Well, when you say ‘many modern games’ you’re implying that every game sucks currently and in the last few years. Every year there will always be a lot of shitty games but it’d be discrediting to not acknowledge that there are good stuff released every year.

In the past 5 years I will say some of the best games I’ve played that were released were Blue Fire, Inscryption, Flynn: Son of Crimson, Paint The Town Red, Huntdown, Iron Meat to name a bunch.

One major gripe I have with people who complain about modern gaming, are ones who look to AAA gaming development and expecting creativity and innovation. When, they’ve long dried up on that. We’re not in the PS2/X-Box/GameCube/PS3/360/Wii generations anymore where there were tons of that going on with unique games trying all sorts of things.

The modern gaming climate has shifted into what’s trendy, moreso than before. You’ll have open-world games, but virtually samey quests to do over and over. You’ll have RPGs, but offer nothing but different endings with barely any impact and just grind-fests. You’ll have shooter games that care way too much about meaningless stats and other pointless data to keep track of. You’ll have sports games that remain as more vanilla and dry of an experience than they ever been. (Gone are the days where in the 80s, 90s and 00s you had sports games released but tried adding flavor to them like NBA Street or Mutant League Hockey.)

Games that are released but somehow needing patches after said release. Gaming developers and publishers having to come out and issue apology statements over them or some of them just outright not caring. Studios getting shut down because of unreasonable corporate demands. Studios getting shut down because of acquisitions.

Streamers and YouTubers dramatizing games or whoring themselves up for a cheap handful of views and subscriptions. Out of touch with reality and themselves and abusing their influences.

These are what make modern gaming suck.

Not really. The only thing I’d be missing access to is where I am on my finances when shopping and I don’t have it.

There goes all of what remains of their integrity.

It just proves further and further that AI by itself is not a bad thing. It’s the intent that man pours into it, that makes it a bad thing.

Whatever man touches, turns to rigor mortis.

I didn’t because it doesn’t matter what I do whether it’s bare minimum or working my ass off, I get the same results from my job - shit.

Meta has workers? Thought everything is attached to that shitty hub system they’ve been leaning on for years now.

Uh, I’m not affected. What’s there to pay attention to? Not one single instance have I had, in all of 10+ jobs in my resume, where my LGBTQ status was put into question because it was never a matter on the table to begin with. I never brought it up. I never mentioned or talked about who I was with or seeing. I don’t drop hints, nothing. I didn’t have nosy people, which sounds like what you had and other people.

Anytime I was fired or penalized, it was because of policy violations that amounted to insubordination or just performance in general. Not once, ever, has it been because of my identity. You really must be living in places where you’re running into these issues all of the time, because I don’t.

With all of those baseless assumptions, you thought this reply was going to go the way you think?

Idiot.

A lot of them don’t even lie about it as much if you read between the lines. GreenManGaming, HumbleBundle are the exceptions to that.

But places like CDKeys, G2A .etc yeah you can’t be assured that anything you buy from them is going back to the developer. If the developers so much even hears the existence of these kinds of sites, they’d be protesting to have them shut down.

This is how I feel about fast food in general.

They are only good for exceptional situations, like needing to stretch rations so you don’t eat into the food at home so okay you go to a fast food restaurant instead.

No menu item at all is healthy but people conveniently ignore that. Regardless of the many programs and attempts all fast-food chains have tried to be healthy, they just practice wrong because they’re still in environments surrounded by grease, fried cooking oil and processed pre-bought items.

They should not be treated like you would at a sit-down restaurant that actually has waitresses/waiters, chefs .etc

They’re good for eating at very moderate and scarce amounts. Not a weekly or daily consumption level.

The prices don’t justify the quality.

I would go by tiers.

Kindergarten/Pre-School is fine as it is. Middle-School is where you’re to learn the basics of life and in general of what you need to know when developing. High School is to be the place where those same courses are advanced, like you’re to learn how to budget, how to file taxes, sex education a priority .etc

College is the real deal where you’re to learn even more advanced courses. These things would just assist eachother so nobody feels like they’re left behind, everyone is on the same page.

And it would be optional credit, not mandatory.

I do not think this is about appeasing Trump or embracing a Trump presidency. It’s just them showing their true colors.

The same kind of corporations that play make-believe whenever June comes around with corporately-sponsored “acceptance” products.

I don’t give a damn what my co-workers think. Company events? LOL! Unnecessary drama and pressure because some lonely ass manager/executive somewhere feels they need to single out people to give the ones who don’t attend over. Bathroom politics are a freaking joke, can’t believe that’s even a thing for people that make a huge issue on where they shit and piss in.

Again - it’s not a job’s business to know. It’s none of the co-worker’s business to know. You bring it onto yourself when you decide to put a flag of your identity around your workplace or when you drop subtle hints. I don’t do that. I’m not affected by any of this.

Poorer understanding of money and value was detected.

Democrats: Takes forever to get around to doing what they need to do until it’s last minute. The last minute passes them, they’re throwing a fit about it.

Republicans: Starts pulling strings and tapping connections to throw as much shit around as possible and orchestrate theater to pad the time it takes.

Twitter ended up inadvertently turning to his favor though. It has turned into even more of a hotbed for unchecked, uneducated and loud morons from alt-right/qanon/incel/republicans.

He gets TikTok though, it’ll just be another platform to blast full volume even more.

The guy is stupid rich, he could theoretically buy Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp and Reddit if he wanted to. He’s just not choosing to at this time.

Leaving shoes or anything laying around the apartment, making an annoying obstacle course.

danooct1 - A guy who demonstrates computer viruses on OSes like Windows and DOS.

WrestlingWithWregret (For wrestling fans) - This guy does various wrestling content but some of his best is PPV Classic reviews. Charming personality.

You need things to work towards.

Also, if one thinks going to work is bad, there will not ever be a worse feeling than coming home fired and pondering how you’re going to upkeep your expenses and a roof over your head.

Numerous things. But, because of the straining amount of work I do at even 4 days (the place I work at sucks balls). I can’t mentally attune myself or even physically attune myself into doing things I ideally want to do. I’ve gone into a bit of my routine. I could play a new game. I could watch a movie or a show. I could spend time in my living room with no tech in it. But I just end up not doing it.