Not Road Blocks
Sep. 28th, 2025 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Mary spends much of her spare time playing Roblox.
For the longest time I misheard this as Road Blocks- and thought, "That doesn't sound very interesting"....
I envisaged little cars running round a maze-like road system, avoiding pile-ups and fallen trees and the like.
I have since informed myself.
(Get with it, Granddad!)
So what did I have recourse to when I was Mary's age?
Books.
I used to read books.
Setting aside generational prejudice I think the two activities amount to much the same thing. Both could be characterised as escapist and/or stimulating to the imagination.
Wikipedia describes Roblox as "a universe" of player-generated games- the most popular of which is one in which you grow a garden.
Sounds like fun.
Ah, to be young again......
For the longest time I misheard this as Road Blocks- and thought, "That doesn't sound very interesting"....
I envisaged little cars running round a maze-like road system, avoiding pile-ups and fallen trees and the like.
I have since informed myself.
(Get with it, Granddad!)
So what did I have recourse to when I was Mary's age?
Books.
I used to read books.
Setting aside generational prejudice I think the two activities amount to much the same thing. Both could be characterised as escapist and/or stimulating to the imagination.
Wikipedia describes Roblox as "a universe" of player-generated games- the most popular of which is one in which you grow a garden.
Sounds like fun.
Ah, to be young again......
