When I was a little kid and I ran into cheaters in Halo: Custom Edition I still hated them and would never do it. I don’t think being a bored little kid is an excuse.

That said if you don’t do it anymore that’s a little more excusable at least you stopped.

And while none of those things are wrong per se, the general vibe of asking about all of those things was very weird and pervy.

Unshackle your mind. Reject the puritanism bonk and embrace the horniness tentacles.

Them insisting on having match making for the main modes was my red line. While this nonsense is not a deal breaker for me, as I almost always tryhard a single multiplayer game at a time anyway if I’m playing multiplayer at all. This sounds like I’m dodging another future headache whenever the next game insists on kernel level anti-cheat though.

No, you shouldn’t be embarrassed.

I mean, it probably wont work out unless your dad has a good eye for matchmaking but it is worth a shot. Plus its like he is suggesting a chance to grow as a person.

Part of me wishes my dad had done this but I know he’d be a terrible matchmaker for me. Though again, at least I probably would have learned from it.

This merely reinforces my decision to not buy it because it only is going to have manipulative EBMM for its main modes instead of a server browser. Even if Portal has a server browser, they know the average player is going to stick to their match making system.

I bought 2042 and I did play it a lot but my experience was sort of existentially dreadful. I kind of understood its match making was keeping me playing longer by sandbagging my progression on its overly bloated exp requirements. It was like watered down drip feed fun. Fun enough and low barrier enough that I kept jumping on. Every other BF game felt way more mechanically rich and because they lacked match making they were more fulfilling to learn and play. You start out sucking, and you slowly get better, feeling yourself win more often over time. There is satisfaction in starting out bad and being rewarded for your efforts to learn the game that EBMM steals from you.

Its painful for me though. BF6 looks like such a waste. It checks so many boxes for me in that it looks like a great pvp military shooter: fast TTK, robust map editor, point buy loadout system.

But all wrapped up in typical corporate bullshit.

I want to play more often than my close friends want to play because I’m a tryhard meaning that if squad play is crucial I’d have to coordinate with random people on the internet over voice chat and that sounds… potentially unpleasant.

Maybe 99% of the time my interactions will be nice, but that 1% of bad times with randoms over voice chat will unfortunately stick in my brain.

For me, the nice thing about BF is that I can team up with my friends in a squad or play asocial solo and have a great time either way.

Unfortunately, also as a tryhard, I despise Engagement Based Match Making. And it seems the main mode of BF6 is also going to have that and I just have zero desire to play a pvp game with Engagement Based Match Making after the experiences I’ve had with it. Skill Based Match Making can be ok if I get to at least see my rank. I just want to know how much I’m improving as a player and I can’t get that with Engagement Based Match Making. I only experience what is essentially hollow algorithmic match fixing.

Executive dysfunction is also an autism thing. Brain no likely changing topics, starting work on a responsibility that isn’t my current obsession is very difficult.

Twisted Metal (1995) via Duckstation. Installed using Emudeck.

Playing normal difficulty, abused save states on the first character, Sweet Tooth. But after that stuck to only saving in between levels or level password.

Playing the characters in order from Sweet tooth moving right, on the final rooftops level atm with Crimson Fury.

Game obviously is janky as hell but its deep in terms of learning curve. I’m more familiar with TM2, but always want to play through TM1 at some point.

Also watching the cut FMV endings on youtube after beating each character. They’re delightful.

This tends to happen for me under specific circumstances. Like if its work related, or its a new social environment with people I don’t know as well, or it involves social activities that require live performance from me of some kind.

Absolutely not. I’d rather be able to walk to a variety social spaces and not worry about being eaten alive by bugs when outside.

Old people tend to want to live in the middle of nowhere the most. They just also expect the elder healthcare to magically be just as good.

Man I got a lot of them.

1. Free will isn’t real.
2. I’m kind of OK with AI replacing our jobs under capitalism, even if things get bumpy because I think because its unsustainable for various reasons and it’ll eventually cause economic collapse and we might live in a better society afterward.
3. Nuanced “soft” Anti-natalism
4. Currency is fine. The left was wrong about Crypto.
5. He might not always be right but Vaush is funny and its OK to watch his streams.
6. We should all fuck each other more and monogamy is retarded.
7. Oh also its OK to call things and people “retarded”
8. Virtue doesn’t matter only consequences.
9. Bisexuality is secretly more common than hetero & homosexuality.
10. Religion and spirituality should be illegal.
11. Autistic people should rule the world.
12. That Trump won a second time reflects a fundamentally disgusting moral weakness in most of humanity that I will never emotionally recover from.
13. Linux is good but most of Linux users ideology about GUI is awful.

Thank you.

I mask a lot better when I’m not depressed. (I’m horribly depressed.)

That said I still mask as second nature pretty well as I consistently get the “I wouldn’t have guessed you were autistic.” response from people a lot. I generally love socializing and I’m pretty good at it from experience and the topic of “people” being an on and off special interest.

This is just someone in the industry trying to buy time and throw gunk in the works of the initiative. Unless they are aggressively retarded they knew this challenge would fail, they just want to buy time.

When I say to the same degree I’m not saying there aren’t people with thousands of games elsewhere. I’m saying there are more of them on Steam and they tend to collect higher amounts of games on average.

Board game enthusiasts don’t always have thousands of board games, most console gaming enthusiasts don’t have giant walls of games lining their house, etc.

That said, I don’t have sources to cite here other than my personal interactions with other steam users on social media and my steam friends list number of games. I could be wrong as this isn’t hard data but I’d bet money I’m correct though if there was a way to verify the comparison.

Not to the same degree.

I don’t like Asmon but my understanding is he supports SKG. Am I wrong?

Also I saw a clip of SomeOrdinaryGamers, which indicated that he tempered his support with a dash of (wrong) both-sides-ism. But it was only a clip.