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@rmattila74 Only acceptable if they are a republican or democrat party member.

@mzan I think there is a bit of a divide here.. like you can treat a child in appropriately without it being baby talk, and there is a lot of overlap. But im talking about baby talk which often even translates to young children in a slightly different way, its always very condescending.

An example of it when used on toddlers and young teens is when they do something worthy of praise and the adults go "yayyyyy and clap" but do it in a tone that is unique to addressing children and very different to, say applause at a sports arena. That is, it always has a condescending tone to it.

@worldsendless abuse is intentionally hyperbolic here.. but yea.

@trinsec I kinda get seeing a game as a book, in which case the game mechanics arent as critical. The problem is I find, as books, almost all games are really lacking compared to real books. Moreover I find them just too long-winded and slow when evaluating it as a book.

Its the same reason i prefer written tutorials over youtube videos. I can get the same information much faster and can skip the boring parts.

@mzan I think you are perfectly fine if you dont use baby talk but still engage in the body language portion.

You can also use incremental steps increasing the complexity of the language without using the condescending tone and made-up words of baby talk.

@trinsec Man I wish I could get pleasure from games like you do :)

@georgetakei Cant they do just one honest thing... just one. The bar is low!

@robryk its a combination of features... It has a very condescending tone to it for starters. It usually uses cute words that arent actually words, sometimes even just mumbling "Abah booba you wittle boopie doop" stuff like that.

@Gaythia In general our children are way behind on their potential largely because we infantilize them.. The maturity follows from our expectations. 2 year olds have SO much more potential than most parents give them the chance for.

@Gaythia there is also just the issue of baby talk being condescending, but yea it also doesnt teach good language skills

Hot take: using baby talk when talking to children is a form of child abuse.

@mike805 Yea its no surprise people drifted to a non-politician.. but one who is so over the top dysfunctional is astounding all the same.

@modrobert I dunno I do a ton of C and other non-OO languages and its usually a nightmare for complex systems... Works fine for simple and straight forward stuff though. But I usually work on the more complex stuff where it just wont cut it.

@mike805 Yea I dunno... im kinda surprised they gave him bail even without this comment..

To be fair his popularity is kinda hard to explain.. Id like to think its just the incompetence of Biden, which I can get behind... but part of me thinks there are idiots out there who legitimately support Trump on his own merit... that is scary.

@popeawesomexiii The existance of a mini mum implies the existance of a maxi mum.

Seeing Trump in full melt-down mode and loosing his shit is the best gift anyone could have gotten me... I mean regardless of what i think he is or isnt guilty of, he is a horrible person so I am more than happy he is in full panic.

@Baley Enjoy!!