PC games downloaded by torrent?

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: Xavier434
Personally, I have a kid that is about to turn 5 and is learning how to read. I imagine that I will have to educate him about the rules of the road and proper etiquette when it comes to the internet by the time he hits 7....maybe even sooner. It's nuts.

I can see it now...

"4-Chan bad... World of Warcraft good!"

Or just show him that Steam forums flash video about proper posting etiquette.

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Also, you can't forget that the simpletons just learn all the tricks from the nerds in promise to not give them daily wedgies.

....he started playing WoW when he was 3.

Granted, he didn't have a clue about what he was doing when he started, but these days he is quite masterful for a 5 year old when it comes to root + nuking on his druid. The game has taught him how to critically think in terms of strategic problem solving and it also taught him to memorize where keys on a keyboard are even though he didn't know how to read or write. For example, it didn't take him long to memorize the hot keys to bring up the map or how to click on the chat window and select an emote with the mouse. He couldn't read the emote he was clicking on, but he memorized the how words like "/dance" looked like and would click on them when he wanted to dance. Now if only I can convince him that fighting the harder monsters beyond level 20's is his key to successfully reach level 40 so he can buy a tiger mount...

Anyways, this is just an example showing how quickly the kids are capable of learning about computers and software compared to us when we were that age.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Xavier434
Anyways, this is just an example showing how quickly the kids are capable of learning about computers and software compared to us when we were that age.

You teach him to write custom batch files on a MS-DOS machine and then I'll be impressed . You're comparing apples to primordial ooze here. Frankly, I don't think half the kids could be even as "good" as they are with PCs today if they used stuff like we used to.

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Oh and if I ever lose to a 5 year old root-n-nuker on one of my characters because I lack cooldowns... I might just have to commit seppuku.

 

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: Xavier434
Anyways, this is just an example showing how quickly the kids are capable of learning about computers and software compared to us when we were that age.

You teach him to write custom batch files on a MS-DOS machine and then I'll be impressed . You're comparing apples to primordial ooze here. Frankly, I don't think half the kids could be even as "good" as they are with PCs today if they used stuff like we used to.

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Oh and if I ever lose to a 5 year old root-n-nuker on one of my characters because I lack cooldowns... I might just have to commit seppuku.

You are missing the point. They don't need to write them like we used to. Times are changing and with it both the internet and software is changing too. They find what they need via download over the internet or a couple nerds do all the work and they spread through the grapevine like wildfire based on demand amongst the other kids. They don't understand why it works and they don't care. They just know how to use it. That leads to a domino effect because the more they use that stuff the more they learn about it.

Also, using my kid as an example was to compare how adept kids these days are in comparison to us when we were that age in regards to learning how to use technology. It wasn't supposed to strike your e-peen nerve. I barely new what a computer was at his age let alone being able to use it as easily as he does.

 

[Naeeldar]

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: Xavier434
Anyways, this is just an example showing how quickly the kids are capable of learning about computers and software compared to us when we were that age.

You teach him to write custom batch files on a MS-DOS machine and then I'll be impressed . You're comparing apples to primordial ooze here. Frankly, I don't think half the kids could be even as "good" as they are with PCs today if they used stuff like we used to.

EDIT:

Oh and if I ever lose to a 5 year old root-n-nuker on one of my characters because I lack cooldowns... I might just have to commit seppuku.

You are missing the point. They don't need to write them like we used to. Times are changing and with it both the internet and software is changing too. They find what they need via download over the internet or a couple nerds do all the work and they spread through the grapevine like wildfire based on demand amongst the other kids. They don't understand why it works and they don't care. They just know how to use it. That leads to a domino effect because the more they use that stuff the more they learn about it.

Also, using my kid as an example was to compare how adept kids these days are in comparison to us when we were that age in regards to learning how to use technology. It wasn't supposed to strike your e-peen nerve. I barely new what a computer was at his age let alone being able to use it as easily as he does.

I don't think it's so much that kids are more adept at it now it's just that the technology is more common now hence kids starting using it at a younger age.

The fact is kids at that age are like sponges when it comes to any knowledge. If you start young you will learn young. I was building pcs at age 10 ( I'm 24 now).

Basically they are just starting to use the more prevalent technology younger and it leads to many more kids more adept.... where before back in the day it was more rare but so was the technology.

doesn't hurt either that there are parents now who are adept with it when that was not the case (such as my parents).

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Xavier434
You are missing the point. They don't need to write them like we used to. Times are changing and with it both the internet and software is changing too. They find what they need via download over the internet or a couple nerds do all the work and they spread through the grapevine like wildfire based on demand amongst the other kids. They don't understand why it works and they don't care. They just know how to use it. That leads to a domino effect because the more they use that stuff the more they learn about it.

Also, using my kid as an example was to compare how adept kids these days are in comparison to us when we were that age in regards to learning how to use technology. It wasn't supposed to strike your e-peen nerve. I barely new what a computer was at his age let alone being able to use it as easily as he does.

No, you're missing the point. It looks like you're pushing that the kids are changing when I agree with the other poster, technology is changing. My comment on batch files was to point out that back then, computers were around, but were not as commonplace and were not as user friendly. Now, they are much easier to use and extremely commonplace.

Hell, half the time you think you're using a normal device, but you're not... it's a lot closer to a computer than you think. You could probably consider most devices a "computer", but we're aiming at a simple idea of one instead of the all-entrenching idea of what a computer really is. Cell phones have quite a few computing capabilities among them and this is especially true of smart phones.

Newer operating systems have brought along advances in graphical technology that not only makes the technology easier to interface with but also adds a bit of allurement. Frankly, graphical intarwebz > text based .

So in short, kids are more computer-savvy these days because the ease of use combined with them becoming a larger resource has made them more commonplace in our society and with the heavy Internet age, they provide even more than just that in which they're now as much of a social tool as they are a work tool.

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And we have sooooo derailed this thread .