Are there other hobbyists that literally go out of their way to shoot themselves in the foot every chance they get? It's legit baffling.

  • windowlicker [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    the continued existence of pre-ordering for digital games is a very stark example of just how mindless and stupid gamers are

    • itsPina [he/him, she/her]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Gamers have the same mentality as anti vegans. I remember when I told my coworkers I went veg one said "I'm going to eat twice as much meat to make up for you" and I just said "cool bro you're going to die really early"

      Same thing as when I said I wasn't going to buy wizard game "dw I bought a copy for a friend just to spite you" like okay dawg stay winnin I guess

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The worst toxic fandoms are all about spite purchasing.

        Star Citizen is loaded with big spenders that announce they will buy more thousand-plus dollar spaceship jpegs to trigger the critics. :cryptocurrency: :dumpster-fire:

        • itsPina [he/him, she/her]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          Imagine a world where Steve Bannon was beheaded at the age of like 13 or something, video games would probably not be a bigoted bootlicking money siphon.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The average gamer is 35, there's about a 50/50 chance they're a woman, and they're probably playing fairly casual games on their smartphone.

        • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          That's just someone who plays games. Gamer has almost become a more specific identity based around consuming. I'm not calling my grandpa playing solitaire a gamer.

            • ssjmarx [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Alienware

              Today when I walked into my economics class I saw something I dread every time I close my eyes. Someone had brought their new gaming laptop to class. The Forklift he used to bring it was still running idle at the back. I started sweating as I sat down and gazed over at the 700lb beast that was his laptop. He had already reinforced his desk with steel support beams and was in the process of finding an outlet for a power cable thicker than Amy Schumer's thigh. I start shaking. I keep telling myself I'm going to be alright and that there's nothing to worry about. He somehow finds a fucking outlet. Tears are running down my cheeks as I send my last texts to my family saying I love them. The teacher starts the lecture, and the student turns his laptop on. The colored lights on his RGB Backlit keyboard flare to life like a nuclear flash, and a deep humming fills my ears and shakes my very soul. The entire city power grid goes dark. The classroom begins to shake as the massive fans begin to spin. In mere seconds my world has gone from vibrant life, to a dark, earth shattering void where my body is getting torn apart by the 150mph gale force winds and the 500 decibel groan of the cooling fans. As my body finally surrenders, I weep, as my school and my city go under. I fucking hate gaming laptops.

              • itsPina [he/him, she/her]
                hexagon
                ·
                1 year ago

                And for as expensive and power consuming that laptop is it probably still constantly thermal throttles and can't hit decent fps in fortnite lol

      • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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        1 year ago

        I’m going to eat twice as much meat to make up for you

        That's just a misquoted maddox joke from like 2004. Sounds like a cool person :yikes:

        • Quizzes [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          LOL Maddox.

          His piece on how adventure games committed suicide is a legit internet hall of fame classic. I remember reading the lady's bio who wrote the puzzle he ridiculed and she wrote her entire Wikipedia bio as a lawyerly defense against that 20 year old column.

          • bigboopballs [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            His piece on how adventure games committed suicide

            which one is that? I don't remember it

            • Quizzes [none/use name]
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              1 year ago

              Wow. She cleaned Wikipedia so thoroughly that there's not even a link to the Maddox piece on the Wikipedia article dedicated to how infamous and stupid the puzzle was. Boy, that really got to her.

              And after searching, I can't find the piece. It seems Google removed it, or heavily penalized it so that it won't appear in searches.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Nintendo went to court in Europe to prevent people from cancelling digital preorders and :freeze-gamer:s will still lick their boots

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      One of those things that was "fine" in principle, back when the idea of a finished game as actualy a serious concept and not just a scam.

      Capitalists broke one of their own legitimate good ways to ensure smooth launches and smoother capital flow because they are both stupid and too greedy.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        One of those things that was “fine” in principle, back when the idea of a finished game as actualy a serious concept and not just a scam.

        I don't think that's ever been a thing. Day 1 patches have been a thing since the internet really took off.