I took you to mean competitive gaming. Playing against humans is always going to be better if you want meaningful competition. I understand that you don’t, but you should also recognize that’s a huge part of gaming for a lot of people, and was (with a very small number of exceptions) literally the only way to play any game for thousands of years. The negativity that you refer to has more to do with playing against children than playing competitive games and that makes your criticism come off more like copium than a genuine reason.

You have a lot of socially negative chess games?

Chess is PvP. Negativity is not a necessary part of competitive gaming.

I’m waiting for Sid Meyer’s SimGolf!

Sometimes, we get to have nice things.

Oh, it’s worse than that. The USA is arguably now a second-world country.

/r/shit_americans_say

Dude, you have no place to be accusing people of motivated and emotional reasoning, if that’s where this is going.

AFAIK it is unique to the original steam controller. I don’t think the handheld has it.

There is a detent at 100% analog, and if you pull further, it generates a button event. This is especially amazing for boost or afterburner on throttle, or e-brake on brake.

They seem to have dropped the two-stage triggers and I am NOT THRILLED.

They were on such a promising trajectory but then all their underlying values changed. It wasn’t just the games that got crappier. They are a company I would never exchange money with today.

It a lot more metal (and probably more realistic) to think of them as dying human brain cells.

You can easily find people misspelling it as “nitch”, indicating their pronunciation like Pompei limericks. Mispronouncing “foyer” really accentuates the twang and drawl, it stands out significantly for me.

Leftenant

Check your source. No one spells it that way.

It’s not strictly an Americanism but they sure like to say “bolth”.

It drives me crazy when Americans say “quix-ot-ic” instead of “kee-ho-tic”. And “nitch” instead of “neesh” for “niche”, and especially “foy-er” instead of “foy-yay” for “foyer”.

I often fall back to Molly for video chat, the quality is superior

Sticking with discord for slightly better video doesn’t sound reasonable

I ain’t even trying to wind you up. Because you’d probably shoot someone.

you’re aggressively missing the point

you can be wrong all you like but we have the data. the claim isn’t that violent videogames cause violence, it’s that venting your aggression breeds further aggression. most people don’t play violent video games because they need an outlet for their aggression and violence!! if that is something you experience, it’s not something fucking video games can help you with!! you need to actually work on your shit.

much like abusing animals doesn’t “get it out of your system,” it just makes your behaviour more extreme

Also, I don’t remember asking for armchair psychologists to come here and start dropping unasked thoughts about how to best relieve stress. Check those at the door.

oshi-- you guys its the king of fediverse

I miss Rust.

why go from one corporate property to another when enshitification is the problem and libre options are available??

tomorrow’s headline: “Teamspeak CEO excited to be working with Discord”

Do you really think /c/pcgaming has a place to stand to call something a stupid waste of computation?