”.  It’s like that old saying, if you aren’t paying for the product, then *you* are the product. Ymmv but Roblox was not for us. [/quote]

My kid played on Roblox a lot when he was younger but has outgrown it now. I think all these problems PP mentions can be avoided with supervision. There are some quality games but also many that are just click-for-reward type things. It's actually not a bad platform to play with your kid. You can help them choose the games and explain to them why the "junky" ones aren't good. You can monitor the chat. Although we did play board games and things like that, when they were younger my kid loved playing videogames with me because they were clearly better and genuinely had to teach me things. I wasn't able to manage the controls for most of the console games they played, but I was able to play Roblox with them. It was fun. [/quote]

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