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Doing virtual laundry with strangers in Roblox is thrilling and distressingYou wouldn’t believe how some people do their washing!
You wouldn’t believe how some people do their washing!
Today I visited a virtual launderette to do my virtual laundry inRoblox, lining up alongside online strangers who were also washing their virtuasmalls. After loading the machine, filling my powder, and carefully selecting then starting my cycle, I watched through the door for 12 minutes as my washing sloshed and spun. And then I watched another players’s washing in disgust. Visiting this laundry simulation has made me realise I have strong opinions on how other people run their imaginary washes. You wouldn’t believe the laundry crimes I’ve seen.
As lawless and predatory as Roblox is (seethe People Make Games docuwith former RPS man Quinns for more on that), it is an astonishing online space filled with such a wide range of strange and wonderful things. Not many games let you visit a virtual launderette to simulate laundry with other players but you can do that in Washware. You can play the current prototype version for freein Robloxnow. I am delighted that it exists.
Doing my Roblox laundry in WashwareWatch on YouTube
Doing my Roblox laundry in Washware
I do wish it had more sounds, and louder. That real clatter, slosh, rattle, and rumble.
Wash cycles take about 10-14 minutes in real time, so you have ages to watch your own laundry or see what other players are doing. Oh, other people’s washes are distressing. Such vandalism that they might as wellthrow a brick in.
Names obscured to protect the guilty.
Are these players gleefully committing laundry crimes in the same way that doing murder in video games doesn’t mean you’d actually kill someone? Did they intentionally wash their towels so badlybecausethey’d never run this wash for real? Were these the laundry equivalents of edgy tales about murdermen, theNo Russianof smalls? Or was this perhaps trolling? Some might point out, “Alice, Roblox is primarily a kids' game so they probably know nothing of correct laundry loads and this is just make-believe with 3D graphics” but no, I’m certain they’re doing it on purpose.
On the bright side, I have learned about modern laundry technology. As a renter, I’m at the mercy of whatever battered old appliances my landlords had kicking about their garage, and have not even had a dryer in 20-odd years. Apparently now you can get dryers with a high-heat bug-blasting anti-allergy mode? What times we live in! I also took the rare opportunity to play with the laundrette’s American-style top-loading washers, which seem worse than front-loaders? But now I know, because I’ve played a Roblox simulation.
Disclosure: Terry Cavanagh is a pal, and married to a great pal of mine. I have likely seen his IRL washing at some point, though I never watched it. That would be weird. Don’t watch the washing of people you know. Save that for strangers online.
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