I had temporarily reset password on Amazon Prime without entering new one, or in some other dumb way left my account vulnerable for like 1 week, and fuckface got a hold of it back in the day. Bought every fucking season of IASIP. ~$200. He admitted it later, but not until he knew I was on his trail and the law would eventually catch his thievin' ass. But secretly, I was kinda proud he was watching quality comedy at age 13 (inappropriate, but quality nonetheless)
Parenting teenagers in this era is hard as fuck. It takes up 90% of my non-work life at the moment. We have 2 of 'em. Do not recommend. 1 star.
Don’t take one’s Mr. Squiggles away or the next time you speak civilly will be at their high school graduation
Has this documentary been mentioned yet? I haven’t seen it but David Choe was discussing it on a podcast I listened to recently and Spoiler: Spoiler Alert The kids escape the detention camp and the first place the go is a gaming/internet cafe
They are essentially gambling, they want one item but you have to pay money to roll to get it, pretty sure Ted Lieu has tried to bring legislation against this practice
As a parent, you do the heavy lifting on character molding before they turn 6. Even so, the hardest time will be around 8 or 9 when the gap between their will and wisdom is the widest
I haven’t read all of this thread but someone please tell me he beat the shit out of this kid for stealing from him
Woo boy this thread got me thinking... thank God my wife doesn't see what I spend on video games. Shoes would be even worse.
You’d never see Randy Savages kid steal $2000 from him. Mostly because he doesn’t have $2000 but also because he beats his kid in beer pong all the time to establish dominance
What are the chances he’ll be able to recoup the two grand? Do $100 loot boxes typically give you $100 worth of skins?
It’s worth noting the Battle Royale mode of Fortnite doesn’t have loot boxes. So if your kid spent $2K on loot llamas in Fortnite’s shitty campaign mode, he really needs his ass kicked.
he'd prob get like $100 for the account, unless the account has got some alpha/beta skins if he's got some alpha/beta skins he'd be able to get thousands for that account
Have him dig a 3’ x 3’x3’ hole and when he’s done have him fill it back because he dug it in the wrong spot, the proceed to dig another hole.
Right now I'm the beta in this situation, and I don't suspect that has any value other than being showered with likes for all my misery. Speaking of which, does anyone here want to buy some likes or trophy points off me?
Unless things have changed the shit you buy in Fortnite isn’t like loot box gambling. You buy static items that you have 100% control over. Tibs is never gonna recoup 2 grand from the account but he could probably get a few hundred bucks.
Oh I’m not tryna give them a free pass on their terribly predatory practices ijs that it’s not a situation where you spend money and potentially get nothing (call of duty loot boxes), I’m saying there’s definitely monetary value to Ramsey’s account that’s equal to the money he spent
Tib if all else fails I believe Fortnite has a forgiveness/refund for 3 items. Should be somewhere in the settings. I don't think I've ever seen any individual item on that game that was over 25 dollars so at best you might can save 75 dollars. This is something that has always interested me so I'll give a little info for some people unaware. Fortnite is probably the most ethical game on the market(which isn't saying much) when it comes to microtransactions and is probably a big reason why they've flourished more than most games. Their system is cosmetic only. Skins, dances, emotes, weapon camps. You can't purchase any guns or items behind a pay wall. You can't make your character stronger in any way. Their model is you pay for what you want. Usually things on that game scale from 2 dollars to 5 to 15 to 20 to 25 which is the rarest and obviously the best cosmetics. Their item shop refreshes every day and will have around 6 to 10 of these cosmetics or dances. Most of the time they aren't new and have been in the shop before. If your kid popped you for over 2k in a month it's very likely he was buying everything in the shop every single day when it refreshed. Fortnite veered from the lootbox system or the pay to win system and went for direct purchases and a seasonly battle pass which is 9 bucks every few months where you can earn up to 100 of these cosmetics and emotes. The loot box system- Most games have created a system in which you earn crates or boxes while playing. You open these boxes and receive 3 random items. Essentially like a slot machine. There has been a ton of controversy on this because the odds for items are not disclosed and you can get duplicated items that you already got which they refund you for but for a lower price than you previously payed for. I think it was Activision who is Call of Dutys parent company that a filed a patent to fix matchmaking for susceptible spenders where they place players in lobbies with rare items to try and entice players to purchase loot boxes to get an item that they only have a 0.005 chance of getting. Its horrendous and a few European countries have banned the practice. The US is working on it as well and iirc I think Marco Rubio is big in pushing for a ban of it believe or not Pay to win system. The pay to win system is the worst. Basically games will lock better guns, better items, better abilities behind a paywall. Essentially making it where a player that pays for a bunch of stuff is better than the players that don't. Its egregious and is starting to fade out a good bit in console/pc games due to a lot of backlash. I'd look into Star Wars battlefront 2 as an example. I think at a certain point that had Darth Vader behind a paywall of like 800 dollars. There was a huge boycott that effectively killed the game before it launched so companies have started to scare away from using that system thankfully but a few will pop up every now and then. Also Mobile games are the absolute worst most unethical piles of shit ever. They implement all these systems without shame. Anyways I figured I would give everyone a synopsis of the whole thing. Might have been covered but I haven't read the last two pages. I'm glad El Tiburon son didn't do this for a loot box game where he could buy endless crates to try and gamble to win an item over and over again or it could have been a lot worse
Most of the money went to purchasing Vbucks, which in turn he spent on whatever he was buying. But he was buying the $100 packages (like 10,000 Vbucks with a 3,000 bonus). They are very clear on the Epic site that Vbucks are NOT refundable, and that's pretty much bullshit, IMO.
Another thing El Tiburon you cant purchase items directly from Fortnite you have to acquire the Xbox or Playstation currency and then pay for the items. I have a Playstation so if I were to want a 20 dollar skin I'd have to pay for 2000 playstation points for 20 points. You can buy like 100 dollars worth of points a time. I would check his Xbox account to see how much of this he still has accumulated. I would imagine you still have a chance to salvage that money considering you haven't purchased anything with it. If all else fails i think you can convert those points into a gift card which you can get money back from. Obviously not a 100% of the gift card but a portion of it Edit: Nevermind just read your post
Disagree. That point is ages 13 to 15 my guy. They are the smartest, feel like you are the dumbest, they are invincible and can be huge self indulgent anuses