Almost all of the "right wing alternatives" (which is what all free speech sites are) unfortunately fall to the problem of being only used for right wing topics, meaning its just always on politics all the time. And that just burns people out fast. You can only enjoy dunking on the Libs or someone quoting Marcus Aurelius to seem smart so many times.
Not to mention being always on politics like that inevitable leads to infighting and purity spirals, which will send a chunk of the user base away eventually. The loli and Jewish question are two big ones for any right wing site that will eventually cause a problem and require a hardline stance one way or another.
And that's just the foundational problems of them, each individual one brings its own unique problem at some point because they all seem to be run by goofy guys that eventually fuck something up.
2L are usually going to actually end up being better bang for your buck assuming full price on both. There's about 4L~ roughly in a 12 pack and its a bit less than half the price for 2 bottles. My local store is 1$ for the store brand 2L and 4$ for their 12 packs, with the same relative scale for the name brands. You reach about equal on the 24 packs.
The problem is, 2L also go bad/flat faster, meaning you need to drink them at a more rapid pace. Already an issue because they don't have that hard stopper of finishing a can so you drink it faster anyway. Which means you drink way more of it.
Sales of course change all that.
They can't actually show what was being shown, that's cognitohazardous information. By simply seeing those numbers, normal people become racist and there is no way to spin them well enough.
So it has to be treated as taboo words you cannot even see or hear, for your safety.
From the perspective of a customer sales numbers are irrelevant for the most part.
Its useful in the sense of "can I expect a lot of people online" if it has multiplayer or, as you said, a vague use in "is there a chance of a sequel?" But that's the literal only use it has for you as the consumer.
Also this plague unfortunately effects more than just the Left. Most video game forums of any type get way too obsessive about these numbers, treating them as some sort of gospel about the quality and value of the game.
The Concord thing I 100% believe was them being more upset that "the Chuds won" than any actual care about the game. They weren't ever going to play it, but its failure is a huge blow to their control of the industry and convincing companies to make games Woker.
"Playercount" obsession has been a growing issue in gaming for a while.
From both ends of the spectrum. As in "oh no no no the single player game doesn't have 100k players anymore after two months! FLOP SHAZAM FLOP!!!" all the way to "it has 2 million players, its a massive success because the console numbers make that 10 million that number is huge!!"
And of course, gaming companies made note of it. That's why they obsessively do posts like that about their "huge milestone" of players for every release, to try and get people with that FOMO.
Its always worth remembering that 5 million sales was the goal for EA with Dead Space 3, which they considered a "passable number" for a single player game with MTX. And that was over a decade ago when the industry was a fraction of its current size and budgets for games were even smaller than that.
So for a 2025 mainstream AAA title with full MTX and battlepass, massive marketing and many delays, the necessary player number for it to be a success is probably in the 8 figure range.
Soda is so fucking cheap that its probably the least expensive part of any "unhealthy" meal people can concoct. Especially if you buy the store brand version, which is comically cheap. Its only "expensive" in gas station/machine/cooler versions, because that's by design.
There exists no world where you can rationalize it being covered by food stamps, because if they can't afford the single fucking dollar that a 2liter of store brand soda costs then there is a bigger problem at hand. Like them not being a fucking work.
No no no man, much like the Republicans and the Democrats he "swapped sides" and that means he is now a forever trusted and beloved member of our side!
Pay no attention to the fact that he was a real Neo-Nazi larper first, then tried to be an SJW with GG, then tried to grift off GG because KIA would rim anyone who gave them attention (ask Ethan fucking Ralph), and then became a boring loser with no side but "benefits me" because no one wanted him after that.
Someone whose life is subsidized by our tax money is living off our paycheck the same way a teenager is. They "have freedom" but if they want to live off our money they should be expected to follow whatever rules we want to enforce on them.
And if they don't like it, fucking good. Get a job and make your own rules then.
In fact, the rules for it should be absurd, humiliating and restrictive. That's the motivation to get off government dime faster. You shouldn't be allowed to have a "normal, happy" life on it. It should be the barest minimum to be considered living.
Humans are pretty 1:1 height to wingspan regardless of dwarf or not.
That extra bit is because they have to be up on the cross which is still buried on the ground, meaning they need a foot or more of space under the bottom of the foot.
I don't even consider basic socialization the problem. Only the fact that the two options are only "high level play" or "don't play at all." You can't go in and have fun, learn and improve. You must already be a great player or you will be kicked, flamed, or both.
