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haakman posted:Getting repeatedly scammed as a 13 year old in Ultima Online made me the man I am today. Scamming people repeatedly in various mmos made me the man I am today.
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if you want your kids to be able to play online and still be somewhat safe then just stick with Nintendo, they take that poo poo way more seriously than everyone else and for good reason
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Dec 27, 2022 13:55
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Tesseraction posted:Pick games like Splatoon where there's no in-game chat so even if your teammate is a nazi paedophile there's no way of knowing and they can't do poo poo to your kid. Splatoon has that system where you can share little drawings that absolutely is abused for chat purposes. As always the lesson is actually parenting your kids instead of letting technology do it until you’re confident that they can be let loose without you having to watch over their shoulder the whole time.
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Dec 27, 2022 13:56
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Microplastics posted:Ah, but don't we all have memories of our parents cluelessly getting us a videogame for christmas that was never going to work on the The Family Computer Normally I could get them to work. I've told this story on here a few times now but when I first played Grim Fandango the computer was so poo poo that it played at 1/4 speed, dialogue included, and I thought that was just an artistic decision. It was only replaying it one day on a newer computer that I was like "wait, it was just my PC being a piece of poo poo this whole time?"
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Dec 27, 2022 13:57
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haakman posted:Getting repeatedly scammed as a 13 year old in Ultima Online made me the man I am today. Nice House Deed... Corp Por Corp Por Corp Por Corp Por
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History Comes Inside! posted:Splatoon has that system where you can share little drawings that absolutely is abused for chat purposes. True, but usually it's amazing artwork or someone drawing a pooping butt. I don't recall seeing swastikas or dicks.
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Dec 27, 2022 13:58
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Seconding lego City undercover, its basically GTA:kids edition, open world, cars, city, and 'guns'
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Dec 27, 2022 14:00
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There's a world of modern indie games that are a better introduction to retro games than actual retro games, just because game design has come so far since those days. The best online game for kids is a closed Minecraft server with their friends.
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Dec 27, 2022 14:02
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OzyMandrill posted:Seconding lego City undercover, its basically GTA:kids edition, open world, cars, city, and 'guns' Yeah! And when you're doing your special detectiving looking for clues it plays a little double bass 'private eye' riff.
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Dec 27, 2022 14:09
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History Comes Inside! posted:Criticising someone else’s game buying choices when you just bought your kid literally the same game they already have with a few palette swaps isn’t awesome or great either, fwiw. My kid didn’t even read this post and I can hear her gearing up for the seemingly endless “well actually they are two separate games this time and middle aged people shouldn’t be allowed to post opinions on my generations Pokemon games on the internet because they are all just bitter that they have evolved away from the game boy versions and furthermore” rant. It turns out one is dinosaurs one is cyberpunk and the trainers are completely different. To me it sounds like Nintendo split one big game in half because of the limitations of the console, and have dropped the price to get people to buy them both for Christmas and Birthday - £40 which is super cheap for a Nintendo game on release.
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Dec 27, 2022 14:13
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HopperUK posted:One time they gave her the controller during a game of PUBG and she ran into a house and asked how she could do the washing up that was in the sink. Hey this reaction isn't that unusual! https://youtu.be/mDHhAalIHSg Raising my kids to play the same games I did growing up was something I would joke about, but it doesn't really hold up. Games like Minecraft are objectively better than anything I played in the pre-Windows era and the 3d adventure games have mostly aged like poo. Mine are too young to be playing anything online yet, but once they are I'd want to spend time seeing what they were doing in it and if they talked to anyone. I'm already the annoying person who will take the controller off them if I deem them too slow to pick up the controls in Gigantosaurus so this will go great!
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Dec 27, 2022 14:15
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Poo ages really well I'll have you know. Poor analogy.
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Dec 27, 2022 14:16
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One of the DC Lego games plays the John Williams theme every time you fly as Superman, so its worth it alone for imo
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Dec 27, 2022 14:21
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Edit: nah, it’s Christmas.
