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Love the uptick in Linux usage but Roblox is digital heroin for kids and has a serious problem with PDF files. Any advertising of roblox is not great.
This is not TikTok. You can say paedophiles.
That’s it! That’s the last straw! I’m pulling all of my LMY (Lemmy) stocks from the market and cancelling all advertising deals with Tim Lemmy because your comment contained a no-no word.
I hope you’re happy. /s
But for real, fuck corporate self censorship bullshit right in the c-suite bungholeo.
You’re based(the second part, not the joke at the start)
PDF files? What does the game have to do with PDF files?
PDF is everywhere
PDF files sounds somewhat like pedophiles. I don’t know why verdi didn’t just write out pedophile.
Oh, true, lol. Thanks. Maybe it was voice input.
I don’t like to use the word on social media that is usually crawled. I don’t want to have a specific fedi instance be associated with unsavoury subjects by no fault of their own.
aka, a bit paranoid.
If you arnt willing to use grown up words then don’t talk about grown up subjects. It’s just tedious and insulting to the rest of us to have to deal with playing games while speaking of heavy topics. And does nothing but makes light of a topic that should be taken seriously.
If you have that unhealthy a paranoia then just avoid the topic entirely. It’s not healthy for yourself to feed your own paranoia and degrade your mental health.
Thanks but I won’t take advice from a usanian. You lot elected one as president so you should just sit this one out and STFU.
I guess we as a society will never get rid of pedophiles as long as we are so afraid of being stigmatized that we can’t even call pedophile a “pedophile”.
It’s “Pedophile in chief” nowadays.
Weird way of spelling “Donald Trump”, was it autocorrect?
Vinegar used to be open source before it got blocked by roblox after becoming a hacker haven. The studio version still exists and updated. This is the mobile apk running smh. It would be nice if they open sourced it cause it works really well.
You know, it’s now occuring to me that I have absolutely no clue what Roblox actually is. It’s been around forever, I’ve been seeing gift cards for it in stores for I’m pretty sure well over a decade, I hear lots of talk about all of the dangers and how addictive it is for kids, etc.
But I haven’t the foggiest idea what the game is actually like. To the best of my knowledge I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a single screenshot of it, at least not one that was clearly labeled as being from Roblox.
And while I’m a childfree curmudgeon in my 30s, I do have a few friends with kids that I see with some regularity, and I’ve never heard any of them mention Roblox even in passing.
I feel like I’m in a really weird bubble of roblox-ignorance, I’m not exactly mad about it, but it feels weird that for as big as Roblox is supposed to be that I’ve never seen anyone talk about the actual game, just how big of a problem it is.
Roblox is actually less of a game, and more of a game engine and storefront. You open up Roblox and have a large selection of games, you can click play on. So there isn’t any one screenshot of it, or one description of “the game.”
Yeah. It’s almost more like Steam, complete with unmoderated social platform functionality.
I would say it’s more like a Lego Gmod.
I’m in the UK. Most of the kids I’m aware of play it. I know in other countries in other continents it’s popular.
It’s a platform that people login and can play experiences (games) they choose. Anyone can make those games. Popular ones like 99 Nights in the Forest can have 1 million playing at a time.
The fact you know kids that don’t play it is odd, as it’s huge. Or maybe they do and you aren’t aware. Cause usually all their friends are playing it.
There’s no way it has 100% market penetration.
No. Nothing does. There are about 1.4bn children over 5. Over 200m play per month. If you factor in economic information like those without devices, that’s huge. One in 7 kids. In a class of 30, that’s 4 players. Considering some countries will have low saturation, developed countries will have significant player population. It’s huge. Unrivaled in gaming.
1 in 7 means lots of friend groups just don’t have players. It’s very likely that many children will grow up without really knowing what roblox is.
Roblox has serious issues with kid safety, this is not good
The biggest problem I see on this case is basically the guy on the top calling these “people” an “opportunity” and then go after people that were actually doing something about it.
Basically the ceo is an enabler, and probably a pedo too. Pedos will go wherever kids are. Its up to the platforms and parents to also shield their kids
Ah, so lots of pedos started using Linux? That’ll bring some donation money, I guess.
