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- RescueTime
- I liked this, I thought it was persuasive.
- Mobile games
- 2017.07.19 - RPS - Playing the games found behind clickbait adverts
advertisers are using sex to sell decidedly unsexy games. There is apparently little or no need for the ads to communicate what’s in the actual game they’re promoting.
A sultry American voiceover warns me I need to be over 18 to play Vikings, before I get asked questions about my age, whether I can handle sex and nudity, and whether I’m happy to wait until level 10 “before I see explicit content.” I haven’t even started playing, and already I feel as sordid as if I’d spent a speed-fuelled weekend in Magaluf.
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I still haven’t seen a single Deku Tree or example of explicit content… I never see any of either during my time playing.
- 2017.07.19 - RPS - Playing the games found behind clickbait adverts