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Are you sure it’s not just one person downloading it for each version of Linux they’ve tried to get running? /s
It is good to see the move, been linux gaming for almost 3 years now and never looked back.
Roblox has serious issues with kid safety, this is not good
The biggest problem I see on this case is basically the guy on the top calling these “people” an “opportunity” and then go after people that were actually doing something about it.
Basically the ceo is an enabler, and probably a pedo too. Pedos will go wherever kids are. Its up to the platforms and parents to also shield their kids
Love the uptick in Linux usage but Roblox is digital heroin for kids and has a serious problem with PDF files. Any advertising of roblox is not great.
This is not TikTok. You can say paedophiles.
PDF files? What does the game have to do with PDF files?
5·23 hours agoPDF files sounds somewhat like pedophiles. I don’t know why verdi didn’t just write out pedophile.
Oh, true, lol. Thanks. Maybe it was voice input.
I don’t like to use the word on social media that is usually crawled. I don’t want to have a specific fedi instance be associated with unsavoury subjects by no fault of their own.
aka, a bit paranoid.
I guess we as a society will never get rid of pedophiles as long as we are so afraid of being stigmatized that we can’t even call pedophile a “pedophile”.
It’s “Pedophile in chief” nowadays.
Weird way of spelling “Donald Trump”, was it autocorrect?
You know, it’s now occuring to me that I have absolutely no clue what Roblox actually is. It’s been around forever, I’ve been seeing gift cards for it in stores for I’m pretty sure well over a decade, I hear lots of talk about all of the dangers and how addictive it is for kids, etc.
But I haven’t the foggiest idea what the game is actually like. To the best of my knowledge I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a single screenshot of it, at least not one that was clearly labeled as being from Roblox.
And while I’m a childfree curmudgeon in my 30s, I do have a few friends with kids that I see with some regularity, and I’ve never heard any of them mention Roblox even in passing.
I feel like I’m in a really weird bubble of roblox-ignorance, I’m not exactly mad about it, but it feels weird that for as big as Roblox is supposed to be that I’ve never seen anyone talk about the actual game, just how big of a problem it is.
I think it’s like SecondLife or Metaverse for kids. I saw a short video about it, where kids were being exploited for labor. E.g. some of the kids had managers, forcing them to crunch creating and promoting content for Robux, or whatever it’s called. Also saw an interview with the CEO, where he said he’d be open to adding adult content to the game (which is sus considering the problems the game is having with predators). I’ve also noticed the game is rated for teenagers on the Play Store, but I’m pretty sure it’s targeted toward younger kids.
Roblox is actually less of a game, and more of a game engine and storefront. You open up Roblox and have a large selection of games, you can click play on. So there isn’t any one screenshot of it, or one description of “the game.”
Yeah. It’s almost more like Steam, complete with unmoderated social platform functionality.
Vinegar used to be open source before it got blocked by roblox after becoming a hacker haven. The studio version still exists and updated. This is the mobile apk running smh. It would be nice if they open sourced it cause it works really well.
Speaking of which, I’m trying to move my household over to Linux to have more control and whatnot.
Does anybody know of a less invasive/problematic Roblox like game?
For now I play along with my kid to keep an eye out which is mildly fun but not always a valid solution.
polytoria is the best one its pretty janky right now but they are doing a godot rewrite its unity right now
Thx!
Edit: politoria looks great but apparently they just got bought by Roblox and they’re gonna merge. Damn.
It’s likely a joke it’s not posted by the owner willem steller and roblox hasn’t announced anything in their newsroom also their admins are pretty critical of roblox
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I like how the third one is just an illegal clone of a copyrighted game.
To my knowledge, it is a recreation of the game engine, and requires the original game to run. I don’t believe that is illegal.
While I think it is a recompile, you don’t need the original assets, it just works. I guess it’s abandonware and the original rights holders don’t care?
Ah, so lots of pedos started using Linux? That’ll bring some donation money, I guess.
Or just relatives playing games with their kids, cause playing on mobile is horrible.
