My daughter wanted to play Roblox, so now I have played Roblox all day 
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I find the rise of Roblox as fascinating as the rise of Minecraft, but in a totally different way⌠seems like yesterday I was reading Steam reviews about how it was an abandoned scammy project, then next thing I know Roblox is almost its own little industry and one of the most successful games on the market with bazillions of people enjoying it at any given moment. Not the direction I expected it to go, I guess.
Ye I donât know, but sheâs been watching a lot of clips from it on her YouTube Kids channels, that and huggy waggy is the rage for the younglings.
Itâs still scammy though, just not little anymore.
My kids play it constantly and I wish I could get them interested in something else.
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Pretty much the only game I play anymore is Magic the gathering Arena.
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I havenât been playing much else other than Guild Wars 2
Ye I turned on all the âsafetyâ options and I will refuse to spend any money on that game.
The neighborâs nephew was showing me Robolox one day. All the other issues with the platform aside, one thing that struck me was how many low effort rip off games are on there.
His favorite games was a DDR clone that used only the D-pad and featured horrible pseudo-techno music. I couldnât help but feel bad for him in a way. I was half tempted to get him a PS2, DDR and some dance pads. You know really open his eyes.
All his friends are on-line and on Robolox these days. It will be interesting in the long term, cause I think kids these days have it tough with on-line and then COVID kind of forced them that way even more so. Some of my best memories are LANing it or local multiplayer with friends in person. However âback in my dayâ that was the only option.
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I think Roblox has a few main draws:
- Ease of access - no upfront cost to create an account and start playing
- Virtual You - the avatar that you create and customize is used consistently across all the games that you play. In other words, you get to bring your virtual character into any game or environment. A âtrue expressionâ of yourself, which is especially important to the more impressionable youth
- Vast selection of games - while the games might just be rip offs, they do allow players to have a taste for what these games are like. The accessibility of these rip offs cannot be discounted
- Community - itâs what makes people stay. Many youth make friends through Roblox, with conversations happening âofflineâ over Discord. Many in-person interactions in the school canteen also revolve around Roblox
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Ah yes, games. I live with asian parents, so games are few and far between:
Minecraft:
I donât have any screenshots, but hereâs a haiku 
Minecraft, you place blocks,
Blowing things up, creative,
Waste my 30 min.
Also, some background story that you might chuckle at:
Why it has a place in my heart :)
I had a girl I was friends with (fine, I liked her, alot) and Italian too. Thought she was flirting a few times as well. After I found out that she was moving to a cheaper price of living, I confessed with a note a few days before she set sail, and was kinda hard to get my grasp on what had happened. Salt into the wound, my best friend also moved to connecticut. We talked through Discord for a bit (his name is gabe) and was really trying to get my head off everything for a bit. To my suprise, keyboards werenât hitting it for a first time in a while, so I had sucked it up buttercup and paid the 7.95 dollars.
Now I play every other sunday with either Gabe or alone. I especially fell in love with the music, so much that I liked it more than the game. Really has been a rough time a few weeks ago but itâs looking alot better now. 
P.S. Iâm over it. I bet sheâs having a blast at her new school and making new friends. One thing you should know about me though; Iâm faithful to the very end. Although I know I canât keep it up forever, once it stays, it stays long. 
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In that case, hereâs the composerâs website if you havenât checked him out already.
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Wow, thank you!
Just a smidge here. Taking my sweet time to do all the side questing I can.
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Two Point Hospital!
Iâm an odd duck, I play on PC, before I keep grinding arenas in Fortnite but now Iâm more leaning towards GunZ: The Duel, Grand Chase, Getamped 2, old games (sometimes osu!mania). Ones that benchmarks the performance of my keyboard with an intense pacing.
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Playing the new Kirby as a nice little palate cleanser after having finished Tunic, both of which (while radically different) have been very nice. Still thinking about Tunicâs language system (my partner and I are both really into figuring out language systems in games)⌠(minor Tunic spoilers) which couldnât really be turned into a keycap set like Hyper Light Drifterâs was.
Taking it easy with a gently-paced reflection on mortality and the substance of life.
Might technically be my first visual novel - enjoying the experience so far.
PS - if you decide to give this one a go, give everyone Aussie accents in your head. 
I was a good ways in before I realized almost every character is from down-under.
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I um, definitely didnât fall into a Factorio trap where it consumed every free moment of my waking life for the last six weeks. Itâs such a wildly fun and addictive game!
Iâve heard good things about those mods; will definitely be trying them out once I tire of the vanilla game.
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so many fond memories being sweaty in GunZ. Kstyling today would def give my keyboard a workout. Would sound a lot more pleasant than it did 10 years ago at least 
iâve been meaning to get into some private servers. that game was really fun.