[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 4 points 20 hours ago

Take it up with Steam, I guess. Ten seconds on Google could have answered the question before you bought the game. If you feel this strongly about it, maybe you should be checking for each game you buy before you buy them.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 5 points 20 hours ago

Drag is angry about false advertising.

It would only be false advertising if Steam said you could choose your gender when you can't, which they don't.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 55 points 1 day ago

When you carry a ton of feathers, you also have to carry the weight of what you did to those poor birds...

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

Not only WoW, but most old MMOs were built around being social experiences. The really old ones (Everquest, most notably) were basically chat rooms with games attached. The gameplay was very slow, and you relied heavily on other players to progress, so you spent a lot of time just chatting with people, either in zone chat or in groups or in guilds. Over time, you started to recognize the same names showing up in the same places, or as you progressed, the same players would be progressing at the same pace so you'd keep seeing them as you moved from zone to zone.

It was also a lot easier to build friendships for otherwise socially awkward people. You had an immediate common interest and common goal (advancing in the game), so you had common ground to talk about, and a common activity to enjoy together, but during the downtime, conversation would often shift to other things - where you lived, how old you were, what your hobbies were... so you'd get to know people 'outside the game', too.

Nowadays, WoW and other MMOs are much more fast-paced, and much more solo play oriented. There's still group-required content, but it's very action-heavy; you don't have a lot of time that you're just sitting around chatting, and groups are much more short-term things. 15 or 20 minutes, whereas once upon a time, it was 3+ hours as standard.

I met my oldest friend in an MMO about 24 or 25 years ago... we accompanied each other to a few different games over the years, and now we aren't playing anything together, but we still talk. I flew across the country to attend his wedding a couple years ago. Similarly, I met my wife in WoW. Our first "date" was killing bugs in Silithus together. We've been together for about 18 years.

Old (as in, early-late 2000s) MMOs generated a lot of friendships; this isn't at all an uncommon story to hear from people who played them at that time.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 24 points 2 days ago

And if Trump has another go at the presidency, then it’s only the Democrats to blame, not the voters who defected.

This is honestly the worst part of this whole thing, because if it happens, they won't even have a come to Jesus "Wow, maybe I shouldn't have done that" moment that might influence their actions in the future - instead it will just galvanize them against the party that they are ideologically closest to.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 21 points 3 days ago

Correct, there's currently no way to migrate post / comment history to another instance.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 7 points 4 days ago

Surely we've all seen it before at this point, but it's never too late to be reminded of The Enigma of Amigara Fault.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 9 points 4 days ago

That would make Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, and American Samoa the only places in the universe an American can’t vote for President

An American who is registered to vote in a state can vote from Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands or American Samoa just like an American who is registered to vote in a state can do so from another country, or from space. An American who is not registered to vote in a state cannot vote from anywhere, regardless of where that is.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 39 points 4 days ago

Penalties if found guilty range from a fine to jail time. I wonder which he'd get... 🙄

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 18 points 5 days ago

I really hope they do complain, because that'd be great confirmation for anyone considering adding this shit that it does in fact impact sales.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 80 points 5 days ago

As long as we keep treating wealth like a scoreboard, this will continue. If we collectively demonized people with unreasonable wealth, ostracized them from society, and stopped glorifying it and treating them like celebrities because of it, we might be in a better spot.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 42 points 5 days ago

86 is a slang term that means to get rid of something. See the Green Day song '86' as an example. The origin is from a really long time ago, when it meant a menu item at restaurants was no longer available.

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Books, games, movies, youtube channels, podcasts, whatever you've got - I'd love some recommendations for anything tangentially furry-related. There's plenty of cartoons (and I'd be happy to hear about those, too), but in particular, any more adult-focused media would be very welcomed!

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Is it a testament to the power of the organization, or the lawlessness of the city that one can wear their regalia in broad daylight unaccosted? It's anyone's guess.

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We can currently filter communities in our feed by 'Subscribed', 'Local' and 'All', but I'd really love a way to add communities to custom groupings, and have additional filter options based on those groupings. For example, a 'News' group that I could add all of the News-related communities to, and be able to click a filter button and see only those... or maybe the use case most people would likely use: creating groups to isolate SFW and NSFW content.

If there's a way to do this that I'm unaware of, I'd love to hear about it.

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