Sam Biddle

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246 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 22 Jan

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Infamous · Why Roblox Is Everywhere Right Now · 22 Jan 2026 podcast

finishing reporting and writing on it that i would have loved this right i do not blame any nine-year-old or whatever for being super into this this is the kind of thing i would have been begging to play at all times when i was if i was a little kid today

And because I think if you're that age, all your friends are there too.

When I was a little kid, you know, we were on like AOL and Instant Messenger.

And I was doing that all the time because that's where all my friends were.

And now those things are long, long dead.

And if you're nine, you know, you probably have zero interest in Facebook, if you even could have an account.

But it's a place to, quote unquote, hang out with your friends.

peers and to play basically an infinite variety of free video games.

Yeah, the more money you spend, the crazier it looks, the more impressive it is.

I think it scratches the itch that kids have from being in a toy store.

There's just this super variety of very, very colorful, plasticky options of things you can consume and look at.

You know, I think the difference is that when you're in a toy store, you have a, you know, let's say a nine or 10 year old, you have to beg your parents to take the thing to the cash register and buy it.

Or if you're on Amazon, you know, you're like asking for a specific thing.

With Roblox, you can actually sort of preload your account with this virtual currency and spend money on your own, which I think also probably has a big appeal if you're a younger internet user.

I think it's broadly defined as the continuous sort of inexorable trend towards everything in our tech-enabled lives and society getting steadily worse.

Everything is free, but everything sucks.

And if you want it to not suck, you have to pay money.

Whereas before, you could obtain a good or service that was not deliberately made worse so that you could pay for a better version of it.

You know, I mean, if we're talking about video games here, but like a video game that I would have...

got when I was a kid, you got the game and that was the game.

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