TURN IT OFF IMMEDIATELY

Funny. Tech bros insisted that this wouldn’t happen.

You can’t call something a graphic novel if it’s only one page long though, so what do you call it?

This is gonna get worse before it gets better.

I could have sworn Atari was bankrupt. Where’d they get the money to acquire anything?

You’ve got to share the link.

If you’re dead then why does it matter? You aren’t using it anymore.

A few of them already do believe this.

Ruined. Fuck you.

Oh, I’m so sorry. I didn’t realize that you had to make a certain number of posts before you were allowed to criticize the platform. /s

Seriously though, there’s no need to get hostile. Having a hobby isn’t supposed to feel like work.

Lemmy’s biggest weakness right now is a slow drip feed of content. After blocking all of the sports communities and instances in languages I don’t speak, I’m left with the following:

• News
• A bunch of meme communities that might as well be interchangeable with one another
• Memes about a TV show I don’t watch
• Newspaper comics
• Animal pictures
• Way too much vanilla porn

None of this is bad content per say, but it doesn’t capture what I loved about reddit before they ruined it. Reddit was a place where even the most niche of niche topics had a space that you could check in on every day. Obscure anime, unusual collections, diy showcases, you name it. Cultivating a culture that produces produces such specific groups requires enough people to form them. In a group of 100 random people, the number of them who are into Ginga Nagareboshi Gin (look it up) is going to be quite low, but that number increases the more people you include in the sample size and sooner or later you have a subreddit for Ginga fans. That was why Reddit was special to me, and that is what’s keeping Lemmy from reaching that high for me.

Yes, but I’m autistic so whatever.

Doesn’t it, though?

It used to normal to beat your kids. It was wrong then and it’s wrong now.

This is what the players wanted, and the industry listened.

The reason we are having this conversation in the first place is because people didn’t want it.

This isn’t forced upon anybody.

They added it the game post-launch, after reviews had already come out. Anyone morally opposed to micro transactions (which as I’ll get to in next point, have a very good reason to be opposed to on principle) who had bought the game has been tricked into supporting a business practice they despise. This is incredibly scummy and should rightfully be seen as a dick move.

It only becomes a moral problem if somebody’s choices are circumvented, but that’s not really what’s happening here.

Micro transactions as a concept are strategically designed to exploit people with addictive personalities. This is not a theory on my part, this is legitimately what the intent behind them is. But don’t take my word for it, here’s a video discussing that very thing.

Something being normalized doesn’t automatically make it morally okay.

They would evolve into a Fire/Poison skunk with explosive gas, since methane is flammable. I’m aware that skunk spray is actually liquid, but the idea that it isn’t is a popular trope that they could do something with.

Fully evolved:

Opossum = Grass/Ghost (plays dead)

Skunk = Fire/Poison (self explanatory)

Raccoon = Water/Dark (steals stuff)

Liquid attacks can still count as poison. See the move “acid”.

Opossum = Grass (grassland fighter)

Skunk = Fire (gas attack)

Raccoon = Water (washes food)

“I wish to switch bodies with my master.”

“I wish they could no longer talk.”