User blog:Trollpastalol1234/Place Roulette: My Experience

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Place Roulette is a place by Rudimentality on Roblox that allows you to teleport to a random place. More often than not you get pure weapons-grade garbage, but occasionally you stumble across an interesting game. This probably isn't going to happen to me. However, I'm going to keep track of what places I go to with the Place Roulette by adding them into the blog post, sort of like a journal entry. Here we go...

An Introduction to Place Roulette
Place Roulette is a room with six doors in it. Each door enters into a room with a lever in it, and each lever takes you to a place on Roblox. It's kind of reminiscent of a stargate in my humble opinion. You can find this place at this URL: http://www.roblox.com/Place-Roulette-place?id=140479234

Entry 1 (Jan. 6, 2014)
I entered the door, and pulled the lever. The scripts took a while to access a server, and then I was away, whisked into the loading state for a strange game. I didn't know what I'd find. It was a totally random place. I assume that when Roblox was younger people could discern what a place was from its ID, but seeing as in Roblox today there are thousands if not millions of places that also means the IDs amount to just random numbers.

Arriving in the place, I was greeted by two light reddish-brown walls and three dispensers (serving rockets, golden guns, and grenades). Assuming it was a brickbattle or a "Kill The Zombies" kind of game, I picked up all three weapons and tried to exit through the gap between two of the walls. However it was painfully tight, and I had to walk sideways to get through with my weapon. And I was greeted with a blank baseplate.

The place creator hadn't even finished the arena!

Well, he had put a decal of a gun outside on one of the walls, but believe me, that's ALL he did.

The weapons were shoddy at best, probably taken off free-models. The grenade's debris tripped me up (the pin comes off, see), the golden gun shot something invisible and I couldn't make out where it had hit, and the rocket just straight-up didn't work. Getting bored, I left. I was done with Place Roulette for the day.

Entry 2 (Jan. 7, 2014)
I entered Place Roulette, and pulled a lever after two failed attempts. I was teleported to somebody's place, and immediately I could tell that free models were the defining feature. Basically, I spawned in the water, the blue boring water. I looked behind me and discovered the prison, which was a large building the user obtained from free models and which I could tell wasn't his own. It all came off as rather cheesy.

Jumping onto the island, I saw two bridges, which lead to two smaller islands. I took the one to my left, and came face-to-face with two humungous mechs. I knew that they were humungous mechs because I'm addicted to TVTropes and I know my stuff. Anyways, going into one I knew that they were based off free models, too! Well, that was to be expected. Most users on Roblox aren't too great at coding. So some free models are required. But when EVERY... SINGLE... THING... IS... FREE... MODELS... IT... GETS... SO... ANNOYING!!!

Getting bored of the mechs, I found a bridge that connected the second island with a third, and crossed it to find... well, guess. It was a war-group fort, although one with the originality of the Wilhelm scream.

I just quit, right there.

Bleh.

Entry 3 (Jan. 11, 2014)
Whew! Sorry for the hiatus! I was very busy with life in general and stuff.

Okay, so this evening I logged onto Place Roulette. The ethereal teleporter was still so wonderful and unique. So, naturally, I left it as fast as possible. The first pull produced NOTHING! But the second pull whisked me to... a dark baseplate with four strange bench-like contraptions in it.

I leaped off the spawn tower.

Now, before I continue, I just want to point something out. A strange trick was played on my eyes. For the time I was on the spawn tower, I perceived that the four bench-like growths were actually floating over the baseplate... like Mario platforms. Creepy, until I stepped down from my high pedestal.

By the way, there was NO DYNAMIC LIGHTING! But that's okay.

It at least let me capture a screenshot of my majestic suit and bright orange hair.

Entry 4 (Jan. 12, 2014)
After a while, you start to really admire Place Roulette. Place Roulette is what makes the whole of Roblox somehow... fit together. It's like how the US government makes it so it's all one country, as opposed to a whole mass of warring states.

