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Thursday, August 19, 2010

ROBLOXian Humor and ROBLOXian Moderation

Well, a few days ago I got a Warning for making the ad to the right, but honestly the purpose of this post is to point out that the ad had been running for almost an entire day before the Moderators realized that it consisted of inappropriate humor. (I know that this will sound like a pathetic attempt to "change Roblox" like some forum idiots like to do, but I'll get to something interesting in a second) The thing is that I believe that firing the teen
voulenteers was a mistake. I mean, sure, some of them were corrupt and violent exploiters, but now you're losing money by having to pay some of the hired college morons who needed a quick buck. I'm not saying I support the forum idiots, but I'm saying they have somewhat of a point.
(Not the ones who were mad because they got banned.) Here's an example, mattchewy. According to his Twitter, he was banned for saying "Pee." Now this is just plain ridiculous. I know that Roblox is for kids between the ages of "4 and 124" but there should at least be a feature to restrict some games from younger users, so older ones can have a more lenient language policy. I get it that some younger douche bags will make a spam alt to get in, but that just creates more users, and in the longrun more publicity for Roblox because of their massive amount of users. But another thing I needed to point out is the growing maturity of ROBLOXian humor. I know LOLcats won't probably ever grow old due to the constant flow of college Interns who enjoy it, but if you occasionally take a look into Off Topic, you will know that some of the users are getting tired of Knock-Knocks and growing towards the more Daniel Tosh type of humor. So on a final note, I think that as users grow more mature some of the Moderators should too.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Cops n' Robbers

I think I should make a classic Cops n' Robbers game. There. I said it. If you know me closely, you would know that I'm solely against Brick Battle games or anything of the sort, simply because I suck. No, I don't think you get it, I REALLY suck. The only reason I have so many KOs is because I had a whimsical experience with the "fabled" KO script.
Now I know that many of you are asking why, but the whole reason started with a visit to the 2006 game "Robloxopolis" by one "Robloxopolis." I'm going to assume that it's a shared account by one Jagged Bacon and friends, because inside of the Burger Shack, one of the Clerks was named "Jagged_Bacon" and another, their name I didn't bother to remember. The game itself is quite well-built. The town hall, which you spawn on top of, is to my recollection an original native to that game, even though it's used as a free model in a very popular manor. Next to the Town Hall, you will find a Police Station, which also to my recollection is native to that game, but it is a very popular model for Cops n' Robbers games. But the part that inspired me was just below the Copper's headquarters. They have 2 holding cells near the foundation, even though I don't remember them actually being underground...
Anyway, my attention was immediately drawn to the holding cells, which were just a fun idea in general. I don't know why, but the simplest things like that seem to draw the utmost admire to myself.
Now you know. I'll inform you of the periodic progress I make as I build the game. Stay tuned!