Greetings, Adventurers!
Bounty of gaming news discovered in isolated Scottish cabin
22.12.2023 - 15:49 / rockpapershotgun.com / David Baszucki
The existence of the Upper Lunch Hut implies the existence of a Lower Lunch Hut, but as far as I can tell, no such building exists. It's one of many mysteries that surround the edifice, which I discovered during a holiday in the Cairngorms this August, while everybody else at RPS was writing about some tyrannous entity called Gamescom.
First, the approach: having exited a vast pine forest of primeval aspect and supernatural disposition, with distant, daylit clearings leading the eye deeper and deeper into the undergrowth, till it feels at last as though your gaze has become tangibly enmeshed with clutching root and lowering branch - having finally escaped from that terrible, terrible forest, with its single, mournful stream crossed by a bridge of predatory bareness that is surely a haven for trolls, you set out across a grey and purple oblivion of reed and heather, a moorland rising to the border between glens, broken only by the stark red stain of a door. Nearing this otherworldly aberration, this scarlet phantasm, you realise that there is a house constructed around it, a sloping excrescence of withered planks and flaking plaster. What fell secrets could it harbour? Let us go and make our visit.
From the inside, the Upper Lunch Hut seems adrift in time. Unpainted, the planks form a discreet vortex of bleached grain, scabby chewing gum and the intersecting rings of a thousand thermos bottoms, centred on the eerie white square of a window that, if my notes are correct, reveals a different landscape every time you peer through it. There's an abandoned bird nest in one corner, and a desultory feasting table with benches near the door. Did humans ever reside here, or has the structure coalesced of its own accord, willed into being by cosmic fiat? But wait, look closer. These consumed surfaces are actually alive with information. Look there!
The Upper Lunch Hut is no collapsed and forgotten dimension, nor even a homely "place of lunch" for passing walkers with too much time on their hands. It's a gaming social media hub, akin to a forum that has escaped Google's spiders and achieved a second lease of life in the material realm. It is a place of discussion and insight, a secretive spawning vat for News & Opinion.
"Life is Roblox", you say? An apt observation, for the 2006-launched game creation platform encompasses all things, good and less good. Roblox Corporation founder and CEO David Baszucki has just posted a 2023 round-up letter, incidentally, in which he hints at how this great elephant in the room of latter-day "multiverse" projects might evolve in 2024. One thing that jumps out from that post is a push towards accommodating (slightly) older players. According to Baszucki: "in Q3 2023, more than 57
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