I have spent thousands in gacha, though I’m more a ‘dolphin’ than a whale

Was #1 on server 10 and 11 in Memento Mori for a while, ran the top guilds there (NORTH and TRUE NORTH). It was really fun till one of our shift guild leaders usurped the guild and kicked half of the team on the night of our biggest Mass Combat push, losing us most of our territory. So I quit and got very, VERY bitter

That was 2 years ago and the only gacha I’ve played since is Pokemon Pocket tho as f2p this time (it is very generous)

If you want to know anything about dolphin/whale action in Memento Mori, Blue Archive or Reverse 1999 I’ll answer any questions

The concept of Gacha predates lootboxes and started as physical real-world vending machines with surprise balls containing little toys or stickers, mainly aimed at kids

They noticed that the mystery drove sales and pretty much overwhelmed ‘normal’ toy vending machines in a few short years

While the concepts are similar, they had different origins.

These gacha companies pay ridiculous amounts of money for psych profile info specifically to target vulnerable individuals, yet individuals don’t have that same kind of access or understanding

This is NOT a both sides thing.

Yeah American is a victim blaming culture

Almost as if capitalism was specifically designed to shuffle all wealth from the bottom to the top in a neverending ratchet of human degradation and exploitation

Sure we all agree but the dumbshits making the rules 1) Have no idea about technology older than color television and 2) Are really only interested in preserving corporate profitability

Yeah well when the copyright courts agreed to Namco’s patent on loading screen minigames it kind of freaked everyone out back then and people patented every dumbshit thing. For a short time Amazon tried to patent the single click purchase

I don’t know why but I have a natural avoidance of card based rogue battlers. Slay the spire made me very very angry

The castle is my favorite deck back, I think I have more hours in solitaire than I do in Elden Ring

Everything they said but first start by playing some solitare first, it was included in early windows to teach mouse skills

No it was a shitty OS with very VERY little hardware support,

and he built it because the voices in his head told him to build a temple and he was too lazy to be a carpenter.

Have you actually installed it? Because I have. It’s BARELY an OS

The ‘security’ mumbo jumbo is mainly to cover his networking incompetence

No, schizophrenia is how you get Temple OS

Ok I’ll just go grab some sand and refine it into silicon then bake my own chips then code my own kernel and OS and applications because that’s the only way to ‘control’ it.

Companies need to be held to regulatory standards about our private data, and the ONLY reason those regulations don’t exist is because every FUCKDAMN politician in the world was born before TV had color

Turning the feature on by default is bad, but

Nope, no further. Downvoted and blocked.

Don’t you fucking try and justify this.

There are no ethical companies, only ones that are currently more profitable to operate as if they were.

The answer will always from now on be ‘yes’, for every annoying privacy invading toggle you have to change, it is in the best interest of the software creators to force you to do it in the way that benefits them most.

Our opinions are no longer as important as their ability to harvest our data.

Guess I’ll have to wait a bit longer for the vore mod…

Cannot wait to see some of the sick things modders bring in the coming years

Inceloids are so whiny nowadays a game about squares gets complaints about diversity pandering

no yours is hella better than wherever mine was going

Denuvo?

More like De-not-gonna… ah fuck that was terrible, please ignore

I’m still only on turn 270 in my first Civ3 game, don’t have time for a newer version, Ghandi’s bombers have almost all finished moving this month.

Significant uptick in fools to block today on lemmy.

It feels like reddit 2015 up in here.

Or you can just pirate it and choose not to support an anti-vaxxer

Before the DLC I might have agreed with you.

DLC included, ER is significantly harder than DSII

Not that this is a bad thing

Plaintiff will have to prove some form of legally enshrined harm has occurred.

I can’t imagine what kind of results from not winning due to difficulty that may be appealing to a judge as a form of ‘damage’.

Is this your first time being exposed to frivolous lawsuit bullshittery?

Pretty sure people have actually sued MMOs over group content, several times if I recall.

None of them won, of course.

In America, you can sue anyone for literally anything.

Doesn’t mean you’ll win, but it’s basically a highly enshrined natural right that only the rich can make best use of.