Well I played the humble bundle version, as an adult, in the 21st century, and the vast majority of gameplay was rubbing everything in my inventory on everything else, having that fail, then slowly walking through several screens, flying to another country, slowly walking through several more screens, then clicking everything in my inventory on everything again.
Maybe I need to use a time machine and play it as a child in 1992.
I felt the same way playing Day of the Tentacle as an adult. The novelty and wow factor is gone and all you're left with is incredible illogical time wasting. I guess I could try it on scummVM with fast forward but if I'm going to bash my head against something I'd rather try to finish the meta levels in Baba is You. At least those are governed by logic.
Did this retard really put Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, one of the absolute greatest P&C Adventure games of all time that low and calls it slow and boring? My god...some people are so retarded it surprises even me.
Holy shit. I cannot believe people feel so entitled to this game's perpetual development. I don't know about you guys, but I paid $20 one time back in 2007 or 2008 for my copy of the game (ID 6537) and it's been one of the most bangs for my buck on any video game I've ever purchased. That $20 gave me nearly a decade of entertainment. To expect, in 2026, for the continued development of a game that is only purchased once is asinine. Subscription based games have this expectation of perpetual support, single purchase games do not.
I don't think "the pc had scrolling, it just couldn't be used anywhere" is a very strong argument. If there was scrolling, then the critical tilemap component to fill in the newly scrolled areas was missing, that's why you needed 12mhz 286 to barely get 24 fps on Keen 1.
You didn't get smooth scrolling on PC until titles like Jazz Jackrabbit running on a 486, 100x the power of an NES processor, and at that point you could run the nesticle emulator - simulating a tile map in software.
Contrast this with the C64 where you can scroll with a poke from the basic terminal.
"The PC never had hardware scrolling. Carmack got Commander Keen to work via code ninjitsu, and it was still a bit janky."
PCs did have hardware scrolling, in IBM EGA and VGA and forward. Carmack got Keen to work via hardware scrolling. (Keen 4-6 used full dblbuffered hardware scroll, Keen 1-3 used a rudimentary hardware scroll with a delta repaint method)
The reason hardware scrolling was rarely used on PC is that clone card manufacturers flooded the market with cards that botched the exact semantics of the hw scroll implementation - so implementing a compatible hw scroll required accommodating code very closely to multiple vendors' undocumented quirks (see Vogons forum on Keen scrolling where it is extensively researched)
Given that the comparison perspective is so constrained to be console focused, would be best to leave PCs out. (Voodoo and "OpenGL Extensions" sections are factually imprecise, and do poor justice to actual history)
How does it feel knowing that it was Epstein who created the culture wars and psyopped you into being the angry bald incel who rages at women in video games you are today?
Hilarious vindication regarding the potatofaced goblina playing Ellie on the TLoU TV show.
Remember all that whiny cope about how wanting an endearing little girl intended to melt the heart of the jaded player/audience/protagonist into adopting her as a surrogate daughter to be, y'know, endearing rather than repulsive, is not in fact basic storytelling technique, but "pedo sexualization"? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11748627/Bella-Ramsey-wore-chest-binder-90-cent-time-filming-Us.html Turns out the show was further nerfing her already subpar onscreen looks with tranny underwear, sexualizing her portrayal specifically to push the actress's IRL "enby" indoctrination. Her apologists are enabling the same Hollyweird groomer agenda that victimized one of Ellie's original design models, Ellen Page.
I think it's fascinating SJWs have shifted their goalposts from "make female characters designs more like natural women" to "make female character designs more like Tzimisce trannoid abominations against nature".
Thanks for making this cool game dude, hard to believe I started playing in elementary school and now I'm in grad school with an office job lol, time flies
At least somebody has noticed the ongoing uglufucation. Thank you for your article, it's like a breath of fresh air. Literally every modern western game requires mod to make female characters attractive.
Surprisingly theres still people playing this, and its hella fun!
⚜2025-12-12 10:51:55
Some people think Badspot has abandoned blockland because he was making gay porn nsfw on devianart, bitches. Even said it was confirmed without showing proof xD
Badspot is just a uncle now, making games since 1995
the people who make this shit art are the same people who push away any struggle for complete comfort, they are ill. It's like a kind of mass psychosis, Bo Burnham foresaw this happening, Not every character should be perfect but it is kind of weird when every character is fugly and most game studios are full of mentally ill utopian karens and retards.
