Yep. Steam adheres to the legal standard under COPPA, the children's online privacy protection act. Commercial entities in the US should not be emailing or otherwise electronically communicating with individuals under thirteen.
Day 36 has 29 games now. So many puzzles. @Orivon also gifted more games for day 6 (new worlds to explore)
Coming home to see that giant wall of gifts is horrifying every time. Thanks a lot. You remain crazy.
I don't think Happy Fun Ball is going to stop until Isorn has more games in their backlog than Pixie does (and she's only ninety-eight away from 3k herself, hint hint...).
Actually beat a game yesterday. And by beat I mean achieved the Platinum trophy. Dark Souls 1, a game I have played many times since it first came out, but I never actually beat it at any point prior. I would always hit Tomb of Giants and decide that I was done because that darkness was REALLY dark on my TV and even with a light source it was nigh impossible to tell where floors ended into cliffs. So when I saw the entire trilogy on PS4 for sale, including the Remaster of 1 and Complete versions for the other two, I decided to embark on a little project to achieve the Platinum for all three. Which of course meant starting with DS1 yet again.
The Remaster may have really only made things look better, but they looked better enough that in the super dark areas I could actually see well enough. So Tomb of Giants, and Nito, finally fell after who knows how many years. After defeating him I went to the Kiln of the First Flame, an area I'd never seen before, and made my way to Gwyn. He was challenging at first, but after changing some gear around and learning his parry timings he went down without much effort. I walked out the door, saw the ending achievement pop, and had officially beaten Dark Souls 1 for the very first time.
The rest went much faster. I blitzed through NG+ with only minor difficulties, on Ornstein and Smough no less, before the partial run of NG++ to grab the last boss soul I needed and make the trip to Anor Londo. Shortly before midnight yesterday I completed my task and the Dark Soul achievement for Platinum popped on my screen. Dark Souls 1 beaten in its entirety.
I don't think Happy Fun Ball is going to stop until Isorn has more games in their backlog than Pixie does (and she's only ninety-eight away from 3k herself, hint hint...).
I don't think Happy Fun Ball is going to stop until Isorn has more games in their backlog than Pixie does (and she's only ninety-eight away from 3k herself, hint hint...).
I don't think Happy Fun Ball is going to stop until Isorn has more games in their backlog than Pixie does (and she's only ninety-eight away from 3k herself, hint hint...).
But..doesn't that mean Orivon can stop now?
*checks* Well I'll be danged... Never realized this. Guess the Pixie3k mark was too low.
I don't think Happy Fun Ball is going to stop until Isorn has more games in their backlog than Pixie does (and she's only ninety-eight away from 3k herself, hint hint...).
I don't think Happy Fun Ball is going to stop until Isorn has more games in their backlog than Pixie does (and she's only ninety-eight away from 3k herself, hint hint...).
But..doesn't that mean Orivon can stop now?
*checks* Well I'll be danged... Never realized this. Guess the Pixie3k mark was too low.
I don't think Happy Fun Ball is going to stop until Isorn has more games in their backlog than Pixie does (and she's only ninety-eight away from 3k herself, hint hint...).
But..doesn't that mean Orivon can stop now?
Only 354 more games to go.
I saw that post and then so many pop-ups. So many. Oh god why.
Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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But stuff specifically marked as "adults only" is automatically blocked from showing up in the store by default, and you have to opt-in via account settings.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
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I saw a few Among Us gifts go out.
Is there any kind of PA group games going on with that? That seems like the BEST of times waiting to be had. I want to play it so bad but I want to do it with a group of people I know.
So despite what I said on Friday, I went ahead and powered through to the end of Pyer.
Great story, great characters, great music, great world design.
Still don't enjoy the Rites, and I am not a fan of computer screen reading so the Book got maybe half read.
Overall, it was worth the frustration, but I kind wish there was a "tell me a story" mode that let me skip the rites,
I think Hades is the first time Supergiant really got a good handle on engaging and easy to get into gameplay to go along with the story. Of course, the format of the game is very different given it's a Rogue Legacy-like. It's not exactly a relaxing jaunt and while spending time in Early Access has given it a really smooth feel sometimes RNG screws you and later rooms have the diarrhea Christmas lights effect common to a lot of indie 2d action games.
