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RE: RL Peeves
@Aria Can’t slap them, I’ve got this tricky shoulder y’see…
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RE: RL Peeves
I don’t know if this is entirely an RL peeve, since it has crossover, but I just saw a question on r/AskHistorians that frames MUing as something that happened in the Distant Past. Things I have personally done shouldn’t exist in the same conversational context as Alexander the fucking Generally Alright.
“In the late 1900s…”
I’m not going to slap you, but I am going to think about it with great relish.
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RE: Arx
literally one of my favorite things was reading what everyone was wearing.
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RE: Arx
short, elevator-pitch style summary of what this game was about
So many minigames, you dont even know.
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RE: Age Verification & Games
I have protections on my kid’s device. I check it. I’m in the room with her.
She was still able to google sexually explicit material.
The only way to keep kids safe 100% is to keep them off altogether and, in my opinion, will only make them MORE vulnerable when they are older and the behaviors are explicit.
I’m okay with an additional step to help me out as a parent.
This might be veering off-topic, but I think I’d be a lot more OK with a minor googling literotica than I would be with them engaging in erotica with adults in a glorified chat server, where exchanging off-game contact details to further discuss the content is common.
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RE: Age Verification & Games
I’m okay with an additional step to help me out as a parent.
I’d be more okay with it if it weren’t implemented so stupidly.
And even then, we have rights to privacy just as strong as your rights to security. It’s an age-old debate between security and liberty, and in the era of rising authoritarianism, it’s hard to simply accept “help me protect the children” as justification, even if that’s a side benefit to the loss of personal liberty.
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RE: Age Verification & Games
I think people are missing the much bigger picture here.
No, most of us know that. We care about it. We also try to avoid talking about politics, it’s like the one rule we have.
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RE: Arx
I would add that it also had a theme of heroes/villains coming into their own, which is hardly unique to Arx, but because of where the game started, and where it ended, the events leading up to the final battle/final battle/epilogue were also the ones where the PCs became the shapers of the future, supplanting or defeating the last of the old (old old) guard that had largely become stagnating forces on the world.
