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I’m very against Roblox. I know a kid who had a really hard time with online predators and a lot of it stated with Roblox. He’s 19 now. He and I were talking about it recently.

Parents think Roblox is like Minecraft bc of the aesthetics of the game. But, Roblox is not a game with a chat feature, it’s a chat room with some games. That’s a big difference.

They have 380 million users. Around 60% of the user base is under the age of 16. 40% is under the age of 12. That’s 152 million mostly unmonitored kids.

I’m sure Roblox has gotten better moderation during that time, but in our experience predators meet kids on Roblox and get them to exchange Discord or other contact info with them.

Discord is also a problem here, but that’s for another rant in another thread. If you are concerned about your kids and want to discuss it with me, feel free to message me.

TLDR: DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS PLAY ROBLOX unless you are actively monitoring the game.

What do you define as cheating? Like I might look up a guide online, sometimes, but I never use mods or exploit bugs.

To keep me off Twitter, thank god.

That and the thing where GamerNexus caught them benchmarking incorrectly, then selling off prototypes that they didn’t pay for. It’s not a good look for their integrity.

GN found a bunch of other errors but LTT won’t retest because of the aforementioned selling off prototypes they were given.

Mostly the same. There are some differences you’ll figure out as you go but my favorite is that there is no Karma. I like that people aren’t posting to “win”.

There is some debate over how upvotes and downvotes should be used since it’s not for Karma, but honestly it’s not that big of a deal. Upvotes will make it easier for other people to find the post. Downvotes make it harder. That’s it, more or less.

Welcome home!

I quit trusting .gov sites months ago.

My doctor told me to put my meds in another room with an alarm so I have to get up to turn it off.

Unfortunately I don’t live alone so that doesn’t work.

I don’t understand how my dogs aren’t bald.

DOG. Always dogs. More dogs. I want to pet all the dog.

I treat them differently than on Reddit. I upvote content that I want other people to see.

Bc there are different ways to sort your feed, I want to highlight content that adds value to whoever else’s might log on later, even when I might not like it (news for example).

On Reddit, upvotes/Karma were indicative of your value as a poster to that community. They are more like Facebook likes/dislikes for algorithm purposes.

On Lemmy, I see that as the value of the post itself.

You made out like a bandit!

Buying used RAM on marketplace and hoping it isn’t broken. Hoping it was just stolen from a Best Buy. Fingers crossed y’all!

Fuck that noise. ChatGPT and OpenAI murdered Adam Raine and should be held responsible for it.

Quite possibly one of my top 5 games.

What if it’s not a publicly traded company like OpenAI?

Prof: I finished charging the matter compressor.

Fry: What’s the matter compressor?

Prof: Nothing’s the matter now that I’ve finished charging the matter compressor.

Yup. It’s an age thing. As soon as you turn 30 people disappear. None of my friends want to hang out anymore but I got some dogs and I’m pretty happy about that. Best friends I ever had.

You really want to make your brain hurt? A cube is the side of a 4 dimensional object.

How many resources were destroyed getting Grok to say Elon drinks piss? We all already know he drinks piss. We don’t need to waste precious resources on getting a robot to say it.

Thanks for linking it! I should have done that. And if LibreWolf is showing as Chrome on Windows, then you’re good!