I loved the days of complicated stats. I even liked resistances, although that seems to be an unpopular opinion. All those old Vanilla items with weird stats that seemed out of place, yeah I probably had one of them in a bank somewhere. It was fun stacking and seeing how it would affect someone. Go screw around with a mage in PVP having just stacked health and frost resistance, you can't really damage them, but it was fun to try.

You might not have liked me though, I was a rogue for the most part. Although I almost never raided the rogue, I raided as a shaman, ran around and farmed some mats for the weeks worth of potions, elixirs, food, etc. and stayed off that character until it was time to run a raid. There was no match for sneaking around old dungeons and places you don't belong and I loved farming rare drops if I could solo them, etc.

If that was an employee who put that in there, then fire them too.

That’s a bit why I’ve never really gotten into online RTS games. I’d get to a level where the AI was easy, try online. Get into a match, okay let’s build this to harvest resources, this to build units, holy fuck there’s 500 blimps attacking already. I’m not offered an avenue to learn and try things, there’s no time. At best it’s go find some autists plan online, copy-paste it, and pray I don’t miss a single click. How is that any fun? I didn’t learn shit either, I just plagiarized.

This is a good one I've not necessarily put together before. For me, my WoW days were the last of my time gaming with any sort of online friends. The social aspect was part of the draw. Yeah, sure, there were a lot of elitists and asshats, but you could avoid them or fight back depending on the situation. You could find your community somewhere. The events I remember in that game were more social, the weekly Karazhan run me (healer) and a warrior friend would run, we were way overpowered for it and could damn near finish it ourselves, but we'd grab basically whoever the hell wanted to go and just go figure it out. Or the top guild that used to run old Naxx and put all the loot up for bid then split it up. Matchmaking took all this stuff away, I mean why should you be having fun, you could be grinding gear with randoms, right?

Even prior to my WoW days, while online was really new to me, there were servers I'd drop in for other games. You'd recognize the players, get used to them, joke around, etc. I usually got my ass stomped honestly, I've never been autist enough for competitive really. It was fun though.

Now, you drop in with some random people, do some boring shit, get some fake currency or unlock some crap you don't want. It's why I don't bother. All the fun has been sucked out into a grind. The real world is the same, and that's why I generally have rejected social media and this is pretty much the only place I post, where, you guessed it, you see the same people.

It was the cost of war. The Japanese understand this, its pervasive in a ton of their entertainment media. Would I want to see it happen? Of course not, particularly with me holding a level of respect for the Japanese people and culture. When you're in a war, you have to take care of your people first.

I hate the pussification of modern war, and that's why they end up being nothing beyond money laundering schemes for politicians now. You can no longer go fight to win or lose a war, because it would be unthinkable for just one child to be startled by a blast and fall and skin their knee.

Oh ha, I don't either. Speculative talk here. Reality, if any of my friends tried to pull such a stunt they would be mocked relentlessly.

I can't decide if I'd tell them their idea is fucking stupid and I would not be wasting time on PowerPoint for their entertainment, or if I'd dig around and find a 4 hour presentation on some old tech and suggest they sit through that. It's time to learn the advanced data structures of COBOL everyone.

I used to think I'd leave but I changed my mind. My ancestors started this country and were the frontiersman who took it west. I can point to family who's been in every major war for the US since July 4, 1776. I'm not dishonoring them by running away.

I'll stay and do what I can, and if the time comes to go down, my goal is to be the arms that reach out from the sinkhole to drag a couple of them in with me.

The campaign or online? I only played the campaign very close to launch. I don't remember any issues, but it's been a long damn time. The multi-player, well I'm a bit ashamed to say I'm the max level and I never remember a problem crashing.

And of course there's comments, "he's just trying to control naziism and homophobic, why is it such a big deal?"

These useful idiots are incapable of understanding the value of free speech, and the reality is they will remain incapable all the way up until they are the one whisked away in the middle of the night.

They have a link to a backup page that still works. See here: https://basedmods.eth.limo/backups/

If I had to guess, something is just screwy due to the whole blockchain integration and such being a lot more of a technical challenge to maintain.

