Re:Roblox CEO Makes a Fool of Himself in Car-Crash Interview
by actionfromafar on Saturday November 22, 2025 @06:11AM
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It must be tiring though to keep the "neutral" approach for every article. How many benefits of doubts is Roblox owed, really? Asking for a more neutral tone is almost akin to asking for Hunter S Thompson to rewrite "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved" in a more neutral tone.
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Re:Roblox CEO Makes a Fool of Himself in Car-Crash Interview
by noitpmeder on Saturday November 22, 2025 @06:25AM
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Let the facts speak for themselves. I agree the interview sounds damning. However it reduces the quality of the article to introduce Roblox as a "pedophile hellscape" right off the bat, or tell me how it was so impressive how the interviewer "kept his cool" in response to the answers.
It's honestly the same style of writing anytime Fox news reports on any democratic action, or vice versa for other rags. Except this has a nice dose of "think of the children" that further lets them pull on heartstrings.
Again, fuck Roblox and their lack of an ability to improve on these issues, but this is just trash writing and editing.
Re:Roblox CEO Makes a Fool of Himself in Car-Crash Interview
by DonHopkins on Saturday November 22, 2025 @06:43AM
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Are you suggesting they should have introduced it as a "pedophile paradise" right of the bat instead?
Re:Roblox CEO Makes a Fool of Himself in Car-Crash Interview
by noitpmeder on Saturday November 22, 2025 @06:57AM
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Yes 1000% I'm glad you correctly interpreted my actual intent here.
Re:Roblox CEO Makes a Fool of Himself in Car-Crash Interview
by dgrin91 on Saturday November 22, 2025 @10:23AM
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If a journalist does not at least attempt to present their viewpoint as neutral I will immediate presume they have irrational bias and grow skeptical of what the journalist is telling me - no matter what side of the issue their bias is on. In other words, if you talk to me like a salesman I will presume you are trying to sell me and I wont want to buy.
Talk to me like an adult. Tell me what happened. That doesn't mean sugarcoating it. When I read the quotes and combine that with my existing knowledge of Roblox I can come to my own conclusions just fine.
Re:Roblox CEO Makes a Fool of Himself in Car-Crash Interview
by mcphage on Sunday November 23, 2025 @03:25PM
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> If a journalist does not at least attempt to present their viewpoint as neutral I will immediate presume they have irrational bias and grow skeptical of what the journalist is telling me
So you’re saying you have an irrational bias against other people having opinions? Fascinating.