Lost_My_Mind
@Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
- Comment on Roblox will restrict kids under 13 from chatting outside of games 5 days ago:
If I’m whoever is in charge of Roblox, I’d have shut down Roblox’s ability to grant users access without being 18+, or having parents permission. I’d have done that years ago, when the first reports were coming out about how Roblox is a nesting ground for pedophiles. That was like 10+ years ago.
The fact that it’s STILL an issue would suggest either they haven’t taken proper restrictions, or that they haven’t shifted responsibility to the parents to monitor their childrens activity.
My 13 year old niece LOVES minecraft. My sister and brother in law will check in from time to time, and make sure everything’s safe. When she was 6 years old, she couldn’t even play minecraft online. Not even with me. With the logic being that if she can play with me, there’s a chance others could hack their way into the game. I’m 40, they’re 50, and to me it doesn’t seem like that’s possible. But they don’t understand video games at all. I’d rather they lay on the side of caution for things they don’t understand.
For example, I don’t understand Roblox. The game was already known as a pedophile playground before my niece was even allowed to play video games. So I’ve never played it, and neither has she. I’d rather that be true, than her getting the wrong kind of attention online. She’s a smart 13 year old, but she is still…ya know…a teenager. And therefore a dumbass. I’d never say that to her, as I don’t mean anything insulting by it, but all teenagers are going to be dumbasses. There’s some things you should let them be dumbasses about, fail, and learn, and then there’s other things that they need to be protected from as legitimate dangers. Such as sexual preditors.
The fact that Roblox is still dealing with problems they had in 2012, tells me they don’t care. So maybe they should be killed off.
- Comment on Fortnite OG is coming back permanently in December 1 week ago:
I don’t get the first one. Is the implication that she’s about to vomit on him while at the same time trying to get her boyfriend to pick a fight with another person in the distance? Meanwhile he’s rethinking while she’s with her?
- Comment on Fortnite OG is coming back permanently in December 1 week ago:
Me: 41.
"Fortnite wasn’t a thing? I didn’t know it left. But also, you can’t say it’s coming back permanently. The roman empire lasted 1000 years. It was all some people knew for hundreds of generations. Even the roman empire wasn’t permanent. And I highly doubt some free to play shooter game is going to last 1000 years. I mean could you imagine? Still using technologies from 1000 years ago? Hmmmmm, maybe the wheel? When was the wheel invented? Had to be before 1000AD, right? Huh…I guess my knowledge of history prior to the 1700s is kind of hazy. Well…besides Columbus being a raging asshole and racist. That part is pretty well documented. I mean he was a slave owner. Although I wonder if at the time slave ownership was considered morally wrong? We KNOW it was known as being wrong by the 1860s. America fought a whole war over it. But columbus was almost 400 years earlier. I wonder if it was like how most people today know pollution is wrong, and climate change is bad, but hell if as a society we’re going to give up cars, and plastic water bottles, and soooooo much disposable waste. I mean, people like to talk shit about starbucks CEO for living in L.A., and running a company daily out of Seattle, and using a daily private jet to commute instead of just using zoom, or moving to Seattle, but they don’t actually take time to think that maybe if every single person gave up their cars, and their styrofoam plates, and their red solo cups, that the world global impact would be drastically lowered. Not that the starbucks CEO should be defended. He should be shot out of a canon into the sun. Wait…we shouldn’t fuck with the balance of the sun. If we fuck the sun, we’re all fucked. Ok, what if we just shot him out into a black hole? Well shit. If we’re getting black holes involved we should get some science observation involved. Strap him up with observable communication, ya know? I realize that 99% chance his molocules are crushed inward and he’s crushed into nothing, so the communication would just go dead. I get it…but what if? Some of the greatest scientific accomplishments were discovered completely by accident. So what if we discover that black holes hold other properties we don’t know yet? The PLAN is to destroy him, but if we discover the secrets of timr travel instead? Hey, happy accident.
…where are my shoes?
- Comment on Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them 3 weeks ago:
How exactly does he think…
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…a whole shitload of things exist? Everything from microwave ovens, to nasa space rockets, to jet engines? Shit! If the nazis weren’t so god damned evil they would have been pretty awesome…but they aren’t. You know, because of the whole evil facist racists thing.
But damn they knew how to invent stuff, and have stylish military uniforms while doing so.
- Comment on Which Way Up: Galaxy Games is a gravity-bending party platformer inspired by Mario Galaxy 4 weeks ago:
The steam page says it needs just 1ghz to run.
