• peteyestee@feddit.org
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    26 days ago

    Get all that out of games completely. Kids used to learn how make their own skins and maps if they wanted them.

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      26 days ago

      Kids used to make their own sprites and scrolling routines and poke inventory values.

      Well, bigger kids.

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        we did that kind of stuff in the elementary school computer lab. we also shimmed the outside facing door to use the computers on the weekends after opening the motion detector and stuffing paper towel in it during recess while some of the kids involved made a scene of spinning on the tire swing and barfing to pull the aide away from being able to see the door area so we could sneak in to do it.

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      No we didn’t. At most, a handful of games allowed map making like starcraft and command and conquer, and grand theft auto. Making your own skins was never a thing. You’d create, at best, a custom badge or avatar. Skins were always unlocks from finding easter eggs or achievements.

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          26 days ago

          It did not. You never played Quake or Unreal Tournament and made your own skins. You never dabbled in map making for any of these games or games in the Doom engine. Nobody ever made skins for minecraft Java. Your life is a lie.

          So is mine!

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            26 days ago

            I also did not learn coding by reading quakec and adding homing missiles or cluster grenades.

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              26 days ago

              I added a targeting recticule by ray-casting a bloody giblet in-world onto the wall you’re facing

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    26 days ago

    I don’t get it. How do the children get bank accounts to buy those robux? It’s really more of a parent’s responsibility.

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      26 days ago

      everyone I know with kids has no idea what a vile platform roblox is and was inclined to just buy the shit to make the kids stop whining. some of them cut it off when I sent videos detailing what is wrong with it. some didn’t care but totally coincidentally they are the ones that said they would have voted trump if they were usa-icans.

      really any game with real money transaction should be considered gambling and restricted. gacha and fomo should add more restrictions on top of that. the level of explotation, abuse, and creepy pedo shit in roblox should get it shut down ten times over.