It was fine, arguably a good practice, when physical non-patchable games existed. Especially, say, Pokemon games that would otherwise be sold out for several months, meaning the social aspect was ruined if you didn’t get it as it came out.

Better performance, stability, and usually less fatal interactions with whatever de you’re running.

Well it’s good to have confirmation TES ended with Skyrim and we won’t have to port oblivion to yet another game, ever, for any reason.

IME has been sketchy as fuck since before Intel gained market dominance, much less lost it. I’m surprised it took any semi mainstream media in any country this long to report on it, there have been defcon talks about the massive black hole that is local and ime instructions for Intel chips for at least a decade now.

And the world would have been better for it .

Oh no, anyway let’s hope no one ever funds anything Israeli ever again.

Roblox has robust parental controls, including blocking all forms of chat entirely. If parents fail to use them, as is nearly always the case in modern cases where children are chatting with predators, that’s on the parents. There literally isn’t a solution that isn’t either require an id to access online services, which is a no go in any intelligent society, or disabled chat on any game that a child could reasonably access, which would kill online gaming entirely.

As someone that’s worked in trust and safety for a decade. None of this is new nor unique to Roblox, and Robloxs moderation is better than most.

Every single site, game, online space, program, app, etc that has interactive features has both pedophiles and children on it interacting without active monitoring.

It’s a fact of the Internet. The best you can do is leverage warn and monitor key phrase lists to take action when conversation veers to the obvious inappropriate line. Nothing anyone can do will ever prevent or stop this interaction.

South Korea, like Japan, are a part of the West, having far more and n common with the US than any SEA country or other eastern countries.