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Roblox is everything people think Fortnite is.
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Jul 25, 2023 13:50
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i'm not sure which will be the first target to see any consequences, but i assume one of these games or mtg arena being hit for gambling will kill the other poo poo
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Jul 25, 2023 13:51
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No they wont
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Jul 25, 2023 13:52
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triple sulk posted:i'm not sure which will be the first target to see any consequences, but i assume one of these games or mtg arena being hit for gambling will kill the other poo poo There's no way in hell government in the United States in the 2020s bans anything like this, it will be framed as an issue of consumer choice and parental responsibility and left as is. Going forward it's a given that the government is incapable of enacting change that doesn't involve giving rich people money.
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Jul 25, 2023 13:54
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*furiously takes notes about garbage kiddo apps* As soon as toddler demon has the attention span to game, he's gonna play link to the past like a good human
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Jul 25, 2023 13:58
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the kids are alright, gives me hope for the future
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Jul 25, 2023 14:07
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triple sulk posted:i still do not understand what this is. you make your own games or some bullshit? is it like an even dumber, more gamble-y minecraft? from what I can tell Roblox is bottom of the barrel open environment where people play user generated worlds that might as well just be chat rooms. my nephew watches some dude on YouTube load up Roblox worlds that are “find the pop culture thing” and that’s it. and now because of Roblox my nephew has a ton of pop culture references without the context. it’s real loving stupid. as for income, my nephews family is a <$100k annually. when I ask for gift ideas it’s always Roblox gift cards. by comparison Minecraft is an elegant exploration game.
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Jul 25, 2023 14:14
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the restaurant industry is falling apart, pt. 18293 Local long-standing restaurant that hosted nightly jazz is getting out of the restaurant business entirely and turning into a rentable event space + bar quote:Getting your fix of jazz, wine, and vegetarian food in Shadyside may become more complicated with some changes coming to Con Alma. An announcement on Instagram says the Con Alma location on Ellsworth Avenue will become "a space dedicated only to special and private events." The transformation will debut on Sat., Aug. 5 with a "very special evening of music" featuring limited seating, a full bar, and no kitchen services. Tickets are $20 and are only available by emailing aimee@conalmapgh.com. No changes were announced for Con Alma's Downtown location. Local diner chain reinstates dessert that was removed from the menu because they were unable to maintain a supply of *checks notes* bread quote:A local diner chain's signature dessert has returned. Eat’n Park brought back Grilled Stickies in partnership with 5 Generation Bakers, a family-owned, McKees Rocks-based company behind the famous Jenny Lee Swirl Bread. The announcement came a few months after Eat'n Park eliminated the item from its menu due to losing its former bakery partner. The 1980s nostalgia gimmick is over quote:After four years of combining pop culture and comfort food, both Back to the Foodture locations will be closed by mid-August. Touted as a major Black-owned business in the area, Back to the Foodture has served up themed burgers, fries, wings, and more. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and other local outlets report that owners and married couple Eddie “Barnz” Magwood and Angel Magwood had to close because of staffing issues and a letter from Universal Studios, which stated that the Back to the Foodture name and graphics cannot be used because of their similarity to the production company's Back to the Future film franchise. The Uptown location has already shut down, and the South Side location will follow on Aug. 16. Getting people shitfaced on overpriced crappy beers is no longer profitable, I guess quote:Scotland-based BrewDog has closed its Pittsburgh location, along with three of its UK-based bars, citing economic conditions in the hospitality sector. BrewDog CEO and co-founder James Watt shared the news on LinkedIn. “Closing bars that we love is always difficult. However, the increased cost of goods and runaway energy bills mean that we can’t continue to operate these venues,” Watt wrote, adding that the company still expects to open eight new bars in 2023.
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Jul 25, 2023 14:16
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sonatinas posted:from what I can tell Roblox is bottom of the barrel open environment where people play user generated worlds that might as well just be chat rooms. my nephew watches some dude on YouTube load up Roblox worlds that are “find the pop culture thing” and that’s it. Yeah, we've had to have several discussions with my partner's niece (because her brother and sister-in-law won't do it) about Roblox because a) she was literally begging people online for Roblox gift cards and almost went to meet some dude for one b) has clearly encountered some predatory people in Roblox separately from a It's not inherently any worse than just like plain old chatrooms, except for the fact that it's heavily monetized and marketed directly at kids.
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Jul 25, 2023 14:22
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Here's some nice context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY They take advantage of free child labor to make lovely games and market it to kids, gambling isn't much of a leap for them. The children yearn for the mines.
