rikudou

Wow, really good requests! I'm saving this comment to implement later.

In elementary school I was doing a paper on Al Capone and there was the section with his early days which included "like every young boy he liked jerking off."

Most likely true, though the sources were missing.

The youngest millennials are currently 30, also past the age when one usually starts working as a lawyer.

This, but unironically.

Additionally, it's not true at all. Like, when I was a junior dev, everything was new and hard. Now I do stuff much harder than was the hardest I did back then.

Yep. For example during the Soviet occupation here, the Colorado potato beetle got imported here somehow and given it doesn't have any natural predators, it destroyed potatoes like crazy.

Well, guess what? According to Soviet propaganda it was intentionally done by Americans to destroy our "paradise" and our food.

Everything bad that happened was because the evil imperialists worked against our paradise.

The country being so poor it couldn't afford enough toilet paper for its citizens? Westerners! All foreign fruit being very scarce and people standing in long lines to get it, while the ones in the back knew they probably aren't getting any today? Also westerners' fault. Meat being available only for the few lucky ones who came early, or were friends with the butcher? Yep, this one's on westerners too.

Propaganda is not the usual over-the-top stories, it's subtle. Would you today believe if someone told you that Americans have imported the Colorado potato beetle intentionally? And would you, if it was consistent with everything you've heard since you were a kid?

Seems it's currently 48 hours week according to the article.

You don't. If it was as simple, no one would smoke. If tobacco didn't give you something extra, your body wouldn't crave it.

I split the problem into two parts in my previous comments:

• Memory Match games are good for cognitive abilities
• Screens either are or are not bad for intellectual abilities, depending on the study you choose to believe

So it all depends on what you believe has a bigger impact even if you're in the "all screen time is bad" camp. Anyway, I know I'm not gonna convince you and you're not gonna convince me. It's not like I never read anything and decided that I'll base my opinions on my feelings only.

I'm a firm believer that the problem is with parents not setting healthy boundaries for screen time, not the fact that a screen is showing some pictures.

Thanks for the kind words! This app (like pretty much everything open source I ever did) stemmed from needing an app like that but not finding any and every little "Contains ads" in the Play Store listing made me a little sadder that vultures are trying to attack even the most vulnerable.

The only other good one I found had a different problem, a good old greediness (every theme was a separate app, each unlocked with an in-app purchase, meaning you cannot buy once and use on all family member's devices, the unlock was $2, but multiply it with 4 apps and 4 devices and it gets quite expensive for such a simple game). I'm fine with that in general, but given I'm a developer, I decided to offer people a better alternative.

So yeah, I believe in it and I'm glad someone sees it that way.

Seriously, thanks, I think it's been quite a while since some online stranger said something so nice to me!

And other studies have shown that moderate screen time doesn't impair them. And that games can improve intellectual abilities has been known for millennia, with studies proving it.

And as is the case for pretty much everything, there's more than one angle. Being the "weird kid" who doesn't know what their schoolmates are talking about when they reference the latest popular show is not all the rage it might seem.

Eh, everything is about the quantity, afaik. If you let your kid watch TV/phone every day for a few hours, you've got a problem.

If you limit it and watch your kid, it's fine. At least as far as I can see, anyway.

Some researches tend to agree with me (well, the other way, really, I agree with them), while others don't.

But one thing all researches I've read agree on is that passive screen time (TV, YouTube etc.) is bad, so I think that something that boosts memory and helps with cognitive abilities is much better. And that's why I built this game.