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[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago

i read that AS 10% global warming revenue (Id Like to put an emoji Here)

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 165 points 1 week ago (22 children)

My much more resonable goal is to never play Roblox.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I decided to try guilded.gg as an alternative to discord finally, only to find out they now require a Roblox account to log in. So much for that idea.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Matrix.org is a good alternative, teamspeak's new client also uses the matrix protocol

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But how's the roblox integration?

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

good point, i think you're right, guilded is better

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to run a Mumble server at home on an RPi, the sound was way better than Discord, but I didn't like how it made my IP appear on shodan, I also didn't like needing to keep it updated.

I work in IT, I don't want to work at home.

So I moved to using Steam, but due to network issues on my end that didn't work, so we moved to Discord.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

I want the chat aspect of discord. I use it for my business (local game shop) to keep customers updated on preorders, new releases, and events at the shop, and to just chat with everyone. It has a much better reach than Facebook or Instagram.

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Minecraft modpacks all the way baby. Just wish mojang never sold out

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Wdym??? Are you not excited for Corporate Soullessness: The Movie?????

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 74 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and absolutely no linux. fuck those kids.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

Inoculate your kids against Roblox, today!

[–] _bcron@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago

1 billion? Are they hoping for the boomers to drive this home? Good luck Roblox

[–] ech@lemm.ee 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

PeopleMakeGames has a great video about how Roblox makes money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

And the followup when they got heat from roblox in response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Spoiler: it's child exploitation

[–] ech@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Should definitely still watch the videos. The full extent of the exploitation is sickening.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The best kid of exploitation.

[–] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Holy smokes I had a bad gut feeling from the little I had seen of the game and some comments others have made but I had no idea the extent of the company’s depravity. Thank you so much for posting the videos these were very helpful.

[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A lead Roblox dev went to prison recently for locking up children in his basement. It's actually crazy how far you have to dig to find this news. But he got two life sentences

Anyone remember Shedletsky? Yeah that's him

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

10% of all global gaming revenue? Does that include mobile games?

How close are they to that now? It doesn't seem like they're even as big as Minecraft.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dude that's not even close to the most insane part. They expect one in every 8 humans on the whole earth to play EVERY DAY.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

I didn't count, is that how many there are? WOW, that's a big ask. I think I'll do my part and die someday to make room for another whatever this game is we're talking about player

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How fucking delusional do you have to be to earnestly suggest that this is your goal

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's the ceo of a kids drug, ofc he's delusional. I just ran into another roblox addicted kid a few weeks ago. Good luck getting that shit out of their brains!

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not just a drug, also the largest child labour force!

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How so? I only tried it a little

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago

Kids make the games.

It's child labor in the same way Super Mario Maker is, except Roblox actually pays the account.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That would certainly explain suddenly forcing Guilded users to have Roblox accounts to use a chat app. Get fucked, Roblox.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No you misunderstand, they want to fix the shrinking birthrates and help developing nations get wealthy enough to have internet access and disposable income! And also fix global overpopulation symptoms! They're not delusional about having 1/8 of the planet's population as a user base, they're philanthropists!

[–] match@pawb.social 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what stage of capitalism is it when Roblox tries to make you have more babies so they can get them into their child labor game

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Sounds like roblox stage capitalism. Or slave owner mindset, I guess? Buy 2 slaves, force them to breed nonstop for extra slaves, profit

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 24 points 1 week ago

This just in, Roblox is reportedly in talks with Kaminoans to pump out 100 million new Roblox users ever month, starting April 2027

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

No. Roblox sucks.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

Roblox plans to surpass NVIDIA in market cap

[–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kids will realize some day what garbage Roblox actually is. And then the ride will be over.

[–] monogram@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

What’s more likely is adulthood + next generation enthralled at a different game

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

You're welcome!

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Roblox is evil? That sucks, just picked up the game like a week ago cus an old friend of mine plays it frequently and I wanted to tag along sigh

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