It's stupid but I started playing Roblox in 2008 and I still check in on it from time to time, there are a couple of half decent games out there if you know where to look because it's pretty much just a game engine.
Between the s*** or the facilitate the worst of mobile gaming practices and playhouse to an innumerable number of pedophile rings is super f***** up. They basically trick children into developing video games and pay them scraps of what they're worth. Limited edition Hats play host to what is basically a gambling or stock market system. I think one of the worst Parts is that pretty much any transaction the company takes an enormous cut of.
I have an item that's worth 350,000 "Robux" that I bought for pennies like 10 years ago. I don't have any way of cashing that out for real money but that's still hundreds of real life dollars and also roblox would take a 30% cut if I sold it anyway.
Part of me wishes that I had actually learned to build properly in that game, for some reason i always struggled to wrap my head around scripting and actually building anything that looks decent for myself. I suppose from a certain perspective it's not too late but what would be the f****** point roblox is trashed now.
Oh yeah the chat filter is a nightmare, roblox uses a chat service called Community sift if I remember correctly and it's pretty much just makes it so that it's impossible to communicate because they can't be ours to moderate their stupid platform anymore anyway.
Also they are weirdly sexist, they enabled the publishing of user generated content and they allow some honestly pretty crazy alarming muscle bound and homoerotic masculine body shapes but any even remotely feminine shape no matter how tame and innocent is required to have these big ugly weird looking color blocks on them that look like underwear and honestly are way worse than having nothing there at all in terms of how it looks.
I miss when it was just goofy proof of concept s*** like seth bling teaching a neural network to play Super Mario Bros.
Or there was this site called "Thisgirldoesnotexist" with several sister sites like this cat does not exist and so on and it would pretty much just generate a headshot of a character. Extremely primitive versions of the image generation technology seen today. But now it's basically just used to s*** out copious amounts of image files with no purpose and no soul.
Well ain't this just a f****** kick in the head i don't even know if I'm supposed to get vaccinated anymore. ( according to an article I read the latest science says that vaccinations might not be the best thing for literally everyone at this point)
I'm very simple, just mustard and cheese. That said I would rather it be some really good cheese and there's this very particular kind of mustard from Sweden that I love called Lars' own.
I'm typically very idle and upset by noise and fidgeting so other autistic people make me want to explode like you're putting too much nuclear material together and making it reach critical mass.
I think the strength of your intellectual property protection should be inversely proportional to the size of your organization.
A character I design myself or an invention I patent myself should be firmly protected so I can't be bullied out of the market as easily, but a big company should get only fleeting protection.
I got banned from reddit for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis and my appeal was declined in minutes. This has led me to the conclusion that Reddit is pro nazi and ban evasion is a lot of work.
I do still peep at it because ngl Lemmy doesn't have that endless stream of content going.
I mean it's almost like the united states is a machine that runs on Mexicans and other migrant workers toiling under reprehensible conditions so that we can have... Mcdonalds?
Fair warning for anyone who wants to boot my car I own a cordless angle grinder...