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If it weren't a nightmare industry, kids making games for other kids would actually be cool and good. I have always found “community creations” to be a good thing for a games and hobbies. Modding, player made content, fan projects I think by themselves are fine and usually healthy, but this sort of kids do all the work and get none of the value is just some vampire shit. It's worse yet Roblox telling the kiddos they have the chance to become a digital superstar if they make the right game. These young creators have nothing but free time to create all sorts of stuff, and these Roblox MEGACORPOS just get to count the dollars. This is actually a clear is example of the means of production shit. the kids make the games, the kids play the games, but because of capitalism they don't get any of the value from the games they make.
Software and games as a service was a fuckin' mistake.
Absolutely....and again....that's why the real problem is capitalism and the inherent exploitation of it. Back when I was a kid I spent months making dragon ball z mods for Jedi Knight and I learned a hell of a lot of really cool shit about 3d, codding, computers in general, et al and I don't regret the experience. This though???
Like...people give Bethesda shit for more or less letting modders "fix" or "complete" their games but just fucking imagine if nexusmods.com got monetized like this shit??? Is that the future?!??!? Cause Fuck that!
Bethesda has been trying to monetize mods for years. I stopped paying attention after the Fallout 76 debacle but they've probably succeeded now.
Is this where GenZdong came from? Kids getting exposed to the truth way earlier than usual?
I did some stuff with Scratch when I was younger, that was fun.
I never used Scratch. It's the introduction to programming tool right? With the little orange cat?
well you code 16 games, and waddaya get?
another day older and full of regret
st. peter doncha call me cause i can't go
i owe my soul to the Roblox store
Fucking christ...as if the fucking games industry wasn't enough of an exploitative dumpster fire. My kid asks me about this stuff a lot and I've always gotten a really bad vibe from the whole thing for gut reasons I couldn't quite explain....and it turns out its somehow infinitely worse then I could have ever imagined!!!!
This channel does good work. Roblox really is just another step in the microtransaction/monetise everything capitalist internet. Can only imagine how much worse there is to come.
Also if we're talking about child labor there's the textile industry
Okay this by the numbers cyberpunk exploitation shit is depressing. We need a blanket rule that everyone who knows how to code has to read Snowcrash and then take a test and if they sound like they're identifying with the bad guy we take them out back and shoot them.
There is nothing worse than sci-fi dorks who read these seminal works and take away nothing but new ideas on how to be the worst, and how to use technology for the worst. Every time some "founder-type™" says they like some sci-fi work, they always seem to take all the wrong messages from it. Then it's paired with their sociopathic ambitions to make that nightmare a reality. You should need to have a license to learn how for-loops work.
Damn, i remember when this game was just internet legos.
See also: https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/96_how_roblox_exploits_children_w_quintin_smith
