I was stoked to boot it up and like…what? It’s such a stupid game on all fronts. I get that stealing mechanics works if you’re into that kind of gameplay, but there’s no way that anyone other than pokemon obsessed people enjoy this. Even then, it’s such a poor analog for actual pokemon games. I feel like it’s “success” is all media buzz. Every actual human in my life agrees it’s terrible. Even my partner who is actually pokemon obsessed lol. But the coverage on the internet would have you believe it’s goty contender. I have never felt more convinced that we are living in a simulation lol. I can’t be alone in this, am I? Is there where I learn that I’m that far out of touch? Like, truly, if you enjoy it, good for you. We all have things we love that others don’t get. But like, someone please tell me I’m not the only one lol.

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      9 months ago

      Thanks!

      The wild part is… I could have written this sams comment for nearly any decently popular game currently uh, in play.

      I managed to avoid getting bogged down in the stereotypical actual horrible conversation with die hard fans of a game, which i would not do well in, having never played palworld.

      But… this kind of thing is so common these days that if you think a bit higher level, its not hard to broadly see whats going on.

      Long time gamers by now whove grown and matured loathe and despise the nonsense that was the rhetoric and misinformation thrown around during the era where CONSOLE WARS was what defined you as a gamer.

      But… the same basically toxic videogame fandom nonsense still happens, just in a slightly more subtle form, and its actually so widespread and easy to manipulate that for over a decade competent AAA studios have banked on it when making business decisions, and its even so easy to illicit and provoke that we are awash in an era of basically trash scam games built more on nice sounding dreams that anything that actually makes sense or is even realistically possible, or not obviously contradictory and thus impossible at a fundamental level, in terms of promised gameplay and features.

      Unfortunately, as video games became massively popular, theyve been managed as a new form of bread and circuses, and new way for people to argue endlessly about extremely technical but hardly ever meaningful statistical differences between sportsball teams, as a means to foment devotion.

      Consumerism, basically.

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          9 months ago

          Hah, you never know, maybe someday =P

          Though I have apparently become allergic to most beers as I have aged, somehow.

          Basically just about anything I have tried in the last 4 or 5 years results in me feeling hungover about 1/3 of the way through a beer, as well as inflamed, pounding headache, bleck.

          Its for the best. I fortunately never developed an alcohol addicition, but basically all of my fathers, him included, either have been or are massive alcoholics.

          So basically, I can nurse a doubleshot of whiskey, or have a kombucha or something. No horrid allergic reaction to spirits or… fungal alcohol.