The only things I know is what I somewhat remember from the plot of Metroid prime on game cube 20+ years ago.

There is also the thing that need to be remembered is that a platform like this attracts and concentrates the people doing the exploitation making the number of people who do this sort of thing seem higher than normal.

Roblox a lot of money be it from free (often child) labor in the form of user generated experiences. Or just allowing the sexual exploitation because the people doing the exploitation spend money.

They are interacting with meaning they are not monitoring if they really are playing with other children they know or strange, probably grown people from the internet. And the. There is the capitalism of it all because at the end of the day allowing all of this makes

In order to boost ratings. This means that a thing like Roblox provides a “safe” thing for the children to do inside the house while supposedly still being social. However the detachment that parents have from children’s culture means they have no curiosity as to what the kid is doing or who

There is a paranoia (especially in white suburban America) that there are gangs or criminal roaming the streets and playgrounds to snatch little 10yr old Cindy off the street if mom so much a blinks. This idea was fostered by the news of the last 20 years that would create these ideas

I showed Liz this post and she is very jealous

As I am writing these posts it’s really hitting me how oh wait this isn’t actually interesting it’s just climate change allegory on accident 🙃

But the thing is not going to reach their corner of the galaxy for millennia. How would they react? Looking at the night sky and knowing even seeing the approaching horizon of doom. Who would hope to find a way to escape? Who would be consumed by despair?

To me there is a time and place for the discussion and psycho-sexual analysis about the different “categories” of this kind of sex criminal and those places and times are in good faith, focused, academic research or discussion. And not spread around by a tv news host.

Trying to speed run Ozymandius

Also the fact that not a single one of the senators who voted for it are up for reelection until at least 2028 if at all is so fucking sus. It screams that they are banking on a short memory by their constituents. And to try to prevent inspiring primary candidates against whoever voted for this shit

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