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Goodbye Roblox on Steam Deck

Well, shit. Unfortunate news from the Vinegar Discord: Roblox will block Wine in future releases. This is going to end my “Steam Deck as a primary desktop PC for my kid” experiment.

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Roblox brengt automatische realtime chatvertaling uit

Roblox Corporation brengt een automatische vertaalfunctie voor in-game chatberichten uit. Gesprekken in zestien talen kunnen automatisch worden vertaald. Het gameplatform ondersteunt vooralsnog geen Nederlands.

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Roblox brengt automatische realtime chatvertaling uit

Roblox Corporation brengt een automatische vertaalfunctie voor in-game chatberichten uit. Gesprekken in zestien talen kunnen automatisch worden vertaald. Het gameplatform ondersteunt vooralsnog geen Nederlands.

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UK’s Starmer gives Apple, Google 3 months to stop children sending nude images

Maybe hold the parents accountable. Betya then they’ll start caring about what their children are doing. Because yes, while there are adult perpetrators, there are also children themselves selling media they create on things like roblox servers. It’s a rabbit hole. Bonus: you don’t have to invalidate everyone’s right to fucking privacy. Extra credit: you can still tax the fuck out of these trillion dollar corporations that are ruining the world.

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What is some very predatory, sneaky and popular among children game?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-roblox-exploits-children-w-quintin-smith/id1507621076?i=1000547080283 Roblox is industrial-scale child labour to sell microtransactions to children, normalising the idea at the earliest stage of their 𝑔𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓇.

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Is what Charlie would have wanted.

One of the largest games on Roblox is “Hide and Seek” Where the hider is a victim in a school shooting and the seeker is the school shooter. They made a game about school shooting and it’s still up. For clarification, it’s not called hide and seek, it is very direct in the fact that it is literally gamifying a massacre, it was some shit along the lines of ‘Survive a shooting’

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Game over? Industry suffers slowdown after decades-long winning streak

almost certain this is behind a paywall and usually FT is one you can’t get around, so some choice excerpts: The $200bn video games industry is reckoning with its biggest slowdown in 30 years, as the huge growth driven by smartphone gaming and the latest generation of consoles reaches its limits. Hardware sales are slowing, with Sony cutting its forecast for PlayStation 5 sales this week. Consumer spending on mobile gaming declined last year, down 2 per cent to $107.3bn according to Data.ai, which forecasts low single-digit growth in 2024. Many in the gaming industry expected to bounce back quickly after 2022’s post-pandemic decline, last year did not deliver the growth initially hoped. The latest quarterly numbers from some of the biggest publishers, including Electronic Arts and Take Two, has underwhelmed investors. Meanwhile, games developers have been forced to cut thousands more jobs this year after already slashing as many as 10,000 in 2023. “There’s a lot of commercial anxiety: about growth, about profitability, about keeping budgets in check and about making an impact in the market when there are so many established products,” said Piers Harding-Rolls, games research director at Ampere Analysis, a market researcher. “We are in a much slower growth era.” Cutting prices is a double-edged sword. The huge popularity of free-to-play online games such as Fortnite and Roblox consumes hours of playtime that had previously been spent on $70 titles. The strong network effects of multiplayer games, such as Call of Duty, also make it harder for new entrants to succeed. “Thousands of titles are hitting every month and the success rate is very low,” he said. “You’re faced with significant challenges in trying to break new product into the market.” The rising costs of developing blockbuster games has also raised the stakes. “When you’re talking about a budget that’s $100mn plus, even for a big company, if you miss with two or three of those then commercially you’re on the ropes,” Harding-Rolls said. That has driven a Hollywood-style dependence on rebooting the same big franchises by Sony, Microsoft, Electronic Arts and other big games companies. At the same time, entertainment giants are showing a renewed interest in gaming — adding new competition for existing players in a shrinking market. Disney made a $1.5bn investment in Fortnite’s creator Epic Games this month to create what the studio’s chief Bob Iger called “a huge Disney universe that will be for gaming and for play”, while Netflix is also expanding its games offering.

