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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
innovatorbunny

Anonymous asked:

this overwatch 2 shit has GOT to be illegal right? I mean, they sold the game on the promise of PvE and now they cancel it. This better earn them a false advertising charge

shuttershocky answered:

And the wildest part is that you can’t even play Overwatch 1 anymore.

Anyone who’s followed this blog long enough has probably seen me post a rant about how terrible video games are at media preservation, and how we should preserve games (even ones we don’t like) to be playable in some manner long after the developers take the servers offline because games are art and deserve to be able to be experienced by the future long after they’ve been discarded by their makers as a product.

You can’t do that anymore with Overwatch 1, a game that wasn’t even free to play.

People paid 40$ in 2016, 60$ if they went for the deluxe edition, to play Overwatch. New heroes, maps, etc were promised to come as free updates, instantly accessible for anyone to play without grinding or microtransactions (though there were mtx for cosmetics) and that the game would be supported for many years.

This was one of the many reasons why Overwatch back then absorbed a large part of TF2’s playerbase: TF2 had been chuggling along since 2007, at the 8-9 year point its updates were winding down and people have accepted it was finally hitting the end of tis life, and were looking for a new cartoon team shooter that would last for years. OW was not TF2’s successor and was never intended to be, but that promise of many years of free support was a major part of why people gave it a chance just the same.

And then just 3 years later in 2019 they announced Overwatch 2, a game that looked really, really similar to Overwatch 1, except it was going to have the actual story missions via PvE mode that Overwatch 1 didn’t have. They said there would be enough new things to justify the ‘2’, and that people who bought Overwatch 1 need not worry about their investment in the first game.

And then it turned out what they meant by that was that they were killing Overwatch 1 by closing its servers, forcing everyone to move over to Overwatch 2, a Free to Play game where you had to grind to unlock the new heroes (people who bought OW1 instantly had the new hero unlocked but come on), was chock full of the usual Free to Play engagement mechanics, and changed the 6v6 format to 5v5, if you had a full squad of friends before, you had to tell one guy to get fucked.

I think the worst part was that when people were understandably angry that Overwatch 2’s actual changes from the original were almost all monetization based, games journalists that pressed Blizzard on why players now had to grind a battlepass for heroes, which Overwatch 1 had always given for free, were met with a “well, heroes are the strongest engagement point for our players” type of deflection where they didn’t even try to hide their reasons behind something respectable.

Now they’re announcing that OW2’s PvE mode, the whole (public) reason they made OW2 a sequel instead of an update to OW1, isn’t even happening anymore, and Overwatch 1’s original 6v6 remains dead and inaccessible.

I didn’t like Overwatch 1. I was really hyped for it when it came out, but found myself really disliking the gameplay (especially on its map design which I thought was terrible) which only worsened with its creative and balancing direction until I lost interest in only a few weeks.

Still, killing OW1 to force all players to move to OW2’s free to play model was inexcusable. All art must be preserved in some manner, even ones we don’t think are good enough to be worth preserving. Overwatch in particular was so massive in 2016-2018 that to kill it is to make inaccessible the source material of a kajillion other pieces of art from those years.

fairvilejen
headspace-hotel

Was reading on wikipedia about how lots of ancient cultures had beliefs and traditions where you had to offer prayers and/or sacrifices if you wanted to cut down a tree because you were basically killing the spirit that lived within the tree and if you did that without good reason bad stuff would happen to you

we should bring that back. if you want to clear cut a forest you have to pray and sacrifice on behalf of every single tree

headspace-hotel

The more I learn about ecosystems, the more I realize that characterizing "animistic" belief as superstitious and primitive is one of the dumbest lies ever told

headspace-hotel

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I, as well, am an animist (knows what a soil microbiome is)

lesbianralzarek
kamlo

you guys hate schizo-spec people so much and it fuckin shows

kamlo

literally like. i have mutuals putting this fuckin post on my dash

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and its like wow what is so funny about triggering someone who explicitly said they struggle with extreme paranoia and asked for basic consideration? like. how do you talk about your schizo-spec friends when they're not in the room? why are we always the laughing stock?

you guys ~support mentally ill people~ until it's someone whose delusion is just a little too "out there" then it's lets laugh at how dumb this person is hahaha can you believe someone could be so ridiculous hahahaha. like.

