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  • Actually, my kid’s needs really are substantially different from others.

    My daughter is autistic. She has trouble communicating verbally. But on Roblox, she finds it much easier to socialize.

    She has never spent a cent on microtransactions but gets the opportunity to talk to other kids without being bullied.

    I’m not taking that away from her just because strangers on the Internet can’t fathom different kids have different needs.















  • You seem to think you’re taste is more exceptional than people you deem as basic.

    But how exactly did you arrive at your taste? Hype? Influencers? Marketing?

    You compare games to beer and say Bud is “complete swill”. Fair enough. But almost everyone drinking IPA is doing so because some hipster said this is real beer – and everyone else just went along with it.

    Personally, I’ve never read a James Patterson or Danielle Steel book in my life. But I’ve met plenty of people who claim up and down that Jack Kerouac and David Foster Wallace is top tier literature. How have so many people – who oddly seem to dress the same, have the same manners, operate with similar world views – seem to all be convinced those two authors are peak?

    My personal standpoint is that nobody has taste unless they do the discovering themselves. That means no relying on marketers, gatekeepers, tastemakers, or algorithms. Go and dig for themselves.

    If you’re willing to do that, form an opinion all on your own, kudos. But most people – even people who swear up and down that they have taste – won’t.







  • I just spent the last two weeks in San Diego and hated it.

    I hated the freeways, the strip malls, and the car-centrism. More than that, I hated the complete and utter hostility towards walking.

    There were places that were 0.5 miles away. It would take three minutes to drive there yet an hour to walk because the assholes who designed the city couldn’t be bothered to build a pedestrian overpass.

    I feel very strongly that cities like this are everything wrong with the USA, and that the reason so much shit happens in the USA are because cities are simply unlivable.

    But Americans—specifically American voters—have decided this is what they aspire towards, and being antagonistic towards the average American is ultimately unhelpful.

    Now why do I mention this? Because there’s a host of things that suck, and there’s only so much bandwidth to give a damn.

    The real problem you’re talking about isn’t games. It’s financial literacy. Schools don’t teach it. Employers are hostile towards it. Governments just want you to spend—they don’t want you to save.

    Financial literacy is what saves people from making terrible financial decisions.



  • Because the post doesn’t suggest anything.

    I mean, I wrote a whole lot of text explaining why I collect so many games.

    It’s a random stranger gloating about spending thousands of dollars on games they barely play.

    I haven’t even told you how much money I’ve spent. And of the money I’ve spent, it’s not exactly a lot. I know people who’ve spent more money on hardware than I’ve spent on games.

    No interest in starting any meaningful conversation whatsoever.

    And yet, there’s lots of conversation here. You’ve already written paragraphs. Go figure.

    OP did not say anything meaningful or specific about their favorite “stories” or “moments” in games

    If you want to see posts where I talk about specific games, just go through my history.

    and did not show any interest in learning about yours or ours.

    If you want to share your story, do so. Actually, you already did.

    You or OP can do whatever you want, but if you gloat about your senseless consumption habits online while showing zero interest in starting any meaningful discussion

    Oh, there’s sense. Maybe not sense in your prescribed manner, but there’s sense.

    don’t throw out the pikachu face when you get clowned.

    I really don’t mind the many different reactions.

    Talk about them then. No one’s stopping you or OP—although I imagine it’s hard to talk about thousands of games they haven’t played 😂

    Yep, no one’s stopping me – which is why I talk about specific games.

    Wouldn’t it have been nice if OP did this instead of generically gloating about amassing a huge library of games they barely play?

    Just because you’re seeing this post here now doesn’t mean I don’t talk about specific games elsewhere. In fact, if you go through my posting history, you can see all the many times I talk about my experiences with games. Feel free to comment on them.

    The reason why you’re commenting here now, and not on my post about Curse: Eye of Isis is because this specific post created an emotional reaction in you.

    Or hell, you can look on my Akkoma account. I posted this about Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death last night:

    https://atomicpoet.org/notice/AvkWBhY1PJvUqiElYu