Regardless of this, I pulled the lever, and after two failed attempts I pulled the lever a third time. The game took about forty-five seconds to realize it was supposed to teleport me somewhere. I kept seeing words reassuring me that the server would, in time, be up. After that amount of time was over, I was swept away to a land of magic and wonderment.

Nah, I'm just kidding. It was a decrepit old football field on a black baseplate.



Anyways, I left the spawn. At a loss as to what to do, I walked around the area and explored. I soon discovered to my horror (being a big fan of XiaoXiaoMan) that the number of badges was absolutely enormous. My God, there had to have been thirty or thirty-five badges. Most of them displayed football players, but I discovered there was one that had run out of football players and was instead showing a basketball player. I'm dead serious.



I discovered a football giver and obtained the football. I threw it, and knew it was just a retooled superball. It even made the same sound.

Then my eyes were drawn to two other dispensers. They sold fireworks and sparklers. I obtained a firework, and set it loose. But seeing as the firework moved so slowly, and the explosion radius was so large, I discovered that no matter if you tried to run or not the firework would kill you.

The sparklers were a little more tame. They did nothing except... sparkle. What, were you expecting me to say that they shot nuclear ducks out the top? Tough.

Oh, and by the way, the badges don't work. This fellow puts all his time and energy putting 30+ badges down, and they don't even work. It's just sad how the gears of Roblox move sometimes.

A Few Musings on the Nature of Place Roulette (Jan. 12, 2014)
I was thinking today that Place Roulette is dangerous when in the wrong hands. Let me explain.

Exploiters are everywhere. They clog our servers. An exploiter could easily slip into Place Roulette, teleport to a random place, and wreak havoc.

It's a scary thought. I mean, an army of exploiters using a random teleporter to gradually exploit Roblox place-by-place seems to me to be the worst way to end a site's career.

Still, probably never gonna happen, right?

... Right?

Entry 5 (Jan. 13, 2014)
Agh, skip the obligatory Place Roulette lever and monologue for today. This is going to take a while. This is something special. This was a surprise. And for once, this wasn't pure weapons-grade garbage. Want to know where I went? Read on, dear viewer.



Whoo! This place was detailed, alright. It was a mercy the place didn't have dynamic lighting (I later found the place was updated THREE YEARS AGO), or my computer would've doubled up and run at 5 FPS. I set off down the corridor in front of me, and came across two corridors going the same direction. I took the right one. If this says something about me, then please don't tell me; I couldn't bear the shame. At the end of the hallway was a box full of strange, slightly illegal-looking purple leafy plants.



Passing that, I entered another hallway, then went left and saw a clear staircase. I ventured upstairs, and was greeted with a blank room. There was nothing in the room. It was literally a blank room. No furniture, no nothing. Just walls. It was such a sharp contrast to the lavish downstairs that I just got... bored all of a sudden.

Still, this place was better than most I've found so far. It was far more interesting than the free modeled place I encountered in Entry 2. It was more entertaining than the football field in Entry 4. And, it was more interactive than Entry 1 and Entry 3's places... far more interactive.

Oh, and also the plants. I still can't get over the plants.

Small Funny Segment
After today I was arrested for teleporting under the influence. They took my leaves... my beautiful violet leaves... ...I'LL TEAR THEM APART, DO YOU HEAR ME?! APAAAAAART!!! *transmission lost*

Welcome to Place Roulette: My Experience PART DEUX!
Well, shoot, it's about that time of year again.

This is the continuation of the above blog posts. I felt that since my Christmas break had so far been annoyingly empty, I would delve into the underbelly of Roblox again, and explore the strange and archaic places that Place Roulette can give me. And I'm sure this time that I'll find even stranger and more alarming places than I've ever imagined. After all, it's beginning to look a lot like 2015, and I'm sure a few half-formed murder games will be floating around in the flotsam and jetsam. In fact, I'm sure of it. Humankind as a whole thrives on taking other people's ideas and making them ten times worse/more deadly.

WELCOME TO PLACE ROULETTE, PART TWO! Hope ya like freemodels...