how can you tell one is blocked by an instance?

I see 4

Do not play Deep Rock Galactic.

Note: this is not about modding games to have muscle mommies or !fitmoe@lemmy.world characters.

‘You’re all making fun of it and yet you buy it’

No, those are two different groups. Gamers ™ are not a monolithic block. Some like it, some hate it, some in between. To lump that all together is moronic.

Mike Ybarra mentioned

Never believe that asshole. He’s from the same class as Kotick, but better at faking it.

Grummz is a terrible human being and should never be paid attention to.

But the protests made it clear that letting moderators make their communities private at their discretion “could be used to harm Reddit at scale” and that work on this feature was “accelerated” because of the protests.

Because Reddit admins deserved that harm. We’ve handed them all this free data and resource and they decided it was theirs.

Lol, that makes sense. They have completely different philosophies on business. Morhaime was gaming first, Kotick was greed first.

FTA:

According to Schreier, the problems began immediately after Activision purchased Blizzard in 2007.

That makes sense. I’ve been in companies that changed owners. The change starts when the new people walk in, but it takes time to “turn the ship” so to speak. It will turn, but it takes time. The corruption is slow, boiling-frog style.

Had no idea this was coming out. Thought it was fake at first glance.

Nope. It’s real. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14824600/

Thank you for crediting them.

I’m enjoying it so far. Only played a couple of missions but it’s back to being fun.

I like answering with completely bullshit made up stories. Over the top, but still comprehensible. It’s obvious they’re fake, but there’s no hard proof of it.

Good for them. Staying shows abusers what they can get away with.

Oh what? Hold up. I’ll rehost it. https://files.catbox.moe/9avo59.mp4

It’s not making me join FTR.

Time? Don’t you mean times? https://vimeo.com/86014703

Catbox mirror - https://files.catbox.moe/9avo59.mp4

(fan remake of scene 27, by fatal farm. Extremely graphic and NSFW)

doctortran? The doctortran? The real doctor? The dashing special agent with a PHD in kicking your ass? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO0kRE5OTZI)

One time I commented that my favorite game was WoW, down voted -15 for no apparent reason.

I wouldn’t use that as evidence that you were bot-attacked. A lot of people don’t like WoW and are mad at it for disappointing them. *coughSHADOWLANDScough*

People buying stuff also makes for a healthy secondary market. 90% of my brewing gear is 2nd hand.

Oh what? It’s not the original devs? Fucking hell. No wonder it sucks.