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Not about me, but I do have lore about my buddy @LineGutter and how he lost his foot. He says he lost it to an infection. I know the truth. This is gonna be a thread, because I can't spare $8 a month.

Have one of the squares contain only a few pixels of the bicycle and make him fail the test whether he clicks on it or not.

Some bees are friendly. They will not participate when a swarm of bees stings you to death. They also won't save you, because their first loyalty is to bees. This post is not about bees.

@Vechs The second most annoying thing they added to gas pumps. The first? Fucking touch screens replacing regular buttons.

I *hate* the gas pump video screens and speakers. That few minutes of peace, just listening to traffic hum and wind, thinking about the next leg of your trip, or your upcoming day has been replaced by the most godawful annoying loud advertisements.

@yurika___46 Yup. Kinda hurts when there's multiple characters you wnat running back to back, but all you can do is save up and hope for the best, or hope the reruns are far enough away for you to save up again.

@IvystormVt_ I already don't drink coffee or redbull, so yes. Yes I would.

You receive $22,000 a week for life but you can never drink coffee/redbull again. Would you take the deal??

@GloriousFFXIV If I wrote the opposite opinions on my adventure plate, I'd be sent to the GM jail until I changed it, under the pretext that I was a hateful racist homophobe.

I miss when the game didn't bring real life politics into it. Now we got people acting as virtue signalling signboards in game. It's just sad man.

Might as well quit gaming because I can assure you that the vast majority of ALL games are currently made with some sort of Ai. They just wont tell you about it.

Looking back, millennials grew up during a genuine golden age of AAA innovation, and somehow, we responded to it with some of the most dogshit criticism imaginable. A lot of the industry's current problems are the direct result of studios trying to "fix" complaints that never actually mattered in the first place. Look back at some of the most common complaints from our time, and you'll see for yourself "The campaign is too short. It’s only 8 hours!" So now every game is padded with endless busywork, crafting systems, collectible spam, and pacing-destroying filler designed to artificially inflate playtime. We traded tight, replayable campaigns with memorable set pieces for 60-hour slogs that most people never even finish. "It has a tacked-on multiplayer mode!" A huge number of beloved multiplayer experiences started as “tacked-on modes.” Developers used to experiment because they could. A lot of those modes existed because parts of the team had downtime while waiting on other departments, so they built weird ideas for fun. That kind of experimentation is how entire genres are born. Thanks to this criticism, we barely get interesting side modes anymore. Singleplayer games stopped experimenting with multiplayer, and multiplayer games stopped shipping with campaigns. "The game is too linear and on rails!" Uhh, yeah? Sometimes that’s the point. Linear games allow developers to control pacing, tension, balance, atmosphere, and spectacle with precision. Not every experience benefits from being an open-world sandbox. Now everything has to be “go anywhere, do anything,” which usually just means bloated maps full of repetitive content where players accidentally skip important moments or experience the story in the worst possible order. "There’s nothing to do after you beat the game!" This helped create the live-service mentality where games are expected to become permanent hobbies instead of complete experiences. Seasonal progression, daily challenges, battle passes, rotating shops, login rewards. Games used to end, and now they’re designed to be work. "The cutscenes take control away from the player!" So now stories are delivered through endless walking sections where characters slowly talk at you while you hold forward. Ironically, this often feels less interactive than a well-directed cutscene because you’re not really playing, you’re just pretending to. "The game is too repetitive, you just do the same thing over and over!" This criticism pushed studios toward constant novelty at the expense of mechanical depth. Older games would give you a solid core mechanic and let you master it over time. Modern AAA games are terrified you’ll get bored, so they throw gimmick after gimmick at you instead of refining the fundamentals. "It’s just another brown military shooter!" This criticism was understandable at the time, but it led to every game becoming terrified of sincerity. Everything had to become quirk chungus, self-aware, colorful, ironic, self referential, and stuffed with marvel-style dialogue. A lot of AAA writing lost the ability to be earnest because studios became scared of being called generic. I could go on and on, but you get the point. A lot of people (rightfully) blame sarkeesian for the current state of the industry, but we really dont blame yahtzee enough, seeing as he got everything he asked for, but not what he wanted.

@ritostime People are too use to rushing to the endgame due to other MMOs. It’s conditioning.

@kbd04 I go white mage when I wanna make sure people don’t die. I go safe when I have my tank bro with me. But sometimes people just want to eat floor no matter how hard you try ….

Finally. Government spending we can all agree on.

“Your father’s Rare Pepe collection from 2016. An elegant meme from a more civilized age” “What happened to my father?” “A young poster named Darth Vader, who was an oomfie of mine until he trooned out, helped the left hunt down patriots. He betrayed and doxxed your father”

Things like this is why Genshin puzzles are becoming less challenging btw

@Gooboberti Those are floatation devices. At Refractive, we take safety VERY seriously

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Death penalty to all American politicians with loyalty to a foreign nation.

@Zartislost I think he just means using it as a tool to increase efficiency but not literally using it to generate storyline, assets, art etc. The AI slop people have really hurt this tech because it can be used well as a tool in the right hands