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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Andrew Chin/Getty<br><br><br>A big weird stupid thing goes on when you have kids. A thing where you want them to live their best lives, follow their dreams, grow and develop into their own little people independent of you. <br>But you also want them to like the stuff you like. <br><br>Me? I like [/topics/video-games/ video games].<br><br>Well, I sorta like video games. Despite spending the vast majority of my working life [/news/three-years-on-im-still-recovering-from-breath-of-the-wild/ writing about video games], I'd call it a love/hate relationship. Video games are an art form unlike any other. They dazzle, inspire, empower.<br><br>But video games are also kinda super annoying. <br><br><br><br><br>CNET Culture <br><br><br><br><br>Entertain your brain with the coolest news from space to superheroes, memes to robots.<br><br><br><br><br><br>They're derivative. Desperate for mainstream critical attention, but burdened with the kind of juvenile writing that makes it mostly impossible to take them seriously. Worse, [ decades of being marketed solely toward young boys] has left games and games culture with a misogyny hangover that can only be described as "problematic." <br><br>Do I want to share my love of video games with my children? Yes. Do I want them to become stereotypical hermit crabs, locked inside their room as their bodies decay toward puberty and incel subreddits? Ideally no. <br><br>Apologies in advance for the hyperbole,  [https://inborncricketer.blogspot.com/2020/06/dipika-pallikal-karthik-squash.html inborncricketer.blogspot.com] but right now I've got problems. Minecraft problems.<br><br>In recent years the concept of "games as services" has exploded. Nowadays we don't play games for a month or two, finish them and move on to the next like the "good old days." No, now we're picking one single game and playing it for years. [/news/valorant-riot-games-league-of-legends-followup-launches-june-2/ League of Legends], Fortnite, [/news/world-of-warcraft-classic-launches-in-summer-2019/ World of Warcraft] … [/news/amid-covid-19-minecraft-sees-sharp-spikes-over-126m-players-a-month/ Minecraft].<br><br>That's the dark path my oldest son has decided to take. I regret to inform you my 7-year-old has become a "Minecraft guy."<br><br>He. Won't. Stop. Playing. Minecraft. <br><br>He won't stop talking about Minecraft, either. He'll wake me up at 6 a.m., [/reviews/nintendo-switch-review/ Nintendo Switch] in hand, to show me the armor he's carefully crafted, or the house he's just built. In the car, driving home from school he'll regale me with blow-by-blow accounts of his graduation from Creative to Survival mode. Questions. Endless questions. <br>