Disproving them can work

No

So don’t?

Then what’s your counter?

Arguably best way to counter misinformation is non-platforming it. Mere provable facts and impeccable logic have a dogshit success rate.

Dpad for games that were intended for dpad, analog if the game was intended for analog.

Analog for dpad games feels awkward in my experience, and dpad for analog games is not even an option.

No, I just try to. My blocklist is like forty miles at this point

Edit: always entertaining to read rationalizations of “exposing myself to the constant depressing drudgery of political news coverage is like a moral imperative or some shit” btw

Great, even getting this spam on like page 3 now.

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This place is noticeably more anticorporate - which makes sense because corporations tend to be dicks - and leftist. Enshittification is a fairly apt term for what goes on.

“The American dream” was socioeconomic mobility, that shit is for commies these days.

That is just every country, countries would hardly try to look worse than they are.

handwaved it away as perfectly normal and expected

“Yes, but space is boring and therefore it’s realistic” is still one of my favorite excuses for a game.

Nothing at all, if it’s been maintained and “upkept” much better than theirs has. But, y’know.

Starfield is starting to seem pretty spackled together, and the engine was already sort of infamous for bugs. It’s not just BSW being sloppy about content (although they are), it’s also the engine and tooling. The CKs tend to look… grim.

What do you mean, “nowadays”? Mobile games always sucked.

Scientists and other rationalists. If you wanted to be dramatic, their fight to save ourselves and the planet would be against the inertia of “common wisdom”, known bugs in human psychology, the resistance of wanting to disregard the unknown or unpleasant, everyone for whom the truth (to the best of our knowledge) is economically inconvenient with the considerable economic and societal power they wield.

They are not good odds, but it is correct against incorrect and often against malignantly incorrect, and they are all extremely formidable villains.

Oh, no no, capitalism welcomes competition, don’t’y’know.
Just as long as it doesn’t mess with the profit margins.

If you have a perfectly normal (non-pathological) lack of confidence then pretending to be confident may allegedly help you. A cynic could remark that that requires knowing what that looks like and being able to pull it off, while almost nobody offering that particular “advice” seems to feel a huge need to elaborate on it.

It’s a cliché.

That’s fair. Sounds like a very reasonable way to explain it to the kids’ parents, too, if you get the occasion.

Maybe they could start using an engine that is more recent than the Cretaceous.

Start handing out kazoos.

Can I non-jokingly ask why that’s such a big deal? If it’s all up in your grill I get it, or some stupid liability thing. Otherwise, there’s little enough joy in the world, what’s the harm?