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So my dad died

First off, I don’t need any consoling. I think I’m fine. If anything, please critique me. My dad and I were estranged for a decade, before that he barely interacted with me except to scold me for something. I was terrified that, as some people say, the loss of an estranged parent would bring feelings of regret for lack of closure. But really, it’s hard to feel much for someone who paid the bills and babysat with disinterest. I need some positive memories to actually miss somebody. The one thing this has done has been to wake me up a bit. With climate catastrophe barrelling towards us, I’ve used my computer as an escape and I’ve neglected relationships. My phone always has unread messages. Fuck, I don’t want to be my dad, watching TV and mildly annoyed by the kids, rarely stopped to scream at the top of his lungs to tell the kids to “shut up”. Kids in my gf’s family want to play Roblox and Minecraft, ugh fine. At least have some good memories of me. My dad’s not a bad person, he just profoundly indifferent to everything outside of TV and the middle class white people he tried to tie his identity too. My dad worked a trade, and I wish to fuck that he could be proud of being a prole. Decades of (likely) lead poisoning probably didn’t help. After retirement he got some real pro-landlord beliefs, although thankfully he never went full chud. Maybe if his son wasn’t bookish, fucking suck terribly at sport, didn’t leave the Church, go lefty, go vegan, get a small flat in the city, give up TV at 16, maybe he’d show a bit of interest. Probably if I bought a 4 bedroom house somewhere and had kids, shit, he’d start to ask me how my day was. Talk to the people in your life, especially the young. FFS, don’t be my dad.

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You ever spend extended periods of time trying to track down where you've heard a sound effect?

I was playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution and I felt like I recognised the inventory full sound from somewhere. It turns out I was remembering it from the 2006 anime Ergo Proxy. This is the sound I am talking about. A lot of these sound effects come from sound libraries and end up being used across different media. hbomberguy created a video on the origins of the Roblox’s “OOF” sound effect and decino has a video covering the origin of DOOM’s sound effects and how DOOM and Age of Empires 2 share some sound effects for example. I’d recommend checking them out if you are interested in this kind of thing. If you have done this, what sound effect did you end up tracking down?

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Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse

the interview in question, which opens with the following exchange: Newton: You have joined us today to talk about this new age-gating policy that Roblox is rolling out to protect kids. And I think we should start by just talking about the scope of the problem here. What has led you to this point? And how do you think of the problem of predators on Roblox? Baszucki: We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well. (emphasis mine) How do we allow young people to build, communicate and hang out together? How do we build the future of communication at the same time? So we, you know, we’ve been, I think in a good way, working on this ever since we started. And when we were — this was almost 18 or 19 years ago — when we first launched the company and we had just four of us sitting in a room, we were literally the moderators, like we would rotate all the time. And so fast-forward to where we are today, it’s just like every week, what is the latest tech? At the scale we’re at, 150 million daily actives, 11 billion hours a month, like what is the best way to keep pushing this forward? And as you correctly note, we’ve just started adding that we’re going to be using facial age estimation with A.I. to complement that.

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Groomblox devising new ways to exploit children.

If they’re young, keep a close eye on their activities, especially over discord. And you should definitely check out the several documentaries by People Make Games of child labor exploitation and grooming in Roblox dev. https://youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ?si=-wblBzeqNk_v8ZU5 https://youtu.be/vTMF6xEiAaY?si=7vFrxMEb4YK-DJAa

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What happens if the UK requires age verification for VPN’s

I found out students in my kids highschool were using VPNs to play roblox on the network (bypassing IT’s block). They way they did it was 1. Search “VPN” in the app store or play store. 2. Install the first result. That’s probably a good model of what mass adoption of VPNs would look like. my own kids got a tailscale app connecting to my headscale network in 10 minutes and me wiping my brow that I dodged a bullet.