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Dec 27, 2022 14:24
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Kegluneq posted:Raising my kids to play the same games I did growing up was something I would joke about, but it doesn't really hold up. Games like Minecraft are objectively better than anything I played in the pre-Windows era and the 3d adventure games have mostly aged like poo. Dammit Timmy you WILL type in this Basic program from a magazine I once got back in 1984.
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Dec 27, 2022 14:25
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Gorn Myson posted:One of the DC Lego games plays the John Williams theme every time you fly as Superman, so its worth it alone for imo Playing Marvel Super Heroes for the first time from the bundle I mentioned. And there is a free roam city you can romp about in. And I think every hero has a random citizen line getting name wrong, I think its hilarious. "Oh hey, its Admiral America." "Oh hey, its Tin Man." "Oh hey, its Spider Boy."
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Dec 27, 2022 14:28
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Lego Batman with the suit swapping is amazing. The thing I love about these lego games is that these are going to be a lot of children’s introduction to characters like Batman, and these are the child imagination friendly versions. We saw the Lego movie in 3D in the Cinema with a group of 8 kids and it was like a switch got flipped and out went the bratz dolls and in came Unikitty saving Batman from the shark monster (?) and so on.
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Dec 27, 2022 14:36
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Microplastics posted:Poo ages really well I'll have you know. Poor analogy. Er, in the sense that they provided a sound fertiliser for future, better games to grow from?? Yeah that'll do it.
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Dec 27, 2022 14:36
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Kegluneq posted:Er, in the sense that they provided a sound fertiliser for future, better games to grow from?? Yeah that'll do it. I have fond memories of the Atari, TI-99 and Mega Drive prior to Windows being a thing, to say nothing of Wolf3D (I'd say Doom but I think I found it too scary).
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Dec 27, 2022 14:38
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https://twitter.com/_ripley1_/status/1607657645590077442
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learnincurve posted:My kid didn’t even read this post and I can hear her gearing up for the seemingly endless “well actually they are two separate games this time and middle aged people shouldn’t be allowed to post opinions on my generations Pokemon games on the internet because they are all just bitter that they have evolved away from And she'd be wrong, because it's exactly the same poo poo they've done with every Pokemon game since the Game Boy Blue & Red. Yeah, there are small aesthetic differences like they change the name & colour schemes of the schools you start in. Each has some exclusive Pokemon. Nothing wrong with that, if that makes the kid happy then cool
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Dec 27, 2022 14:43
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Oh right yeah you should probably all change your Twitter passwords. That happened.
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Dec 27, 2022 14:43
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If there is one thing I know it’s not to get into an argument with a Pokémon fan over differences, it’s like my mother presenting a paint swatch with 80 near identical shades of white that she will have very strong opinions on.
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learnincurve posted:If there is one thing I know it’s not to get into an argument with a Pokémon fan over differences, it’s like my mother presenting a paint swatch with 80 near identical shades of white that she will have very strong opinions on. 
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Dec 27, 2022 14:46
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Tesseraction posted:I have fond memories of the Atari, TI-99 and Mega Drive prior to Windows being a thing, to say nothing of Wolf3D (I'd say Doom but I think I found it too scary). IDKFA IDDQD There, it's not scary any more. IDSPISPOPD also gave me a healthy early appreciation of level design!
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Dec 27, 2022 14:47
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Kegluneq posted:IDKFA I enjoy them now but I remember watching over my dad's shoulder and being like "oh god I could never play this photorealistic nightmare simulator"
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Dec 27, 2022 14:49
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Morgan's account has been completely wiped of content now, but tweets from the hacker said they would leak DMs with celebrities, so we've hopefully got those coming at some stage. Piers really loved his twitter account. lol
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Dec 27, 2022 14:49
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Oh I like the yellow mouse thing because in the olden days of the 1990s when Xena was on tv, I recorded on VHS maybe the best episode ever (2-parter "The Debt" shown together as a 'tv movie' on channel 5 at the time), there was an advert on tv just before it started with the yellow mouse thing in it so it always got me psyched ready for a couple of hours enjoyment.
