Anon likes a thing
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Roblox. I played it as a kid around 2007 when it was just a small Lego-like building game with your friends. It's been really weird seeing it become some predatory, monetized app game that kids play on their iPad now.
For reference, I'm almost 30 and haven't played it since I was like 14. My friend's kid was playing Roblox on his tablet and asked if I "heard of this new app game called Roblox" and it hurt my soul.
the devs have pursued every bad idea and settled on 'child labor and exposing kids to fucked up shit seems profitable' so yeeeeeahh.... the game industry looks at them and hangs their head in shame
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I liked the bit at the end where the therapist calls him out.
See, that's the thing. Pickle Rick was funny because he went through all that bullshit just to avoid going to therapy. The show was making an excellent point about how stigmatized therapy is, and how bettering yourself is hard work, work many people just don't want to do. (Basically, "men would rather turn themselves into pickles than go to therapy.")
Of course, any actual nuance is lost on the "high IQ" R&M fans. I've always seen Rick as similar to Eric Cartman or the Joker: if you idolize him, you missed the point.
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Here's a controversial one: Target shooting.
It used to be a skill you honed, going to the range to become better every time. Participate in competitions, meet people. It was a great hobby.
And then the idiots who unironically wear Punisher logos ruined it.
Welcome to "gun people who hate gun people"
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What a tragic viewpoint to take. Imagine seeing something that you like becoming more popular and having all these new people to share it with from such a perspective. Depressing.
Depends on the people. Eternal September has been a meme for over 30 years at this point. It is a cyclical pattern in just about anything social: experimentalists/creatives create new thing, early adopters join which gives new thing legitimacy, social contracts are implicitly drafted because the community is small and easy to reach consensus, then it gets exposure, masses of new people join the thing that aren't interested in the social contract, community cohesion eventually evaporates. This is how you go from "Man, our thing is so cool" to "Fucking newbies spamming in general, begging." You don't want to share your cool thing with a bunch of mouth breathers that aren't capable of appreciating what makes the thing actually cool. Eventually the grifters come, and then it is game over. So the original community members scatter to the winds. Some creative people make some new thing and it starts all over again.
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Roguelikes. I'm not saying some of the modern roguelites aren't fantastic, there are many that are. But the genre boom has all but pushed traditional roguelikes (NetHack, ADoM, Angband, Brogue, etc) out of the conversation.
What's wild is that the nethack source is so easy to read and understand, that it is trivial to add new content. I'd like to see some of the mechanics from the newer gen roguelikes like Shattered Pixel Dungeon make it back into trad nethack
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the scandal???
wrote last edited by [email protected]I assume they mean Justin Roiland being found out as a sexual predator of underage girls ...
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Tbh, the current and last season are great.
The voice actors are great. If I didn't know about the change, I'd never have noticed
they really did do a great job replacing the voice actor
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Brogue is fucking sick, man.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Brogue
damn that brings back dnd.exe sessions
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the devs have pursued every bad idea and settled on 'child labor and exposing kids to fucked up shit seems profitable' so yeeeeeahh.... the game industry looks at them and hangs their head in shame
To be clear, the “game industry” has no shame so this is inaccurate. In fact, there are a few companies trying to recreate their success.
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What a tragic viewpoint to take. Imagine seeing something that you like becoming more popular and having all these new people to share it with from such a perspective. Depressing.
wrote last edited by [email protected]You misunderstood the enshitification part.
- The thing was out before & not new.
- The sudden influx of new ppl possibly (almost always) came bcs of interests & opportunity of a company, but certainly that happened after it became popular.
- Op lost the ability to enjoy or be public about the interest, that is a loss (that happened bcs of random fuckery for profit).
- A lot of such things irrevocably change forever after fubared by monetisation or mass short-term popularity. So the actual thing & how one enjoys it might be changed forever/the old one non-existent anymore. (In anons case at the end only the general public knowledge changed for the worst & now prob just hides a bit that part of his life.)Also why would you equate 'more people' with 'better' in the first place?
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if so then name your thing
Sort of I guess: em dashes.
Not to talk about, but to use when writing.
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anime
it's become waay too popular and drowned in a sea of mediocrity
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Maybe not as big as Anon is talking about, but Bob Vylan.
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$thing is Warhammer 40k
When did it become popular for the hordes?
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Roblox. I played it as a kid around 2007 when it was just a small Lego-like building game with your friends. It's been really weird seeing it become some predatory, monetized app game that kids play on their iPad now.
For reference, I'm almost 30 and haven't played it since I was like 14. My friend's kid was playing Roblox on his tablet and asked if I "heard of this new app game called Roblox" and it hurt my soul.
Unfortunate that it's more popular than ever before.
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Here's a controversial one: Target shooting.
It used to be a skill you honed, going to the range to become better every time. Participate in competitions, meet people. It was a great hobby.
And then the idiots who unironically wear Punisher logos ruined it.
For a moment I thought you meant shooting up a Target store.
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they canned him as writer/ voice actor and the show kind of lost it's flair.
You're joking, right?
Roiland is a great voice actor, but the rambling "comedy" bits got old and repetitive real fast. I don't miss them. That, and the new VOs hit it out of the park.
Nah. Morty's alright. Rick lost his edge
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Welcome to "gun people who hate gun people"
How will that end ?
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I was a goth in my youth and they were among the more controversial bands. They could be just edge lords or Nazis. The guys that listened to them turned out to be Nazis, so there's that.
I was in the scene at the same time and me and my friends were always making fun of neofolk bands and their fans, because its such boring music and simply copying clothing styles of the 1940s, fitting to the boring mind of a nazi