I do not have the ability to view or moderate the chat in Blockland servers. And as soon as I start taking people's word for it, they'll start lying to me.
Someone said there was CP on a particular server, I joined it and looked at the prints, there was no CP, so I think the whole situation is overblown.
If you think a crime is being committed, you should contact the police so there can be a criminal penalty instead of a $4 fine on steam.
⇚2025-11-10 20:54:05
also im pretty sure the blockland support email was contacted about this but there wasn't an update about the situation
⇚2025-11-10 20:53:24
Hey badspot are you able to revoke this user or ban them at least for posting links with cp?
They posted it in every blockland server they joined and I'm pretty sure they have another alt named chud.win
his blockland id is 185951 his username is riki2321gamer
If you want other people to value your life, a first step might be to stop using it as a bargaining chip in petty online arguments.
Also you shouldn't ruminate on fictional scenarios that make you upset. What level of abstraction are we on here now? You're upset at a strangers lack of remorse from the hypothetical outcome of a fake or exaggerated conversation you heard about from someone else that happened 15 years ago in a video game?
Blockland only made my life better idk what the rest of these snowflakes are going on about. they aren't happy unless they have something to complain about, truly a sad state of mind to have!
This is going to sound like I'm trying to dunk on you but I promise I'm being serious.
If you are still bothered by something that happened to you in a video game 5, 10, even 20 years ago now, that is not normal. You need to seek professional psychiatric care. I cannot provide that to you, you will need to take the first steps on your own. It's nothing to be ashamed of, it's an injury that you need treatment for. Even if the cause of the injury seems trivial to an outsider, it's still real - people regularly severely injure themselves just by walking or sleeping wrong.
I read through a good chunk of the "Blockland: the community that killed the game" thread on the forum back when it was posted and there seems to be a common thread of people being abused in real life - either directly or just being left to raise themselves on the internet. You do not deserve to have this happen to you. But at the same time, no one is going to swoop down and fix it for you - especially not over the internet on a lego game.
The average Blocklander has to be in at least their late 20s by now, and I promise you that your life is not over. It is however, fully started and it is time for you to take some responsibility for the state of your own mind.
⬒2025-10-17 14:03:04
Eric Hartman are you aware of the lives you have ruined with the toxic community you have let festered in your game? How does it feel being responsible for that you piece of crap?
Blockland is a cesspit now. I remember playing this game all the way back in the early 2010s all the way up to the keyleak and the games sudden death of community. Once in a while there is an actual server up with people in it, but there's always <45 people in blockland, no greater, always less.
If there isn't an actual game server, it's fucking feet servers. That's genuinely disgusting and is refused to really be fixed, after an entire year of being there. There's a lot that needs to be fixed in terms of the game, and the serverbase, but nothing is to be done.
As an early teen, Blockland impacted my life greatly. The community it had, the memories I made, the things I built, and the servers I hosted, everything. It haped a lot of what I am today in terms of game development and 3D modeling/sculpting.
The fun part is you're only seeing the 0.1% of spam that gets through. There have been over 3.3 million comment posting attempts on this website. Over 30,000 banned IP addresses, mostly automated.
◺2025-10-06 08:01:25
^ black and retarded
◺2025-10-06 08:00:53
v Badspot fix your spam filter from these jeet bots
Its really blatant when you see it all at once huh..
ⵘ2025-08-20 22:27:12
Scrapists*
⥪2025-08-20 22:25:50
Well I would assume comments vaporizing into thin air is a form of hellbanning. I never would have expected that you would see it or even log it.
Anyways, THANK YOU for fixing it, BLF shows up again and now we can visit the site without the checkbox of shame at least until the next wave of shitty scrapers.
"Why are you deleting my posts?" because badspot doesn't give a shit anymore and his game could've at least been successful if he cared but no. Also the blockland forums cloudfare got removed
I deleted your posts because I saw that it took you a dozen vpn re-rolls before you found one that wasn't already blocked, so I assume that you're not acting in good faith.
▮2025-08-16 23:21:30
Why are you deleting my posts? This isn't SEO solicitation spam and I have no idea what keywords are triggering it so I'm going to be ambiguous. I'm just asking about why the BLF is literally disappearing at a search engine level.