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Dec 27, 2022 14:51
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fuctifino posted:Morgan's account has been completely wiped of content now, but tweets from the hacker said they would leak DMs with celebrities, so we've hopefully got those coming at some stage. Piers really loved his twitter account. lol I can only imagine the impotent rage, and also can't wait to see what heinous poo poo is uncovered. I also hope there's more to come from other people who are enormous shitbags.
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Dec 27, 2022 14:53
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Mebh posted:I don't know the specifics of age, but I'd suggest prohibition only works for so long and they'll just go even more off the rails once unleashed. I know I did. 9yo twins. I don't play any games myself, the most I've played in the last decade was super mario 3 on the new switch over christmas. So far they haven't shown any interest in online playing, they barely seem to know what it is. In ways they seem very sheltered from these things and they've never shown much interest either. I think a part of it because neither me or my SO play any games, well my SO plays candy crush and the kids do too because of that. We don't watch TV or watch any regular shows either. I don't think they get exposed at school either since you can't bring stuff like that there and they don't meet friends much outside school.
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Fall guys! Honestly, the answer is fall guys. You play with other people but no chat, you also get points and rewards and stuff for the costumes even if you get knocked out first so they get a  moment followed by a consolation prize level reward each time.
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Diet Crack posted:I can only imagine the impotent rage, and also can't wait to see what heinous poo poo is uncovered. I also hope there's more to come from other people who are enormous shitbags. Kegluneq posted:IDS PIS POPD 
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Only Kindness posted:Of course the real injustice is me buying into PS4 for the exclusives, my first console since the Atari VCS, back before it was called the 2600 and then the vast majority of those exclusives showing up on PC in superior versions! C'mon, Ian Sony. Get it together. One or the other. Then they announced they weren't supporting that gen going forward, so I upgraded to PS4 for Rise of Iron I think? I also wanted Bloodborne (still haven't finished it) and Ni-No-Kuni (haven't even bought it), so decided to switch since MS weren't even talking about backwards compatibility at the time. Anyway, then there was the whole shitshow with Activision Blizzard, Destiny 2, the studio going solo, the 'vaulting' of huge chunks of the game and the game itself turning into a bizarre f2p hybrid. Except because the initial Destiny 2 was a full price game, you need PS+ to play the matchmade activities (even solo). So because I chose PS4 to play Destiny 2 on, I am now somehow on the only platform where I have to pay a monthly subscription to access a bunch of the 'free' activities, and the single player content you could play offline has been largely removed. It's free on Xbox and the various PC launchers, but Sony (despite owning Bungie) just shrug and make you pay for PS+. Which is also annoying, because: Tesseraction posted:The most expensive Nintendo Online pass is cheaper than the cheapest Playstation Plus lol. Diet Crack posted:I can only imagine the impotent rage, and also can't wait to see what heinous poo poo is uncovered. I also hope there's more to come from other people who are enormous shitbags. 
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Makes me very happy to hear people saying good things about LEGO games, for no reason whatsoever.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Which is also annoying, because: Greetings fellow pspluscuck.
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They even have a whole section with free packs for f2p games to make up for the cost of paying for the plus prescription, but I have never seen any Destiny content in there. Mebh posted:Makes me very happy to hear people saying good things about LEGO games, for no reason whatsoever.
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Tesseraction posted:pspluscuck. His Divine Shadow posted:Whenever I try and attract a cat the sound used here is "kss kss kss"
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Random question. All the payment info vanished from our amazon and we got logged out of all the accounts on all devices. Seems theres a new profile feature and I wonder if that's related. Googling around is loving useless, anyone ever have that happen?
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be careful mebh it may be the work of sick cyberpunks and/or digital ne'erdowells
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