Hanging in there and surviving is literally what the people above us hate. They say they do not think of us, yet they spend an aweful lot of effort keeping us down. Stay around, for no other reason than to spite them.

Welcome gang!

“The McConnells”

They never tell me what happened to the last one, only that there were others, and have been for the past 3000 years. I am starting to suspect the worm killed them. I will ask Moneo in the morning, and bring my trusty lasgun.

Sure it did! It had a marvelous impact! I have never painted so many minis, never spent more time with the dog, and finally got around to buying elden ring on PC, thanks to the Sony boycott making me remember to spite Sony. The ps5 sits unplugged on a shelf and was going to get hooked up to the TV but then…all these things started happening and I kinda thought “nah fuckem I can wait till they stop hammering their dicks with a hammer” and they just kept at it so I’ve been off PS for the past…2 months? 3?

The blackout and wanting to show solidarity with an issue was the final real push for me. Fuck em.

Yeah super cubed up tanks, apparently its an import of something called ChoroQ. Since so many other tanks games tend to be paid freemium pvp I want more of THIS game.

I’ve been wanting to learn how to mod games to add vehicles and levels just to this game, since its such an early and simple physics game and should be simple by comparison to newer games, but I don’t know how to start.

Seek and Destroy for ps2

They still think I could be a constructive poster one day and haven’t revoked my ability to one day post anywhere else

Shatter, dds (Smash mouth)

Ocean (Aqua)

White-hot Chili peppers (up from red-hot)

Make-out (kiss)

The Colony (group of beetles - The Beatles)

Green Month (Green Day)

The Royal Family (Queen)

Would you like a glass of wine, perchance?

They could ask Ford for tips on raising their own crack squad of private enforcers, to send over there!

You gonna back that up with a SOURCE, senator?

(Please I need to learn how to cook before Pepsico forecloses on my boat)

Money well invested

I agree here, this continues to be self inflicted by lifetime players, but is also natural failing of legislation to get involved. After the ESRB in the US formed (since that’s my experience) it seems the government simply handwaved any need to get involved ever even as games came online and marketplaces got added.

Parents similarly cannot simply just know the intricacies of every hobby their kid slides in and out of, and few hobbies are quite as insidious to may or may not allow extra purchases quite like gaming. Not even all millennials grew up as gamers, and can pass off that knowledge. And many more just play fifa with the boys on weekends and just wanted a product that works - they treat it like an online NES. Turned it on and go with no deeper thought or realization of the market it supports.

It’s an ad this time.

Yeah this happens every fucking time. This time it’s 6 hours. Next time it’s a week.

This is how DLC started. “It’s not like we cut content from the game to sell!” Was only true for that batch of games for a year or two. The industry’s scum sucking knows no limit and will absolutely pay wall more for longer if this isn’t denounced properly. It is never, ever “just” anything when it comes to these parasites.

“$80 for 80%”

Can’t make people pay to stream board games and dnd. Which, coincidentally, I am buying guide books for because shitfucks like this are actively making gaming harder and harder to continue to justify morally to myself.

They: don’t pay their staff but give executives massive bonuses (Game company CEOS are among the highest when you look at pay disparity charts), indulge in layoffs on failure or success (listing non-paid wages in the quarter as profit to shareholders) , continously justify gambling as not because it’s digital (lootboxes, “player packs” boosters), actively erode consumer rights (liscense vs ownership), actively treat their consumers like dogshit (the ps3 WILL cost $700 and if you do not like it you can…get an Xbox? Lol?), cutting content of products to add back as paid extra content (moving up deadlines and prioritizing XYZ at the end so it’s “not done” by deadline so it can be added back later for a price to beat the “we intentionally didn’t include it” allegations)

Gaming’s shitty practices are ruining other markets and the governments of the world’s refusal to reign them in is causing spillover into other things.

They applaud my originality, where I had time between then and now to think of a comeback.

This is because the average arch user does not enjoy their experience. The average enjoyer is so far beyond a mere “user” when it comes to self-flaggelation