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Why 18-20 are isolated from 21+? Aren't they all adult or in some countries children develop slower?
by codedokode 5mo ago
Why 18-20 are isolated from 21+? Aren't they all adult or in some countries children develop slower?
- JumpCrisscross 5mo ago> Why 18-20 are isolated from 21+? We have 18-year olds in high school in America. The headline risk from a 40-something sleeping with a high-school student is probably something Roblox wants to get ahead of.
- enceladus06 5mo agoYes but an 18yo can also buy a gun, get drafted into the military, and produce OF/porn. But no alcohol.
- breezybottom 5mo agoSure. What does that have to do with Roblox?
- Insanity 5mo agoThat’s just a US quirk. In many countries you can buy alcohol when you’re 18+. It’s odd that you can do everything but drink. Like you can go to work, drive home to your wife and kids, but can’t have a beer lol.
- JumpCrisscross 5mo ago> That’s just a US quirk My understanding is it’s because of car culture. Drunk-driving deaths drove up the drinking age [1]. [1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Why-Is-the-US-Drinking-Age-21 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Why-Is-the-US-Drinking-Age-...
- lokar 5mo agoAlso it would increase illegal transfer of alcohol to underage peers, in theory. But high school kids who want beer have no major problems getting already. It’s up to each state, but the federal government threatens funding if they get out of line.
- Aeolun 5mo agoThey could fix this by lowering the drinking age. Not by raising it. If you have two years of experience being drunk and then start driving you know exactly what you are in for. If you’ve been confidently driving for years and then suddenly pair that with alcohol… complete opposite effect.
- Insanity 5mo agoSeems like they should have raised the driving age. Also, having taken a driving exam in NA and EU, NA is laughably easy. So not a surprise that drivers are unprepared, especially young ones.
- seanmcdirmid 5mo agoIt’s hard in many transit-desert communities to get around without a car, heck where I lived the DL age was 15.
- Ferret7446 5mo agoThey can drink, just not publicly.
- mothballed 5mo agoDepends on the state. In some, even children under 18 can drink in a bar if their parents buy (I think Wisconsin). And its not all the US at 21 to buy, in Puerto Rico you can buy alcohol at 18. Federally all those are legal at 18.
- enceladus06 5mo agoStates that do not comply get 8% less transportation funding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_.... Funding is obviously more important than those between the age of 18-20 being able to drink alcohol. These same men (18-20) would be the first to drafted to go die for the politicians enabling these laws.
- dismalaf 5mo agoUS drinking age probably being used as a proxy for "adult-ness".
- stebalien 5mo agoThey aren't: > Users only speak to other players ±1 age group I.e., 18-20 can speak to 16-17 AND 21+, but 21+ can only speak to 18+
- TheCoreh 5mo agoThis seems like a very reasonable system to ensure e.g. you and your classmate/friends can still interact as you grow up and switch age brackets. I wonder how families etc deal with it though? Can you play with your younger sibling/cousin? Is there some sort of parental approval/override?
- isiahl 5mo agoYou can still play with those outside your age groups, you just can’t communicate.
- subscribed 5mo agoI can play with my kids but we're not allowed to talk. They're not allowed to talk with each other as well. This sucks big time, and it will even more, because we soon won't be aple to play together at all: https://thenextweb.com/news/roblox-age-gated-account-tiers-kids-select-child-safety https://thenextweb.com/news/roblox-age-gated-account-tiers-k...
- finaard 5mo agoThe last time (that I remember) people wanted to talk in a game, but could not teamspeak showed up.