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[-] D61@hexbear.net 58 points 3 months ago

Alright Turkey, you got your "one good deed" this year.

Spend the next four months thinking of what you want to do next year.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 48 points 3 months ago
[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Based action by a not so based country.

Also just gacr the article a quick skim. Seems it's largely to do with protecting kids from pedophelia/sexual abuse, which I would imagine is a large problem on Roblox. Doesn't have anything to do with the real exploitation of child labor that has been documented and posted about on here before.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 29 points 3 months ago

its effectively a large problem for any community that has a majority kid userbase with communications on. It's why in Flipnote 3d wasnt released for western audiences, as it was used by pedos in Japan to talk to children.

Bascially any popular game with children functionally has to have children comms turned off else it'd be a problem, and the only way thats being implemented is if its banned completely, or parents start monitoring what their children do/play (and we know the latter option is never happening because parents will never accept blame)

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

I saw clips of Roblox introducing voice chat which seems horrifying lol

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

Which, I cannot stress this enough, fucking sucks. Kids shouldn't have to deal with this shit, they should just be able to play and be weirdo little chaos beings. : (

[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Flipnote 3D could've been downloaded through club Nintendo though it has no online features. You can only share animations by connecting to another 3DS locally which I'm pretty sure no one did.

Swapnote got completely shut down for the child abuse reasons you mentioned though. It got replaced by Swapdoodle years later which is the same thing, but without the ability to attach photos. Also with a ton of monetization.

[-] pooh@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago
[-] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago

Turkey is a turkish country. I am not surprised

[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago
[-] Spike@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago

Turkey banned Instagram and now Roblox. This officially makes them the best NATO country

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

Extremely critical support.

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

Turkish Minecraft user base 👀

[-] Finger@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

no more half measures walter

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

What exactly is Roblox? I see the name but I have no idea what it is. Can anyone give me a quick explanation? From what I've seen it looks like animated block dudes ala Lego or Minecraft

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Pretty much, but a lot of the content (servers, skins, etc) are player made. A lot of things can be purchased with their monetized currency.

Kids make content->Roblox sells in game currency->Currency is spent on content made by said kids

Edit: I guess this didn’t actually answer your question.

Players program and design games in like a server builder. People have made Call of Duty, mobile-ish clicker games, pirate battles, Starfield-esque servers. There are limitations but there’s been some pretty high quality servers made. Pretty sure they are almost all player made.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

That helps a lot. It sounded pretty great until you mentioned the monetization.

"Kids making games for other kids? How wholesome!" bloomer

"In-game currency." agony-shivering

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

As near as I can tell it's a very adaptable, easy to use framework for making video games. Speaking completely from ignorance it's kids making games for kids so the games appeal very strongly to kids. While this is very cool in a democratization of art kind of way Roblox is 100% explotative bullshit.

[-] autism_2@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

This is true, but also the top games tend to be created by teams of young adults and include (or just are) gacha for small children

[-] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

WTF I LOVE ERDOGAN NOW

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago
[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Hell yeah let’s go

[-] neroiscariot@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Any parent that has been asked to purchase Robux will tell you that this is a good thing

[-] execia@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

Turkey is a fascist country. I am not surprised

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 53 points 3 months ago

Fascism is when you don't allow child exploitation through video games, and the more child exploitation through video games you don't allow, the fascister you are.

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

Damn you beat me to it

[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 43 points 3 months ago

Turkey is a fascist country

no shit, it's part of NATO

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago

Yet the liberty loving US will allow children to be exploited without consequence

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

Child Exploitation is Awesome*

*As long as the operation is profitable

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago

Fascism is when no child exploitation

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

What an incredibly bad take by someone from the apparently pro-child abuse shithole that is reddit.today

All gamer-gulag must be sent to reeducation facilities for their own good.

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

In good faith - what are you getting at here? Turkey sucks, yeah, but...wut?

[-] Yor@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Fascism is when im not allowed to play roblox.

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