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The Last Days of Club Penguin (theoutline.com)
Club Penguin, a decade-old tween-focused social network by Disney is shutting down. From a report on The Outline: Club Penguin, which launched in 2005, will shutter on March 29, ending an 11-year run that at its peak drew 200 million users to the site. While the traffic has reportedly been in decline over the past few years -- the OG Club Penguin kids have mostly aged out (most of the site's user are 8-13), and there's growing competition from other social networking games, like the new LEGO Life -- fans both young and old are reacting to the news with emotions that run the Kubler-Ross gamut. Some have been reduced to shell-like human embodiments of the Loudly Crying Face emoji. James Charles, the beauty-obsessed 17-year-old Instagram star who was recently announced as the first male face of CoverGirl, tweeted, "my entire childhood is going down the drain wow I'm gonna cry RIP greendude50." Others are lashing out, attempting speedruns or willfully disobeying chat rules in the hopes of getting booted in an act of you-can't-fire-me-I-quit defiance. And of course, plenty are soaking up the last days, taking part in the community-wide "Waddle On" celebration that's essentially a G-rated version of an end-of-days rager.
WTF is OG?
said pedophiles everywhere
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
It was a good environment for my kids to explore, lots of fun activities and the chat was *strictly* controlled, with only approved words and phrases available for use. May not suit an older kid, but for the 6 yro who's just learning the ropes, it was one place I could let him explore without fear.
What a disgusting market, targeting kids to spill their secrets for advertising gain where they can never be deleted - until the little slave grows up to bigger, better datamines...
There is one user, but most of him is 8-13?
Um, wow.
Obligatory shout out to my nephew... who cut his artistic and video creativity with Club Penguin...
One of his classics here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZx2zYk0JsU/
My first tought was that it's some obscure linux distro. Such a thing would be at least somewhat sad.
slashdot: CIA spy scandal documents are being released!
internet: meh.
slashdot: club penguin is closing
internet: this is harambe and 9/11 rolled into one.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Fine!
I'll build my own Club Penguin, with blackjack and hookers!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
When a Slashdot summary, of all places, contains an absurd sentence like this
then I really start to think that we're finally seeing the peak of the rampant leftism that has infected the Internet for the past 8 to 10 years.
I think that average people have finally had enough of this sort of leftism. They just don't want to deal with it any longer. They're tired of the gender confusion imposed by leftists. They're tired of the constant false accusations of racism/sexism/intolerance/etc./etc. coming from leftists. They're tired of petty criminals being portrayed as "martyrs" by leftists. They're tired of "peaceful protests" led by leftists that involve property damage and violence.
Average folks have had enough of it. They want society to return to a state of normalcy and civility. They've had enough of leftism.
The free market has spoken. If this was a problem it would correct itself.
This is a company that booby traps its games with phone home features to check and be sure the Mouse still says it's okay to play promotional movie games on your phone. One day, your kid can play the pointy clicky phone game, the next day, screw you kid, won't launch ever again. They seem to love taking things away, just because they can. Concerned parents should teach kids young that Disney, like other corporations, cannot be trusted.
Cloudiot: A person who does not see offsite storage as a way to lose control over access to his or her own data.
" James Charles, the beauty-obsessed 17-year-old Instagram star who was recently announced as the first male face of CoverGirl"
Seriously, what a complete and total freak.
I was sad when the Igloo Club shut down. Let's go Pens.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
The free market has spoken. If this was a problem it would correct itself.
Aye, the invisible hand of Adam Smith, or something like that.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
Someone's 3rd member obscuring your vision of whats truly news-worthy?
Again?
let me guess, you never saw it coming.. Right.
Those Dice guys, allways letting shit in the way..
Being fisted by the invisible hand ... sounds like it's straight out of some hentai.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I'm pretty sure that's a Chuck Tingle novel actually... (The Hugo-nominated authors of titles such as Slammed In The Butthole By My Concept Of Linear Time and The Handsome Pretendo Swap Joysticks And Portable Screen Slam My Butt While Also Allowing Me To Control My Game)
Being Slashdot, I thought some Linux sites was shutting down. Disney? Meh... don't care.
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Where will 4chan's purple penguins spend they time now ? :-)
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Hang on a sec ... if you read the Club Penguin announcement, they are not closing down Club Penguin but replacing the current version with a new one. Sounds like a big fuss about nothing.