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The fact that they even tried to pretend it wasn’t retroactive because they didn’t charge for old install counts. Like, does it charge games that were released under different terms? Yes? Then it’s retroactive!

I think most of the people opposed to this post are confusing “I don’t need my whole feed to be about these things” with “I’m against these things.”

Are you capable of checking the context of a statement before replying to it? The quality of the advice was not at issue. You asked why the person was hostile. Being an asshole begets hostility.

Couldn’t possibly be because that person is acting like it’s our fault we’re too weak to have it too with the dismissive “bub” and the cry to “get your shit together.”

I got my first one of these when I was 21 and in the best shape of my life. Accidents, injuries, and unpreventable diseases happen, and acting like your comparative good luck means you’ve made better choices than those who have been less lucky by implying they’ve been “unhealthy as hell” is kind of gross.

It’s pretty much all he does unless he finds an Obra Dinn-tier darling.

Except for Gollum, he was weirdly defensive of that for a game that pulled every AAA anti-consumer trick in the book without at least the decency to be bland.

In case the OP’s qualifications are being called into question for whatever the fuck reason, here’s an adult confirming it really does work this way.

Perfectionism can be crippling.

Yeah, this is consistent with my experience too. I got one or two participation ribbons in my whole school life (graduated early 2000s), but they weren’t common, and they never came at the exclusion of winners being recognized.

I wonder if this is why I’ll see a post has a larger comment count than the comments I can read, too.

If you’ve blocked someone, that person’s comments and all comments replying to theirs are hidden from your view. This is my only guess why you might be seeing this. The comment count you see on your instance should be accurate, since it only counts comments it knows about and it doesn’t know about defederated ones.

Drama between Hexbear and ShitJustWorks. Have some popcorn.

I mean, we were all thinking it. Putting the warning to stop us from doing so seriously while still indulging the joke was the right way to go.

This is a hard question to answer, because the really unfun ones either get dropped so fast I forget I ever played them unless someone jogs my memory by naming them directly, or I’m willing to just shrug and say “this is probably great to some people, but it’s not a genre I like.” I guess for this category, I would point to The Witness. I heard so many recommendations for it, but aside from the occasional “oh, neat” when I saw how a puzzle was placed in the world instead of on a board, I couldn’t tolerate it for nearly as long as it wanted me to keep doing the thing.

The game I memorably should have enjoyed - that I had the highest hopes for (and the biggest subsequent disappointment for) was Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice.

At first, I loved the deeply disturbed main character and grim Norse fantasy world being crafted around me, but the combat felt so disjointed from the story (on purpose) that it felt like there was one guy on the dev team who liked combat who everyone was afraid to piss off, so they had to make concessions and put one token immersion-wrecking battle in every so often. And it’s mad that Senua has two entire character traits - “psychotic” and “warrior” - and one of them managed to feel immersion breaking.

Then the ending destroyed the bits of the game I DID like and made me feel like a tool for ever having bought into the grim fantasy world to begin with. That shit is everyone’s most hated ending trope, and I walked away from the game feeling like I’d wasted my time.

At least it was short.

Not all the companions are willing to accept a poly relationship, and if you lock in on one who isn’t (like Wyll) everyone else backs off.

(Imagine my surprise when things got serious with Astarion in act 2 and Gale, who I’d never flirted with - I never even got that one scene that starts with the Mystra image - suddenly demanded I choose between them. Awkward.)

And Astarion is just hard to please in general if your character doesn’t find chaos and a little death on the side fun.

It’s astounding how universal this hatred is. No one likes these things except the people who think it saves on labor costs (which, does it even? they’re replacing a menu that was already automated…)

It doesn’t even take swearing for some of them - I had one earlier this week that hung up on me when I tried pressing zero to see if that got me anywhere. Touchier than humans.

Out of date tbh - It’s never a labyrinthine phone tree anymore, it’s a “natural speech” based menu that can never help with more than the most basic inquiries like “how much is my bill?” and still stubbornly refuses to put you in the queue for a real person.

I started a DU playthrough and laughed almost as hard as I alt-F4ed the first time I picked one of those fantasize options and saw what happened. 10/10 addition to the dialogue tree

Stuart Fergus, the husband of James Bulger’s mother, said that after he reached out to one creator asking them to take down their video, he received a reply saying: “We do not intend to offend anyone. We only do these videos to make sure incidents will never happen again to anyone. Please continue to support and share my page to spread ­awareness.”

He really tried to take down his wife’s dead kid’s deepfake and got the creator responding “no offense, so like share and subscribe lel”

Using the likeness of another person without that person’s express permission should be a jailable offense.

Was funnier without the whole fig circle tbh

Well, we can agree on that! Make paying contributors the cheaper option.

I won’t hold my breath though. :')