Sam Biddle
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246 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Jan
Sam Biddle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Very happy to be here.
Thanks for having me.
And I can say the only thing that makes me feel older than referring to Gawkers back in the day is Roblox.
So...
As you say, I mean, like the games that I grew up playing, if one of my parents walked into the room, they would at least have some intuition that it was like, you know, a game like Mario.
You know, you're jumping on things.
It's pretty straightforward.
And I am like a lifelong gamer and that kind of nerd.
Roblox is easily the most inscrutable thing I've ever encountered on a computer of any kind.
Visually, mechanically, as I say in the New York Mag article, I think part of its appeal is that it is so alienating if you are above the age of 12 or 13.
I think also part of what makes it so confusing is that it's not one game.
It is a platform that hosts and provides access to thousands and thousands and thousands of different miniature games.
Yes, it is visually super overwhelming.
I've taken care to never be on any sort of hallucinogens while in Las Vegas.
But I think that if you were on like a very, very heavy dose of acid and you walked into the walking on the strip, this is what it would look like.
And it is like every trick in the book to hook the very meager attention spans of a growing brain, everyone is deployed simultaneously.
So like you said, it's lights, it's spinning, it's roulette wheels, it is blinking things, it's flashing things, it's sounds, it's people yelling at you, it's text, it's video, it's buying things, it's advertising.
It is every medium merged into one at the same time with the intention of making money off of children, largely.
I believe so, yeah.
It occurred to me as I was...
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