Literally everyone saw it coming.
Many people aren't paying attention. Many people are like pathologically gullible.
The average person just... if you're smart and capable, imagine being drunk. Being drunk all the time. That's the baseline. Myopic, impatient, emotional.
Maybe if we had better education and less capitalist hellscape people could be a little better.
I don't disagree with you but it's comforting to me to hold onto the fantasy that the something else would be better, like exchanging a quality good for money in a one time deal.
But yes, capitalism is a common source of many problems. (Though I guess a worker owned collective could produce loot boxes, too. )
I'm tired of all these profiles of trump voters. Profile sane people.
Sometimes I get really depressed when I think about problems that could be solved if people would just behave slightly differently.
If people would just stop buying lootbox slop, it wouldn't be a problem. it's not asking a lot. It's not asking you to change your diet, or ride a bike twenty miles in the snow. Just stop buying that shit. I just want to smack impulse buyers on the nose with a newspaper, or squirt them with a spray bottle. Stop it!
But that's not how people work. We barely function at all.
People think "violence is never the answer" even when violence is being done to them. People are stupid.
I like to think in the future maga-hats will be fodder enemies in video games like Nazis. You can just kill them without remorse because they are scum.
From what I've been reading, they're so delusional they'd rather die than have their out-group have anything nice. They will never learn and they will never change. Not in bulk.
Individuals can be changed through exhausting and thankless work of their peers. In-group pressure is all that works.
Someone in another thread recommended the book "dying of whiteness" and it's absolutely horrifying. We all know conservatives vote against their self interests. Well, they know too. Many of them know. They're happy to die for their beliefs if it means no {slur} gets anything nice.
I'm not here to watch a movie. I'm here to take this axe and hit monsters with it.
I'm sure bloodborne has a very deep story. I had a great time just hitting stuff with that axe and occasionally shooting things. That's the bulk of the content.
Just off the top of my head. If you swapped all the gas cars for electric cars, you still have all those problems.
I think some people enjoy the thrill of discovery more than the depth of experience. Which is fine. No judgment.
Personally I'd rather have 10 albums that mean a lot than 100,000 albums I listen to once.
EVs mitigate one tiny slice of the problems caused by car culture.
Telling people "use more ai" was always a profoundly stupid direction. "Ship more stuff faster, use AI if it helps, get paid the same" would be anti-labor but at least sensible.
If selling widgets the customer probably doesn't care if you used a screwdriver or a drill. They just want their widget. Mandating drill usage is stupid.