Are you sure that's not like your device doing that. I've never seen nigger censored here

I heard something about it on local radio earlier, they were saying she's gotten paid way too much damn money for appearances on things, and also hasn't gone towards the OnlyFans sex whore type path (yet). So I guess at the moment I give her a bit of credit for milking others for their stupidity.

Yeah it was more of a recoil from the response. I eat lots of tacos, of the food not the whore variety. They are a great food item and can be good with such a variety of ingredients.

And Kamala's tacos start with a ridiculously exorbitant amount of curry mixed with whatever meat fell on the floor when they slaughtered the goat.

Edit: I'm often surprised to find out I don't have a dirty enough mind, now with that picture I almost want to delete this comment.

In theory I’d say sure, whatever. If I tried to make a straight white Christian man only game, it would be a hate crime. So screw their game.

What isn’t her choice is finding anyone to impregnate her.

Seriously, shame the sluts. I’m sure sluts and whores have been around since the beginning of time, but it never ever should have been something to be proud of.

Every time I see this game all I can think of is Planet of the Apes

I don’t know if it’s aging or just seeing the world around, but I’m with you. My gaming time is down 80% the last few years. I learned a lot from Covid clownery, and moving on from hiding behind escapism is one of those things. Why not use that effort to try to make less reason to want to escape? It’s going to be a different plan for everyone, but for me I put that time in either building family relationships or learning and enhancing skills. In a fun way though, it’s fun hanging out with nephews and cousins and I get to try to rub off some sanity on the future generation.. Or, if I’m working on skills, maybe I’m building something, maybe I’m on the computer developing something, but always learning. Video games for me now are just something to do the last hour or two of the day when it’s dark outside and I’m winding down for bed. It’s not a lifestyle anymore.

I’m a huge fan of let’s say 2005-era 3D graphics. Enough level of detail to put me in place, not so much it has to be as much work. Before the PS3 era came along and made everything sepia. I also liked how much more time was spent on environmental lighting. Not that it had to be realistic, that means nothing to me. It gave areas a feel. They also had to make the game fun because otherwise it wasn’t much to look at.

I mean you’re right, the reason I never manage to finish a game is always the graphics, I don’t like doing graphics. I actually have a few things I think I can finish in mind now, but life happens at times and I can’t dedicate much time to it for a bit. Nothing revolutionary but it would be cool to actually release a game.

I’m from Texas. It’s Mexicans here. It’s been Mexicans here for many years.

I do play some Forza. Horizon has been going down each entry since 3. 5 is at best a DLC for 4. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one to suggest that every new entry of a game series has to be revolutionary. I’m all in on if something is fun, more of the same is fine. The problem is it’s “less” more of the same. They got so freaking lazy. Even their rally DLC in FH5, look it’s more dirt and cactus! You didn’t have enough of that already! Forza Horizon 6 would have to blow my mind for me to be in on it, I’ve lost interest and shunned Microsoft since the launch of 5.

Seriously though, almost everything I play (outside of Forza I suppose, although it doesn’t get much time anymore) is either Indie-to-AA level online stuff to screw around in a bit with friends, or old stuff I have mostly on GOG. I’ve been replaying Doom 3 recently. It doesn’t feel old after a handful of years. I’ll probably get my hands on Dead Space on PC soon, I haven’t played through it in several years. Still have the Xbox version, but eh I’m starting to abandon that platform, so we will see.

I also shame white tears, but not for the same reason. Crying over having whiteness is weaker than weak and shameful.

I've been out for several years now.

I occasionally play games with friends, but 95% of the time even that is online play just within our group (coop and the like). I also only play with people I know in person, or their friends, most of which I've at least met once or twice anyway. I haven't talked to an internet random in a video game since WoW Cataclysm in 2011, and I typically turn off any chat features entirely when I am online. I have no energy to waste on the scum that permeates online gaming now.

It’s niggification. That standard goes back much further in nigger culture. They have to have something to twerk and what not.

Do I think it’s deliberate in that there’s some puppet master doing this? Not really. It’s decades and decades of destroying the American black and worshipping them the whole way down. No one was doing this when black icons were Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole, now that all is left is the lowest of the low niggers, you gotta follow whatever trend Lil Ho Fucker records on his latest ape sounds album.