GrosMichel

Yeah, I counter my addictive personality with being cheap as fuck and being like "you don't deserve my money" to everyone and everything.

Also than smuglord Chapo posters.

I guess you could say you like the 1st strand-like.

Yeah, it's definitely at least partially YouTubers influencing this. Games that are kinda' bad are treated as the worst thing. I remember people trying to point out that there are worse games than Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, not defending them, just pointing out there are some uber-bad games that run and play worse on PS2, Wii, NES, etc. And that was met with a lot of smug opposition. Not sure if AVGN and outrage YouTubers did that or maybe YT reviews in general.

A lot of people repeating opinions of others on games they didn't play. Which is annoying although slightly more understandable since games take so long to play and can be expensive sometimes, so people still want to be part of the conversation but might be able to actually play them sometimes, but it also leads to people just repeating arguments and factoids that aren't necessarily sound or genuine. Might also tie into my first point about how gamers have such low control of their urge to buy games they need a game to be the worst thing ever to stop themselves from buying it.

They didn't sign NAFTA, the conservatives did that.

Get his ass.

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Honestly. Maybe he's onto something. Maybe one of our beloved dirtbag left podcasts (except YKS) could do something cool for once.

Good post. I present thee the Banana Cup Trophy of posting.

Elon's advocate: a loser Elon superfan of that level might copy the way he talks.

Might be multiple developers realized that having fully-developed/realistic stages is costly and doing abstract/dream stages is cheaper and easier to design and produce since they're less burned by having the spaces make sense realistically and fewer background things to make/render.