Is there any kind of PA group games going on with that? That seems like the BEST of times waiting to be had. I want to play it so bad but I want to do it with a group of people I know.
So I don't know much about Among Us except that my son and his cronies have been playing it. It looks fun, but does it require voice chat?
It doesn't REQUIRE it, but it helps a lot.
That's what it sounded like from the yelling in his room. I know it sounds odd for a grown ass person (especially one that has worked in a call center) but I tend to get a bit anxious on a headset. Maybe I should bite the bullet and give that one a try though, it looks great.
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H3Knuckles we have a PC Build Thread \o/ as well as a laptop thread \o/
I'll get you links shortly
@Mugsley Yeah, I found the laptop thread after posting here. For some reason I tend to forget that Moe's Tech Extravaganza subforum in G&T is for more than tech support. I saw your reply over in the laptop thread, will get back to you there shortly. Thanks for the help!
Hi everyone, my sister & brother-in-law were thinking about giving my soon-to-be-9 nephew a gaming laptop for his birthday, and asked me for recommendations. I don't really know much about PC hardware, and even less when it comes to laptops, so I figured I'd ask you fine folks for suggestions? All I could think of was the following:
Get him a Windows machine (they're an Apple household for the most part, but I figure better safe than sorry on compatibility issues)
Get a separate mouse (they let him get into Fortnite against my advice, and IIRC in 3D shooters you're still handicapping yourself trying to use a gamepad or touchpad against other PC gamers)
Lock down internet access, & start teaching him about good web-safety practices
Make sure they've got parental controls on Steam and any other digital storefront/launcher they let him install
Don't save credit card or purchasing information on Steam, etc. I don't know the whole story, but my nephew's already done the "I bought it by accident, honest" thing once with an in-game shop for Roblox or Fortnite or something (I forget which).
My sister doesn't play games for the most part, and while my brother in law plays a lot of console games, he never got into PC gaming, so my concern is that he's only thinking of it as buying a new console and not considering everything else he's opening the door to.
I think you've hit the biggies. I would also say to talk with the kid frequently about what games he's playing and with who. Ask to watch him play a few rounds and you can get a pretty good idea of what types of folks he's playing with too. Even games like Minecraft can have some really shitty behavior on servers. I might even recommend for the first few weeks if possible to have them keep the laptop in a central location so they can overhear/oversee what he's doing. I liked keeping my son on a desktop at first for that reason.
Luke started gaming pretty young, and our bigger worries were the toxic environments around certain games than anything. The one other trap I know his buddies fell for is popups to "Play Pokemon for Free" and the like that take you to janky, virus filled web-based emulators. At least two of his friends had to get their systems cleaned after trying to play pirated Pikachu, so definitely warn him about avoiding games that aren't from storefronts like Steam/Epic without asking an adult first.
@Lindsay Lohan Thanks for the advice. It's funny you mentioned getting a desktop over a laptop, because my other sister (who doesn't have kids) had the same idea when she heard about it, for basically the same reasons.
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Make an Admin Windows account for the parent, and then a User Windows account for the kid. The odds of royally fucking up a user account are much slimmer. What would be amazing for a kid is if the UAC was absolute or could only be bypassed by admin passwords, so that programs from a trusted source install, but anything you download from the internet just Nopes you. I'm sure this can be done, but not quite how.
What I'm not sure of if it's wiser to have the Steam account in a similar setup, where the parents account actually owns the games and shares it to the family. I don't quite know how its parental controls operate.
I think it would also be fair to inform them that while gaming laptops are significantly better than they were a decade ago, they are still heavier, and have significantly worse battery life, and may be much noisier than what most people think a laptop does nowadays. Those are not dealbreakers per se, but seeing it in action before spending that kind of money may be smart.
