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[โ€“] 21 points 11 months ago (13 children)

As a similarly old curmudgeon, my understanding is that it's like Second Life, but with the ability for users to create whole-ass games. And (hopefully) less cybersex considering the primary audience is underage

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  • [โ€“] 45 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    To get items in Roblox for a relative, I used to pretend to be a child and find users who would groom me. They were entirely unaware that I was quite probably older than they were. I saved hundreds of dollars on gifts, and it didnโ€™t cost me all that much time. Roblox is not safe for kids

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I play online with my son and have never ever seen that. It's almost all tower defense games which would be a different crowd.

    What games were you playing that had that kind of chat going on?

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 11 months ago*

    Ninja something, muscle something, and a game that looked a bit like prototype. All incremental games. As you can tell, I wasnโ€™t particularly invested in them. I donโ€™t imagine you or your son begged in global chat for several minutes at a time with intentional spelling errors.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It's not second life at all. It's a game platform like Steam. But they made it super easy so kids starting coding their own games.

    Back in the 80's there were computer magazines that would post BASIC code you could type in and play a simple game. Kids would mail in their code and it would be published. Same exploitation of child labor.

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  • [+] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)
  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    are you talking about the T word?

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