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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

TIL: 5 year old kids play Minecraft.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

Even younger. The touch screen version is easy enough for a 4 year old or maybe younger, depending on what you constitute "playing".

Now I think about it, I'm certain I've had this conversation, except it was cats not cows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Oh, yes! And they're really good at it for their age. They're little sponges with everything they see.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's a whole business, selling skins and other "resource packs" aimed to kids.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago

And then they can enhance that business by turning around getting pedophiles to subscribe and pay for in game credits so that they can interact with a bunch of undersupervised children.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I guess they need a break from all that GTA griefing