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[–] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I miss Leisure Suit Larry's age verification. Didn't work then either but at least you ended up learning some interesting trivia.

[–] zippythezigzag@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Never played it. Can you explain a bit more? You got me curious.

[–] skyler@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Never played it either. Looks like it asked random trivia questions that I guess kids wouldn't know.

http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.html

"Peter piper picked pickled peppers" seems weird to me as an age verification, but maybe that's because the game is old?

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Was this actually an age gate, or was it a form of copy protection where the answers are in the printed manual?

[–] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It was an old 'kings quest' style adventure game featuring 'adult' content, though I don't think it was much past PG-13 really. You had to answer a series of trivia questions to play that were supposed to be things only an adult would probably know. I remember some questions like "What is Havarti: Cheese, A Country, Species of Fish".

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

That verification really did put a hurdle in front of kids back in the pre-internet era.

...and adults outside USA who don't know shit about baseball trivia or comedians famous in West Wisconsin City.

[–] zippythezigzag@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol, top tier security there.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It was a legitimate challenge if you didn't have an encyclopedia set handy.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The alternative is ID verification.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which some states have been requiring. These states have never heard of VPNs and think that a law will keep porn away fRoM tHe ChiLdReN.

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still pissed off that PornHub is no longer available in Texas.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's also too bad that VPNs don't work in Texas ... Wink wink nudge nudge.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brave has a Tor browser, but I cannot get any extensions to work for downloading videos.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've never used Tor or Brave, but if you have a URL to a video you like, you should be able to use it to download your preferred video through a command line interface using a VPN.