They can be LED I just want the aesthetic.

Every 6mo or so tencent aquires a different game I like and gives it cancer. This timeline sucks ass.

It’s not nefarious! We just wanna send you the right ads when your hormones are in flux and you’re vulnerable!

Also we promise we definitely will hand over your menstrual data the second your GOP Governor requests it. /s

If we’re gonna be going full cyberpunk I’d better see a lot more fuckin neon over the next few years.

I think looking at it through an “all else equal” mindset is a little misleading.

Back then it was basically space-age technology. Video games were leaps and bounds ahead of other forms of entertainment, techwise. You could somewhat justify the expense because there was literally nothing like it in existence.

Nowadays? People make video games for classes in high school. I can write a flappy bird game on my phone and play it there. Small projects with less than 50 people regularly end up as bestsellers on Steam. Thousands of titles release on steam every year.

Video game supply is through the fucking roof, yet companies go out of their way to overproduce and underdeliver. QA is nonexistent anymore because of day 1 patches and always-online. They realized a long time ago that when your primary market is children, you can be as absolutely shitty as you want because a parent will give their child anything to shut them up or help them fit in. You can exploit a child’s labor for profit and their parent will pay you just to keep them occupied (Roblox, cough cough).

I mean we all knew video games couldn’t cost $60 for all eternity, but watching the price hike an entire third at once (50% if it costs $90) I think has made people realize just how overvalued modern video games are in general.

Really depends on your favorite flavor of spiritual koolaid here.

Some say you’ll burn forever if you’ve merely heard the word of God and not accepted it, others say you’ll burn regardless of if you had the opportunity to receive the word or not.

Some even say nobody ends up in hell forever and everyone gets saved eventually.

Just pick your favorite and let everyone else pick theirs.

I returned Red Dead Redemption 2 on steam after seeing I needed an entire Shitstar account.

5 years ago I would have just forgotten about it and moved on but in today’s climate, fuck em. They don’t even deserve my $1.40.

Yes and voter literacy tests were about making sure people were smart enough to vote. /s

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It’s the hustle culture that’s been ingrained into society at this point. Every industry has it now. Get in, make as much as possible (with little to no regard for others), get out, retire early.

After that just become an influencer showing off your lavish lifestyle for brand sponsorships for even more money.

Shit like Tiktok and Youtube Shorts are only making things worse, faster.

Nobody’s out to get you personally. They want your shit. Or they want you out of their way on their quest for more shit. Either giving them your shit or getting out of the way will cease you being a perceived threat towards them. In your examples the drug lord/person being promoted isn’t targeting their competition personally (as a person), just whomever happens to be the competition. If nobody steps up as a competitor, they have no reason to kill (except as a threat to chill would-be competitors out of the game).

Outside of a few very niche cases of psychotic mental illness, nobody wants to kill. It’s so much effort even predators in the wild tend to leave each other alone in favor of prey that won’t fight back and maybe kill/injure them. It’s why black bears can be scared off and grizzlies/polar bears can’t. If you can prove yourself enough of a threat, the animal is going to fuck off to live another day.