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- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 1 hour ago:
Er, yes 3. That’s what I meant.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 9 hours ago:
you, fellating es4
As one should.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 10 hours ago:
I started on 1.3, and eventually version-up’d my way to css and played probably thousands of hours around 2007ish with an ex good friend of mine. Then tf2 came out and everybody moved over to that.
But then valve decided hats and new items and weapons and REAL MONEY needed to get involved. Oh and also cs would tell release go, but by that time, cs was visibly full of hackers. I know because I went like a year with my friend playing with hacks with each other until we got bored of it, so I know the mindset and mental process. I still remember the first time loading up in dust 1 and seeing my friend see me through a wall in… Oh jeez I don’t even remember the name of the area anymore. Like upper tunnel where everybody clashes? Anyway, seeing each other through that was like looking into a mirror for the first time… But yeah, tf2. Tf2 got boring when it became a sloggy grind that never had any stable balance and it was pretty obvious valve was engineering rage as a way to keep people engaged. You know, with the kill-cams and stuff. It’s undeniable.
But then the years passed and csgo apparently got better. I had long since moved on and decided I didn’t like go from the start.
And then, cs2 comes out, and I’m gonna be honest, I REALLY like the visual style of cs2. But I remember playing in csgo after valve copied league and really focused matchmaking, which to me was a huge misstep, because cs is(was) not that type of game.
I played cs2 for about a dozen hours for the first time this past week… And… Boy do I have thoughts.
But just one main one is that I’m really sad that cs has stagnated to the point of now relying on gambling and either deathmatch or matchmaking. There are a very small handful of custom servers like climbing and surf, but MOST of that stuff is absolutely dead. Even matchmaking is dead as shit. It’s all skinvesting (dude. Fuck paid skins and that ENTIRE industry across ALL games).
I looked for a community server that was mostly default settings and just had a million maps where a handful of players (6-20) could just fart around in, but that type of actual community just doesn’t exist anymore. The game got too fragmented by valve trying to oversimplify and remove the server browser, but inadvertently made it super messy. And the fucking ui is godawful. It’s flashy and sometimes even responsive, the console and game both have some extremely good improvements. But… It’s just attracted the most sweaty tryhard seriouspants people.
It’s my home game, where I came from, my roots. But Jesus. They turned it into a Borg.
- Comment on I don't actually read the news. I surmise the news based on memes that begin popping up for which I have no context. 2 days ago:
There’s probably worse ways to get information of the world.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 2 days ago:
Lmaoooo
Have you SEEN their UI? You know how over the past ten years we’ve been like “aaaaanny day now they’ll fix it so it isn’t awful…” And they didn’t. And instead, we just sorta… got used to it?
Pffft… like they listen to anything anybody else says. Community relations dept. Ha!
- Comment on Website 2 days ago:
And it’s ten million lines of typescript on ten nested frameworks.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 3 days ago:
And after they lose 5% of their addicted users, all they have to do is continue to grow 5%. Oh no!
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 3 days ago:
This is the part, young-but-becoming-wise friends, where the company doesn’t give a shit about you and starts to prey on children, who, for a while, become very lucrative.
The chances of discord pushing ahead anyway, even with this very public outcry, is still 50/50.
- Comment on Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter 3 days ago:
I’m not privy to the, now, decades-long evolution of competitive StarCraft. Why is Brood War more interesting to watch?
- Comment on Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter 4 days ago:
World of StarCraft lets gooooooooo!!!
- Comment on Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter 4 days ago:
Wait a sec… Brood war is the expansion for sc1.
Are you telling me that there’s still a competitive sc1 scene? Holy fuck. What are the metas even like in that game now? What level is the meta even at??
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 4 days ago:
*blinks
…What?
- Comment on Lawyers set to argue that Instagram and YouTube intentionally addicted and harmed teen in landmark social media trial 4 days ago:
Can we do something about the literal fucking Nazis occupying our government first
- Comment on Casual weeknight unwind 4 days ago:
I got excited because I like whipped cream but then people all see it as whipits and that’s sad
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 4 days ago:
Eeuww…yikes.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 6 days ago:
I have sat here, staring at your content for far too long trying to figure out what groom may mean in this context. I’ve decided it means hairstyle, or visual-assessment condition. I will look it up and see if I’m right or I need to pluck my eyeballs out. Or both.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 6 days ago:
The WHATNOW is impossible to properly remap?
- Comment on Taste the flavor 6 days ago:
To some, hilarity.
To others, science.
To others, horror.
To… Others… Pleasure :(
I’m of the first three.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 6 days ago:
I can see the headline now:
“World descending into World War III, meanwhile, obscure internet forum discovers horrible new way to diagnose illness”
- Comment on Taste the flavor 6 days ago:
Either that or some sick fucks of you here need to do some experimenting for all of us. For science.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 6 days ago:
Yeah, but how many can your butthole taste?
- Comment on Taste the flavor 6 days ago:
How many flavors of spicy are there?
- Comment on Taste the flavor 6 days ago:
Butt pain stimulus huehuehue
- Comment on Taste the flavor 6 days ago:
Your body absorbs all good flavors except spicy. Be happy.
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 1 week ago:
Oh definitely. But it’s hard to be funny at all right now. Because “ice murders entire retirement home” is too believable in the same way that “rental cars full of ice agents visit retirement home and does good deeds all day and nothing terrible happens” isn’t.
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 1 week ago:
Satire right now is funny when it’s normal.
LOOK, A DAY WITH NO NEWS, HOW FUNNY
- Comment on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments 1 week ago:
Literally stop publicizing this stuff until they’ve shown their entire hands
- Comment on me n the homes not crossing streams cuz were not gay 1 week ago:
Doubt
- Comment on What kind of stupid rule is that? 1 week ago:
create a script that places a lower case i in front of every word that doesn’t already start with a lower case i
- Comment on What kind of stupid rule is that? 1 week ago:
“iMessage” lmao. That feels like satire. iText and iClock hahaha