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Slight correction:
As an old: You kids and your TeamSpeak .. back in my day Ventrilo, and we were happy to have it! (uphill both ways or something about my lawn).
back in my day Ventrilo
Ahh "Vent." My biggest memory there is people trolling with the sign-on TTS.
"My ROFLCOPTER GOES SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI...."
Anybody remember the brief flash in the pan that was "X-fire"? Haha
Back in the day my college had very strict filtering on the WiFi. I learned how to use SSH tunneling through PuTTY to bypass the firewall to connect to X-Fire. I was so 1337.
I can still hear the ripping jeans sound effect
YES!!
When I stall and forget what the heck I was saying, thanks to this video I'll sometimes just go "...uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...AEIOU..."
Probably about how I'd react to having to fix a component on a moon base too. XD
"Snake? SNAKE? Saaaaaaake 🍶...."
You think that's old? Let's talk ICQ.
I'm that old too!
But that's way before I started real online gaming, where Vent was during the peak of my online gaming days.
This is the part where my mom would mention party lines.
In some rural areas there was something like not every house had a unique phone number, but as a side effect you could just pick up the phone and talk to all the people on that same party line at once.
I lived in a rural area and the nearest phone for emergencies belonged to one house that lived a quarter mile away.
The owner of the phone got hooked on WoW on dial-up at some point and basically ended the party line for everyone.
Squatting on a party-line to play WoW is just a wild pairing of technological eras to me. If we go by the invention date of the former they're more than a century apart (1878).
Also: rude!
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Meanwhile, I have a 16-year-old son who plays Roblox a decent amount, they do facial scanning and then put you in groups based on their assessment. Or at least that is my understanding. Dude just turned 16 this week, but they put him in the over 21 category. Granted he does have a full beard and has a ridiculously deep voice, but he did at 14 just like I did. I'm not worried about him gaming with older people though, he doesn't really want to leave the house so he's not going to get raped by some predator, plus the 21+ crowd is generally more mature. And whatever they have to say, he's probably already heard it anyway. And I dare a predator to come here lol. They'd never find him.
Granted he does have a full beard and has a ridiculously deep voice
Reminds me of my high school buddy that had a beard / deep voice, and looked just like his older brother. He would use his brother's old drivers license to buy beer and smokes for us.
they do facial scanning and then put you in groups based on their assessment.
That's....SO creepy.
It's fucking wild. I want to go back to 1999 when the N64 was the hot thing and the government wasn't tracking everything everyone does everywhere all the time.
Thank you 9/11
I'm in my mid thirties and I sure as hell am not giving my identity documents to a service that gets hacked every other week
May as well go on the dark web and add your personal info to the latest database dump from whatever hackers. Will be funny once the credit reporting agencies get all the identity theft fraud from the leaked data. Of course, they’ve been breached themselves probably more than some gamer chat forum because their security is a joke. It’s like at this point, the only reason not to post your personal info is so you don’t get swatted when you make a comment someone doesn’t like about Nicki Minaj or some other asshole.
There's loads of other reasons to be anonymous online too.
Mostly for your own physical safety. Also none of this crap is about protecting kids. Middle aged wine-moms need to parent their stupid kids instead of letting the family iPad be the caretaker. Pornstars aren't at fault if little timmy sees a pair of tits or a vagina, that would be the kid's parents who are at fault
If you use Discord as a forum for your project/game/whatever, this is the perfect time to stop doing that. Seriously.
Just install Discourse, or a commercial product such as XenForo (they have a pay-once self-hosted option), or even phpBB.
We need project forums to be discoverable, easy to access, not tied to a commercial platform.
Discord is shit as a forum anyway - it's a chat room.
It was a lot easier to find answers or reply to questions on phpbb forums.
Not an unpopular opinion, I know, but I will die on the hill of Discord being the worst possible service for anyone who thinks they want to offer support for their software.
It's so comically bad for what SO MANY people use it, and is genuinely a point at which I'll just abandon the software and look for something that has an actual support forum.
Yeah I genuinely can't stand the layout of some of the support sections in discord.
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I literally just did this. Except I'm not trying to drop any money into it at the moment, so I did a free hosting option (flarum).
I'm also going to hijack this comment to shamelessly plug my new forum, in the hopes someone might be willing to come join (https://unfinishedprojects.flarum.cloud/).
My discord account is old enough to buy alcohol but yet they think I’m 13 because I play Minecraft to much while discord is open.
Right. I should be able to be common sensed through age verification at this point.
It's not about your age though, it's about getting your information, that's the entire problem. Don't let them tell you otherwise, they and the government are getting and keeping this information no matter what they tell you.
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What's that? Is it like IRC with a GUI? /s
You can already pretend to be a kid in a room with other kids on discord! There's a HUGE CSAM problem on it.
Matrix + Element.
It’s open source, decentralized (federated), supports voice/video, roles, persistent rooms, and you can self-host if you want full control. It’s basically the only thing that feels like a real discord replacement without being locked into one company’s servers.
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I stood my ground on not using this useless software for like 10 years. If there was no in-game chat or voice I just didn't, but almost all games where that is necessary have it.
How validated I feel as it crumples.
i made an acct last week because my lesbian game night group decided to start a ToR clan. none of us are going to age verify, so i guess we're going to get a new app. if i can convince them.
Are you a bad enough lesbian to set up matrix?
This is amazing. Especially out of context.
Just use a picture of your dead grandpa, I'm sure he won't mind..
I tried to do that, but some guy ran up to me and shouted something about "desecrating" and graves"
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