As a kid I would've killed for a deal like Gamepass, $10/month for roughly 100 games, with 5 rotating in monthly. The downside is that exploration on that is horrid, because the WinStore is Bad and the best way to search is to actually go to your browser, find the game you want, then search for that in the store.
@SanderJK I never really looked into how, but yes I do believe you can password protect the admin account, which I would think must require it to be entered for UAC checks. It's a simple thing, but again, since I haven't shared a home computer for over a decade I would not have thought of it on my own. Thanks for bringing it up.
Mugsley pointed this out over in the laptop thread, but I'll get in touch with my family about what kinds of games he's looking for. Other than Nintendo stuff, the nephews don't really play a lot of triple-A games, and as far as I'm aware the ones they do would have low system requirements. Like, the games my nephew is most excited to play on my Steam Link when they're visiting are old games like Portal 2 & Castle Crashers, etc, that I've told them they could get on Xbox. So I'm not really sure what brought this on. Depending on what they want to run on it, he may not need a 'gamer' laptop, so much as a pretty-good laptop.
I posted about it in the Xbox thread, but my brother in law is planning to get a Game Pass for their family. Basically, he's doing his holiday shopping early, I guess.
I don't know how parental controls in Steam work either (we never actually used them on my son's account) - but I will say a great option is to use PayPal for anything they buy on Steam/Epic Games/etc. That way, if you accidentally forget to remove it or they somehow manage to get a purchase through, you'll immediately get an email confirming the PayPal purchase. Luke's been amazingly responsible - we have our account saved on his xbox/switch/phone/pc and the only unexpected purchase was him forgetting to turn off a trial of EA All Access - but it's really nice knowing if something does go wrong I'll get an email.
I mean, if you want to shock your sister's family into letting you set everything up and set rules, you could always read them the account of our Steam Thread-er who had their kid end up buying some $600+ of train DLC and the nightmare he went through trying to get it refunded.
[*] Adblocker and NoScript installed on said computer, too.
[*] A good, solid, well-respected internet security suite.
[*] Strong, STRONG password on the admin account.
[*] If he blows his money on some shit game and begs for more, tell him "no dice" or have him do chores and stuff to earn it. Don't just let him beg for twenty bucks here or there every time he needs more V-Bucks. *shudder*
[*] He has to ask someone before he buys something- there's a lot of really shitty meme games and the like you might not want him exposed to on regular Steam, either, so someone has to okay it and see it be purchased.
[*] If you catch him acting like a horrible little troll in-game, then he gets punished for it. That kind of thing needs to be nipped in the bud right when it starts.
[*] If he sees something that makes him uncomfortable or icky, he runs and gets a parent to deal with it and reports them for it.
[*] Familiarize yourself and them with the Steam Refund Policy (two hours of play or one week of ownership means no refund).
@JaysonFour Since they weren't deterred from letting him get Fortnite even after I related some of the horror stories people had with their kids charging stuff for that, I kinda doubt it would accomplish what I'd intended, lol. To their credit, they already have imposed a chores-for-V-Bucks system after the 'accidental' purchase. That's a bunch of good advice, thank you very much!
If any of you have Master Chief Collection on Steam/PC, ODST just got released. Probably my favorite Halo game Amazing soundtrack, a cool narrative where you piece together what happened, a ruined city to explore, and also one of the best sub-stories I've seen in a video game with the whole Sadie's Story thing.
Thanks! Unfortunately, last night was past my bedtime (east coast) - but I'll grab a copy and maybe try to catch you folks online over the weekend. I think I have to charge my headset too.
H3Knuckles we have a PC Build Thread \o/ as well as a laptop thread \o/
I'll get you links shortly
Mugsley Yeah, I found the laptop thread after posting here. For some reason I tend to forget that Moe's Tech Extravaganza subforum in G&T is for more than tech support. I saw your reply over in the laptop thread, will get back to you there shortly. Thanks for the help!
