This is the Internet in general, i think… when you compare how many sites i used a decade ago to now, its cvastly fewer. five or so years ago, that would have probably been due to things consolidating… But now it is just because almost everything online is relatively valueless. it is a soulless wasteland with little to offer. Sure, ym digitital usage is enormous, but i engaged somewhat reguarly on internet sites. Now its nothing to me. Hell, I dont even really keep up on Lemmy anymore. Smaller use internet was thrilling. What it is now is pretty much balls. Its paying bills, or checking accts.

I mean… they dropped hte “dont be evil” tag, ages ago… which heralded the next phase of Google… “we are for sure going to be doing evil.”

It is as viable of a strategy as any other. People who complain about people “ratting” or being “bush wookies” crack me up… its like saying that chargin a point is a dumb way to play… its not… it is just the way people play. Some people are door kickers, some people want to sneak through a window, some people will camp an exit point. It all adds to the tension in a game. I think that if you are playing a game and dont like that people exit camp, like the do specifically in extraction shooters, then you might want to try a game that is more of a TDM… Because extraction games are generally designed around chokepoints… ala EFT or Hunt to name the most dominant ones I can think of.

I have wondered if this concept of “playing the right way” stems from a generation of people who watch twitch streams. Those guys cannot really afford to play the flanking/ambush style, so people watch and think that pushing a point, or dropping into the hottest zones are the correct way to play. My old ass lacks the snap reflexes of a 15yo. I am for mid tier, or mid tier +1… So I try to play games that allow for me to push when I feel a tactical advantage, or snipe from the flanks when I dont. Which most people would never want to watch.

Ditto. I recognize my cognitive slide from even 10 years ago… And Mitch has decades on me… I also realize that the older my kids have gotten, the more out of touch I’ve become… These fossils dinner gaf though… Having strokes on live tv won’t even stop them.

The waters have been muddied. I have huge disagreements with conservatives… But it has never amounted to much. However, the past decade has seen a switch from “conservatism” to “alt-right maga scum”. My friends who were not swept up in the Trump cult of personality and far right tribalism are fucked.

This is hilarious. The biggest inconvenience this will cause, is people asking “can you post a screenshot? I dont use Twitter.”