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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Roblox is a really stupid platform with a lot of really bad exploitive ideas.

    But I think the popularity of games like it and fortnite are huge indicators that we need more third spaces for our children. There’s nowhere really for any kids to hang out easily anymore other than at school or online. When school ends, what are they supposed to do? Sure. Some kids are lucky enough to have transportation and can hang out with each other. Can bike across the neighborhood. But in our car-centric society that’s not so easy for everybody, especially children.

    These online spaces tend to be the easiest route for children to hang out in the modern age. If we want kids to be spending less time online, we need to build them spaces they can spend time in real life.



  • You’re drinking all the tech bro Kool-Aid that the lawyers and paid bots/shills have thrown out there on the internet. Valve has threatened the market dominance of large tech companies and there’s been a ton of negative press pushed for them lately.

    There’s lots of platforms to release your game online Minecraft famously didn’t go on steam and it’s one of the largest games of all time.

    You can self-publish as a solo Dev and make one of the largest games of all time without steam. Tell me how that’s a monopoly.

    You got fortnite out here on the epic game store. Also one of the largest games of all time no steam, no valve. Tell me that’s a monopoly.

    You’ve got itch.io, Gog, Microsoft game store, epic game store, and there’s always the option to skip the PC market and go straight to consoles if you wanted. You have choices as a developer. Steam is just simply the best fucking one.



  • Boys can’t do a thing unless they can look cool?

    There’s a big push in media representation that scientific girls are nerdy and not focused on their looks. Having that opposite representation showing that scientists can be pretty too is important. It shows that girls who are focused on their looks can totally be smart too. Not just to be a role model to young women but to help show men that pretty women have a brain and need to be taken seriously. This was the entire plot of legally blonde.