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posts and discussions about it are against this sub’s rules regarding real-world political discussions.

The game is a satire of real-world politics but discussion about it is forbidden?

I’m wondering what exactly caused so many downvotes?

The post references AI. Automatic downvotes.

Woah! Someone who liked the ending! You’re too wholesome for a gaming community lol.

I read one meta take on the ending that both sounded interesting and like cope. The end of Part II makes you feel exactly like Ellie feels. You push through because you want a conclusion to the story, just like Ellie. The end might be terrible, but it is an ending. In a meta way, you could get a better “ending” by stoping when Ellie and Dina are together at the farmhouse. You can stop playing, just like Ellie could stop obsessing over Abby, but how many people did that? Who would stop when the story isn’t done?

Personally, I think the writers made a bet that they could stretch “an eye for an eye leaves the world blind” into a novel.

I was hearing Russian Hardbase

That’s only a thing in the US. Other countries don’t make that info public.

In the book 1984, one of the characters postulates that in any system of government there are 3 groups. The unwashed masses comprising 90% of people, the elite who are better than everyone else making up 1% of people, and a middle buffer of 9% of people. The buffer is used by the elite to keep the unwashed masses from uprising. Anyone from the 90% who looks like they might be trouble for the 1% gets to be in the 9%. They get treated a bit better in exchange for defending the status quo. Perhaps if they defend it hard enough they can be given a spot among the 1%!

I believe the argument made by this character is supposed to be flawed, but it ends up being pretty believable. The “middle class” would be the buffer zone of people who defend the status quo in exchange for slightly better treatment by the 1% than the average person gets.

When you ended your last post with “it feels like I’m close to the end” I couldn’t wait to see how you’d react to the switching sides thing! Seems like you took it better than most!

They’re both amazing games so I don’t think there’s a wrong choice here. I’d say art, music, and story go to Clair Obscur while gameplay, replayability, and sex scenes go to Baldur’s Gate 3.

Also The Anacrusis

Right. The guy who faked clips boosted his skills to a level he couldn’t actually compete in. He was scouted to be part of a pro team and was kicked after they realized his videos were faked.

How does boosting affect other players?

How is using multiple accounts to play against yourself and boost your rank cheating in the actual game? No actual players are being robbed of wins.

There are several exposé videos on cheating in Rocket League. Here’s one by Sunless Khan on “Jimmy” who was on trick shot team but he was actually editing the data of replay files to produce his clips.

Another one by Wayton Pilkin on account boosting, DDoSing servers to cause legit players to have their connection dropped allowing the cheater to win by forfeit, and cheaters using invisible cars.

I’ve also heard it doesn’t run on Linux, ironically due to it’s kernel level anti-cheat.

No conspiracy. High prices are already normalized. Companies have been setting record breaking profits by just straight up increasing prices for no reason since 2019. I also wonder how this hasn’t affected sales but I guess people had a lot more money then they realized. Had.

News articles are saying Medialab, imgur’s parent company, is using AI to moderate posts and it upset people.

The tomatoes growing in that apartment is great level design. I had the same reaction of “how could these plants survive without people?” and then you get jumped and it’s like “oh, should have known.” The apartment also has a door you can’t open that’s opened after you get jumped which explains where the people came from. I remember appreciating the details (after struggling to not die).

Man Carrying Thing has a sketch on male loneliness epidemic. Someone tries explaining social issues to a guy who doesn’t care about anyone but himself but starts to listen when he hears the word “male” added to them. Male lonliness, male climate change, male war. The guy now cares deeply about these social issues (because they affect him) except he thinks all the problems are caused by women not sleeping with him.

I had the opposite TIL when I learned other cultures only apologize for wrong doings and not as a sign of sympathy.

My friends and I played the Sunderfolk demo. The phone thing feels like a gimmick and doesn’t add anything.

We play Jackbox games and those make use of the phone. You vote on trivia answers, you draw something, everyone writes an answer and then you guess who wrote what. In Sunderfolk, you use your phone to move your character. They could have just made it a normal game like Baldur’s Gate.

The reason why they didn’t is probably because the lore and gameplay are ridiculously simple. It seems like it’s meant to be a party game anyone can play, but it’s also something you’d play over multiple sessions. It’s like they wanted both casual and table top audiences and got neither instead.