Stamets

This was genuinely the comment I was waiting for.

I love you.

See previous comments. Once again, your reading comprehension skills aren't my problem. If you can't understand, then just go away. In either case? I'm not wasting anymore time on you. Either you are incapable of grasping an extremely simple concept that everyone else has grasped or you're just a troll. At any rate, you have a negative value in my life and aren't even remotely worth the effort. Nothing can be gained when you are acting this way. You will never add anything of value. You have no worth in this conversation when you cannot follow along and I do not have the time, patience, or crayons to explain it to you.

Forgot about Dr. Buffer. Thank you for the reminder.

He literally has a team.

That and the community is usually pretty solid. It is exceedingly rare for me to end up diving with someone who is a douchebag or not a team player. Everyone just wants to help everyone else and spread managed democracy. I tend to get on the mic and roleplay it up to help out for extra energy lol I'm the dude pulling Starship Trooper quotes out of his ass

Just play unranked with comms off when you just wanna chill??

The issue comes from the fact that any games with a ranked mode also have a perpetually fucked casual mode. They stopped doing anything with 'skill based matchmaking' and just lump you in with whoever is available. So you've got ranked players who are toxic as hell who go into casual to test things or just be dicks in the exact same lobby as people who are just wanting to vibe and play the game after a long day of work.

I've completely given up on any games that have any ranked modes in them at all because this shit always fucking happens. Casual gaming is being consistently abandoned by game developers for competetive modes. Locking out anyone who just wants to relax and play a game. Like I used this example elsewhere, but I have others. This just comes to mind to me because it bugs me. Yugioh Master Duel. You will NEVER find a casual game there. Everything is meta'd to hell. Why? Because ranked players use casual to test their stuff. Casual players then have to start acting like ranked players in order to even play. So if someone comes in and wants to play a casual game, you are going to get instantly cheesed by broken ranked decks.

It just happens constantly across everything. Ranked mode is introduced and it pushes all the casual players out and leaves hostile competetive bullshit.

1. It literally is for fun tho. You know, considering it is a game?

2. Are you implying that the only people who play ranked, or should play ranked, are competetive e-sports types?

3. Are those competetive people not having fun?

Moreover, I'm also talking about the fact that ranked has infected everything else. Even if you play casual, people are playing like it is ranked. Adding a ranked mode to so many games has just harbored a fucking insane toxic atmosphere where even if you're just trying to play the game casually you're getting swept up in so much meta garbage. One example that comes to mind is Yu-Gi-Oh: Master Duel. There is a casual gaming mode and you will never be able to actually casually game. Why? Because ranked people use it for testing their own shit. This same phenomenon is across all games with ranked. The toxicity and pressure from ranked will always find its way into casual and ruin that for everyone too.

I never ended up finishing the game from what I remember, although I came close. I was playing with my ex as well lol

I don't really remember him learning anything but honestly? I think the wife is worse. They're both awful people in different regards but the wife is just so fucking cold. The dad is a dope. Stay at home dad that clearly has ADHD that he can't manage and isn't really in the best position to be a good parent but is an excellent dad, if that makes sense. He takes care of his child and spends absurd amounts of time with her but the lessons that he should be teaching her are often just left on the wayside. He just wants to have fun with her and be a good dad, not a good parent. He will go out of his way to set things up for his wife to try and be kind to her. The wife on the other hand works all the time and doesn't have much time for the family. That would be one thing but the time she does have she just refuses to use to engage with said family. She ignores the husband and the kid and just runs off to be on her own. The dad keeps mentioning this throughout the game, that she doesn't spend any time with them. She will just go into her shed and start tinkering on things, actively ignoring her family.

From what I could tell, neither one learned a single fucking thing during the (majority) portion of the game I played. The self help book keeps trying to teach them lessons and both of them ignore it but the husband is often more receptive. He'll question what's being said and try to bring it up with his wife who just refuses to engage.

They both suck but the dad tries and spends time with his kid. The mom seems to just hate her husband and her kid.

Yeah I don't really have a reason for this. I just liked saving them and then one day realized I could share them here too. Honestly I just like sitting in my unsorted folder and dropping them in the correct ones. My autism shows quite a bit there.

And thank you but nah. Other people keep lemmy alive. I just bombard users with content.

Yeah. The most I'll do with playing with other people is co-op. PvP is just exhausting now a days. Helldivers is good for filling that gap for me at least.

Man, you have just actively avoided logic at every possible opportunity here. You're just burying your head in the sand and screaming that everyone else is wrong. The downvotes isn't because i'm popular, it is because you have no idea what you're talking about. Have fun with that, I'm done wasting time on you. There's no point in having a conversation with you if you're just going to divorce yourself from reality like a Trump or Pollievre voter.

Have fun with the bed you made. You aren't worth a single second more of my time.

Yeah.... the game is definitely a bit special.