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Played the Arc Raiders PvE trial, and unsurprisingly it's a lot more fun playing games without the stress of worrying about running into sweats and free kit campers, and losing your whole loadout as a result.

As a fringe benefit, the people who play solely because they enjoy griefing PvE'ers in the PvPvE mode are super mad about this, but apparently the numbers are looking really good for PvE.

toxic gamer community rant

If you want to truly understand how pathetic these are, Arc Raider's "default" mode has PvP damage enabled, and players are matched based on a hidden "aggression" rating, e.g. if you shoot someone first, your next match will dump you into a PvP lobby. Whereas if you never start fights, you will end up in "carebear" lobbies; lobbies which are full of other players who don't shoot other players (or at least, they haven't in the last few rounds). Well, a certain subset of this playerbase will queue into lobbies with "free kits" (basically a starter kit that you don't have to worry about losing), play passively and/or die right away for several lobbies to reset their rating, until they get put into carebear lobbies where they then get cheap kills off of people who rightfully don't expect such aggression. And they'll just do this over and over, despite arguably being able to get better loot much faster if they just played straight PvE the entire time. And now these people are absolutely crying and shidding all over about "PvE ruining the game" while the game's steam chart goes (No doubt many people just returned for the new content, of which there is a lot, but IIRC the devs said 51% of players never start PvP engagements.)

AI-generated "micro-dramas"

Organically-produced

I think Bedrock has had paid skins since at least Microsoft bought it, maybe even before? But AFAIK Java hasn't been monetized, they just push bedrock really hard as the default choice.

Yep goes for different parts of the same vegetable sometimes, too. Like when I cut up broccoli for a stir fry, I separate the thicker stem pieces and start those first before throwing in the florets.

This is so ridiculous. You'd have to drive down to the nearest exit to turn around and go the other way! Obviously the more efficient placement for a commutemaxxer's home is in the dead center of the highway median. And cutouts are for cowards, just pave over every square freedom inch in case you wanna park some extra cars!

Mine is a screencap of some chapo election watch party (2020? I forget) where started going irl

Lol, he'll never read a single word of this letter. If they wanted to actually influence Trump, they should have paid Fox News to start airing propaganda against an export ban.

Capitalism: a system where one person can legally own an entire city, exploit the labor of millions, own all the fuel/water/etc (extracted using the labor of others, of course) under constant threat of prison, homelessness, and/or police violence.

This guy: I can only live my life the way I want under capitalism

Ironic that if they shipped via air, that's the safest flight these components would have ever been able to take anyways