Hi everyone, my sister & brother-in-law were thinking about giving my soon-to-be-9 nephew a gaming laptop for his birthday, and asked me for recommendations. I don't really know much about PC hardware, and even less when it comes to laptops, so I figured I'd ask you fine folks for suggestions? All I could think of was the following:
Get him a Windows machine (they're an Apple household for the most part, but I figure better safe than sorry on compatibility issues)
Get a separate mouse (they let him get into Fortnite against my advice, and IIRC in 3D shooters you're still handicapping yourself trying to use a gamepad or touchpad against other PC gamers)
Lock down internet access, & start teaching him about good web-safety practices
Make sure they've got parental controls on Steam and any other digital storefront/launcher they let him install
Don't save credit card or purchasing information on Steam, etc. I don't know the whole story, but my nephew's already done the "I bought it by accident, honest" thing once with an in-game shop for Roblox or Fortnite or something (I forget which).
My sister doesn't play games for the most part, and while my brother in law plays a lot of console games, he never got into PC gaming, so my concern is that he's only thinking of it as buying a new console and not considering everything else he's opening the door to.
I think you've hit the biggies. I would also say to talk with the kid frequently about what games he's playing and with who. Ask to watch him play a few rounds and you can get a pretty good idea of what types of folks he's playing with too. Even games like Minecraft can have some really shitty behavior on servers. I might even recommend for the first few weeks if possible to have them keep the laptop in a central location so they can overhear/oversee what he's doing. I liked keeping my son on a desktop at first for that reason.
Luke started gaming pretty young, and our bigger worries were the toxic environments around certain games than anything. The one other trap I know his buddies fell for is popups to "Play Pokemon for Free" and the like that take you to janky, virus filled web-based emulators. At least two of his friends had to get their systems cleaned after trying to play pirated Pikachu, so definitely warn him about avoiding games that aren't from storefronts like Steam/Epic without asking an adult first.
"Lindsay Lohan" Thanks for the advice. It's funny you mentioned getting a desktop over a laptop, because my other sister (who doesn't have kids) had the same idea when she heard about it, for basically the same reasons.
Other steps
Make an Admin Windows account for the parent, and then a User Windows account for the kid. The odds of royally fucking up a user account are much slimmer. What would be amazing for a kid is if the UAC was absolute or could only be bypassed by admin passwords, so that programs from a trusted source install, but anything you download from the internet just Nopes you. I'm sure this can be done, but not quite how.
What I'm not sure of if it's wiser to have the Steam account in a similar setup, where the parents account actually owns the games and shares it to the family. I don't quite know how its parental controls operate.
I think it would also be fair to inform them that while gaming laptops are significantly better than they were a decade ago, they are still heavier, and have significantly worse battery life, and may be much noisier than what most people think a laptop does nowadays. Those are not dealbreakers per se, but seeing it in action before spending that kind of money may be smart.
As a kid I would've killed for a deal like Gamepass, $10/month for roughly 100 games, with 5 rotating in monthly. The downside is that exploration on that is horrid, because the WinStore is Bad and the best way to search is to actually go to your browser, find the game you want, then search for that in the store.
SanderJK I never really looked into how, but yes I do believe you can password protect the admin account, which I would think must require it to be entered for UAC checks. It's a simple thing, but again, since I haven't shared a home computer for over a decade I would not have thought of it on my own. Thanks for bringing it up.
Mugsley pointed this out over in the laptop thread, but I'll get in touch with my family about what kinds of games he's looking for. Other than Nintendo stuff, the nephews don't really play a lot of triple-A games, and as far as I'm aware the ones they do would have low system requirements. Like, the games my nephew is most excited to play on my Steam Link when they're visiting are old games like Portal 2 & Castle Crashers, etc, that I've told them they could get on Xbox. So I'm not really sure what brought this on. Depending on what they want to run on it, he may not need a 'gamer' laptop, so much as a pretty-good laptop.
I posted about it in the Xbox thread, but my brother in law is planning to get a Game Pass for their family. Basically, he's doing his holiday shopping early, I guess.