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Jul 25, 2023 14:35
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holy gently caress those graphics lmao
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Jul 25, 2023 14:51
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skipped ten minutes in, saw how you basically make no money scam
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Jul 25, 2023 14:54
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rowdy trot
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Jul 25, 2023 14:57
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it's extremely impressive that Roblox managed to somehow make the video game industry even more exploitative toward workers
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Jul 25, 2023 14:57
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triple sulk posted:holy gently caress those graphics lmao The monetization is awful, but the actual gameplay of most of the games is super similar to StarCraft / Warcraft 3 Use Map Settings games from the early 2000s. In that era was playing much stupider games with worse graphics like Poker Defense, Zombie Survival, DBZ Tag, Cat and Mouse, whatever the hell someome whipped up in the map editor.
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Jul 25, 2023 14:58
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Twerk from Home posted:The monetization is awful, but the actual gameplay of most of the games is super similar to StarCraft / Warcraft 3 Use Map Settings games from the early 2000s. Reminds me of BYOND more than anything else, had some good times with that (SS19, that murder mystery game). Don't remember it being so heavily monetized though.
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Jul 25, 2023 15:13
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That's because there's a direct evolutionary path from those games to Roblox, and the pressure was "how can we most efficiently extract money from kids?"
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Jul 25, 2023 15:21
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https://twitter.com/bigblackjacobin/status/1683844714326286336
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Jul 25, 2023 15:30
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not very clever
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Jul 25, 2023 15:31
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More like Alex Krap
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Jul 25, 2023 15:36
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NickPancakes posted:Either you or your coworker have a poor understanding of type 1 diabetes. Eating high carb requires more insulin, not less. It's probably me who's at fault then. I just know he's checking his blood monitor a few times a hour and then once in a while goes to grab a 1.5oz cup of honey, whipped cream, and sprinkles.
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Jul 25, 2023 15:37
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Xaris posted:I actually had the opposite thought but it probably gets into how you define subsidizing the upper class, or even define upper class at all. do-nothing administrators are not exactly upper class (or rather, not the elite) -- just nepotistic middle-tier failsons to stay afloat in live off a bronze platter instead of a silver platter but well above the masses that are eating from the dumpster yeah I think we were using different definitions last night. the six-figgies with net worths in the single/low two digits millions are who I think the system will actively discard at some point. There's a lot of them, they take up a lot of resources, and I'm not convinced they're politically useful to the billionaires. Xaris posted:Different perspective on the question: what does maintaining large amount of underclass do for the system? sure, you need some excess proles to make sure the crab bucket is well stocked and so people don't get too uppity about solidarity, but you don't need that much and others you can keep in line with militarization. and since the underclass is also increasingly not a good vehicle for transactional rent-seeking (i.e. service economy) because the other recipient customers/consumers have no money, why keep them around? They can perform useful labor, for one, where the premium consumer largely can't. Even the artistic output from the premiums is sucking horribly (Hollywood etc). I'm mulling over your question, but as an initial counter-question -- if the billionaires have a firm grasp on power that transcends the need to circulate fiat money and take 0.1% of each time it changes hands, why do they need a premium consumer class?
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Jul 25, 2023 15:43
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It's a MLM-rear end economy so teaching kids everything is a scam is probably for the best.