Does that mean it could run on raspberry pi 4?
- Comment on Publishers face 20% game revenue reduction if Denuvo DRM is cracked quickly, according to new study 5 weeks ago:
As much as people don’t want to hear this, it’s a case of the Berlin Wall.
EVERYBODY hated the Berlin wall. If the soviets wanted East Germans to stay in their hypothetical borders, then they should make living environments that encourage people to WANT to be there.
Except they didn’t. They built a wall, and made it impossible to pass. And guess what? The amount of people leaving their country went from an alarming high number of escapees, to near zero. It may have been unpopular, but it was effective.
Now, with the DRM. If they can make an effective DRM that kills piracy, they’ll make more money by preventing piracy than they’ll lose from non-sales protests.
Unpopular, but effective. That’s their logic. And the amount of people not buying in protest is miniscule.
It’s like me protesting the Cleveland Browns until 2027. I don’t appriciate a rapist being on our team. However, everybody else wants him to have a great season. They still spend their money on NFL packages, and go to games, and buy merch. ME not spending a dime in protest only works if the majority do it as well. Which isn’t the case, sadly.
So until the majority protest DRM games, the DRM will be unpopular, but effective.
- Comment on Minecraft is getting a new biome and The Creaking, a creepy mob that only moves when you look away 1 month ago:
Which was actually based on the one developers wife, who was timid and scared when people were around her.
But the second people went away, she became scary and threatening.
- Comment on Flappy Bird is coming back 2 months ago:
Wait, didn’t the creator of this go off on some mental health tangent that basically ended in him making a bunch of unhinged violent threats against…well, everyone?
- Comment on Heaven 17 composer calls out Rockstar over alleged lowball GTA 6 music offer 2 months ago:
I didn’t contridict myself. I said they CONSIDERED making it a standalone game. They wanted to pour enough effort into the online, and no more effort into the single player, that they figured they could just make it it’s own game, until that news leaked, and people reacted FIERCELY.
At one time Sony CONSIDERED making the PS4 digital only, with used games not being an option. Doesn’t mean that ever actually came to pass, but it WAS considered at one point. It shows what their intentions were. That’s the difference, and the point of that statement.
- Comment on Heaven 17 composer calls out Rockstar over alleged lowball GTA 6 music offer 2 months ago:
GTA IV and GTA V both went online. GTA V made online the core component of it’s game. So much so, that they innitially considered GTA Online to be a seperate game included with GTA V.
GTA V has recieved COUNTLESS dlc to the online portion. I’m unaware of ANY single player dlc released beyond the pre-order bonuses. This shows you where Rockstar’s priorities lay. They have made more money via shark cards, many times over, than they ever did with the sale of the game itself.
At least Rocket League had the decency to understand they made more money off DLC sales and made the game free. And to my knowledge those DLCs aren’t even performance changing. It’s just stuff like “here’s a topper for your car liscensed from a popular tv show or movie”
- Comment on Heaven 17 composer calls out Rockstar over alleged lowball GTA 6 music offer 2 months ago:
Am I the only one who already won’t be buying GTA VI? I’ve seen what they did with V, and VI looks to be more of the same. Pay full price for the game, then pay to win.
Fuck off Rockstar.
- Comment on GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin getting an official Flatpak for Linux and Steam Deck 2 months ago:
Whats a flatpak?
- Comment on The banks that loaned Musk $13B to buy Twitter might be having regrets 2 months ago:
When you owe the bank $100 thats your problem.
When you owe the bank 13 billion dollars, thats the banks problem.
When you then use that money to create a platform of hate, racism, and facism, thats humitys problem.
- Comment on Over 500 World of Warcraft developers at Blizzard have voted to form Microsoft’s biggest wall-to-wall union 3 months ago:
Is there any chance that Microsoft employees could join the Blizzard union?
- Comment on Over 500 World of Warcraft developers at Blizzard have voted to form Microsoft’s biggest wall-to-wall union 3 months ago:
What does Microsoft have to do with Blizzard? Did Microsoft buy Blizzard?
- Comment on Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of X ad boycott perpetrators 4 months ago:
Thats not true. I love taking a baseball bat and smashing a baseball. Has Elon considered dressing up as the Cincinnati Reds mascot?
- Comment on Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of X ad boycott perpetrators 4 months ago:
Actions having consequences??? I’m not sure Elon knows of such a concept!