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Time to build a LAN party cafe in my basement and install all the DRM free classic FPS games I own on all the devices.

Using this meme format doesn’t make sense. Why would he need to explain that?

But yeah I play GURPS so I’m none of these people.

Epic is a cornered animal of a corporation that threatens to undermine a stable and generally positive status quo in the PC space and is owned in part by an authoritarian country’s proxy company. (Sort of like how EA is now, though less direct obviously) If they succeed in their plans the PC space just becomes straight up worse for PC players.

Maybe as far as evil goes Microsoft by its sheer size might beat it because Microsoft has its fingers in all sorts of pies. But Microsoft isn’t as hungry or ravenous and is less immediately dangerous, its more like a lumbering giant where one hand barely knows what the other is doing. It’ll knock over good things, generally cause harm, and enshitify its own products but its all a much slower process.

That’s some delicious evil.

I hate loud stupid people influencing game balance so fucking much.

I’m glad I don’t play PVP games anymore.

If I ever get back into game dev though and make a multiplayer game…

So they’ve changed. They’ve changed by becoming more evil.

TBH, before this, EA was comparatively less evil to pre-Microsoft Activision. And when Microsoft bought Activision they made Activision comparatively less evil as well by diluting the evil with more mundane lumbering giant capitalist corporate sludge. Still pretty evil though.

This is one of those rare situations where a company going private is making them worse than being publicly traded.

There almost ought to be an evil ranking for these game companies. Ubisoft would arguably be on top of the list atm, or maybe tied with Nintendo or Roblox. Saudi-Kushner-SilverLake-EA, Konami, Epic Games, and WB not to distant.

Take Two Interactive, Sega, Embracer Group, Capcom, Bandai-Namco, Microsoft, and Sony probably still hover around the middle.

Devolver Digital, Valve, and CDPR arguably near the bottom. Least evil. Arguably not even evil just flawed.

Maybe Bigmode, Itch.io, & Kojima Productions actually at the very bottom?

No I’m at fucking work.

Best of both worlds: Always role play a tactician or veteran if you have a lot of game knowledge and you want to use it.

Play an idiot when you are playing a game set in a world or using a system you are completely unfamiliar with.

There’s a number of the games that notably effected me after completion. Star Fox (SNES), Halo: Combat Evolved, Morrowind, KOTOR 1&2, Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, Bioshock, Dead Space, Hotline Miami, Undertale.

I’m probably forgetting some.

I might be an atheist’s atheist, but if you are anti-empathy you aren’t christian, you just like old testament for it’s prejudice and horror.

I was talking as compared to other democrats. Hes not as progressive as people think.

That said yeah obviously I’d be to the moon if he was president right now.

Right now because Trump won a second time I’m dead inside. And I think I’ll probably be dead inside forever because even if we elect someone better in 2028 I’ll know we elected Trump twice. That will haunt me forever.

Jon Stewart is kind of meh. I guess I’d vote for him though.

My understanding is that its because healthcare is still doing very well and that has a lot of women in it as an industry. College educated or otherwise.

A lot of white collar work men tend to get into is being effected by mass adoption of AI and the tariffs are impacting blue collar work.

Only up to a point, fossil fuels getting cheaper will reach a point where it wont be worth extraction outside of for niche customers.

If renewables become plentiful and cheap enough globally fossil fuels will more or less die off in use, even if right now they’re going upward in use its temporary. The problem is we’re stuck with severe consequences even if they do eventually largely stop. We’re stuck with severe consequences if they stop this very instant in fact.

What we really want is renewable energy to become so cheap and plentiful that not only do fossil fuels stop being used but carbon capture technology’s high energy cost becomes null and it just becomes a net good. ATM the technology is useless because the high energy cost ends up just putting more co2 into the air anyway than is removed.

Both seem ripe to be someone’s fursona.

That’s victorian era morals super charged by protestant evangelical puritanism. Kids are perfect innocent angels that become hyper corrupted by the sin of nakedness and the flesh.

The USA never seems to get past this in particular.

Sounds and looks vaguely like a Magic The Gathering card.

What if the ‘other’ is building a nuke? What if they refuse to vaccinate and are a notch away from creating a new superbug that will likely kill you? What if they’re pumping pollution into the air and water and maximizing climate change? What if they’re raping and violently torturing children?

What if you need them to maintain your food supply, electricity, medical care, etc? What if you need the local ‘other’ to back you up if another more distant ‘other’ decides it going to kill you and take your land?

I say this as a heavily individualist minded person myself: You can’t operate a worthwhile society as a collection of islands. You need cooperation.

It would be better to eradicate spacetime itself with a vacuum decay event than to allow a completely brutal “every man for themselves” world to continue existing. Pointless suffering.

Instead you should have said “I welcome a vacuum decay event erasing existence and painlessly and instantly deleting all life on earth.”