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I miss the era of the internet with random games on every website (lemmy.world)
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[–] werewolfborg@ttrpg.network 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

While it frustrated me as a kid, I think Poptropica’s method of players speaking to each other through prewritten dialog options was the safest option to keep things from getting weird or contact continuing on another platform where the site creators can’t keep kids safe anymore. If they just relied on word filters, people would just type differently to get around them and the words “face” and “book” wouldn’t be banned even if “Facebook” was.