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Steam: Are you old enough to view this game? It has graphic content.

Me: Good morrow kind purveyor of magic entertainment-box wonders! I was born in the grand old year of nineteen hundred and eleven!

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Yes I was born 1900-01-01 now let me in Steam.

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Seems legit, you may enter

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Did you know that if you’re in a room of 50 people, over half of them will share this birthday on steam. Crazy how common it is. Statistics are weird.

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You made me laugh. Thanks.

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I miss Leisure Suit Larry’s age verification. Didn’t work then either but at least you ended up learning some interesting trivia.

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Never played it. Can you explain a bit more? You got me curious.

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Never played it either. Looks like it asked random trivia questions that I guess kids wouldn’t know.

http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.html

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“Peter piper picked pickled peppers” seems weird to me as an age verification, but maybe that’s because the game is old?

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Was this actually an age gate, or was it a form of copy protection where the answers are in the printed manual?

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It was an old ‘kings quest’ style adventure game featuring ‘adult’ content, though I don’t think it was much past PG-13 really. You had to answer a series of trivia questions to play that were supposed to be things only an adult would probably know. I remember some questions like “What is Havarti: Cheese, A Country, Species of Fish”.

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That verification really did put a hurdle in front of kids back in the pre-internet era.

…and adults outside USA who don’t know shit about baseball trivia or comedians famous in West Wisconsin City.

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Lol, top tier security there.

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I’m still pissed off that PornHub is no longer available in Texas.

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It’s also too bad that VPNs don’t work in Texas … Wink wink nudge nudge.

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Brave has a Tor browser, but I cannot get any extensions to work for downloading videos.

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I’ve never used Tor or Brave, but if you have a URL to a video you like, you should be able to use it to download your preferred video through a command line interface using a VPN.

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The alternative is ID verification.

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Which some states have been requiring. These states have never heard of VPNs and think that a law will keep porn away fRoM tHe ChiLdReN.

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o te hie

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