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Jul 25, 2023 15:43
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america is 100% scams
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Jul 25, 2023 15:46
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sonatinas posted:from what I can tell Roblox is bottom of the barrel open environment where people play user generated worlds that might as well just be chat rooms. my nephew watches some dude on YouTube load up Roblox worlds that are “find the pop culture thing” and that’s it. 1. The Roblox games that attract kids' attention are not even games. Most of them are the same "find the X" games cloned with new X, whether it's "Huggy Wuggy" or some other character. The maps are the same, the locations to find are the same...they just have new skins. 2. The basic subscription to "Premium" gives you 499 Robux a month. Most anything they want to buy is 200+ Robux. I was subscribed for both my kids but I got sick of being bombarded for more Robux the same day the subscription ticked because they spent it all in literally seconds. No amount of careful explanation about budgeting and buying cheap or on sale matters. The entire game is geared to sell overinflated crap because it's trendy with their friends, online or offline. 3. There are ways to earn, win, or beg for Robux, but there is no way to earn GOOD Robux. You get pennies compared to the cost of everything. To buy anything that is desirable, you have to use cash, and the games are literally rigged. Every server has their own market, and yet they all have the same Powerups. You have to buy Powerups in every single game. Loved hopping around with spring boots in one game? Oops, that game is gone and a new server stood up in it's place; no, purchases do not carry forward. 4. The games are largely derivative (already mentioned), have barely any gameplay, and also play like poo poo. My kids are constantly crying about impossible obbys (obstacle courses), other players trolling the kids with collision physics, and barely functioning rating systems making it impossible to judge a game unless you play it in it's entirety first. 5. There are zero parental controls when it comes to content. You can keep the kids from accessing real world money, but you can't white or black list individual servers and there are so many variations of each server with common word names...poo poo you can't even tell if they're playing "NEW Find the Morphs" or "New find the Morphs Season 2 NEW MORPHS". You can't filter what they see, you can't control what they play unless you're there with them every second of their playtime on Roblox. 6. Everything is a loving casino. 7. Everything is hyped insanely and inanely by a thousand screaming YouTubers. There was talk about the 'open mouth shocked kitty' screenshots on videos, but there's a whole genre of 'shouting in amazement over generic Roblox server #2315894329 as two tubers insult each other's lack of parkour skills and laughing at every misfortune that occurs to the other tuber.' 8. Everything is a loving casino. 9. RP servers are pedo parlors, straight up. We're banning both Roblox and YouTube and the withdrawals are insane. There are so many apps we whitelisted on their tablets that feature builtin browsers that they are constantly watching backdoored YouTube. I can't wait to be in my own home again to install a pihole and just tell them I'm sorry Roblox is gone, they took it down. It went upstate to a nice digital farm... anonumos has issued a correction as of 16:01 on Jul 25, 2023 |
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Jul 25, 2023 15:47
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BornAPoorBlkChild posted:https://twitter.com/gyulmeetsworld/status/1683498952023498753?t=eqxdefljkavhqN0Eczynlg&s=19 What, are they on a glass balcony or something...  Nope, would not go anywhere near that.
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Jul 25, 2023 15:48
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anonumos posted:1. The Roblox games that attract kids' attention are not even games. Most of them are the same "find the X" games cloned with new X, whether it's "Huggy Wuggy" or some other character. The maps are the same, the locations to find are the same...they just have new skins. 10. All your kids classmates play it and they will hate you forever if you dont let them
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Jul 25, 2023 15:49
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i am harry posted:america is 100% scams The country was founded as a series of real estate scams
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Jul 25, 2023 15:51
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just make sure your kids never have any friends, bing bong so simple
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Jul 25, 2023 15:51
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lollin that "would you smoke pot just because your friends did it?" has turned into "would you spend $500 on Roblox Hitler avatars just because your friends did it?" this future sucks
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Jul 25, 2023 15:52
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:lollin that "would you smoke pot just because your friends did it?" has turned into "would you spend $500 on Roblox Hitler avatars just because your friends did it?" this future sucks Pot is cheaper and less destructive than roblox dark patterns in game design.
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Jul 25, 2023 15:55
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Lol at roblox destroying video games as a concept for an entire generation Roblox good actually?
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Jul 25, 2023 15:57
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begging your kids to smoke weed with their friends instead of playing roblox
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Jul 25, 2023 15:58
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super sweet best pal posted:What, are they on a glass balcony or something... They are strapped into seats on a small platform held aloft by a large crane.
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Jul 25, 2023 16:01
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Roblox is a hacked together mess that somehow caught on with kids. their death sound effect was taken from a 2000 shooter about an angel baby and it was removed after being sued.Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:lollin that "would you smoke pot just because your friends did it?" has turned into "would you spend $500 on Roblox Hitler avatars just because your friends did it?" this future sucks no one was asking 8 year olds to smoke pot
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Jul 25, 2023 16:04
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Paradoxish posted:begging your kids to smoke weed with their friends instead of playing roblox
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Jul 25, 2023 16:05
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Weembles posted:They are strapped into seats on a small platform held aloft by a large crane. There's nothing below them? What happens if they drop that knife or fork?
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Jul 25, 2023 16:06
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Nothus posted:The country was founded as a series of real estate scams And a bunch of people wanting to get rich quick by growing tobacco with no intention of staying in the colonies very long.
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Jul 25, 2023 16:14
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SKULL.GIF posted:It's probably me who's at fault then. I just know he's checking his blood monitor a few times a hour and then once in a while goes to grab a 1.5oz cup of honey, whipped cream, and sprinkles. ”brb gotta make sure my blood sugar doesnt fall under 30 mmol”
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Jul 25, 2023 16:14
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Paradoxish posted:begging your kids to smoke weed with their friends instead of playing roblox
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