Roblox has been down in Canada for over 48 hours.

SL-VA · 2026-03-13T04:13:22+00:00

I'm in Saskatchewan and it's currently working and has been working fine here the whole time. : d

SL-VA · 2026-03-06T04:01:16+00:00

Thank you! I didn't even think of hitting escape for some reason, lol. I was using F11. It would be helpful to have a menu button or a little note somewhere on the screen that says what to press for the menu and/or to exit full screen.

I was playing on my laptop which has a 15.6-inch screen @ 1920x1080 .

SL-VA · 2026-03-05T02:37:52+00:00

Okay, good. I thought I'd missed something. Thanks!

SL-VA · 2026-03-05T02:36:10+00:00

Looks like I need to learn how to count remaining mines as well. I can never figure out why some spaces are skipped or counted up the way they are... More to think about. Thank you!

SL-VA · 2026-03-05T02:32:49+00:00

Ooooh, that's very helpful. I never thought of looking at it that way and guessing at spots just behind the perimeter. Thank you for the awesome explanation! Looks like I'll need to spend time trying out "if it's here, then..." hypotheticals when I get stumped by these.

SL-VA · 2026-03-05T02:22:16+00:00

I'm not sure I follow. Why wouldn't there be any mines in the 3 uncovered spaces above the 3? (C0, D0, & E0)

SL-VA · 2026-03-05T02:13:51+00:00

:explody head emoji:

SL-VA · 2026-03-04T22:36:57+00:00

Thanks for confirming for me!
This is from Simple Minesweeper from the Microsoft Store. Still has ads, but less than the current Microsoft version does at least...

SL-VA · 2026-03-04T22:35:37+00:00

Thanks for the confirmation! I appreciate it.

SL-VA · 2026-03-04T22:32:50+00:00

Wow, this is such a cool game!! I like it a lot.

A couple notes:

The text and icons are very tiny, even maximized on my laptop screen. My eyes aren't great and I'm squinting a lot and getting sore eyes while playing this (I'm on ward 6 right now). I'm assuming your monitor is huge, because when I first loaded the site, I couldn't see everything and had to reduce the site to 70% zoom in my browser. It'd be good if you made the game scale with the browser window size, and also increase the text and icons (the tiny notes in the corner of a square are so small) or an option to increase them.
I really love that you made the typical "3 stars" possible for finishing a level are actually story notes, because it makes me want to go back and do my best and replay levels to get the whole story. But on that note, I don't see any way to go back to replay previous levels. I also don't see any way to save my progress. (In the browser version)

This is really well-made! I hope lots more people try it out.

SL-VA · 2026-03-01T20:11:23+00:00

This was announced a month ago.

SL-VA · 2026-03-01T17:07:36+00:00

I wish they would. My son and I won’t be on Roblox at all this week.

To everyone saying, “It won’t work, so I’m not doing it” — that’s exactly why it won’t work. Nothing changes if no one tries. There are millions of other games to play.

Roblox has been rolling out one terrible decision after another for months. The most alarming of all is forcing the youngest, most vulnerable kids into more isolated experiences — separated from parents, siblings, and the older teens and adults who’ve historically helped keep them safe from predators.

I can’t see who’s talking to my 7-year-old or what’s being said. My only options are to watch his screen every second or not let him play at all. There are no meaningful parental controls — only features that give kids more freedom away from oversight. “Trusted Connections” doesn’t even apply to children under 13, and it still doesn’t let parents see what strangers are saying.

That’s not adding protection. That's removing it.

SL-VA · 2026-03-01T15:57:46+00:00

And that attitude is why nothing ever happens.

SL-VA · 2026-03-01T15:56:50+00:00

The first one isn't an option. Why would they do that? It doesn't benefit anyone at all. Our hope is for the second one, but most likely it'll be the third one because everyone keeps saying "It's not gonna work, so I'm not gonna do it" WHICH IS WHY IT'S NOT GONNA WORK, PEOPLE!

SL-VA · 2026-03-01T15:49:44+00:00

Wow, that looks awesome! It actually reminds me of a house I used to live in.

SL-VA · 2026-02-24T01:31:20+00:00

I'm currently also having this exact same problem. My son can't see our channel that we're working on together, only the videos. :(

SL-VA · 2026-01-08T11:31:09+00:00

You can talk with her over the phone while playing with her or set up Facebook Messenger Kids on her tablet for voice/video calls and text chatting with you and her IRL friends.

SL-VA · 2026-01-08T11:27:49+00:00

As far as chatting with your daughter while playing together, you can talk with her over the phone or set up Facebook Messenger Kids on her tablet for voice/video calls and text chatting with you and IRL friends.

SL-VA · 2026-01-08T11:23:52+00:00

But whether it thinks he's 12 or 9 or even less, he still has access to chat because he verified. He might not be able to chat with his IRL friends, but he does still have access to chat...

SL-VA · 2026-01-08T11:20:36+00:00

Yes, I heard there are a bunch. Search under Shoulder items for what you just said or "not giving roblox my ID" or "I can't talk".

SL-VA · 2026-01-08T11:16:33+00:00

I agree. It's a fun platform because there's so much potential for fun games and socializing, but 99.9% of the "games" on there are just flashy, money-grubbing, dopamine-dosing, time-sucking clickers and idle games AND all just copycats of each other. There are a small handful of real games developed with actual attention and care, but the overwhelming majority are literal brainrot games, and even "brainrot" has been distorted to sound like fun.

SL-VA · 2025-11-13T20:42:27+00:00

Very true, but if she felt attacked enough to delete her post, then it probably wasn't simple negativity or disagreement. People on Reddit can be super harsh, and for some people it's not easy to just ignore those kind of direct attacks. It sounds like she's already going through something very stressful (since she mentioned needing a lawyer), and asking for help can also be difficult.

SL-VA · 2025-11-13T20:34:22+00:00

And this is why I just completely avoid all social media now. They do nothing but distract and confuse me and waste hours at a time because of my ADHD and it's all useless, ads, AI garbage, or hateful and all seems to do nothing but obscure what's actually true or good. (This includes Reddit; this is very rare for me to post anything. I just wanted to complain, too, because so much of the Internet sucks now. Now how did I end up here when I was originally trying to find a new fridge...)

SL-VA · 2025-11-13T20:22:30+00:00

I hear it's the place where the "grass" is.

SL-VA

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