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@hazlin
Actually, when I play games these days, I make a point of forcing myself to try adding somr non-optimal gameplay.

To explore, beautify etc. But... It's so fucking hard. :ayaya:

It hadn't occured to me that some of you don't know* how things used to be different in coop or mmo or online team games.

META? No one cared about that.
Wasting time? That was why you were playing the game.
Builds? What ever you feel like.
Learning? Lol, figure it out as you go!

These things only existed inside of try hard raiding communities and tournament settings. Which, were walled away, where no one could see them.

Early mmos, were big, and empty, but if you ran across another player, you would stop and talk to each other. Sometimes you would team up to help each other with what ever was going on.

Parties, and groups and guided formed naturally. And, there was so much respect. I can't even remember a single instance of someone being bullied to "play a more efficient build" or to learn how to do something. If you wiped, you wiped, it was a lot of fun.

Team games were a little different, people would trickle into a room, and you would play with how ever many people showed up, and switch the teams up to try and balance them. If things were imbalanced, it was okay, it was just as much fun, to hold out against a superior force as it was to have a balanced match. Actually, it was more fun to have a challenge.

In both team games and mmos, people would ALWAYS switch to the perceived weaker side.

All that changed with automatic match making, MMR, and pro-streamers guiding "how to play."

The reasons to play have been changed, fun has been re-quantified into "winning", you don't find friends, you insta-queue into a group where no one talks and you'll never see them again. And, people don't even know they are trapped in a toxic nightmare.

@WashedOutGundamPilot
Yes. I agree. You actually saw the same thing recently with hobbyist jetpack project.... Or with drones.... The hobby drones reached the stage of formation lightshows way before they started to be used in the military as a missile replacement.

It's almost as if the modern "industrialized advancement in military" was inferior to backyard scientists to some extent.

@WashedOutGundamPilot
I know, that this is an old video, but some technologies are just unknown to people, even though, they do exist in the exact state where we cannot imagine them :D

youtube.com/watch?v=LC97wdQOmf

I love food slop 100 times more, then the artistic snobby shit.

An instant coffee with .5l of milk will always be better then the hand-milled 80 times filtered pure-arabicca espresso made from beans collected purely by virgin child slaves.

A cheap frozen pizza tastes better then the hand made one. And it's not because it's cheap. It is, because the snobby shot isn't made to be enjoyed. It is made to be used as a flex.

@teknomunk @matrix
Same problem with the 2nd one. If you go far enough, there should be just a "nuke" flag.

@Terry Oh no, they put explosives in a makeshift container during a war

@Mr_NutterButter
Hey, Don worry about sending me czech shit from time to time. Who knows what you're gonna be blessed with.

@Mr_NutterButter
Not sure what you're askking me about?

She literally isn't using her voice in the song, since she's doing the noobie whispering into mic mistake.

@BlinkRape
I have small apartment, and I hate printers.

So far, I think, I will just keep to the "pay per page" public printers.

What a world, that thing like that exists :D

Is there even such a thing, as no bullshit small printer for ocasional use?

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