The big problem with matchmaking is that in the long run, it kills game. When people start to move on to a new thing, the population that stays because they're attached to the game gets fucked over by matchmaking.
The less people they are, the worse it works. That's when a server browser and the ability to run community server becomes crucial. It will keep a game alive for a decade after its last update.
My point is that we shouldn't even entertain the question in the first place. It doesn't matter if it's natural or not. If it was unnatural, it wouldn't make it any less moral or okay.
This guy clearly hasn't been paying attention to anything that's happening, did he? The idea that if we paid for the platform, the platform wouldn't have any incentive to glue us to it and to try and make us addicted to it is ridiculous. Of course they would do it. Because they would want to make sure you get that dopamine hit. To make sure you keep paying.
And it would just be like the streaming services wars. Eventually, the user base will stabilize, and then companies won't get the growth they look for, so they will start fucking over their users because that's what always happens. They will introduce tiers, and what used to be just one tiers will become two or three, and one will be ad supported, and basic features will be stripped away from the main tiers.... we know how this goes.
And to me the worst part is, social media, whether we want it or not, has become a very important part of our lives. And for all of it's wrong, it also has some very strong positives, notably helping people find community and express themselves. And you, Andrew, want to paywall all of this, make it accessible by a privileged few... The result would be an internet that's even more white, even more straight, even more cis...
Fuck that. The solution is to not let these spaces in the hands of corporations. These spaces should be owned by the people who live on it. Not some executives asshole trying to squeeze every penny out of them.
The problem is capitalism. Maybe it's time we stop putting band-aids fix on every problem it causes. We've tried to fix it time and time again. Maybe it's time to root out the problem.
It's cute and all but... I really hate that arguement. If it wasn't natural, it wouldn't make it any less moral. We don't need to play by their rhetorical rules. I know that this is just a cute thing, but I see this kind of things all the time and I feel quite strongly about it. So what if I wasn't born this way? So what if it's not natural? Does it somehow make things worse? Or is just an excuse to justify hatred of something that just grosses the 'phobes out?... y'know?
I mean, hey, good for them. That being said, I still think EA is smoking some mad cope if they're actually expecting one hundred fucking millions players.
I wish it was bigger, I wish the icons had some text right next to them to make it easier to tap on, and also, if we're going with the expansion style like it is right now instead of a more like bubble menu I guess, I wish there was an option to put the text on the right.
Alright, little disclaimer and content warning, I'm gonna talk about some heavy stuff. I'm not going to go into too much details. It should be safe, but know that questions of abuse, violence and sexual assault will be mentioned, not described, though. Should be safe enough, but I would rather warn people. Always remember that you don't need to expose yourself to things that hurt you. ❤️🩹
I don't. At all. I have very specific sensorial sensitivities and the way I taste things makes it so that pretty much all alcohol tastes the same. I feel like my taste buds somehow like individualizes the alcohol and that's all I taste. It's weird.
But also, and I guess that's the main thing, I have a traumatic history of alcohol. An abusive parent. I almost lost someone who I was very close with due to how much they drank one night and had to go to a hospital after they fell in a coma because of it. I've been around too many drunk people in my life.
Alcohol is expensive, it's literally poison, and it makes people act in a way that I find very unpredictable and scary. I've been harassed, threatened, borderline assaulted, touched in inappropriate ways, and so on by way too many drunk people. I don't ever want to do that to someone.
I see alcohol as the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. I genuinely believe, without a shadow of a doubt, that our cultures would be far better without it.
I think I'm quite judgmental on this issue. I recognize that, but I genuinely don't understand the people who feel the need to have alcohol and to get drunk to have fun. I don't understand the point of going somewhere and just drinking. I don't understand that. I really don't.
Like, I'm going to some kind of like party organized by friends or whatever and I'm like cool we're gonna get there, we're gonna get to sit around, chat, talk about stuff, play around, and just have fun and when I get there I realize oh, it's just an excuse to get drunk with loud ass music, again.
I've been the shepherd puppy for parties in my home organized by someone I live with acouple of times and that was already too many times. It's obnoxious being the only non-drunk person at a party. You feel like you need to babysit everyone because you don't want them to damage your apartment, which has happened! I have probably irreparable damage in a part of my apartment. That's probably going to cost me a lot the day I move out of it.
I've had to kick someone out of my home because the dude was just too drunk, kept sexually harassing people. Intimated me. Said fucked up shit about my then partner to my face. And was like on the verge of like sexually assaulting someone in my home. The victim who was also too drunk out of their mind to even realizing what was happening and even defended him. People treated me like I was crashing the party. Fucking hell. I don't want to ever leave that again.
Fuck alcohol. It's so fucking weird that we have normalized microdosing poison just for the hell of it.
Oh no, that actually makes me sad. I love Microsoft Lens. I install it on my device and I just revoke its network access, so that way it can't connect to the internet. And it just works flawlessly. It's amazing. God, I hate this. We can't have anything nice.
I have honestly completely given up on streaming all together. It's such a hassle. And looking for the thing that you want to watch always ends up the same way. It's on another service that you've never heard of before and don't pay for.
I watch the stuff I want to watch through other means. I don't have enough money to give 15 bucks a month to every asshole who has enough money to hoard movies and TV shows rights.
When I finally accepted myself as a trans woman, I've had to face and encounter many new fears, some I were expecting... never thought I'd develop such an intense fears of ending up in prison though that I'd be having waking nightmares about it. I'd rather die than being forced to detransition and I'd say that it speaks volume about the way I, a transfeminine girl, would be treated in a men's prison that this isn't even the worst scenario I can think of while having it be plausible and grounded in the reality of other's experiences.
I don't follow this game at all, nor do I care about Bungie, but everything I've seen and heard about this game sounds like an incoming blunder. I can't see this game succeed at all. But hey, best of luck, I guess.
These political parties never learn. It's mind-boggling. How many failures of the Democrats in the U.S. or similar parties do you need to finally understand that trying to cater to the right wing will only validate the far right and alienate whoever is left to vote for you? The more a society shifts to the right, the harder left you must be. Double down!
People go to the far-right out of bigotry, but not just this, they go to them because in the end they always end up being the only ones proposing solutions, saying that they're going to change their lives, whereas the rest of you are just saying, oh, vote for us or otherwise it's gonna be the mean far-right in power, but we're not planning on changing anything.
Capitalism is failing and crumbling all around us. People are begging for something to change. The far right is promising that they will change things, by throwing minorities under the bus, it's a false promise, it's not a solution, it's not gonna change anything, but at least they're saying something, while the rest of you are just... doing nothing. They lie, they cheat, they manipulate everyone, but in the end they're still the only ones saying that they're gonna do something!
There is one minority that deserves to be thrown under the bus and we all know which. It's the wealthiest, the 1%, the billionaires, but all of you are too cowardly to take the fight to them so instead you throw us all to the wolves! You don't care about the people, you don't care about policy, all you care is keeping your fucking seat at the table.
I'm so fucking sick of seeing the same goddamn thing happen again and again and none of these people are taking any lessons from it! No one is coming to save us, that would require them to work and do something for once.
It's not extraordinary but hey, small wins are still wins.