Gabadabs

Because to companies, labor is just a business expense, you’re a cost to be kept low so they can please investors/shareholders. Our system isn’t for your average worker, it’s for the people who own the businesses.

I’ve always gone through games and genres as phases, and what I’m playing has always reflected something about the amount of time/energy I have for games. I used to play a lot of souls games, but played them so much that the charm is completely gone for me now. They’re intense and require a lot of focus, focus I used to have a lot more of when I wasn’t working so much. As a teen I played a lot of multiplayer shooters like COD or Battlefield, then during college I was playing CSGO, later on I even dabbled in valorant. But, again, I don’t have time for that anymore. If you can’t grind and practice for hours every day, you fall behind and can’t compete, so I play a lot more singleplayer stuff now, like Ace Attorney, Baldur’s Gate 3, Genshin Impact, stuff like that.

I used to buy full price games pretty often… But I can’t afford it anymore. To the point I’m mostly playing free to play games or things I already own.
I think that’s true for a lot of people too.

I just use it as a place to vent my thoughts, feelings, or frustrations in the moment. I think of it as “screaming into the void” and over time you collect a small circle of people you regularly interact with. Don’t think about it too deeply because it’s not deep

I’m not totally against all telemetry… but can they at least be transparent about when they use it, and exactly what they’re collecting? It really could be as simple as just defaulting to asking the user.

IT doesn’t need to be good at stopping piracy as long as it stops some piracy, or at least as long as they can sweet talk executives into believing it makes a difference.

I wouldn’t say that it’s evil, but rather it doesn’t exist for the benefit of players, it exists for the benefit of corporations. They know that it hurts performance in games and prevents a lot of people from playing games that they’ve legitimately purchased, but so long as it’s preventing some piracy they do not care.

Honestly, I’m tired of corporate social media, and it’s integration with ActivityPub is the last thing I want for the platform. I don’t want “big” social media accounts ran by social media management teams, posting advertisements and “content”. I don’t want to see how many likes or boosts a post got, or to see celebrities show up in my TL. All that corporate social media like Threads will do by federating, is shove that kind of “content” onto people’s TL’s unless they defederate from them, as well as all the data collection that comes along with corporate social media.
And, unfortunately, for those that USE Threads, they’re at best getting a worse experience of the fediverse than they could be.

It’s unfortunate, honestly. I care MUCH more for Elder Scrolls as a franchise over what they are doing with starfield, and I’ve been waiting for another one since my first playthrough of Skyrim when it launched on xbox 360. At this point I’m more excited for skyrim mods like skyblivion and skywind than anything bethesda is doing.