• NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world
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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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    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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          “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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          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.