Why “Roblox” is being discussed
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by LoganDark · Oct 27, 2026
I have a friend who was working at Roblox on in house classifier evals on texture generation (I think they were working with some enterprise version of Stable Diffusion?), speci…
by _--__--__ · Oct 27, 2026
Roblox has lasted so long because it's not a specific game which is only relevant to a particular audience, it's a platform for whoever the users are to create and share games&#…
by zamadatix · Oct 27, 2026
I've seen my son play Sonic the Hedgehog games in Roblox that were straight rips from the original games (at least visually and play-wise). I'm not really sure how it was done (…
by progmetaldev · Oct 27, 2026
> Urheberrecht explicitly states, that downloading something is legal Technically right with your phrasing, but wrong considering the context. That exception is explicitly about…
by ffsm8 · Oct 27, 2026
An adult who plays Roblox can spend much more money on it than a kid getting some Robux for Christmas
by flexagoon · Oct 27, 2026
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Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users. It was developed by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004, and released to the public in 2006. As of February 2025, the platform has reported an average of 85.3 million daily active users. According to the company, its monthly player base includes half of all American children under the age of 16. Read more on Wikipedia