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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.
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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.
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/
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
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.
Why do you hate America? Our system has made us the best country in the world.
He hates your freedom (to manipulate and prey on little kids).
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Is a business pandering to sexual acceptance really among the most disruptive and imposing societal affects you can think of? Can you really even compare this to stereotypically socially-right behaviors like voting against abortion clinics and literally deciding that entire countries of people aren't allowed in the US, even if they're a US citizen and visiting their family?
It's really mind boggling. Left-wing bullshit is really played out, but it's hard to find a victim other than tortured souls like you that have to read words on their computer screen.
also, i'm sure you'll try to act like literal rioting in the streets is "leftist ideology", or something similarly retarded.
Club Penguin is a leftist conspiracy?
Got it.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
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
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.
How is this at all a "leftist" thing? Bad/trivial entertainment is bad/trivial entertainment. This is no different than what now pollutes prime time on Discovery + History channel ... ice road truckers ... all that crap
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
He's a boy who likes make-up. BFD. Sure it's not normal but normal is overrated.
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My first tought was that it's some obscure linux distro. Such a thing would be at least somewhat sad.
Ditto. Then I came for the perv comments.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
You may trust me on this one: The average "leftist" is about as fed up and pissed about those self styled professional victims as the average "rightist" is about the religious nutjobs.
Yes, they exist. Yes, they piss me off. Fringe groups exist in both political camps. Get used to them. The quicker you ignore them, the faster they probably will go away.
Sadly, we can no longer point to the right and claim that only you have loonies with no grasp of reality in your ranks. We now have them too.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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.
Is it too early for a Michael Jackson joke?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Is a business pandering to sexual acceptance really among the most disruptive and imposing societal affects you can think of?
More like a symptom of a fatal disease. Coughing up blood because of stomach cancer perhaps. The blood isn't going to kill you but it sure ain't good.
A society that cannot tell the difference between up and down, boys and girls, sickness and health will not survive.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
I thought it was a Linux web forum until I read TFS.
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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)
you sound like a freak also.
When I was a teenager I got my ham radio operator license. So yeah.
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Original Group, basically the Closed Beta group of most things these days, like people who got their GMail accounts back when they were invite only.
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CONFORM! It's the only way that the AC can validate his (or her) choices in life. If everyone does the same thing, then of course that was the optimal thing to do.
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Where will 4chan's purple penguins spend they time now ? :-)
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You're slightly confused about what 'left wing' means.
You're also very strangely upset about the teen magazine CoverGirl having a boy on the cover. I don't really want to try to understand why, but you probably should.
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.
"false accusations of racism/sexism/intolerance/etc"
They're not always false. I'd say OP is case in point.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
Absolutely. The fringes always claim The One True Path, and without them we'll run off the road.
They don't realize that they're already off the road.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
Why are gender identity issues such a huge fucking deal? Who gives a shit. You realize that failing to actualize an identity during adolescence is very unhealthy and usually leads to very real psychological issues, right? Like literally one of the key elements in collecting yourself as an identity in Erikson's stages of development is coming to terms with sexual identity. If these people feel this way, why is it literal nuclear meltdown? Maybe these people are actually hurting and aren't just trying to make your life worse by feeling sexually comfortable?
Why are gender identity issues such a huge fucking deal? Who gives a shit.
Exactly. They are not a big deal. A society that tries to make a big deal out of them by cramming trannies into completely unrelated media, or tries to tell young people who have a mental illness that they are in fact "normal" and "healthy" is a sick society. Shut up about tranny shit in the media and let the mentally ill sort shit out with their therapists.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
That's fair enough.
I think there is valid cause for it, though. Mental health has, historically, been stigmatized. It's only very recently in the grand scheme that people have actually sought care. I think we're at a point where most people who feel shitty enough will act on it, though.