and i knoooow im gonna get people commenting about how we're Just Too Sensitive and that's exactly what im fuckin talking about!!! what is so funny to you about someone who genuinely struggles to keep touch with reality? what is so funny to you about a schizo-spec person asking for basic consideration in your interactions with them?

and its so frustrating having to see this shit every single day and knowing exactly how my friends would talk about me when im not around if i was more open about my symptoms. you Very likely have schizo-spec people in your life who will never tell you because we absolutely see how you talk about us and what you think of us

i know this isnt the most coherent post but im so serious when i say please examine why you think of us this way and why you think it's funny


ok to reblog but if youre not schizo-spec do not comment on this post

butch-kaz

i remember once my friends managed to force me into thinking that dogs (the animal) were figments of my imagination, and i had to spend an entire day going through the guidance counselors like sand through fingers to find someone who could comfort me out of the delusion.

i remember once i asked a blogger i followed not to post unreality anymore because theyd been spamming it like crazy and it was not even tagged. they told me to get off their blog if i couldnt handle their content, so i did, but im constantly missing the content i actually followed them for.

i remember i had to coach my friends out of a certain brand of humor because jokes about reality and hyperbole about certain behaviors are a very slippery slope for me. sometimes they still fuck up.

mental health stigma is everywhere, but for schizo people, we have to struggle through how the reality of our mental illness has been so lost in movies and tv shows that no one knows how to respectfully interact with us. no one knows, or cares to know, what to avoid when interacting with us. it's like they dont even realize how different the world is when the world isn't a stable constant in your mind.

theunknowableobject

this is so, so important. 

i normally try to be private about these types of experiences, but i remember in high school, i went into a very bad delusion where i believed i was in a cult. i had a certain procedure i followed, i had an obscure set of beliefs, and i would speak about said set of beliefs to a large group of people. 

people thought it was hilarious. everyone thought i was so goofy and so fun to be around when really i was terrified out of my mind. people would be friends with me because they thought the things i came up with were a silly, wildcard thing. a lot of the times they would just go along with them because of how fun it was to pretend to be crazy. 

i’m not saying that these kids were at fault, because we were sixteen. what i am saying is that we need to stop normalizing this culture of laughing at psychotic people and recognizing when they need help and how to actually help them. 

again, we were sixteen. i’m not blaming my individuals. but there were adults that went along with it. there were adults in the school system that were aware of the things i was saying and did nothing about it. psychosis develops young in some people, so the ability for adults to recognize when it’s happening and have the resources to help kids who are struggling like this is very important. it needs to be taken seriously, no matter how “silly” the beliefs of the individual experiencing them are. for them they’re real, and for them it is urgent for them to be grounded so those delusions don’t get worse. 

fun and games are great when they’re actually fun and games. but we need to learn the difference between when someone is participating in fun and games and when someone is in legitimate need of help. 

lesbianralzarek
fourteenfifteen

🚨🚨🚨 oh shit bro do you hear that. dude stop typing that’s the obvious joke alarm. yeah i think everyone has already made the joke you’re thinking of. no really i bet if we looked in the tags of that post we’d see that same joke over and over. you might have to try a little harder if you want to really get as many laughs as you could. ok right. right. okay that’s funnier anyway. i love you dude.

cowgirlmilkers
kavaeric

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I don't like to add to the noise of Software Developer Do Dumb Thing, but I feel like this is as if the Japanese government sent me an email going "it turns out there are a lot of you named Kenji Tanaka, so to solve this problem we are retiring passport numbers"

kavaeric

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Our username system makes it difficult for folks fluent in other languages to express themselves. That's why we're moving to a system like the one on Twitter, where every Asian artist forced to get an alphanumeric username has a handle like @bc2931a or @2023jx or @wabababxa_, which is very easy to remember and shows how versatile alphanumeric handles are at expressing one's non-English-speaking self

kavaeric

Discord's post trying to convince me that we're somehow now extremely allergic to the idea of sharing a number, despite the fact that Nintendo, that video game company that makes stuff for actual children, has had no problem with its users sharing IDs that are 14 digits long

frigidmusings

I’d like to know who’s attempting to buy them. Because something about this whole mess stinks of “we’re trying to look like every other social media site for potential buyers”.

hellsite-yano

People in the notes yelling "give them feedback!!" really not understanding that this decision was already concretely made and is now only being retroactively rationalized because discord only cares about money and doesn't give a fuck about your opinions