Its one thing in competitive environments, though don't get me started on games that are competitive/ranked only no matter what, but its another in just simple playing of the game and trying to progress in a casual manner. Which of course always reaches its zenith on "meta only" requirements, where anything except the best possible comp/spec/class/etc is made basically impossible to join any groups (again, an issue when group content is the only way to progress).
And its fair if you want to use it regardless, I think otherwise because, as in the other response you got, people immediately assume its usage in a particular way because that's 90% of the usage it gets. They aren't wrong for assuming its being used in that way, which ends up with you needing to explain what you mean by it and ending up using considerably more words to do so.
I agree entirely. I've been playing games for decades and I won't even pretend that "toxicity" is some madeup Leftist psyop. What they call toxicity might be, but anyone whose ever played a MOBA knows that its both real and extreme.
Heck I've played WoW since 2006 and I could literally watch it grow in the community year by year. By Legion you were often better off not playing the game unless it was with friends/guildies because of how unbelievable so many people were (thanks to M+ that meant even "casual content" like dungeons became infested with it).
Fortunately, the 2010s are over and with it the "tacked on multiplayer" and "esports push" trend, meaning single player and coop are making a comeback across the industry and with it probably the slow decline of such a problem. Or at least the ability to not get involved.
I will say though that using the term "toxic" itself is probably too full of connotations to specific Leftie nonsense, so we should probably use something else to describe this problem.
Its even more autistic because the plus sign and the cross symbol aren't even the same. A plus sign has equal lengths while the cross places the horizontal perpendicular line further up instead of dead center of the other.
So, as is the Jewish born Woke tradition, this is them deliberately seeking out something to be offended about.
I think too many people plays games for the goal instead of to have fun, and it creates this toxic mindset of "everything not getting me towards the end is a waste of time."
So a single wipe is now a personal attack on their time, a question betrays that you aren't 1337 enough to blaze past this content, and criticism of the game undermines their absurd time spent into it as possibly being wasted.
I love my games, but playing with other people or even engaging in the "community" can often be a huge risk of dealing with the worst people possible. And that was before the Woke infestation added the political possibility onto it.
Most countries will use "words that sound foreign" to spice up their media. And that's usually enhanced by using real words, because the human brain knows what is a real word versus something completely made up even if they don't know the language.
The Japanese are famous for doing it with basically everything, often to the point where it creates allegories and stories that weren't intended through the depth of what they stole.
Evangelion is a famous example, where they just took so much gnostic and Old Testament shit that just sounded "cool" to them it created an entire mythos that people still read into looking for religious significance of anti-Jewish rhetoric.
The fact that they think their God is a retard bound up in his own rules betrays how highly they think of themselves and how little they actually under the concept of "principles and morality."
Its such a foundational difference built into their very religion that makes them incompatible with almost any society or country, short of a nation of savages for them to exploit.
There are so many rules with business cards that it borders on parody when you lay them all out at once. Its actually beyond the famous American Psycho scene, which was an intentional over the top parody.
Japanese social culture is similar to Kanji in a lot of ways. Something almost impenetrably complicated and deep that you need to have been born into it to ever truly understand, otherwise you will spend the rest of your life basically having to be a scholar of it to maintain the usable level of a common man there.
Yankees seriously underestimate how normalized the flag icon is around the South. Its fucking everywhere and its so common that nobody even really considers any racism or the like associated with it.
The only hate it propagates is of the North, and that's shared across all colors.
My personal favorite is whenever a black guy shows up with a Confederate flag in public and their brain just can't comprehend the numerous layers of confusion from it.
Almost like most blacks live in the South and that whole "its about Southern Pride now" thing isn't just a madeup cover for "racism."
Unfortunately that isn't super uncommon these days. A lot of AAA productions will list off every employee of every outsourced nonsense or producer company, and Indie ones will list every fucking backer from the crowdfund.
Its actually clever, because it guarantees most people will skip them and never catch these little things.
The entire Skull and Bones fiasco revealed that it is 100% the case for at least some companies and productions.
We only know about that one because it blew up so bad and spectacularly that they ended up revealing what is usually a background deal.
Because the first step to racism is never "there are worse than me" its usually always "they get away with more than me."
Its why something like anti-semitism hate speech laws create more Jew haters than probably 90% of stormfag efforts to convert.