Fresh meat volunteering for the front lines!
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I really shouldn't joke, Putin might.
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Fresh meat volunteering for the front lines!
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I really shouldn't joke, Putin might.
They'd probably just stay in Ukraine, that's where most of them were taken from anyway
The children yearn for the... front lines?
They will die with a smile on their face thinking of the motherland!
They can play Роблокс instead
Imagine roblox is the final piece that leads to Russia's inevitable collapse.
Gen Alpha iPad kids are going overthrow Putin
...out of the overwindow?
Don't make me agree with Putin on banning something
Oh, now he's concerned that Roblox is bad for kids? After he bought Trump?
You probably disagree on the reason for the ban, though.
Looking back historians will point to this strategic failure as the first step to Putin's downfall. The children crave the Roblox, the children shall have their Roblox!
Roblox is terrible, probably for the best. Sorry kids.
100% agree. Roblox looks like Minecraft but it’s more like a chatroom with games rather than a game with a chat feature.
A chatroom where 60% of the users are under the age of 16. 40% under 12.
Also extremely exploitative of child labor.
They basically lead the kids on with a carot on a stick to develop in game content with a promise to get rich but the reality is that will never happen.
Edit: This is just a TLDR; and the tip of the iceberg btw. If you have kids I highly recommend doing some research into Roblox specifically how it exploits children by incentivising them with false hope.
If you have kids I highly recommend doing some research
This. It would solve so many problems. I know we’re all out here doing the best we can, but this would do wonders for society.
I agree that it should be heavily regulated, and kids shouldn’t be allowed unsupervised access… But I disagree with why Putin banned it. It’s just anti-LGBT propaganda on Putin’s part.
Hahahaha
Kids are gonna be kids the world over.
The first step in Moscow's capitulation. Gamers will rise up.
Gamers.
He targeted gamers.
So do you send children to a special children's gulag, or do you send the entire family to the same one to avoid separating them?
Am i crazy or putin did a good thing for the first time on his ~~dictatorship~~ government