Great list, I’ll add some more

• Alpha Centauri (Alien Crossfire Expansion optional but encouraged)
• Bladerunner
• MechCommander 1
• MechCommander 2
• Civilization: Call to Power ( Often Neglected Cousin of the Civ games, but I always enjoyed it)

Is it a scam?

Also yes, definitely.

I hate how obsessed AI has made me with hands and feet. cause that used to be how you noticed AI pics (still is, to a degree, but they are sadly getting better at not creating abomination limbs), they always fucked up the hands and feet.

and now I find my eyes immediately drawn to hands and feet of any picture, even in real life, cause this stupid bullshit has trained my eyes to scan for weird digital hallucinatory biology.

and I can not begin to express in human language how much I hate it now that i’ve noticed it

Yes, exactly.

a pat on the head and some puffed up words.

yep. They dont have any fear cause they dont think they’re doing anything wrong, They are just living up to the expectations of the person that they think obviously respects them and “helps” them.

Really living up to that Project part of GOP, eh?

you would be surprised at how far a useful idiot would go for you, all for a seat at a table and a pat on the head.

Hell, look at what Trumps done for Russia with regard towards destroying our democracy and destabilizing our country, all because Putin gave him a few puffed up words of fake praise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

I dont know, I dont think Canada has much room to throw bricks in glass houses at the moment.

what is it with asshole streamers always ending up being pedophiles?

He had to be doing something inappropriate for him to get blasted off twitch and his own gaming company and shit.

Just because it wasnt enough for him to be arrested doesnt mean it wasnt harmless. Probably just means he got caught to quickly.

Terry Crews as Little Mermaid confirmed?

Hamas is also an organization that has been propped up by Israel for the explicit purpose of maintaining a justification for the slaughter of palestinians by the IDF, and to keep the Palestinian Authority out of the picture.

probably gonna have the first generation of people who know and understand less about the technology in their very hand than the people who came before them.

Gonna be funny as shit in another 20+ years when the memes shift to tech-inept children asking mom and dad how to do frustratingly basic tasks like print a page or save a file.

This is just the 21st century version of getting angry at someone saying to xerox a paper or hand them a kleenex.

Its not xeroxing, its copying. Its not a kleenex, its a tissue.

but these brands have become identified so much with a product that their names have become generic for the product itself.

Thats definitely been my experience. Easy to set up, easy to use, easy to game on. Simple, slick, and mostly transparent (I.E. Not getting in the way of tasks) to the user. everything an OS should be.

Nobara club hi5

I’m glad I’m not the only one to remember that Dragon Age: Origins quest.

Its the specific and singular reason why I never bought any of the DLC, or any of the sequels.

You have to understand.

The overwhelming bulk of gamers just don’t care

Nothing will stand in the way of getting their current precious. Not even their own complaints and bitching.

They’ll sit there and complain about how a company is evil, its practices exploitative, and how everyone should avoid buying from them so they can die in the fires of Bankruptcy.

Then the second the next game/expansion/DLC/Whatever is announced, they are immediately in line to preorder the ultra deluxe mega fuck you 500 dollar package. because it comes with a unique mount and a special armor skin, and they just cant miss those things! they’re rare! and they’ll never be able to get them otherwise! /s

And then they’ll go into the obfuscated-cash-shop and spend another 700 dollars on digital bullshit.

Then, when they are all done, the overwhelming majority of them will come back to the internet, and cry and whinge and moan about how a company is evil, its practices exploitative, and how everyone should avoid buying from them so they can finally die in the fires of bankruptcy.

Cause the majority of gamers are brain damaged fucktards who, at the end of the day, just love throwing their wallet at things.

Except it’s even worse than that. Because these companies hired psychologists to tell them exactly how to tweak the levers in people’s brains to get them to pay.

Which is where the whole concept of using real money, to buy fake money (and never in the exact amounts that they charge for items), so you obfuscate the actual cost, especially once people start carrying a balance of fake money due to never being able to get the exact amount of fake money for the item came from.