I think we have a lost user, fellas.

It matters not what accessories one rodent wears on themselves - they carry themselves in a distinguished manner, worthy of being deemed, “fancy”.

Fox scout TF2?

Didn’t play it back in the day ;-; I was the weird kid w/ the PSP. It had a ton of great emulators tho

makes it authentic lol

“Do you have video games?”

While I’m not defending our current situation for news, there is a reason conditions are the way they are. The general unprofitability of running a news network in the modern day, especially when both print and online advertising rates are rock bottom, forces all but the biggest players out.

Social media, 24/7 cable news, and forum websites are many peoples’ main sources of news, often due to their entry price of 0. As a result, the death of well funded independent journalism was inevitable, and we’re all suffering the consequences of that. Especially those who don’t know how or don’t care to verify their sources.

At this point I tend to have better luck running a Wikipedia search on the latest events and checking the citations section than checking any major website/app’s feed, especially with most media feeds being curated nowadays. Unless open platforms gain wider adoption, where people all over the world collaborate to find answers to the world’s problems, I doubt things will improve.

I think it’s fair to say that one of the biggest reasons we are able to have the computing freedom that we have is because of OSS, and the competition it brings to proprietary software. It also allows for a varying expressions of ideas rather than centralized control.

The ability to have tools that can be audited by any human is the greatest tool against enshittification. By far.

I think it’s the same phenomenon in multi-player gaming - community hosted servers tend to have less garbage flying around compared to centrally hosted company servers.

If you run your own server, you’re far more likely to care about the user experience. And if you run your own server, you make your own rules and can manage how you’d like - no obligations.

No wait… don’t you see?

The robots have already breached our defenses.

You’ve seen what they’ve done to other websites!

And worst of all, they could be any one of us…

Probably lack of exposure? Haven’t seen it on Steam…

Bo3 zombies good, modding good, bo3 SP/MP super trash

Nah brother, early 2000s people have this hierarchy too. Extinction and Exo zombies were kinda neat tho.

Thanks pally!

Can you please draw her giving a hug?

I believe in you, just be nice to people while you’re gaming - it all falls upward from there.

Half of my online friends I met through DayZ RP, Minecraft, or TF2

*[USER] will remember that.

Guess I’m at stage 2…

Remember friends - try keeping the amount of caffeine in your body per day under 400mg to stay healthy (most manufactuers print their caffeine amounts directly on the can).

Wikipedia article on health limits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine

Energy drinks are awesome though, saved my bacon in many an assignment, gaming sesh, or late shift. Just drink responsibly, like any other drug.

Yeah, Gabe Newell definitely was quite forward thinking when he came to that conclusion, and I can definitely say it works well for my Steam Library.

Honestly at this point the main force that brings me to hunt for media is subscription services, since it always feels like a rug pull compared to alternatives. I paid for things on GOG, I get to keep the installers and back them up. I bought things on Steam, I’m not charged to reinstall or use them on other devices, and I can still download games that are delisted now (RIP poker night at the inventory).

Now that Blu-rays are going the way of Google Stadia, getting phased out, all I can really do is just rip any media I already have and download what I may need. FOSS tools have already replaced any subscription software I would use for my engineering work.