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Time to build a LAN party cafe in my basement and install all the DRM free classic FPS games I own on all the devices.

Using this meme format doesn’t make sense. Why would he need to explain that?

But yeah I play GURPS so I’m none of these people.

Epic is a cornered animal of a corporation that threatens to undermine a stable and generally positive status quo in the PC space and is owned in part by an authoritarian country’s proxy company. (Sort of like how EA is now, though less direct obviously) If they succeed in their plans the PC space just becomes straight up worse for PC players.

Maybe as far as evil goes Microsoft by its sheer size might beat it because Microsoft has its fingers in all sorts of pies. But Microsoft isn’t as hungry or ravenous and is less immediately dangerous, its more like a lumbering giant where one hand barely knows what the other is doing. It’ll knock over good things, generally cause harm, and enshitify its own products but its all a much slower process.

I hate loud stupid people influencing game balance so fucking much.

I’m glad I don’t play PVP games anymore.

If I ever get back into game dev though and make a multiplayer game…

So they’ve changed. They’ve changed by becoming more evil.

TBH, before this, EA was comparatively less evil to pre-Microsoft Activision. And when Microsoft bought Activision they made Activision comparatively less evil as well by diluting the evil with more mundane lumbering giant capitalist corporate sludge. Still pretty evil though.

This is one of those rare situations where a company going private is making them worse than being publicly traded.

There almost ought to be an evil ranking for these game companies. Ubisoft would arguably be on top of the list atm, or maybe tied with Nintendo or Roblox. Saudi-Kushner-SilverLake-EA, Konami, Epic Games, and WB not to distant.

Take Two Interactive, Sega, Embracer Group, Capcom, Bandai-Namco, Microsoft, and Sony probably still hover around the middle.

Devolver Digital, Valve, and CDPR arguably near the bottom. Least evil. Arguably not even evil just flawed.

Maybe Bigmode, Itch.io, & Kojima Productions actually at the very bottom?

Best of both worlds: Always role play a tactician or veteran if you have a lot of game knowledge and you want to use it.

Play an idiot when you are playing a game set in a world or using a system you are completely unfamiliar with.

There’s a number of the games that notably effected me after completion. Star Fox (SNES), Halo: Combat Evolved, Morrowind, KOTOR 1&2, Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, Bioshock, Dead Space, Hotline Miami, Undertale.

I’m probably forgetting some.

My understanding is that its because healthcare is still doing very well and that has a lot of women in it as an industry. College educated or otherwise.

A lot of white collar work men tend to get into is being effected by mass adoption of AI and the tariffs are impacting blue collar work.

Sounds and looks vaguely like a Magic The Gathering card.

I would be way too curious to do that. How does someone that stupid even function? Lets find out.