I don't know how parental controls in Steam work either (we never actually used them on my son's account) - but I will say a great option is to use PayPal for anything they buy on Steam/Epic Games/etc. That way, if you accidentally forget to remove it or they somehow manage to get a purchase through, you'll immediately get an email confirming the PayPal purchase. Luke's been amazingly responsible - we have our account saved on his xbox/switch/phone/pc and the only unexpected purchase was him forgetting to turn off a trial of EA All Access - but it's really nice knowing if something does go wrong I'll get an email.
I mean, if you want to shock your sister's family into letting you set everything up and set rules, you could always read them the account of our Steam Thread-er who had their kid end up buying some $600+ of train DLC and the nightmare he went through trying to get it refunded.
[*] Adblocker and NoScript installed on said computer, too.
[*] A good, solid, well-respected internet security suite.
[*] Strong, STRONG password on the admin account.
[*] If he blows his money on some shit game and begs for more, tell him "no dice" or have him do chores and stuff to earn it. Don't just let him beg for twenty bucks here or there every time he needs more V-Bucks. *shudder*
[*] He has to ask someone before he buys something- there's a lot of really shitty meme games and the like you might not want him exposed to on regular Steam, either, so someone has to okay it and see it be purchased.
[*] If you catch him acting like a horrible little troll in-game, then he gets punished for it. That kind of thing needs to be nipped in the bud right when it starts.
[*] If he sees something that makes him uncomfortable or icky, he runs and gets a parent to deal with it and reports them for it.
[*] Familiarize yourself and them with the Steam Refund Policy (two hours of play or one week of ownership means no refund).
JaysonFour Since they weren't deterred from letting him get Fortnite even after I related some of the horror stories people had with their kids charging stuff for that, I kinda doubt it would accomplish what I'd intended, lol. To their credit, they already have imposed a chores-for-V-Bucks system after the 'accidental' purchase. That's a bunch of good advice, thank you very much!
Came up with a few more:
[*]He friends you and moves his profile to friends only, and turns everything- game details, friends list, inventory and comments to at least friends-only. Not only will this allow you to keep an eye on his behavior (as well as keep the various leeches and scammers that seem to populate Steam these days away), it opens the door for awesome multiplayer-shenanigans in Portal 2 and Castle Crashers with you and him.
[*] He doesn't take chat requests or friend requests from anyone who he doesn't recognize. This, I imagine, is going to be the big bugaboo here: I don't see how you can lock down the chat function to avoid it completely...
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*Looks over at his 5 year old playing Forager*
We don't talk about such things in my house.
Great story, great characters, great music, great world design.
Still don't enjoy the Rites, and I am not a fan of computer screen reading so the Book got maybe half read.
Overall, it was worth the frustration, but I kind wish there was a "tell me a story" mode that let me skip the rites,
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Coming home to see that giant wall of gifts is horrifying every time. Thanks a lot.
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I can has cheezburger, yes?
The Remaster may have really only made things look better, but they looked better enough that in the super dark areas I could actually see well enough. So Tomb of Giants, and Nito, finally fell after who knows how many years. After defeating him I went to the Kiln of the First Flame, an area I'd never seen before, and made my way to Gwyn. He was challenging at first, but after changing some gear around and learning his parry timings he went down without much effort. I walked out the door, saw the ending achievement pop, and had officially beaten Dark Souls 1 for the very first time.
The rest went much faster. I blitzed through NG+ with only minor difficulties, on Ornstein and Smough no less, before the partial run of NG++ to grab the last boss soul I needed and make the trip to Anor Londo. Shortly before midnight yesterday I completed my task and the Dark Soul achievement for Platinum popped on my screen. Dark Souls 1 beaten in its entirety.
Now to move on to Dark Souls 2!
But..doesn't that mean Orivon can stop now?
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Isorn has wayyyyy more than me... >.>
*checks* Well I'll be danged... Never realized this. Guess the Pixie3k mark was too low.
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Only 354 more games to go.
You hush.
I saw that post and then so many pop-ups. So many. Oh god why.
Thank you.
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@Orivon sent me hentai castlevania. >.>
Thanks!
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I'm not sure. Let me go che
Only if you look via Steam itself, which is dumb.
