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Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • Zorro@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation”English
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    3 months ago

    You are smoking crack if you think Roblox is a gmod knockoff, but everything else, unfortunately, yeah. I played Roblox in 2012 and it was pretty fun at 11 years old but the pay2win stuff was out of control even back then.

    There were a few weird roleplay servers but back then it really just felt like “playing house” online, but the fact that anyone regardless of age could hop in at any time and send socials was fucking weird to me even as a kid.

    It needs a serious rework of how the platform works if they want to continue marketing themselves as for children. The game has seen barely any safety improvements from what I’ve seen of current gameplay and mfs are wilin on the internet nowadays

  • Zorro@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Aspartame: Sweetener used in Diet Coke possibly causes cancer, WHO set to declareEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Full disclosure I’m going completely tangential for this one.

    I find it believable at best that aspartame can cause cancer, but causing weight gain just makes no sense to me.

    I used to be FAT. 250 lbs. I didn’t really make that many changes to my diet, except for cutting refined sugars way back.

    I switched to Diet Coke, got off the little debbies, and I slimmed right down and now I’m hovering around 135.

    It would make sense to say that I would maintain that weight or maybe gained more if aspartame was as harmful as this article says, but I’m not seeing it.