Honestly as someone who has played Roblox both as a kid and as an adult, I have mixed feelings on it. People Make Games did a great video series on the child labor of Roblox.
Roblox is a game that ships with a game development kit and the way it’s monetized beyond monthly membership is allowing people to use the built in kit to build minigames and cosmetics and charge for said items in an ingame currency that Roblox gets a cut off. I don’t understand enough to understand the first part of the changes but the second part seem positive…? You can’t let people sample stuff that isn’t actually for sale and try to get sales via kids swiping their parents’ credit card for stuff that looked cool on their character but you’re not selling… I think. Just guessing but I think the first part of the change is to psychologically prime people to buy stuff they try on? Like putting a self checkout in the dressing room of a department store.
Any chance someone could explain what this actually means for us ancient pre-Generation-Roblox boomers born before Hurricane Katrina?
the included screenshots are cracking me up. it makes it so much more strange/surreal, especially since i don’t really understand roblox. from what i gather, it’s like a garry’s mod / second life thing, but more user friendly to make/purchase/install assets? and it’s aesthetically more like knock-off lego. also, that one dude’s keffiyeh with the agal / head cord is pretty solid work. i feel like i would overcommit to some bit (ex. subcommandante antifa supersoldier) to troll white supremacists and end up waterboarded at a black site IRL while they showed me screenshots of my guy saying cryptic shit. Chariot Progressive, listen. Mandelbrot set is in motion. Echo Choir has been breached. We are fielding the ball.
I mean… Why would you play Roblox when you can play Project Zomboid? 😁🤗 good call little guy !
You can do all of that on Roblox from the safety of your toilet nowadays. The future is now.
Well that sucks… I’m still pissed at Roblox for their DRM rug pull on Linux. Didn’t stop the bots and hackers for more than two weeks anyways - bet Ryujinx 2.0 will be out soon too. Anyone know if DRM is cracked on Roblox yet? Just a yes or no I can find it nevermind I’ll go look
Point 1 is assumptive, but not necessarily wrong. Social media companies have deep pockets, and these laws help them deflect responsibility for child abuse that occurs on their platforms. Point 2 is well argued, but i’m not convinced it applies here. California could have the least harmful version of such a law, but it does not follow that those laws would be adopted more generally over something more harmful. Texas, New York, Illinois, and Florida are also very influential in the US as far as lawmaking goes Point 3 is kind of a red herring fallacy. Point 4 isn’t really argued at all. I don’t see how this fights fascism or how California’s law is explicitly immune from fascist abuse. Point 5 is one that i can’t argue with due to lack of information. I acknowledge that abuse is happening every day on platforms like Roblox and Discord, but i’m not convinced that those platforms will actually have less abuse as a result of this law Point 6 is addressing a fallacy. baseline shifting is a contextual phenomenon, and whether it applies here has little to do with the subject being discussed
90% of games run on Linux. If you are talking about League and Roblox u are better off not being able to run them. It saves your soul lol.
Yeah, Roblox sucks.