Use a browser.
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I know it locked up my browser pretty good for a second on wifi when I was checking what games are there...
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@CorriganX sent me porn.
I mean, I assume it's porn anyway. Probably not a lot of not-porn harem games... >.>
Thanks!
As porny as they come. I think they started allowing it 2 years ago.
Extremely porny. They allow everything now.
Ummm... so I've heard anyway... >.>
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
Is there any kind of PA group games going on with that? That seems like the BEST of times waiting to be had. I want to play it so bad but I want to do it with a group of people I know.
I think Hades is the first time Supergiant really got a good handle on engaging and easy to get into gameplay to go along with the story. Of course, the format of the game is very different given it's a Rogue Legacy-like. It's not exactly a relaxing jaunt and while spending time in Early Access has given it a really smooth feel sometimes RNG screws you and later rooms have the diarrhea Christmas lights effect common to a lot of indie 2d action games.
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Nope.
It worked via the Steam Client for me. It took 3 minutes to load, but it worked.
It doesn't REQUIRE it, but it helps a lot.
Yeah, playing with just a text chat log makes everything slow and random. Voice chat is almost required.
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EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
That's what it sounded like from the yelling in his room. I know it sounds odd for a grown ass person (especially one that has worked in a call center) but I tend to get a bit anxious on a headset. Maybe I should bite the bullet and give that one a try though, it looks great.
@Mugsley Yeah, I found the laptop thread after posting here. For some reason I tend to forget that Moe's Tech Extravaganza subforum in G&T is for more than tech support. I saw your reply over in the laptop thread, will get back to you there shortly. Thanks for the help!
@Lindsay Lohan Thanks for the advice. It's funny you mentioned getting a desktop over a laptop, because my other sister (who doesn't have kids) had the same idea when she heard about it, for basically the same reasons.
@SanderJK I never really looked into how, but yes I do believe you can password protect the admin account, which I would think must require it to be entered for UAC checks. It's a simple thing, but again, since I haven't shared a home computer for over a decade I would not have thought of it on my own. Thanks for bringing it up.
Mugsley pointed this out over in the laptop thread, but I'll get in touch with my family about what kinds of games he's looking for. Other than Nintendo stuff, the nephews don't really play a lot of triple-A games, and as far as I'm aware the ones they do would have low system requirements. Like, the games my nephew is most excited to play on my Steam Link when they're visiting are old games like Portal 2 & Castle Crashers, etc, that I've told them they could get on Xbox. So I'm not really sure what brought this on. Depending on what they want to run on it, he may not need a 'gamer' laptop, so much as a pretty-good laptop.
I posted about it in the Xbox thread, but my brother in law is planning to get a Game Pass for their family. Basically, he's doing his holiday shopping early, I guess.
Also good to know, thanks.
@JaysonFour Since they weren't deterred from letting him get Fortnite even after I related some of the horror stories people had with their kids charging stuff for that, I kinda doubt it would accomplish what I'd intended, lol. To their credit, they already have imposed a chores-for-V-Bucks system after the 'accidental' purchase. That's a bunch of good advice, thank you very much!
It really should be played in NG+ but I almost never do that and my brain is starting to shut off from trying to piece together longer phrases.
Still a really good game, I'm just too much of a dummy.
Thanks to a real life friendo for the gift!
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Thanks! Unfortunately, last night was past my bedtime (east coast) - but I'll grab a copy and maybe try to catch you folks online over the weekend. I think I have to charge my headset too.
Came up with a few more:
[*]He friends you and moves his profile to friends only, and turns everything- game details, friends list, inventory and comments to at least friends-only. Not only will this allow you to keep an eye on his behavior (as well as keep the various leeches and scammers that seem to populate Steam these days away), it opens the door for awesome multiplayer-shenanigans in Portal 2 and Castle Crashers with you and him.
[*] He doesn't take chat requests or friend requests from anyone who he doesn't recognize. This, I imagine, is going to be the big bugaboo here: I don't see how you can lock down the chat function to avoid it completely...
I can has cheezburger, yes?