Gaming: Discord's New Age Verification Rules Got You Down? Allow Me To...

Launched in 1988, IRC was created by and for computer nerds, and it won't hold your hand but it also doesn't want to see your face.

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Discord announced this week that very soon, users who want to be treated like they're not still in their junior year of high school may have to submit to a facial scan, or provide approved ID, to prove they're an adult. Some folks aren't too keen on the idea (and some of us just ain't doin' it no-how), and as the days when Discord was still good recede further into memory, we're forced to wonder: What are our choices?

I'm here to tell you there are choices, and one of them has been around quite possibly for longer than you've been born. It's called Internet Relay Chat, IRC for short, and I—someone who's been using it quite possibly for longer than you've been born—am here to extol its many virtues.

Source: PC Gamer